
Movies that feel like Shadow (2018)
If you loved Shadow, the closest films we have are Creation of the Gods I: Kingdom of Storms (2023), Balkan Line (2019) and Uri: The Surgical Strike (2019). All three share Shadow's kinetic and bleak feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 8 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV and Criterion Channel and others, checked against today's data.
If Shadow hit the spot, these will too

Both keep coming back to the same thing: wuxia
The difference: Critics were much harder on this one

Both land momentum and bleakness at once
The difference: Sits closer to drama than Shadow does

Kinetic action in both cases

War with a pulse of bleakness, in both cases

Both are Zhang Yimou's work, and they rhyme
The difference: Not nearly as kinetic as Shadow

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

Kinetic action, and it commits to that

Both lean on bleakness more than on war

The same action instincts

War approached the same way

Both working the same war territory

Both know what they want from action
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