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Movies that feel likeThe Crow (1994)

Exactly one year after young rock guitarist Eric Draven and his fiancée are brutally killed by a ruthless gang of criminals, Draven, watched over by a hypnotic crow, returns from the grave to exact revenge.

If you loved The Crow, the closest films we have are Batman Returns (1992), Desperado (1995) and Fist of Fury (1972). All three share The Crow's kinetic and relentless feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is The Villainess (2017).

🍅 88% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.5 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Alex Proyasdreamlikekinetictenserelentless
11 of 12 streaming nowNetflix · HBO Max · Amazon Prime Video

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Batman Returns
1992 · dir. Tim Burton
🍅 81%★ 7.1action · fantasyMax

Common ground in both: superhero and revenge

The difference: Easier on the tension than The Crow

The monstrous Penguin, who dwells in the sewers beneath Gotham, joins up with corrupt mayoral candidate Max Shreck to topple the Batman once and for all. But when Shreck's timid assistant Selina Kyle finds out, and Shreck tries to kill her, she's transformed into the sexy Catwoman. She teams up with the Penguin and Shreck to destroy Batman, but sparks fly unexpectedly when she confronts the caped crusader.

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Desperado
1995 · dir. Robert Rodriguez
🍅 71%★ 7.1thriller · action · crimePrime Video

The same preoccupation in both: tragic hero

The difference: Takes it somewhere less dreamlike than The Crow does

El Mariachi plunges headfirst into the dark border underworld when he follows a trail of blood to the last of the infamous Mexican drug lords, Bucho, for an action-packed, bullet-riddled showdown. With the help of his friend and a beautiful bookstore owner, El Mariachi tracks Bucho, takes on his army of desperados, and leaves his own trail of blood.

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

One thread runs through both: martial arts

The difference: Leans harder into drama than The Crow does

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

Both keep coming back to the same thing: revenge

The difference: The critics' underdog of the pair

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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The Villainess
2017 · dir. Jung Byung-gil
🍅 85%★ 6.6action · thrillerPrime Video

Kinetic and tense in the same breath

The difference: Made in the 2010s, in a different era of the craft

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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Jawan
2023 · dir. Atlee
★ 6.9action · thrillerNetflix

Relentless action in both cases

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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Naked Weapon
2002 · dir. Tony Ching Siu-Tung
★ 5.5action · drama · thriller

Common ground: martial arts

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.

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

Kinetic thriller, and it commits to that

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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Kingdom: Ashin of the North
2021 · dir. Kim Seong-hun
★ 6.9drama · fantasy · thrillerNetflix

Fantasy with a pulse of dream logic, in both cases

Tragedy, betrayal and a mysterious discovery fuel a woman's vengeance for the loss of her tribe and family.

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Blade II
2002 · dir. Guillermo del Toro
🍅 57%★ 6.7fantasy · horror · actionPeacock

Both are built on the same subject: supernatural

Blade forms an uneasy alliance with the vampire council in order to combat the Reapers, who are feeding on vampires.

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

Both lean on tension more than on action

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

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Ong Bak 2
2008 · dir. Tony Jaa
🍅 49%★ 6.2adventure · action · thrillerPrime Video

Thriller built on relentlessness, twice over

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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