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The Chinese Connection (1972)
 7.2
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The Chinese Connection (1972)
Original name: 精武門
Genre: Action, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Chen Zhen returns to the international compound of China only to learn of his beloved teacher's death. This is compounded by the continual racist harassment by the Japanese population in the area. Unlike his friends, he confronts it head on with his mastery of martial arts while investigating his teacher's murder.
Style: exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful, grindhouse, cult classic, stylized, harsh, psychological, retro ...
Audience: boys' night, manly
Plot: martial arts, kung fu, murder, violence, kung fu classic, fight scenes, samurai, revenge, wuxia, fight, mentor, karate, society, righting the wronged, teacher student relationship, hand to hand combat, vigilante, fighter, instructor, brutality, vengeance, gangster, tragic hero, kung fu master, racism ...
Time: 20th century, year 1972, 1910s, 70s
Place: japan, bolivia, china, asia, shanghai, hong kong, tokyo
Keyword: chinese, bruce lee, fighting movie, gangsters, avant-garde, russian

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Most similar movies to The Chinese Connection

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, exciting, stylized and realistic films with plots about martial arts, master warrior, heroes, kung fu, fight, violence and rivalry mostly in Action, Drama and Thriller genres. Some movies like The Chinese Connection: Fist of Legend (1994), The Big Boss (1971), Enter the Dragon (1973), Once Upon a Time in China II (1992), Ip Man (2008). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Fist of Legend (1994)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Chen Zhen, a Chinese engineering student in Kyoto, who braves the insults and abuse of his Japanse fellow students for his local love Mitsuko Yamada, daughter of the director, returns in 1937 to his native Shangai, under Japanse protectorate -in ...
Style: harsh, intense, realistic, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience: boys' night, manly
Plot: martial arts, kung fu, sword fight, violence, martial artist, fight scenes, fight, brutality, samurai, wuxia, master warrior, kung fu classic ...
Time: 20th century, 1930s
Place: china, asia
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The Big Boss (1971)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Chen is a city boy who moves with his cousins to work at an ice factory. He does this with a family promise never to get involved in any fight. However, when members of his family begin disappearing after meeting the management of the factory, the ...
Style: stylized, grindhouse, harsh, brutal, atmospheric ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, kung fu, revenge, master warrior, smuggling, factory, brutality, martial artist, drug, fight scenes, drug smuggling, chinese immigrant ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: china, east asia, asia, thailand
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Enter the Dragon (1973)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong, USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A martial artist agrees to spy on a reclusive crime lord using his invitation to a tournament there as cover.
Style: tense, suspense, grindhouse, exciting, cult classic ...
Audience: manly, boys' night
Plot: martial arts, kung fu, shaolin, master warrior, martial arts tournament, island, tough heroes, shaolin monk, revenge, strong man, drug lord, final showdown ...
Time: 70s, year 1973, 20th century
Place: hong kong, china, east asia, fictional island, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Once Upon a Time in China II (1992)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Biography, History, Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 113 min.
Story: In the sequel to the Tsui Hark classic, Wong Fei-Hung faces The White Lotus society, a fanatical cult seeking to drive the Europeans out of China through violence, even attacking Chinese who follow Western ways. Wong must also defend Dr. Sun Yat ...
Style: stylized, cult classic, epic, exciting, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, kung fu, martial artist, samurai, kung fu master, fight, master warrior, kung fu fighting, wuxia, dalmatian, hopes, heroes ...
Time: 19th century, 1800s, ancient times, 1890s
Place: china, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Ip Man (2008)
Genre: Action, Biography, Drama, War
Country: Hong Kong, China
Duration: 106 min.
Story: A semi-biographical account of Yip Man, the first martial arts master to teach the Chinese martial art of Wing Chun. The film focuses on events surrounding Ip that took place in the city of Foshan between the 1930s to 1940s during the Second ...
Style: heroic, epic, exciting, tense, uplifting ...
Audience: manly, boys' night, adult
Plot: martial arts, kung fu, wing chun, human spirit, master warrior, courage, bravery, training, warrior, martial artist, ambition, fight scenes ...
Time: year 2008, 2000s, 20th century, 1940s, year 1937 ...
Place: china, east asia, seattle, asia, ancient china
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100%
The Way of the Dragon (1972)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Tang Lung arrives in Rome to help his cousins in the restaurant business. They are being pressured to sell their property to the syndicate, who will stop at nothing to get what they want. When Tang arrives he poses a new threat to the syndicate, and ...
Style: breathtaking, humorous, stylized, talky, serious ...
Audience: boys' night, manly
Plot: martial arts, kung fu, fight, gangster, master warrior, combat, tough heroes, karate, honor, vengeance, gang, culture clash ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: rome italy, china, hong kong, italy, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Fearless (2006)
Genre: Action, Biography, Drama
Country: China, Hong Kong, USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Huo Yuan Jia became the most famous martial arts fighter in all of China at the turn of the 20th Century. Huo faced personal tragedy but ultimately fought his way out of darkness, defining the true spirit of martial arts and also inspiring his ...
