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The Man with the Iron Fists (2012)
65K
Genre: Action
Country: USA, Hong Kong
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
In feudal China, a blacksmith who makes weapons for a small village is put in the position where he must defend himself and his fellow villagers.
Style:
exciting, suspenseful, bloody, cult classic, epic, romantic, retro, scenic, action packed, thrilling ...
Audience:
boys' night, manly
Plot:
martial arts, kung fu, sword fight, female martial artist, fight, gang war, blacksmith, lone hero, weapons, master warrior, revenge, betrayal, combat, vengeance, femme fatale, treasure, heroes, good versus evil, life philosophy, folk hero, heroic mission, rivalry, uninhibited rivalry, sex, hip hop ...
Time:
15th century, year 2012, 19th century, 2010s
Place:
china, asia, ancient china, hong kong, seattle
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out exciting, serious, rough and realistic films with plots about martial arts, heroes, kung fu, rivalry, fight, violence and sword fight mostly in Action, Drama and Crime genres. Some movies like The Man with the Iron Fists: The Warrior's Way (2010), Ong Bak 3 (2010), Ong Bak 2 (2008), Kung Fu Killer (2008), The Streetfighter (1974). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Action, Drama, Fantasy, Western
Country: New Zealand, South Korea
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
An Asian assassin (Dong-gun Jang) is forced to hide in a small town in the American Badlands. Also starring Kate Bosworth, Danny Huston, Tony Cox and Academy Award winner Geoffrey Rush.
Style:
visually stunning, absurd, surreal, exciting, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
ninja, samurai, martial arts, sword fight, assassin, kung fu, good versus evil, desert, forest, revenge, fight, brutality ...
Time:
19th century, year 2010
Similarity:
100%
15K
Genre: Action
Country: Thailand
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Ong Bak 3 picks up where Ong Bak 2 had left off. Tien is captured and almost beaten to death before he is saved and brought back to the Kana Khone villagers. There he is taught meditation and how to deal with his Karma, but very soon his arch rival ...
Style:
exciting, captivating, serious, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
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Time:
15th century, year 2010
Place:
asia, thailand
Similarity:
100%
33K
Genre: Action
Country: Thailand
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Moments from death a young man is rescued by a renowned warrior. Realizing unsurpassed physical potential in the young boy he trains him into the most dangerous man alive. As he becomes a young man he goes on a lone mission of vengeance against the ...
Style:
stylized, serious, harsh, action thriller, epic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
martial arts, kung fu, fight, revenge, violence, vengeance, one man army, master warrior, medieval, sword fight, danger, rivalry ...
Time:
middle ages, medieval times, year 2008, 15th century
Place:
thailand, asia, china, hong kong
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 176 min.
Story:
China is in unrest, as the Republic falls prey to Warlords like Kahn Xin, who holds an entire province hostage to the opium trade—and destroys all who oppose him. Only the revered Wudang monks dare stand in Kahn’s way in order to protect the ...
Style:
exciting, serious, captivating, tense, suspense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
martial arts, medieval, revenge, kung fu, escapades, tough heroes, race against time, rivalry, duel, village, chase, love ...
Time:
20th century, 1920s
Place:
china, asia
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Terry is a tough mercenary and a master of martial arts. When an important business magnate dies, leaving billions to his daughter, the Mafia and Yakuza try to hire Terry to kidnap the daughter. When they refuse to meet his exorbitant price, then ...
Style:
grindhouse, cult classic, bloody, stylized, controversial ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
kung fu, martial arts, karate, samurai, yakuza, mafia, exploitation, fight, violence, violent, shaolin, vengeance ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, 80s
Place:
japan, hong kong, bolivia, asia, tokyo ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Thailand, Hong Kong, France, Australia
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
In Bangkok, the young Kham was raised by his father in the jungle with elephants as members of their family. When his old elephant and the baby Kern are stolen by criminals, Kham finds that the animals were sent to Sidney. He travels to Australia, ...
Style:
action packed, brutal, light, stylized, exciting ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
martial arts, muay thai, elephant, kung fu, revenge, kickboxer, fistfight, chase, one man army, gangster, fight scenes, fight ...
Time:
year 2005, 21st century
Place:
australia, asia, sydney australia, thailand, china ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Biography, History, Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
In the sequel to the Tsui Hark classic, Wong Fei-Hung faces The White Lotus society, a fanatical cult seeking to drive the Europeans out of China through violence, even attacking Chinese who follow Western ways. Wong must also defend Dr. Sun Yat ...
Style:
cult classic, epic, realistic, serious, exciting ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
martial arts, martial artist, kung fu, kung fu master, master warrior, samurai, wuxia, fight, hopes, dalmatian, kung fu fighting, heroes ...
