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10 Best Movies Like Napoleon

If you loved Napoleon, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
The Battle of Austerlitz

The Battle of Austerlitz

1960★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Napoleon for fans of Drama & History & War. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Napoleon Bonaparte crowns himself emperor and fights the English, Austrians and Russians in 1802....

#2
The Scarlet and the Black

The Scarlet and the Black

1983★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Napoleon for fans of Drama & History & War. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Fr. Hugh O'Flaherty is a Vatican official in 1943-45 who has been hiding downed pilots, escaped prisoners of war, and Italian resistance families. His activities become so large th...

#3
Waterloo

Waterloo

1970★ 7.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Napoleon for fans of Drama & History & War. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

After defeating France and imprisoning Napoleon on Elba, ending two decades of war, Europe is shocked to find Napoleon has escaped and has caused the French Army to defect from the...

#4
Overlord

Overlord

1975★ 6.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Napoleon for fans of Drama & History & War. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

During World War II, a young man is called up and, with an increasing sense of foreboding, undertakes his army training ready for D-Day, June 6th, 1944....

#5
Onoda: 10,000 Nights in the Jungle

Onoda: 10,000 Nights in the Jungle

2021★ 7.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Napoleon for fans of Drama & History & War. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Japan, 1944. Trained for intelligence work, Hiroo Onoda, 22 years old, discovers a philosophy contrary to the official line: no suicide; stay alive whatever happens; the mission is...

#6
Munich - The Edge of War

Munich - The Edge of War

2021★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Napoleon for fans of Drama & History. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

At the tense 1938 Munich Conference, former friends who now work for opposing governments become reluctant spies racing to expose a Nazi secret....

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