Movies like Centurion

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Centurion (2010)
 6.3
 86K
Centurion (2010)
Genre: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Britain, A.D. 117. Quintus Dias, the sole survivor of a Pictish raid on a Roman frontier fort, marches north with General Virilus' legendary Ninth Legion, under orders to wipe the Picts from the face of the Earth and destroy their leader, Gorlacon.
Style: brutal, intense, epic, stylized, suspense, scenic, factual, grindhouse, harsh, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night, manly
Plot: roman empire, ancient rome, roman, ancient history, roman soldier, legion, medieval, survival, sword fight, soldier, fight, betrayal, ancient, violence, brutality, danger, fort, vengeance, peplum, historical epic, sole survivor, heroes, military, tribe, archer ...
Time: year 2010, middle ages, ancient times
Place: rome italy, britain, scotland, england, greece, europe
Keyword: attack, challenge

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, epic, realistic and exciting films with plots about sword, warrior, medieval, battles, ancient, sword fight and heroes mostly in Drama, Action and History genres. Some movies like Centurion: Gladiator (2000), Troy (2004), The Eagle (2011), Robin Hood (2010), Attila (2001). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Gladiator (2000)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: USA, UK, Malta, Morocco
Duration: 155 min.
Story: In the year 180, the death of emperor Marcus Aurelius throws the Roman Empire into chaos. Maximus is one of the Roman army's most capable and trusted generals and a key advisor to the emperor. As Marcus' devious son Commodus ascends to ...
Style: epic, captivating, breathtaking, emotional, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night, manly, family friendly, teens, date night ...
Plot: ancient rome, roman empire, revenge, vengeance, sword fight, ancient history, gladiator, freedom, slavery, courage, warrior, ancient world ...
Time: year 2000, ancient times, 2000s, y2k, middle ages ...
Place: rome italy, italy, ancient greece, greece, north africa ...
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93%
 7.3
 567K
Troy (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Malta, UK
Duration: 163 min.
Story: In year 1250 B.C. during the late Bronze age, two emerging nations begin to clash. Paris, the Trojan prince, convinces Helen, Queen of Sparta, to leave her husband Menelaus, and sail with him back to Troy. After Menelaus finds out that his wife was ...
Style: epic, exciting, heroic, realistic, period piece ...
Audience: boys' night, date night, manly, teens, adult
Plot: sword fight, mythology, ancient, ancient history, ancient world, vengeance, battlefield, war, greek mythology, warrior, courage, betrayal ...
Time: ancient times, year 2004, 2000s, middle ages
Place: greece, ancient greece, britain, rome italy, hellas ...
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100%
 6.2
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The Eagle (2011)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: In 140 AD, twenty years after the unexplained disappearance of the entire Ninth Legion in the mountains of Scotland, young centurion Marcus Aquila (Tatum) arrives from Rome to solve the mystery and restore the reputation of his father, the commander ...
Style: exciting, intense, epic, realistic, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: ancient rome, roman empire, ancient history, ancient world, medieval, slavery, sword fight, master and servant, gladiator, legends and myths, ancient, legion ...
Time: ancient times, middle ages
Place: england, scotland, britain, greece, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
 6.6
 282K
Robin Hood (2010)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, History
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 140 min.
Story: When soldier Robin happens upon the dying Robert of Loxley, he promises to return the man's sword to his family in Nottingham. There, he assumes Robert's identity; romances his widow, Marion; and draws the ire of the town's sheriff ...
Style: captivating, epic, exciting, heroic, entertaining ...
Audience: boys' night, manly
Plot: medieval, robin hood, knight, sword fight, fighting the system, archer, folk hero, love and romance, bow and arrow, escapades, sword and shield, heroes ...
Time: middle ages, medieval times, year 2010, 2010s, ancient times ...
Place: england, britain, france, europe, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Attila (2001)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Biography, Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: USA, Lithuania
Duration: 177 min.
TV show
Story: A romanced story of Attila the Hun, since his childhood, when he lost his parents until his death. Attila is disclosed as a great leader, strategist and lover and the movie shows his respect to the great Roman strategist Flavius Aetius, his loves ...
Style: captivating, exciting, touching, epic, historical drama ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: roman empire, ancient history, ancient rome, battlefield, antiquity, barbarian, battles, roman, medieval, peplum, ancient, village ...
