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10 Best Movies Like The Return of the Shaolin Chef

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

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#1
Lion

Lion

2014★ 5.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Return of the Shaolin Chef for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Adam is a broken man in the emotional transition as his family crumbles. Through the heartbreak and pain a chance meeting gives hope once more....

#2
Ultimate Driving Craft 3 - Eyes on main beam

Ultimate Driving Craft 3 - Eyes on main beam

★ 5.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Return of the Shaolin Chef for fans of . It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

Chris has vast experience in driver training both as an advanced driving instructor and driving examiner. This is the third in the Ultimate Driving Craft series of high quality adv...

#3
Dog Barbos and Unusual Cross

Dog Barbos and Unusual Cross

1961★ 7.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Return of the Shaolin Chef for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

This is the very first silent slapstick comedy short about adventures of Worldly, Coward, and Fool. What's more fun: fishing with worms, or dynamite? Three friends decided to have ...

#4
Lion

Lion

★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Return of the Shaolin Chef for fans of . It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

The film begins in Mumbai where a terror-sticking dead body from the hospital mortuary wakes up. Everybody reads him as Godse who is in a coma for 18 months, and a couple, Bhupati ...

#5
Hooligan

Hooligan

2012★ 6.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Return of the Shaolin Chef for fans of Documentary. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

Aiming to be an in-depth study of hooliganism (both in act and in what it is to be one), director Donal MacIntyre, a former undercover journalist who was once under assignment as a...

#6
Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Police Tactics

Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Police Tactics

1974★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Return of the Shaolin Chef for fans of Crime. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

As Japan gears up for the 1964 Olympic games, the cops start to crack down on the gangs, under pressure from the public and the press, adding a new dimension in the war for power a...