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Rigged (2008)
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
In the seedy underground of illegal prizefighting, a corrupt boxing promoter is embroiled in a dangerous fight-fixing scheme with his female prizefighter.
Style:
serious, realistic, exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
female boxer, female fighter, martial arts, haunted by the past, betrayal, chase, contests and competitions, dishonesty, athlete's life, cons and scams, boxing, streetfighting, intergender wrestling, father daughter relationship, underground fighting, fight, boxer, competition, female athlete, woman fights a man, female fight, chases and races, rivalry, ambition, gambling ...
Time:
year 2008, contemporary
Place:
oklahoma, texas, florida, utah, missouri, kentucky
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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 rivalry, martial arts, fight, contests and competitions, mixed martial arts, heroes and underground fighting mostly in Action, Drama and Crime genres. Some movies like Rigged: American Brawler (2013), Sunland Heat (2004), Bare Knuckles (2010), Circle of Pain (2010), Honor (2006). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A martial arts instructor must enter the world of illegal pit fighting in order to save his family and his dojo.
Style:
serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful
Plot:
martial arts, ambition, rivalry, contests and competitions, dishonesty, fight, underground fighting, corruption, gambling, violence, battles, wrestler ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
san francisco
Similarity:
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
A martial artist tries to form a new life after leaving her husband who is a part of organized crime. But after her daughter is kidnapped, it's time for her to spring into action.
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Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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94%
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:
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Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
martial arts, female boxer, boxing, contests and competitions, single parent, family relations, ambition, female fight, trophy, love, brutality, single mother ...
Time:
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Place:
usa
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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, tense, suspense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
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Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
65%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Sequel to the 2002 film. This time, Heavyweight Champ George "Iceman" Chambers (White) is sent to a Russian jail on trumped-up drug charges. In order to win his freedom he must fight against the jailhouse fighting champ Uri Boyka (Adkins) ...
Style:
suspenseful, serious, realistic, exciting, rough ...
Audience:
manly, boys' night, teens, girls' night
Plot:
boxing, prison, martial arts, kickboxing, tournament, convict, contests and competitions, fight, prison life, tough heroes, martial artist, fistfight ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
russia, usa, new jersey, california, tokyo
Similarity:
60%
614
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
In a world where street gangs collide with the law, neighborhood friends, Raymond and Gabriel, must decide which side of the battle to join. This will be the ultimate fight - the one for power, family, and HONOR.
Style:
captivating, exciting, suspense, tense, psychological ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
streetfighting, martial arts, underground fighting, gang, urban ghetto life, friendship, uninhibited rivalry, rivalry, organized crime, showdown, gang war, underground tournament ...
Similarity:
58%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
On the inside, there are no rules. See what happens when Prison Officials Profit from Illegal fights.
Style:
suspenseful, serious, realistic, rough
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
prison, tough guy, frame up, contests and competitions, police investigation, criminal's revenge, criminal heroes, underground fighting, jail, fight, martial arts, electric torture ...
Similarity:
55%
35K
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Small-town boy Shawn MacArthur has come to New York City with nothing. Barely earning a living selling counterfeit goods on the streets, his luck changes when scam artist Harvey Boarden sees that he has a natural talent for streetfighting. When ...
Style:
intense, suspense, atmospheric, stylized, harsh ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens, girls' night
Plot:
street fighter, boxing, martial arts, streetfighting, underground fighting, brutality, boxer, battles, athlete and trainer, mixed martial arts, kickboxer, rags to riches ...
Time:
year 2009, 20th century
Place:
new york, usa, brooklyn new york city, alabama, bronx new york city ...
Similarity:
51%
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216
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Story of a woman who seeks revenge on the Russian Mob for the death of her father. She battles her way up in the underground mixed martial arts fighting world to find those responsible and avenge his death.
Style:
intense, tense, suspense, suspenseful
Plot:
revenge, mixed martial arts, death of father, contests and competitions, vengeance, criminal's revenge, lifestyle, character change, ultimate fighting championship, female criminal, martial arts, life philosophy ...
