Films like War Paint

The Alamo (1960)

Also adventure and war. 7.1/10

The legendary true story of a small band of soldiers who sacrificed their lives in hopeless combat against a massive army in order to prevent a tyrant from smashing the new…

100 Rifles (1969)

Also adventure and war. 5.9/10

When half-breed Indian Yaqui Joe robs an Arizona bank, he is pursued by dogged lawman Lyedecker. Fleeing to Mexico, Joe is imprisoned by General Verdugo, who is waging a war…

The Revenant (2015)

Also adventure and western. 7.5/10

In the 1820s, a frontiersman, Hugh Glass, sets out on a path of vengeance against those who left him for dead after a bear mauling.

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.

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.

Dances with Wolves (1990)

Also adventure and western. 7.8/10

Wounded Civil War soldier John Dunbar tries to commit suicide—and becomes a hero instead. As a reward, he's assigned to his dream post, a remote junction on the Western frontier…

Rango (2011)

Also adventure and western. 6.9/10

When Rango, a lost family pet, accidentally winds up in the gritty, gun-slinging Western town of Dirt, the theater-loving lizard suddenly finds himself the newly appointed…

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.

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…

Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron (2002)

Also adventure and western. 7.7/10

A captured mustang remains determined to return to his herd no matter what.

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.

The Magnificent Seven (1960)

Also adventure and western. 7.5/10

An oppressed Mexican peasant village hires seven gunfighters to help defend their homes.

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…

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…

The Magnificent Seven (2016)

Also adventure and western. 6.5/10

Looking to mine for gold, greedy industrialist Bartholomew Bogue seizes control of the Old West town of Rose Creek. With their lives in jeopardy, Emma Cullen and other desperate…

The Legend of Zorro (2005)

Also adventure and western. 6.1/10

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…

Legends of the Fall (1994)

Also war and western. 7.4/10

In early 20th-century Montana, Col. William Ludlow lives on a ranch in the wilderness with his sons, Alfred, Tristan, and Samuel. Eventually, the unconventional but close-knit…

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…

Shanghai Noon (2000)

Also adventure and western. 6.4/10

Chon Wang, a clumsy imperial guard, trails Princess Pei Pei when she's kidnapped from the Forbidden City and transported to America. Wang follows her captors to Nevada, where he…

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…

Hostiles (2017)

Also adventure and western. 7.0/10

A legendary Native American-hating Army captain nearing retirement in 1892 is given one last assignment: to escort a Cheyenne chief and his family through dangerous territory back…

In the Lost Lands (2025)

Also adventure and western. 6.3/10

A queen sends the powerful and feared sorceress Gray Alys to the ghostly wilderness of the Lost Lands in search of a magical power, where she and her guide, the drifter Boyce…

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