Movies like Final Impact
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Final Impact (1992)
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Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A former kick-boxing world champion discovers a young fighter, and believes together they can win back the world crown.
Style:
exciting, serious, realistic
Plot:
martial arts, training, kickboxer, gambling, alcohol abuse, competition, nightclub, relationship problems, casino, gym, championship, washed up star, suspicion of adultery, fighter, heroes, teachers and students, vengeance, rivalry, ambition, contests and competitions, good versus evil, hopes, tough heroes, boxing, combat ...
Time:
90s
Place:
usa, ohio, las vegas
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, rough and exciting films with plots about martial arts, rivalry, fight, heroes, contests and competitions, ambition and mixed martial arts mostly in Action, Drama and Sport genres. Some movies like Final Impact: Superfights (1996), Street Crimes (1992), To Be the Best (1993), Cage (1989), The Circuit 2: The Final Punch (2002). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Jack Cody has always wanted to enter the world of the Superfights, a free fighting tournament. One night, Jack rescues a girl from a mugging and becomes a national hero. Only then is he given his opportunity to become a Superfighter. Jack soon meets ...
Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
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Time:
90s
Place:
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Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Eric Kulhane, a member of the U.S. Kickboxing Team, lets his quick temper and obsessive love for beautiful Cheryl make him the perfect target for blackmail. In order to stop ruthless gambler from rigging the World Championship and killing Cheryl, ...
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Place:
las vegas
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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 ...
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vietnam war, martial arts, fight, competition, beefcake martial arts, beefcake, cage fighting, vietnam veteran, cell, misfit, rivalry, confined ...
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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 ...
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Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
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Place:
usa
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Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
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Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
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Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
One year after the events of "Kickboxer: Vengeance", Kurt Sloan has vowed never to return to Thailand. However, while gearing up for a MMA title shot, he finds himself sedated and forced back into Thailand, this time in prison. He is there ...
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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 ...
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Genre: Action, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 100 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 ...
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Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
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Country: USA
Duration: 76 min.
Story:
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Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
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Genre: Action, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
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Style:
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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 ...
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Country: France, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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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?
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Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
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Story:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Duration: 98 min.
Story:
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Duration: 86 min.
Story:
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Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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Story:
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Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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Story:
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Time:
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Country: Hong Kong, South Korea
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
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