Style: inspirational, intense, epic, exciting, captivating ...
Audience: family outing, boys' night
Plot: martial arts, kung fu, master warrior, friendship, childhood, qing dynasty, wuxia, biopic, redemption, exile, fight, fight scenes ...
Time: year 2006, ancient times, 1800s, 20th century, 1910s ...
Place: china, japan, asia, east asia, shanghai ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Once Upon a Time in China (1991)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, History
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 134 min.
Story: Set in late 19th century Canton this martial arts film depicts the stance taken by the legendary martial arts hero Wong Fei-Hung (1847-1924) against foreign forces' (English, French and American) plundering of China.
Style: colorful, intense, serious, realistic, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night, manly
Plot: martial arts, martial artist, culture clash, kung fu, folk hero, master warrior, wuxia, qing dynasty, friendship, tragic hero, school, fight ...
Time: 19th century, year 1991, 1800s
Place: china, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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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 ⇓
100%
Game of Death II (1980)
Genre: Action, Crime, Mystery
Country: Hong Kong, South Korea
Duration: 96 min.
Story: In this dark tale of revenge, Bruce Lee "returns" as Billy Lo, whose best friend Chin Ku dies of a sudden illness. But suspicion of foul play arises when a gang tries to steal Ku's coffin at the funeral using a helicopter. When ...
Style: grindhouse, realistic, serious, stylized, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, kung fu, medieval, fight, karate, revenge, sword fight, one against many, heroes, katana, government agency, danger ...
Time: 80s
Place: korea, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.9
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The Hunted (1995)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: A businessman on a trip to Tokyo ends up in the middle of a centuries old feud between a criminal Ninja cult and a Samurai when he witnesses a assassination performed by the Ninja-cult leader.
Style: exciting, suspense, intense, serious, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: ninja, samurai, sword fight, assassin, murder, survival, vengeance, martial arts, master warrior, sword duel, violence, brutality ...
Time: 90s
Place: japan, asia, tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
In Eagle Dragon Fist (1979)
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.
Style: action adventure, cult classic, fast, exciting, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
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Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: asia, china
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
New Fists of Fury (1976)
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: action adventure, cult classic, fast, realistic, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
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Place: taiwan, asia, hong kong
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Fearless Hyena 2 (1983)
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
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Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: hong kong
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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Game of Death (1978)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Billy Lo is a Hong Kong-based movie actor, who is a box office draw. His girlfriend, Ann Morris, is a singer who is also climbing to the top. Now it seems the syndicate wants Billy and Ann to join their "management firm". But Billy knows ...
Style: grindhouse, suspenseful, cult classic, psychotronic, stylized ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, kung fu, gangster, martial artist, tough heroes, betrayal, fight scenes, revenge, motorcycle, exploitation, karate, fight ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: hong kong, east asia, china, macau
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
The Fearless Hyena (1979)
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: slapstick, action adventure, cult classic, serious, slapstick comedy
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, kung fu, medieval, school, fight, kung fu classic, wuxia, asian, karate, heroes, wing chun, vengeance ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: east asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Executioners from Shaolin (1977)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A couple unite - she is fluent in the crane style of kung fu, he in tiger style. They have a son, but the boy's father is killed by the evil eunuch Pai Mei. Disguised as a girl, his mom trains him in crane style while he secretly learns tiger ...
Style: serious, realistic, rough, tense, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, kung fu, shaolin, fight, medieval, kung fu classic, wuxia, revenge, exploitation, battles, heroes, one man army ...
Place: asia, china
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
The 36th Chamber of Shaolin (1978)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 116 min.
Story: The anti-Ching patriots, under the guidance of Ho Kuang-han, have secretly set up their base in Canton, disguised as school masters. During a brutal Manchu attack, Lui manages to escape, and devotes himself to learning the martial arts in order to ...
Style: grindhouse, stylized, inspirational, fast paced, exciting ...
Audience: manly, boys' night
Plot: shaolin, kung fu, martial arts, revenge, samurai, shaolin kung fu, wuxia, martial artist, fight, medieval, monk, kung fu classic ...
Time: year 1978, 18th century
Place: china, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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Tai-Chi Master (1993)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Falsely accused for cheating in a martial arts competition, two boyhood friends are banished from their Shaolin Temple and go their separate ways. As adults, they join opposing sides in a civil war. When one betrays the other, they settle their ...
Style: cult classic, fast, serious, exciting, stylized
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, kung fu, female warrior, tai chi, medieval, monk, fight, wuxia, revenge, martial artist, shaolin, wire fu ...
Time: middle ages
Place: china
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27%
 7.0
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The Protector (2005)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Thailand, USA, Hong Kong, France, Australia
Duration: 111 min.
Story: In Bangkok, the young Kham was raised by his father in the jungle with elephants as members of their family. When his old elephant and the baby Kern are stolen by criminals, Kham finds that the animals were sent to Sidney. He travels to Australia, ...
