Movies like Coriolanus
If Coriolanus's mix of rebellion, senate and general stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what Coriolanus's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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Gladiator
2000 · Directed by Ridley Scott · 155 min8.2
Why you'll like itShares: senate, revenge
After the death of Emperor Marcus Aurelius, his devious son takes power and demotes Maximus, one of Rome's most capable generals who Marcus preferred.
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Death and the Maiden
1994 · Directed by Roman Polanski · 103 min7.1
Why you'll like itShares: revenge · Also drama and thriller
A political activist is convinced that her guest is a man who once tortured her for the government.
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Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith
2005 · Directed by George Lucas · 140 min7.5
Why you'll like itShares: politics, tragedy
When the sinister Sith unveil a thousand-year-old plot to rule the galaxy, the Republic crumbles and from its ashes rises the evil Galactic Empire. Jedi hero Anakin Skywalker must choose a side.
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No Escape
2015 · Directed by John Erick Dowdle · 103 min7.0
Why you'll like itShares: rebellion · From the same decade (2010s)
In their new overseas home, an American family soon finds themselves caught in the middle of a coup, and they frantically look for a safe escape in an environment where foreigners are being immediately executed.
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Flesh + Blood
1985 · Directed by Paul Verhoeven · 126 min6.6
Why you'll like itShares: betrayal
A band of medieval mercenaries take revenge on a noble Lord who cheated them by kidnapping his son's fiancée. As the plague and warfare cut a swathe of destruction throughout the land, the mercenaries hole up in a…
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Bobby
2006 · Directed by Emilio Estevez · 120 min6.4
Why you'll like itShares: politics
In 1968 the lives of a retired doorman, hotel manager, lounge singer, busboy, beautician and others intersect in the wake of Robert F. Kennedy's assassination at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles.
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Titus
1999 · Directed by Julie Taymor · 162 min6.4
Why you'll like itShares: revenge
Titus Andronicus returns from the wars and sees his sons and daughters taken from him, one by one. Shakespeare's goriest and earliest tragedy.