15 Movies Like Protégé

Loved Protégé? 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.

Game of Death
#1

Game of Death

A martial arts movie star must fake his death to find the people who are trying to kill him.

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Protégé.

Hunting Season
#2

Hunting Season

When a reclusive survivalist and his daughter rescue a mysterious, wounded woman from a river, they become entangled in a deadly web of violence and revenge, forcing them to confront a brutal criminal to survive.

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

Erotic Ghost Story III
#3

Erotic Ghost Story III

A wanderer meets a monk with magical powers and becomes entranced by a mural of exquisite dancing women. He enters the painting, unaware of the conspiracy behind it, and must rescue the women who are trapped within.

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Protégé.

Robotrix
#4

Robotrix

When evil inventor Ryuichi Yamamoto transfers his mind into that of a powerful cyborg, he becomes a murderer and rapist. But when one of his victims, Police officer Selina Lam becomes super robot Eve-R27, she teams up with android sidekick Ann and together they seek to bring the criminally insane scientist to justice.

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Protégé.

Crazy Love
#5

Crazy Love

What was supposed to be summer school in England becomes an adventurous, exotic and romantic journey for a beautiful teenage girl. [from the Tai Seng Catalog] A nice story of a free-spirited (or, depending on your viewpoint, prick-teasing) young woman on a short journey of discovery.

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Protégé.

In the Mood for Love
#6

In the Mood for Love

In 1960s Hong Kong, two neighbors form an intimate bond after making a discovery about their spouses in this visually stunning tale of unrequited love.

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Protégé.

Erotic Ghost Story
#7

Erotic Ghost Story

After one thousand years, three vixens transform into humans. They seduce a poor young scholar who soon finds himself in a horrifying situation.

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Protégé.

Chungking Express
#8

Chungking Express

Two melancholic Hong Kong policemen fall in love: one with a mysterious underworld figure, the other with a beautiful and ethereal server at a late-night restaurant.

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Protégé.

Yu Pui Tsuen II
#9

Yu Pui Tsuen II

Before Michael Mak’s Sex And Zen became a cult favourite in the ’90s, there was Ho Fan’s Yu Pui Tsuen (The Carnal Prayer Mat, 1987). But without sex bomb Amy Yip, coarse humour or lesbian love affairs, Yu Pui Tsuen had to rely on the nudity and sex from his cast of relative unknowns to save the day. When a young man dreams that he drowns after a night of carnal passion, he asks a buddhist monk to translate the experience for him. The monk replies that the dream is a warning not to indulge the pleasures of the flesh to excess, but the man ignores his advice, marrying a virgin and making love to her constantly. However, after several torrid affairs, the man begins to realise the sagacity of the monk's warning.

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Protégé.

Moonlight Express
#10

Moonlight Express

Hitomi still mourns her fiance who died in a car crash. One day, during a visit to Hong Kong, she bumps into Karbo who looks uncannily like him. Karbo, however, is a fugitive from the police.

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Protégé.

A Chinese Odyssey Part One: Pandora's Box
#11

A Chinese Odyssey Part One: Pandora's Box

When the Goddess of Happiness tosses the Longevity Monk and his disciples out of heaven (because the Monkey King tried to attain immortality), the Monkey King is reincarnated as the Joker. He now spends his time chasing two jealous women. When one of them is dying, the Joker goes back in time in an attempt to save her.

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Protégé.

Lover of the Last Empress
#12

Lover of the Last Empress

The story of an innocent girl who is destined to become one of the emperor´s concubines. Initially she suffers from a loss of innocence and the intrigues of the other concubines but over the course of time she becomes less and less scrupulous and finally is impregnated by the emperor and thus becomes his wife - the empress of China. However, her "career" has corrupted her once innocent soul and so, after the emperor dies she rules the land with terror.

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Protégé.

God of Gamblers
#13

God of Gamblers

Ko Chun, a renowned gambler, loses his memory in an accident and starts behaving like a child. Little Knife, an amateur gambler, offers him shelter and realizes that he has a penchant for gambling.

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Protégé.

Infernal Affairs
#14

Infernal Affairs

Chan Wing Yan, a young police officer, has been sent undercover as a mole in the local mafia. Lau Kin Ming, a young mafia member, infiltrates the police force. Years later, their older counterparts, Chen Wing Yan and Inspector Lau Kin Ming, respectively, race against time to expose the mole within their midst.

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Protégé.

Due West: Our Sex Journey
#15

Due West: Our Sex Journey

Set in contemporary Hong Kong, several young people are searching for romance and struggling to learn the difference between lust and love in an adventure that takes them to the mainland where pleasure is much more readily available.

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Protégé.