Films like Return of the Hero (2018)

Return of the Hero (2018) is comedy, history. These 24 films share its genres, ordered by how much overlap they have and how well they are rated.

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Green Book (2018)

Also comedy and history. 8.2/10

Tony Lip, a bouncer in 1962, is hired to drive pianist Don Shirley on a tour through the Deep South in the days when African Americans, forced to find alternate accommodations and…
Dumb Money (2023)

Also comedy and history. 6.7/10

Vlogger Keith Gill sinks his life savings into GameStop stock and posts about it. When social media starts blowing up, so do his life and the lives of everyone following him. As a…
Blue Moon (2025)

Also comedy and history. 6.6/10

On the evening of March 31, 1943, legendary lyricist Lorenz Hart confronts his shattered self-confidence in Sardi’s bar as his former collaborator, Richard Rodgers, celebrates the…
The Favourite (2018)

Also comedy and history. 7.5/10

England, early 18th century. The close relationship between Queen Anne and Sarah Churchill is threatened by the arrival of Sarah's cousin, Abigail Hill, resulting in a bitter…
The Apprentice (2024)

Also comedy and history. 6.8/10

A young Donald Trump, eager to make his name as a hungry scion of a wealthy family in 1970s New York, comes under the spell of Roy Cohn, the cutthroat attorney who would help…
BlacKkKlansman (2018)

Also comedy and history. 7.5/10

Colorado Springs, late 1970s. Ron Stallworth, an African American police officer, and Flip Zimmerman, his Jewish colleague, run an undercover operation to infiltrate the Ku Klux…
La Vénus électrique (2026)

Also comedy and history. 7.2/10

Artist Antoine has lost all inspiration and slipped into alcoholism since the death of his wife Irène, a loss he blames himself for. Suzanne is a penniless sideshow performer…
Charlie Wilson's War (2007)

Also comedy and history. 6.5/10

A Texas congressman sets a series of events in motion when he conspires with a CIA operative to aid Afghan mujahideen rebels fighting the Soviets.
Vice (2018)

Also comedy and history. 7.0/10

George W. Bush picks Dick Cheney, the CEO of Halliburton Co., to be his Republican running mate in the 2000 presidential election. No stranger to politics, Cheney's impressive…
The Death of Stalin (2017)

Also comedy and history. 7.0/10

When dictator Joseph Stalin dies, his parasitic cronies square off in a frantic power struggle to become the next Soviet leader. As they bumble, brawl and back-stab their way to…
Nouvelle Vague (2025)

Also comedy and history. 7.2/10

After writing for Cahiers du cinéma, young Godard decides making films is the best film criticism. He gets Beauregard to fund a low-budget feature, creating a treatment with…
BlackBerry (2023)

Also comedy and history. 7.2/10

Two mismatched entrepreneurs – egghead innovator Mike Lazaridis and cut-throat businessman Jim Balsillie – joined forces in an endeavour that was to become a worldwide hit in…
Man on the Moon (1999)

Also comedy and history. 7.2/10

The story of the life and career of eccentric avant-garde comedian, Andy Kaufman.
Saving Mr. Banks (2013)

Also comedy and history. 7.3/10

Author P.L. Travers looks back on her childhood while reluctantly meeting with Walt Disney, who seeks to adapt her Mary Poppins books for the big screen.
Battle of the Sexes (2017)

Also comedy and history. 6.7/10

The true story of the 1973 tennis match between world number one Billie Jean King and ex-champ and serial hustler Bobby Riggs.
Shakespeare in Love (1998)

Also comedy and history. 6.8/10

Young William Shakespeare is forced to stage his latest comedy, 'Romeo and Ethel, the Pirate's Daughter', before it's even written. When lovely noblewoman Viola de Lesseps…
The Madness of King George (1994)

Also comedy and history. 6.8/10

Aging King George III of England is exhibiting signs of madness, a problem little understood in 1788. As the monarch alternates between bouts of confusion and near-violent…
Mexico 86 (2026)

Also comedy and history. 7.8/10

When a last-minute chance to host the 1986 World Cup appears, a cunning Mexican bureaucrat, armed with nothing but guts and audacity, cons his way through FIFA to beat the United…
Unfrosted (2024)

Also comedy and history. 5.4/10

In a time when breakfast is ruled by milk and cereal, a fierce corporate battle begins over a revolutionary new pastry.
The Floating Castle (2012)

Also comedy and history. 7.4/10

In the year 1590, the mighty warlord Toyotomi Hideyoshi is close to fulfilling his ambition of unifying all of Japan under his banner when he comes across unexpected resistance in…
Good News (2025)

Also comedy and history. 7.0/10

When hijackers seize a Japanese flight and demand to fly to Pyongyang, a mysterious mastermind hatches a zany scheme to reroute the plane to Seoul.
Toast (2010)

Also comedy and history. 6.6/10

Young Nigel Slater has big culinary aspirations, even though all his mother knows how to make is toast. When his mother dies, relations grow strained between Nigel and his father…
The Duke (2021)

Also comedy and history. 6.9/10

In 1961, a 60-year-old taxi driver steals Goya’s portrait of the Duke of Wellington from the National Gallery in London. It was the first (and remains the only) theft in the…
There's Still Tomorrow (2023)

Also comedy and history. 8.1/10

In postwar Rome, a working-class woman dreams of a better future for herself and her daughter while facing abuse at the hands of her domineering husband. When a mysterious letter…