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10 Best Movies Like Once Upon a Time in China V

If you loved Once Upon a Time in China V, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Once Upon a Time in China and America

Once Upon a Time in China and America

1997★ 5.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Once Upon a Time in China V for fans of Action. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

So goes to the U.S. to open a martial arts school. Around this time, many Chinese people were sold off to U.S. railroad companies, and were brutally treated by the Americans under ...

#2
Agitator

Agitator

2001★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Once Upon a Time in China V for fans of Action. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

When a young Yakuza torments the customers in a rival crime family's nightclub, it is not long before his dead body is found. Soon, inter-family retaliation follows, resulting in t...

#3
Shutter Island

Shutter Island

2010★ 8.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Once Upon a Time in China V for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

World War II soldier-turned-U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels investigates the disappearance of a patient from a hospital for the criminally insane, but his efforts are compromised by tro...

#4
The Year of Living Dangerously

The Year of Living Dangerously

1982★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Once Upon a Time in China V for fans of Romance. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A young Australian reporter tries to navigate the political turmoil of Indonesia during the rule of President Sukarno with the help of a diminutive photographer....

#5
The Lives of Others

The Lives of Others

2006★ 8.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Once Upon a Time in China V for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

In 1984 East Berlin, dedicated Stasi officer Gerd Wiesler begins spying on a famous playwright and his actress-lover Christa-Maria. Wiesler becomes unexpectedly sympathetic to the ...

#6
Purple Noon

Purple Noon

1960★ 7.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Once Upon a Time in China V for fans of Crime. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Tom Ripley is a talented mimic, moocher, forger and all-around criminal improviser; but there's more to Tom Ripley than even he can guess....