Movies like Magnificent Guardsmen
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Magnificent Guardsmen (1978)
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Original name: 飛渡捲雲山
Genre: Action
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Chan is asked by a young, wealthy lady to take her sick brother to a particular doctor in order to be cured. To reach this doctor, Chan and a handful of travelling companions must pass through bandit-infested wild country. They meet and kung-fu-fight several gangs of thugs along the way.
Style:
humorous, semi serious
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
martial arts, kung fu, heroes, battles, on the road, escapades, rivalry, clergy, siblings relations, race against time, obsessive quest, heroic mission, violence, warrior, tough guy, villain, master warrior, martial artist, kung fu master, brawl, fistfight, kung fu fighting, kung fu classic, danger, stylized violence ...
Time:
middle ages
Place:
china, asia
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, exciting, realistic and cult film films with plots about martial arts, kung fu, violence, fistfight, heroes, kung fu classic and master warrior mostly in Action, Drama and Comedy genres. Some movies like Magnificent Guardsmen: Last Hero in China (1993), Last Tiger from Canton (1973), In Eagle Dragon Fist (1979), Shao Lin men (1976), The Fearless Hyena (1979). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Action, Comedy, History
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Jet Li stars in this comic spectacle as a Chinese "Robin Hood" who stumbles upon a kidnapping scheme after unwittingly opening a martial arts school next to a brothel!
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romantic, scenic, epic, humorous, semi serious ...
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boys' night
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martial arts, kung fu, medieval, fight, master warrior, heroes, folk hero, one man army, kidnapping, robin hood, wiretap, escapades ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
china, asia
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Young Jackie was intrigued by Kung-Fu since an early age, but his father strictly forbade its practice. One day, he meets an old beggar who offers to teach Jackie how to fight. Jackie grows up to be quite good though he keeps his knowledge a secret ...
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exciting, semi serious, realistic, humorous
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boys' night
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martial arts, kung fu, fight, one man army, heroes, power relations, rivalry, youth, graphic violence, violence, one against many, brawl ...
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Place:
asia
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Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Hong Kong, Taiwan
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A dishonored student of the Dragon Fist Sect seeks revenge for the death of his teacher.
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exciting, realistic, serious, stylized
Audience:
boys' night
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martial arts, kung fu, medieval, fight, master warrior, heroes, graphic violence, rivalry, violence spree, vengeance, antidote, village ...
Time:
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Place:
asia, china
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48%
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A survivor of an attack on a rebel group opposing the Manchu invasion of China creates the Goose Fist fighting technique and tries for revenge on a traitor.
Style:
serious, psychotronic
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
martial arts, medieval, exploitation, fight, master warrior, legends and myths, culture clash, heroic mission, working undercover, school, wooing, vigilantism ...
Time:
middle ages
Place:
china, asia, hong kong
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Genre: Comedy, Action
Country: Hong Kong, South Korea
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Jackie Chan is a youngster, living in a remote vllage with his grandfather who teaches him Kong-Fu (naturally). He keeps getting into fights, even though his grandfather warns him not to show their Kong-Fu to others. Jackie, though, is tempted by ...
Style:
serious
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boys' night
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Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A pair of evil kung-fu artists, Heaven and Earth, are slaughtering the entire Yin-Yang brotherhood.
Style:
serious, exciting, stylized
Plot:
martial arts, medieval, kung fu, heroes, master warrior, hotshot hero, pirate, superhuman powers, tough law enforcer, escapades, vigilantism, vengeance ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
hong kong
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Genre: Action
Country: Taiwan, Hong Kong, Japan
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Little Mute is an orphan traumatized into silence by the death of his father at the hands of a vicious fighting master. Living at the Shaolin monastery, he befriends a dangerous prisoner who teaches him a secret form of deadly kung fu. Seeing his ...
Style:
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Plot:
martial arts, kung fu, sexual abuse, kung fu classic, master warrior, buddhist, shaolin monk, tough heroes, vigilantism, society, fighting crime, vengeance ...
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Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Hong Kong, South Korea
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Young master Cao Le chases his pregnant girlfriend away from the family castle. He does it in order to save her from vicious bandits who are going to murder his family.
