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Movies that feel like Vanguard (2020)

If you loved Vanguard, the closest films we have are Police Story 4: First Strike (1996), Kung Fu Yoga (2017) and The Myth (2005). All three share Vanguard's kinetic and epic feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 7 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and OVID and others, checked against today's data.

Covert security company Vanguard is the last hope of survival for an accountant after he is targeted by the world's deadliest mercenary organization.

πŸ… 29% Rotten Tomatoesβ˜… 4.7 IMDb β†—TMDB β†—dir. Stanley Tong Gwai-Laikineticepicwittyplayfulgrittytense

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Police Story 4: First Strike
1996 Β· dir. Stanley Tong Gwai-Lai
πŸ… 52%β˜… 6.6action Β· adventure Β· comedy

Stanley Tong Gwai-Lai directing both, with the same fingerprints on each

The difference: Not nearly as tense as Vanguard

Hong Kong cop Chan Ka-Kui returns, working with Interpol to track down and arrest an illegal weapons dealer. Chan later realizes that things are not as simple as they appear and soon finds himself to be a pawn of an organization posing as Russian intelligence.

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Kung Fu Yoga
2017 Β· dir. Stanley Tong Gwai-Lai
πŸ… 48%β˜… 5.2comedy Β· mystery Β· family

Both are Stanley Tong Gwai-Lai's work, and they rhyme

The difference: Missing the grit of Vanguard

Two professors team up to locate a lost treasure and embark on an adventure that takes them from a Tibetan ice cave to Dubai, and to a mountain temple in India.

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The Myth
2005 Β· dir. Stanley Tong Gwai-Lai
πŸ… 20%β˜… 6.1action Β· adventure Β· comedy

Kinetic where it counts, epic underneath

The difference: Sits closer to drama than Vanguard does

When a fellow scientist asks for Jack's help in locating the mausoleum of China's first emperor, the past collides violently with the present as Jack discovers his amazing visions are based in fact.

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Police Story 3: Super Cop
1992 Β· dir. Stanley Tong Gwai-Lai
πŸ… 93%β˜… 7action Β· crime Β· thriller

The same mix in both: grit, then tension

The difference: Critics rated this one higher still

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

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Rumble in the Bronx
1995 Β· dir. Stanley Tong Gwai-Lai
πŸ… 81%β˜… 6.8crime Β· action Β· comedy

Witty and playful in the same breath

The difference: Made in the 1990s, in a different era of the craft

Keong comes from Hong Kong to visit New York for his uncle's wedding. His uncle runs a market in the Bronx and Keong offers to help out while Uncle is on his honeymoon. During his stay in the Bronx, Keong befriends a neighbor kid and beats up some neighborhood thugs who cause problems at the market. One of those petty thugs in the local gang stumbles into a criminal situation way over his head.

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Dilwale
2015 Β· dir. Rohit Shetty
πŸ… 19%β˜… 5.1crime Β· action Β· comedy

Kinetic action in both cases

Raj is a Mafia member. One day he meet a girl (Meera) while chasing by his rival gang and falls in love with her. Later he finds out that this girl is the daughter of the leader of his rival gang. Yet their love story continues until he was shot by his girlfriend upon a deep misunderstanding. After that incident these two lovers lives separate until their siblings fallen in love. With this new love story their paths intertwines again.

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Who Am I?
1998 Β· dir. Jackie Chan
πŸ… 70%β˜… 6.8adventure Β· action Β· comedy

Both keep coming back to the same thing: fight

A group of covert CIA operatives trailing a potential new energy source are double-crossed by corrupt agent Morgan, who causes a helicopter crash in remote South Africa. The sole survivor, suffering severe amnesia, is nursed to recovery by a kindly native tribe who call him "Whoami" after the question he keeps asking. With the help of a mysterious reporter Christine, Whoami pieces together his past and tracks the turncoat agent and his criminal cohorts.

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OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies
2006 Β· dir. Michel Hazanavicius
πŸ… 76%β˜… 7crime Β· action Β· adventure

Both are built on the same subject: espionage

Set in 1955, French secret agent Hubert Bonisseur de La Bath/OSS 117 is sent to Cairo to investigate the disappearance of his best friend and fellow spy Jack Jefferson, only to stumble into a web of international intrigue.

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Triple Frontier
2019 Β· dir. J.C. Chandor
πŸ… 71%β˜… 6.5action Β· thriller Β· crime

The same preoccupation in both: survival

Struggling to make ends meet, former special ops soldiers reunite for a high-stakes heist: stealing $75 million from a South American drug lord.

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Kung Fu Jungle
2014 Β· dir. Teddy Chan Tak-Sam
πŸ… 74%β˜… 6.4action Β· thriller Β· crime

Adventure with a pulse of scale, in both cases

A martial arts instructor working at a police academy gets imprisoned after killing a man by accident. But when a vicious killer starts targeting martial arts masters, the instructor offers to help the police in return for his freedom.

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Rob-B-Hood
2006 Β· dir. Benny Chan
β˜… 6.6drama Β· action Β· comedy

Common ground: kidnapping

For never-do-well compulsive gambler Fong, there's only one thing more fearsome than debtors at his doorstep - having to coax a crying baby. But what if the baby becomes his golden goose to fend off his debtors? Can he overcome his phobia of diapers, milk bottles, and cloying lullabies?

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Sixty Minutes
2024 Β· dir. Oliver Kienle
πŸ… 67%β˜… 5.7action Β· adventure Β· crime

Both lean on grit more than on crime

Desperate to keep custody of his daughter, a mixed martial arts fighter abandons a big match and races across Berlin to attend her birthday party.

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