If You Liked Apocalypto, Watch These Next
Finished Apocalypto (2006) and want more of the same? These 20 movies are what its fans watched next, ranked by how often people who liked it also liked these. Like Apocalypto, most of them are action, drama, history.
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20 titles · updated 1st October 2026
1.Boyka: Undisputed IV(2016)
7.2ActionDramaThrillerAlso action and drama
In the fourth installment of the fighting franchise, Boyka is shooting for the big leagues when an accidental death in the ring makes him question everything he stands for. When he finds out the wife of the man he accidentally killed is in trouble, Boyka offers to fight in a series of impossible battles to free her…
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2.Marked for Death(1990)
6.1ActionCrimeDramaAlso action and drama
Just retired from the Drug Enforcement Agency, John Hatcher returns to his hometown and quickly discovers that drugs have infiltrated his old neighborhood. Determined to drive the dealers out, Hatcher crosses paths with a ferocious Jamaican drug lord who vows that Hatcher and his family are now marked for death.
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3.Blood and Bone(2009)
7.4ActionCrimeThrillerAlso action and drama
In Los Angeles, an ex-con takes the underground fighting world by storm in his quest to fulfill a promise to a dead friend.
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4.Missing in Action 2: The Beginning(1985)
5.8ActionWarDramaAlso action and drama
Prequel to the first Missing In Action, set in the early 1980s it shows the capture of Colonel Braddock during the Vietnam war in the 1970s, and his captivity with other American POWs in a brutal prison camp, and his plans to escape.
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5.The Eyes of Tammy Faye(2021)
6.4DramaHistoryAlso drama and history
From the 1960s to the 1980s, evangelist Jim Baker and his ambitious wife, Tammy Faye, rose from humble beginnings to build an empire based on big-time evangelical Christianity--only for the couple to fall from grace because of some all-too-human sins.
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6.The Last of the Mohicans(1992)
7.4HistoryWarDramaAlso history and drama
In war-torn colonial America, in the midst of a bloody battle between British, the French and Native American allies, the aristocratic daughter of a British Colonel and her party are captured by a group of Huron warriors. Fortunately, a group of three Mohican trappers comes to their rescue.
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8.The Last Samurai(2003)
7.6DramaActionWarAlso drama and action
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…
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9.The Color Purple(1985)
7.7DramaHistoryAlso drama and history
An epic tale spanning forty years in the life of Celie, an African-American woman living in the South who survives incredible abuse and bigotry. After Celie's abusive father marries her off to the equally debasing 'Mister' Albert Johnson, things go from bad to worse, leaving Celie to find companionship anywhere she…
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10.Braveheart(1995)
7.9DramaHistoryWarAlso drama and history
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 to revolt and, eventually, the entire country to rise up against English rule.
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12.Raging Bull(1980)
7.9DramaHistoryAlso drama and history
The life of boxer Jake LaMotta, whose violence and temper that led him to the top in the ring destroyed his life outside of it.
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13.Nowhere to Run(1993)
6.6ActionDramaThrillerAlso action and drama
Escaped convict Sam Gillen single-handedly takes on ruthless developers who are determined to evict a widow with two young children.
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14.Hotel Mumbai(2019)
7.5ThrillerHistoryDramaAlso history and drama
Mumbai, India, November 26, 2008. While several terrorists spread hatred and death through the city, others attack the Taj Mahal Palace Hotel. Both hotel staff and guests risk their lives, making unthinkable sacrifices to protect themselves and keep everyone safe while help arrives.
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15.Rob Roy(1995)
6.7AdventureHistoryDramaAlso history and drama
In the highlands of Scotland in the 1700s, Rob Roy tries to lead his small town to a better future, by borrowing money from the local nobility to buy cattle to herd to market. When the money is stolen, Rob is forced into a Robin Hood lifestyle to defend his family and honour.
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17.The Last Full Measure(2020)
7.3DramaActionWarAlso drama and action
The incredible true story of Vietnam War hero William H. Pitsenbarger, a U.S. Air Force Pararescuemen medic who personally saved over sixty men. Thirty-two years later, Pentagon staffer Scott Huffman investigates a Congressional Medal of Honor request for Pitsenbarger and uncovers a high-level conspiracy behind the…
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18.Prizefighter: The Life of Jem Belcher(2022)
6.1HistoryDramaAlso history and drama
At the turn of the 19th century, Pugilism was the sport of kings and a gifted young boxer fought his way to becoming champion of England.
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19.Life After Fighting(2024)
7.1ActionDramaThrillerAlso action and drama
Retired martial arts world champion Alex Faulkner has settled into a simple life, when the disappearance of two of his students leads to an unthinkable discovery close to home. Just when all hope of finding the children is lost, he locates the imprisoned girls and unsurfaces an international child trafficking…
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