Movies Like The Golden Child

If you liked The Golden Child (1986), a action and adventure movie directed by Michael Ritchie, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.

1
Kung Pow: Enter the Fist (2002)
★ 6.6/10Also comedy and action
A movie within a movie, created to spoof the martial arts genre. Writer/director Steve Oedekerk uses contemporary characters and splices them into a 1970s kung-fu film, weaving the new and old together. As the main…
2
The Forbidden Kingdom (2008)
★ 6.7/10Also action and adventure
An American teenager who is obsessed with Hong Kong cinema and kung-fu classics makes an extraordinary discovery in a Chinatown pawnshop: the legendary stick weapon of the Chinese sage and warrior, the Monkey King…
3
Willow (1988)
★ 7/10Also adventure and action
The evil Queen Bavmorda hunts the newborn princess Elora Danan, a child prophesied to bring about her downfall. When the royal infant is found by Willow, a timid farmer and aspiring sorcerer, he's entrusted with…
4
Suicide Squad (2016)
★ 5.9/10Also action and adventure
From DC Comics comes the Suicide Squad, an antihero team of incarcerated supervillains who act as deniable assets for the United States government, undertaking high-risk black ops missions in exchange for commuted…
5
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022)
★ 7.2/10Also action and adventure
Doctor Strange, with the help of mystical allies both old and new, traverses the mind-bending and dangerous alternate realities of the Multiverse to confront a mysterious new adversary.
6
Bilal: A New Breed of Hero (2016)
★ 6.8/10Also action and adventure
A thousand years ago, one boy with a dream of becoming a great warrior is abducted with his sister and taken to a land far away from home. Thrown into a world where greed and injustice rule all, Bilal finds the courage…
7
Dragonheart: Vengeance (2021)
★ 6.8/10Also action and adventure
Lukas, a young farmer whose family is killed by savage raiders in the countryside, sets out on an epic quest for revenge, forming an unlikely trio with a majestic dragon and a swashbuckling, sword-fighting mercenary…
8
The Portable Door (2023)
★ 6.5/10Also adventure and comedy
Paul and Sophie, interns at a mysterious London firm, become steadily aware their employers Humphrey and Dennis are anything but conventional – they are disrupting the world of magic by bringing modern corporate…
9
The Legend of Tarzan (2016)
★ 5.9/10Also action and adventure
Tarzan, having acclimated to life in London, is called back to his former home in the jungle to investigate the activities at a mining encampment.
10
Ladyhawke (1985)
★ 7/10Also adventure and comedy
Captain Etienne Navarre is a man on whose shoulders lies a cruel curse. Punished for loving each other, Navarre must become a wolf by night whilst his lover, Lady Isabeau, takes the form of a hawk by day. Together…
11
Spymate (2006)
★ 6.2/10Also adventure and comedy
Amelia, a young genius and daughter of a top secret agent, unknowingly invents a contraption that makes her the target of an evil scientist.
12
Alita: Battle Angel (2019)
★ 7.3/10Also action and adventure
When Alita awakens with no memory of who she is in a future world she does not recognize, she is taken in by Ido, a compassionate doctor who realizes that somewhere in this abandoned cyborg shell is the heart and soul…
13
Black Panther (2018)
★ 7.4/10Also action and adventure
King T'Challa returns home to the reclusive, technologically advanced African nation of Wakanda to serve as his country's new leader. However, T'Challa soon finds that he is challenged for the throne by factions within…
14
Push (2009)
★ 6.1/10Also action and adventure
After his father, an assassin, is brutally murdered, Nick Gant vows revenge on Division, the covert government agency that dabbles in psychic warfare and experimental drugs. Hiding in Hong Kong's underworld, Nick…
15
The School for Good and Evil (2022)
★ 7/10Also comedy and adventure
Best friends Sophie and Agatha navigate an enchanted school for young heroes and villains — and find themselves on opposing sides of the battle between good and evil.
16
Love and Monsters (2020)
★ 7.3/10Also adventure and comedy
Seven years since the Monsterpocalypse began, Joel Dawson has been living underground in order to survive. But after reconnecting over radio with his high school girlfriend Aimee, Joel decides to venture out to reunite…
17
Cherry 2000 (1987)
★ 6/10Also action and adventure
When successful businessman Sam Treadwell finds that his android wife, Cherry model 2000 has blown a fuse, he hires sexy renegade tracker E. Johnson to find her exact duplicate. But as their journey to replace his…
18
Hulk vs. Wolverine (2009)
★ 7.1/10Also action and adventure
Department H sends in Wolverine to track down a mysterious beast known by the US Military as the Hulk, who is rampaging across the Canadian wilderness. Surveying the extent of the damage to a destroyed town, Wolverine…
19
Wonder Woman 1984 (2020)
★ 6.3/10Also action and adventure
A botched store robbery places Wonder Woman in a global battle against a powerful and mysterious ancient force that puts her powers in jeopardy.
20
Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls (1995)
★ 6.3/10Also comedy and adventure
Summoned from an ashram in Tibet, Ace finds himself on a perilous journey into the jungles of Africa to find Shikaka, the missing sacred animal of the friendly Wachati tribe. He must accomplish this before the wedding…