Movies like The Legend of Bruce Lee 1976

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The Legend of Bruce Lee (1976)
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The Legend of Bruce Lee (1976)
Original name: 唐山截拳道
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 80 min.
Story: The young Bruce Lee (Ho Tsung-Tao AKA Bruce Li) has studied the philosophy and art of kung fu since boyhood, but his girlfriend says that he lives in a world of his own and all he thinks of is fighting. She begs him to change his ways, yet after a humiliating defeat Bruce vows that it will never happen again, and while witnessing street thugs preying on innocent people, he is driven to defend them. Things appear to be no better when Bruce comes to the United States to begin teaching, and is under constant attack by rival martial artists, but all the while his unorthodox style is beginning to catch on. Finally he becomes an international sensation as a movie star with a wife, kids, money, and everything he's always wanted - who then must fight for both his life and his reputation back home in Hong Kong.
Style: exciting, serious, realistic
Plot: good versus evil, martial arts, master warrior, heroes, actor's life, tough heroes, gang, rivalry, tragic hero, artists and showbiz, hotshot hero, daring rescue, uninhibited rivalry, heroic mission, righting the wronged, biopic, violent content, fight, kung fu, violence, asian, martial artist, brawl, fistfight, action violence ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: hong kong
Keyword: bruce lee, chinese

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, exciting and rough films with plots about martial arts, kung fu, heroes, master warrior, fight, fistfight and violence mostly in Drama, Action and Biography genres. Some movies like The Legend of Bruce Lee: Fist of Legend (1994), Bruce Lee, My Brother (2010), Li Xiao Long chuan qi (2008), Bruce Lee: A Dragon Story (1977), Two Champions of Shaolin (1980). 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 ...
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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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Bruce Lee, My Brother (2010)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Hong Kong, China
Duration: 129 min.
Story: Bruce Lee, My Brother is an action-dramatic biopic of the eponymous martial arts legend as told by his younger brother, Robert Lee. It revolves around Bruce Lee's life as a rebellious adolescent in Hong Kong before he sets off for the USA and ...
Style: exciting, serious, realistic, captivating, mind blowing
Plot: martial arts, master warrior, actor's life, ambition, lifestyle, rising to stardom, artists and showbiz, heroes, celebrity culture, showbiz, wing chun, biopic ...
Place: china
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Li Xiao Long chuan qi (2008)
Genre: Action, Biography, Drama
Country: China
Duration: 45 min.
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Story: The story of the legendary martial arts icon Bruce Lee following him from Hong Kong to America and back again, leading up to his tragic death at the age of 32.
Style: realistic, captivating, serious, stylized, retro ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: kung fu, martial arts, tough guy, follow your dream, actor's life, rising to stardom, rivalry, lifestyle, society, cultural icon, instructor, filmmaking ...
Time: 60s, 20th century, 70s
Place: asia, hong kong, usa, china
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Bruce Lee: A Dragon Story (1977)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Bruce Li plays a young kung fu expert (and waiter) who is trying to live peacefully in San Francisco with his marital arts-challenged friend. But they run afoul of some American thugs, and the fight is on...right!
Style: independent film, captivating, exciting, serious, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, kung fu, heroes, master warrior, righting the wronged, tough heroes, rivalry, philosopher, asian man, movie star, martial artist, fistfight ...
Time: 70s
Place: california, usa, san francisco
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Two Champions of Shaolin (1980)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Shaolin warrior Tung Chien-chen is injured in battle against the hated Wu Tang clan, and nursed back to health by a knife-throwing master. As he recovers, Tung learns this deadly art, and also falls in love with his teacher's daughter. But when ...
Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, kung fu, shaolin, fight, master warrior, secret agent, heroes, dealing with death, vigilantism, gang, rivalry, vengeance ...
Time: 70s
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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
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Time: 70s, 20th century
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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
Plot: martial arts, medieval, kung fu, heroes, master warrior, superhuman powers, pirate, vengeance, hotshot hero, tough law enforcer, chase, rivalry ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: hong kong
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Sword Master (2016)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: China, Hong Kong
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Weary of the bloodshed and violence from the martial arts world, a powerful swordsman banishes himself to the humble life a vagrant, wandering the fringes of society. But his violent past refuses to let him go quietly. The master swordsman must ...
Style: exciting, humorous, stylized, light, psychotronic ...
Plot: martial arts, medieval, violence, master warrior, brothel, illness, heroes, warrior, flirting, prostitute, supernatural ability, journey ...
Place: china
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100%
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Way of the Dragon 2 (1979)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A classic tribute to a legendary Kung-Fu master. The high-powered action and deadly fistfights don’t let up for a moment. When all the chips are down, the Dragon Master will prevail!
Style: exciting, captivating, realistic, serious, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: exploitation, martial arts, heroes, tough heroes, righting the wronged, discrimination, interracial relations, rivalry, society, vengeance, chinaman, violence ...
Time: 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
The Kid with the Golden Arm (1979)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Jin bei tong opens with a group of escort/guards preparing to move a shipment of gold from the local government to an area stricken by famine... one of the very few Venom films where all six Venom actors are present within a single film.
Style: cult classic, fast, exciting, realistic, serious ...
Plot: kung fu, martial arts, fight, medieval, kung fu classic, sword, wuxia, shaolin, weapons, asian, sword fight, special agent ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: china, east asia
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44%
To Kill with Intrigue (1977)
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, serious, realistic
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, asian, kung fu, pregnancy, gory, heroes, fall in love, intrigue, gang, leadership, vengeance, rivalry ...
