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Bloodsport III (1996)
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Bloodsport III (1996)
Genre: Action, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Bloodsport III brings us back to the world of Alex Cardo. This time he must battle in a fight to end all fights - The Kumite, the most vicious warrior alive - Beast. He must not only battle for his own honor, but also avenge the death of Sun, his mentor, teacher, and spiritual "father", when Sun is spitefully killed by crime boss Duvalier. In order to defeat Beast, destroy Duvalier, and avenge Sun's death, Alex turns to Leung to whom he was indebted in Bloodsport II. Leung directs him to the great shaman, Makato "the Judge", to whom Alex must turn for guidance. The judge teaches him to fully channel the energy in his mind and body in order to rout the Beast in the Kumite...
Style: suspenseful, semi serious, independent film, exciting
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, tournament, mixed martial arts, heroes, kickboxing, vengeance, rivalry, ambition, hand to hand combat, kung fu, violence, master warrior, martial artist, tai chi, underground tournament, boxer, boxing, fighter, battles, escapades, karate, tough guy, wu shu, blood, brawl ...
Time: 90s
Keyword: fighting movie

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, suspenseful and exciting films with plots about martial arts, violence, hand to hand combat, heroes, fistfight, mixed martial arts and fight mostly in Action, Sport and Drama genres. Some movies like Bloodsport III: Bloodsport 2 (1996), Ring of Fire (1991), Kickboxer (1989), Blood and Bone (2009), The Redemption: Kickboxer 5 (1995). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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
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100%
 4.6
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Ring of Fire (1991)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: The main character, Johnny Woo, is a Chinese doctor who has given up fighting in the ring. His brother is a teacher in a kick-boxing club. Johnny Woo fall in love with Julie, whose brother is a teacher in a rival kick-boxing club. Tension builds ...
Style: independent film, fast, exciting, realistic, serious ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: martial arts, streetfighting, street fighter, street gang, tough heroes, gang war, illegal fistfight, kickboxing, shakespeare, competition, fight, heroes ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: los angeles, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.4
 60K
Kickboxer (1989)
Genre: Action, Sport, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: If your enemy refuses to be humbled... Destroy him. Accompanied by his brother Kurt (Van Damme), American kickboxing champion Eric Sloane (Dennis Alexio), arrives in Thailand to defeat the Eastern warriors at their own sport. His opponent: ruthless ...
Style: cult classic, harsh, inspirational, realistic, serious ...
Audience: manly, teens, boys' night
Plot: martial arts, muay thai, martial arts tournament, heroes, violence, kickboxer, vengeance, kung fu, kickboxing, mentor, master warrior, tough guy ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: thailand, bangkok thailand, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.7
 36K
Blood and Bone (2009)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: In Los Angeles, an ex-con (White) takes the underground fighting world by storm in his quest to fulfill a promise to a dead friend.
Style: exciting, inspirational, brutal, harsh, rough ...
Audience: manly, boys' night
Plot: martial arts, streetfighting, prison fight, kickboxing, prison, hand to hand combat, kung fu, revenge, boxing, fight, gangster, boxer ...
Time: year 2009, 21st century
Place: los angeles, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Undisputed II: Last Man Standing (2006)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Sequel to the 2002 film. This time, Heavyweight Champ George "Iceman" Chambers (White) is sent to a Russian jail on trumped-up drug charges. In order to win his freedom he must fight against the jailhouse fighting champ Uri Boyka (Adkins) ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, realistic, exciting, rough ...
Audience: manly, boys' night
Plot: boxing, martial arts, prison, kickboxing, tournament, jail, contests and competitions, prison life, martial artist, tough heroes, heroes, convict ...
Time: 21st century
Place: russia, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Redemption: Kickboxer 5 (1995)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Kickboxing champion Matt Reeves witnesses the murder of his friend Johnny. While investigating the crime, he learns that a Mr. Negaal in South Africa has founded a new kickboxing association and does not leave international champions much of a ...
Style: independent film, serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, vigilante, tough heroes, kickboxing, vigilante justice, kickboxer, boxer, showdown, fight, terrorism, murder, rivalry ...
Time: 90s
Place: south africa, africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
American Kickboxer (1991)
Genre: Action, Sport
Country: USA, South Africa
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Kickboxing champion B.J. is jailed for an accidental murder thanks to the testimony of his arch-nemesis Denard. A year later, B.J. is released and then challenged by Denard for $100,000. Will B.J. accept and get even with Denard?