Style:
surreal, realistic, serious
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
martial arts, kung fu, pregnancy, fall in love, heroes, leadership, gang, intrigue, vengeance, rivalry, pregnant girlfriend, jeet kune do ...
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asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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Genre: Action
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Wong Fei Hung must deal with both foreign threats and the nationalist Red Lantern Society in this continuation of the popular kung fu series.
Style:
cult film
Plot:
martial arts, kung fu, kung fu classic, revenge, violence, good versus evil, sword fight, fistfight, sword duel, warrior, fight, kung fu fighting ...
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Sport
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Dragon and his madcap pal Cowboy spend their days getting into mischief, frustrating the elders, chasing girls, and competing in the village sport. When Dragon overhears a fiendish plot by smugglers to sell China's national treasures overseas, ...
Style:
semi serious, touching, tense, captivating, perverse ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
martial arts, kung fu, kung fu master, against the odds, cons and scams, righting the wronged, rivalry, partners, wing chun, heroic mission, dishonesty, buddies ...
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Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Hong Kong, Taiwan
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A brother and sister escape from Japanese-occupied Shanghai to Japanese-occupied Taiwan, to stay with their grandfather who runs a Kung-Fu school there. However, the master of a Japanese Kung-Fu school in Taiwan has designs on bringing all other ...
Style:
serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful, cult film
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boys' night
Plot:
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Genre: Action
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The noble Ten Tigers, one woman and nine men, protect their Cantonese region the villainous Lord Yung and his underlings. When Yung kidnaps the wife of one of the Tiger's students, the Tigers disguise themselves as a Princess and her followers ...
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Genre: Action
Country: Taiwan, Hong Kong
Story:
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martial arts, jeet kune do, master warrior, heroes, kung fu classic, kung fu master, kung fu fighting, fistfight, kung fu, violence, villain, brawl ...
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Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Taiwan, Hong Kong
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A government law officer is dispatched to bring his brother's killers to justice. On his bloody mission, untold assassins are thrown at him, but to no avail. One by one they are done away with in a most militant style.
Style:
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boys' night
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A serial adventure writer with problems in his personal life lives out the adventures of his literary hero, King of Adventurers.
Style:
exciting, semi serious, humorous, cult film
Plot:
martial arts, kung fu, master warrior, heroes, obsessive quest, ghost, adventurer, escapades, rivalry, treasure hunt, heroic mission, wu shu ...
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Country: Japan
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Three street toughs are hired to take down a Tokyo drug dealer in this hard-hitting Toei karate action film.
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serious, realistic, exciting, rough, suspenseful
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boys' night
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Place:
asia, tokyo, japan
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Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
In late 19th Century Hong Kong the British may rule the land, but the pirates rule the waters. One Coast Guard officer is Dragon Ma, who is determined that his beloved Coast Guard will not be made a fool of.
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china, asia, hong kong
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Genre: Action, Comedy
Country: Taiwan, Hong Kong
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A young daydreamer assumes the identity of a dead martial arts hero and quickly finds himself caught up in a plot by several clans to steal famous martial arts artifacts being transported by an escort company.
Style:
semi serious, stylized, humorous
Audience:
teens, boys' night
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Genre: Action, Comedy
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
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Style:
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teens, manly, boys' night
Plot:
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Time:
1920s, 20th century
Place:
china, hong kong, tokyo, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Ex-kickboxing champion turned sports photographer Max Havoc again finds himself in Guam on a publicity photo shoot. Max's helpful ways land him in the lives of the vacationing sisters Jane and Christy Goody who have acquired a rare jade dragon, ...
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exciting, realistic, rough, serious
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Genre: Action
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Epic adventure set during a tumultuous time in China, when left without a leader, the cavalry is attacked by the powerful allies and pirate bands. A martial arts master, Wong Fei-Hong and Aunt Yee return to do battle against these evil forces.
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Genre: Action
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Eight thieves steal a treasure map and split it into eight pieces, vowing to regroup three years later. But they'll have to deal with a deadly-kicking cop.
Style:
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Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Story:
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Country: Hong Kong
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Story:
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama
Country: China, Hong Kong
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
The Tang emperor is betrayed by one of his generals, who installs himself as emperor in the East Capital. The son of one of his slave workers escapes to the Shaolin Temple, learns kung fu, and sets out to kill the traitor who killed his father. ...
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