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The Last Samurai(2003)

16
| 2h 34min | Drama, Action, War
3.8/5 (with 3,186 votes)

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 rule them. Pressed to destroy the samurai's way of life in the name of modernization and open trade, Algren decides to become an ultimate warrior himself and to fight for their right to exist.

Directed by Edward Zwick - With Tom Cruise, Ken Watanabe, Shin Koyamada, Tony Goldwyn, Masato Harada, Hiroyuki Sanada, ...
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Highlander(1986)

15
| 1h 56min | Adventure, Action, Fantasy
3.5/5 (with 1,105 votes)

He fought his first battle on the Scottish Highlands in 1536. He will fight his greatest battle on the streets of New York City in 1986. His name is Connor MacLeod. He is immortal.

Directed by Russell Mulcahy - With Christopher Lambert, Sean Connery, Roxanne Hart, Clancy Brown, James Cosmo, Celia Imrie, ...

Hook(1991)

G
| 2h 22min | Adventure, Fantasy, Comedy, Kids & Family
3.4/5 (with 2,492 votes)

The boy who wasn't supposed to grow up—Peter Pan—does just that, becoming a soulless corporate lawyer whose workaholism could cost him his wife and kids. During his trip to see Granny Wendy in London, the vengeful Capt. Hook kidnaps Peter's kids and forces Peter to return to Neverland.

Directed by Steven Spielberg - With Dustin Hoffman, Robin Williams, Julia Roberts, Bob Hoskins, Maggie Smith, Charlie Korsmo, ...
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Hot Shots! Part Deux(1993)

1h 26min | Action, Comedy, War
3.3/5 (with 821 votes)

Topper Harley is found to be working as an odd-job-man in a monastery. The CIA want him to lead a rescue mission into Iraq, to rescue the last rescue team, who went in to rescue the last rescue team—who went in to rescue hostages left behind after Desert Storm.

Directed by Jim Abrahams - With Charlie Sheen, Lloyd Bridges, Valeria Golino, Richard Crenna, Brenda Bakke, Miguel Ferrer, ...
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Spaceballs(1987)

PG
| 1h 36min | Comedy, Science Fiction
3.4/5 (with 1,270 votes)

When the nefarious Dark Helmet hatches a plan to snatch Princess Vespa and steal her planet's air, space-bum-for-hire Lone Starr and his clueless sidekick fly to the rescue. Along the way, they meet Yogurt, who puts Lone Starr wise to the power of "The Schwartz." Can he master it in time to save the day?

Directed by Mel Brooks - With Bill Pullman, John Candy, Rick Moranis, Daphne Zuniga, Dick Van Patten, Joan Rivers, ...
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The Man in the Iron Mask(1998)

2h 12min | Adventure, Action, Drama
3.3/5 (with 1,716 votes)

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.

Directed by Randall Wallace - With Leonardo DiCaprio, Gabriel Byrne, Jeremy Irons, John Malkovich, Gérard Depardieu, Anne Parillaud, ...
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Ladyhawke(1985)

13
| 2h 1min | Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
3.5/5 (with 524 votes)

Captain Etienne Navarre is a man on whose shoulders lies a cruel curse. Punished for loving each other, Navarre must become a wolf by night whilst his lover, Lady Isabeau, takes the form of a hawk by day. Together, with the thief Philippe Gaston, they must try to overthrow the corrupt Bishop and in doing so break the spell.

Directed by Richard Donner - With Matthew Broderick, Rutger Hauer, Michelle Pfeiffer, John Wood, Leo McKern, Alfred Molina, ...

The Three Musketeers(2011)

1h 50min | Adventure, Action, Thriller
2.9/5 (with 1,224 votes)

The hot-headed young D'Artagnan along with three former legendary but now down on their luck Musketeers must unite and defeat a beautiful double agent and her villainous employer from seizing the French throne and engulfing Europe in war.

Directed by Paul W. S. Anderson - With Matthew Macfadyen, Logan Lerman, Ray Stevenson, Luke Evans, Milla Jovovich, Orlando Bloom, ...

