Fan-Fan the Tulip (1951), The Three Musketeers (1993), Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger (1977), Captain Kidd (1945), The Hunted (1995), Assassin's Creed (2016), Raiders of the Seven Seas (1953), King Richard and the Crusaders (1954) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Swordplay movies.
Storyline: Roguish young peasant Fanfan (Gérard Philipe) escapes being wed to a farm girl when a gypsy, Adeline (Gina Lollobrigida), predicts that he'll find glory in the army, then marry a princess. After enlisting, Fanfan learns that Adeline is the recruiter's daughter and offered a phony prediction to get him to join, but he decides to make the fortune come true anyway. During a sword fight, he rescues the grateful king's daughter, which convinces him that fate is on his side.
Plot Keywords: peasant, gypsy, sergeant, princess, marquess, king, playful ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The three best of the disbanded Musketeers - Athos, Porthos, and Aramis - join a young hotheaded would-be-Musketeer, D'Artagnan, to stop the Cardinal Richelieu's evil plot: to form an alliance with enemy England by way of the mysterious Milady. Rochefort, the Cardinal's right-hand man, announces the official disbanding of the King's Musketeers. Three, however, refuse to throw down their swords - Athos the fighter and drinker, Porthos the pirate and lover, and Aramis the priest and poet. Arriving in Paris to join the Musketeers, D'Artagnan uncovers the Cardinal's plans, and the four set out on a mission to protect King and Country.
Plot Keywords: d'artagnan, cardinal, lady, brash, lighthearted, playful, thrilling ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Sinbad must deliver a prince transformed into a monkey to the lands of the Ademaspai to restore him to his human form in time for his coronation. On the way he must contend with the evil witch Zenobia, her son and their magic, and several nasty-looking Ray Harryhausen beasties.—Martin H. Booda <booda@datasync.com>
Plot Keywords: sinbad, prince, princess, ape, witch, sister, campy ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In this unhistorical account, Capt. William Kidd is already a clever, ruthless pirate when, in 1699, he tricks the king into commissioning him as escort for a treasure ship from India. He enlists a crew of pardoned cutthroats - and Orange Povey, whom Kidd once abandoned on a reef and hoped never to see again. Of course, Kidd's intentions are treacherous. But there's more to gunner Adam Mercy than meets the eye.—Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>
Plot Keywords: pirate, henchman, admiral, king, son, love interest, spirited ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Paul is on a business trips to Nagoya, as a computer-chip executive from New York, when he meets a beautiful and mysterious woman. Later, he finds himself in the wrong place at the wrong time, inadvertently interrupting an assassination by a feared Ninja-cult. As he is now the only man to have seen the face of the cult's warrior-leader and lived, he soon realizes that he is facing a markedly foreshortened life-expectancy. Teaming up with a friendly samurai couple, on a two-centuries-old blood-feud with the Ninja, he struggles to survive. Finally, recuperating on an island-fortress, he learns swordsmanship, and perhaps, a little about courage, honor, love, and loyalty. The requisite final confrontation is rife with bloody swordplay and spectacular martial-arts action sequences.—Tad Dibbern <DIBBERN_D@a1.mscf.upenn.edu>
Plot Keywords: executive, mysterious woman, ninja, assassin, samurai, wife, thrilling ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Through a revolutionary technology that unlocks his genetic memories, Callum Lynch (Michael Fassbender) experiences the adventures of his ancestor, Aguilar de Nerha, in 15th Century Spain. Callum discovers he is descended from a mysterious secret society, the Assassins, and amasses incredible knowledge and skills to take on the oppressive and powerful Templar organization in the present day.
Plot Keywords: assassin, doctor, mercenary, soldier, archer, swordsman, priest ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Barbarossa, a pirate, frees a group of Spanish prisoners and makes them his crew. On a raid, he takes as a prize a Spanish countess, Alida. He has fallen in love with her by the time he arranges for her ransom by the officer who was to marry her. Exposing her intended as a coward and a liar, he goes to ask for her hand but she has escaped, and Barbarossa thinks she is the one who killed his aide, Peg-Leg.—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>
Plot Keywords: pirate, sailor, henchman, aristocrat, engaging, spirited, thrilling ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In 1191, King Richard the Lionheart, along with several other European monarchs, is in the Holy Land intent on retaking Jerusalem from the Saracens. There is much infighting and outright treachery in the European encampment however. Two nobles in particular, Sir Giles Amaury (Robert Douglas) and Conrad, Marquis of Montferrat (Michael Pate), want to eliminate the English King and attempt to have him assassinated. Severely wounded and on his death bed, Richard is brought back to health by a Saracen doctor recruited by one of his loyal knights, Sir Kenneth of the Leopard (Laurence Harvey). The King recovers from his wounds but when he hears that Sir Lawrence wishes to marry Lady Edith Plantagenet (Virginia Mayo), the knight is banished only to be taken in by the very doctor who treated the King and who has an altogether different identity.—rodmch
Plot Keywords: king, knight, lighthearted, jerusalem, royalty, loyalty, medieval times ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: It's a high-kicking battle on the dark side when an ace vampire slayer and his beautiful sidekicks wage the ultimate martial-arts showdown with one of the most dangerous of the undead.
Plot Keywords: vampire, vampire hunter, sister, paramedic, frenetic, lighthearted, wild ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Captain Scarlett returns from gallivanting around the country-side after the Napoleonic wars and finds life in southern France very different. He saves a beautiful princess from an arranged marriage to an evil count, protects many of the people from being persecuted by the Duke of Corlais, and eventually rids the country of the scourge of Corlais' power.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: captain, duke, princess, countess, highwayman, farm girl, spirited ...
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