Movies like Five Deadly Venoms
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Five Deadly Venoms (1978)
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Original name: 五毒
Genre: Action, Drama, Mystery
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A kung-fu student is instructed by his dying teacher to track down five of the teacher's ex-students. Each of the five is equipped with a lethal martial arts skill, and the teacher fears this might be used for evil purposes. However, not only does the teacher not know the identity of the students (who all wore masks under his training), but some of the students also don't know each other!
Style:
grindhouse, educational, fast paced, cult classic, exciting, serious, suspenseful, stylized, weird, cult film
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
martial arts, kung fu, kung fu classic, medieval, fight, karate, exploitation, wuxia, monster, samurai, ninja, shaolin, stoner, asian, fight club, badass, master warrior, martial artist, kung fu master, kung fu fighting, heroes, chases and races, escapades, rivalry, danger ...
Time:
year 1978
Place:
east asia, asia
Keyword:
chinese, iron maiden
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, exciting, realistic and grindhouse films with plots about martial arts, kung fu, fight, kung fu classic, master warrior, heroes and rivalry mostly in Action, Drama and Comedy genres. Some movies like Five Deadly Venoms: Two Champions of Shaolin (1980), Crippled Avengers (1978), The Kid with the Golden Arm (1979), One-Armed Swordsman (1967), Clan of the White Lotus (1980). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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
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boys' night
Plot:
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Time:
70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Crippled Avengers is a 1978 Shaw Brothers kung fu film directed by Chang Cheh and starring four members of the Venom Mob. It has been released in North America as Mortal Combat and Return of the 5 Deadly Venoms. The film follows a group of martial ...
Style:
cult classic, grindhouse, serious, exciting, suspenseful ...
Audience:
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Plot:
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Place:
east asia, hong kong, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Action, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Hong Kong, Taiwan
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A one-armed martial arts master is being stalked by an Imperial assassin, the master of two fighters (the Tibetan Lamas) who were killed in the previous film. When the One-Armed Boxer is invited to attend a martial arts tournament, his efforts to ...
Style:
grindhouse, cult classic, fast paced, stylized, exciting ...
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boys' night
Plot:
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Place:
asia, china
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
china, east asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
An evil gang attacks the Chi school of Golden Sword Kung Fu. One student sacrifices his life to save his teacher and his school, his dying wish is that his son be taken in as a student. Young Fang Kang grows up in the school and treasures his ...
Style:
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Audience:
boys' night
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⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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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:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Philip Kwok plays a repentant killer who vows to destroy the masked gang of which he was a member. A young fighter and his martial arts brothers come to the town to catch the killers, but one of them is not to be trusted!
Style:
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Plot:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
china, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
The plot involves patriots during the Sung Dynasty and their attempts to rescue a kidnapped prince from Ching troops who have invaded the north of China. The patriots are led by Ti Lung who recruits a mysterious but seemingly superhuman fighter ...
Style:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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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 ...
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Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Legendary Weapons of China is a martial arts fantasy film taking place during the late Qing Dynasty when Empress Dowager Cixi dispatches her agents to various factions of the Boxer Rebellion in order find supernatural martial artists that are ...
Style:
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Place:
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Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Lei Li lost his right-arm in a sword duel with the master of a martial arts school, long ago. Now, he is able to defend himself well with just his left arm, and kung fu techniques. That he proves with just the help of his friend Chung-Chieng, when ...
Style:
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Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
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Place:
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Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
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Country: Hong Kong, Taiwan
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Genre: Action
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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Country: Hong Kong, Taiwan
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Story:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Country: Hong Kong
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Story:
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Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
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Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Duration: 86 min.
Story:
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Country: Hong Kong
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Story:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Story:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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