Movies like Final Impact

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Final Impact (1992)
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Final Impact (1992)
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: independent film, exciting, serious, realistic
Plot: martial arts, tough heroes, swimming pool, training, kickboxer, gambling, competition, nightclub, relationship problems, casino, gym, championship, washed up star, suspicion of adultery, alcoholism, fighter, heroes, teachers and students, vengeance, rivalry, ambition, contests and competitions, good versus evil, hopes, boxing ...
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 suspenseful films with plots about martial arts, rivalry, heroes, contests and competitions, fight, ambition and mixed martial arts mostly in Action, Drama and Sport genres. Some movies like Final Impact: Ring of Fire (1991), Only the Strong (1993), Breathing Fire (1991), Bad Blood (1994), Bloodsport III (1996). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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%
Only the Strong (1993)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: France, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Former Green Beret Louis Stevens returns to his hometown of Miami after completing military service in Brazil, only to learn that his old high school has become a haven for gangs and drug dealers. After Stevens uses his capoeira skills to kick ...
Style: serious, rough, realistic, independent film
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: martial arts, fight, high school, kung fu, mixed martial arts, capoeira, friends, school, youth, teacher, karate, hardcore ...
Time: 90s, year 1993
Place: usa, miami, florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Breathing Fire (1991)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story: Michael, a Vietnam vet with two kids, pulls off a bank heist with his gang, which includes the bank's manager. To ensure the loyalty of everyone involved, Mike makes a special set of keys, so that the hiding place for the loot can only be ...
Style: independent film, rough, realistic, serious, suspenseful
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, kickboxing, kung fu, confined, vengeance, parents and children, siblings relations, gang, rivalry, criminal heroes, on the run, kidnapping ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Bad Blood (1994)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A trucker (Lamas) has to come home to help fight mobsters after his brother who embezzled $5,000,000 from them.
Style: erotic, independent film, semi serious, realistic, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: truck, tough heroes, sex scene, trucker, making love, martial arts, embezzlement, love triangle, rivalry, vengeance, chases and races, law enforcement ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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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 ...
Style: semi serious, suspenseful, independent film, exciting
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, tournament, mixed martial arts, heroes, kickboxing, rivalry, vengeance, ambition, hand to hand combat, master warrior, violence, martial artist ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Shootfighter II (1996)
Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: In this martial-arts actioner, Miami mobsters find themselves in mortal danger after an angry police chief hires the world's most vicious fighters and uses them to launch a city-wide vendetta
Style: independent film, serious, realistic, exciting, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, heroes, female fight, boxer, working undercover, ambition, danger, contests and competitions, law enforcement, master warrior, rivalry, vengeance ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: miami, florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Lethal (2005)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A sexy and lethal female mercenary takes on an international syndicate of weapons smugglers run by the Russian Mafia.
Style: realistic, suspenseful, captivating, tense, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: female martial artist, rescue, save the day, espionage, confined, government agency, danger, dishonesty, law enforcement, one man army, undercover, secret agent ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Excessive Force II: Force on Force (1995)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Stacie Randall plays Harley, a Special Forces agent-turned-investigator, who arrives on the scene of an apparent mob hit to help the local police. In actuality, she's hunting down Francis Lydell, her former C.O. and lover, who shot her in the ...
Style: suspense, independent film, exciting, realistic, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: female martial artist, female fighter, terrorism, female fight, woman with a gun, women, die hard, one woman army, vengeance, undercover, law enforcement, partners against crime ...
Time: 90s
Place: los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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The Base (1999)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Major Murphy, a US Army Investigator, has received a new assignment. Sgt. Gammon is suspected of dealing cocaine from his base, and Murphy must gather enough evidence to shut down Gammon and his entire operation. Along with his partner, Lt. Andrews, ...
Style: independent film, fast, serious, realistic, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: undercover, martial arts, hand to hand combat, heroes, soldier, drug dealing, capoeira, us military, loyalty, border patrol, vigilantism, military ...
Time: 90s
Place: mexico, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 297
The Tracker (2001)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Spears, a private detective working in L.A. receives word from an old friend that the friend's sister (and Spears' ex-girlfriend), Kim, has been kidnapped by a criminal gang. At first, Spears doesn't want to get involved, especially ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, realistic, tense, disturbing ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, tough heroes, kung fu, hand to hand combat, gunfight, russian mafia, gangster, gang, danger, law enforcement, rivalry, private detective ...
Time: 90s
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 250
Street Crimes (1992)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: After some cops urge young street kids to turn from drugs and crime to the neighborhood boxing rings, the local street lord begins to loose control of his illicit empire and begins a war on the good-intenioned police and the civilians.
Style: independent film, realistic, serious, captivating, exciting ...
Plot: martial arts, die hard, gang, youth, rivalry, coming of age, contests and competitions, drug dealing, law enforcement, good versus evil, kids in trouble, transgender ...
Time: 90s
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
 4.5
 344
To Be the Best (1993)
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, ...
Style: independent film, fast, realistic, serious, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, tough heroes, female fight, wedding, kickboxing, kung fu, violent content, vengeance, betrayal, obsession, contests and competitions, ambition ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: las vegas
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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 ⇓
46%
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 ⇓
40%
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 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 ⇓
38%
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 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 ⇓
38%
Kickboxer: Retaliation (2018)
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 ...
Style: brutal, suspenseful, exciting, bleak, inspirational ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: kickboxing, martial arts, kickboxer, muay thai, muscleman, violence, master warrior, brutality, fight, mentor, vengeance, friendship ...
Place: thailand
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 5.7
 7K
Damage (2009)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 102 min.
Story: An ex-con battles it out in the cage to pay for the operation that would save the daughter of his victim. Along the way he finds fatherly love, and friendship, in the most unlikely of places.
Style: exciting, captivating, psychological, tense, cult classic ...
Plot: martial arts, fight, danger, fall in love, rivalry, contests and competitions, ambition, underground tournament, wrestler, violence, love, friendship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, seattle
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Bare Knuckles (2010)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Women will go to extreme lengths for those they love and single mother Samantha Rogers is no exception. Along with her young daughter, Milla, Sam struggles to make ends meet, taking her licks as a stunt double by day and cocktail waitressing at a ...
Style: realistic, serious, exciting, rough, independent film
Audience: boys' night
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Time: 21st century
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35%
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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 ...
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Audience: boys' night
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35%
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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 ...
Style: realistic, serious, rough, suspenseful
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, underground fighting, tough heroes, haunted by the past, ambition, one man army, rivalry, gangster, athlete's life, vengeance, contests and competitions, daring rescue ...
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34%
Circle of Pain (2010)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Following a fighting accident, Dalton Hunt retired from the world of MMA at the top. Unable to outrun his guilt, he lost his family, his title, and his way. But when a crooked promoter lures him back into a fight against the current undefeated ...
Style: exciting, serious, captivating, suspense, tense ...
Audience: boys' night
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Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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33%
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 ...
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33%
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Duration: 94 min.
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100%
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Country: USA, Canada
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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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32%
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The Scorpion (2007)
Genre: Action, Drama
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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 ...
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Time: 21st century
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⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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
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31%
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
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Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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
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Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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
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Time: 90s
Place: south africa, africa
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30%
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