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Movies that feel like Gorgeous (1999)

If you loved Gorgeous, the closest films we have are City Hunter (1993), Dragons Forever (1988) and Chennai Express (2013). All three share Gorgeous' kinetic and witty feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 6 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and Chai Flicks and others, checked against today's data.

When Ah Bu, a girl from a small fishing town in Taiwan, finds a glass bottle with a romantic message, she travels to Hong Kong to find her prince charming. As it turns out, her prince charming, Albert, happens to be gay. But all is not lost when Ah Bu meets the dashing Chi Wu. Meanwhile, Ah Bu's boyfriend from Taiwan comes looking for her, as the action and romance follow Ah Bu back to Taiwan.

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City Hunter
1993 · dir. Wong Jing
🍅 50%6.3action · adventure · comedy

Both keep coming back to the same thing: martial arts

A self-indulgent private investigator winds up on a cruise ship full of rich patrons, gorgeous women, murderous terrorists, and scarce food.

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Dragons Forever
1988 · dir. Sammo Hung Kam-Bo
🍅 67%7.1action · comedy · romance

Common ground: martial arts

The difference: Not nearly as epic as Gorgeous

A hot-shot lawyer is hired by a Hong Kong chemical plant to dispose of opposition to their polluting ways. But when he falls for a beautiful woman out to stop the plant, he is torn in a conflict of interest and asks his trusty friends Samo and Biao to help out at least until they discover the true purpose of the plant.

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Chennai Express
2013 · dir. Rohit Shetty
🍅 53%6.2romance · comedy · action

Kinetic and witty in the same breath

Rahul embarks on a journey to a small town in Tamil Nadu to fulfill the last wish of his grandfather: to have his ashes immersed in the Holy water of Rameshwaram. En route, he meets a woman hailing from a unique family down South. As they find love through this journey in the exuberant lands of South India, an unanticipated drive awaits them.

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Wheels on Meals
1984 · dir. Sammo Hung Kam-Bo
7romance · action · comedy

The same mix in both: play, then romance

The difference: Leans harder into crime than Gorgeous does

Cousins Thomas and David, owners of a mobile restaurant, team up with their friend Moby, a bumbling private detective, to save the beautiful Sylvia, a pickpocket.

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Police Story 4: First Strike
1996 · dir. Stanley Tong Gwai-Lai
🍅 52%6.6action · adventure · comedy

One thread runs through both: action hero

Hong Kong cop Chan Ka-Kui returns, working with Interpol to track down and arrest an illegal weapons dealer. Chan later realizes that things are not as simple as they appear and soon finds himself to be a pawn of an organization posing as Russian intelligence.

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Cold Comfort Farm
1995 · dir. John Schlesinger
🍅 82%7.2comedy · romance

Comedy with a pulse of tenderness, in both cases

In this adaptation of the satirical British novel, Flora Poste, a plucky London society girl orphaned at age 19, finds a new home with some rough relatives, the Starkadders of Cold Comfort Farm. With a take-charge attitude and some encouragement from her mischievous friend, Mary, Flora changes the Starkadders' lives forever when she settles into their rustic estate, bringing the backward clan up to date and finding inspiration for her novel in the process.

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Lisbela and the Prisoner
2003 · dir. Guel Arraes
7.6comedy · romance

Witty romance in both cases

Lisbela is a young woman who loves going to the movies. Leléu is a con man, going from town to town selling all sort of things and performing as master of ceremonies for some cheesy numbers, such as the woman who gets transformed into a gorilla. He gets involved with Linaura, a sexy and beautiful woman who happens to be the wife of the most frightening hitman of the place. The hitman finds out his wife's affair and goes after Leléu, who has to leave in a hurry. In another town, he meets and falls instantly in love with Lisbela, who is engaged to Douglas, a hillbilly who tries hard to pass for a cosmopolitan Rio de Janeiro dweller.

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The Navigator
1924 · dir. Buster Keaton
🍅 100%7.5comedy · action · adventure

Adventure built on scale, twice over

The difference: Made in the 1920s, in a different era of the craft

The wealthy and impulsive Rollo Treadway decides to propose to his beautiful socialite neighbor, Betsy O'Brien. Although Betsy turns Rollo down, he still opts to go on the cruise that he intended as their honeymoon. When circumstances find both Rollo and Betsy on the wrong ship, they end up having adventures on the high seas.

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Arn: The Knight Templar
2007 · dir. Peter Flinth
6.6action · adventure · drama

Both lean on scale more than on action

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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Home for the Holidays
1995 · dir. Jodie Foster
🍅 63%6.6comedy · drama · romance

Playful comedy, and it commits to that

After losing her job, making out with her soon-to-be former boss, and finding out that her daughter plans to spend Thanksgiving with her boyfriend, Claudia Larson faces spending the holiday with her unhinged family.

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Rang De Basanti
2006 · dir. Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra
8.1comedy · drama · history

Romantic romance, and it commits to that

After a group of friends graduate from Delhi University, they listlessly haunt their old campus, until a British filmmaker casts them in a film she's making about freedom fighters under British rule. Although the group is largely apolitical, the tragic death of a friend owing to local government corruption awakens their patriotism. Inspired by the freedom fighters they represent in the film, the friends collectively decide to avenge the killing.

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Late Marriage
2001 · dir. Dover Koshashvili
🍅 88%7.1comedy · drama · romance

Adventure built on tenderness, twice over

Zaza is a 31-year old Israeli bachelor, handsome and intelligent, and his family wants to see him married. But tradition dictates that Zaza has to choose a young virgin. She must be beautiful and from a good family, preferably rich. Zaza's parents, Yasha and Lily drag Zaza to meet potential brides and their families. Zaza has no choice. He plays along with his family, advocates of the suffocating traditions of their Georgian Jewish heritage. But Zaza always manages to somehow get out of being engaged. What his parents don't know is that Zaza is already in love. Judith is sensuous, strong and intriguing. She's also a divorcée with a 6-year-old daughter. So Zaza has kept Judith a secret from his family. He will have to choose between respect of the strict confines of family and tradition, or the love of his life.

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