Conan the Destroyer(1984)

1h 43min | Adventure, Fantasy, Action
3.1/5 (with 638 votes)

Conan is commissioned by the evil queen Taramis to safely escort a teen princess and her powerful bodyguard to a far away castle to retrieve the magic Horn of Dagoth. Unknown to Conan, the queen plans to sacrifice the princess when she returns and inherit her kingdom after the bodyguard kills Conan. The queen's plans fail to take into consideration Conan's strength and cunning and the abilities of his sidekicks: the eccentric wizard Akiro, the warrior woman Zula, and the inept Malak. Together the hero and his allies must defeat both mortal and supernatural foes in this voyage to sword-and-sorcery land.

Directed by Richard Fleischer - With Arnold Schwarzenegger, Grace Jones, Olivia d'Abo, Mako, Sarah Douglas, Wilt Chamberlain, ...

Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children(2005)

1h 41min | Animation, Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Science Fiction
3.6/5 (with 486 votes)

Two years have passed since the final battle with Sephiroth. Though Midgar, city of mako, city of prosperity, has been reduced to ruins, its people slowly but steadily walk the road to reconstruction. However, a mysterious illness called Geostigma torments them. With no cure in sight, it brings death to the afflicted, one after another, robbing the people of their fledgling hope.

Directed by Tetsuya Nomura
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DragonHeart(1996)

1h 43min | Fantasy, Action, Adventure, Drama
3.3/5 (with 881 votes)

In an ancient time when majestic fire-breathers soared through the skies, a knight named Bowen comes face to face and heart to heart with the last dragon on Earth, Draco. Taking up arms to suppress a tyrant king, Bowen soon realizes his task will be harder than he'd imagined: If he kills the king, Draco will die as well.

Directed by Rob Cohen - With Dennis Quaid, David Thewlis, Pete Postlethwaite, Dina Meyer, Jason Isaacs, Brian Thompson, ...
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Monty Python and the Holy Grail(1975)

15
| 1h 31min | Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
3.9/5 (with 2,548 votes)

King Arthur, accompanied by his squire, recruits his Knights of the Round Table, including Sir Bedevere the Wise, Sir Lancelot the Brave, Sir Robin the Not-Quite-So-Brave-As-Sir-Lancelot and Sir Galahad the Pure. On the way, Arthur battles the Black Knight who, despite having had all his limbs chopped off, insists he can still fight. They reach Camelot, but Arthur decides not to enter, as "it is a silly place".

Directed by Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones - With Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones, Eric Idle, Michael Palin, ...
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Curse of the Golden Flower(2006)

15
| 1h 54min | Action, Drama, Fantasy
3.4/5 (with 314 votes)

During China's Tang dynasty the emperor has taken the princess of a neighboring province as his wife. She has borne him two sons and raised his eldest. Now his control over his dominion is complete, including the royal family itself.

Directed by Zhang Yimou - With Chow Yun-fat, Gong Li, Jay Chou, Liu Ye

Yojimbo(1961)

1h 50min | Drama, Thriller
4.1/5 (with 592 votes)

A nameless ronin, or samurai with no master, enters a small village in feudal Japan where two rival businessmen are struggling for control of the local gambling trade. Taking the name Sanjuro Kuwabatake, the ronin convinces both silk merchant Tazaemon and sake merchant Tokuemon to hire him as a personal bodyguard, then artfully sets in motion a full-scale gang war between the two ambitious and unscrupulous men.

Directed by Akira Kurosawa - With Toshirō Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai, Yōko Tsukasa, Isuzu Yamada, Takashi Shimura, Daisuke Katō, ...

Ne Zha(2019)

1h 50min | Animation, Fantasy, Adventure
4.0/5 (with 162 votes)

The Primus extracts a Mixed Yuan Bead into a Spirit Seed and a Demon Pill. The Spirit Seed can be reincarnated as a human to help King Zhou establish a new dynasty, whereas the Demon Pill will create a devil threatening humanity. Ne Zha is the one who is destined to be the hero, but instead he becomes a devil incarnate, because the Spirit Seed and a Demon Pill are switched.

