15 Movies Like Sword of the Assassin

Loved Sword of the Assassin? Based on its unique Cinema DNA—including its pacing, themes, and emotional tone—we've curated the ultimate list of what you should watch next.

The Punisher: One Last Kill
#1

The Punisher: One Last Kill

As Frank Castle searches for meaning beyond revenge, an unexpected force pulls him back into the fight.

💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Sword of the Assassin.

Polar
#2

Polar

When a retiring assassin realizes that he is the target of a hit, he winds up back in the game going head to head with a gang of younger, ruthless killers.

💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Sword of the Assassin.

Mexicali
#3

Mexicali

A former special forces contractor is forced out of retirement as an avocado farmer in Mexico when local gangsters try to force him and his family off their farm.

💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Sword of the Assassin.

Out for Justice
#4

Out for Justice

Gino Felino is an NYPD detective from Brooklyn who knows everyone and everything in his neighborhood. Killing his partner was someone's big mistake... because he's now out for justice.

💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Sword of the Assassin.

Falcon Rising
#5

Falcon Rising

Chapman is an ex-marine in Brazil's slums, battling the yakuza outfit who attacked his sister and left her for dead.

💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Sword of the Assassin.

Flesh + Blood
#6

Flesh + Blood

A band of medieval mercenaries take revenge on a noble Lord who cheated them by kidnapping his son's fiancée. As the plague and warfare cut a swathe of destruction throughout the land, the mercenaries hole up in a castle and await their fate.

💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Sword of the Assassin.

Blind Fury
#7

Blind Fury

A blind Vietnam vet, trained as a swordfighter, comes to America and helps to rescue the son of a fellow soldier.

💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Sword of the Assassin.

El padrino: The Latin Godfather
#8

El padrino: The Latin Godfather

In the streets of East Los Angeles, Manny is a formidable drug dealer. Impressed by his extravagant lifestyle and prowess, his young son, Kilo, yearns to follow in his footsteps. Kilo resolves to learn how to prosper in the drug world, and his new life as a dealer begins. In a world where a man wants everything, he may end up with nothing.

💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Sword of the Assassin.

Sister Sister
#9

Sister Sister

This is a psychological film exploring the love story revolving around two beautiful women - Thien Kim and Bao Nhi. Face to face in a game where only one person wins, when the happiness of a small home is about to be swept away by a storm, who will fiercely fight for what they want and who will resign to keep peaceful?

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Sword of the Assassin.

The Scent of Green Papaya
#10

The Scent of Green Papaya

1950s Saigon through the eyes of Mui, a Vietnamese servant girl. At 10 years-old, Mui leaves her village to work for an affluent, troubled family. As she comes of age, Mui finds work in the household of a pianist she has admired since childhood, and finds their relationship growing in complexity.

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Sword of the Assassin.

Kill the Irishman
#11

Kill the Irishman

Over the summer of 1976, thirty-six bombs detonate in the heart of Cleveland while a turf war raged between Irish mobster Danny Greene and the Italian mafia. Based on a true story, Kill the Irishman chronicles Greene's heroic rise from a tough Cleveland neighborhood to become an enforcer in the local mob.

💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Sword of the Assassin.

Three Seasons
#12

Three Seasons

The residents of Ho Chi Minh City face modernization amid widespread poverty. A retired American Marine arrives on a search for his daughter, whom he abandoned at the end of the Vietnam War. Elsewhere, a cyclo driver falls for a troubled prostitute and schemes to raise money so he can spend time with her. Additionally, a young women begins harvesting lotuses for a writer suffering from leprosy, and a child trinket seller loses his traveling case.

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Sword of the Assassin.

Revenge of the Ninja
#13

Revenge of the Ninja

A peaceful ex-ninja's life shatters when his son's kidnapping forces him back into violence amid an American-Japanese criminal drug war.

💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Sword of the Assassin.

Cyclo
#14

Cyclo

Follows a young cyclo driver on his poverty-driven descent into criminality in modern-day Ho Chi Minh City. The boy's struggles to scratch out a living for his two sisters and grandfather in the mean streets of the city lead to petty crime on behalf of a mysterious Madame from whom he rents his cyclo.

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Sword of the Assassin.

Convict
#15

Convict

Set in the dark and old Parramatta prison built by the original convicts our lead character Ray a war veteran finds himself serving 18 months for manslaughter after defending his fiance. He soon realizes that the prison boss has it in for him and does everything possible to break Ray even going after his fiance.

💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Sword of the Assassin.