If You Liked The Last Samurai, Watch These Next
Finished The Last Samurai (2003) 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 The Last Samurai, most of them are drama, action, war.
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20 titles · updated 3rd October 2026
1.The Patriot(2000)
7.2DramaHistoryWarAlso drama and war
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 when his son Gabriel enlists in the army to defend their new nation, America, against the British, Benjamin reluctantly returns to his old…
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2.The Challenge(1982)
5.9ActionDramaAlso action and drama
Rick, a down-and-out American boxer, is hired to transport a sword to Japan, unaware that the whole thing is a set up in a bitter blood-feud between two brothers, one who follows the traditional path of the samurai and the other a businessman. At the behest of the businessman, Rick undertakes samurai training from…
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3.Uncommon Valor(1983)
6.2DramaWarActionAlso drama and war
A group of Vietnam War veterans re-unite to rescue one of their own left behind and taken prisoner by the Vietnamese.
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4.Letters from Iwo Jima(2006)
7.5ActionDramaWarAlso action and drama
The story of the battle of Iwo Jima between the United States and Imperial Japan during World War II, as told from the perspective of the Japanese who fought it.
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5.Missing in Action 2: The Beginning(1985)
5.8ActionWarDramaAlso action and war
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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6.Hacksaw Ridge(2016)
8.2DramaHistoryWarAlso drama and war
WWII American Army Medic Desmond T. Doss, who served during the Battle of Okinawa, refuses to kill people and becomes the first Conscientious Objector in American history to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor.
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7.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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8.To End All Wars(2001)
6.4DramaWarActionAlso drama and war
Based on a real-life story, this drama focuses on a small group of Allied soldiers in Burma who are held captive by the Japanese. Capt. Ernest Gordon, Lt. Jim Reardon and Maj. Ian Campbell are among the military officers kept imprisoned and routinely beaten and deprived of food. While Campbell wants to rebel and…
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9.The Last of the Mohicans(1992)
7.4HistoryWarDramaAlso war 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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10.Flags of Our Fathers(2006)
6.8WarDramaHistoryAlso war and drama
There were five Marines and one Navy Corpsman photographed raising the U.S. flag on Mt. Suribachi by Joe Rosenthal on February 23, 1945. This is the story of three of the six surviving servicemen - John 'Doc' Bradley, Pvt. Rene Gagnon and Pvt. Ira Hayes - who fought in the battle to take Iwo Jima from the Japanese.
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11.Life After Fighting(2024)
7.0ActionDramaThrillerAlso 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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12.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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13.Walking Tall(2004)
6.3AdventureDramaActionAlso drama and action
A former U.S. soldier returns to his hometown to find it overrun by crime and corruption, which prompts him to clean house.
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15.The Great War(2019)
6.6HistoryWarDramaAlso war and drama
In November of 1918 as World War I was ending, a unit of American soldiers goes behind enemy lines to find a lost platoon of African American soldiers.
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16.Braveheart(1995)
7.9DramaHistoryWarAlso drama and war
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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17.Revenge of the Ninja(1983)
6.3ActionCrimeDramaAlso action and drama
A peaceful ex-ninja's life shatters when his son's kidnapping forces him back into violence amid an American-Japanese criminal drug war.
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18.Black Rain(1989)
6.6DramaActionThrillerAlso drama and action
Two New York cops get involved in a gang war between members of the Yakuza, the Japanese Mafia. They arrest one of their killers and are ordered to escort him back to Japan. However, in Japan he manages to escape, and as they try to track him down, they get deeper and deeper into the Japanese Mafia scene and they…
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19.Blind Fury(1989)
6.5ActionThrillerDramaAlso action and drama
A blind Vietnam vet, trained as a swordfighter, comes to America and helps to rescue the son of a fellow soldier.
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20.Rob Roy(1995)
6.7AdventureHistoryDramaAlso drama and action
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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