Films like Against the Sun (2014)

Against the Sun (2014) is adventure, war. These 24 films share its genres, ordered by how much overlap they have and how well they are rated.

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  Kingdom of Heaven (2005)

  Also adventure and war. 7.1/10

  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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  300 (2007)

  Also adventure and war. 7.2/10

  A story very loosely based the 480 B.C. Battle of Thermopylae, where the King of Sparta led his army against the advancing Persians.

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  Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985)

  Also adventure and war. 6.7/10

  John Rambo is released from prison by the government for a top-secret covert mission to the last place on Earth he'd want to return - the jungles of Vietnam.

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  The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare (2024)

  Also adventure and war. 7.0/10

  During World War II, the British Army assigns a group of competent soldiers to carry out a mission against the Nazi forces behind enemy lines... A true story about a secret…

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  Lawrence of Arabia (1962)

  Also adventure and war. 8.0/10

  During World War I, English officer Thomas Edward 'T.E.' Lawrence sets out to unite and lead the diverse, often warring, Arab tribes to fight the Turks.

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  Alexander (2004)

  Also adventure and war. 6.0/10

  Alexander, the King of Macedonia, leads his legions against the giant Persian Empire. After defeating the Persians, he leads his army across the then known world, venturing…

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  Rise of the Conqueror (2026)

  Also adventure and war. 5.9/10

  In the 14th-century, as the Silk Road crumbles and rival factions tear the land apart, fearless warrior Timur emerges from exile. Stripped of everything, he fights to unite the…

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  The Great Escape (1963)

  Also adventure and war. 7.9/10

  The Nazis, exasperated at the number of escapes from their prison camps by a relatively small number of Allied prisoners, relocate them to a high-security 'escape-proof' camp to…

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  Rambo III (1988)

  Also adventure and war. 6.2/10

  Combat has taken its toll on Rambo, but he's finally begun to find inner peace in a monastery. When Rambo's friend and mentor Col. Trautman asks for his help on a top secret…

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  Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003)

  Also adventure and war. 7.2/10

  After an abrupt and violent encounter with a French warship inflicts severe damage upon his ship, a captain of the British Royal Navy begins a chase over two oceans to capture or…

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  The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc (1999)

  Also adventure and war. 6.4/10

  In 1429, a French teenager stood before her King with a message she claimed came from God; that she would defeat the world's greatest army and liberate her country from its…

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  King Arthur (2004)

  Also adventure and war. 6.3/10

  The story of the Arthurian legend, based on the 'Sarmatian hypothesis' which contends that the legend has a historical nucleus in the Sarmatian heavy cavalry troops stationed in…

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  Green Zone (2010)

  Also adventure and war. 6.5/10

  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…

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  Cold Mountain (2003)

  Also adventure and war. 6.9/10

  In this classic story of love and devotion set against the backdrop of the American Civil War, a wounded Confederate soldier named W.P. Inman deserts his unit and travels across…

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  The Guns of Navarone (1961)

  Also adventure and war. 7.3/10

  A team of allied saboteurs are assigned an impossible mission: infiltrate an impregnable Nazi-held island and destroy the two enormous long-range field guns that prevent the…

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  The Dirty Dozen (1967)

  Also adventure and war. 7.6/10

  12 American military prisoners in World War II are ordered to infiltrate a well-guarded enemy château and kill the Nazi officers vacationing there. The soldiers, most of whom are…

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  Red Cliff (2008)

  Also adventure and war. 7.1/10

  In 208 A.D., in the final days of the Han Dynasty, shrewd Prime Minster Cao convinced the fickle Emperor Han the only way to unite all of China was to declare war on the kingdoms…

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  The Last Legion (2007)

  Also adventure and war. 5.6/10

  As the Roman empire crumbles, young Romulus Augustus flees the city and embarks on a perilous voyage to Britain to track down a legion of supporters.

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  Rescue Dawn (2007)

  Also adventure and war. 7.0/10

  A US Fighter pilot's epic struggle of survival after being shot down on a mission over Laos during the Vietnam War.

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  The Last Kingdom: Seven Kings Must Die (2023)

  Also adventure and war. 7.2/10

  In the wake of King Edward's death, Uhtred of Bebbanburg and his comrades adventure across a fractured kingdom in the hopes of uniting England at last.

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  Rurouni Kenshin Part I: Origins (2012)

  Also adventure and war. 7.5/10

  In 1868, after the Bakumatsu war ends, the ex-assassin Kenshin Himura traverses Japan with an inverted sword, to defend the needy without killing.

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  Kelly's Heroes (1970)

  Also adventure and war. 7.4/10

  A misfit group of World War II American soldiers goes AWOL to rob a bank behind German lines.

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  U-571 (2000)

  Also adventure and war. 6.6/10

  In the midst of World War II, the battle under the sea rages and the Nazis have the upper hand as the Allies are unable to crack their war codes. However, after a wrecked U-boat…

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  Battle of the Warriors (2006)

  Also adventure and war. 6.4/10

  In 370 B.C, China was separated as seven nations and several other small tribes, one of these being the city state of Liang. The nation of Zhao is led by the terrifying Xiang…