Style: action packed, brutal, stylized, light, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, kung fu, muay thai, elephant, revenge, chase, gangster, fight scenes, fight, heroes, robbery, power struggle ...
Time: year 2005, 21st century
Place: australia, asia, sydney australia, thailand
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
 5.7
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Fist of Fury 2 (1977)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Taiwan, Hong Kong
Duration: 104 min.
Story: After Chen Zhen's execution in Shanghai, the Japanese feared that his death would unite all Chinese kung fu schools against them. Fearing this, the Japanese gave orders to the head of the Hong Ku School, Miyamoto (Lo Lieh) to surpass all ...
Style: fast paced, independent film
Plot: martial arts, medieval, karate, kung fu, fight, bare chested male, master warrior, heroes, showdown, jeet kune do, vengeance, murder ...
Time: 1910s
Place: shanghai
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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Hapkido (1972)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Hong Kong, South Korea
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Korea, 1934. During the Japanese occupation, there is open warfare between rival martial arts schools. There is a fight in the marketplace, and three Chinese students can't stand the unfair way of students that side up with the invasors, when ...
Style: cult classic, stylized, serious, realistic
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, kung fu, fight, kung fu classic, dojo, female fight, rivalry, heroes, master warrior, murder, society, hopes ...
Time: 1930s
Place: china, korea, hong kong, asia, japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
The Shaolin Temple (1982)
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. ...
Style: exciting, serious, stylized, captivating, touching ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, kung fu, master warrior, heroes, fight, coming of age, vengeance, monastery, medieval, renegade, tough heroes, monk ...
Time: 7th century
Place: china, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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Brothers Five (1970)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 109 min.
Story: The 5 Kao brothers, separated since childhood, are unaware that the master Teng Lung Manor, Lung Chen-feng has killed their father. All five, however, seek to defeat the vicious gangsters at the Manor.
Style: grindhouse, exciting, captivating, realistic, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, kung fu, kung fu classic, revenge, murder, sword fight, kung fu master, sibling relationship, violent content, family relations, battles, uninhibited rivalry ...
Place: china, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Martial Arts of Shaolin (1986)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama
Country: Hong Kong, China
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Jet Li weasels out of the north Shaolin temple to assassinate a despotic ruler at the ruler's extravagant public birthday celebration. Two other men from the south Shaolin temple also set out to assassinate the ruler, but all three fail and are ...
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful, exciting, cult classic
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, kung fu, shaolin monk, shaolin, master warrior, one against many, soldier, heroes, kung fu master, vengeance, fight, kung fu fighting ...
Time: 80s
Place: china, asia, beijing china
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Legend of the Fist: The Return of Chen Zhen (2010)
Genre: Action, Drama, History
Country: Hong Kong, China
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Seven years after the apparent death of Chen Zhen, who was shot after discovering who was responsible for his teacher's death (Huo Yuanjia) in Japanese-occupied Shanghai. A mysterious stranger arrives from overseas and befriends a local mafia ...
Style: exciting, rough, suspenseful, realistic, stylized ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, resistance, kung fu, undercover, assassination, fight, master warrior, spy, vengeance, state affairs, dishonesty, kung fu classic ...
Time: 20th century, year 2010, 2010s, 1930s, 1940s ...
Place: china, shanghai, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Five Fingers of Death (1972)
Genre: Action, Drama, Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A young boxer joins a martial arts school to increase his skill so he can enter a martial arts competition. he leaves the school when he hears that a local gangster is terrorizing the town. he comes to the aid of a young singer and brings on the ...
Style: grindhouse, cult classic, serious, realistic, stylized ...
Audience: kids, boys' night
Plot: martial arts, kung fu, kung fu classic, exploitation, fight, wuxia, martial arts tournament, karate, competition, gangster, power relations, tough heroes ...
Time: year 1972, 70s
Place: china, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
 6.0
 2K
Shao Lin men (1976)
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: cult classic, fast, serious, psychotronic
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, medieval, exploitation, fight, master warrior, samurai sword, wing chun, secret agent, daring rescue, undercover, vengeance, rivalry ...
Time: middle ages
Place: china, hong kong, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Clan of the White Lotus (1980)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Shaolin practitioners and brothers Wu and Hung kill the merciless Pai Mei. However, Pai Mei's even more merciless brother White Lotus takes revenge; killing most of the Shaolin disciples, including Wu and Hung's girlfriend, leaving only ...
Style: grindhouse, stylized, perverse, exciting, offbeat ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, kung fu, shaolin, fight, kung fu classic, medieval, wuxia, ninja, karate, exploitation, monster, violent content ...
Place: asia, china
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
 5.2
 167
Fist of Fury 3 (1979)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 91 min.
Story: After avenging the death of his brother, Chen Shen (Bruce Li) returns home from Shanghai. He tells his mother (who went blind from crying over her son's death) that he will no longer fight. However, being a movie with the words "fist" ...
Style: independent film
Plot: martial arts, medieval, kung fu, bare chested male, vengeance, brother, mother, heroes, wing chun, master warrior, duel, brawl ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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