Movies like The Fighter 1995

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The Fighter (1995)
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The Fighter (1995)
Original name: Savate
Genre: Action, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: 1865. A young French officer, travelling the U.S. in search of the murderer of his best friend, gets involved in a struggle between poor farmers and a rich landowner. To help the farmers, he offers them his "Savate" (French kickboxing) skills.
Style: exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, slasher, splatter
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: kickboxing, martial arts, fight, competition, soldier, master warrior, kickboxer, revenge, old west, heroes, military, rescue, intrigue, best friends, vigilantism, escapades, vengeance, rivalry, contests and competitions, good versus evil, lone wolves, dishonesty, track down, tough law enforcer, righting the wronged ...
Place: texas

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Most similar movies to The Fighter

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, rough and exciting films with plots about rivalry, heroes, violence, gun, showdown, fistfight and gunfight mostly in Action, Western and Drama genres. Some movies like The Fighter: Forced to Kill (1994), Angel Town (1990), Gone with the West (1974), The Master Gunfighter (1975), The Hills Run Red (1966). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Forced to Kill (1994)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A repo man tries to deliver a repossessed Jaguar. He's captured by a bizarre family, straight out of the backwoods, who force him to fight in an illegal, bare-fist tournament run by an insane sheriff.
Style: serious, realistic, exciting, suspenseful, rough
Audience: boys' night
Plot: suspense, one man army, master warrior, chase, martial arts, murder, tough heroes, escapades, lone wolves, law enforcement, mad scientist, heroes ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
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100%
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Angel Town (1990)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: A graduate student and martial-arts expert rents a room in a house owned by a single mother who lives there with her son. A local street gang is trying to recruit the son, but the new tenant tries to help the boy's mother keep him out of the ...
Style: exciting, tense, serious, realistic, rough
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gang, martial arts, master warrior, gangsters, heroes, single mother, family in danger, violence spree, juvenile delinquency, rivalry, lone wolves, life is a bitch ...
Time: 90s
Place: los angeles, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Gone with the West (1974)
Genre: Action, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Enlivened by the star turns from James Caan and Sammy Davis Jr., we follow the tale of a not-so-reputable hero. Jud McGraw and a less than innocent Native American maid, known as Little Moon. They have both come to the deserted town of Black Nullar ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: tough heroes, false accusation, frame up, vengeance, dishonesty, unlikely partners, life is a bitch, partners, fugitives, rivalry, criminal, bombing ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
The Master Gunfighter (1975)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story: Don Santiago (Richard Angarola) is a vicious man who helps provoke an Indian massacre that will allow him to steal the Indians' land and claim it as his own. However, his son-in-law, Finley (Tom Laughlin), is an expert hand with both guns and ...
Style: rough, realistic, serious, exciting
Audience: boys' night
Plot: old west, small western town, outlaw gang, gunfight, samurai sword, blaxploitation, martial arts, master warrior, one man army, interracial relations, teachers and students, tough law enforcer ...
Time: 19th century
Place: mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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The Hills Run Red (1966)
Genre: Action, Western
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 89 min.
Story: After the Civil War ends, two soldiers return home with a cache of stolen money. They are caught by Union troops. One escapes, but the other is sent to prison for five years. When he gets out and goes home, he finds that his wife has died in poverty ...
Style: serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: cowboy, monster, criminal heroes, vengeance, rivalry, hidden identity, crime gone awry, dishonesty, american civil war, hitman, male female relationship, western hero ...
Place: austin texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
 6.1
 2K
Texas, Adios (1966)
Genre: Action, Western
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 93 min.
Story: The tough gun-man Burt Sullivan (Franco Nero) leaves his job as a town sheriff to go to Mexico to find the man, Cisco, who killed his father many years ago. He and his younger brother arrive in a small town where everybody is afraid of Cisco who has ...
Style: exciting, serious, realistic, rough, stylized ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: sheriff, gunfight, murder, revolutionary, criminal heroes, vigilantism, track down, lone wolves, heroes, gang, vengeance, rivalry ...
Time: 19th century
Place: texas, latin america, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Gang of Roses (2003)
Genre: Action, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Set in the 1800's, the town of Flat ridge is over run by a band of outlaws looking for lost treasure said to be buried somewhere in town. In their quest for dominance, the outlaws kill Sally, a whore who happens to be the sister of Rachel and a ...
Style: realistic, serious, tense, exciting, captivating ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: old west, criminal's revenge, gang, vigilantism, good versus evil, vengeance, heroes, dishonesty, violence, showdown, woman with a gun, feminist ...
Time: 19th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, fight, kung fu, revenge, heroic mission, rivalry, vengeance, criminal heroes, escapades, gangsters, heroes, fistfight ...
Time: 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Aces 'N' Eights (2008)
Genre: Action, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Already taking a gamble settling in the uncharted west, the peaceful settlers of a town destined for railroad greatness suddenly find themselves being ruthlessly gunned down. With no law and order to be found, justice falls onto the shoulders of an ...
