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Movies like Ben-Hur 1959
Matched on how they feel, not on genre or who made them: the same pull on fourteen measures of character (tone, pace, scale, ambiguity and the rest), read from each title on Taste Buds. About Ben-Hur
Movies closest to Ben-Hur
Spartacus 1960Also epic, earnest and classical in form
The Big Parade 1925Also earnest, classical in form and epic
Gone with the Wind 1939Also epic, earnest and classical in form
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ 1925Also epic, earnest and classical in form
War and Peace 1968Also epic, earnest and classical in form
Cleopatra 1963Also epic, earnest and classical in form
War and Peace 1956Also earnest, epic and classical in form
The Ten Commandments 1956Also epic, earnest and classical in form
Gettysburg 1993Also earnest, epic and classical in form
The Big Country 1958Also earnest, classical in form and epic
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse 1921Also earnest, epic and classical in form
The Odyssey 2026Also epic, earnest and grave
The same feel, in other forms
Books
The Winds of War 1971Also earnest, epic and classical in form
Pride of Carthage 2005Also earnest, epic and classical in form
Gone With the Wind 1936Also epic, earnest and classical in form
Series
Hezar Dastan 1988Also earnest, epic and classical in form
Romance of the Three Kingdoms 1994Also epic, earnest and classical in form
Roots 1977Also earnest, epic and classical in form
Albums
- BELOVED 2025Also earnest, grave and epic
- Senjutsu 2021Also earnest, epic and grave
- Verdi 2026Also epic, earnest and classical in form
Games
The Banner Saga 3 2018Also earnest, epic and grave
The Banner Saga 2 2016Also earnest and grave
Fire Emblem Awakening 2012Also epic, classical in form and earnest
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