Movies like The Circuit 2002

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The Circuit (2002)
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The Circuit (2002)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sport
Country: Canada
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Years ago, Dirk Longstreet walked away from The Circuit, the merciless underground fight club with no rules, where money changes hands as men are killed. But now gangsters have got his brother, and only one more journey inside the ring will save his life.
Style: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, underground fighting, rivalry, ambition, haunted by the past, one man army, tough heroes, vengeance, contests and competitions, athlete's life, daring rescue, gangster, gambling, martial arts tournament, fight, competition, heroes, college, university, athlete and trainer, journalism, chases and races, strong violent content, siblings relations, manhunt ...
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: canada
Keyword: gangsters, sport

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, rough and suspenseful films with plots about martial arts, rivalry, fight, contests and competitions, mixed martial arts, ambition and fighting mostly in Action, Drama and Sport genres. Some movies like The Circuit: Never Surrender (2009), Unbeatable (2013), Cage (1989), Undisputed III: Redemption (2010), Boyka: Undisputed IV (2016). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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 ⇓
100%
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 ⇓
100%
 7.2
 3K
Unbeatable (2013)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sport
Country: China, Hong Kong
Duration: 122 min.
Story: Fai, once a world champion in boxing, escapes to Macau from the loan sharks and unexpectedly encounters Qi, a young chap who is determined to win a boxing match. Fai becomes Qi's mentor and rediscovers his passion to fight not only in the ring ...
Style: tense, exciting, realistic, serious, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, boxing, fight, boxer, rivalry, contests and competitions, opponent, boxing match, loan shark, training, fight for supremacy, athlete and trainer ...
Time: 21st century
Place: china, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 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 ⇓
100%
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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 ⇓
100%
Boyka: Undisputed IV (2016)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sport
Country: Bulgaria, USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: In the fourth installment of the fighting franchise, Boyka is shooting for the big leagues when an accidental death in the ring makes him question everything he stands for. When he finds out the wife of the man he accidentally killed is in trouble, ...
Style: exciting, rough, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Audience: boys' night, kids
Plot: martial arts, prison, boxing, boxer, redemption, accidental death, hand to hand combat, tough heroes, widow, arrested, religion, jail ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 ⇓
28%
 4.1
 908
Unrivaled (2010)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sport
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 109 min.
Story: On these streets everyone is fighting for a way out, but after a lifetime of hard knocks, a down-on-his-luck cage fighter gets the opportunity of a lifetime when he is chosen to compete against the MMA world champion during a massive competition. ...
Style: uplifting, exciting, serious, rough, erotic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: mixed martial arts, martial arts, rivalry, ambition, lifestyle, contests and competitions, athlete's life, heroes, underdog, fight, sex scene, competition ...
Time: year 2010, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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 5.3
 2K
Tapped Out (2014)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sport
Country: Canada
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A disgruntled teenager, sent to do community service at a rundown Karate school, enters an MMA tournament to face the man who killed his parents.
Style: serious, realistic, exciting, rough
Audience: boys' night
Plot: mixed martial arts, martial arts, athlete and trainer, contests and competitions, youth, rivalry, vengeance, young heroes, fight, college, ambition, violent content ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
 6.2
 39K
Lionheart (1990)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Lyon Gaultier is a deserter in the Foreign Legion arriving in the USA entirely hard up. He finds his brother between life and death and his sister-in-law without the money needed to heal her husband and to maintain her child. To earn the money ...
Style: exciting, rough, suspenseful, sentimental, psychological ...
Audience: manly, boys' night
Plot: martial arts, on the run, drug dealer, french foreign legion, bet, rivalry, opponent, contests and competitions, family relations, kung fu, karate, soldier ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: los angeles, california, usa, north africa, paris france ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 4.9
 398
Deadly Bet (1992)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Jeff Wincott plays a gambler who puts his life on the line to buy his way out of the clutches of a mobster.
Style: independent film, realistic, serious, exciting, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, gangster, contests and competitions, redemption, ambition, rivalry, obsession, gang, tough heroes, alcohol abuse, gambling, beefcake martial arts ...
