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Movies that feel likeGladiator II (2024)

Years after witnessing the death of the revered hero Maximus at the hands of his uncle, Lucius is forced to enter the Colosseum after his home is conquered by the tyrannical Emperors who now lead Rome with an iron fist. With rage in his heart and the future of the Empire at stake, Lucius must look to his past to find strength and honor to return the glory of Rome to its people.

If you loved Gladiator II, the closest films we have are Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (2023), Kingdom of Heaven (2005) and House of Gucci (2021). All three share Gladiator II's epic feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is The Assassin (2015).

🍅 70% Rotten Tomatoes★ 6.4 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Ridley Scottkineticepiccontemplative
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Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: Gladiator (2000)

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Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
2023 · dir. James Mangold
🍅 71%★ 6.5adventure · actionDisney+

Common ground: ancient rome

The difference: Takes it somewhere less contemplative than Gladiator II does

Finding himself in a new era, and approaching retirement, Indy wrestles with fitting into a world that seems to have outgrown him. But as the tentacles of an all-too-familiar evil return in the form of an old rival, Indy must don his hat and pick up his whip once more to make sure an ancient and powerful artifact doesn't fall into the wrong hands.

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Kingdom of Heaven
2005 · dir. Ridley Scott
🍅 39%★ 7.3drama · action · adventure

Both are Ridley Scott's work, and they rhyme

The difference: The critics' underdog of the pair

After his wife dies, a blacksmith named Balian is thrust into royalty, political intrigue and bloody holy wars during the Crusades.

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House of Gucci
2021 · dir. Ridley Scott
🍅 62%★ 6.6drama · historyPrime Video

The same hand behind both of them: Ridley Scott

The difference: Sits closer to history than Gladiator II does

When Patrizia Reggiani, an outsider from humble beginnings, marries into the Gucci family, her unbridled ambition begins to unravel the family legacy and triggers a reckless spiral of betrayal, decadence, revenge, and ultimately… murder.

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The Assassin
2015 · dir. Hou Hsiao-hsien
🍅 80%★ 6.3action · adventure · historyPrime Video

Kinetic where it counts, epic underneath

9th century China. Ten year old general’s daughter Nie Yinniang is abducted by a nun who initiates her into the martial arts, transforming her into an exceptional assassin charged with eliminating cruel and corrupt local governors. One day, having failed in a task, she is sent back by her mistress to the land of her birth, with orders to kill the man to whom she was promised – a cousin who now leads the largest military region in North China. After 13 years of exile, the young woman must confront her parents, her memories and her long-repressed feelings.

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Ip Man 4: The Finale
2019 · dir. Wilson Yip
🍅 85%★ 7action · history · dramaPrime VideoHulu

Contemplative action in both cases

Following the death of his wife, Ip Man travels to San Francisco to ease tensions between the local kung fu masters and his star student, Bruce Lee, while searching for a better future for his son.

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The Promised Land
2023 · dir. Nikolaj Arcel
🍅 97%★ 7.7action · drama · historyHulu

Kinetic drama, and it commits to that

Denmark, 1755. Captain Ludvig Kahlen sets out to conquer a Danish heath reputed to be uncultivable, with an impossible goal: to establish a colony in the name of the king, in exchange for a royal title. A single-minded ambition that the ruthless lord of the region will relentlessly seek to put down. Kahlen's fate hangs in the balance: will his endevours bring him wealth and honour, or cost him his life...?

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Exodus: Gods and Kings
2014 · dir. Ridley Scott
🍅 29%★ 6adventure · drama · actionPrime Video

Both lean on scale more than on adventure

The defiant leader Moses rises up against the Egyptian Pharaoh Ramses, setting 400,000 slaves on a monumental journey of escape from Egypt and its terrifying cycle of deadly plagues.

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Robin Hood
2010 · dir. Ridley Scott
🍅 43%★ 6.6action · adventure · historyMax

Action built on momentum, twice over

When soldier Robin happens upon the dying Robert of Loxley, he promises to return the man's sword to his family in Nottingham. There, he assumes Robert's identity; romances his widow, Marion; and draws the ire of the town's sheriff and King John's henchman, Godfrey.

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Major Grom: Plague Doctor
2021 · dir. Oleg Trofim
★ 6.3action · adventureRent or buy

Adventure with a pulse of scale, in both cases

In present day St. Petersburg, police major Igor Grom, an honest and skilled cop with unconventional methods, pursues a vigilante murderer in the mask of a plague doctor.

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Hercules
2014 · dir. Brett Ratner
🍅 58%★ 6action · adventure

Cut from the same action cloth

When a new enemy threatens the innocent, Hercules must lead his fearless team of warriors in a battle against overwhelming odds.

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The Huntsman: Winter's War
2016 · dir. Cedric Nicolas-Troyan
🍅 19%★ 6.1action · adventure · dramaNetflix

Drama built on stillness, twice over

As two evil sisters prepare to conquer the land, two renegades—Eric the Huntsman, who aided Snow White in defeating Ravenna in Snowwhite and the Huntsman, and his forbidden lover, Sara—set out to stop them.

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Chinese Zodiac
2012 · dir. Jackie Chan
🍅 25%★ 6action · adventure

Both are adventure through and through

Asian Hawk leads a mercenary team to recover several lost artifacts from the Old Summer Palace, the bronze heads of the twelve Chinese Zodiac animals which were sacked by the French and British armies from the imperial Summer Palace in Beijing in 1860. Assisted by a Chinese student and a Parisian woman, Hawk stops at nothing to accomplish the mission.

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