50 Movies Like Shanghai Noon (2000) You Need to Watch Next
Chon Wang, a clumsy imperial guard, trails Princess Pei Pei when she's kidnapped from the Forbidden City and transported to America. Wang follows her captors to Nevada, where he teams up with an unlik
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If you loved Shanghai Noon (2000) by Tom Dey, here are 50 movies that share its content DNA. iRankMovies measures real similarity using cosine similarity across eight weighted dimensions — genre (50%), tone (12%), pace (10%), structure (8%), era (7%), theme (6%), audience (4%) and narrative perspective (3%) — not just the rating. The closest matches according to our analysis are Shanghai Knights, The Good, the Bad, the Weird, Project A. Every title is ranked by how closely it matches and backed by the iRank Score, a composite of IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDb across 12,000+ analysed titles.
50 Movies Similar to Shanghai Noon
Shanghai Knights
2003 · David Dobkin
When a Chinese rebel murders Chon's estranged father and escapes to England, Chon and Roy make their way to London with revenge on their minds.
In common: Action · Adventure · Comedy
The Good, the Bad, the Weird
2008 · Kim Jee-woon
The story of three Korean outlaws in 1930s Manchuria and their dealings with the Japanese army and Chinese and Russian bandits. The Good (a bounty hunter), the Bad (a hitman), and the Weird (a thief)
In common: Action · Adventure · Comedy
Project A
1983 · Jackie Chan
In late 19th century Hong Kong, the British may rule the land, but the pirates rule the waters. Coast Guard officer Dragon Ma is determined that his beloved Coast Guard will not be made a fool of.
In common: Action · Adventure · Comedy
Maverick
1994 · Richard Donner
Bret Maverick is a gambler who would rather con someone than fight them, and needs an additional $3k in order to enter a winner-takes-all poker game beginning in a few days. He joins forces with a wom
In common: Action · Adventure · Comedy
Wild Wild West
1999 · Barry Sonnenfeld
Legless Southern inventor Dr. Arliss Loveless plans to rekindle the Civil War by assassinating President Ulysses S. Grant. Only two men can stop him: gunfighter James West and master-of-disguise and i
In common: Action · Adventure · Comedy
They Call Me Trinity
1970 · Enzo Barboni
The simple story has the pair coming to the rescue of peace-loving Mormons when land-hungry Major Harriman sends his bullies to harass them into giving up their fertile valley. Trinity and Bambino man
In common: Action · Comedy · Western
Kung Fu Panda 3
2016 · Jennifer Yuh Nelson
While Po and his father are visiting a secret panda village, an evil spirit threatens all of China, forcing Po to form a ragtag army to fight back.
In common: Action · Adventure
Charlie's Angels
2000 · McG
The captivating crime-fighting trio who are masters of disguise, espionage and martial arts are back! When a devious mastermind embroils them in a plot to destroy individual privacy, the Angels, aided
In common: Action · Adventure · Comedy
Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle
2003 · McG
The Angels are charged with finding a pair of missing rings that are encoded with the personal information of members of the Witness Protection Program. As informants are killed, the ladies target a r
In common: Action · Adventure · Comedy
Big Trouble in Little China
1986 · John Carpenter
Truck driver Jack Burton gets embroiled in a supernatural battle when his best friend Wang Chi's green-eyed fiancée is kidnapped by henchmen of the sorcerer Lo Pan, who must marry a girl with green ey
In common: Action · Adventure · Comedy
Kung Pow: Enter the Fist
2002 · Steve Oedekerk
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 togethe
In common: Action · Comedy
Drunken Master
1978 · Yuen Woo-Ping
After getting into trouble, a mischievous young man is sent to train under a brutal, but slovenly old beggar, who teaches him the secret of the Drunken Fist.
In common: Action · Comedy
The Magnificent Seven
2016 · Antoine Fuqua
Looking to mine for gold, greedy industrialist Bartholomew Bogue seizes control of the Old West town of Rose Creek. With their lives in jeopardy, Emma Cullen and other desperate residents turn to boun
In common: Action · Adventure · Western
The Magnificent Seven
1960 · John Sturges
An oppressed Mexican peasant village hires seven gunfighters to help defend their homes.
