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Street Warrior (2008)
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Street Warrior (2008)
Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: An Iraqi war vet returns home to find that his brother is in a coma from participating in an illegal underground fight club.
Style: serious, exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, rough, realistic, suspenseful
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, vengeance, gladiator, vigilantism, rivalry, contests and competitions, deathtrap, tough heroes, underground fighting, cage fighting, underground tournament, danger, war veteran, homecoming, fight, competition, brutality, bare chested male, one man army, violence, master warrior, martial arts tournament, martial arts training, cell, martial artist ...
Time: contemporary
Place: usa, california

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, rough and suspenseful films with plots about martial arts, rivalry, heroes, tough heroes, master warrior, fight and contests and competitions mostly in Action, Drama and Sport genres. Some movies like Street Warrior: When the Cobra Strikes (2012), Pit Fighter (2005), Shootfighter II (1996), Underground (2007), The Circuit 2: The Final Punch (2002). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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When the Cobra Strikes (2012)
Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: One man travels across country, smuggling illegal black diamonds to sell in order to pay for his father's pardon in South Africa. When he arrives to the United States to finalize what appeared to be a simple transaction he is soon ...
Style: exciting, serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, danger, rivalry, dishonesty, betrayal, tough heroes, smuggling, yakuza, violent content, obsessive quest, master warrior, vengeance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 4.3
 1K
Pit Fighter (2005)
Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Jack Severino has no memory, all he knows is the brutal sport of Pit Fighting. When his past catches him up, he realizes he is not who he thought he was. For some men must fight for redemption.
Style: serious, realistic, rough, tense
Audience: boys' night
Plot: kickboxer, haunted by the past, vengeance, rivalry, memory loss, martial arts, murder, wrestler, boxing, heroes, dog fighting, tough heroes ...
Place: latin america, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Shootfighter II (1996)
Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: In this martial-arts actioner, Miami mobsters find themselves in mortal danger after an angry police chief hires the world's most vicious fighters and uses them to launch a city-wide vendetta
Style: independent film, serious, realistic, exciting, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, heroes, female fight, boxer, working undercover, ambition, danger, contests and competitions, law enforcement, master warrior, rivalry, vengeance ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: miami, florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 4.2
 590
Underground (2007)
Genre: Action
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story: In the UK suburbs, an underground tournament is set to challenge twelve fighters from different backgrounds to compete for the price of £500,000. They have been handpicked for a no-holds barred competition that will push each fighter to their ...
Style: rough, serious, exciting, suspenseful, realistic
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, ambition, heroic mission, escapades, fighting crime, heroes, rivalry, danger, master warrior, underdog, ultimatum, battles ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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The Circuit 2: The Final Punch (2002)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sport
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Prisoners are dying at the Ogden Correctional Institution, a prison where a corrupt Warden has taken justice and business into his own hands. In the bowels of this prison, an underground fighting society has been formed. The Circuit is flourishing ...
Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful, rough
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, fight, prisoner, martial arts tournament, illegal fistfight, prison, criminal's revenge, capoeira, vengeance, heroes, vigilantism, life is a bitch ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
Forced to Fight (2011)
Genre: Action
Country: Canada
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Once a legend in the brutal world of illicit underground fighting, Shane Slavin (Daniels) decides to turn his life around, promising his wife and young son he's fought his last battle. But when his younger brother betrays a ruthless crime boss ...
Style: exciting, realistic, rough, suspense, tense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, mixed martial arts, martial arts tournament, master warrior, contests and competitions, parents and children, heroes, ambition, family relations, siblings relations, fight, kickboxing ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
 5.7
 7K
Damage (2009)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 102 min.
Story: An ex-con battles it out in the cage to pay for the operation that would save the daughter of his victim. Along the way he finds fatherly love, and friendship, in the most unlikely of places.
Style: exciting, captivating, psychological, tense, cult classic ...
