20 best movies like Malaya (1949)

List of the best movies like Malaya (1949): War Horse, Da 5 Bloods, Macao, Crash Dive, The Whip Hand, Barry Lyndon, The Promise, Minesweeper, High Road to China, The Story of Dr. Wassell.

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Markimdb: 7.2
Genreaction, drama, adventure, military, history
CountryUSA, India
Duration02:26

    Follows a young man named Albert and his horse, Joey, and how their bond is broken when Joey is sold to the cavalry and sent to the trenches of World War One. Despite being too young to enlist, Albert heads to France to save his friend.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genredrama, adventure, military
    CountryUSA

    Four African-American Vietnam veterans return to Vietnam. They are in search of the remains of their fallen squad leader and the promise of buried treasure. These heroes battle forces of humanity and nature while confronted by the lasting ravages of the immorality of the Vietnam War.

    Markimdb: 6.6
    Genredrama, adventure, crime, film noir
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:21

    A man on the run in the Far East is mistaken for an undercover cop.

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genreaction, thriller, melodrama, drama, adventure, military
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:46

    A US Navy submarine, the USS Corsair, is operating in the North Atlantic, hunting German merchant raiders that are preying on Allied shipping. Its new executive officer, Lt. Ward Stewart (Power), has been transferred back into submarines after commanding his own PT boat. At the submarine base in New London, Connecticut, he asks his new captain, Lt. Cmdr. Dewey Connors (Andrews), for a weekend leave to settle his affairs before taking up his new assignment. On a train bound for Washington D.C., Stewart accidentally encounters New London school teacher Jean Hewlett (Baxter) and her students. Despite her initial resistance to his efforts, he charms her and they fall in love.

    Markimdb: 6
    Genrefantastic, action, thriller, drama, adventure, crime, military
    CountryUSA

    A small-town reporter investigates a mysterious group holed up in a country lodge.

    Markimdb: 8.1
    Genredrama, adventure, military, history
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
    Duration03:04

    An Irish rogue uses his cunning and wit to work his way up the social classes of 18th century England, transforming himself from the humble Redmond Barry into the noble Barry Lyndon.

    Markimdb: 6
    Genreaction, drama, adventure, military, history
    CountrySpain, USA
    Duration02:29

    Set during the last days of the Ottoman Empire, a love triangle develops between Mikael, a brilliant medical student, the beautiful and sophisticated artist Ana, and Chris, a renowned American journalist based in Paris.

    Markimdb: 5.2
    Genreaction, comedy, melodrama, drama, adventure, military
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:07

    A naval officer who had deserted several years earlier is drawn back to the Navy when World War II begins. He re-enlists under an assumed name, and is assigned to a minesweeper, where he has to perform hazardous duties while at the same time keeping his real identity a secret.

    Markimdb: 6
    Genremelodrama, drama, adventure, military
    CountryUSA, Yugoslavia, Hong Kong
    Duration01:45

    A biplane pilot is saddled with a spoiled industrialist's daughter on a search for her missing father through Asia that eventually involves them in a struggle against a Chinese warlord.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genreaction, melodrama, drama, adventure, military
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:20

    As the Japanese sweep through the East Indies during World War II, Dr. Wassell is determined to escape from Java with some crewmen of the cruiser Marblehead. Based on a true story of how Dr. Wassell saved a dozen or so wounded sailors who were left behind when able bodied men were evacuated to Australia.

    Markimdb: 5.7
    Genrefantastic, drama, adventure, military
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:07

    Decades after serving in WWII and assassinating Adolf Hitler, a legendary American war veteran must now hunt down the fabled Bigfoot.

    Markimdb: 5.2
    Genredrama, adventure, military, biography, history
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
    Duration01:54

    This is a movie about the life of Israel's king David.

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genredrama, adventure, military
    CountryUSA

    A U. S. Marines dog is returned to his young owner in the small town of Monrovia at the end of WWII, but a grouchy neighbor believes the animal's military training makes him a threat to the community and files charges to have the dog destroyed.

    Markimdb: 3.3
    Genreaction, thriller, drama, adventure, western, military
    CountryUSA

    A dire warning of a wake up call of what might be our future when a globalist terrorist organization aligned with the United Nations disables the United States power grid and institutes Martial Law. It will take a dedicated family of patriots armed with strong survival skills and the remains of the Second Amendment to save America and reclaim its freedom.

    Markimdb: 5.4
    Genreaction, thriller, drama, adventure, crime, military
    CountryFrance, Belgium, Germany, USA, Malta, Croatia, Netherlands
    Duration02:19

    In the midst of the Balkan wars, a squad of Navy SEALs attempts to unravel a long-forgotten mystery after discovering an enormous treasure trove hidden at the bottom of a lake in Serbia.

