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Merantau Warrior (2009)
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Merantau Warrior (2009)
Original name: Merantau
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Indonesia
Duration: 134 min.
Story: In Minangkabau, West Sumatera, Yuda a skilled practitioner of Silat Harimau is in the final preparations to begin his "Merantau" a century's old rites-of-passage to be carried out by the community's young men that will see him leave the comforts of his idyllic farming village and make a name for himself in the bustling city of Jakarta.
Style: exciting, rough, serious, realistic, action thriller, action packed, non stop action, fast, indonesian
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, protector, fight, journey, violence, heroes, on the run, kung fu, rescue, life is a bitch, rivalry, danger, medieval, gang, chase, hardcore, fight scenes, teenager, mafia, karate, prostitution, telephone call, mobster, main character dies, fighter ...
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: asia, indonesia
Keyword: gangsters, fighting movie

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, exciting and rough films with plots about martial arts, kung fu, fight, rivalry, master warrior, heroes and violence mostly in Action, Drama and Thriller genres. Some movies like Merantau Warrior: The Raid (2011), The Protector 2 (2013), Ong-Bak: The Thai Warrior (2003), The Invincible Armour (1977), The Protector (2005). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Raid (2011)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Indonesia, France, USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Deep in the heart of Jakarta's slums lies an impenetrable safe house for the world's most dangerous killers and gangsters. Until now, the run-down apartment block has been considered untouchable to even the bravest of police. Cloaked under ...
Style: brutal, suspenseful, exciting, suspense, serious ...
Audience: boys' night, manly
Plot: martial arts, fight, swat, survival, trapped, kung fu, gunfight, death, fistfight, warrior, gang, swat team ...
Time: year 2011, 2010s, future, 21st century
Place: middle east, east asia, indonesia
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The Protector 2 (2013)
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, exciting, suspenseful, serious, action thriller ...
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Time: 21st century
Place: thailand
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Ong-Bak: The Thai Warrior (2003)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Thailand, France, Hong Kong
Duration: 108 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: intense, stylized, harsh, suspenseful, realistic ...
Audience: manly, boys' night
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Time: year 2003, 2000s, 21st century
Place: thailand, asia, bangkok thailand
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The Invincible Armour (1977)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Hong Kong, Taiwan
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Hwang Jang Lee is a corrupt Ming guard who frames John Liu for murder. A wanted fugitive, John hides out with a teen who is an expert in the infamous Iron Armor technique, a technique that means the expert can withstand anything. However, Hwang is ...
Style: serious, realistic, rough, exciting
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The Protector (2005)
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Duration: 111 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, stylized, light, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, kung fu, muay thai, elephant, revenge, chase, gangster, fight scenes, fight, heroes, robbery, power struggle ...
Time: year 2005, 21st century
Place: australia, asia, sydney australia, thailand
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60%
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Genre: Action, Drama
Country: France, Thailand
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Manit (Jon Foo) witnessed the murder of his parents when he was just 10 years old. The killers shot him in the head, but he miraculously survived. However, the damage to his brain left him unable to experience regular human emotions. A martial arts ...
Style: exciting, suspense, captivating, tense, fast ...
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The Raid 2 (2014)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Indonesia, USA
Duration: 150 min.
Story: After fighting his way through an apartment building populated by an army of dangerous criminals and escaping with his life, SWAT team member Rama goes undercover, joining a powerful Indonesian crime syndicate to protect his family and uncover ...
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Place: indonesia
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Yamada: Samurai of Ayothaya (2010)
Genre: Action, Drama, History
Country: Thailand
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Based on a true historic figure, Yamada Nagamasa, a Japanese adventurer who went to Ayothaya in the 16th century and became a soldier in King Naresuan's army. After the war in Burma it's restless in Ayothaya, because of a mysterious group ...
Style: rough, exciting, realistic, serious, inspirational
Audience: boys' night
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Duration: 109 min.
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Style: realistic, serious, tense, exciting, rough
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Headshot (2016)
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Duration: 118 min.
Story: A young man washes ashore, his memory gone - but his past comes back to haunt him after he is nursed back to health and his killing ability is needed when he takes on a powerful drug lord.
Style: brutal, action thriller, harsh, tense, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
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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
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Country: Hong Kong, Taiwan
Duration: 120 min.
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Audience: boys' night
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29%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 100 min.
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28%
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The Deadly Duo (1971)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 94 min.
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Furie (2019)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Vietnam
Duration: 98 min.
Story: When a little girl is kidnapped by a trafficking ring, they soon find they messed with the wrong child. Her mother, a notorious former gang leader, is close on their trail and will go to any lengths to bring her child home.
Style: suspense, serious, sinister
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Executioners from Shaolin (1977)
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 ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Rage and Honor II (1993)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Indonesia, USA
Duration: 98 min.
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Style: suspense, independent film, fast, exciting, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
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Time: 90s
Place: australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
The Iron-Fisted Monk (1977)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Iron Fisted Monk, heavyweight HK superstar Sammo Hung's directorial debut, is a powerful old school kung fu movie which sees the portly one at his physical peak on screen as well as calling the shots behind the camera. Husker (Sammo) is a ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, stylized
Audience: boys' night
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⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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