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Movies Like The True Game of Death

If you liked The True Game of Death (1978), a action movie directed by Chen Hsin-I, 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. 1Code of Silence

    Code of Silence (1985)

    ★ 6/10Also action

    A Chicago cop is caught in the middle of a gang war while his own comrades shun him because he wants to take an irresponsible cop down.

  2. 2Crippled Avengers

    Crippled Avengers (1978)

    ★ 6.8/10Also action

    A group of martial artists seek revenge after being crippled by Tu Tin-To, a martial arts master, and his son.

  3. 3Ninja: Shadow of a Tear

    Ninja: Shadow of a Tear (2013)

    ★ 6.8/10Also action

    Fight everyone and trust no one: it's the code of survival practiced by martial-arts master Casey Bowman after his life of domestic bliss is shattered by a savage act of violence. Vowing revenge, the fearless American…

  4. 4Foxy Brown

    Foxy Brown (1974)

    ★ 6.3/10Also action

    A voluptuous black woman takes a job as a high-class prostitute in order to get revenge on the mobsters who murdered her boyfriend.

  5. 5Return of the One-Armed Swordsman

    Return of the One-Armed Swordsman (1969)

    ★ 6.6/10Also action

    After the events of The One-Armed Swordsman (1967), a retired Fang Gang is drawn back into the jianghu to protect various young apprentices whose swordsmanship schools have been terrorized by 8 evil swordsmen seeking…

  6. 6Fist of Legend

    Fist of Legend (1994)

    ★ 7.5/10Also action

    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.

  7. 7Five Fingers of Death

    Five Fingers of Death (1972)

    ★ 6.7/10Also action

    A young boxer joins a martial arts school to increase his skill so he can enter a martial arts competition. He leaves the school when he hears that a local gangster is terrorizing the town. He comes to the aid of a…

  8. 8Hand of Death

    Hand of Death (1976)

    ★ 6.6/10Also action

    A young monk must face the Extended Iron Claw technique of a powerful warlord seeking to destroy Shaolin.

  9. 9Romeo Must Die

    Romeo Must Die (2000)

    ★ 6.3/10Also action

    Two warring gang families (one African-American, the other Chinese) maneuver for bragging rights to the Oakland, California docks. Han Sing and Trish O'Day uncover a trail of deceit that leaves most of the warring…

  10. 10The Last Kumite

    The Last Kumite (2024)

    ★ 6.7/10Also action

    When shady businessman Ron Hall kidnaps his daughter, retired karate champion Michael Rivers is forced to enter a deadly illegal Kumite tournament in Bulgaria. Enlisting the help of seasoned trainers Master Loren and…

  11. 11No Retreat, No Surrender 3: Blood Brothers

    No Retreat, No Surrender 3: Blood Brothers (1990)

    ★ 6.8/10Also action

    Two feuding brothers of differing political views, one a policeman, the other a martial artist, join forces to avenge the death of their father, a retired agent who was brutally murdered by the mafia.

  12. 12Never Back Down: Revolt

    Never Back Down: Revolt (2021)

    ★ 6.3/10Also action

    An amateur fighter is lured by a trafficking syndicate specializing in elite underground fighting where her brutal captor forces her to fight or face certain death.

  13. 13Blood Brothers

    Blood Brothers (1973)

    ★ 6.4/10Also action

    Set in the waning years of the Ching Dyansty, this dramatic, tragic, romantic, blood-soaked martial arts tale of betrayal and revenge explores one of the most sensational scandals in Chinese history and marked the true…

  14. 14Absolution

    Absolution (2024)

    ★ 5.9/10Also action

    An aging ex-boxer gangster working as muscle for a Boston crime boss receives an upsetting diagnosis. Despite a faltering memory, he attempts to rectify the sins of his past and reconnect with his estranged children…

  15. 15Die Hart

    Die Hart (2023)

    ★ 5.9/10Also action

    Kevin Hart - playing a version of himself - is on a death-defying quest to become an action star. And with a little help from John Travolta, Nathalie Emmanuel, and Josh Hartnett - he just might pull it off.

  16. 16Sword Master

    Sword Master (2016)

    ★ 6.4/10Also action

    Weary of the bloodshed and violence from the martial arts world, a powerful swordsman banishes himself to the humble life a vagrant, wandering the fringes of society. But his violent past refuses to let him go quietly…

  17. 17Heroes of the East

    Heroes of the East (1978)

    ★ 7.3/10Also action

    When a series of martial misunderstandings spirals into an international incident, a Chinese martial arts student struggling to relate to his new Japanese wife is forced to take on seven of Japan's most powerful…

  18. 18Half a Loaf of Kung Fu

    Half a Loaf of Kung Fu (1978)

    ★ 6.1/10Also action

    A young daydreamer assumes the identity of a dead martial arts hero and quickly finds himself caught up in a plot by several clans to steal famous martial arts artifacts being transported by an escort company.

  19. 19Ip Man: Kung Fu Master

    Ip Man: Kung Fu Master (2019)

    ★ 6.5/10Also action

    Ip Man’s promising career as a Policeman is ruined after he is framed for murder and targeted by a mob boss’s daughter.

  20. 20The Grandmaster

    The Grandmaster (2013)

    ★ 6.6/10Also action

    The fall of China's last dynasty, a time of chaos, division and war, is the golden age of Chinese martial arts. Legendary kung fu master Ip Man, who will eventually train Bruce Lee, finds his peaceful life interrupted…

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