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Movies that feel likeCaptain Blood (1935)

Dr. Peter Blood, unjustly convicted of treason and exiled from England, becomes a notorious pirate.

If you loved Captain Blood, the closest films we have are The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938), Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) and Wolf Totem (2015). All three share Captain Blood's epic feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is The Ambassador (2011).

🍅 100% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.7 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Michael Curtizepic
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The Adventures of Robin Hood
1938 · dir. Michael Curtiz
🍅 100%★ 7.9adventure · romance · action

Michael Curtiz working the same nerve twice

The difference: Sits closer to romance than Captain Blood does

Robin Hood fights nobly for justice against the evil Sir Guy of Gisbourne while striving to win the hand of the beautiful Maid Marian.

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Mutiny on the Bounty
1935 · dir. Frank Lloyd
🍅 96%★ 7.6adventure · drama · history

Both lean on scale more than on adventure

The difference: Leans harder into drama than Captain Blood does

Fletcher Christian successfully leads a revolt against the ruthless Captain Bligh on the HMS Bounty. However, Bligh returns one year later, hell bent on revenge.

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Wolf Totem
2015 · dir. Jean-Jacques Annaud
🍅 67%★ 6.6adventure · drama

Epic adventure, and it commits to that

The difference: The scrappier of the two with critics

In 1969, a young Beijing student, Chen Zhen, is sent to live among the nomadic herdsmen of Inner Mongolia. Caught between the advance of civilization from the south and the nomads' traditional enemies - the marauding wolves - to the north; humans and animals, residents and invaders alike, struggle to find their true place in the world.

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Pather Panchali
1955 · dir. Satyajit Ray
🍅 98%★ 8.2drama · historyMax

Adventure with a pulse of scale, in both cases

The difference: Made in the 1950s, in a different era of the craft

Impoverished priest Harihar Ray, dreaming of a better life for himself and his family, leaves his rural Bengal village in search of work. Alone, his wife, Sarbojaya, looks after her rebellious daughter, Durga, and her young son, Apu, as well as Harihar's elderly aunt Indir. The children enjoy the small pleasures of their difficult life, while their parents suffer the daily indignities heaped upon them.

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Come Drink with Me
1966 · dir. King Hu
🍅 100%★ 6.9action · adventure

Both play adventure straight

Golden Sparrow is a fighter-for-hire who has been contracted by the local government to retrieve the governor's kidnapped son. Holding him is a group of rebels who are demanding that their leader be released from prison in return for the captured son. After a brief encounter with the gang at a local restaurant, Golden Sparrow is joined by an inebriated wanderer Drunken Cat who aids her in her mission.

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The Passion of Joan of Arc
1928 · dir. Carl Theodor Dreyer
🍅 98%★ 8.1drama · historyMax

Contemporaries, and it shows

A classic of the silent age, this film tells the story of the doomed but ultimately canonized 15th-century teenage warrior. On trial for claiming she'd spoken to God, Jeanne d'Arc is subjected to inhumane treatment and scare tactics at the hands of church court officials. Initially bullied into changing her story, Jeanne eventually opts for what she sees as the truth. Her punishment, a famously brutal execution, earns her perpetual martyrdom.

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Jamaica Inn
1939 · dir. Alfred Hitchcock
🍅 54%★ 6.3crime · adventure

Both are built on the same subject: pirate

In early 19th-century Cornwall, young Mary Yellan travels to live with her aunt and uncle at the remote Jamaica Inn, where she discovers the inn is a front for a violent gang of wreckers who lure ships to their doom along the coast. As she becomes entangled in their crimes, Mary must fight to survive and uncover the truth behind the terror that haunts the moors.

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🍅 60%★ 7.7documentary · historyPrime Video

A 2010s cousin in spirit

In its first 25 years only 10 people have finished The Barkley Marathons. Based on a historic prison escape, this cult like race tempts people from around the world to test their limits of physical and mental endurance in this documentary that contemplates the value of pain.

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Night and Fog
1956 · dir. Alain Resnais
★ 8.6documentary · historyMax

Reaching back to the 1950s for it

Filmmaker Alain Resnais documents the atrocities behind the walls of Hitler's concentration camps.

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Los Angeles Plays Itself
2004 · dir. Thom Andersen
🍅 96%★ 7.8documentary · history

A 2000s answer to the same itch

From its distinctive neighborhoods to its architectural homes, Los Angeles has been the backdrop to countless movies. In this dazzling work, Andersen takes viewers on a whirlwind tour through the metropolis' real and cinematic history, investigating the myriad stories and legends that have come to define it, and meticulously, judiciously revealing the real city that lives beneath.

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The Ambassador
2011 · dir. Mads Brügger
🍅 71%★ 7.2documentary · history

A 2010s answer to the same itch

Danish journalist Mads Brügger goes undercover as a Liberian Ambassador to embark on a dangerous yet hysterical journey to uncover the blood diamond trade in Africa.

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Fitzcarraldo
1982 · dir. Werner Herzog
🍅 78%★ 7.9drama · adventure

The adventure is handled with the same confidence

Fitzcarraldo is a dreamer who plans to build an opera house in Iquitos, in the Peruvian Amazon, so, in order to finance his project, he embarks on an epic adventure to collect rubber, a very profitable product, in a remote and unexplored region of the rainforest.

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