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Movies that feel like Thunderbolt (1995)

If you loved Thunderbolt, the closest films we have are Fist of Legend (1994), In the Line of Duty 4 (1989) and The Protector 2 (2013). All three share Thunderbolt's kinetic feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 11 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix, HBO Max and Amazon Prime Video and others, checked against today's data.

In order to release his kidnapped sister, sports car mechanic, Chan Foh To, has to defeat a super-criminal street racer.

6.3 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Gordon Chankinetictense

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Fist of Legend
1994 · dir. Gordon Chan
🍅 100%7.5action

Gordon Chan directing both, with the same fingerprints on each

The difference: Missing the tension of Thunderbolt

Chen returns to his school when he finds out that his martial arts teacher has died. When he learns that his school students are harassed by some hooligans, he gears himself up to save them.

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In the Line of Duty 4
1989 · dir. Yuen Woo-ping
7.1action · crime · thriller

Both keep coming back to the same thing: martial arts

The difference: Leans harder into crime than Thunderbolt does

Two detectives who are up to their necks in trouble and in each other's face, as they try to shut down a drug-trafficking scheme that could be connected with international ties to organized crime. But in the midst of their investigation, innocent immigrant dock worker Luk Wan-Ting gets caught up in the mix when he witnesses the murder of an intelligence operative and is framed for the crime.

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The Protector 2
2013 · dir. Prachya Pinkaew
🍅 18%5.3action

Common ground: martial arts

Kham finds himself in trouble when he is accused of killing a trader. While on the run from the trader's nieces who are martial artists, Kham meets a friend who warns him of a terrorist plot.

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Kickboxer
1989 · dir. Mark DiSalle
🍅 36%6.4action · thriller

The same mix in both: momentum, then tension

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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Metro
2013 · dir. Anton Megerdichev
6.4action · thriller

Both lean on momentum more than on action

Terror strikes the underground train system in Moscow in the form of a flood from a collapsed tunnel. The film follows a diverse group of Moscow citizens who find themselves trapped in the city’s underground rail network, their train derailed and virtually crushed after an aging tunnel collapses. Amongst this band of survivors is softly spoken surgeon Andrey (Sergei Puskepalis), whose wife is having an affair with the conceited businessman Vlad (Anatoly Beliy). Fate brings these two men together on the same doomed train, but there is little time to resolve their differences, as the tunnel begins to quickly fill with water, forcing them to work together with the others and find a way back to the surface.

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Merantau
2009 · dir. Gareth Evans
6.7action · drama · thriller

Tense thriller, and it commits to that

The difference: Sits closer to drama than Thunderbolt does

In Minangkabau, West Sumatera, Yuda a skilled practitioner of Silat Harimau is in the final preparations to begin his "Merantau" a century's old rites-of-passage to be carried out by the community's young men that will see him leave the comforts of his idyllic farming village and make a name for himself in the bustling city of Jakarta.

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Police Story 3: Super Cop
1992 · dir. Stanley Tong Gwai-Lai
🍅 93%7action · crime · thriller

The same preoccupation in both: police

A Hong Kong detective teams up with his female Red Chinese counterpart to stop a Chinese drug czar.

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Police Story 2
1988 · dir. Jackie Chan
🍅 84%7.1action · crime · thriller

Both are built on the same subject: police

The Hong Kong super-cop must stop a group of blackmailing bombers at the same time that the villains of the first Police Story are out for revenge.

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Furie
2019 · dir. Le Van Kiet
🍅 95%6.3action · drama · thriller

Action built on momentum, twice over

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

When a little girl is kidnapped by a trafficking ring, they soon find they messed with the wrong child. Her mother, a notorious former gang leader, is close on their trail and will go to any lengths to bring her child home.

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Mother's Day
2023 · dir. Mateusz Rakowicz
5.3thriller · action

Tense thriller in both cases

Nina, a former NATO special operations agent living in hiding, has to use all her deadly skills to rescue her son who has been kidnapped by ruthless gangsters. Finding Max is a double opportunity for her. A chance to feel the adrenaline rush again, and an opportunity to get back into the life of the son she had to abandon years ago.

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Infernal Affairs II
2003 · dir. Andrew Lau Wai-Keung
🍅 75%7.2action · thriller · crime

The same action instincts

In this prequel to the original, a bloody power struggle among the Triads coincides with the 1997 handover of Hong Kong, setting up the events of the first film.

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Legend of the Fist: The Return of Chen Zhen
2010 · dir. Andrew Lau Wai-Keung
🍅 47%6.2drama · action · history

Thriller in the same key

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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