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Movies that feel like Fist of Fury (1972)

If you loved Fist of Fury, the closest films we have are Man on Fire (2004), First Blood (1982) and Bloodsport (1988). All three share Fist of Fury's contemplative 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 AMC+ Amazon Channel, AMC+ Roku Premium Channel and YouTube TV and others, checked against today's data.

During the Japanese occupation of Shanghai, Chen Zhen, the star pupil of a recently-deceased martial arts teacher battles a Japanese dojo which seeks the demise of his fighting school.

7.2 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Lo Weicontemplativekinetictenserelentless

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If Fist of Fury hit the spot, these will too

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Man on Fire
2004 · dir. Tony Scott
🍅 39%7.7action · drama · thriller

Revenge sits at the heart of each

The difference: 32 years apart, and the 2000s show

Jaded ex-CIA operative John Creasy reluctantly accepts a job as the bodyguard for a 10-year-old girl in Mexico City. They clash at first, but eventually bond, and when she's kidnapped he's consumed by fury and will stop at nothing to save her life.

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First Blood
1982 · dir. Ted Kotcheff
🍅 86%7.7action · thriller · drama

Contemplative where it counts, kinetic underneath

The difference: Missing the relentlessness of Fist of Fury

When former Green Beret John Rambo is harassed by local law enforcement and arrested for vagrancy, he is forced to flee into the mountains and wage an escalating one-man war against his pursuers.

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Bloodsport
1988 · dir. Newt Arnold
🍅 48%6.8action · thriller · drama

Martial arts is the engine of both

An American Army Major goes AWOL to Hong Kong for an outlawed martial arts contest called the Kumite.

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Rolling Thunder
1977 · dir. John Flynn
🍅 82%6.9drama · thriller · action

The same preoccupation in both: revenge

The difference: Leans crime where Fist of Fury does not

A Vietnam veteran, Charles Rane, returns home after years in a POW camp and is treated as a hero. He has a hard time adjusting, and things go badly. A movie about the walking dead, before that meant just flesh-eating zombies.

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Kickboxer
1989 · dir. Mark DiSalle
🍅 36%6.4action · thriller · drama

Both keep circling back to martial arts

If your enemy refuses to be humbled... Destroy him. Accompanied by his brother Kurt, American kickboxing champion Eric Sloane, arrives in Thailand to defeat the Eastern warriors at their own sport. His opponent: ruthless fighter and Thai champion, Tong Po. Tong not only defeats Eric, he paralyzes him for life. Crazed with anger, Kurt vows revenge.

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Headshot
2016 · dir. Timo Tjahjanto
🍅 73%6.3action · thriller · drama

Both built around brutality

A young man washes ashore, his memory gone - but his past comes back to haunt him after he is nursed back to health and his killing ability is needed when he takes on a powerful drug lord.

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The Fugitive
1993 · dir. Andrew Davis
🍅 96%7.8action · thriller · drama

Drama with a pulse of tension, in both cases

Wrongfully convicted of murdering his wife and sentenced to death, Richard Kimble escapes from the law in an attempt to find the real killer and clear his name.

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Rambo: Last Blood
2019 · dir. Adrian Grünberg
6.1action · thriller · drama

Relentless action, and it commits to that

After fighting his demons for decades, John Rambo now lives in peace on his family ranch in Arizona, but his rest is interrupted when Gabriela, the granddaughter of his housekeeper María, disappears after crossing the border into Mexico to meet her biological father. Rambo, who has become a true father figure for Gabriela over the years, undertakes a desperate and dangerous journey to find her.

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Merantau
2009 · dir. Gareth Evans
6.7action · drama · thriller

Thriller built on stillness, twice over

In Minangkabau, West Sumatera, Yuda a skilled practitioner of Silat Harimau is in the final preparations to begin his "Merantau" a century's old rites-of-passage to be carried out by the community's young men that will see him leave the comforts of his idyllic farming village and make a name for himself in the bustling city of Jakarta.

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Captain Phillips
2013 · dir. Paul Greengrass
🍅 93%7.8action · drama · thriller

Kinetic drama in both cases

The true story of Captain Richard Phillips and the 2009 hijacking by Somali pirates of the US-flagged MV Maersk Alabama, the first American cargo ship to be hijacked in two hundred years.

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San Andreas
2015 · dir. Brad Peyton
🍅 48%6.1action · drama · thriller

Both trade on tension more than on being action

In the aftermath of a massive earthquake in California, a rescue-chopper pilot makes a dangerous journey across the state in order to rescue his estranged daughter.

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Haywire
2011 · dir. Steven Soderbergh
🍅 80%5.8action · thriller · drama

Contemplative thriller, and it commits to that

A black ops soldier seeks payback after she is betrayed and left for dead.

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