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Movies that feel like The Man with the Golden Gun (1974)

If you loved The Man with the Golden Gun, the closest films we have are Kickboxer (1989), Legend of the Fist: The Return of Chen Zhen (2010) and Mission: Impossible (1996). All three share The Man with the Golden Gun's kinetic and tense feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 10 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on HBO Max, Amazon Prime Video and Paramount Plus Premium and others, checked against today's data.

Cool government operative James Bond searches for a stolen invention that can turn the sun's heat into a destructive weapon. He soon crosses paths with the menacing Francisco Scaramanga, a hitman so skilled he has a seven-figure working fee. Bond then joins forces with the swimsuit-clad Mary Goodnight, and together they track Scaramanga to a Thai tropical isle hideout where the killer-for-hire lures the slick spy into a deadly maze for a final duel.

πŸ… 40% Rotten Tomatoesβ˜… 6.7 IMDb β†—TMDB β†—dir. Guy Hamiltonepickinetictense

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Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: Dr. No (1962) Β· From Russia with Love (1963) Β· Goldfinger (1964) Β· Thunderball (1965) Β· You Only Live Twice (1967) Β· On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969)

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Kickboxer
1989 Β· dir. Mark DiSalle
πŸ… 36%β˜… 6.4action Β· thriller

Common ground in both: martial arts and bangkok, thailand

The difference: Without the same scale

If your enemy refuses to be humbled... Destroy him. Accompanied by his brother Kurt, American kickboxing champion Eric Sloane, arrives in Thailand to defeat the Eastern warriors at their own sport. His opponent: ruthless fighter and Thai champion, Tong Po. Tong not only defeats Eric, he paralyzes him for life. Crazed with anger, Kurt vows revenge.

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Legend of the Fist: The Return of Chen Zhen
2010 Β· dir. Andrew Lau Wai-Keung
πŸ… 47%β˜… 6.2drama Β· action Β· history

The same preoccupation in both: assassin

The difference: Played as drama first

The Japanese forces occupy Shanghai and slowly start spreading terror in the city. Chen Zhen, who was presumed dead, returns to fight against the Japanese and put an end to their tyrannical rule.

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Mission: Impossible
1996 Β· dir. Brian De Palma
πŸ… 66%β˜… 7.2adventure Β· action Β· thriller

London shapes both of them

The difference: Critics rated this one higher still

When Ethan Hunt, the leader of a crack espionage team whose perilous operation has gone awry with no explanation, discovers that a mole has penetrated the CIA, he's surprised to learn that he's the prime suspect. To clear his name, Hunt now must ferret out the real double agent and, in the process, even the score.

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Operation Condor
1991 Β· dir. Jackie Chan
πŸ… 71%β˜… 7.2action Β· adventure Β· crime

Common ground: gold

The difference: Leans further into crime

Hired by a Spanish baron, Hong Kong treasure hunter Jackie, a.k.a. "Asian Hawk" and his entourage seek WWII Nazi gold buried in the Sahara Desert.

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Runaway Train
1985 Β· dir. Andrei Konchalovsky
πŸ… 84%β˜… 7.2action Β· thriller Β· drama

Epic and kinetic in the same breath

A hardened convict and a younger prisoner escape from a brutal prison in the middle of winter only to find themselves on an out-of-control train with a female railway worker while being pursued by the vengeful head of security.

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The 36th Chamber of Shaolin
1978 Β· dir. Lau Kar-leung
πŸ… 83%β˜… 7.6action Β· adventure

One thread runs through both: martial arts

During the Qing Dynasty, a fishmonger is killed by the reigning Manchu government for supporting the anti-government movement; his son manages to escape to Shaolin Temple, where he plans to learn its secretive brand of martial arts to seek revenge.

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Mission: Impossible II
2000 Β· dir. John Woo
β˜… 6.1adventure Β· action Β· thriller

Both are built on the same subject: secret mission

The difference: Made in the 2000s, in a different era of the craft

With computer genius Luther Stickell at his side and a beautiful thief on his mind, agent Ethan Hunt races across Australia and Spain to stop a former IMF agent from unleashing a genetically engineered biological weapon called Chimera. This mission, should Hunt choose to accept it, plunges him into the center of an international crisis of terrifying magnitude.

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Mission: Impossible III
2006 Β· dir. J.J. Abrams
πŸ… 73%β˜… 6.9adventure Β· action Β· thriller

Both keep coming back to the same thing: secret mission

Retired from active duty, and training recruits for the Impossible Mission Force, agent Ethan Hunt faces the toughest foe of his career: Owen Davian, an international broker of arms and information, who's as cunning as he is ruthless. Davian emerges to threaten Hunt and all that he holds dear – including the woman Hunt loves.

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Sorcerer
1977 Β· dir. William Friedkin
πŸ… 84%β˜… 7.7thriller Β· adventure

Tense adventure in both cases

Four men from different parts of the globe, all hiding from their pasts in the same remote South American town, agree to risk their lives transporting several cases of dynamite (which is so old that it is dripping unstable nitroglycerin) across dangerous jungle terrain.

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Branded to Kill
1967 Β· dir. Seijun Suzuki
πŸ… 100%β˜… 7.2thriller Β· crime Β· action

One thread runs through both: hitman

After botching his latest assignment, a third-ranked Japanese hit man becomes the target of another assassin.

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The Wolf's Call
2019 Β· dir. Antonin Baudry
β˜… 6.9thriller Β· action Β· adventure

Action built on scale, twice over

Shown from the perspective of a young submariner with unusually sensitive hearing and uncannily precise sound recognition. The fate of many often depends on his ability, and one time, whilst highly stressed, he makes a incorrect call which put his entire crew in mortal danger. Trying to regain the confidence of his comrades, he conducts an unauthorised investigation of an apparent plot which, it turns out, risks escalating into a nuclear apocalypse. Suddenly working under pressure with the fleet admiral, they must do whatever is necessary, even the unthinkable, to prevent a nuclear war, since a confirmed nuclear strike order cannot be countermanded.

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The Rock
1996 Β· dir. Michael Bay
πŸ… 76%β˜… 7.4action Β· adventure Β· thriller

Kinetic thriller, and it commits to that

When vengeful General Francis X. Hummel seizes control of Alcatraz Island and threatens to launch missiles loaded with deadly chemical weapons into San Francisco, only a young FBI chemical weapons expert and notorious Federal prisoner have the skills to penetrate the impregnable island fortress and take him down.

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