Plot: martial arts, fight, danger, fall in love, rivalry, contests and competitions, ambition, underground tournament, wrestler, violence, love, friendship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, seattle
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
 3.2
 458
Urban Fighter (2012)
Genre: Action
Country: Germany
Duration: 102 min.
Story: The "Bloods" are the most intimidating and violent gang in the city. A lawless city... where gangs rule the streets... The vicious and blood thirsty murderer Slater is their leader. The city is his domain... he rules! There are those who ...
Style: exciting, captivating, tense, suspense, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, vengeance, rivalry, murder, good versus evil, master warrior, chaos, tough heroes, escapades, danger, fight, heroes ...
Time: 21st century
Place: germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
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Fists of Legend (2013)
Genre: Action
Country: South Korea
Duration: 154 min.
Story: On a television show billed as “the greatest fight show on Earth,” eager amateurs with lots to prove boldly step into the ring and expect to leave bloody but victorious. The ratings hungry producers seek out “legendary” but largely forgotten ...
Style: exciting, realistic, serious, suspenseful, captivating ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, contests and competitions, rivalry, cage fighting, ambition, danger, competition, fight, fight club, mixed martial arts, violent content, friend ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: south korea, korea, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
 3.3
 302
Twin Daggers (2006)
Genre: Action
Country: China
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A shady Los Angeles martial arts assassin is hired by a beautiful woman to avenge the death of her parents, who were killed by her evil twin sister. But when the hit man tracks down his target, he finds himself strangely attracted to her. Trapped ...
Style: exciting, captivating, tense, suspense, serious ...
Plot: hitman, martial arts, vengeance, moral dilemma, fall in love, danger, frame up, vigilantism, rivalry, undercover, secret agent, battles ...
Time: 1930s
Place: china, usa, asia, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
Never Surrender (2009)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: From the cage to the big screen, the world's greatest Mixed Martial Arts Champions come together for the first time in a major motion picture. When an MMA world champion is lured into the illegal world of underground cage fighting by an elusive ...
Style: serious, realistic, rough, exciting, suspenseful
Plot: underground fighting, martial arts, cage fighting, mixed martial arts, rivalry, athlete's life, contests and competitions, fight, danger, heroes, tough heroes, mentor ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
 2.9
 718
Death Warrior (2009)
Genre: Action, Drama, Horror
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A gritty MMA fighter is forced into a twisted, underground gambling ring in which he must fight to the death with other MMA fighters in order to save his wife from certain death at the hands of a maniacal crime boss. In a desperate race against ...
Style: exciting, serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating ...
Plot: martial arts, survival, rivalry, contests and competitions, danger, ambition, profanity, violence, mortal combat, fight, murder, mixed martial arts ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 3.3
 775
The Purifiers (2004)
Genre: Action
Country: UK
Duration: 85 min.
Story: The story of martial arts clubs who have created their own city infrastructure after tiring of government initiatives. Responding to the greed and corruption creeping into the other clubs, headed by capitalist-wannabe Moses, The Purifiers battle to ...
Style: exciting, captivating, suspense, tense, grindhouse ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, fighting crime, gang, vengeance, rivalry, tough heroes, vigilantism, society, gangster, danger, murder, heroes ...
Time: future
Place: england, scotland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 3.0
 1K
Street Racer (2008)
Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Johnny Wayne (Clint Browning) is an ex-racer who is serving time in prison after crippling a young boy during an illegal street race. Wayne, having been traumatized by the events, vows to never race again, and is soon released as a reformed citizen. ...
Style: exciting, captivating, mockbuster, tense, suspense ...
Plot: street racing, chases and races, contests and competitions, obsession, going straight, racing, rivalry, danger, auto racing, murder, carsploitation, chase ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, california, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
 3.5
 188
Fist 2 Fist (2011)
Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Still haunted by his failure to prevent the murder of a young couple years earlier, a mixed martial arts teacher must confront the skeleton in his closet when the boy who was orphaned by the killing shows up at his door.