Style: exciting, realistic, serious, suspenseful, rough
Audience: boys' night
Plot: brutality, old west, partners, rescue, good versus evil, americana, heroes, society, criminal heroes, husband wife relationship, gunfight, murder ...
Time: 19th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
The Last Outlaw (1993)
Genre: Action, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: The story follows a band of former Confederate soldiers who were part of a cavalry unit. Their commander, Graff (Rourke) had once been a heroic and staunch supporter of the southern cause, but after losing his family he became cold hearted and ...
Style: brutal, serious, realistic, suspenseful, surprise ending
Audience: boys' night
Plot: psychopath, civil war, river battle, american civil war, cowboy, heist, chase, on the run, bank robber, kidnapping, murder, uninhibited rivalry ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 6.3
 601
Yuma (1971)
Genre: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min.
Story: A down-and-dirty town is forced to shape up when a new sheriff (Clint Walker) comes to town. However, when a scheme is launched to destroy the lawman's authority, he must discover the perpetrators and preserve his reputation.
Style: serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful, tense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: cowboy, marshal, bar fight, old west, righting the wronged, tough heroes, tough law enforcer, gang, law enforcement, rivalry, lone wolves, heroes ...
Place: arizona, yuma arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 3.5
 466
Crooked (2006)
Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Two police detectives must protect a beautiful call girl from mob hitmen and a crooked cop.
Style: serious, exciting, rough, suspenseful, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: prostitute, murder, woman in danger, witnessing a crime, partners, police investigation, martial arts, mafia, gunfight, gangsters, buddy cop, hitman ...
Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
The Hard Corps (2006)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: UK, Germany, USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: An Army veteran assembles a team of bodyguards to protect a former boxer. Complications arise when the boxer suspects his sister may be romantically involved with the bodyguard.
Style: serious, exciting, suspenseful, realistic, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, one man army, heroes, athlete's life, gang, rivalry, vengeance, corrupt cop, violence, gunfight, rapper, fight ...
Place: british columbia, middle east, iraq, afghanistan
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Any Gun Can Play (1967)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Western
Country: Italy
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Any Gun Can Play (Italian: Vado... l'ammazzo e torno) is a 1967 spaghetti western starring Gilbert Roland, Edd Byrnes and George Hilton. The film is directed by Enzo G. Castellari and features a score by Francesco De Masi and Alessandro ...
Style: exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: bounty hunter, treasure hunt, heroes, train, murder, tough heroes, fugitives, dishonesty, partners, escapades, track down, investigation ...
Time: 60s
Place: spain, latin america, mexico, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Hour of the Gun (1967)
Genre: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Marshal Wyatt Earp kills a couple of men of the Clanton-gang in a fight. In revenge Clanton's thugs kill the marshal's brother. Thus, Wyatt Earp starts to chase the killers together with his friend Doc Holliday.
Style: serious, realistic, captivating, tense, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gunfight, buddy cop, revenge, vengeance, old west, dishonesty, gang, manhunt, criminal heroes, vigilantism, tough law enforcer, chase ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 1880s
Place: arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
The Circuit 2: The Final Punch (2002)
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 ...
Style: realistic, serious, rough, suspenseful
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, fight, martial arts tournament, prison, criminal's revenge, capoeira, college, prison life, tough heroes, life is a bitch, heroes, vengeance ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Max Havoc: Curse of the Dragon (2004)
Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Ex-kickboxing champion turned sports photographer Max Havoc again finds himself in Guam on a publicity photo shoot. Max's helpful ways land him in the lives of the vacationing sisters Jane and Christy Goody who have acquired a rare jade dragon, ...
Style: exciting, realistic, rough, serious
Plot: martial arts, chase, heroes, gangsters, rivalry, violence, kickboxing, love interest, fistfight, warrior, martial artist, showdown ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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Santee (1973)
Genre: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Jody Deakes joins up with his father after many years, just to discover that his dad is part of an outlaw gang on the run from a relentless bounty hunter named Santee. Jody is orphaned soon after Santee catches up to the gang, and follows Santee in ...
Style: serious, realistic, cult film
Audience: boys' night
Plot: bounty hunter, murder, gang, heroes, criminal's revenge, vigilantism, fugitives, dishonesty, track down, gangsters, vengeance, rivalry ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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The Gundown (2011)
Genre: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Seeking revenge and justice, Cole Brandt finds himself in the lawless town of Dead River where he is faced with one last bloody showdown for freedom in order to protect The Majestic Saloon and a beautiful woman.
Style: serious, suspenseful, exciting, realistic, rough
Plot: vengeance, heroes, vigilantism, track down, rivalry, kidnapping, hitman, tough heroes, criminal heroes, uninhibited rivalry, manhunt, mistaken identity ...
Time: 21st century
Place: arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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Fist 2 Fist (2011)
Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Still haunted by his failure to prevent the murder of a young couple years earlier, a mixed martial arts teacher must confront the skeleton in his closet when the boy who was orphaned by the killing shows up at his door.