Time: 90s
Place: las vegas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Kickboxer 2: The Road Back (1991)
Genre: Action, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: In this rousing sequel to Kickboxer, Tong Po broods about his defeat at the hands of Kurt Sloan. Po and his managers resort to drastic measures to goad Kurt into the ring for a rematch.
Style: rough, serious, feel good, independent film, realistic
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, revenge, kickboxer, vengeance, kickboxing, fight scenes, mentor, master warrior, violence, fight, underdog, athlete and trainer ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Harder They Fall (2005)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: 20 year old kickboxers from opposite ends of Miami, one rich one poor, battle for triumph in sport and their own identities in this coming-of-age action/drama.
Style: exciting, serious, realistic, rough
Plot: tough heroes, athlete's life, rivalry, ambition, nothing to lose, social differences, self discovery, martial arts tournament, fight, kickboxing, boxing, martial arts ...
Time: 21st century
Place: miami, florida, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
 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 ⇓
22%
 4.6
 891
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 ⇓
22%
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 ⇓
22%
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 ⇓
22%
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Movie in collections
 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 ⇓
21%
 3.9
 371
Brawler (2011)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Sidelined by an injury incurred while protecting his young brother, underground fighter Charlie Fontaine feels blindsided when he discovers his brother having sex on his couch with his new wife, Kat. Fueled by rage, a determined Charlie makes plans ...
Style: exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, martial arts tournament, contests and competitions, rivalry, siblings relations, strong violent content, family relations, athlete's life, underground tournament, mixed martial arts, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, brother vs brother ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new orleans, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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 ⇓
21%
The Philly Kid (2012)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A former NCAA champion wrestler is paroled after 10 years in prison. Now, to save a friend's life, in a series of cage fights he must agree to do the impossible - lose.
Style: exciting, suspenseful, realistic, serious, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: fight, mixed martial arts, martial arts, ambition, rivalry, contests and competitions, prisoner, prison, manslaughter, murder, competition, student athlete ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, louisiana
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
American Brawler (2013)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A martial arts instructor must enter the world of illegal pit fighting in order to save his family and his dojo.
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful, rough
Plot: martial arts, rivalry, dishonesty, contests and competitions, ambition, fight, gambling, corruption, underground fighting, violence, battles, wrestler ...
Time: 21st century
Place: san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Movie in collections
 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 ⇓
20%
Challenge of the Masters (1976)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 97 min.
Story: The Wong family kung fu school gets smacked around by a rival school. Wong Fei-hong gets fed up with the abuse and goes to learn from his fathers master. After one of the rival schools members kills some of the towns people Wong Fei-hong becomes ...
Style: fast, exciting, realistic, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, kung fu, wong fei hung, kung fu classic, fight, violent content, best friend, hopes, ambition, heroes, rivalry, one man army ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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 ⇓
20%
Kickboxer 4: The Aggressor (1994)
Genre: Action, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Sasha Mitchell ("Kickboxer 2&3") triumphanty returns to the ring as David Sloan, fighting not just for his survival, but for his beautiful wife, who has become the sexual captive of the despicable world champion, Tong Po. Framed, ...
Style: cult classic, independent film, fast, realistic, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, kickboxer, rape, tough heroes, kickboxing, female fight, kickass, intergender wrestling, boxer, revenge, one man army, master warrior ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 5.1
 329
Star Runner (2003)
Genre: Action, Drama, Romance
Country: Hong Kong, South Korea
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Preparing for the hand-to-hand battle of his life and the title of Champion Star Runner, a headstrong fighter creates a deadly hybrid mix of Thai kickboxing and Chinese kung fu. Get ready for the ultimate Pan-Asian mixed martial arts competition, ...
Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful, rough, exciting
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: martial arts, love affair, athlete's life, ambition, rivalry, tragic love, heroes, contests and competitions, hopes, love and romance, starting over, tournament ...
Time: 21st century
Place: hong kong, korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 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 ⇓
19%
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 ⇓
19%
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