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Movies that feel like The Five Venoms (1978)

If you loved The Five Venoms, the closest films we have are Ugetsu (1953), King Arthur: Legend of the Sword (2017) and Donnie Darko (2001). All three share The Five Venoms's contemplative and dreamlike feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 6 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on HBO Max Amazon Channel, Criterion Channel and HBO Max and others, checked against today's data.

A dying master sends his last student to check up on five former pupils, who each know a special style of kung-fu.

🍅 80% Rotten Tomatoes7 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Chang Chehkineticcontemplativetwistydreamlike

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If The Five Venoms hit the spot, these will too

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Ugetsu
1953 · dir. Kenji Mizoguchi
🍅 100%8.1fantasy · drama · mystery

Contemplative where it counts, twisty underneath

The difference: Not nearly as kinetic as The Five Venoms

In 16th century Japan, peasants Genjuro and Tobei sell their earthenware pots to a group of soldiers in a nearby village, in defiance of a local sage's warning against seeking to profit from warfare. Genjuro's pursuit of both riches and the mysterious Lady Wakasa, as well as Tobei's desire to become a samurai, run the risk of destroying both themselves and their wives, Miyagi and Ohama.

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King Arthur: Legend of the Sword
2017 · dir. Guy Ritchie
🍅 31%6.7action · drama · fantasy

Kinetic and dreamlike in the same breath

The difference: Critics were much harder on this one

When the child Arthur’s father is murdered, Vortigern, Arthur’s uncle, seizes the crown. Robbed of his birthright and with no idea who he truly is, Arthur comes up the hard way in the back alleys of the city. But once he pulls the sword Excalibur from the stone, his life is turned upside down and he is forced to acknowledge his true legacy... whether he likes it or not.

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Donnie Darko
2001 · dir. Richard Kelly
🍅 88%8fantasy · drama · mystery

Contemplative drama in both cases

The difference: None of the momentum that defines The Five Venoms

After narrowly escaping a bizarre accident, a troubled teenager is plagued by visions of a large bunny rabbit that manipulates him to commit a series of crimes.

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47 Ronin
2013 · dir. Carl Rinsch
🍅 16%6.2drama · action · fantasy

Both built around martial arts

The difference: 35 years apart, and the 2010s show

Kai—an outcast—joins Oishi, the leader of 47 outcast samurai. Together they seek vengeance upon the treacherous overlord who killed their master and banished their kind. To restore honour to their homeland, the warriors embark upon a quest that challenges them with a series of trials that would destroy ordinary warriors.

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Once Upon a Time in China
1991 · dir. Tsui Hark
🍅 90%7.2action · drama

Kung fu sits at the heart of each

In late 19th-century Canton, legendary hero Wong Fei-Hung battles foreign forces' (English, French and American) plundering of China. When Aunt Yee returns from America totally westernised, Wong assumes the role of protector. This proves difficult when his martial arts school and local militia become involved in fierce battles with foreign and local governments. As violence escalates, even Aunt Yee has to question her new western ideals, but is it possible to fight guns with Kung Fu?

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Citizen Kane
1941 · dir. Orson Welles
🍅 99%8.2mystery · drama

Mystery with a pulse of twists, in both cases

Newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane is taken from his mother as a boy and made the ward of a rich industrialist. As a result, every well-meaning, tyrannical or self-destructive move he makes for the rest of his life appears in some way to be a reaction to that deeply wounding event.

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The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones
2013 · dir. Harald Zwart
🍅 13%5.8fantasy · action · mystery

Both trade on momentum more than on being action

In New York City, Clary Fray, a seemingly ordinary teenager, learns that she is descended from a line of Shadowhunters — half-angel warriors who protect humanity from evil forces. After her mother disappears, Clary joins forces with a group of Shadowhunters and enters Downworld, an alternate realm filled with demons, vampires, and a host of other creatures. Clary and her companions must find and protect an ancient cup that holds the key to her mother's future.

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The Bourne Ultimatum
2007 · dir. Paul Greengrass
🍅 92%8action · drama · mystery

Kinetic fantasy, and it commits to that

The difference: Plays it as thriller more than The Five Venoms does

Bourne is brought out of hiding once again by reporter Simon Ross who is trying to unveil Operation Blackbriar, an upgrade to Project Treadstone, in a series of newspaper columns. Information from the reporter stirs a new set of memories, and Bourne must finally uncover his dark past while dodging The Company's best efforts to eradicate him.

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Twister
1996 · dir. Jan de Bont
🍅 68%6.6action · adventure · drama

Action built on stillness, twice over

An unprecedented series of violent tornadoes is sweeping across Oklahoma. Tornado chasers, headed by Dr. Jo Harding, attempt to release a groundbreaking device that will allow them to track them and create a more advanced warning system. They are joined by Jo's soon to be ex-husband Bill, a former tornado chaser himself, and his girlfriend Melissa.

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Iron Monkey
1993 · dir. Yuen Woo-ping
🍅 91%7.5action · crime · drama

The same preoccupation in both: martial arts

In this Hong Kong variation of Robin Hood, corrupt officials of a Chinese village are robbed by a masked bandit known as "Iron Monkey", named after a benevolent deity. When all else fails, the Governor forces a traveling physician into finding the bandit.

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The Tenant
1976 · dir. Roman Polanski
🍅 85%7.5thriller · mystery · drama

Dreamlike drama in both cases

A quiet and inconspicuous man rents an apartment in Paris where he finds himself drawn into a rabbit hole of dangerous paranoia.

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Hellboy II: The Golden Army
2008 · dir. Guillermo del Toro
🍅 86%7fantasy · action

Fantasy with a pulse of dream logic, in both cases

Hellboy, his pyrokinetic girlfriend, Liz, and aquatic empath, Abe Sapien, face their biggest battle when an underworld elven prince plans to reclaim Earth for his magical kindred. Tired of living in the shadow of humans, Prince Nuada tries to awaken an ancient force of killing machines, the all-powerful Golden Army, to clear the way for fantasy creatures to roam free. Only Hellboy can stop the dark prince and prevent humanity's annihilation.

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