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Movies that feel like Damsel (2024)

If you loved Damsel, the closest films we have are The Northman (2022), Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom (2023) and 47 Ronin (2013). All three share Damsel's dreamlike and kinetic feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 11 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix, HBO Max and Amazon Prime Video and others, checked against today's data.

A young woman's marriage to a charming prince turns into a fierce fight for survival when she's offered up as a sacrifice to a fire-breathing dragon.

🍅 56% Rotten Tomatoes6.1 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Juan Carlos Fresnadillodreamlikekineticepicrelentless
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The Northman
2022 · dir. Robert Eggers
🍅 90%7action · adventure · fantasy

Both are working the same pair: sword, revenge

The difference: Reviewed even better

Prince Amleth is on the verge of becoming a man when his father is brutally murdered by his uncle, who kidnaps the boy's mother. Two decades later, Amleth is now a Viking who's on a mission to save his mother, kill his uncle and avenge his father.

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Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom
2023 · dir. James Wan
🍅 33%5.6action · adventure · fantasy

Common ground: revenge

Black Manta seeks revenge on Aquaman for his father's death. Wielding the Black Trident's power, he becomes a formidable foe. To defend Atlantis, Arthur (Aquaman) forges an alliance with his imprisoned brother. They must protect the kingdom.

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47 Ronin
2013 · dir. Carl Rinsch
🍅 16%6.2drama · action · fantasy

Dreamlike and kinetic in the same breath

The difference: Missing the scale of Damsel

Kai—an outcast—joins Oishi, the leader of 47 outcast samurai. Together they seek vengeance upon the treacherous overlord who killed their master and banished their kind. To restore honour to their homeland, the warriors embark upon a quest that challenges them with a series of trials that would destroy ordinary warriors.

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Pokémon: The First Movie
1998 · dir. Kunihiko Yuyama
🍅 17%6.3animation · family · adventure

The same mix in both: scale, then relentlessness

The difference: Leans harder into animation than Damsel does

Determined to prove its superiority, a bio-engineered Pokémon called Mewtwo lures Ash, Pikachu and others into a Pokémon match like none before.

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Eragon
2006 · dir. Stefen Fangmeier
5.1fantasy · action · adventure

Common ground in both: princess and kingdom

The difference: None of the relentlessness Damsel is built on

In his homeland of Alagaesia, a farm boy happens upon a dragon's egg -- a discovery that leads him on a predestined journey where he realized he's the one person who can defend his home against an evil king.

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The Last Airbender
2010 · dir. M. Night Shyamalan
🍅 5%3.9action · adventure · fantasy

The same preoccupation in both: fire

A century has passed since the Fire Nation declared war on the other three nations of air, water, and earth in its attempt for global domination. Aang, the long-lost Avatar, is found by Water Tribe siblings Katara and Sokka and must learn to master water, earth, and fire bending to defeat the Fire Nation and restore balance to the world.

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Ong Bak 2
2008 · dir. Tony Jaa
🍅 49%6.2adventure · action · thriller

Kinetic action in both cases

The difference: Sits closer to thriller than Damsel does

Tien, the son of Lord Sihadecho — a murdered nobleman — is taken under the wing of Chernang, a renowned warrior and leader of the Pha Beek Krut.

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The Mask of Zorro
1998 · dir. Martin Campbell
🍅 86%6.8action · adventure

Adventure built on scale, twice over

The difference: Made in the 1990s, in a different era of the craft

It has been twenty years since Don Diego de la Vega fought Spanish oppression in Alta California as the legendary romantic hero, Zorro. Having escaped from prison he transforms troubled bandit Alejandro into his successor, in order to foil the plans of the tyrannical Don Rafael Montero who robbed him of his freedom, his wife and his precious daughter.

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American Assassin
2017 · dir. Michael Cuesta
🍅 34%6.2action · adventure · thriller

Fantasy with a pulse of relentlessness, in both cases

Following the murder of his fiancée, Mitch Rapp trains under the instruction of Cold War veteran Stan Hurley. The pair then is enlisted to investigate a wave of apparently random attacks on military and civilian targets.

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Green Snake
2021 · dir. Amp Wong
6.8animation · fantasy · action

Dreamlike fantasy, and it commits to that

While trying to free her sister from Fahai's clutches, Xiao Qing winds up in a dystopian city and meets a mysterious man who can't recall his past life.

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Shogun Assassin
1980 · dir. Robert Houston
🍅 82%7.3action · adventure

Both lean on momentum more than on action

A Shogun who grew paranoid as he became senile sent his ninjas to kill his samurai. They failed but did kill the samurai’s wife. The samurai swore to avenge the death of his wife and roams the countryside with his toddler son in search of vengeance.

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Jawan
2023 · dir. Atlee
6.9action · thriller

Adventure built on relentlessness, twice over

An emotional journey of a prison warden, driven by a personal vendetta while keeping up to a promise made years ago, recruits inmates to commit outrageous crimes that shed light on corruption and injustice, in an attempt to get even with his past, and that leads him to an unexpected reunion.

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