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1	The Last of the Mohicans (1992) more movies like this directed by Michael Mann featuring Daniel Day-Lewis, Madeleine Stowe, Russell Means, Eric Schweig, Jodhi May, Wes Studi Director Michael Mann based this lushly romantic version of the James Fenimore Cooper novel more on his memory of the 1936 film version (starring Randolph Scott) than on Cooper's novel (in fact, Philip Dunne's 1936 screenplay is cited as source material for this film). Set in the 1750s during the French and Indian War, the story concerns Hawkeye ... see all copies from £2.77! new only from £3.43!
2	Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003) more movies like this directed by Peter Weir featuring Russell Crowe, Paul Bettany, Billy Boyd, James D'Arcy, Lee Ingleby Director Peter Weir's first turn behind the camera since 1998's critically acclaimed The Truman Show, Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World is based on two Napoleanic War-era adventure novels in author Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey/Maturin series, Master and Commander and The Far Side of the World. Russell Crowe stars as Captain Jack Aubrey, ... see all copies from £3.06! new only from £5.54!
3	The Pirates of Penzance (1983) more movies like this directed by Wilford Leach featuring Kevin Kline, Angela Lansbury, Linda Ronstadt, George Rose, Rex Smith Joseph Papp's notion of staging one of Gilbert and Sullivan's best-loved operettas with two pop singers (Linda Ronstadt and Rex Smith) in the leads paid off as a surprise Broadway smash in the early 1980s, and this film faithfully reproduces Papp's production, featuring most of the original cast and the original director. Frederic (Smith) has been ... see all copies from £16.63!
4	Gladiator (2000) more movies like this directed by Ridley Scott featuring Russell Crowe, Joaquin Phoenix, Connie Nielsen, Oliver Reed, Derek Jacobi, Richard Harris, Tomas Arana, Spencer Treat Clark, David Hemmings A man robbed of his name and his dignity strives to win them back, and gain the freedom of his people, in this epic historical drama from director Ridley Scott. In the year 180, the death of emperor Marcus Aurelius (Richard Harris) throws the Roman Empire into chaos. Maximus (Russell Crowe) is one of the Roman army's most capable and trusted ... see all copies from £2.00! new only from £4.16!
5	Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) more movies like this directed by Steven Spielberg featuring Harrison Ford, Karen Allen, Denholm Elliott, Paul Freeman, Wolf Kahler Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford) is no ordinary archeologist. When we first see him, he is somewhere in the Peruvian jungle in 1936, running a booby-trapped gauntlet (complete with an over-sized rolling boulder) to fetch a solid-gold idol. He loses this artifact to his chief rival, a French archeologist named Belloq (Paul Freeman), who then prepares ... see all copies from £2.77! new only from £6.55!
6	The Mummy (1999) more movies like this directed by Stephen Sommers featuring Brendan Fraser, Rachel Weisz, John Hannah, Arnold Vosloo, Kevin J. O'Connor, Stephen Dunham Loosely adapted from the classic 1932 horror film starring Boris Karloff, The Mummy is set in Egypt, where over 3,000 years ago the high priest Imhotep (played by Arnold Vosloo) was given the all-important assignment of preparing the recently dead for their journey into the afterlife. However, Imhotep made one terrible mistake - he became smitten ... see all copies from £1.38! new only from £2.77!
7	Braveheart (1995) more movies like this directed by Mel Gibson featuring Mel Gibson, Sophie Marceau, Patrick McGoohan, Catherine McCormack, Brendan Gleeson Mel Gibson, long-time heartthrob of the silver screen, came into his own as a director with Braveheart, an account of the life and times of medieval Scottish patriot William Wallace and, to a lesser degree, Robert the Bruce's struggle to unify his nation against its English oppressors. The story begins with young Wallace, whose father and brother ... see all copies from £2.77! new only from £3.06!
8	Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) more movies like this directed by Steven Spielberg featuring Harrison Ford, Sean Connery, Denholm Elliott, Alison Doody, John Rhys-Davies, River Phoenix The third installment in the widely beloved Spielberg/Lucas Indiana Jones saga begins with an introduction to a younger Indy (played by the late River Phoenix), who, through a fast-paced prologue, gives the audience insight into the roots of his taste for adventure, fear of snakes, and dogged determination to take historical artifacts out of the ... see all copies from £2.77! new only from £3.43!
9	Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991) more movies like this directed by Kevin Reynolds featuring Kevin Costner, Morgan Freeman, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Christian Slater, Alan Rickman This film is a '90s version of the classic Robin Hood story, with Kevin Costner starring as the good-guy thief. Costner is joined in his efforts against the murdering Sheriff of Nottingham (Alan Rickman) by Morgan Freeman who plays a philosophizing Moor, and by Nick Brimble, who plays Little John (anything but little). After Robin barely survives ... see all copies from £2.77! new only from £5.61!
