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Movies that feel like Naked Weapon (2002)

If you loved Naked Weapon, the closest films we have are New Police Story (2004), Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (2002) and Game of Death (1978). All three share Naked Weapon's kinetic and contemplative feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 10 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and Shudder and others, checked against today's data.

A mysterious woman, known as Madame M, kidnaps forty pre-teen girls and transports them to a remote island to train them as the most deadly assassins. CIA operative Jack Chen follows the case for 6 years with no leads, but when a series of assassinations begin to occur, Jack suspects that Madame M is back in business.

5.5 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Tony Ching Siu-Tungkineticcontemplativetenserelentless

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New Police Story
2004 · dir. Benny Chan
🍅 63%6.9action · thriller · crime

Both rooted in Hong Kong

The difference: Sits closer to crime than Naked Weapon does

Sent into a drunken tailspin when his entire unit is killed by a gang of thrill-seeking punks, disgraced Hong Kong police inspector Wing needs help from his new rookie partner, with a troubled past of his own, to climb out of the bottle and track down the gang and its ruthless leader.

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Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance
2002 · dir. Park Chan-wook
🍅 53%7.5action · drama · thriller

The same two preoccupations: kidnapping, and revenge

A deaf man and his girlfriend resort to desperate measures in order to fund a kidney transplant for his sister. Things go horribly wrong, and the situation spirals rapidly into a cycle of violence and revenge.

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Game of Death
1978 · dir. Robert Clouse
🍅 38%5.9drama · action · thriller

Both keep coming back to the same thing: martial arts

The difference: Made in the 1970s, in a different era of the craft

A martial arts movie star must fake his death to find the people who are trying to kill him.

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The Villainess
2017 · dir. Jung Byung-gil
🍅 85%6.6action · thriller

Both are built on the same subject: assassin

The difference: Missing the stillness of Naked Weapon

Honed from childhood into a merciless killing machine by a criminal organization, assassin Sook-hee is recruited with the promise of freedom after ten years of service. However, secrets from her past destroy everything she’s worked for and now she embarks on a roaring rampage of revenge.

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Headshot
2016 · dir. Kimo Stamboel
🍅 73%6.3action · thriller · drama

The same preoccupation in both: martial arts

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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Jawan
2023 · dir. Atlee
6.9action · thriller

One thread runs through both: revenge

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

The same mix in both: momentum, then tension

The difference: Leans harder into adventure than Naked Weapon 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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Legend of the Fist: The Return of Chen Zhen
2010 · dir. Andrew Lau Wai-Keung
🍅 47%6.2drama · action · history

Common ground: assassin

The Japanese forces occupy Shanghai and slowly start spreading terror in the city. Chen Zhen, who was presumed dead, returns to fight against the Japanese and put an end to their tyrannical rule.

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Fist of Fury
1972 · dir. Lo Wei
7.2drama · action · thriller

Contemplative and relentless in the same breath

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.

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

Common ground: kidnapping

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

Action built on momentum, twice over

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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Cold in July
2014 · dir. Jim Mickle
🍅 84%6.7drama · thriller

Contemplative drama, and it commits to that

While investigating noises in his house one balmy Texas night in 1989, Richard Dane puts a bullet in the brain of a low-life burglar. Although he’s hailed as a small-town hero, Dane soon finds himself fearing for his family’s safety when Freddy’s ex-con father rolls into town, hell-bent on revenge.

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