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Movies that feel like Shanghai Knights (2003)

If you loved Shanghai Knights, the closest films we have are Manitou's Shoe (2001), The Green Hornet (2011) and Rumble in the Bronx (1995). All three share Shanghai Knights' witty and playful feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 5 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Amazon Prime Video, Paramount Plus Essential and AMC+ and others, checked against today's data.

When a Chinese rebel murders Chon's estranged father and escapes to England, Chon and Roy make their way to London with revenge on their minds.

🍅 66% Rotten Tomatoes6.2 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. David Dobkinepicwittyplayfulgrittyrelentless

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Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: Shanghai Noon (2000)

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Manitou's Shoe
2001 · dir. Michael Herbig
6.7western · comedy · adventure

One thread runs through both: indian territory

The difference: None of the relentlessness Shanghai Knights is built on

Abahachi, Chief of the Apache Indians, and his blood brother Ranger maintain peace and justice in the Wild West. One day, Abahachi needs to take up a credit from the Shoshone Indians to finance his tribe's new saloon. Unfortunately Santa Maria, who sold the saloon, betrays Abahachi, takes the money and leaves. Soon, the Shoshones are on the warpath to get their money back, and Abahachi is forced to organize it quickly.

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The Green Hornet
2011 · dir. Michel Gondry
🍅 45%5.8action · crime · comedy

Two things both keep coming back to: martial arts and revenge

The difference: Missing the scale of Shanghai Knights

Britt Reid, the heir to the largest newspaper fortune in Los Angeles, is a spoiled playboy who has been, thus far, happy to lead an aimless life. After his father dies, Britt meets Kato, a resourceful company employee. Realizing that they have the talent and resources to make something of their lives, Britt and Kato join forces as costumed crime-fighters to bring down the city's most-powerful criminal, Chudnofsky.

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Rumble in the Bronx
1995 · dir. Stanley Tong Gwai-Lai
🍅 81%6.8crime · action · comedy

Both keep coming back to the same thing: martial arts

The difference: Sits closer to crime than Shanghai Knights does

Keong comes from Hong Kong to visit New York for his uncle's wedding. His uncle runs a market in the Bronx and Keong offers to help out while Uncle is on his honeymoon. During his stay in the Bronx, Keong befriends a neighbor kid and beats up some neighborhood thugs who cause problems at the market. One of those petty thugs in the local gang stumbles into a criminal situation way over his head.

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

The same preoccupation in 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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Four Brothers
2005 · dir. John Singleton
6.8action · crime

Common ground: murder

Four adopted brothers return to their Detroit hometown when their mother is murdered and vow to exact revenge on the killers.

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The Change-Up
2011 · dir. David Dobkin
🍅 26%6.3comedy

David Dobkin working the same nerve twice

The difference: Reviewed a good deal more coolly

Lifelong friends Dave and Mitch are envious of the other's life. Mitch thinks Dave has it all: a beautiful, loving family and a high-paying job at a prestigious law firm. But Dave thinks Mitch’s stress-free playboy life without obligation or consequence is the real dream come true. One fateful drunken night, they both admit that they wish they had the other’s life while peeing in a fountain when lightning strikes. The next morning, they wake up, hungover, in each other’s bodies! With time not on their side, Mitch and Dave comically struggle to avoid completely destroying each other’s lives before they can find a way to get their old ones back.

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

Both are built on the same subject: revenge

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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The Salvation
2014 · dir. Kristian Levring
🍅 72%6.7drama · western

Both keep coming back to the same thing: murder

In 1870s America, a peaceful American settler kills his family's murderer which unleashes the fury of a notorious gang leader. His cowardly fellow townspeople then betray him, forcing him to hunt down the outlaws alone.

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

A 2000s answer to the same itch

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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A Million Ways to Die in the West
2014 · dir. Seth MacFarlane
🍅 33%6.1comedy · western

Witty and playful in the same breath

As a cowardly farmer begins to fall for the mysterious new woman in town, he must put his new-found courage to the test when her husband, a notorious gun-slinger, announces his arrival.

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Dumb and Dumber To
2014 · dir. Bobby Farrelly
🍅 31%5.6comedy

One thread runs through both: buddy comedy

20 years since their first adventure, Lloyd and Harry go on a road trip to find Harry's newly discovered daughter, who was given up for adoption.

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Green Street Hooligans
2005 · dir. Lexi Alexander
🍅 45%7.4crime · drama

London shapes both of them

After being wrongfully expelled from Harvard University, American Matt Buckner flees to his sister's home in England. Once there, he is befriended by her charming and dangerous brother-in-law, Pete Dunham, and introduced to the underworld of British football hooliganism. Matt learns to stand his ground through a friendship that develops against the backdrop of this secret and often violent world. 'Green Street Hooligans' is a story of loyalty, trust and the sometimes brutal consequences of living close to the edge.

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