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Plot Summary:
King Louis XIV has without his knowledge a twin brother, Philippe, but when he is told, he immediately locks up his brother in the Bastille. The king wants to increase his popularity and stages an assassination against himself where Philippe is dressed as king Louis. But Philippe manages to escape the assassination and everybody believes him to be the real king.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 830
Genere: Action, Adventure, Romance
Country: Austria, West Germany
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film
Best tv shows and movies like The Fifth Musketeer (1979):
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3 Musketeers (2011)
Plot Summary:
Alexandra D'Artagnan, junior member of NSA uncovers a conspiracy that the goal is to assassinate the American president. Alexandra has secured the support of three famous and notorious international spies in order to stop the assassination.
IMDB Rating: 2.5
IMDB Votes: 695
Genere: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, mockbuster
Similar in 86%
The Three Musketeers: D'Artagnan (2023)
Plot Summary:
D'Artagnan, a spirited young Gascon, is left for dead after trying to save a noblewoman from being kidnapped. Once in Paris, he tries by all means to find his attackers, unaware that his quest will lead him to the very heart of a war where the future of France is at stake. Aided by King's Musketeers Athos, Porthos and Aramis, he faces the machinations of villainous Cardinal Richelieu and Milady de Winter, while falling in love with Constance, the Queen's confidante.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Action, Adventure, History
Country: France, Germany, Spain, Belgium
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: clever
Similar in 78%
Angelique: The Road to Versailles (1965)
Plot Summary:
Angelique (Michele Mercier) is saved by the king of the cutthroats (Giuliano Gemma) when she is endangered in the streets of Paris. After her hero is killed, she has many amorous affairs and becomes a successful businesswoman in this costume-drama sequel based on the book by Serge and Anne Golon.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, History, Romance
Country: France, Italy, West Germany
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: sexy, exciting, serious, realistic, stylized
Similar in 77%
The Lady and the Highwayman (1988)
Plot Summary:
Set in old England, Hugh Grant ("Four Weddings & a Funeral", "Notting Hill") plays a highwayman who steals from the rich and gives to the poor. But during one of his robberies, he falls in love with an aristocratic lady, Emma Samms ("Star Quest", "Delirious"). Now, he is forced to choose between his true love or his true cause. This swash-buckling romantic adventure will have you on the edge of your seat with every swing of Hugh's savage sword.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK, Italy
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: stylized, exciting, tense, captivating, light, entertaining, gothic, sex comedy, serious, period drama
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Milady and the Three Musketeers (2004)
Plot Summary:
Milady De Winter, a beautiful femme fatale without scruples, plays with the feelings of her suitors. And sometimes very dangerously.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 77
Genere: Adventure
Country: France
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, entertaining, fairy tale
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Ring of the Musketeers (1992)
Plot Summary:
Modern day "Musketeers" attempt to become protectors of the inocent. While the biking trio rescue kindnapped children, guard witnesses, and chase mafia types, they also seek the missing fourth musketeer, who wears the famous musketeers' ring.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 336
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: exciting, semi serious, humorous, suspenseful, independent film, rough, realistic, spoof, parody
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The Three Musketeers (2013)
Plot Summary:
"The Three Musketeers " - a story about the young Gascon D'Artagnan , who , without knowing all the joys of love, is drawn into the vortex of political intrigues of the royal court of Louis XIII. In the company of the king's Musketeers De Treville he finds true friends Athos, Porthos and Aramis . Musketeers so impressed tireless energy Gascon and his ability to find trouble, that take an active part not only in numerous skirmishes with the Cardinal guards , but also in the personal fate of D'Artagnan . Thanks friend D'Artagnan finds his first love - Constance Bonacieux and engaged in a dangerous period of history with pendants Queen. Subtle and far-sighted politician Cardinal Richelieu and his henchmen Rochefort and Milady gain in the face of D'Artagnan dangerous enemy . In the name of love, he is ready for the most desperate deeds . D'Artagnan in the way a lot of temptations and dangerous temptations. But he will overcome them all without betraying their friendship and love !.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 286
Genere: Adventure
Country: Russia
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: exciting, funny, realistic, semi serious, humorous, absurd, psychotronic, heroic
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Vengeance of the Three Musketeers (1961)
Plot Summary:
Based on Alexandre Dumas père novel. Part 2.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 452
