Films like Tears of the Sun (2003)

Tears of the Sun (2003) is action, drama, war. These 24 films share its genres, ordered by how much overlap they have and how well they are rated.

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  Fury (2014)

  Also action and drama. 7.5/10

  April, 1945. As the Allies make their final push in the European Theater, a battle-hardened army sergeant commands a Sherman tank with a five-man crew on a deadly mission behind…

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  Kingdom of Heaven (2005)

  Also action and drama. 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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  The Last Samurai (2003)

  Also action and drama. 7.6/10

  Nathan Algren is an American hired to instruct the Japanese army in the ways of modern warfare, which finds him learning to respect the samurai and the honorable principles that…

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  Braveheart (1995)

  Also action and drama. 7.9/10

  Enraged at the slaughter of Murron, his new bride and childhood love, Scottish warrior William Wallace slays a platoon of the local English lord's soldiers. This leads the village…

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  Civil War (2024)

  Also action and drama. 6.8/10

  In the near future, a group of war journalists attempt to survive while reporting the truth as the United States stands on the brink of civil war.

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  Dunkirk (2017)

  Also action and drama. 7.5/10

  The story of the miraculous evacuation of Allied soldiers from Belgium, Britain, Canada and France, who were cut off and surrounded by the German army from the beaches and harbour…

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  The Patriot (2000)

  Also action and drama. 7.2/10

  After proving himself on the field of battle in the French and Indian War, Benjamin Martin wants nothing more to do with such things, preferring the simple life of a farmer. But…

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  300: Rise of an Empire (2014)

  Also action and drama. 6.1/10

  Greek general Themistocles attempts to unite all of Greece by leading the charge that will change the course of the war. Themistocles faces the massive invading Persian forces led…

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  Lone Survivor (2013)

  Also action and drama. 7.4/10

  Four Navy SEALs on a covert mission to neutralize a high-level Taliban operative must make an impossible moral decision in the mountains of Afghanistan that leads them into an…

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  Pearl Harbor (2001)

  Also action and drama. 6.9/10

  The lifelong friendship between Rafe McCawley and Danny Walker is put to the ultimate test when the two ace fighter pilots become entangled in a love triangle with beautiful Naval…

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  Platoon (1986)

  Also action and drama. 7.7/10

  As a young and naive recruit in Vietnam, Chris Taylor faces a moral crisis when confronted with the horrors of war and the duality of man.

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  The Tank (2025)

  Also action and drama. 7.1/10

  A German Tiger tank crew is sent on a dangerous mission to rescue the missing officer Paul von Hardenburg from a top-secret bunker behind enemy lines. As they make their way…

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  Alexander (2004)

  Also action and drama. 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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  Greyhound (2020)

  Also action and drama. 7.4/10

  A first-time captain leads a convoy of allied ships carrying thousands of soldiers across the treacherous waters of the "Black Pit" to the front lines of WWII. With no air cover…

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  Allied (2016)

  Also action and drama. 6.8/10

  In 1942, an intelligence officer in North Africa encounters a female French Resistance fighter on a deadly mission behind enemy lines. When they reunite in London, their…

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  The Woman King (2022)

  Also action and drama. 7.6/10

  The story of the Agojie, the all-female unit of warriors who protected the African Kingdom of Dahomey in the 1800s with skills and a fierceness unlike anything the world has ever…

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  Crimson Tide (1995)

  Also action and drama. 7.2/10

  After the Cold War, a breakaway Russian republic with nuclear warheads becomes a possible worldwide threat. U.S. submarine Capt. Frank Ramsey signs on a relatively green but…

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  The Longest Day (1962)

  Also action and drama. 7.6/10

  The retelling of June 6, 1944, from the perspectives of the Germans, US, British, Canadians, and the Free French. Marshall Erwin Rommel, touring the defenses being established as…

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

  Also action and drama. 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 action and drama. 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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  Behind Enemy Lines (2001)

  Also action and drama. 6.5/10

  While flying a routine reconnaissance mission over Bosnia, fighter pilot Lt. Chris Burnett photographs something he wasn't supposed to see and gets shot down behind enemy lines…

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  Midway (1976)

  Also action and drama. 6.6/10

  This war drama depicts the U.S. and Japanese forces in the naval Battle of Midway, which became a turning point for Americans during World War II.

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  The Outpost (2020)

  Also action and drama. 6.9/10

  A small unit of U.S. soldiers, alone at the remote Combat Outpost Keating, located deep in the valley of three mountains in Afghanistan, battles to defend against an overwhelming…

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  Green Zone (2010)

  Also action and drama. 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…