Movies Like The 72 Desperate Rebels

If you liked The 72 Desperate Rebels (1978), a action and adventure movie directed by Lin Bing, 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
No Retreat, No Surrender 2: Raging Thunder (1987)
★ 6/10Also action and adventure
In this sequel, Scott Wylde, an American kickboxer, must go to Cambodia to rescue his Vietnamese girlfriend from Russian and Vietnamese troops.
2
The Paper Tigers (2020)
★ 6.7/10Also action
Three middle aged men polish their martial arts skills to avenge their fallen master.
3
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Sword of Destiny (2016)
★ 6.2/10Also action and adventure
A story of lost love, young love, a legendary sword and one last opportunity at redemption.
4
Last Knights (2015)
★ 6.4/10Also action and adventure
When an evil emperor executes their leader, his band of knights – bound by duty and honour – embarks on a journey of vengeance that will not come to an end until they've destroyed their mortal foe.
5
The Challenge (1982)
★ 5.9/10Also action
Rick, a down-and-out American boxer, is hired to transport a sword to Japan, unaware that the whole thing is a set up in a bitter blood-feud between two brothers, one who follows the traditional path of the samurai and…
6
Street Fighter: Assassin's Fist The Movie (2014)
★ 7.2/10Also adventure and action
If one man changes his path, will he be able to change his destiny...or will he only delay the inevitable? Ryu and Ken are two traditional warriors who find themselves isolated in some corner of Japan to carry out…
7
Scaramouche (1952)
★ 7/10Also adventure
In 18th-century France, a young man masquerades as an actor to avenge his friend's murder.
8
In the Blood (2014)
★ 5.8/10Also action
When her husband goes missing during their Caribbean vacation, a woman sets off on her own to take down the men she thinks are responsible.
9
The Marine 3: Homefront (2013)
★ 6.1/10Also action
A Marine must do whatever it takes to save his kidnapped sister and stop a terrorist attack masterminded by a radical militia group.
10
Falcon Rising (2014)
★ 6.3/10Also adventure and action
Chapman is an ex-marine in Brazil's slums, battling the yakuza outfit who attacked his sister and left her for dead.
11
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…
12
Shootfighter: Fight to the Death (1993)
★ 6.6/10Also action
Nick and Ruben are hoodwinked into a "shootfighter" (no-holds-barred, to the death) martial arts match by the evil Mr. Lee, who has a grudge against world shootfighter champ(and teacher of Nick and Ruben) Shingo.
13
Street Fighter Alpha: Generations (2005)
★ 6.7/10Also action
When Ryu returns to pay homage to his deceased mentor, Gouken, he is tormented by disturbing memories of his master's killer (Gouki). In a quest to become a true martial arts master, he sets out to hone his street…
14
Birth of the Dragon (2017)
★ 5.8/10Also action
Set against the backdrop of San Francisco’s Chinatown, this cross-cultural biopic chronicles Bruce Lee’s emergence as a martial-arts superstar after his legendary secret showdown with fellow martial artist Wong Jack Man.
15
Interceptor (2022)
★ 6/10Also action and adventure
A U.S. Army Captain uses her years of tactical training to save humanity from sixteen nuclear missiles launched at the U.S. as a violent attack threatens her remote missile interceptor station.
16
Female Fight Squad (2017)
★ 6.1/10Also action
A former fighter reluctantly returns to the life she abandoned in order to help her sister survive the sadistic world of illegal fighting and the maniac who runs it.
17
American Ninja (1985)
★ 6/10Also action and adventure
Joe Armstrong, an orphaned drifter with little respect for much other than martial arts, finds himself on an American Army base in the Philippines after a judge gives him a choice of enlistment or prison. On one of his…
18
Wendy Wu: Homecoming Warrior (2006)
★ 6.2/10Also action and adventure
It is the story of an average, popular American teenager named Wendy Wu who discovers that in order to win the coveted crown she must first learn the way of the warrior. Wendy Wu has a one track mind, and that track…
19
Mortal Kombat (2021)
★ 7/10Also action and adventure
Washed-up MMA fighter Cole Young, unaware of his heritage, and hunted by Emperor Shang Tsung's best warrior, Sub-Zero, seeks out and trains with Earth's greatest champions as he prepares to stand against the enemies of…
20
Blade (1998)
★ 6.9/10Also action
The Daywalker known as "Blade" - a half-vampire, half-mortal man - becomes the protector of humanity against an underground army of vampires.