Time:
ancient times, 1800s, 19th century, 1890s
Place:
china, asia, japan, tokyo, las vegas ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Comedy
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Jackie Chan stars as Wong Fei-Hung, whose mischievous antics land him in hot water. Having tolerated enough of his son's mishaps, Fei-Hung's dad enlists his sadistic uncle, who specializes in drunken-style kung fu, to teach the lad some ...
Style:
humorous, cult classic, funny, exciting, intense ...
Audience:
manly, teens, boys' night
Plot:
martial arts, kung fu, wuxia, wu shu, kung fu master, teacher, drinking, female martial artist, alcoholic, master, redemption, karate ...
Time:
year 1978, 20th century, 19th century
Place:
china, asia, east asia, tokyo, hong kong
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA, Russia
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Ex-Federale agent Machete is recruited by the President of the United States for a mission which would be impossible for any mortal man – he must take down a madman revolutionary and an eccentric billionaire arms dealer who has hatched a plan to ...
Style:
parody, grindhouse, absurd, stylized, black comedy ...
Audience:
manly, teens, boys' night
Plot:
machete, blood, vigilante, fight scenes, sexual content, terrorist plot, gory, assassin, female fighter, lone hero, tough heroes, violent ...
Time:
year 2013, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
mexico, texas, washington d.c., austin texas, cuba ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Thailand, Hong Kong, France
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
When the head of a statue sacred to a village is stolen, a young martial artist goes to the big city and finds himself taking on the underworld to retrieve it.
Style:
brutal, intense, harsh, suspenseful, serious ...
Audience:
manly, boys' night
Plot:
martial arts, violence, muay thai, one man army, fight, medieval, chase, kung fu, martial arts tournament, gangster, lone hero, violent ...
Time:
year 2003, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
thailand, asia, bangkok thailand, tokyo, hong kong
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Western
Country: Japan
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
Several hundred years after the Battle of Dannoura, the Genji and Heike clans face off again in a poor mountain town with a buried treasure legend. A revolver-wielding stranger, a lone gunman, burdened with emotional scars and blessed with ...
Style:
stylized, entertaining, melancholic, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
medieval, revenge, rape, storytelling, murder, adaptation, multiple storylines, gang, one man army, mysterious character, tough heroes, uninhibited rivalry ...
Time:
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Place:
japan, asia, tokyo
Similarity:
100%
217
Genre: Action, Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Cat (Almen Wong) is a professional killer falling in love with John, a police investigator (Michael Wong). John feels torn between his job, his ex-wife and child, and Cat of course.
Style:
suspenseful, tense, noir, neo noir, moody
Plot:
female assassin, cat and mouse, assassin, organized crime, cop, triad, forbidden love, moral ambiguity, nightlife, gunfight, urban, mature ...
Time:
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Place:
hong kong, china
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100%
Genre: Action
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
boys' night, manly
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
china, asia, hong kong, tokyo
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33%
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Hong Kong, China
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 ...
Style:
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Audience:
boys' night, manly
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
china, asia, hong kong, japan, tokyo
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Action
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Wong Fei Hung must deal with both foreign threats and the nationalist Red Lantern Society in this continuation of the popular kung fu series.
Style:
anamorphic, cult classic
Plot:
martial arts, kung fu, kung fu master, sword duel, kung fu fighting, kung fu classic, wuxia, master warrior, battles, heroes, combat, showdown ...
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Action
Country: USA, Hong Kong, Thailand
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
When a stranger, Thaddeus, is found badly wounded near the village, miner Li Kung and his wife Ah Ni offer him refuge. As he heals, he becomes entrenched in a conflict that pits the townsfolk against the evil Master Ho, his nefarious Beetle Clan and ...
Style:
exciting, stylized, semi serious, epic
Audience:
teens
Plot:
martial arts, revenge, fighting crime, good versus evil, heroes, master villain, superhero, heroic mission, imaginary, superhuman powers, danger, save the day ...
Time:
year 2015, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Action
Country: Thailand
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Kham is the last in long line of guards who once watched over the King of Thailand's war elephants. Traditionally, only the perfect elephants could successfully help defend the throne, after his harrowing quest to retrieve the elephants, Kham ...
Style:
rough, suspenseful, exciting, serious, action thriller ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
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Time:
21st century
Place:
thailand
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Action
Country: Japan
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Three street toughs are hired to take down a Tokyo drug dealer in this hard-hitting Toei karate action film.
Style:
realistic, serious, exciting, rough, suspenseful
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
martial arts, fight, kung fu, ninja, sexploitation, gangster, heroes, stoner, vengeance, rivalry, drug dealing, law enforcement ...
