The Last Samurai
Dec 05, 2003 | IMDB 7.6
154 min Watch NowDrama, Action, War
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 warrior himself and to fight for their right to exist.
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The Road Home
Rock Crystal
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Miracle at St. Anna
The Twilight Samurai
American Ninja
Titus
Southern Comfort
Shadows in the Sun
Godzilla vs. Destoroyah
Chasing Ghosts
Secret Agents
Memphis Belle
Autumn Sonata
Missing in Action 2: The Beginning
Flesh + Blood
The Duchess
Dead Man's Shoes
Conspiracy
Firewalker
SIMILAR MOVIES
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IMDB 7.5 | Oct , 1999
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IMDB 6.8 | Nov , 2004
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IMDB 5.6 | Apr , 2009
A man moves his two daughters to Italy after their mother dies in a car accident, in order to revitalize their lives. Genoa changes all three of them as the youngest daughter starts to see the ghost of her mother, while the older one discovers her sexuality.Miracle at St. Anna
IMDB 6.1 | Sep , 2008
Miracle at St. Anna chronicles the story of four American soldiers who are members of the all-black 92nd "Buffalo Soldier" Division stationed in Tuscany, Italy during World War II.The Twilight Samurai
IMDB 7.8 | Nov , 2002
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IMDB 6 | Aug , 1985
Joe Armstrong, an orphaned drifter with little respect for much other than martial arts, finds himself on an American Army base in the Philippines after a judge gives him a choice of enlistment or prison. On one of his first missions driving a convoy, his platoon is attacked by a group of rebels who try to steal the weapons the platoon is transporting and kidnap the base colonel's daughter.Titus
IMDB 6.4 | Dec , 1999
Titus Andronicus returns from the wars and sees his sons and daughters taken from him, one by one. Shakespeare's goriest and earliest tragedy.Southern Comfort
IMDB 6.9 | Sep , 1981
A squad of National Guards on an isolated weekend exercise in the Louisiana swamp must fight for their lives when they anger local Cajuns by stealing their canoes. Without live ammunition and in a strange country, their experience begins to mirror the Vietnam experience.Shadows in the Sun
IMDB 6.2 | May , 2005
An aspiring young writer tracks a literary titan suffering from writers block to his refuge in rural Italy and learns about life and love from the irascible genius and his daughters.Godzilla vs. Destoroyah
IMDB 7.8 | Dec , 1995
A burning Godzilla, on the verge of meltdown, emerges to lay siege to Hong Kong. At the same time horrifying new organisms are discovered in Japan. These crustacean-like beings are seemingly born of the Oxygen Destroyer, the weapon that killed the original Godzilla.Chasing Ghosts
IMDB 6.3 | Apr , 2014
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IMDB 5.4 | Mar , 2004
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IMDB 6.7 | Sep , 1990
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IMDB 8 | Oct , 1978
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IMDB 5.7 | Mar , 1985
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.Flesh + Blood
IMDB 6.6 | Aug , 1985
A band of medieval mercenaries take revenge on a noble Lord who stiffs them by kidnapping the betrothed of the noble's son. As the plague and warfare cut a swathe of destruction throughout the land, the mercenaries hole up in a castle and await their fate.The Duchess
IMDB 7 | Sep , 2008
A chronicle of the life of 18th century aristocrat Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, who was reviled for her extravagant political and personal life.Dead Man's Shoes
IMDB 7.1 | Sep , 2004
A soldier returns to his small town and exacts a deadly revenge on the thugs who tormented his disabled brother while he was away.Conspiracy
IMDB 7.3 | May , 2001
At the Wannsee Conference on January 20, 1942, senior Nazi officials meet to determine the manner in which the so-called "Final Solution to the Jewish Question" can be best implemented.Firewalker
IMDB 5.4 | Nov , 1986
A pair of adventurers try to track down an ancient Aztec/Mayan/Egyptian/Apache horde of gold.