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To Be the Best (1993)
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To Be the Best (1993)
Original name: Karate Tiger 7 - To be the best
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, Eric and his father, his American teammates and their most feared Chinese opponents join for an explosive climax which rocks the Las Vegas Strip.
Style: independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, stylized, fast
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, tough heroes, kung fu, wedding, kickboxing, female fight, gambling, strong sexual content, heroes, obsession, betrayal, gory, master warrior, profanity, vengeance, rivalry, ambition, contests and competitions, drug abuse, dishonesty, criminal heroes, violent content, boxing, drug, fight club ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: las vegas

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, exciting and rough films with plots about martial arts, rivalry, heroes, master warrior, violent content, tough heroes and vengeance mostly in Action, Drama and Sport genres. Some movies like To Be the Best: Raven (1996), Deadly Bet (1992), The Stranger (1995), American Samurai (1992), Shootfighter II (1996). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Raven (1996)
Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Martin Grant has been hiding for years to escape his past as a ruthless mercenary in the elite force Raven Team. He's recently been engaged and are trying to forget the nightmares of murder and betrayal. Martin was convinced, that he could ...
Style: suspense, independent film, realistic, serious, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: betrayal, murder, working undercover, political conspiracy, criminal's revenge, rivalry, manhunt, vigilantism, soldier, heroes, chases and races, escapades ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Shootfighter: Fight to the Death (1993)
Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Nick and Ruben are hoodwinked into a "shootfighter" (no-holds-barred, to the death) martial arts match by the evil Mr. Lee, who has a grudge against world shootfighter champ(and teacher of Nick and Ruben) Shingo.
Style: suspense, bloody, independent film, exciting, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, fight, competition, heroes, fight scenes, boxer, violent content, strong violent content, profanity, stash, battles, ambition ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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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 ⇓
100%
 4.8
 699
The Stranger (1995)
Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: In this modern retelling of High Plains Drifter, a female biker rides into a desert town to seek revenge on "Angel" and his ruthless gang.
Style: exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: rape and revenge, biker, revenge, female martial artist, vigilante, female fighter, woman with a gun, bike, martial arts, motorcycle, women, female fight ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: usa, arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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American Samurai (1992)
Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: When a father passes on the traditional family sword to one of his two adopted sons, the other--in a fit of jealous rage--joins a yakuza drug smuggling mob. When the other son decides to find him and set things straight, things don't seem to go ...
Style: realistic, rough, suspenseful, exciting, serious ...
Plot: martial arts, yakuza, master warrior, uninhibited rivalry, vengeance, gory, culture clash, gangster, contests and competitions, siblings relations, father son relationship, jealousy ...
Time: 90s
Place: japan, asia, turkey, istanbul turkey
⇓ 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
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When the Cobra Strikes (2012)
Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: One man travels across country, smuggling illegal black diamonds to sell in order to pay for his father's pardon in South Africa. When he arrives to the United States to finalize what appeared to be a simple transaction he is soon ...
Style: exciting, serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, danger, rivalry, dishonesty, betrayal, tough heroes, smuggling, yakuza, violent content, obsessive quest, master warrior, vengeance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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Without Mercy (1995)
Genre: Action
Country: Indonesia, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: He' s been betrayed by his country, stripped of his honor and exiled to a foreign land. Now maverick Marine officer Frank Zagarino has found a way to get back what was stolen from him. And he'll get it-no matter what it takes.
Style: exciting, realistic, serious, rough, suspenseful
Plot: martial arts, ex marine, torture, tough heroes, betrayal, vigilantism, hotshot hero, heroes, fall in love, dishonesty, law enforcement, innocence lost ...
Time: 90s
Place: asia, vietnam, africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Genre: Action
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Chen Wo-Fu plays construction worker Ku Ting, whose skill at "tai chi" (shadow boxing) is as great as his pacifism. But when his girlfriend is raped by vicious gangsters, he shows everyone the true power and beauty of tai chi.
Style: exciting, serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful
Audience: boys' night
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Time: 70s, 20th century
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⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Amsterdam Heavy (2011)
Genre: Action
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 90 min.
Story: CIA Agent Martin Keele (Michael Madsen - Reservoir Dogs Kill Bill) sets the wheels spinning in this gritty urban action thriller, as mysterious gangster J.D. goes on the rampage in Amsterdam, stopping at nothing to uncover those who have betrayed him
Style: suspenseful, serious, rough, realistic, fast
Audience: boys' night
Plot: vengeance, mixed martial arts, dishonesty, law enforcement, criminal heroes, betrayal, criminal's revenge, female martial artist, female fighter, woman, woman with a gun, female fight ...
Time: 21st century
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Urban Fighter (2012)
Genre: Action
Country: Germany
Duration: 102 min.
Story: The "Bloods" are the most intimidating and violent gang in the city. A lawless city... where gangs rule the streets... The vicious and blood thirsty murderer Slater is their leader. The city is his domain... he rules! There are those who ...
Style: exciting, captivating, tense, suspense, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
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Time: 21st century
Place: germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
Balance of Power (1996)
Genre: Action
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A martial arts expert who runs a dojo for under-privileged kids from a dilapidated warehouse is shaken down by gangsters demanding protection money. Then when one of his students is gunned down in the street by the gang, he swears revenge. Meanwhile ...
Style: independent film, fast, realistic, serious, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
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Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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Duration: 104 min.
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Style: rough, exciting, suspenseful, serious, action thriller ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Action, Drama
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Duration: 97 min.
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Genre: Action
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Duration: 92 min.
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⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Bangkok Assassins (2011)
Genre: Action
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27%
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Genre: Action, Sport
Country: USA, South Africa
Duration: 92 min.
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Style: realistic, rough, suspenseful, serious, exciting ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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Genre: Action
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 98 min.
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Sucker Punch (2008)
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⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
American Shaolin (1991)
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Country: USA, Hong Kong
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Showdown (1993)
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Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Assassin's Game (2015)
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Country: USA
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