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10 Best Movies Like The Ambitious

If you loved The Ambitious, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in Peril

Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in Peril

1972★ 7.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Ambitious for fans of Action & Adventure. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

Ogami Itto is hired to kill a tattooed female assassin and battles Retsudo, head of the Yagyu clan, and his son Gunbei....

#2
Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance

Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance

1972★ 7.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Ambitious for fans of Action & Adventure & Drama. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

Official Shogunate executioner Ogami Itto has been framed for disloyalty to the Shogunate by the Yagyu clan, against whom he now is waging a one-man war, along with his infant son,...

#3
Lone Wolf and Cub: White Heaven in Hell

Lone Wolf and Cub: White Heaven in Hell

1974★ 7.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Ambitious for fans of Action & Adventure & Drama. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

With most of his family already dead at Ogami Itto's hands, Retsudo launches one final plot to destroy him, and when that fails, unleashes the fury of every remaining member of the...

#4
Rurouni Kenshin: The Final

Rurouni Kenshin: The Final

2021★ 7.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Ambitious for fans of Action & Adventure & Drama. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

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....

#5
13 Assassins

13 Assassins

1963★ 7.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Ambitious for fans of Action & Adventure & Drama. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

A sadistic Daimyo (feudal lord) rapes a woman and murders both her and her husband, but even when one of his own vassals commits suicide to bring attention to the crime, the matter...

#6
Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in the Land of Demons

Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in the Land of Demons

1973★ 7.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Ambitious for fans of Action & Adventure. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

Ogami Itto is challenged by a quintet of warriors, each armed with one fifth of Ogami's assassin fee and one fifth of the information he needs to complete his assignment....

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