Directed by Jiaozi

Red Sonja(1985)

1h 29min | Adventure, Fantasy, Action
2.7/5 (with 344 votes)

The tyrant Gedren seeks the total power in a world of barbarism. She raids the city Hablac and kills the keeper of a talisman that gives her great power. Red Sonja, sister of the keeper, sets out with her magic sword to overthrow Gedren.

Directed by Richard Fleischer - With Brigitte Nielsen, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sandahl Bergman, Paul L. Smith, Janet Ågren, Donna Osterbuhr, ...

House of Flying Daggers(2004)

PG
| 1h 59min | Adventure, Drama, Action
3.6/5 (with 692 votes)

In 9th century China, a corrupt government wages war against a rebel army called the Flying Daggers. A romantic warrior breaks a beautiful rebel out of prison to help her rejoin her fellows, but things are not what they seem.

Directed by Zhang Yimou - With Andy Lau, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Zhang Ziyi, Song Dandan

Sword of the Stranger(2007)

1h 43min | Action, Animation, History
3.8/5 (with 169 votes)

Pursued by formidable Chinese assassins, young Kotaro and his dog run into No Name, a mysterious stranger who gets pulled into the chase. The unlikely companions form a bond over saving the dog from a poison attack, but chaos erupts when the assassins find Kotaro, and No Name must face his past before a horrible fate is met again.

Directed by Masahiro Andō

The Sword of Doom(1966)

2h 2min | Action, Drama
3.8/5 (with 86 votes)

Ryunosuke, a gifted swordsman plying his trade during the turbulent final days of Shogunate rule, has no moral code and kills without remorse. It’s a way of life that leads to madness.

Directed by Kihachi Okamoto - With Tatsuya Nakadai, Yūzō Kayama, Michiyo Aratama, Toshirō Mifune, Kei Satō, Ryōsuke Kagawa, ...

Viking(2016)

2h 13min | History, Action, Drama
2.4/5 (with 70 votes)

The early Middle Ages. A time of heavy swords and dark blood law. The ruling clan is in discord. The guilt for the accidental death of the brother has fallen on the Grand Duke. According to the law, revenge must be taken by the younger brother, a bastard. For the refusal to kill, he has to pay with eve- rything he had, because “for peace you need more swords than for a war”...

Directed by Andrei Kravchuk - With Danila Kozlovsky, Aleksandra Bortich, Andrey Smolyakov, Svetlana Khodchenkova, Maksim Sukhanov, Igor Petrenko, ...

Azumi(2003)

2h 8min | Adventure, Drama, Action, Thriller, Romance / Love
3.5/5 (with 137 votes)

In war-torn Japan, the Tokugawa Shogun, desperate to restore peace to his people, orders the assassination of the hostile warlords. A beautiful young woman is raised from birth with nine other orphans, to become an assassin. Her name is Azumi, the ultimate assassin.

Directed by Ryuhei Kitamura - With Aya Ueto, Shun Oguri, Hiroki Narimiya, Yuma Ishigaki, Eita Nagayama, Kei Satō, ...

Arn: The Knight Templar(2007)

2h 19min | Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance / Love
3.1/5 (with 121 votes)

Arn, the son of a high-ranking Swedish nobleman is educated in a monastery and sent to the Holy Land as a knight templar to do penance for a forbidden love.

Directed by Peter Flinth - With Joakim Nätterqvist, Stellan Skarsgård, Simon Callow, Vincent Perez, Bibi Andersson, Michael Nyqvist, ...

Dragon Inn(1992)

1h 44min | Action
3.5/5 (with 46 votes)

During the Ming Dynasty, Tsao Siu-yan, a power-crazed eunuch who rules his desert region of China as if he were the Emperor, ruthlessly thwarts plots against him and sets a trap for one of his enemies at the Dragon Gate Inn.

Directed by Raymond Lee, Tsui Hark, Ching Siu-tung - With Tony Leung Ka-fai, Brigitte Lin, Maggie Cheung, Donnie Yen, Yen Shi-Kwan, Elvis Tsui, ...