Time: middle ages, 5th century
Place: rome italy, constantinople, greece, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
300: Rise of an Empire (2014)
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Based on Frank Miller's latest graphic novel Xerxes and told in the breathtaking visual style of the blockbuster "300," this new chapter of the epic saga takes the action to a fresh battlefield--on the sea--as Greek general ...
Style: epic, heroic, exciting, entertaining, stylized ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: sword fight, ancient history, mythology, ancient, king, master warrior, greek, good versus evil, military, swords and armor, war, superhero ...
Time: year 2014, ancient times, middle ages, 2010s, 5th century
Place: ancient greece, greece, middle east, athens greece
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
 5.7
 47K
Ben-Hur (2016)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story: A falsely accused nobleman survives years of slavery to take vengeance on his best friend who betrayed him.
Style: biblical, intense, suspense, exciting, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night, family friendly
Plot: ancient history, ancient rome, roman empire, arena, religion, survival, christian, jesus, slavery, medieval, justice, mentor ...
Time: 1st century, year 2016, biblical epic, ancient times
Place: palestine, rome italy, italy, greece, jerusalem
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.6
 176K
Alexander (2004)
Genre: Action, Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: USA, UK, Germany, Netherlands, France, Italy
Duration: 175 min.
Story: 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 farther than any westerner had ever gone, all the way to India.
Style: epic, breathtaking, period piece, serious, factual ...
Audience: date night, boys' night
Plot: ancient history, war, conquering, battles, royalty, warlord, greek, ambition, gay, ruler, knight, mythology ...
Time: ancient times, year 2004, middle ages
Place: ancient greece, greece, persia, alexandria egypt, egypt ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
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The 13th Warrior (1999)
Genre: Action, Adventure, History
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: In AD 922, Arab courtier, Ahmad Ibn Fadlan accompanies a party of Vikings to the barbaric North to combat a terror that slaughters Vikings and devours their flesh.
Style: epic, exciting, scenic, suspenseful, intense ...
Plot: viking, sword fight, barbarian, medieval, sword and sorcery, battles, mythology, sword, mission, heroic mission, arab, violence ...
Time: middle ages, 10th century, ancient times, year 1999, medieval times
Place: baghdad iraq, scandinavia
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
 8.7
 184K
Rome (2005)
Genre: Action, Drama, Romance, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 1193 min.
TV show
Story: A down-to-earth account of the lives of both illustrious and ordinary Romans set in the last days of the Roman Republic.
Style: epic, exciting, period piece, stylized, captivating ...
Plot: roman empire, ancient history, ancient rome, historical character, power struggle, emperor, antiquity, intrigue, warrior, roman soldier, female nudity, betrayal ...
Time: 1st century, 1st century b.c., ancient times, 2000s
Place: rome italy, italy, ancient greece, greece, alexandria egypt ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Kingdom of Heaven (2005)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, History, War
Country: UK, Germany, Spain, Morocco, USA, Italy, France
Duration: 144 min.
Story: After his wife dies, a blacksmith named Balian is thrust into royalty, political intrigue and bloody holy wars during the Crusades.
Style: epic, serious, exciting, realistic, period piece ...
Audience: date night, manly, boys' night, adult
Plot: knight, sword fight, war, medieval, battles, siege, crusade, warrior, christianity, muslim, crusader, sword and shield ...
Time: middle ages, 12th century, medieval times, ancient times, year 2005 ...
Place: jerusalem, middle east, palestine, holy land, england ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Last Legion (2007)
Genre: Action, Adventure, History, War
Country: UK, France, Bulgaria
Duration: 101 min.
Story: As the Roman empire crumbles, young Romulus Augustus flees the city and embarks on a perilous voyage to Britain to track down a legion of supporters.
Style: epic, serious, exciting, stylized, arthurian ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: roman empire, ancient rome, king arthur, emperor, medieval, barbarian, sword, ancient, mythology, ancient history, soldier, ancient world ...
Time: middle ages, 5th century, 1st century, ancient times, year 2007
Place: rome italy, greece, europe, england, italy ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
Augustus: The First Emperor (2003)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: Italy, Germany, France, Spain, Austria
Duration: 200 min.
Story: Caesar Augustus tells of how he became the emperor to his reluctant daughter, Julia following the death of her husband Agrippa.
Style: epic, realistic, serious, stylized, exciting ...
Plot: ancient history, ancient rome, roman empire, roman emperor, emperor, politics, ancient, betrayal, assassination, leadership, ambition, tragic hero ...