Style: exciting, realistic, serious, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: heroes, fight, master warrior, redemption, haunted by the past, ambition, rivalry, moral dilemma, martial arts, tough guy, martial arts training, guilty conscience ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Samurai Avenger: The Blind Wolf (2009)
Genre: Action, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A blind man seeks revenge against the psychopath who took away his sight and slaughtered his wife and daughter. Eight years after the massacre, the man has returned to the desert town, now a highly trained samurai swordsman ready to seek justice. ...
Style: tense, exciting, captivating, stylized, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, vengeance, rivalry, lone wolves, gang of outlaws, murder, zombie, assassin, drifter, brutality, violence, blindness ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
The Bounty Hunters (1970)
Genre: Action, War, Western
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Set in Mexico under the rule of Emperor Maximilian I, Sabata is hired by the guerrilla leader Señor Ocaño to steal a wagonload of gold from the Austrian army. However, when Sabata and his partners Escudo and Ballantine obtain the wagon, they find ...
Style: realistic, serious, cynical, exciting, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: mexican revolution, cowboy, bounty hunter, soldier, heroes, revolutionary, small village, fight, western hero, violence, gunfight, tough guy ...
Time: 19th century, 70s, 1860s
Place: latin america, austria, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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Inferno (1997)
Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: When Interpol officer Kyle Connors, Don "The Dragon" Wilson, watches his partner die in an explosion, he swears he'll hunt down the killer. Yanked of the case by Internal Affairs, Connors defied his orders and follows the only lead he ...
Style: realistic, serious, rough
Plot: kickboxing, interpol, kickboxer, spy, fight, martial arts, fistfight, one man army, tough guy, one against many, lust, showdown ...
Time: 90s
Place: india
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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Raw Target (1995)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: This high-powered action flick follows kickboxing champion Johnny Rider, who quits the ring after accidentally killing an opponent but is forced to employ his skills again to avenge the death of his brother at the hands of crime boss Rod Sparks ...
Style: exciting, realistic, serious, suspenseful, rough
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, murder, fight, kickboxing, competition, heroes, master warrior, law enforcement, rivalry, gang, vengeance, down on your luck ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Gunsmoke: The Last Apache (1990)
Genre: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: James Arness rides again as Matt Dillon, the US Marshal he made popular in the 1955-75 TV series. In this movie he goes after a renegade Apache named Wolf (Joe Lara) who has taken his daughter captive. As a bargaining chip, Dillon helps two sons of ...
Style: exciting, suspenseful, realistic, serious, cult film
Audience: boys' night
Plot: cowboys and indians, indian chief, heroes, kidnapping, american indian, renegade, society, confined, rescue, opposites attract, golden years, vigilantism ...
Place: arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Cannon for Cordoba (1970)
Genre: Action, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: In 1916, a Mexican rebel named Cordoba steals six cannons from the forces of General Pershing who's been sent to bring order to the Texas-Mexico border. Pershing assigns a soldier named Rod Douglas to retrieve the cannons.
Style: exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, rough
Plot: mexican revolution, cowboy, train robbery, battles, soldier, warlord, mexican border, suicide, anti war, tough heroes, heroes, lone wolves ...
Time: 1910s
Place: texas, usa, latin america, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
The Return of Sabata (1971)
Genre: Western
Country: Italy, France, West Germany
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Master gunslinger Sabata arrives in Hobsonville, a town completely owned by McIntock, a robber baron who is taxing the inhabitants for the cost of future improvements to the town. Or that's what McIntock says he'll do with the money...
Style: realistic, rough, suspenseful, exciting, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: old west, heroes, small town, gunfight, dishonesty, rivalry, lone wolves, cowboy, male female relationship, husband wife relationship, outlaw gang, mixed martial arts ...
Time: 19th century, 1860s
Place: texas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
 4.5
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Street Warrior (2008)
Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: An Iraqi war vet returns home to find that his brother is in a coma from participating in an illegal underground fight club.
Style: serious, tense, captivating, exciting, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, vengeance, gladiator, vigilantism, contests and competitions, rivalry, tough heroes, deathtrap, underground fighting, cage fighting, underground tournament, war veteran ...
Place: usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Maximum Cage Fighting (2006)
Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Jimmy Garren, a former Tae Kwon Do world champion, is now retired and a widowed father to ten-year-old Katie. So when he's challenged by a famous cage fighter-and former rival Nick "the Nasty" Harper-to a fight, he refuses...until ...
Style: realistic, serious, rough
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: martial arts, one man army, tough heroes, ambition, rivalry, save the day, righting the wronged, battles, athlete and trainer, escapades, daring rescue, contests and competitions ...
Time: 21st century
Place: brazil
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Return of Shanghai Joe (1975)
Genre: Action, Western
Country: Italy, West Germany
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Return of Shanghai Joe
Plot: cowboy, bounty hunter, gunfight, one man army, outlaw gang, hitman, kung fu, martial arts, martial artist, bar brawl, tough guy, warrior ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%