Highest-Rated Movies about 'Fort', Sort by Popularity

The Hidden Fortress (1958), A Man Escaped (1956), The Last of the Mohicans (1992), Eklavya: The Royal Guard (2007), Fort Apache (1948), Sergeant Rutledge (1960), Hostiles (2017), Ride Lonesome (1959) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Fort movies.

#2. A Man Escaped (1956)

Storyline: Captured French Resistance fighter Lieutenant Fontaine awaits a certain death sentence for espionage in a stark Nazi prison in Lyon, France. Facing malnourishment and paralyzing fear, he must plot an extraordinary escape, complicated by the questions of whom to trust, and what lies beyond the small portion of the prison they are housed in.

Plot Keywords: prisoner of war, cellmate, guard, tense, somber, cool, prison ...

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#3. The Last of the Mohicans (1992)

Storyline: The last members of a dying Native American tribe, the Mohicans -- Uncas, his father Chingachgook, and his adopted half-white brother Hawkeye -- live in peace alongside British colonists. But when the daughters of a British colonel are kidnapped by a traitorous scout, Hawkeye and Uncas must rescue them in the crossfire of a gruesome military conflict of which they wanted no part: the French and Indian War.

Plot Keywords: sister, frontiersman, colonel, native american, traitor, brother, thrilling ...

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#5. Fort Apache (1948)

Storyline: Deep into the territory of the great Apache chief, Cochise, the demoted Civil War general, Lieutenant Colonel Owen Thursday, reports for duty as a commanding officer at the remote U.S. cavalry outpost known as Fort Apache, along with his daughter, Philadelphia. There, the arrogant commander will soon lock horns with the realistic and sensible second-in-command, Captain Kirby York, who, as an expert in the local Apaches, disagrees with Thursday who wants to make a name for himself in the Arizona frontier. In the end, is it wise to engage in battle when personal glory is all you seek?

Plot Keywords: military officer, soldier, daughter, native american, lieutenant colonel, racist, engaging ...

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#6. Sergeant Rutledge (1960)

Storyline: Lieutenant Tom Cantrell is sent to defend Sergeant Braxton Rutledge, a black cavalry soldier, on a charge of rape and murder. The story begins in a courtroom and it is told through flashbacks. This is a story of how a black soldier in the face of danger from the Indians can be so easily mistaken as a criminal.—Christopher D. Ryan <cryan@direct.ca>

Plot Keywords: defendant, prosecutor, judge, witness, wife, intense, uneasy ...

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#7. Hostiles (2017)

Storyline: In 1892, after nearly two decades of fighting the Cheyenne, the Apache, and the Comanche natives, the United States Cavalry Captain and war hero, Joseph Blocker, is ordered to escort the ailing Cheyenne chief, Yellow Hawk--his most despised enemy--to his ancestral home in Montana's Valley of the Bears. Nauseated with a baleful anger, Joseph's unwelcome final assignment in the feral American landscape is further complicated, when the widowed settler, Rosalie Quaid, is taken in by the band of soldiers, as aggressive packs of marauding Comanches who are still on the warpath, are thirsty for blood. In a territory crawling with hostiles, can the seasoned Captain do his duty one last time?

Plot Keywords: native american chief, soldier, commanding officer, widow, native american, traveler, brutal ...

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#8. Ride Lonesome (1959)

Storyline: A wanted murderer, Billy John, is captured by Ben Brigade, a bounty hunter, who intends to take him to Santa Cruz to be hanged. Brigade stops at a staging post, where he saves the manager's wife from an Indian attack, and enlists the help of two outlaws to continue his journey more safely. However, the Indian attacks persist, the outlaws plan to take Billy for themselves, tempted by the offer of amnesty for his captor, and Billy's brother Frank is in hot pursuit to rescue him. But Brigade has plans of his own ...—David Levene <D.S.Levene@durham.ac.uk>

Plot Keywords: bounty hunter, killer, brother, widow, outlaw, native american, dark ...

