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10 Best Movies Like The Drum

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

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#1
H.M.S. Defiant

H.M.S. Defiant

1962★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Drum for fans of Adventure & War. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

Defiant's crew is part of a fleet-wide movement to present a petition of grievances to the Admiralty. Violence must be no part of it. The continual sadism of Defiant's first office...

#2
Dark of the Sun

Dark of the Sun

1968★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Drum for fans of Adventure & War. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A band of mercenaries led by Captain Curry travel through war-torn Congo across deadly terrain, battling rival armies, to steal $50 million in uncut diamonds. But infighting, sadis...

#3
A Passage to India

A Passage to India

1984★ 6.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Drum for fans of Adventure. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Cultural mistrust and false accusations doom a friendship in British colonial India between an Indian doctor, an Englishwoman engaged to marry a city magistrate, and an English edu...

#4
Beau Geste

Beau Geste

1939★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Drum for fans of Adventure & War. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Brothers Beau, John and Digby Geste join the Foreign Legion, where they fall under the rule of tyrannical Sergeant Markoff. Beau and John are assigned to Fort Zinderneuf, where Mar...

#5
Treasure Island

Treasure Island

1950★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Drum for fans of Adventure. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

Enchanted by the idea of locating treasure buried by Captain Flint, Squire Trelawney, Dr. Livesey and Jim Hawkins charter a sailing voyage to a Caribbean island. Unfortunately, a l...

#6
Barry Lyndon

Barry Lyndon

1975★ 8.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Drum for fans of War. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

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 Lyndo...

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