    Markimdb: 8.1
    Genredrama, adventure, western, military, history
    CountryUSA, United Kingdom
    Duration03:56

    Wounded Civil War soldier, John Dunbar tries to commit suicide – and becomes a hero instead. As a reward, he's assigned to his dream post, a remote junction on the Western frontier, and soon makes unlikely friends with the local Sioux tribe.

    Markimdb: 7.4
    Genrethriller, drama, film noir, military
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:57

    During the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia, surgeon Dr. Franticek Svoboda, a Czech patriot, assassinates the brutal "Hangman of Europe", Reichsprotektor Reinhard Heydrich, and is wounded in the process. In his attempt to escape, he is helped by history professor Stephen Novotny and his daughter Mascha.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genredrama, adventure, family, military
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:05

    The son of a Vietnam War Veteran must deal with neighborhood bullies as well as his dad's post-traumatic stress disorder while growing up in the deep south in the 1970's.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genremelodrama, drama, adventure, military, history
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:32

    A boggy swashbuckler of Irish freedom-fighter Michael Martin.

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genredrama, adventure, military, biography, history
    CountryUSA, United Kingdom
    Duration02:16

    Austrian mountaineer, Heinrich Harrer journeys to the Himalayas without his family to head an expedition in 1939. But when World War II breaks out, the arrogant Harrer falls into Allied forces' hands as a prisoner of war. He escapes with a fellow detainee and makes his way to Llaso, Tibet, where he meets the 14-year-old Dalai Lama, whose friendship ultimately transforms his outlook on life.

    Markimdb: 5.5
    Genredrama, adventure, military
    CountryUSA

    A celebrated New York cabbie is pressed into service for a perilous journey through World War II China.

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genreaction, melodrama, drama, adventure, crime, film noir
    CountryUSA

    A smuggler (Richard Denning) hides from hit men with a Greek fisherman (Steven Geray) and his daughter.

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genredrama, adventure, crime, film noir
    CountryUSA

    In this drama, a seductive woman uses her wiles upon both a traveling bank examiner and a manager to whom she is married. This woman has expensive taste and ends up spending all of her husband's money. She then begins trying to seduce the bank examiner, who doesn't know she is married to the manager.

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genredrama, adventure, military
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:39

    Flagwaving story of a new American destroyer, the JOHN PAUL JONES, from the day her keel is laid, to what was very nearly her last voyage. Among the crew, is Steve Boleslavski, a shipyard welder that helped build her, who reenlists, with his old rank of Chief bosuns mate. After failing her sea trials, she is assigned to the mail run, until caught up in a disparate battle with a Japanese sub. After getting torpedoed, and on the verge of sinking, the Captain, and crew hatch a plan to try and save the ship, and destroy the sub.

    Markimdb: 5.3
    Genredrama, adventure, military
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:13

    Landing on a small island not far from Havana, Cuba, Lt. Cmdr. Ben Staves joins a Navy scientific project engaged in finding an effective shark repellent to help save the lives of WWII military personnel stranded in shark-infested waters. His zeal for completing the project as fast as possible is explained by his having lost a large percentage of his crew to sharks when his ship was sunk by the Japanese. Against the advice of the others on the project, Staves demands that the new repellent be tested on a live subject surrounded by hungry sharks and will allow no one but himself to be the test subject!

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genremelodrama, drama, adventure, military, history
    CountryYugoslavia, USA
    Duration02:02

    Ukraine, 16th century. While the Poles dominate the Cossack steppes, Andrei, son of Taras Bulba, a Cossack leader, must choose between his love for his family and his folk and his passion for a Polish woman.

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genredrama, adventure, military
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:49

    Matrac (Humphrey Bogart) is a freedom-loving French journalist who sacrifices his happiness and security to battle Nazi tyranny.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genreaction, drama, adventure, military
    CountryUSA

    An American soldier who escapes the execution of his comrades by Japanese soldiers in Borneo during WWII becomes the leader of a personal empire among the headhunters in this war story told in the style of Joseph Conrad and Rudyard Kipling. The American is reluctant to rejoin the fight against the Japanese on the urging of a British commando team but conducts a war of vengeance when the Japanese attack his adopted people.

    Markimdb: 6.6
    Genreaction, melodrama, drama, adventure, military, biography, history
    CountryUSA, Lithuania
    Duration02:57

    Attila was an American TV miniseries set during the waning days of the Western Roman Empire, in particular during the invasions of the Huns in Europe.




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