Movies like The Way of the Dragon
If The Way of the Dragon's mix of martial arts, kung fu and rome, italy stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what The Way of the Dragon's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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Game of Death
1978 · Directed by Robert Clouse · 101 min6.4
Why you'll like itWith Bruce Lee and Robert Wall · Shares: martial arts, east asian lead, action hero · Also a cn action film · From the same decade (1970s)
A martial arts movie star must fake his death to find the people who are trying to kill him.
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Police Story
1985 · Directed by Jackie Chan · 99 min7.6
Why you'll like itShares: martial arts, kung fu, gangster · Also a cn action film
Officer Chan Ka Kui manages to put a major Hong Kong drug dealer behind the bars practically alone, after a shooting and an impressive chase inside a slum.
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New Police Story
2004 · Directed by Benny Chan · 123 min7.2
Why you'll like itShares: martial arts, gangster, hong kong · Also a cn action film
Sent into a drunken tailspin when his entire unit is killed by a gang of thrill-seeking punks, disgraced Hong Kong police inspector Wing needs help from his new rookie partner, with a troubled past of his own, to climb…
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Police Story 2
1988 · Directed by Jackie Chan · 105 min7.1
Why you'll like itShares: martial arts, fight, hong kong · Also a cn action film
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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A Better Tomorrow II
1987 · Directed by John Woo · 104 min7.1
Why you'll like itShares: gangster, restaurant, hong kong · Also a cn action film
A restauranteur teams up with a police officer and his ex-con brother to avenge the death of a friend's daughter.
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Rumble in the Bronx
1995 · Directed by Stanley Tong Gwai-Lai · 106 min6.9
Why you'll like itShares: martial arts, fish out of water, action hero · Also a cn crime film
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.
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Unleashed
2005 · Directed by Louis Leterrier · 103 min7.0
Why you'll like itShares: martial arts, fight, action hero · Also action and crime
Raised as a slave, Danny is used to fighting for his survival. In fact, his "master," Bart, thinks of him as a pet and goes as far as leashing him with a collar so they can make money in fight clubs, where Danny is the…
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Hard Target
1993 · Directed by John Woo · 99 min6.5
Why you'll like itShares: martial arts, fistfight, action hero · Also action and crime
When a woman's father goes missing, she enlists a local to aid in her search. The pair soon discover that her father has died at the hands of a wealthy sportsman who hunts homeless men as a form of recreation.
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Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In
2024 · Directed by Soi Cheang · 126 min7.0
Why you'll like itShares: martial arts, kung fu · Also a cn action film
In 1980s Hong Kong, troubled youth Chan Lok-kwun, a mainland refugee, struggles to survive in the Kowloon Walled City by joining underground fights. Betrayed by crime boss Mr.
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Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story
1993 · Directed by Rob Cohen · 119 min6.9
Why you'll like itShares: martial arts, kung fu, hong kong
This film is a glimpse into the life, love and the unconquerable spirit of the legendary Bruce Lee. From a childhood of rigorous martial arts training, Lee realizes his dream of opening his own kung-fu school in…
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Lionheart
1990 · Directed by Sheldon Lettich · 105 min6.6
Why you'll like itShares: martial arts, fistfight, action hero
Lyon Gaultier is a deserter in the Foreign Legion arriving in the USA entirely hard up. He finds his brother between life and death and his sister-in-law without the money needed to heal her husband and to maintain her…
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John Wick: Chapter 2
2017 · Directed by Chad Stahelski · 122 min7.3
Why you'll like itShares: martial arts, rome, italy · Also action and crime
John Wick is forced out of retirement by a former associate looking to seize control of a shadowy international assassins’ guild. Bound by a blood oath to aid him, Wick travels to Rome and does battle against some of…