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Movies that feel like Lady Snowblood (1973)

If you loved Lady Snowblood, the closest films we have are A Better Tomorrow (1986), Rolling Thunder (1977) and Iron Monkey (1993). All three share Lady Snowblood's kinetic and gritty feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 8 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on fuboTV, Criterion Channel and Amazon Prime Video and others, checked against today's data.

A strikingly beautiful young woman is trained from birth to be a deadly instrument of revenge against the swindlers who destroyed her family.

🍅 100% Rotten Tomatoes7.6 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Toshiya Fujitakineticgrittycontemplativerelentless

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A Better Tomorrow
1986 · dir. John Woo
🍅 95%7.4action · crime · drama

The same preoccupation in both: revenge

A reforming ex-gangster tries to reconcile with his estranged policeman brother, but the ties to his former gang are difficult to break.

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

Revenge sits at the heart of each

The difference: Leans thriller where Lady Snowblood 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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Iron Monkey
1993 · dir. Yuen Woo-ping
🍅 91%7.5action · crime · drama

The same mix in both: momentum, then grit

The difference: Missing the relentlessness of Lady Snowblood

In this Hong Kong variation of Robin Hood, corrupt officials of a Chinese village are robbed by a masked bandit known as "Iron Monkey", named after a benevolent deity. When all else fails, the Governor forces a traveling physician into finding the bandit.

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Training Day
2001 · dir. Antoine Fuqua
🍅 74%7.8action · crime · drama

Contemplative action in both cases

The difference: Critics were much harder on this one

On his first day on the job as a narcotics officer, a rookie cop works with a rogue detective who isn't what he appears.

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Léon: The Professional
1994 · dir. Luc Besson
🍅 76%8.5crime · drama · action

Assassin is the engine of both

The difference: A 1990s film, from a different era of filmmaking

Léon, the top hit man in New York, has earned a rep as an effective "cleaner". But when his next-door neighbors are wiped out by a loose-cannon DEA agent, he becomes the unwilling custodian of 12-year-old Mathilda. Before long, Mathilda's thoughts turn to revenge, and she considers following in Léon's footsteps.

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Kill Bill: Vol. 1
2003 · dir. Quentin Tarantino
🍅 85%8.2action · crime

Both built around japan

The difference: 30 years apart, and the 2000s show

An assassin is shot by her ruthless employer, Bill, and other members of their assassination circle – but she lives to plot her vengeance.

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Bob le Flambeur
1956 · dir. Jean-Pierre Melville
🍅 97%7.6drama · action · crime

Crime built on momentum, twice over

In Paris, Bob Montagne is practically synonymous with gambling -- and winning. He is kind, classy and well-liked by virtually everyone in town, including police inspector Ledru. However, when Bob's luck turns sour, he begins to lose friends and makes the most desperate gamble of his life: to rob the Deauville casino during Grand Prix weekend, when the vaults are full. Unfortunately, Bob soon learns that the game is rigged and the cops are on to him.

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The Street Fighter
1974 · dir. Shigehiro Ozawa
6.9action · crime · thriller

Both keep circling back to japan

Takuma Tsurugi takes on the government, the police, the mafia and an international ring of kidnappers who aim to dispossess a beautiful young heiress of her millions.

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The Outfit
1973 · dir. John Flynn
🍅 86%7crime · drama

Drama with a pulse of relentlessness, in both cases

A two-bit criminal takes on the Mafia to avenge his brother's death. Earl Macklin is a small time criminal who is released from prison after an unsuccessful bank robbery only to discover that a pair of gunmen killed his brother.

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Across 110th Street
1972 · dir. Barry Shear
🍅 85%7action · crime · drama

Gritty action, and it commits to that

In a daring robbery, some $300,000 is taken from the Italian mob. Several mafiosi are killed, as are two policemen. Lt. Pope and Capt. Mattelli are two New York City cops trying to break the case. Three small-time criminals are on the run with the money. Will the mafia catch them first, or will the police?

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Scarface
1983 · dir. Brian De Palma
🍅 77%8.3action · crime · drama

Both trade on stillness more than on being crime

After getting a green card in exchange for assassinating a Cuban government official, Tony Montana stakes a claim on the drug trade in Miami. Viciously murdering anyone who stands in his way, Tony eventually becomes the biggest drug lord in the state, controlling nearly all the cocaine that comes through Miami. But increased pressure from the police, wars with Colombian drug cartels and his own drug-fueled paranoia serve to fuel the flames of his eventual downfall.

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Gone in 60 Seconds
1974 · dir. H.B. Halicki
🍅 43%6.3action · crime · thriller

Drama with a pulse of momentum, in both cases

Insurance investigator Maindrian Pace and his team lead double-lives as unstoppable car thieves. When a South American drug lord pays Pace to steal 48 cars for him, all but one, a 1973 Ford Mustang, are in the bag. As Pace prepares to rip-off the fastback, codenamed "Eleanor", in Long Beach, he is unaware that his boss has tipped off the police after a business dispute.

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