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Movies that feel like Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000)

If you loved Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, the closest films we have are Sense and Sensibility (1995), A Knight's Tale (2001) and The Legend Is Born: Ip Man (2010). All three share Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon's contemplative feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 7 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on HBO Max, Amazon Prime Video and Peacock Premium and others, checked against today's data.

Two warriors in pursuit of a stolen sword and a notorious fugitive are led to an impetuous, physically-skilled, teenage nobleman's daughter, who is at a crossroads in her life.

πŸ… 96% Rotten Tomatoesβ˜… 7.9 IMDb β†—TMDB β†—dir. Ang Leeepiccontemplativekineticromantictenderdreamlike

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Sense and Sensibility
1995 Β· dir. Ang Lee
πŸ… 97%β˜… 7.7drama Β· romance

Ang Lee working the same nerve twice

The difference: Without the same scale

The Dashwood sisters, sensible Elinor and passionate Marianne, learn that their prospects of marriage seem doomed by their family's sudden loss of fortune. After Henry Dashwood dies unexpectedly, his estate must pass on by law to his son. These circumstances leave Mr. Dashwood's wife and daughters without a home and with barely enough money to live on. As Elinor and Marianne struggle to find romantic fulfillment in a society obsessed with financial and social status, they must learn to mix sense with sensibility in their dealings with both money and men.

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A Knight's Tale
2001 Β· dir. Brian Helgeland
πŸ… 60%β˜… 7adventure Β· drama Β· romance

Both are built on the same subject: sword fight

The difference: Critics were much harder on this one

William Thatcher, a knight's peasant apprentice, gets a chance at glory when the knight dies suddenly mid-tournament. Posing as a knight himself, William won't stop until he's crowned tournament championβ€”assuming matters of the heart don't get in the way.

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The Legend Is Born: Ip Man
2010 Β· dir. Herman Yau
β˜… 7drama Β· action Β· history

Both are working the same pair: martial arts, kung fu

The difference: Leans further into history

The remarkable true story of the early life of Ip Man, the formidable kung fu genius who would become Bruce Lee's mentor; beginning at the start of his journey from his initial training through to the ultimate battle to become supreme master of the art of Wing Chun.

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Brokeback Mountain
2005 Β· dir. Ang Lee
πŸ… 88%β˜… 7.7drama Β· romance

Ang Lee directing both, with the same fingerprints on each

In 1960s Wyoming, two men develop a strong emotional and sexual relationship that endures as a lifelong connection complicating their lives as they get married and start families of their own.

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Millennium Actress
2002 Β· dir. Satoshi Kon
πŸ… 93%β˜… 7.8animation Β· drama Β· romance

One thread runs through both: historical

Documentary filmmaker Genya Tachibana has tracked down the legendary actress Chiyoko Fujiwara, who mysteriously vanished at the height of her career. When he presents her with a key she had lost and thought was gone forever, the filmmaker could not have imagined that it would not only unlock the long-held secrets of Chiyoko’s life... but also his own.

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Highlander
1986 Β· dir. Russell Mulcahy
πŸ… 70%β˜… 7adventure Β· action Β· fantasy

Common ground: sword

He fought his first battle on the Scottish Highlands in 1536. He will fight his greatest battle on the streets of New York City in 1986. His name is Connor MacLeod. He is immortal.

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Arn: The Knight Templar
2007 Β· dir. Peter Flinth
β˜… 6.6action Β· adventure Β· drama

Both land scale and stillness at once

Arn, the son of a high-ranking Swedish nobleman is educated in a monastery and sent to the Holy Land as a knight templar to do penance for a forbidden love.

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Fist of Legend
1994 Β· dir. Gordon Chan
πŸ… 100%β˜… 7.5action

The same preoccupation in both: fistfight

Chen returns to his school when he finds out that his martial arts teacher has died. When he learns that his school students are harassed by some hooligans, he gears himself up to save them.

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Lust, Caution
2007 Β· dir. Ang Lee
πŸ… 73%β˜… 7.5action Β· drama Β· romance

Kinetic and romantic in the same breath

During World War II, a secret agent must seduce, then assassinate an official who works for the Japanese puppet government in Shanghai. Her mission becomes clouded when she finds herself falling in love with the man she is assigned to kill.

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A Writer's Odyssey
2021 Β· dir. Lu Yang
πŸ… 93%β˜… 6.2fantasy Β· action Β· adventure

Both lean on dream logic more than on adventure

The difference: Made in the 2020s, in a different era of the craft

Lu Kongwen is the author of a fantasy novel series following a heroic teenager, also named Kongwen, on a quest to end the tyrannical rule of Lord Redmane, under the guidance of a Black Armor. But through a strange twist of fate, the fantasy world of the novel begins to impact life in the real world, leading Guan Ning to accept a mission from Tu Ling to kill the author.

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Read My Lips
2001 Β· dir. Jacques Audiard
πŸ… 97%β˜… 7.3crime Β· drama Β· romance

Both keep coming back to the same thing: thief

She is almost deaf and she lip-reads. He is an ex-convict. She wants to help him. He thinks no one can help except himself.

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Jodhaa Akbar
2008 Β· dir. Ashutosh Gowariker
πŸ… 80%β˜… 7.5romance Β· history Β· drama

Same instincts, 8 years apart

A sixteenth century love story about a marriage of alliance that gave birth to true love between a Mughal emperor and a Rajput princess.

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