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#9. Desperadoes of Dodge City (1948)

Storyline: Rocky and the Land agent riders need to get an important message to the Army post. The message is stolen but Rocky knows one of the four men on the stagecoach has it. When Rocky and the four get trapped in a shack by the outlaw gang, he learns that one of the four is the gang leader. Rocky has to learn his identity and retrieve the message—Maurice VanAuken <mvanauken@a1access.net>

Plot Keywords: outlaw, henchman, lawman, wife, husband, driver, engaging ...

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#10. Ravenous (1999)

Storyline: Captain John Boyd receives a promotion after defeating the enemy command in a battle of the Mexican-American War, but because the general realizes it was an act of cowardice that got him there, he is given a backhanded promotion to Fort Spencer, where he is third in command. The others at the fort are two Indians, George and his sister, Martha, who came with the place, Chaplain Toffler, Reich, the soldier; Cleaves, a drugged-up cook; and Knox, who is frequently drunk. When a Scottish stranger named Colquhoun appears and recovers from frostbite almost instantly after being bathed, he tells a story about his party leader, Ives, eating members of the party to survive. As part of their duty, they must go up to the cave where this occurred to see if any have survived. Only Martha, Knox, and Cleaves stay behind. George warns that since Colquhoun admits to eating human flesh, he must be a Windigo, a ravenous cannibalistic creature.

Plot Keywords: soldier, native american, sister, cook, cannibal, frontiersman, brutal ...

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#11. Unconquered (1947)

Storyline: In 1763, felon Abby Hale is sentenced to slavery in America. In Virginia, heroic Capt. Holden buys her, intending to free her, but villain Garth foils this plan, and Abby toils at Dave Bone's tavern. Garth is fomenting an Indian uprising to clear the wilderness of settlers, giving him a monopoly of the fur trade. Holden discovers Garth's treachery, but cannot prove anything against him. Can Holden and Abby save Fort Pitt from the Senecas? Many hairbreadth escapes.—Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>

Plot Keywords: captain, slave trader, heroine, slave, native american, friend, tense ...

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#12. Two Mules for Sister Sara (1970)

Storyline: Set in Mexico, nun Sister Sara (Shirley MacLaine) is rescued from three cowboys by Hogan (Clint Eastwood), who is on his way to do some reconnaissance for a future mission to capture a French fort. The French are chasing Sara, but not for the reasons she tells Hogan, so he decides to help her in return for information about the fort defenses. Inevitably, the two become good friends, but Sara has a secret.

Plot Keywords: cowboy, soldier, nun, revolutionary, bandit, amusing, gritty ...

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#13. Bonnie Scotland (1935)

Storyline: Stan and Ollie stowaway to Scotland expecting to inherit the MacLaurel estate. However Stan's inheritance amounts to a set of bagpipes and a snuff box. The boys are tricked into enlisting in the army and are posted to India where the heiress to the MacLaurel estate has moved to be near her guardian. Her Scottish sweetheart Allan also enlists. The boys are "volunteered" by the Sergeant (Finlayson) to impersonate officers at the palace of Mir Jutra and foil a plot to murder the officers by overturning several beehives.—Stephen Harrison <stephen@telos.demon.co.uk>

Plot Keywords: american, friend, lawyer, cousin, boyfriend, rebel, madcap ...

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#14. Soldier Blue (1970)

Storyline: After a cavalry group is massacred by the Cheyenne, only two survivors remain: Honus, a naive private devoted to his duty, and Cresta, a young woman who had lived with the Cheyenne two years and whose sympathies lie more with them than with the US government. Together, they must try to reach the cavalry's main base camp. As they travel onward, Honus is torn between his growing affection for Cresta, and his disgust for her anti-American beliefs. They reach the cavalry campsite on the eve of an attack on a Cheyenne village, where Honus will learn which side has really been telling him the truth.—Jean-Marc Rocher <rocher@fiberbit.net>

Plot Keywords: private, fiancée, indian, brutal, uneasy, disturbing, indian territory ...

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#15. Fort Dobbs (1958)

Storyline: Having eluded a posse, a wanted man rescues a woman and her young son from a Comanche attack. He then escorts them to the presumed safety of a U.S. Cavalry fort. Trouble develops along the way when the woman comes to believe that her rescuer was responsible for the recent death of her husband.—dinky-4 of Minneapolis

Plot Keywords: native american, comanche warrior, fugitive, widow, son, boy, thrilling ...

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