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Movies that feel like Shanghai Noon (2000)

If you loved Shanghai Noon, the closest films we have are Manitou's Shoe (2001), Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls (1995) and O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000). All three share Shanghai Noon's epic and witty feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 4 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and OVID and others, checked against today's data.

Chon Wang, a clumsy imperial guard, trails Princess Pei Pei when she's kidnapped from the Forbidden City and transported to America. Wang follows her captors to Nevada, where he teams up with an unlikely partner, outcast outlaw Roy O'Bannon, and tries to spring the princess from her imprisonment.

🍅 80% Rotten Tomatoes6.6 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Tom Deyepicwittyplayfulgritty

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Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: Shanghai Knights (2003)

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

The same preoccupation in both: native american

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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Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls
1995 · dir. Steve Oedekerk
🍅 23%6.4crime · comedy · adventure

The same mix in both: scale, then wit

The difference: Critics were much harder on this one

Summoned from an ashram in Tibet, Ace finds himself on a perilous journey into the jungles of Africa to find Shikaka, the missing sacred animal of the friendly Wachati tribe. He must accomplish this before the wedding of the Wachati's Princess to the prince of the warrior Wachootoos. If Ace fails, the result will be a vicious tribal war.

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O Brother, Where Art Thou?
2000 · dir. Joel Coen
🍅 78%7.7adventure · comedy · crime

Both land play and grit at once

The difference: Leans harder into crime than Shanghai Noon does

In the deep south during the 1930s, three escaped convicts search for hidden treasure while a relentless lawman pursues them.

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

Witty comedy in both cases

The difference: Missing the scale of Shanghai Noon

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

One thread runs through both: martial arts

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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Taxi 2
2000 · dir. Gérard Krawczyk
6.5action · comedy · adventure

Epic adventure, and it commits to that

A cabdriver and a cop race to Paris to rescue a love interest and the Japanese minister of defense from kidnappers.

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Taxi
1998 · dir. Gérard Pirès
7action · comedy · crime

Both lean on play more than on western

In Marseilles a skilled pizza delivery boy Daniel who drives a scooter finally has his dreams come true. He gets a taxi license. Caught by the police for a huge speed infraction, he will help Emilien, a loser inspector who can't drive, on the track of German bank robbers, so he doesn't lose his license and his dream job.

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The Good, the Bad, the Weird
2008 · dir. Kim Jee-woon
🍅 81%7.2action · adventure · comedy

Adventure built on grit, twice over

The story of three Korean outlaws in 1930s Manchuria and their dealings with the Japanese army and Chinese and Russian bandits. The Good (a bounty hunter), the Bad (a hitman), and the Weird (a thief) battle the army and the bandits in a race to use a treasure map to uncover the riches of legend.

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OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies
2006 · dir. Michel Hazanavicius
🍅 76%7crime · action · adventure

Comedy with a pulse of scale, in both cases

Set in 1955, French secret agent Hubert Bonisseur de La Bath/OSS 117 is sent to Cairo to investigate the disappearance of his best friend and fellow spy Jack Jefferson, only to stumble into a web of international intrigue.

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The Castle of Cagliostro
1979 · dir. Hayao Miyazaki
🍅 95%7.6animation · adventure · comedy

Western with a pulse of wit, in both cases

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

After a successful robbery leaves famed thief Lupin the Third and his partner Jigen with nothing but a large amount of expertly crafted counterfeit bills, he decides to track down the forgers responsible—and steal any other treasures he may find in the Castle of Cagliostro, including the 'damsel in distress' he finds imprisoned there.

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The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
2018 · dir. Joel Coen
🍅 90%7.2western · comedy · drama

Common ground: cowboy

The difference: Not nearly as epic as Shanghai Noon

Vignettes weaving together the stories of six individuals in the old West at the end of the Civil War. Following the tales of a sharp-shooting songster, a wannabe bank robber, two weary traveling performers, a lone gold prospector, a woman traveling the West to an uncertain future, and a motley crew of strangers undertaking a carriage ride.

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Mr. Nice Guy
1997 · dir. Sammo Kam-Bo Hung
🍅 45%6.2crime · action · comedy

Both keep coming back to the same thing: martial arts

A Chinese chef accidentally gets involved with a news reporter who filmed a drug bust that went awry and is now being chased by gangs who are trying to get the video tape.

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