Movies like Seven Samurai
Seven Samurai (1954) is a action movie directed by Akira Kurosawa. The list below collects the movies that people who loved it enjoyed most, best known first.
1. Kagemusha (1980)
★ 7.8 · 776 votes · Action, Drama, History
A feudal epic presenting the tale of a petty thief who is recruited to impersonate Shingen, an aging warlord, in order to avoid attacks by competing clans. The impostor becomes comfortable living his life among nobility, but his responsibilities to his station grow more demanding the longer he occupies it.
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2. The Last Samurai (2003)
★ 7.6 · 7,840 votes · Drama, 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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3. The Magnificent Seven (2016)
★ 6.5 · 6,606 votes · Adventure, Action, Western
Looking to mine for gold, greedy industrialist Bartholomew Bogue seizes control of the Old West town of Rose Creek. With their lives in jeopardy, Emma Cullen and other desperate residents turn to bounty hunter Sam Chisolm for help. Chisolm recruits an eclectic group of gunslingers to take on Bogue and his ruthless henchmen. With a deadly showdown on the horizon, the seven mercenaries soon find themselves fighting for more than just money once the bullets start to fly.
