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Movies that feel likeThe Legend of Drunken Master (1994)

Returning home with his father after a shopping expedition, Wong Fei-hung is unwittingly caught up in the battle between foreigners who wish to export ancient Chinese artifacts and loyalists who don't want the pieces to leave the country. Fei-hung must fight against the foreigners using his Drunken Boxing style, and overcome his father's antagonism as well.

If you loved The Legend of Drunken Master, the closest films we have are Son of Rambow (2007), Knockin' on Heaven's Door (1997) and That's Life (1998). All three share The Legend of Drunken Master's witty and playful feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is The Prodigal Son (1981).

🍅 85% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.5 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Lau Kar-leungkineticwittyplayfulwarm
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Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: Drunken Master (1978)

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Son of Rambow
2007 · dir. Garth Jennings
🍅 73%★ 7comedyParamount+

Common ground: friendship

The difference: Less kinetic, more its own thing

Will is looking for an escape from his family when he encounters Lee, the school bully. Armed with a video camera and a copy of Rambo, Lee plans to make his own action-packed video epic.

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Knockin' on Heaven's Door
1997 · dir. Thomas Jahn
★ 7.8comedy · crime · action

One thread runs through both: friendship

The difference: Leans further into crime

Two young men, Martin and Rudi, both suffering from terminal cancer, get to know each other in a hospital room. They drown their desperation in tequila and decide to take one last trip to the sea. Drunk and still in pajamas they steal the first fancy car they find, a 60's Mercedes convertible. The car happens to belong to a bunch of gangsters, which immediately start to chase it, since it contains more than the pistol Martin finds in the glove box.

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That's Life
1998 · dir. Massimo Venier
★ 7comedy

Witty and playful in the same breath

While on the run from the police, an unlikely companionship blossoms between a funny con man who just broke out of jail, the bumbling cop whose car he seized at gunpoint, and a nitpicking civilian he unwittingly took hostage.

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The Prodigal Son
1981 · dir. Sammo Hung
🍅 100%★ 7.3action · comedy

Two things both keep coming back to: martial arts and kung fu

A rich man's son believes himself to be the best kung fu fighter in Canton. Unfortunately, his father, anxious for his son's safety, bribes all his opponents to lose. After a humiliating defeat at the hands of an actor in a traveling theatre company, the son resolves to find a better teacher.

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Three Men and a Leg
1997 · dir. Aldo Baglio
★ 7.7comedy

Warm comedy, and it commits to that

Friends Aldo, Giovanni, and Giacomo cross Italy from north to south for Giacomo's wedding: the father of the bride, a despotic magnate who is both their boss and father-in-law—since Aldo and Giovanni have also married into the family not for love but for money, a fate now awaiting Giacomo—has entrusted them with a priceless piece of modern art, one that looks just like a rather unremarkable wooden leg.

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Clerks
1994 · dir. Kevin Smith
🍅 90%★ 7.7comedyParamount+

Both lean on wit more than on action

Convenience and video store clerks Dante and Randal are sharp-witted, potty-mouthed and bored out of their minds. So in between needling customers, the counter jockeys play hockey on the roof, visit a funeral home and deal with their love lives.

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Kopps
2003 · dir. Josef Fares
★ 6.7action · comedy

Action with a pulse of momentum, in both cases

A small Swedish village, Högboträsk, is so peaceful that crime is nonexistent. The police spend their shifts drinking coffee, eating hot dogs and chasing down runaway cows. This is all well and good for the village's own police, but the police management board wants to discontinue the local police force for lack of crime.

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Elling
2001 · dir. Petter Næss
🍅 85%★ 7.4comedy · drama

Playful comedy in both cases

The difference: Played as drama first

40-year-old Elling, sensitive, would-be poet, is sent to live in a state institution when his mother, who has sheltered him his entire life, dies. There he meets Kjell Bjarne, a gentle giant and female-obsessed virgin, also in his 40s.

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Project A - Part II
1987 · dir. Jackie Chan
🍅 73%★ 7action · comedy

Both keep coming back to the same thing: kung fu

Dragon is now transferred to be the police head of Sai Wan district, and has to contend with a gangster kingpin, anti-Manchu revolutionaries, some runaway pirates, Manchu Loyalists and a corrupt police superintendent.

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Snake in the Eagle's Shadow
1978 · dir. Yuen Woo-ping
🍅 80%★ 7.3action · comedy

Both are built on the same subject: martial arts

Everyone abuses and humiliates a downtrodden orphan until he befriends an old man, who turns out to be the last master of the snake fist fighting style. Jackie becomes the old man's student and finds himself in battle with the master of the eagle's claw style, who has vowed to destroy the snake fist clan.

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Rush Hour 2
2001 · dir. Brett Ratner
🍅 50%★ 6.7action · comedy · crimeParamount+

Action built on momentum, twice over

The difference: The critics' underdog of the pair

It's vacation time for Carter as he finds himself alongside Lee in Hong Kong wishing for more excitement. While Carter wants to party and meet the ladies, Lee is out to track down a Triad gang lord who may be responsible for killing two men at the American Embassy. Things get complicated as the pair stumble onto a counterfeiting plot. The boys are soon up to their necks in fist fights and life-threatening situations. A trip back to the U.S. may provide the answers about the bombing, the counterfeiting, and the true allegiance of sexy customs agent Isabella.

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Ghost World
2001 · dir. Terry Zwigoff
🍅 93%★ 7.3comedy · drama

Comedy built on warmth, twice over

Two quirky, cynical, teenaged girls try to figure out what to do with their lives following high school graduation. After they play a prank on an eccentric, middle-aged record collector, one of them befriends him, which causes a rift in the girls’ friendship.

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