Style: exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, rough
Audience: boys' night
Plot: master warrior, redemption, haunted by the past, moral dilemma, rivalry, ambition, martial arts, fight, tough guy, martial arts training, guilty conscience, tough heroes ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Maximum Cage Fighting (2006)
Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Jimmy Garren, a former Tae Kwon Do world champion, is now retired and a widowed father to ten-year-old Katie. So when he's challenged by a famous cage fighter-and former rival Nick "the Nasty" Harper-to a fight, he refuses...until ...
Style: realistic, serious, rough, suspense
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: martial arts, one man army, tough heroes, rivalry, ambition, save the day, righting the wronged, battles, athlete and trainer, daring rescue, vigilantism, escapades ...
Time: 21st century
Place: brazil
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
 4.6
 148
Without Mercy (1995)
Genre: Action
Country: Indonesia, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: He' s been betrayed by his country, stripped of his honor and exiled to a foreign land. Now maverick Marine officer Frank Zagarino has found a way to get back what was stolen from him. And he'll get it-no matter what it takes.
Style: exciting, realistic, serious, rough, suspenseful
Plot: martial arts, ex marine, torture, tough heroes, betrayal, vigilantism, hotshot hero, heroes, fall in love, dishonesty, law enforcement, innocence lost ...
Time: 90s
Place: asia, vietnam, africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Circle of Pain (2010)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Following a fighting accident, Dalton Hunt retired from the world of MMA at the top. Unable to outrun his guilt, he lost his family, his title, and his way. But when a crooked promoter lures him back into a fight against the current undefeated ...
Style: exciting, serious, captivating, suspense, tense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: mixed martial arts, martial arts, forced into action, contests and competitions, rivalry, athlete's life, athlete and trainer, ambition, fight, older woman younger man, older woman younger man relationship, friendship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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Shootfighter: Fight to the Death (1993)
Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Nick and Ruben are hoodwinked into a "shootfighter" (no-holds-barred, to the death) martial arts match by the evil Mr. Lee, who has a grudge against world shootfighter champ(and teacher of Nick and Ruben) Shingo.
Style: suspense, bloody, independent film, exciting, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, fight, competition, heroes, fight scenes, boxer, violent content, strong violent content, profanity, stash, battles, ambition ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
 4.8
 729
Cage (1989)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A GI in Vietnam saves his buddy's life, but in the process is shot in the head. The injury results in brain damage to the point where he basically has a child's brain in a (very large) man's body. When they get out of the army the two ...
Style: independent film, realistic, serious, exciting, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: vietnam war, martial arts, competition, fight, friendship, beefcake martial arts, beefcake, cage fighting, vietnam veteran, cell, gangster, confined ...
Time: year 1989, 20th century, 80s
Place: usa, vietnam
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Assassin's Game (2015)
Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Legendary hitman Vet Jones never expected to accept another mission. But when his son fails to assassinate an important target, and a powerful crime boss gives Jones an ultimatum - finish the job or his son dies - Jones has no choice but to accept. ...
Style: rough, serious, suspenseful, realistic
Audience: boys' night
Plot: sniper, hitman, parents and children, family relations, disorder, violent content, martial arts, master warrior, danger, heroes, tough heroes, on the run ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
 4.5
 1K
Beatdown (2010)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Brandon, a respected street fighter, is forced to flee the city after his brother is murdered and the money that was supposed to be paid back to a local gangster is stolen. While lying low at his father's house in a small Southern town, Brandon ...
Style: suspenseful, exciting, serious, realistic, rough
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, underground fighting, fight, family relations, contests and competitions, rivalry, tough heroes, power relations, athlete and trainer, street fight, mixed martial arts, competition ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
 4.7
 1K
Bloodfist (1989)
Genre: Action, Sport
Country: USA, Philippines
Duration: 85 min.
