Movies like Ride On

“Ride On (2023) is a 2020s Chinese action-comedy-drama that stages stunt work as the locus of a dignity-versus-spectacle conflict. It frames an aging stuntman and his horse whose debt-driven altercation becomes public, and uses high-contrast chiaroscuro and kinetic long takes to keep stunt choreography legible. The film claims that mediated attention can revalue craft, turning humiliation into ambiguous recovery and prompting a culturally specific inquiry into face and performance.”