Style: realistic, rough, suspenseful, serious, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: kickboxing, martial arts, heroes, master warrior, rivalry, contests and competitions, ambition, uninhibited rivalry, beefcake martial arts, cannon, boxer, homoerotic fight ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: usa
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34%
 4.9
 798
Bloodfist II (1990)
Genre: Action, Sport
Country: Philippines, USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Jake Ray gives up his title after killing a man in the ring. When Jake goes to Manila to help an old friend, trouble awaits him! After fending off multiple attacks, Jake is finally captured and chained to a half a dozen martial arts champions. Taken ...
Style: independent film
Plot: martial arts, fight, karate, competition, exploitation, post apocalypse, kickboxing, interracial relations, master warrior, heroes, showdown, combat ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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Never Back Down: No Surrender (2016)
Genre: Action, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Picking up after the events of Never Back Down 2, former MMA champion Case Walker is on the comeback trail to become champion once again.
Style: inspirational, serious, realistic, suspense, suspenseful ...
Plot: martial arts, fight, hand to hand combat, mixed martial arts, tournament, martial artist, martial arts training, master warrior, fight scenes, friendship, kickboxing, kickboxer ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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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 ⇓
30%
The Ultimate Game (2001)
Genre: Action, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: An annual contest brings together the fiercest fighters on a remote island to earn the title of the Ultimate Champion. Two fighters must join forces to win the tournament and escape with their lives.
Style: realistic, suspenseful, serious, tense
Plot: martial arts, competition, tough guy, heroes, warrior, kickboxing, abduction, martial arts tournament, wrestler, male female relationship, underground tournament, cage fighting ...
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30%
Duel of Legends (2023)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Story: Duel of Legends is directed by Hector Echavarria and is about a Chinese boy who is left to survive by himself because his parents were murdered by rebels. The boy is raised by a Temple Monk who teaches the boy the secrets of the Martial arts. When ...
Style: suspenseful, thought provoking, suspense, captivating
Plot: karate, fight, tough guy, martial arts, master warrior, hand to hand combat, showdown, fistfight, wrestler, warrior, combat, heroes ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Never Back Down 2: The Beatdown (2011)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Four fighters different backgrounds come together to train under an ex MMA rising star and then ultimately have to fight each other and the traitor in heir midst.
Style: exciting, suspenseful, serious, realistic, inspirational ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: martial arts, martial arts tournament, fight, streetfighting, boxer, kickboxing, kickboxer, cage fighting, athlete and trainer, martial arts training, bully, hand to hand combat ...
Time: year 2011, 21st century
Place: louisiana, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Best of the Best (1989)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A team from the United States is going to compete against Korea in a Tae Kwon Do tournament. The team consists of fighters from all over the country--can they overcome their rivalry and work together to win?
Style: inspirational, emotional, exciting, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night, family friendly, teens
Plot: martial arts, martial artist, martial arts tournament, underdog, culture clash, redemption, vengeance, taekwondo, violence, kung fu, fight scenes, fight ...
Time: 80s, year 1989
Place: seoul, asia, korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Bloodsport: The Dark Kumite (1999)
Genre: Action, Romance
Country: USA, Bulgaria
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Agent John Keller goes undercover into the tough prison known as Fuego Penal to find out about the corpses of prisoners disappearing without a trace. There he gets involved in a dangerous tournament arranged by a man named Justin Caesar, where the ...
Style: independent film, fast, serious, realistic, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, prison, tough heroes, underground fighting, fistfight, mixed martial arts, fighter, boxer, boxing, undercover, heroes, tournament ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Undisputed III: Redemption (2010)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Russian inmate Boyka, now severely hobbled by the knee injury suffered at the end of Undisputed 2. No longer the feared prison fighter he was, he has declined so far that he is now good only for cleaning toilets. But when a new prison fight ...
Style: serious, realistic, exciting, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience: manly, boys' night
Plot: prison fight, boxing, martial arts, kickboxing, prison, hand to hand combat, mixed martial arts, contests and competitions, fight, capoeira, prison life, tournament ...
Time: year 2010, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
 3.5
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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 ⇓
27%
 6.9
 2K
Black Belt (2007)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Set in 1932, amid the rise of militarism after the establishment of the Manchukuo colony in Northeast China, the story centers on a trio of karateka. Studying under their aging master in a small dojo in the woods of central Kyushu, Choei, Taikan and ...