Story: To avenge the brutal murder of his brother, Jake Ray journeys to the Philippines, where his search for truth finds him battling both in and out of the ring. But the weapons are always the same: bare fists, bare feet. And the rules never change: last ...
Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful, captivating, cult classic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: master warrior, siblings relations, martial arts, righting the wronged, ambition, contests and competitions, against the odds, vengeance, rivalry, death of brother, love interest, combat ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: the philippines, manila philippines
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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Max Havoc - Ring of Fire (2006)
Genre: Action
Country: USA, Canada, Germany
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Max, having forsaken his life as a former world kick-boxing champion to redefine himself as a world class photographer, is on his way to photograph top tennis star and athlete Suzy Blaine. While on assignment, Max uncovers a crime ring and relies on ...
Style: exciting, serious, tense, suspense, independent film ...
Plot: martial arts, gangster, resort, gang, tough heroes, rivalry, kickboxing, criminal, showdown, fighting crime, heroes, violent content ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, washington d.c., seattle
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
 4.4
 573
Die Fighting (2014)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: When a team of Shaolin-trained kung fu actors is about to get their break in Hollywood, a mysterious and sadistic Director forces them to run a gauntlet through Los Angeles. The Director films their every move as they prove their prowess by ...
Style: exciting, captivating, tense, suspense, serious ...
Plot: martial arts, rivalry, battles, hollywood, shaolin monk, chase, danger, entrapment, monster, heroes, couple relations, master warrior ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
 4.8
 3K
Bloodsport 2 (1996)
Genre: Action, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: After thief Alex Cardo gets caught while stealing an ancient katana in East Asia, he soon finds himself imprisoned and beaten up by the crowd there. One of the guards, Demon, feels upset by Alex appearance and tortures him as often as he gets the ...
Style: suspense, intense, realistic, serious, independent film ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, prison brawl, master warrior, contests and competitions, rivalry, prison life, prison, mixed martial arts, tournament, heroes, martial arts tournament, prison violence ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Confessions of a Pit Fighter (2005)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: "From the day I was born I had to fight to survive. I fought everyone and everything that came in front of me. On the streets, confessions are made in Blood. They say that when you confess your sins, only then can you be redeemed. This is my ...
Style: suspenseful, realistic, rough, serious
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, prison, underground fighting, vigilantism, vengeance, starting over, rivalry, redemption, gangster, ambition, hopes, criminal heroes ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
 5.4
 1K
Tiger Claws (1992)
Genre: Action
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: The police does not know what to do. They have to deal with a serial killer who aims at martial arts masters. One after another is killed in the same brutal way. This may be a chance for detective Linda Masterson to work on her first murder case. ...
Style: exciting, serious, rough, independent film, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, serial killer, murder, woman with a gun, police detective, master warrior, police investigation, one woman army, tough heroes, law enforcement, master criminal, rivalry ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
 5.4
 795
The Scorpion (2007)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Featuring a mix of Thai Boxing and Ultimate Fighting, SCORPION has been dubbed The French Fight Club. It stars Jerome Le Banner, who is also known as Hyper Battle Cyborg and The Bulldog of Paris, a true kickboxer, famous for his aggressive style - ...
Style: captivating, exciting, tense, psychological, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, kickboxing, rivalry, redemption, underground fighting, imprisonment, contests and competitions, danger, fight, performer's life, hopes, athlete's life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
 4.9
 15K
Ong Bak 3 (2010)
Genre: Action
Country: Thailand
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Ong Bak 3 picks up where Ong Bak 2 had left off. Tien is captured and almost beaten to death before he is saved and brought back to the Kana Khone villagers. There he is taught meditation and how to deal with his Karma, but very soon his arch rival ...
Style: exciting, captivating, serious, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, fight, muay thai, kung fu, master warrior, mixed martial arts, one man army, heroes, martial artist, supernatural, medieval, vengeance ...
Time: year 2010, 15th century
Place: asia, thailand
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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