In common: Action · Adventure · Western
The Legend of Drunken Master
1994 · Lau Kar-Leung
Returning home with his father after a shopping expedition, Wong Fei-Hong is unwittingly caught up in the battle between foreigners who wish to export ancient Chinese artifacts and loyalists who don't
In common: Action · Comedy
The Lone Ranger
2013 · Gore Verbinski
The Texas Rangers chase down a gang of outlaws led by Butch Cavendish, but the gang ambushes the Rangers, seemingly killing them all. One survivor is found, however, by an American Indian named Tonto,
In common: Action · Adventure · Western
The Dukes of Hazzard
2005 · Jay Chandrasekhar
Cousins, Bo and Luke Duke, with the help of their eye-catching cousin, Daisy and moonshine-running Uncle Jesse, try and save the family farm from being destroyed by Hazzard County's corrupt commission
In common: Action · Adventure · Comedy
Around the World in 80 Days
2004 · Frank Coraci
A bet pits a British inventor, a Chinese thief and a French artist on a worldwide adventure that they can circle the globe in 80 days.
In common: Action · Adventure · Comedy
Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw
2019 · David Leitch
Ever since US Diplomatic Security Service Agent Hobbs and lawless outcast Shaw first faced off, they just have traded smack talk and body blows. But when cyber-genetically enhanced anarchist Brixton's
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Sonic the Hedgehog 2
2022 · Jeff Fowler
After settling in Green Hills, Sonic is eager to prove he has what it takes to be a true hero. His test comes when Dr. Robotnik returns, this time with a new partner, Knuckles, in search for an emeral
In common: Action · Adventure · Comedy
Speed Racer
2008 · Lana Wachowski
Speed Racer is a young and brilliant racing driver. When corruption in the racing leagues costs his brother his life, Speed must team up with the police and the mysterious Racer X to bring an end to t
In common: Action · Adventure · Comedy
The Lost City
2022 · Aaron Nee
Reclusive author Loretta Sage writes about exotic places in her popular adventure novels that feature a handsome cover model named Alan. While on tour promoting her new book with Alan, Loretta gets ki
In common: Action · Adventure · Comedy
Charlie's Angels
2019 · Elizabeth Banks
Elena Houghlin is a scientist, engineer and inventor of Calisto -- a sustainable energy source that will revolutionize the way people use power. It will be ready as soon as she works out the last issu
In common: Action · Adventure · Comedy
Armour of God
1986 · Jackie Chan
Jackie Chan stars as Asian Hawk, an Indiana Jones-style adventurer looking to make a fortune in exotic antiquities. After Hawk discovers a mysterious sword in Africa, a band of Satan-worshipping monks
In common: Action · Adventure · Comedy
The Three Musketeers
1993 · Stephen Herek
D'Artagnan travels to Paris hoping to become a musketeer, one of the French king's elite bodyguards, only to discover that the corps has been disbanded by conniving Cardinal Richelieu, who secretly ho
In common: Action · Adventure · Comedy
Cats & Dogs
2001 · Lawrence Guterman
When a professor develops a vaccine that eliminates human allergies to dogs, he unwittingly upsets the fragile balance of power between cats and dogs and touches off an epic battle for pet supremacy.
In common: Action · Adventure · Comedy
Kung Fu Panda 4
2024 · Mike Mitchell
Po is gearing up to become the spiritual leader of his Valley of Peace, but also needs someone to take his place as Dragon Warrior. As such, he will train a new kung fu practitioner for the spot and w
In common: Action · Adventure
Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre
2023 · Guy Ritchie
Special agent Orson Fortune and his team of operatives recruit one of Hollywood's biggest movie stars to help them on an undercover mission when the sale of a deadly new weapons technology threatens t
In common: Action · Adventure · Comedy
The Lego Ninjago Movie
2017 · Charlie Bean
Six young ninjas are tasked with defending their island home of Ninjago. By night, they’re gifted warriors using their skill and awesome fleet of vehicles to fight villains and monsters. By day, they’
In common: Action · Adventure
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
2014 · Jonathan Liebesman
When a kingpin threatens New York City, a group of mutated turtle warriors must emerge from the shadows to protect their home.
In common: Action · Adventure · Comedy
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
1990 · Steve Barron
A quartet of humanoid turtles, trained by their mentor in ninjitsu, must learn to work together to face the menace of Shredder and the Foot Clan.