Genere: Adventure, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags:
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Freefall (1994)
Plot Summary:
New York publisher Dex Dellum sends his fiancée and star photographer Katy Mazur to Swaziland to shoot the taita falcon. There she meets 'highman' (altitude stuntman) Grant Orion, who practices skydiving. After an initial clash, they become hot lovers, her first infidelity. She's drugged before he leaves unannounced. In London Grant saves her from armed killers and discloses to be an Interpol agent. Dex has an incompatible story but is killed. It's the start of a cascade of violence and charades.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 706
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA, South Africa
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: realistic, suspenseful, serious, exciting, tense, cliffhanger, suspense, independent film
Similar in 83%
Asker (2000)
Plot Summary:
When deadly anthrax missiles are stolen by a militia, ATF agent Ethan Carter (Dean Cain) must go undercover and join the group to save the country from disaster.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 827
Genere: Action, Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, tense, suspense, action packed, independent film, fast
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Young Blades (2005)
Plot Summary:
Young Blades is an historical fantasy television series that aired on PAX from January to June 2005, lasting only thirteen episodes before cancellation. Set in 17th century France, it followed the adventures of four Musketeers: ⁕d'Artagnan, son of the legendary d'Artagnan in Alexandre Dumas, père's novel The Three Musketeers. ⁕Jacqueline, alias Jacques, a woman disguised as a man while on the run for murder. ⁕Siroc, an inventor. ⁕Ramon, a poet. Other main characters include the Musketeers' leader, Captain Duval; Queen Anne; Cardinal Mazarin; and a fifteen-year-old Louis XIV. The latter three characters are based on historical figures.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 310
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, captivating, tense, realistic, semi serious
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Erik the Conqueror (1961)
Plot Summary:
In the 9th Century, two Viking children, separated since their early childhood with one raised by the British and the other by Vikings, meet after nearly 20 years as rivals as war breaks out between Britian and the Vikings for control of England.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 934
Genere: Action, Adventure, Romance
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, epic, serious, realistic, stylized, psychotronic, independent film, cult film
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The Scarlet Pimpernel (1982)
Plot Summary:
During the French Revolution, a mysterious English nobleman known only as The Scarlet Pimpernel (a humble wayside flower), snatches French aristos from the jaws of the guillotine, while posing as the foppish Sir Percy Blakeney in society. Percy falls for and marries the beautiful actress Marguerite St. Just, but she is involved with Chauvelin and Robespierre, and Percy's marriage to her may endanger the Pimpernel's plans to save the little Dauphin.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 142 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, entertaining, period piece, exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, period drama, baroque, eighties
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La Femme Musketeer (2004)
Plot Summary:
The legend of Jacques D'Artagnan (Michael York) gets a gender-bending update in this swashbuckling adventure. Though legendary swordsman Jacques D'Artagnan's best days may be well behind him, he has schooled his daughter Valentine (Susie Amy) well in the way of the sword. Now it's time for Valentine to strike out on her own. With her father's sword and a letter of introduction to Commander Finot (Roy Dotrice), the eager young novice sets out to seek her fortune in Paris. Though a woman has never before been appointed the rank of swordsman, Valentine is determined to prove her worth by taking on a deadly mission to rescue the bride-to-be of King Louis XIV from a band of fearsome kidnappers, teaming with the three sons of the legendary Three Musketeers who rode with her father.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure
Country: Croatia, Germany, USA
Duration: 163 min
Plot tags: semi serious, realistic, captivating, exciting, tense, suspense
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U.S. Seals II: The Ultimate Force (2001)
Plot Summary:
At a secret Russian nuclear missile base, an ex-U.S. SEAL member is planning to launch a missile strike on the United States, and the only way to stop him is with the best of the best. Because of a natural gas refinery leak, the newly formed team must infiltrate without conventional weapons and use a mixture of martial arts skills, swords, crossbows and unconventional arms in their top secret attack.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 902
Genere: Action, Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful, action packed, independent film, fast
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Richard The Lionheart (2013)
Plot Summary:
King Henry II tests the loyalty and honor of his son Richard sending him to a secret castle known as the Knight's Martyr. There, the Prince must fight against adversaries representing the virtues of a knight.
