If You Liked Billy Budd, Watch These Next
Finished Billy Budd (1962) and want more of the same? These 19 movies are what its fans watched next, ranked by how often people who liked it also liked these. Like Billy Budd, most of them are drama, action.
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19 titles · updated 2nd October 2026
2.Stowaway(2022)
6.0ActionMysteryThrillerAlso action
A tenacious party girl fights to survive after three thieves commandeer her luxury yacht. Unable to escape and trapped on the yacht at high seas, the prey becomes the hunter as she turns the tables on the intruders and takes matters into her own hands.
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3.The Bounty(1984)
6.8ActionDramaHistoryAlso action and drama
An idyllic voyage to Tahiti in 1789 turns a crew aboard the H.M.S. Bounty against its captain when they find a tropical paradise.
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4.Mutiny on the Bounty(1935)
7.4AdventureDramaHistoryAlso drama
Fletcher Christian successfully leads a revolt against the ruthless Captain Bligh on the HMS Bounty. However, Bligh returns one year later, hell bent on revenge.
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5.In the Heart of the Sea(2015)
6.8ThrillerDramaAdventureAlso drama and action
In the winter of 1820, the New England whaling ship Essex is assaulted by something no one could believe—a whale of mammoth size and will, and an almost human sense of vengeance.
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7.Tom Clancy's Without Remorse(2021)
6.9ActionThrillerWarAlso action
An elite Navy SEAL uncovers an international conspiracy while seeking justice for the murder of his pregnant wife.
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8.Annapolis(2006)
6.9DramaActionAlso drama and action
Jake Huard, from a shipbuilders family, promised his dying mother he'd make it to Annapolis Naval Academy. Thanks to tenaciously bugging a Congressman, he's selected despite dubious grades. Once inside, Jake soon proves sub-standard academically. Constantly challenged to his limits, repeatedly made the 'over-cocky'…
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10.Captain Phillips(2013)
7.5ActionDramaThrillerAlso action and drama
The true story of Captain Richard Phillips and the 2009 hijacking by Somali pirates of the US-flagged MV Maersk Alabama, the first American cargo ship to be hijacked in two hundred years.
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11.Walkaway Joe(2020)
6.0DramaActionAlso drama and action
A young boy named Dallas goes on a search for his pool-hustling father after he abandons their family. Dallas is determined to bring his father home when he meets Joe Haley, a drifter wrestling with a past he'd rather forget, who feels responsible for Dallas' safety and reluctantly takes him in.
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13.Querelle(1982)
6.6DramaCrimeAlso drama
French sailor Querelle arrives in Brest and starts frequenting a strange whorehouse. He discovers that his brother Robert is the lover of the lady owner, Lysiane. Here, you can play dice with Nono, Lysiane's husband: if you win, you are allowed to make love with Lysiane; if you lose, you have to make love with…
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14.An Ordinary Man(2017)
6.2ActionDramaWarAlso action and drama
A war criminal in hiding forms a relationship with his only connection to the outside world - his maid.
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15.Man with No Past(2025)
6.5ActionDramaAlso action and drama
Waking up in an unfamiliar city, a man with no memory must confront the mysteries of his own identity. However, his desperate search to uncover the past pits him against a powerful enemy, leading to a showdown that ultimately reveals the truth.
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19.Wild Things(1998)
6.4MysteryThrillerDramaAlso drama
When teen-socialite Kelly Van Ryan and troubled bad girl Suzie Toller accuse guidance counselor Sam Lombardo of rape, he's suspended by the school, rejected by the town, and fighting to get his life back. One cop suspects conspiracy, but nothing is what it seems...
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