
Movies that feel likeA Better Tomorrow (1986)
If you loved A Better Tomorrow, the closest films we have are Lady Snowblood (1973), A Bittersweet Life (2005) and New Police Story (2004). All three share A Better Tomorrow's kinetic and gritty feel, which is what we rank on before quality.
Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is The Outfit (1973).
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If A Better Tomorrow hit the spot, these will too

One thread runs through both: revenge

Both are built on the same subject: revenge

The same city underneath both: Hong Kong
The difference: The scrappier of the two with critics

Kinetic and gritty in the same breath
The difference: Leans harder into thriller than A Better Tomorrow does

The same hand behind both of them: John Woo
The difference: Takes it somewhere less contemplative than A Better Tomorrow does

Contemplative where it counts, relentless underneath
The difference: Trades the momentum of A Better Tomorrow for an angle of its own

Action built on momentum, twice over

The same preoccupation in both: brothers and sisters

Crime with a pulse of grit, in both cases
The difference: Made in the 2010s, in a different era of the craft

John Woo directing both, with the same fingerprints on each

Both keep coming back to the same thing: counterfeit

Contemplative drama in both cases
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