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Hack & Slash
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Best movies & series featuring Swords or such as the main form of weaponry. Sometimes added elements ie Sword & Sorcery films or maybe some bow & arrows :)
Lots of Medieval films!
Recommendations much appreciated!
Updated (Again) April 27th :) Enjoy!


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Movie: Rurouni Kenshin Part II: Kyoto Inferno ( 2014 )
Kenshin Himura goes up against pure evil Makoto Shishio who is attempting to overthrow the Meiji government. The fate of the country hangs in the balance as Kenshin Himura takes up the sword that he vowed to never draw again.
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Movie: Rurouni Kenshin Part III: The Legend Ends ( 2014 )
Shishio has set sail in his ironclad ship to bring down the Meiji government and return Japan to chaos, carrying Kaoru with him. In order to stop him in time, Kenshin trains with his old master to learn his final technique.
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Movie: Lionheart ( 1987 )
A young knight sets out to join King Richard's crusaders. Along the way, he encounters The Black Prince who captures children and sells them as slaves to the Muslims. It is Robert Narra's sworn duty to protect the children and lead them to safety.
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Movie: The Beastmaster ( 1982 )
A sword-and-sorcery fantasy about a young man's search for revenge. Armed with supernatural powers, the handsome hero and his animal allies wage war against marauding forces.
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Movie: Beastmaster 2: Through the Portal of Time ( 1991 )
Dar is a warrior who can talk to the beasts. He is forced to travel to Earth to stop his evil brother from stealing an atomic bomb and turning their native land from a desert into, well - a desert.
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Movie: Beastmaster III: The Eye of Braxus ( 1996 )
Before he died, Dar's father gave a mysterious amulet to Tal, Dar's younger brother who is now king. Dar, while wandering with his animal companions, chances to meet and rescue a family who seek the help of King Tal against Lord Agon, a sorcerer who has conquered their land. Dar obtains an audience for them with Tal, who rallies his troops to march against Agon in the morning. Alas, the young king is captured by Agon's crimson warriors during the night. It is the amulet -- the Eye of the imprisoned god Braxus -- that Agon really wants. But Dar now carries half of it, and is nowhere to be found. Will he fall into Lord Agon's clutches when he comes to free his brother?
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Movie: Exodus: Gods and Kings ( 2014 )
The defiant leader Moses rises up against Egyptian Pharaoh Ramses II, setting six hundred thousand slaves on a monumental journey of escape from Egypt and its terrifying cycle of deadly plagues.
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Movie: The Scorpion King ( 2002 )
A desert warrior rises up against the evil army that is destroying his homeland. He captures the enemy's key sorcerer, takes her deep into the desert and prepares for a final showdown.
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Movie: Excalibur ( 1981 )
Merlin the magician helps Arthur Pendragon unite the Britons around the Round Table of Camelot, even as dark forces conspire to tear it apart.
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Movie: The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc ( 1999 )
A young girl receives a vision that drives her to rid France of its oppressors.
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Movie: Henry V ( 1989 )
In the midst of the Hundred Years War, the young King Henry V of England embarks on the conquest of France in 1415.
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Movie: Apocalypto ( 2006 )
As the Mayan kingdom faces its decline, a young man is taken on a perilous journey to a world ruled by fear and oppression.
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Movie: Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time ( 2010 )
A young fugitive Prince and Princess must stop a villain who unknowingly threatens to destroy the world with a special dagger that enables the magic sand inside to reverse time.
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Movie: Ninja Assassin ( 2009 )
A young ninja turns his back on the orphanage that raised him, leading to a confrontation with a fellow ninja from the clan.
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Movie: Ninja ( 2009 )
A westerner named Casey, studying Ninjutsu in Japan, is asked by the Sensei to return to New York to protect the legendary Yoroi Bitsu, an armored chest that contains the weapons of the last Koga Ninja.
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Movie: Kill Bill: Vol. 1 ( 2003 )
After awakening from a four-year coma, a former assassin wreaks vengeance on the team of assassins who betrayed her.
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Movie: Kill Bill: Vol. 2 ( 2004 )
The Bride continues her quest of vengeance against her former boss and lover Bill, the reclusive bouncer Budd, and the treacherous, one-eyed Elle.
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Movie: Beowulf ( 2007 )
The warrior Beowulf must fight and defeat the monster Grendel, who is terrorizing Denmark, then Grendel's Mother, who begins killing out of revenge.
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Movie: Rapa Nui ( 1994 )
Love between the representatives of two warring tribes changes the balance of power on the whole remote island.
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Movie: Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner ( 2002 )
Centuries ago, in what would become the Canadian Arctic, Atuat is promised to the malevolent Oki, son of the leader of their tribe. But Atuat loves the good-natured Atanarjuat, who ultimately finds a way to marry her. Oki's sister, Puja also fancies Atanarjuat, and when she causes strife between him and his brother Amaqjuaq, Oki seizes the opportunity to wreak a terrible revenge on Atanarjuat.
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Movie: The Dead Lands ( 2014 )
After his tribe is slaughtered through an act of treachery, the teenage son of a slain Maori chieftain looks to avenge his father's murder and bring peace and honor to the souls of his loved ones.
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Movie: The First King ( 2019 )
Romulus and Remus, two shepherds and loyal brothers, end up taking part to a journey that will lead one of them to be the founder of the greatest nation ever seen. However, the fate of the chosen one will pass from killing his own brother.
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Movie: Aguirre, the Wrath of God ( 1977 )
A few decades after the destruction of the Inca empire, a Spanish expedition leaves the mountains of Peru and goes down the Amazon river in search of gold and wealth. Soon, they come across great difficulties and don Lope de Aguirre, a ruthless man who cares only about riches, becomes their leader. But will his quest lead them to "the golden city", or to certain destruction?
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Movie: 1492: Conquest of Paradise ( 1992 )
Christopher Columbus' discovery of the Americas and the effect this has on the indigenous people.
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Movie: Quest for Fire ( 1981 )
This story takes place in prehistoric time when three tribesmen search for a new fire source.
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Movie: Jason and the Argonauts ( 1963 )
The legendary Greek hero leads a team of intrepid adventurers in a perilous quest for the legendary Golden Fleece.
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Movie: Ran ( 1985 )
In Medieval Japan, an elderly warlord retires, handing over his empire to his three sons. However, he vastly underestimates how the new-found power will corrupt them and cause them to turn on each other...and him.
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Movie: Seven Samurai ( 1954 )
A poor village under attack by bandits recruits seven unemployed samurai to help them defend themselves.
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Movie: Sword of the Stranger ( 2007 )
A swordsman from a strange land is caught in a struggle between morality, righteousness, and devotion as he reluctantly agrees to take a raggedy boy and his dog to a remote, Buddhist temple.
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Movie: The Legion ( 2020 )
Nero's reign. The invasion of Parthia has been a fiasco. Two Roman legions have been brought to a stand still in the snowy mountains of Armenia, and the men are dying slowly in the cold. The rest of the Roman army is in Syria, only two weeks march away but the mountains swarm with Parthian patrols. Noreno, a half-Roman, is entrusted the mission of crossing the mountains to ask for help. However, he might not be the best option, he's an expert runner, but he despises Rome.