10	The Mummy Returns (2001) more movies like this directed by Stephen Sommers featuring Brendan Fraser, Rachel Weisz, John Hannah, Arnold Vosloo, Oded Fehr This big-budget sequel from writer/director Stephen Sommers navigates much of the same cliffhanger territory as George Lucas and Steven Spielberg's Indiana Jones franchise. It is 1933, eight years after the events of The Mummy (1999). Legionnaire Rick O'Connell Brendan Fraser has married his Egyptologist girlfriend Evelyn Carnahan (Rachel Weisz) ... see all copies from £1.53! new only from £5.01!
11 view cover	The Mask of Zorro (1998) more movies like this directed by Martin Campbell featuring Antonio Banderas, Anthony Hopkins, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Stuart Wilson, Matt Letscher Director Martin Campbell, well-known to the action arena after 1995's GoldenEye, teams up with executive producer Steven Spielberg to bring the first Hollywood production of creator Johnston McCulley's Zorro in over four decades to the big screen. With scenic 18th century Mexico as a backdrop, Anthony Hopkins plays the original Zorro, a.k.a. Don ... see all copies from £2.77! new only from £2.77!
12 view cover	A Knight's Tale (2001) more movies like this directed by Brian Helgeland featuring Heath Ledger, Mark Addy, Rufus Sewell, Paul Bettany, Shannyn Sossamon This crowd-pleasing medieval adventure tale is very loosely inspired by Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales and mixes the anachronistic elements of modern-day rock music and colloquialisms with a period setting and characters. Heath Ledger stars as William Thatcher, a low-born 14th century squire who, in a fit of inspired spontaneity, replaces ... see all copies from £2.77! new only from £6.23!
13 view cover	The Count of Monte Cristo (1974) more movies like this directed by David Green, David Greene featuring Richard Chamberlain, Tony Curtis, Trevor Howard, Louis Jourdan, Donald Pleasence Richard Chamberlain stars in this lavishly appointed adaptation of the classic Alexandre Dumas adventure story. When Count Edmond Dantes (Richard Chamberlain) is stripped of his wealth and sent to prison for crimes he did not commit, he swears to get revenge against those who wronged him. With the help of Abbe (Trevor Howard), a fellow prisoner, ... see all copies from £2.04! new only from £11.75!
14 view cover	Spartacus (1960) more movies like this directed by Stanley Kubrick featuring Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier, Jean Simmons, Charles Laughton, Peter Ustinov Spartacus (Kirk Douglas) is a rebellious slave purchased by Lentulus Batiatus (Peter Ustinov), owner of a school for gladiators. For the entertainment of corrupt Roman senator Marcus Licinius Crassus (Laurence Olivier), Batiatus' gladiators are to stage a fight to the death. On the night before the event, the enslaved trainees are "rewarded" with ... see all copies from £1.38! new only from £4.70!
15 view cover	First Knight (1995) more movies like this directed by Jerry Zucker featuring Sean Connery, Richard Gere, Julia Ormond, Ben Cross, Liam Cunningham The tale of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table is always ripe for retelling. In this rendition, the sexy Richard Gere is Sir Lancelot, threatening to supersede the aging King Arthur (Sean Connery) by winning the love of his young wife Guinivere (Julia Ormond). This update of the age-old legend succeeds on the strength of Gere's happy ... see all copies from £2.77! new only from £2.77!
16 view cover	The Ghost and the Darkness (1996) more movies like this directed by Stephen Hopkins featuring Michael Douglas, Val Kilmer, Tom Wilkinson, John Kani, Om Puri, Bernard Hill A man bringing modern transportation to the ancient jungles of Africa discovers one of man's oldest enemies lays in wait for him in this period adventure drama. John Beaumont (Tom Wilkinson) is the owner of a British railroad firm who is building a rail line through Uganda. A bridge is needed so that the tracks may cross a large river, and ... see all copies from £2.77! new only from £5.98!
17 view cover	The Count of Monte Cristo (2002) more movies like this directed by Kevin Reynolds featuring James Caviezel, Guy Pearce, Dagmara Dominczyk, Richard Harris, Luis Guzman The classic tale of swashbuckling adventure by the senior Alexandre Dumas comes to the screen in its umpteenth incarnation, this time from Kevin Reynolds, directing his first feature in five years. James Caviezel stars as Edmond Dantes, an honest sailor who plans to marry his beautiful lover Mercedes (Dagmara Dominczyk). Edmond doesn't know that ... see all copies from £2.77! new only from £7.56!