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Adapted from the successful novel, Dead in 5 Heartbeats, by Ralph "Sonny" Barger with Keith and Kent Zimmerman. The story follows the Infidelz MC's former President, Patch Kinkade, who has left his personal demons behind for the calm ...
Style:
tense, captivating, suspense, exciting, independent film ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
motorcycle race, rivalry, gang, betrayal, vengeance, biker, tough heroes, dishonesty, social relations, motorcycle chase, bike, danger ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, california
Similarity:
47%
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:
serious, rough, realistic, suspenseful
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
underground fighting, martial arts, prison, tough heroes, rivalry, vengeance, starting over, vigilantism, contests and competitions, haunted by the past, redemption, criminal heroes ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Witnessing a drug deal involving local gang members and cops, an Australian police officer feels he can no longer be just an observer. He joins forces with a local teacher who just happens to be a karate expert and together they try to take back the ...
Style:
exciting, serious, suspense, independent film, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
martial arts, female fighter, good versus evil, drug abuse, woman with a gun, female fight, gangster, violent content, righting the wronged, criminal heroes, fighting crime, life is a bitch ...
Time:
90s
Place:
australia
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
In Los Angeles, an ex-con (White) takes the underground fighting world by storm in his quest to fulfill a promise to a dead friend.
Style:
inspirational, exciting, brutal, harsh, rough ...
Audience:
manly, boys' night
Plot:
martial arts, lone hero, streetfighting, prison fight, kickboxing, prison, fistfight, revenge, boxing, martial artist, hand to hand combat, gangster ...
Time:
year 2009, future, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, california, usa
Similarity:
44%
834
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Hotheaded laborer B.J. Hammer can't go long without ending up in a fight, and, after he comes out on top in a particularly impressive workplace scuffle, word of his brawling skills makes its way to Davis, a top boxing manager. Hammer is hired ...
Style:
grindhouse, independent film, realistic, serious, exciting ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
blaxploitation, boxing, interracial sex, underground fighting, black, martial arts, gangster, prizefight, ambition, rivalry, athlete's life, criminal's revenge ...
Time:
year 1972, 70s
Place:
los angeles
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: France
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, psychological, tense, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
martial arts, underground fighting, rivalry, redemption, contests and competitions, danger, fight, performer's life, heroes, athlete's life, hopes, prison ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france
Similarity:
43%
432
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, exciting, tense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
female martial artist, female gunfighter, save the day, rescue, one man army, danger, government agency, espionage, dishonesty, law enforcement, confined, undercover ...
Similarity:
42%
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, cage fighting, martial arts, mixed martial arts, rivalry, contests and competitions, athlete's life, fight, danger, heroes, tough heroes, mentor ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
42%
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, bleak, exciting, inspirational ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
kickboxing, violence, kickboxer, martial arts, muscleman, muay thai, fight, brutality, master warrior, vengeance, mentor, heroes ...
Place:
thailand
Similarity:
42%
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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 ...
Style:
exciting, serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating ...
Plot:
martial arts, rivalry, survival, danger, contests and competitions, ambition, profanity, violence, mortal combat, fight, murder, underground fighting ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Brandon, a respected street fighter, is forced to flee the city after his brother is murdered and the money that was supposed to be paid back to a local gangster is stolen. While lying low at his father's house in a small Southern town, Brandon ...
Style:
suspenseful, exciting, serious, realistic, rough
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
underground fighting, martial arts, fight, street fight, family relations, contests and competitions, rivalry, power relations, tough heroes, athlete and trainer, mixed martial arts, competition ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Indonesia, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Kris and Preston team up once again to take on powerful gangster Buntao. But Buntao has problems of his own, dealing with Dazo, another gangster who is on a steady rise to power...
Style:
suspense, independent film, fast, exciting, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
martial arts, female martial artist, female fighter, woman with a gun, female fight, fistfight, fight, heroes, profanity, partner, violent content, special agent ...