The Last Warrior(2018)

1h 45min | Action, Drama, Fantasy, History, Adventure
3.0/5 (with 50 votes)

A new era is about to begin in Eastern Europe. Scythians, the proud warriors, are all but gone and most of the few remaining descendants have become ruthless mercenary assassins. Lutobor, a warrior who becomes involved in intertribal conflicts, sets off on a perilous journey to save his family guided by a captive Scythian.

With Aleksey Faddeyev, Yuriy Tsurilo

Hellboy Animated: Sword of Storms(2006)

1h 13min | TV Movie, Fantasy, Animation, Action, Thriller, Science Fiction, Horror
3.2/5 (with 49 votes)

A folklore professor becomes unwittingly possessed by the ancient Japanese demons of Thunder and Lightning. But when The Bureau of Paranormal Research & Defense dispatches a team of agents to investigate, a cursed samurai sword sends Hellboy to a supernatural dimension of ghosts, monsters, and feudal mayhem. Now while pyrokinetic Liz Sherman and fishboy Abe Sapien battle one very pissed-off dragon, a lost and cranky Hellboy must find his way home.

Directed by Tad Stones - With Ron Perlman
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George and the Dragon(2004)

1h 33min | Adventure
2.7/5 (with 34 votes)

In 12th century England, the handsome and noble knight, George, has left the Crusades behind to follow his dream of a peaceful life on his own piece of land. However, in order to obtain his land from the ruling King Edgaar, he must help find the King's missing daughter, Princess Lunna, a quest which sees George drawn into an unexpected battle with the kingdom's last surviving dragon.

Directed by Tom Reeve - With Piper Perabo, James Purefoy, Patrick Swayze, Michael Clarke Duncan, Jean-Pierre Castaldi, Paul Freeman, ...

The Jade Raksha(1968)

1h 31min | Action, Adventure
3.3/5 (with 3 votes)

A fearsome swordswoman known as The Jade Raksha appears in the martial arts world and begins killing people whose surname is Yan. A swordsman figures out who she is, and asks her why - the answer being that a Yan killed her family 18 years ago... but she's not sure exactly which Yan it was. He suggests that killing the innocent is wrong, but she only has vengeance on her mind and is not to be convinced.

Directed by Ho Meng Hua - With Cheng Pei-pei

Knights of the Round Table(1953)

1h 55min | Romance / Love, Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Drama
3.1/5 (with 33 votes)

In Camelot, kingdom of Arthur and Merlin, Lancelot is well known for his courage and honor. But one day he must quit Camelot and the Queen Guinevere's love, leaving the Round Table without protection.

Directed by Richard Thorpe - With Robert Taylor, Ava Gardner, Mel Ferrer, Stanley Baker, Laurence Harvey, Patricia Owens, ...

Amon Saga(1986)

1h 20min | Animation, Fantasy, Adventure, Action, Drama
2.9/5 (with 3 votes)

Set in a world of fantasy and adventure, Amon is a young warrior embarking on a quest to avenge the death of his mother. When the hunt leads him ultimately to the kingdom of Valhiss, Amon enlists in the ranks of the Emperor's army in order to gain an opportunity to exact his revenge. However, a chance encounter with the Princess Lichia, being held captive by the Emperor in an effort to ransom a map away from his main rival, King Darai-Sem, Amon must decide whether to follow his path of revenge or to help rescue the Princess in an effort to save a lost kingdom.

Directed by Shunji Ôga

Heavenly Sword(2014)

1h 25min | Adventure, Action, Animation, Fantasy
3.3/5 (with 44 votes)

The film's plot follows that of the game closely. Nariko, a member of an ancient tribe who have guarded an ancient magical sword for thousands of years, is charged with bringing the sword to its destined wielder, a deity reincarnated who will bring peace to the land. But on her quest, Nariko must wield the sword herself against the forces of King Bohan, who wishes to possess the weapon himself.

Directed by Gun Ho Jang - With Anna Torv
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