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10 Best Movies Like The Karate Kid

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

#1
The Karate Kid Part II

The Karate Kid Part II

1986★ 6.3

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

Summoned by his dying father, Miyagi returns to his homeland of Okinawa, with Daniel, after a 40-year exile. There he must confront Yukie, the love of his youth, and Sato, his form...

#2
The Next Karate Kid

The Next Karate Kid

1994★ 5.4

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

Mr. Miyagi decides to take Julie, a troubled teenager, under his wing after he learns that she blames herself for her parents' demise and struggles to adjust with her grandmother a...

#3
The Karate Kid Part III

The Karate Kid Part III

1989★ 5.9

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

Despondent over the closing of his karate school, Cobra Kai teacher John Kreese joins a ruthless businessman and martial artist to get revenge on Daniel and Mr. Miyagi....

#4
The Karate Kid

The Karate Kid

2010★ 6.6

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

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 ...

#5
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs

2009★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Karate Kid for fans of Family. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Inventor Flint Lockwood creates a machine that makes clouds rain food, enabling the down-and-out citizens of Chewandswallow to feed themselves. But when the falling food reaches ga...

#6
Lions for Lambs

Lions for Lambs

2007★ 6.0

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

Three stories told simultaneously in ninety minutes of real time: a Republican Senator who's a presidential hopeful gives an hour-long interview to a skeptical television reporter,...