18 view cover	The Legend of Zorro (2005) more movies like this directed by Martin Campbell featuring Antonio Banderas, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Rufus Sewell, Nick Chinlund, Julio Oscar Mechoso The legendary Mexican hero returns to the screen in this swashbuckling sequel to the 1998 box-office hit The Mask of Zorro. It's 1850, and the people of California, eager to improve their difficult lot in life, have launched a campaign to become part of the United States. Don Alejandro de la Vega (Antonio Banderas) has become aware of a plot by ... see all copies from £2.77! new only from £4.51!
19 view cover	The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) more movies like this directed by Michael Curtiz, William Keighley featuring Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Basil Rathbone, Claude Rains, Patric Knowles In order to avoid the material copyrighted by Douglas Fairbanks Sr. for his 1922 Robin Hood, the scripters of this Flynn version relied on several legendary episodes that had never before been filmed, notably the battle between Robin and Little John (Alan Hale Sr., who played this part three times in his long career) and the "piggy-back" episode ... see all copies from £2.77! new only from £6.93!
20 view cover	The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1989) more movies like this directed by Terry Gilliam featuring John Neville, Eric Idle, Sarah Polley, Jonathan Pryce, Uma Thurman, Oliver Reed, Charles McKeown, Sting, Robin Williams, Valentina Cortese Director Terry Gilliam adroitly applies his Monty Python sensibilities upon the "career" of famed German prevaricator Baron von Munchausen. Played herein by John Neville, the baron is seen quelling a war that he himself started, flying into the stratosphere on the back of a cannonball, ballooning to the moon, exploring the innards of a volcano, ... see all copies from £2.77! new only from £5.40!
21 view cover	Drums Along the Mohawk (1939) more movies like this directed by John Ford featuring Claudette Colbert, Henry Fonda, Edna May Oliver, Arthur Shields, Eddie Collins, Ward Bond, John Carradine John Ford directed this outdoor adventure set in the American Colonial period. Gilbert and Lana Martin (Henry Fonda and Claudette Colbert) are a young couple trying to make a home in New York State's Mohawk Valley, but repeated attacks by Indians drive them, along with other settlers in the valley, into a nearby fort, where they watch helplessly ... see all copies from £4.86! new only from £7.56!
22 view cover	The Man Who Would Be King (1975) more movies like this directed by John Huston featuring Sean Connery, Michael Caine, Christopher Plummer, Saeed Jaffrey, Shakira Caine The Man Who Would Be King opens with author Rudyard Kipling (Christopher Plummer) working in his study. His solitude is broken by the arrival of a tattered, half-mad derelict, who is soon revealed to be his old acquaintance Peachy Carnahan (Michael Caine). As Kipling listens in rapt fascination, Peachy relates the incredible adventures of himself ... see all copies from £3.09! new only from £6.91!
23 view cover	Treasure Island (1950) more movies like this directed by Byron Haskin featuring Bobby Driscoll, Robert Newton, Basil Sydney, Walter Fitzgerald, Denis O'Dea The Walt Disney production of the Robert Louis Stevenson classic novel Treasure Island is one of the company's best live-action films of the '50s, and one of the best family-oriented adventures ever filmed. Bobby Driscoll plays Jim Hawkins, a young cabin boy who battles the pirate Long John Silver (Robert Newton) for a treasure. Disney changes the ... see all copies from £3.43! new only from £6.31!
24 view cover	King Arthur (2004) more movies like this directed by Antoine Fuqua featuring Clive Owen, Keira Knightley, Ioan Gruffudd, Stephen Dillane, Stellan Skarsgård An ambitious attempt to wed the legend of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table with known historical facts of the era, this action adventure drama begins with the fall of the Roman Empire in 450 A.D. as Roman armies flee the British Isles. Arthur (Clive Owen), a heroic knight and devoted Christian, is torn between his desire to travel to ... see all copies from £2.77! new only from £6.93!
25 view cover	The Vikings (1958) more movies like this directed by Richard Fleischer featuring Kirk Douglas, Tony Curtis, Ernest Borgnine, Janet Leigh, Alexander Knox, James Donald Inspired by the novel The Viking by Edison Marshall, The Vikings was lensed on location in Norway under extremely adverse weather conditions. Adding to the difficulty was the fact that star Kirk Douglas and director Richard Fleischer never quite found a common ground, and for years thereafter would hold each other responsible for the film's ... see all copies from £1.38! new only from £6.17!

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