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Movies that feel likeThe Legend of Zorro (2005)

Despite trying to keep his swashbuckling to a minimum, a threat to California's pending statehood causes the adventure-loving Don Alejandro de la Vega and his wife, Elena, to take action.

If you loved The Legend of Zorro, the closest films we have are The Baader Meinhof Complex (2008), The Foreigner (2017) and Public Enemies (2009). All three share The Legend of Zorro's gritty and paranoid feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is The Negotiator (1998).

🍅 27% Rotten Tomatoes★ 6 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Martin Campbellkineticepicgrittyparanoid
8 of 12 streaming nowNetflix · Amazon Prime Video · Disney Plus

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Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: The Mask of Zorro (1998)

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The Baader Meinhof Complex
2008 · dir. Uli Edel
🍅 85%★ 7.3action · crime · dramaPrime Video

The same mix in both: momentum, then scale

The difference: Critics rated this one higher still

When German police viciously quell a protest against the shah of Iran, popular journalist Ulrike Meinhof rebels against her dishonest marriage, walks away from her children and joins radical anarchist Andreas Baader. Together with Baader's girlfriend, Gudrun Ensslin, they form the violent Red Faction Army, and together perpetrate a slew of terrorist attacks as a way of disrupting the fabric of what they see as an increasingly fascist state.

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The Foreigner
2017 · dir. Martin Campbell
🍅 66%★ 7action · thriller · crimePrime VideoParamount+

Both are Martin Campbell's work, and they rhyme

The difference: Trades the scale of The Legend of Zorro for an angle of its own

Quan is a humble London businessman whose long-buried past erupts in a revenge-fueled vendetta when the only person left for him to love – his teenage daughter – dies in an Irish Republican Army car bombing. His relentless search to find the terrorists leads to a cat-and-mouse conflict with a British government official whose own past may hold the clues to the identities of the elusive killers.

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Public Enemies
2009 · dir. Michael Mann
🍅 68%★ 6.9crime · history · drama

Gritty and paranoid in the same breath

The difference: Easier on the momentum than The Legend of Zorro

Depression-era bank robber John Dillinger's charm and audacity endear him to much of America's downtrodden public, but he's also a thorn in the side of J. Edgar Hoover and the fledgling FBI. Desperate to capture the elusive outlaw, Hoover makes Dillinger his first Public Enemy Number One and assigns his top agent, Melvin Purvis, the task of bringing him in dead or alive.

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The Negotiator
1998 · dir. F. Gary Gray
★ 7.3action · crime · drama

Common ground: conspiracy

The difference: Leans harder into crime than The Legend of Zorro does

The police try to arrest expert hostage negotiator Danny Roman, who insists he's being framed for his partner's murder in what he believes is an elaborate conspiracy. Thinking there's evidence in the Internal Affairs offices that might clear him, he takes everyone in the office hostage and demands that another well-known negotiator be brought in to handle the situation and secretly investigate the conspiracy.

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Brotherhood of the Wolf
2001 · dir. Christophe Gans
🍅 74%★ 7adventure · horror · actionPrime Video

Both keep coming back to the same thing: conspiracy

The difference: Sits closer to horror than The Legend of Zorro does

In 18th century France, the Chevalier de Fronsac and his Native American friend Mani are sent by the King to the Gevaudan province to investigate the killings of hundreds by a mysterious beast.

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Green Zone
2010 · dir. Paul Greengrass
🍅 53%★ 6.8war · action · adventure

Action with a pulse of momentum, in both cases

During the U.S.-led occupation of Baghdad in 2003, Chief Warrant Officer Roy Miller and his team of Army inspectors are dispatched to find weapons of mass destruction believed to be stockpiled in the Iraqi desert. Rocketing from one booby-trapped and treacherous site to the next, the men search for deadly chemical agents but stumble instead upon an elaborate cover-up that threatens to invert the purpose of their mission.

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The Man in the Iron Mask
1998 · dir. Randall Wallace
🍅 32%★ 6.5adventure · action · drama

Both are built on the same subject: sword fight

Years have passed since the Three Musketeers, Aramis, Athos and Porthos, have fought together with their friend, D'Artagnan. But with the tyrannical King Louis using his power to wreak havoc in the kingdom while his twin brother, Philippe, remains imprisoned, the Musketeers reunite to abduct Louis and replace him with Philippe.

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Assassin's Creed
2016 · dir. Justin Kurzel
🍅 18%★ 5.6action · adventure · science fiction

Both lean on scale more than on adventure

Through a technology that unlocks the genetic memories of his ancestor in 15th century Spain, Callum Lynch discovers he is a descendant of an ancient line of Assassins and amasses lethal skills to take on the oppressive Templar Order.

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G.I. Joe: Retaliation
2013 · dir. Jon M. Chu
🍅 29%★ 5.7action · science fiction · adventureParamount+

Paranoid western in both cases

Framed for crimes against the country, the G.I. Joe team is terminated by Presidential order. This forces the G.I. Joes into not only fighting their mortal enemy Cobra; they are forced to contend with threats from within the government that jeopardize their very existence.

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Exterritorial
2025 · dir. Christian Zübert
★ 5.8thriller · actionNetflix

Kinetic action, and it commits to that

The difference: Made in the 2020s, in a different era of the craft

When her son vanishes inside a US consulate, ex-special forces soldier Sara does everything in her power to find him — and uncovers a dark conspiracy.

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🍅 90%★ 7.7action · adventure · science fictionDisney+

The same preoccupation in both: superhero

After the cataclysmic events in New York with The Avengers, Steve Rogers, aka Captain America is living quietly in Washington, D.C. and trying to adjust to the modern world. But when a S.H.I.E.L.D. colleague comes under attack, Steve becomes embroiled in a web of intrigue that threatens to put the world at risk. Joining forces with the Black Widow, Captain America struggles to expose the ever-widening conspiracy while fighting off professional assassins sent to silence him at every turn. When the full scope of the villainous plot is revealed, Captain America and the Black Widow enlist the help of a new ally, the Falcon. However, they soon find themselves up against an unexpected and formidable enemy—the Winter Soldier.

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Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit
2014 · dir. Kenneth Branagh
🍅 55%★ 6.2action · drama · thrillerParamount+Starz

Adventure built on paranoia, twice over

Jack Ryan, as a young covert CIA analyst, uncovers a Russian plot to crash the U.S. economy with a terrorist attack.

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