Time: 70s
Place: east asia, asia
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43%
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
Plot: martial arts, kung fu, fight, blaster, heroes, master warrior, violent content, violence spree, rivalry, vengeance, danger, village ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: asia, china
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42%
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Fearless Tiger (1991)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Canada, USA, Hong Kong
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A man's brother dies of an overdose from a new and potent drug introduced by a drug gang. He puts off his wedding to a beautiful model and postpones taking over the family business while he travels to Hong Kong to learn Tiger Claw kung fu from ...
Style: independent film, semi serious, realistic
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gang, master warrior, wedding, violent content, hopes, heroes, vengeance, rivalry, betrayal, obsession, tough heroes, drug abuse ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: hong kong, canada
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39%
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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 ...
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Kill the Shogun (1975)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Action-drama set during the 1904 occupation of Korea (by Japan). An incident is sparked when the Japanese force the Korean soldiers to strip off their uniforms. Two of the Korean soldiers refuse and go on a rampage against the Japanese, forcing them ...
Style: suspenseful, realistic, serious, tense, rough ...
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Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: hong kong, china, korea
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39%
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Small Tiger (1973)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Ho Mei Fong is a young woman in trouble, running from a gang of criminals with something of importance hidden in her purse. She dies in Chien Chen's taxi while trying to escape, but not before hiding the purse. Chien Chen is now involved ...
Style: serious
Audience: boys' night
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Time: 70s
Place: asia, hong kong
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5 Masters of Death (1974)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Hong Kong, Taiwan
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Hu Te et al. escape the burning Shaolin temple after the Qing soldiers destroyed it in Shaolin Temple. The group of 5 decide to develop secret codes to identify fellow patriots, enlist those patriots and eventually meet up again to escape to the ...
Style: realistic, serious, tense, exciting, rough
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, kung fu, kung fu classic, medieval, fight, karate, martial arts training, fistfight, violent content, master warrior, vengeance, danger ...
Place: china, asia
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38%
The Steel Fisted Dragon (1977)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Indonesia
Duration: 78 min.
Story: A kung-fu master hunts down the villain who killed his mother.
Plot: martial arts, kung fu, bare chested male, martial artist, hand to hand combat, kung fu fighting, brawl, kung fu master, violence, fight, villain, kung fu classic ...
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36%
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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
Plot: martial arts, kung fu, medieval, fight, heroes, master warrior, wartime life, school, murder, heroic mission, against the odds, tough heroes ...
Place: taiwan, asia, hong kong
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Enter the Game of Death (1978)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Hong Kong, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: It's approaching World War 2 and China is expecting an to be invaded by Germany and Japan. Mr Ang is hired by a Chinese group who are after a "secret document." Many other groups want to get their hands on it as well. It's on the ...
Plot: kung fu, martial arts, exploitation, fight scenes, master warrior, fight, kung fu fighting, martial artist, action violence, hand to hand combat, fistfight, asian ...
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36%
Bruce the Super Hero (1979)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Hong Kong, Philippines
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Bruce returns to Manila to investigate the murder of his sister, Susan Chang. On the night of her attack she was helped by an amateur-boxer, Ramon "Rocky" Roblado. Behind Susan's death is the 'Black Dragon Society', who are ...
Style: independent film
Plot: martial arts, karate, hand to hand combat, bare chested male, death, night, boxer, jeet kune do, violence, martial artist, fistfight, kung fu fighting ...
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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
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Place: asia, china
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35%
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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 ...
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Place: china, hong kong, asia
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32%
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Last Tiger from Canton (1973)
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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Audience: boys' night
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Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: east asia, asia
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32%
Hard Way to Die (1979)
Genre: Action, Drama, Western
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Sung Shao Chong (Billy Chong) traverses the Arizona desert, helping those in need on the way to meet his old friend Kum (Lam Hak-Ming) in a small western town. Once there, he runs into a group of men who terrorize the town and extort the local ...
Style: serious, realistic, exciting, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
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Time: 70s
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32%
Ip Man: The Final Fight (2013)
Genre: Action, Biography, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 100 min.
Story: In postwar Hong Kong, legendary Wing Chun grandmaster Ip Man is reluctantly called into action once more, when what begin as simple challenges from rival kung fu styles soon draw him into the dark and dangerous underworld of the Triads. Now, to ...
Style: exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, scenic ...
Audience: boys' night
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Time: 2010s, 1940s, 20th century
Place: china, hong kong, asia
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31%
Snake-Crane Secret (1976)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Hong Kong, Taiwan
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Snake and Crane Secret is a fast paced martial arts action film about a familys battle for survival. A family tries to uphold their honor while keeping their Sacred Kung Fu book from getting into the wrong hands. A tale of deceit mistrust and ...
Style: exciting, serious, rough, fast
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, medieval, kung fu, kung fu classic, family relations, heroes, master warrior, qing dynasty, gangster, violent content, tough heroes, master villain ...
Place: hong kong
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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
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Time: 1910s
Place: shanghai
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31%
The Great Hero (1978)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 90 min.
Story: During World War II, Japanese soldiers invade a small Chinese town. Li immediately takes out four of the soldiers who want to steal some chickens. The story then follows the bumbling Japanese soldiers and their commander until Li shows up again for ...
Style: fast paced, independent film
Plot: shootout, violence, pistol, hand to hand combat, brawl, two man army, kung fu classic, kung fu master, fight, gunfight, karate, fistfight ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
The Invincible Armour (1977)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Hong Kong, Taiwan
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Hwang Jang Lee is a corrupt Ming guard who frames John Liu for murder. A wanted fugitive, John hides out with a teen who is an expert in the infamous Iron Armor technique, a technique that means the expert can withstand anything. However, Hwang is ...
Style: serious, realistic, rough, exciting
Audience: boys' night
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Place: china, hong kong, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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