In common: Action · Adventure · Comedy
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze
1991 · Michael Pressman
The Turtles and the Shredder battle once again, this time for the last cannister of the ooze that created the Turtles, which Shredder wants to create an army of new mutants. Meanwhile Splinter is comi
In common: Action · Adventure · Comedy
Wyatt Earp
1994 · Lawrence Kasdan
From Wichita to Dodge City, to the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Wyatt Earp is taught that nothing matters more than family and the law. Joined by his brothers and Doc Holliday, Earp wages war on the drea
In common: Action · Adventure
Shaolin Soccer
2001 · Stephen Chow
A young Shaolin follower reunites with his discouraged brothers to form a soccer team using their martial art skills to their advantage.
In common: Action · Comedy
Kung Fu Panda
2008 · Mark Osborne
Chosen by prophecy but doubted by all, Po is an unlikely choice for the mystical title of the Dragon Warrior—a clumsy panda thrust into the world of kung fu as a deadly enemy threatens the Valley of P
In common: Action · Comedy
Kung Fu Panda 2
2011 · Jennifer Yuh Nelson
Po is finally living the dream as the Dragon Warrior—until a shadow from his past comes roaring back. When the ruthless peacock Lord Shen unleashes a devastating new weapon used to wipe out kung fu ma
In common: Action · Comedy
Rush Hour
1998 · Brett Ratner
When Hong Kong Inspector Lee is summoned to Los Angeles to investigate a kidnapping, the FBI doesn't want any outside help and assigns cocky LAPD Detective James Carter to distract Lee from the case.
In common: Action · Comedy
Rush Hour 2
2001 · Brett Ratner
It's vacation time for Carter as he finds himself alongside Lee in Hong Kong wishing for more excitement. While Carter wants to party and meet the ladies, Lee is out to track down a Triad gang lord wh
In common: Action · Comedy
Rush Hour 3
2007 · Brett Ratner
After a botched assassination attempt, the mismatched duo finds themselves in Paris, struggling to retrieve a precious list of names, as the murderous crime syndicate's henchmen try their best to stop
In common: Action · Comedy
Police Story 4: First Strike
1996 · Stanley Tong Gwai-Lai
Hong Kong cop Chan Ka-Kui returns, working with Interpol to track down and arrest an illegal weapons dealer. Chan later realizes that things are not as simple as they appear and soon finds himself to
In common: Action · Adventure · Comedy
Street Fighter
1994 · Steven E. de Souza
Colonel Guile and various other martial arts heroes fight against the tyranny of dictator M. Bison and his cohorts.
In common: Action · Comedy
Die Hart
2023 · Eric Appel
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 i
In common: Action · Comedy
Rango
2011 · Gore Verbinski
When Rango, a lost family pet, accidentally winds up in the gritty, gun-slinging Western town of Dirt, the theater-loving lizard suddenly finds himself the newly appointed sheriff. Welcomed as the las
In common: Adventure · Comedy
Big Hero 6
2014 · Chris Williams
A special bond develops between plus-sized inflatable robot Baymax, and prodigy Hiro Hamada, who team up with a group of friends to form a band of high-tech heroes.
In common: Action · Adventure
The Family Plan
2023 · Simon Cellan Jones
Dan Morgan is many things: a devoted husband, a loving father, a celebrated car salesman. He's also a former assassin. And when his past catches up to his present, he's forced to take his unsuspecting
In common: Action · Adventure · Comedy
The Karate Kid
2010 · Harald Zwart
12-year-old Dre Parker could've been the most popular kid in Detroit, but his mother's latest career move has landed him in China. Dre immediately falls for his classmate Mei Ying but the cultural dif
In common: Action · Adventure
Hero
2002 · Zhang Yimou
During China's Warring States period, a district prefect arrives at the palace of Qin Shi Huang, claiming to have killed the three assassins who had made an attempt on the king's life three years ago.
In common: Action · Adventure
Karate Kid: Legends
2025 · Jonathan Entwistle
After a family tragedy, kung fu prodigy Li Fong is uprooted from his home in Beijing and forced to move to New York City with his mother. When a new friend needs his help, Li enters a karate competiti
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Rurouni Kenshin: The Final
2021 · Keishi Otomo
In 1879, Kenshin and his allies face their strongest enemy yet: his former brother-in-law Enishi Yukishiro and his minions, who've vowed their revenge.
In common: Action · Adventure
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
2015 · Guy Ritchie
At the height of the Cold War, a mysterious criminal organization plans to use nuclear weapons and technology to upset the fragile balance of power between the United States and Soviet Union. CIA agen
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