Time:
90s
Place:
australia
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
Modesty, raised by a casino owner after being abandoned by her parents, has become skilled in the ways of fighting and now acts as the casino owner's bodyguard. When she's unable to prevent the owner's murder at the hands of an old ...
Style:
stylized, suspenseful, serious, independent film, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
murder, gangster, martial arts, tough heroes, secret identity, vigilantism, vengeance, femme fatale, criminal's revenge, destiny, criminal heroes, betrayal ...
Place:
tangier morocco, morocco
Similarity:
39%
626
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
When the boss of a ruling Hong Kong triad is arrested and executed in China for counterfeiting money, mayhem ensues as the mob's leading contenders circle the throne.
Style:
captivating, exciting, bleak, tense, bloody ...
Plot:
triad, martial arts, female warrior, rivalry, betrayal, law enforcement, female martial artist, fight, killer, murder, danger, female fight ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
china
Similarity:
38%
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327
Genre: Action, Crime
Country: Hong Kong, China
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Mandy slaves away at two jobs struggling to support her family while dreaming about resurrecting her father's martial arts academy, a once famous school now forgotten since an accident took his leg.
Style:
exciting, serious, captivating, suspense, tense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
ninja, martial arts, contests and competitions, rivalry, master warrior, gambling, female bodyguard, abduction, underground tournament, martial arts tournament, medieval, danger ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
china, hong kong, asia
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
SUPREME CHAMPION is a fun, sexy, stylized and fast paced fight action thriller about honor and courage featuring eight world class mixed martial arts champions.
Style:
serious, exciting, captivating, tense, psychological ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
martial arts, rivalry, contests and competitions, danger, tough heroes, cage fighting, abduction, blackmail, mixed martial arts, kickass, underground fighting, intergender wrestling ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
36%
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, martial arts tournament, underground fighting, gangster, gang, obsession, redemption, ambition, contests and competitions, rivalry, tough heroes, alcohol abuse ...
Time:
90s
Place:
las vegas, usa
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
In the city where image is everything, the criminal underworld holds a fight tournament where legends are born, and the men who own them rule the streets.
Style:
serious, realistic, suspense, tense, rough
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
athlete's life, tough heroes, heroes, ambition, rivalry, contests and competitions, vengeance, underdog, fight, underground tournament, underground fighting, competition ...
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Action, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Rebellious Jake Tyler is lured into an ultimate underground fight Scene at his new high school, after receiving threats to the safety of his friends and family Jake decides to seek the mentoring of a veteran fighter who trains him for one final ...
Style:
serious, exciting, teen, entertaining, inspirational ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, chick flick, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
martial arts, high school, youth, athlete and trainer, underground fighting, duel, teenager, fight, boxing, revenge, streetfighting, rivalry ...
Time:
2000s, year 2008, 80s, 21st century
Place:
florida, usa, orlando florida, brazil, tokyo
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama
Country: Hong Kong, China
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Set in Shanghais Gangster era of the early 1900s, THE LAST TYCOON tells the tale of CHENG (Chow Yun-Fat), a young man who is set up by the chief of police (Sammo Hung) and must leave the life he knows and QIU (Monica Mok), the woman he loves, to ...
Style:
tense, suspenseful, serious, exciting, captivating ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
chinese mafia, gangster, rivalry, betrayal, dishonesty, heroic bloodshed, love triangle, danger, fight club, triad, violent content, gang ...
Time:
20th century, 1920s, 1930s, 90s
Place:
china, shanghai, asia
Similarity:
33%
881
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Action
Country: Russia, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
In an age of Gladiators, the power that was Rome held its empire together with the might of its armies, the sweat and tears of its conquests, and the cheers and bloodlust of its citizens - glorified in the deadly spectacle of The Arena. Stolen from ...
Style:
serious, captivating, exciting, suspense, period piece ...
Plot:
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Place:
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