Movies like Mogambo (1953)
The best movies like Mogambo (1953) are The Naked Jungle (1954), Green Fire (1954) and Elephant Walk (1954). If Mogambo hooked you with its adventure and drama, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedThe African Queen (1952)7.3/10 from 1,113 votes
- NewestThe Mountain Between Us (2017)Released 2017
The Naked Jungle (1954)
The Leiningen South American cocoa plantation is threatened by a 2-mile-wide, 20-mile-long column of army ants.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both adventure & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisGreen Fire (1954)
In Colombia, mining engineer Rian Mitchell discovers Carrero, the lost emerald mine of the Conquistadors, but has to contend with notorious local bandit El Moro's gang and with coffee planter Catherine Knowland's love.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both adventure & drama
Elephant Walk (1954)
Colonial tea planter John Wiley, visiting England at the end of World War II, weds lovely English rose Ruth and takes her home to Elephant Walk, Ceylon, where the local elephants have a grudge against the plantation. Ruth's delight with the tropical wealth and luxury of her new home is tempered by isolation as the only white woman in the district; her husband's occasional imperious arrogance; a mutual physical attraction with plantation manager Dick Carver; and the hovering, ominous menace of the hostile elephants.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & adventure
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe African Queen (1952)
At the start of the First World War, in the middle of Africa’s nowhere, a gin soaked riverboat captain is persuaded by a strong-willed missionary to go down river and face-off a German warship.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both adventure & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Macomber Affair (1947)
A big-game hunter takes a rich American couple on an African safari. Film adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber".
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both adventure & drama
Untamed (1955)
When the great potato famine hits Ireland, the diaspora begins as thousands emigrate. Among those leaving the Emerald Isle is Katie O'Neill and her husband, who decide that the promised land is South Africa and make their way there. Once there, they discover the hardships that are the reality of the homesteader experience.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both adventure & drama
The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1952)
Writer Harry Street reflects on his life as he lies dying from an infection while on safari in the shadow of Mount Kilimanjaro.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both adventure & romance
SnoozefestMovies like thisKing Solomon's Mines (1950)
Fortune hunter Allan Quatermain teams up with a resourceful woman to help her find her missing husband lost in the wilds of 1900s Africa while being pursued by hostile tribes and a rival German explorer.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both adventure & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Tiger of Eschnapur (1959)
In Eschnapur, a German architect saves the life of the Maharajah's favorite temple dancer and becomes Maharajah's friend but their friendship is tested when the architect and the dancer fall in-love, triggering the Maharajah's vengeful ire.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both adventure & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThey Met in Bombay (1941)
A jewel thief and a con artist are rivals in the theft of a valuable diamond and gem necklace in Bombay and as the Japanese Army invades China.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both adventure & romance
Wind Across the Everglades (1958)
Set in the early 20th century, the film follows a game warden who arrives in Florida to enforce conservation laws. He soon finds himself pitted against Cottonmouth, the leader of a fierce group of bird poachers.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both adventure & drama
The Roots of Heaven (1958)
In French Equatorial Africa, an idealist campaigns to save the African elephant, gaining support from a nightclub hostess and an ex-soldier. His cause attracts a mix of characters, including a U.S. commentator, a government aide opposed to him, and an ivory hunter with conflicting interests.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both adventure & drama
Only Angels Have Wings (1939)
A traveling performer arrives at a remote South American port town where the head of an air freight service must risk his pilots' lives to earn a major contract.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & adventure
Worth the HypeMovies like thisDestination Gobi (1953)
A group of US Navy weathermen taking measurements in the Gobi desert in World War II are forced to seek the help of Mongol nomads to regain their ship while under attack from the Japanese.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both adventure & drama
Green Mansions (1959)
A young Venezuelan idealist flees his native land to escape a revolution. Hoping to find peace, he goes to the mountains and the forests of the Amazon. There he encounters Rima, the Bird Girl, an orphan living a life of nature, who is feared by a local jungle tribe.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both adventure & drama
The Rains of Ranchipur (1955)
India. The spoilt and stubborn Edwina Esketh, comes to a small town with her husband. She falls in love with an indian doctor, Dr. Safti. She also meets an old friend of hers, the alcoholic Tom Ransome. An awful earthquake is followed by days of rain.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both adventure & drama
Back from Eternity (1956)
A South American plane loaded with an assortment of characters crash lands in a remote jungle area in the middle of a storm. The passengers then discover they are in an area inhabited by vicious cannibals and must escape before they are found. A remake of Five Came Back (1939).
