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Movies that feel likeThunderbolt (1995)

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

If you loved Thunderbolt, the closest films we have are Fist of Legend (1994), In the Line of Duty 4 (1989) and Furie (2019). All three share Thunderbolt's kinetic feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Don (2006).

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Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974)

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Fist of Legend
1994 · dir. Gordon Chan
🍅 100%★ 7.5actionPrime VideoPeacock

Gordon Chan directing both, with the same fingerprints on each

The difference: Easier on the tension than 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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Furie
2019 · dir. Le Van Kiet
🍅 95%★ 6.3action · drama · thrillerPrime Video

The same preoccupation in both: martial arts

The difference: Sits closer to drama than Thunderbolt does

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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Don
2006 · dir. Farhan Akhtar
★ 7.2action · drama · thrillerNetflix

Kinetic and tense in the same breath

DCP DeSilva sees a way to bring to justice the feared head of a criminal empire by recruiting a man named Vijay, who looks exactly like the crime boss. The ruse works too well, and soon Vijay finds his life in danger when DeSilva, the only one who knows his true identity, dies.

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

One thread runs through both: police

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

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Haywire
2011 · dir. Steven Soderbergh
🍅 80%★ 5.8action · thriller

Kinetic action in both cases

A black ops soldier seeks payback after she is betrayed and left for dead.

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Metro
2013 · dir. Anton Megerdichev
★ 6.4action · thrillerPrime Video

Both lean on tension more than on thriller

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

Kinetic action, and it commits to that

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

Thriller built on tension, twice over

The difference: Made in the 2020s, in a different era of the craft

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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Darkland: The Return
2023 · dir. Fenar Ahmad
★ 6.3thriller · action

Action approached the same way

Seven years ago, Zaid went to war against the Copenhagen underworld to avenge his dead brother. His identity as a respected doctor of cardiology and life as a family man is but a fading dream, and in prison Zaid suffers the loss of his son Noah, whom he barely knows. When a police agent approaches Zaid and offers him a deal to be released in exchange for infiltrating the Copenhagen underworld, he sees his chance to reclaim the remnants of the family life he left behind. But everything has a price, and Zaid realizes that he has now seriously endangered his son's life. After all, once you become part of the underworld, is there any way out?

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Soulcatcher
2023 · dir. Daniel Markowicz
★ 3.7action · thrillerNetflix

The same thriller instincts

A military contractor hired to seize a weapon that turns people into savage killers seeks revenge when his brother falls victim to the device.

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Air Force One
1997 · dir. Wolfgang Petersen
🍅 78%★ 6.6action · thriller

Cut from the same action cloth

When Russian neo-nationalists hijack Air Force One, the world's most secure and extraordinary aircraft, the President is faced with a nearly impossible decision to give in to terrorist demands or sacrifice not only the country's dignity, but the lives of his wife and daughter.

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