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Movies that feel likeShadow (2018)

In a kingdom ruled by a young and unpredictable king, the military commander has a secret weapon: a shadow, a look-alike who can fool both his enemies and the King himself. Now he must use this weapon in an intricate plan that will lead his people to victory in a war that the King does not want.

If you loved Shadow, the closest films we have are Uri: The Surgical Strike (2019), Creation of the Gods I: Kingdom of Storms (2023) and Red Cliff II (2009). All three share Shadow's kinetic and bleak feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Operation Red Sea (2018).

🍅 94% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Zhang Yimoukineticbleak
5 of 12 streaming nowNetflix · Amazon Prime Video · Apple TV

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Uri: The Surgical Strike
2019 · dir. Aditya Dhar
🍅 57%★ 8.2action · drama · war

Kinetic where it counts, bleak underneath

The difference: The scrappier of the two with critics

Following the roguish terrorist attacks at Uri Army Base camp in Kashmir, India takes the fight to the enemy, in its most successful covert operation till date with one and only one objective of avenging their fallen heroes.

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🍅 60%★ 6.6action · fantasy · warPrime Video

Both keep coming back to the same thing: wuxia

The difference: Leans harder into fantasy than Shadow does

Based on the most well-known classical fantasy novel of China, Fengshenyanyi, the trilogy is a magnificent eastern high fantasy epic that recreates the prolonged mythical wars between humans, immortals and monsters, which happened more than three thousand years ago.

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Red Cliff II
2009 · dir. John Woo
★ 7.5action · history · war

Action built on momentum, twice over

The difference: Sits closer to history than Shadow does

The battle of Red Cliff continues and the alliance between Xu and East Wu is fracturing. With Cao Cao's massive forces on their doorstep, will the kingdoms of Xu and East Wu survive?

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Mongol: The Rise of Genghis Khan
2007 · dir. Sergei Bodrov
🍅 86%★ 7.2history · war · action

War with a pulse of bleakness, in both cases

The story recounts the early life of Genghis Khan, a slave who went on to conquer half the world in the 11th century.

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Greyhound
2020 · dir. Aaron Schneider
🍅 77%★ 7war · action · dramaApple TV+

Both lean on momentum more than on action

A first-time captain leads a convoy of allied ships carrying thousands of soldiers across the treacherous waters of the "Black Pit" to the front lines of WWII. With no air cover protection for 5 days, the captain and his convoy must battle the surrounding enemy Nazi U-boats in order to give the allies a chance to win the war.

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Operation Red Sea
2018 · dir. Dante Lam Chiu-yin
🍅 80%★ 6.6action · thriller · warPrime Video

Bleak war, and it commits to that

A squad of the Jiaolong Commando Unit - Sea Dragon, a spec ops team of the Chinese Navy, carries out a hostage rescue operation in the nation of Yewaire, on the Arabian Peninsula, and fiercely fights against local rebel groups and Zaka, a terrorist organization.

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Balkan Line
2019 · dir. Andrey Volgin
★ 6.6drama · action · warPrime Video

Both are action through and through

After the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia in 1999, the Yugoslav army pulls out of Kosovo region, leaving Serbian people at the mercy of the Albanian UCK. A small band of soldiers must take over the Slatina airport, and hold it until the Russian peacekeepers arrive.

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Stalingrad
2013 · dir. Fyodor Bondarchuk
🍅 51%★ 5.7war · action · drama

Both play war straight

A band of determined Russian soldiers fight to hold a strategic building in their devastated city against a ruthless German army, and in the process become deeply connected to a Russian woman who has been living there.

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Eastern Condors
1987 · dir. Sammo Hung
★ 7.1action · adventure · war

Both know what they want from action

The difference: 31 years apart, and the 1980s show

A motley group of Chinese prisoners held in the US is sent on a covert mission with the promise of a pardon: to go deep into Vietnam and destroy a secret depot of missiles that the US left behind during the pull-out.

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Letters from Iwo Jima
2006 · dir. Clint Eastwood
🍅 91%★ 7.8action · drama · war

The same war instincts

The story of the battle of Iwo Jima between the United States and Imperial Japan during World War II, as told from the perspective of the Japanese who fought it.

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American Sniper
2014 · dir. Clint Eastwood
🍅 71%★ 7.3war · actionNetflix

Action approached the same way

U.S. Navy SEAL Chris Kyle takes his sole mission—protect his comrades—to heart and becomes one of the most lethal snipers in American history. His pinpoint accuracy not only saves countless lives but also makes him a prime target of insurgents. Despite grave danger and his struggle to be a good husband and father to his family back in the States, Kyle serves four tours of duty in Iraq. However, when he finally returns home, he finds that he cannot leave the war behind.

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Civil War
2024 · dir. Alex Garland
🍅 80%★ 7war · action · dramaRent or buy

Cut from the same war cloth

In the near future, a group of war journalists attempt to survive while reporting the truth as the United States stands on the brink of civil war.

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