Style: serious, realistic, exciting, captivating
Audience: boys' night
Plot: karate, martial arts, heroes, martial arts tournament, battles, vengeance, rivalry, against the odds, military life, instructor, tough heroes, self defense ...
Time: 1930s
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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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
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26%
Ring of Fire II: Blood and Steel (1993)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Johnny Woo and Julie play an enduring couple who survive all sorts of interference from rival kick-box gangs in their effort to put a little romance in their lives.
Style: independent film, serious, realistic, rough
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, fight, competition, heroes, kickboxer, female bodybuilder, gangster, rivalry, daring rescue, danger, confined, gang ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
American Kickboxer 2 (1993)
Genre: Action, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Two rivals, one a cop and the other a martial arts teacher team up to save a little girl from a terrorist and his henchmen.
Plot: martial arts, buddy cop, boxer, skinny dipping, female nudity, teacher, girl, shootout, gangster, kickboxing, pistol, organized crime ...
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26%
Kickboxer 3: The Art of War (1992)
Genre: Action, Sport, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Kick-box champion David Sloan arrives in Rio de Janeiro for an exhibition fight. He and mentor Xian take pity on Brazilian rascal Marcos Coasta, an urchin who offers guide services but routinely steals from tourists for himself and his older sister ...
Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful, intense, brutal ...
Plot: martial arts, kickboxer, tough heroes, fight, heroes, danger, gory, shooting, one man army, one against many, tough guy, mixed martial arts ...
Time: 90s
Place: rio de janeiro, brazil
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Bloodfist V: Human Target (1994)
Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Don "The Dragon" Wilson struggles to regain his memory, not knowing who to trust, or even which side he's fighting on.
Style: suspense, independent film
Plot: martial arts, kickboxing, spy, exploitation, shootout, one man army, karate, ak 47, duel, fight, brawl, martial artist ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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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 ...
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26%
American Shaolin (1991)
Genre: Action
Country: USA, Hong Kong
Duration: 106 min.
Story: After being humiliated in the ring by a dirty kickboxer who pulled down his shorts and then hit him, a martial arts master decides to travel to China and enter a monastery where he may learn the Shaolin form of fighting. The film then veers into ...
Style: realistic, exciting, rough, serious, tense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, kickboxer, fight, master warrior, vengeance, escapades, misfit, contests and competitions, uninhibited rivalry, rivalry, tough heroes, fish out of water ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: usa, china, asia, beijing china
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25%
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Bloodfight (1989)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Master martial artist Masahiro Kai is a shadow of the champion fighter and trainer he once was. After his protégé was slain in a no-holds-barred, underground fight by the incomparable Chang Lee, Kai slips into a numbing alcohol-induced stupor to ...
Style: serious, realistic, exciting, suspenseful, rough
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, hand to hand combat, battles, master warrior, tough heroes, dangerous animal, gang, contests and competitions, heroes, ambition, military, vengeance ...
Time: 80s
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25%
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Bloodfist 2050 (2005)
Genre: Action
Country: Philippines
Duration: 78 min.
Story: Alex Danko descends into the ultra-violent underworld of extreme martial-arts to find his brother's killer with the help of hardened Detective Ramirez and his brother's alluring ex-lover in this post-apocalyptic allegory of greed and ...
Style: tense, serious, exciting, suspenseful, suspense ...
Plot: kickboxing, martial arts, fight, heroes, battles, martial artist, one man army, gunfight, post apocalypse, strip club, murder, corrupt cop ...
Time: near future
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
 3.5
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Among Dead Men (2008)
Genre: Action, Crime, Horror, Mystery, Sport
Country: Australia
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Bobby Delgado, undefeated MMA World Champion is incarcerated for eight years after accidentally killing his opponent. During this period of purgatory, Bobby experiences a paranormal 'life changing' event that will dictate his future path ...
Style: exciting, serious, suspenseful, rough, scary ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
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25%
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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
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25%
Battle Creek Brawl (1980)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: Hong Kong, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A young Asian American martial artist is forced to participate in a brutal formal street-fight competition.
Style: humorous, slapstick, action adventure, action comedy, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, kung fu, wuxia, gangster, mixed martial arts, vengeance, violence, mafia, organized crime, combat, heroes, street fight ...
Time: 1930s, year 1980, 1920s
Place: chicago, texas, usa
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25%
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