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both adventure & drama
Malaya (1949)
Soon after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, cynical former newspaper correspondent John Royer devises a scheme with his old editor and government agents to return to the Far East and smuggle out a vast amount of rubber for the war effort. Demanding the freedom and company of his ex-friend, Carnahan, whom he betrayed in an exposé years earlier, Royer sails off into the hands of the Japanese with a motley crew, gold, and the promise of covert government aid.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both adventure
Blood Alley (1955)
An American Merchant Marine captain, rescued from a Chinese Communist jail by local villagers, is "shanghaied" into transporting the entire village to Hong Kong on an ancient paddle steamer.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both adventure & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe World in His Arms (1952)
A boisterous sea captain in the Pacific Coast, circa 1850, has a plan to buy Alaska from the Russians… if they don’t kill him first.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both adventure & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Purple Plain (1954)
An RAF airfield in Burma in 1945, during World War II. Canadian bomber pilot Bill Forrester is a bitter man who lives haunted by a tragic past. He has became a reckless warrior, and is feared by his comrades, who consider him a madman. Dr. Harris, the squadron physician, is determined to help him heal his tormented soul.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & adventure
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisKing Solomon's Mines (1937)
White hunter Allan Quartermain and his enigmatic guide help a young Irish woman locate her missing father in unexplored Darkest Africa.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both adventure & drama
I Dreamed of Africa (2000)
Inspired by the true story of indomitable Kuki Gallmann, the film tells of a beautiful and inquisitive woman who had the courage to escape from her comfortable yet monotonous life in Italy to start anew in the African wilderness with her son, Emanuele, and her new husband, Paolo. Gallmann faces great danger there but eventually becomes a celebrated conservationist.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisNever So Few (1959)
A U.S. military troop takes command of a band of Burmese guerillas during World War II.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & adventure
SnoozefestMovies like thisBeat the Devil (1953)
A group of con artists stake their claim on a bogus uranium mine.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both adventure
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBand of Angels (1957)
Living in Kentucky prior to the Civil War, Amantha Starr is a privileged young woman. Her widowed father, a wealthy plantation owner, dotes on her and sends her to the best schools. When he dies suddenly Amantha's world is turned upside down. She learns that her father had been living on borrowed money and that her mother was actually a slave and her father's mistress.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLegend of the Lost (1957)
American ne'er-do-well Joe January is hired to take Paul Bonnard on an expedition into the desert in search of treasure.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both adventure
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMoonfleet (1955)
Set in the eighteenth century, Moonfleet is about John Mohune, a young orphan who is sent to the Dorset village of Moonfleet to stay with an old friend of his mother's, Jeremy Fox. Fox is a morally ambiguous character, an elegant gentleman involved with smugglers and pirates.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both adventure & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Mountain Between Us (2017)
Stranded on a mountain after a tragic plane crash, two strangers must work together to endure the extreme elements of the remote, snow-covered terrain. When they realize help is not coming, they embark on a perilous journey across hundreds of miles of wilderness, pushing each other to survive and discovering their inner strength.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & adventure
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBig Miracle (2012)
A small-town news reporter and a Greenpeace volunteer enlist the help of rival superpowers to save three majestic gray whales trapped under the ice of the Arctic Circle.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both adventure & drama
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Mogambo?
The closest matches to Mogambo are The Naked Jungle (1954), Green Fire (1954) and Elephant Walk (1954). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Mogambo?
People who watched Mogambo most often go on to The Naked Jungle (1954), Green Fire (1954) and Elephant Walk (1954).
What is the highest-rated movie like Mogambo?
The African Queen (1952), rated 7.3/10 by 1,113 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Mogambo?
The Mountain Between Us (2017) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like Mogambo?
Yes: The Naked Jungle (1954), Green Fire (1954) and Elephant Walk (1954).
How are movies similar to Mogambo chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Mogambo, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.