IMDB Rating: 2.3
IMDB Votes: 785
Genere: Action, Adventure
Country: USA, Italy
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: exciting, epic, serious, realistic
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Angelique (2013)
Plot Summary:
The incredible destiny of Angélique: a beautiful girl who found in her love for Joffrey Peyrac the strength to fight injustice and submission in a century plagued by power struggles, inequality and the oppression.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, History, Romance
Country: France, Belgium, Czech Republic, Austria
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: romantic, stylized, touching, compassionate, serious, erotic, exciting, sexy, realistic, costume drama
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The Man in the Iron Mask (1977)
Plot Summary:
The story of Louis XIV of France and his attempts to keep his identical twin brother Philippe imprisoned away from sight and knowledge of the public, and Philippe's rescue by the aging Musketeers, led by D'Artagnan.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Adventure, History
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, psychotronic, period drama
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Dr. No (1962)
Plot Summary:
In the film that launched the James Bond saga, Agent 007 battles mysterious Dr. No, a scientific genius bent on destroying the U.S. space program. As the countdown to disaster begins, Bond must go to Jamaica, where he encounters beautiful Honey Ryder, to confront a megalomaniacal villain in his massive island headquarters.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 177000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: entertaining, stylized, action packed, saga, exciting, sexy, clever, realistic, suspenseful, witty
Similar in 82%
Zorro (1975)
Plot Summary:
A newly arrived governor finds his province under the control of the corrupt Colonel Huerta. To avoid assassination by Huerta, he pretends to be weak and indecisive so Huerta will believe he poses no threat. But secretly he masquerades as Zorro, and joins the monk Francisco and the beautiful aristocrat Hortensia in their fight for justice against Huerta and his soldiers.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Romance, Western
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, fairy tale, funny, novela, euro western, cult classic, humorous, semi serious, cult film
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The Daughter of D'Artagnan (1994)
Plot Summary:
It is 1654, in the South of France. When horsemen follow a runaway slave into the convent where he's taken sanctuary and kill both the fugitive and the Mother Superior, they little realise that one of the novices is the spirited daughter of retired musketeer D'Artagnan.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, historical drama, exciting, humorous, semi serious
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The Mark of Zorro (1974)
Plot Summary:
The swishing fop Don Diego de la Vega becomes the swashbuckling masked hero Zorro when tyranny threatens his people in nineteenth-century California.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 674
Genere: Action, Adventure, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: exciting, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious, surprise ending
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The Four Musketeers: Milady's Revenge (1974)
Plot Summary:
The Four Musketeers defend the queen and her dressmaker from Cardinal Richelieu and Milady de Winter.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Romance
Country: Spain, UK, USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: humorous, funny, cult classic, exciting, realistic, semi serious, fast, psychotronic, tense, light
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The Return of the Musketeers (1989)
Plot Summary:
It's 1649: Mazarin hires the impoverished D'Artagnan to find the other musketeers: Cromwell has overthrown the English king, so Mazarin fears revolt, particularly from the popular Beaufort. Porthos, bored with riches and wanting a title, signs on, but Aramis, an abbé, and Athos, a brawler raising an intellectual son, assist Beaufort in secret. When they fail to halt Beaufort's escape from prison, the musketeers are expendable, and Mazarin sends them to London to rescue Charles I. They are also pursued by Justine, the avenging daughter of Milady de Winter, their enemy 20 years ago. They must escape England, avoid Justine, serve the Queen, and secure Beauford's political reforms.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Romance
Country: UK, France, Spain
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: stylized, cult classic, exciting, humorous, semi serious, scary, parody, funny, romantic, sexy
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American Ninja (1985)
Plot Summary:
Joe Armstrong, an orphaned drifter will 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.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: cult classic, entertaining, exciting, serious, suspenseful, grindhouse, intense, independent film, rough, realistic
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The Three Musketeers (1973)
Plot Summary:
The young D'Artagnan arrives in Paris with dreams of becoming a king's musketeer. He meets and quarrels with three men, Athos, Porthos, and Aramis, each of whom challenges him to a duel. D'Artagnan finds out they are musketeers and is invited to join them in their efforts to oppose Cardinal Richelieu, who wishes to increase his already considerable power over the king. D'Artagnan must also juggle affairs with the charming Constance Bonancieux and the passionate Lady De Winter, a secret agent for the cardinal.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 20000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Romance
Country: USA, Spain
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: epic, funny, cult classic, humorous, witty, fairy tale, thrilling, exciting, realistic, stylized
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The Musketeer (2001)
Plot Summary:
In Peter Hyams's adaptation of the famous Alexander Dumas story The Three Musketeers, the young D'Artagnan seeks to join the legendary musketeer brigade and avenge his father's death - but he finds that the musketeers have been disbanded.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Romance
Country: Germany, Luxembourg, UK, USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: stylized, serious, exciting, captivating, cult classic, fairy tale, light, romantic, humorous, bad ending
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The Three Musketeers (2011)
Plot Summary:
The hot-headed young D'Artagnan along with three former legendary but now down on their luck Musketeers must unite and defeat a beautiful double agent and her villainous employer from seizing the French throne and engulfing Europe in war.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 111000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany, France, UK
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: exciting, period piece, entertaining, semi serious, humorous, costume drama, visual, epic, stylized, psychotronic
Similar in 79%
The Man in the Iron Mask (1998)
Plot Summary:
Years have passed since the Three Musketeers, Aramis, Athos and Porthos, have fought together with their friend, D'Artagnan. But with the tyrannical King Louis using his power to wreak havoc in the kingdom while his twin brother, Philippe, remains imprisoned, the Musketeers reunite to abduct Louis and replace him with Philippe.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 176000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 132 min
Plot tags: exciting, period piece, costume drama, suspense, atmospheric, serious, epic, gothic, political, historical drama
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A Knight's Tale (2001)
Plot Summary:
William Thatcher, a peasant, is sent to apprentice with a Knight named Hector as a young boy. Urged by his father to "change his Stars", he assumes Sir Hector's place in a tournament when Hector dies in the middle of it. He wins. With the other apprentices, he trains and assumes the title of Sir Ulrich von Lichtenstein.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 198000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 132 min
Plot tags: feel good, period piece, romantic, inspirational, humorous, light, entertaining, costume drama, realistic, semi serious