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Sticks of Death (1986)
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Original name: Arnis: The Sticks Of Death
Genre: Action
Country: Philippines
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A man masters the ancient art of arnis with the help of his grandfather to get revenge on a group of crooks who attempted to beat him to death.
Style:
exciting, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
martial arts, gangsters, heroes, vengeance, rivalry, contests and competitions, dishonesty, criminal heroes, cons and scams, death, murder, helicopter, car, danger, deadly, explosion, adventure, crimes
Time:
80s
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Duration: 120 min.
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Duration: 91 min.
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Country: Canada, UK, Bulgaria, USA
Duration: 90 min.
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Genre: Action
Country: Australia
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
When Luke is viciously attacked and his fiancée is raped and murdered, he pledges to train himself in deadly hand to hand combat and use it against any wrong doers who dare to cross his path.
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Place:
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Duration: 99 min.
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Country: USA, Taiwan
Duration: 83 min.
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Chuck Connors stars in this routine martial arts feature as the Colonel. He sends agents Sonny (Mike Kelly) and Dennis (George Nichols) to Taiwan in search of microfilm containing experiments on genetic engineering. The agents soon find themselves ...
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Place:
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Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
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Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
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Country: UK
Duration: 85 min.
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Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
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Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Country: Japan, Hong Kong
Duration: 101 min.
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Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 92 min.
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Place:
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Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 90 min.
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Duration: 118 min.
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Genre: Action
Country: Hong Kong, Japan
Duration: 105 min.
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Duration: 73 min.
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