Time: ancient times, 1st century b.c., 1st century
Place: alexandria egypt, rome italy, europe, greece, italy ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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King Arthur (2004)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, History, War
Country: Ireland, UK, USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story: The story of the Arthurian legend, based on the 'Sarmatian hypothesis' which contends that the legend has a historical nucleus in the Sarmatian heavy cavalry troops stationed in Britain, and that the Roman-British military commander, ...
Style: epic, exciting, period piece, costume drama, intense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: king arthur, knight, sword fight, medieval, king, battles, military, arthurian legend, roman empire, sword and shield, swords and armor, ancient rome ...
Time: middle ages, medieval times, 5th century, year 2004, ancient times ...
Place: britain, scotland, england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 8.3
 1.1M
Braveheart (1995)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 178 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: epic, factual, breathtaking, scenic, inspirational ...
Audience: boys' night, manly, chick flick, adult
Plot: freedom, courage, sword fight, war, vengeance, medieval, battles, tragic hero, military, love story, beautiful scenery, warrior ...
Time: middle ages, medieval times, 14th century, ancient times, 20th century ...
Place: scotland, england, britain, europe, scottish highlands ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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Spartacus (2004)
Genre: Action, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 174 min.
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Story: Sentenced to spend out the rest of his adult life laboring in the harsh deserts of Egypt, the Thracian slave Spartacus gets a new lease on life when he is purchased by the obese owner of a Roman gladiator school. Moved by the defiance of an ...
Style: epic, serious, atmospheric, realistic, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: ancient rome, roman empire, ancient history, rebellion, tragic hero, slavery, human spirit, gladiator, righting the wronged, dishonesty, leadership, graphic violence ...
Time: 1st century, ancient times, 1st century b.c.
Place: rome italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
Barbarians Rising (2016)
Genre: Documentary, Action, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
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Story: Told from the perspective of the rebel leaders, the series chronicles a wave of rebellions against absolute power by those the Roman Empire called “barbarians” – tribes they viewed as beyond the fringe of civilization that lived a brutish and ...
Style: serious, captivating
Plot: ancient rome, roman soldier, barbarian, roman empire, ancient civilization, druid, rebellion, ancient, roman emperor, warrior, medieval, brutality ...
Place: rome italy, hungary, north africa, italy, mediterranean sea ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
We Were Soldiers (2002)
Genre: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: France, Germany, USA
Duration: 138 min.
Story: The story of the first major battle of the American phase of the Vietnam War and the soldiers on both sides that fought it.
Style: serious, factual, realistic, emotional, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night, manly
Plot: military, vietnam war, war, battles, soldier, battlefield, army, military life, heroic mission, wartime, justice, u.s. army ...
Time: 20th century, year 2002, 60s, 2000s
Place: vietnam, america, asia, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Apocalypto (2006)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 139 min.
Story: Set in the Mayan civilization, when a man's idyllic presence is brutally disrupted by a violent invading force, he is taken on a perilous journey to a world ruled by fear and oppression where a harrowing end awaits him. Through a twist of fate ...
Style: exciting, suspense, brutal, harsh, visually stunning ...
Audience: adult
Plot: survival, ancient history, slavery, manhunt, tribe, jungle, chase, native, solar eclipse, warrior, ancient civilization, violent ...
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Place: persia, mexico, central america
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60%
Northmen: A Viking Saga (2014)
Genre: Action, Drama, History
Country: Switzerland, Germany, South Africa
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A band of Vikings cross enemy lines and a panicked race begins. The losers will pay with their lives.
Style: stylized, captivating, exciting, realistic, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: viking, battles, medieval, survival, escapades, rivalry, heroes, violence, ship, noble, barbarian, brutality ...
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50%
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Kingdom (2019)
Genre: Action, History, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 134 min.
Story: Set in Qin Dynasty during the warring states period in ancient China. Shin was a war orphan. He has a dream of becoming a great general Shin has a fateful encounter with young King Eisei. King Eisei aims to unify all of China.
Style: entertaining, captivating, exciting, anime
Plot: battles, sword fight, king, medieval, warrior, best friend, doppelganger, pursuit, slave, death of friend, power struggle, heir ...
Place: china, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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The Patriot (2000)
Genre: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 165 min.
Story: 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, ...
Style: period piece, dramatic, rough, uplifting, factual ...
Audience: manly, family friendly, kids, boys' night, adult
Plot: american revolution, war, freedom, revolution, military, battles, vengeance, rebellion, human spirit, heroic mission, wartime, combat ...