Time:
70s
Place:
tokyo, japan, asia
Similarity:
29%
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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, culture clash, gory, gangster, one man army, contests and competitions, siblings relations, father son relationship ...
Time:
90s
Place:
japan, asia, turkey, istanbul turkey
Similarity:
29%
878
Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Don "The Dragon" Wilson is back and forced to take on the greatest legends of the martial arts world. Wilson fights off all comers while defending rock superstar Shanna (Deirdre Imershein) against the insane attacks of a fanatical veteran ...
Style:
realistic, rough, serious, suspenseful, suspense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
martial arts, violence against women, bodyguard, serial killer, murder, one man army, stalking, vietnam war, gangster, investigation, criminal heroes, vigilantism ...
Time:
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Similarity:
29%
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
In the third film of the Lone Wolf and Cub series, Ogami Itto volunteers to be tortured by Yakuza to save a prostitute and is hired by their leader to kill an evil chamberlain.
Style:
bloody, stylized, talky, manga, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
martial arts, kung fu, assassin, samurai sword, ninja, weapons, father son relationship, drifter, samurai, gory, master warrior, fight ...
Place:
japan, asia, tokyo
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A young martial artist seeks revenge on the ninja who kills his martial arts brothers and teacher.
Style:
perverse, cult classic, grindhouse, educational, exciting ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
ninja, martial arts, kung fu classic, ninjitsu, kung fu, wuxia, fight, female warrior, samurai, monster, exploitation, ancient ...
Place:
china, east asia, asia
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Action
Country: Canada, Hong Kong, UK, Thailand, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Jake and Sunti go to meet Mongkol, the leader of the Abu Karaf. Mongkol confirms that ever since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, Jantapan has worked to corner the narcotics and arms markets. Jake must engage in a battle that will put ...
Style:
suspenseful, rough, serious, realistic, suspense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
martial arts, kidnapping, black magic, skinny dipping, rescue, terrorism, tough heroes, race against time, wiretap, missing person, parents and children, lone wolves ...
Time:
90s
Place:
asia, thailand, washington d.c., hawaii
Similarity:
28%
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Genre: Action
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Eight thieves steal a treasure map and split it into eight pieces, vowing to regroup three years later. But they'll have to deal with a deadly-kicking cop.
Style:
exciting, serious, suspenseful, stylized, rough ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
kung fu, martial arts, shaolin kung fu, martial artist, blind woman, heroes, betrayal, partner, violent content, rivalry, danger, criminal heroes ...
Time:
80s
Similarity:
28%
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, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
martial arts, competition, fight, heroes, underground fighting, fight scenes, boxer, profanity, strong violent content, stash, violent content, battles ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Action
Country: USA, France
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
It was a brutal murder that sent deranged psychopath Martin Kagan to prison. It was a naive deputy warden that granted him a stay of execution. Now, the police department's tactical defence instructor, John Lomax, wants revenge for his beloved ...
Style:
independent film, exciting, realistic, serious, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
vigilante, martial arts, kung fu, martial artist, prison, mixed martial arts, murder, psychopath, vigilantism, heroes, serial killer, wrongfully committed ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Similarity:
27%
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:
realistic, serious, rough, exciting, tense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
martial arts, kung fu, shaolin, fight, kung fu classic, medieval, shaolin monk, wuxia, revenge, shaolin kung fu, exploitation, battles ...
Place:
china, asia
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27%
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Taiwan, Hong Kong
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Two men skilled in the arts of Kung-Fu are betrayed by their master and crippled for life, one left with no arms and the other with no legs. Despite their obvious disadvantages, they learn to combine their martial arts skills and seek revenge ...
Style:
cult classic, disturbing, exciting, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
martial arts, kung fu, revenge, handicapped, cripple, exploitation, heroes, disability, master criminal, misfit, confined, escapades ...
Time:
70s
Similarity:
27%
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, realistic, serious, exciting ...
Plot:
kung fu, martial arts, fight, medieval, kung fu classic, sword, shaolin monk, shaolin, wuxia, weapons, asian, master warrior ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
china, east asia
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA, Canada, South Africa
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Jackson is back, and now he has a new partner, karate champion Sean, as they must face a deadly terrorist known as "The Cobra", who has infected Sean with a virus. Sean and Jackson have no choice but to fight the Cobra and his bands of ...
Style:
serious, cult classic, captivating, grindhouse, independent film ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
ninja, martial arts, martial artist, tough heroes, fight scenes, good versus evil, terrorism, master warrior, heroes, one man army, mortal combat, vengeance ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
usa, japan, asia, caribbean
Similarity:
27%
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