Time: 18th century, year 2000, georgian era, y2k, 1780s ...
Place: south carolina, america, southern usa, virginia, britain ...
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67%
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Ironclad (2011)
Genre: Action, Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: UK, Switzerland, USA, Germany
Duration: 121 min.
Story: In the year 1215, the rebel barons of England have forced their despised King John to put his royal seal on the Magna Carta, a seminal document that upheld the rights of free men. Yet within months of pledging himself to the great charter, the King ...
Style: exciting, realistic, serious, captivating, stylized ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: knight, medieval, siege, crusader, castle, sword fight, warrior, battles, evil king, king, rebel, rebellion ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
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The Last Samurai (2003)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA, New Zealand, Japan
Duration: 154 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: epic, breathtaking, serious, exciting, captivating ...
Audience: girls' night, manly, adult
Plot: samurai, sword fight, military, battles, war, japanese history, courage, warrior, katana, self discovery, pride and honor, human spirit ...
Time: 19th century, year 2003, victorian era, 1800s, middle ages ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 188 min.
Story: Drawn from the same events that later inspired Gladiator, the film charts the power-hungry greed and father-son betrayal that led to Rome's collapse at the bloody hands of the Barbarians.
Style: epic, captivating, exciting, stylized, serious ...
Plot: roman empire, ancient history, ancient rome, barbarian, battles, tragic hero, sword fight, ancient world, peplum, ancient, betrayal, politics ...
Time: ancient times
Place: rome italy, ancient greece, greece, europe, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 8.0
 867K
The Revenant (2015)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Western
Country: Hong Kong, Taiwan, USA
Duration: 156 min.
Story: 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.
Style: atmospheric, breathtaking, scenic, suspenseful, harsh ...
Audience: manly, date night, boys' night, adult
Plot: survival, wilderness, revenge, vengeance, native american, snow, bear attack, life & death, nature, winter, obsessive quest, hunter ...
Time: year 2015, 2010s, 19th century, 90s, distant future ...
Place: los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
 5.5
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Pompeii (2014)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, History, Romance
Country: Canada, Germany, USA, UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story: In 79 A.D., Milo, a slave turned gladiator, finds himself in a race against time to save his true love Cassia, the beautiful daughter of a wealthy merchant who has been unwillingly betrothed to a corrupt Roman Senator. As Mount Vesuvius erupts in a ...
Style: exciting, epic, serious, realistic, stylized ...
Audience: chick flick, boys' night
Plot: disaster, natural disaster, roman empire, ancient history, volcanic eruption, arena, chaos, slave, roman, gladiator, save the lady, volcano ...
Time: 1st century, year 2014, ancient times, middle ages, 2010s ...
Place: pompeii, italy, britain, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Julius Caesar (1970)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: UK
Duration: 117 min.
Story: All star cast heads up this 1970 remake of the William Shakespeare classic tale of the betrayal of the the Roman senate against their emperor, the plotting and scheming that led up to the assassination of the title charecter, and all of Romes' ...
Style: epic, cult classic, suspenseful, serious, realistic ...
Plot: ancient history, ancient rome, shakespeare, ancient, roman empire, antiquity, betrayal, assassination, medieval, ancient world, warrior, bible ...
Time: ancient times, 1st century, 1st century b.c.
Place: rome italy, italy, ancient greece, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.2
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Last Knights (2015)
Genre: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: UK, USA, South Korea, Czech Republic
Duration: 115 min.
Story: When an evil emperor executes their leader, his band of knights – bound by duty and honour – embarks on a journey of vengeance that will not come to an end until they've destroyed their mortal foe.
Style: exciting, serious, epic, visually appealing, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: medieval, sword fight, warrior, knight, vengeance, coup d'etat, revenge, king arthur, emperor, corrupt, sword and shield, wizard ...
Time: middle ages, year 2015, medieval times
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The 300 Spartans (1962)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Essentially true story of how Spartan king Leonidas led an extremely small army of Greek Soldiers (300 of his personal body guards from Sparta) to hold off an invading Persian army now thought to have numbered 250,000.
Style: period piece, epic, serious, technicolor, fast paced ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: mythology, battles, heroic mission, heroes, ancient, ancient history, sword fight, antiquity, greek mythology, peplum, myth, sorcery ...
Time: ancient times, 5th century
Place: ancient greece, hellas, rome italy, europe, greece
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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