Movies like The King of Fighters

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The King of Fighters (2009)
 3.1
 5K
The King of Fighters (2009)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan, Taiwan, Germany, Canada, USA, UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story: The King of Fighters movie will introduce a new science fiction spin into the setting established in the games universe by following the surviving members of three legendary fighting clans who are continually whisked away to other dimensions by an evil power. As the fighters enter each new world they battle that universes native defenders, while the force that brought them seeks to find a way to invade and infect our world.
Style: exciting, serious, tense, captivating, suspense, social, cult classic, fast, surprise ending, psychotronic
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: martial arts, female martial artist, prophecy, undercover, chase, teleportation, portal, good versus evil, mortal combat, uninhibited rivalry, supernatural ability, chases and races, escapades, contests and competitions, female warrior, woman fights a man, theft, tough heroes, superhero, snake, cia, escape, video game, hospital, sword ...
Place: seattle, boston, seattle washington

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Most similar movies to The King of Fighters

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out exciting, serious, suspenseful and fast films with plots about martial arts, danger, murder, rivalry, heroes, hand to hand combat and violence mostly in Action, Thriller and Sci-Fi genres. Some movies like The King of Fighters: Nick Fury: Agent of Shield (1998), Mortal Kombat: Annihilation (1997), Resident Evil: Retribution (2012), Death Race (2008), G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (2009). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Nick Fury: Agent of Shield (1998)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Marvel's hard-boiled hero is brought back to fight the menace of Hydra after exiling himself in the Yukon since the end of the Cold War. The children of the former Hydra head, Baron Von Stucker, have taken charge of the terrorist organization. ...
Style: exciting, suspenseful, serious, captivating, tense ...
Plot: superhero, terrorism, good versus evil, fight, terrorist plot, female spy, escapades, heroic mission, undercover, danger, spy, comic book ...
Time: 90s
Place: yukon, canada, new york, berlin germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Mortal Kombat: Annihilation (1997)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A group of heroic warriors has only six days to save the planet in "Mortal Kombat Annihilation." To succeed they must survive the most spectacular series of challenges any human, or god, has ever encountered as they battle an evil warlord ...
Style: exciting, serious, suspenseful, stylized, cult classic ...
Audience: kids, boys' night, teens, family outing
Plot: martial arts, ninja, end of the world, fight scenes, transformation, fight, good versus evil, alternate dimension, save the world, kung fu, death, robot ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Resident Evil: Retribution (2012)
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Germany, Canada, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: The Umbrella Corporation’s deadly T-virus continues to ravage the Earth, transforming the global population into legions of the flesh eating Undead. The human race’s last and only hope, Alice, awakens in the heart of Umbrella’s most ...
Style: scary, stylized, apocalyptic, exciting, futuristic ...
Audience: boys' night, teens, adult
Plot: zombie, post apocalypse, monster, virus, female fighter, zombie apocalypse, infected, infection, tough girl, plague, chase, pandemic ...
Time: future, year 2012, 2010s
Place: tokyo, washington d.c., moscow russia, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.4
 218K
Death Race (2008)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany, UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Terminal Island, New York: 2020. Overcrowding in the US penal system has reached a breaking point. Prisons have been turned over to a monolithic Weyland Corporation, which sees jails full of thugs as an opportunity for televised sport. Adrenalized ...
Style: exciting, serious, futuristic, action packed, visually appealing ...
Audience: boys' night, manly
Plot: prison, car chase, racing, car race, tough heroes, tough guy, revenge, prison life, survival, contests and competitions, explosions, race ...
Time: year 2008, future, 2010s, year 2012, 2020s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (2009)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: From the Egyptian desert to deep below the polar ice caps, the elite G.I. JOE team uses the latest in next-generation spy and military equipment to fight the corrupt arms dealer Destro and the growing threat of the mysterious Cobra organization to ...
Style: exciting, entertaining, action adventure, action packed, predictable ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick, boys' night
Plot: ninja, good versus evil, danger, military, heroic mission, superhero, comic book, heroes, mad scientist, government, dystopian future, female assassin ...
Time: future, 2000s, year 2009, 17th century
Place: japan, washington d.c., egypt, east africa, tokyo ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Control Factor (2003)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller, Mystery
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 84 min.
Story: An average everyman discovers he's the unwitting target of an ultra secret domestic black-op centering on mind control.
Style: psychological, suspenseful, serious, grindhouse, surprise ending
Audience: boys' night
Plot: mind control, brainwashing, political conspiracy, uncover truth, rivalry, undercover, government agency, investigation, dishonesty, supernatural ability, murder, conspiracy ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.7
 124K
Priest (2011)
Genre: Action, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: In an alternate world, humanity and vampires have warred for centuries. After the last Vampire War, the veteran Warrior Priest lives in obscurity with other humans inside one of the Church's walled cities. When the Priest's niece is ...
Style: dark fantasy, scary, exciting, suspenseful, futuristic ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: vampire, supernatural, apocalypse, post apocalypse, clergy, dystopia, distopia, danger, good versus evil, monster, vampire hunter, master warrior ...
Time: future, year 2011, 2010s, year 2000
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.4
 573K
X2 (2003)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story: Professor Charles Xavier and his team of genetically gifted superheroes face a rising tide of anti-mutant sentiment led by Col. William Stryker. Storm, Wolverine and Jean Grey must join their usual nemeses – Magneto and Mystique – to unhinge ...
Style: exciting, action packed, humorous, intense, serious ...
Audience: teens, kids, chick flick, boys' night, adult
Plot: superhero, super powers, mutant, supernatural ability, x men, teleportation, superhuman powers, school, mind control, villain, telepathy, comic book ...
Time: future, year 2003, 2000s, 20th century, near future ...
Place: washington d.c., canada, usa, boston
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Cyborg 3: The Recycler (1994)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Prepare yourself for the all too deadly future. Cash, the heroine of Cyborg 2, is living safe in the free zone. But not for long. Biomechanical problems are taking down her systems and a visit to a doctor in Silica confirms her worst fears. She is ...
Style: serious, futuristic, rough, bleak, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: androids and robots, post apocalypse, cyborgs, pregnancy, chase, battles, prostitute, motorcycle gang, chaos, androids, nemesis, community ...
Time: future, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
CIA Code Name: Alexa (1992)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A CIA operative kills a terrorist during a prison break. When a group of terrorists attempts to recover a microchip implanted in the man's body, one of them is captured and convinced by the CIA to work for them as an informer.
Style: independent film, fast, realistic, serious, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: terrorism, female warrior, cia, spy, female fighter, female fight, woman with a gun, prison break, terrorist, femme fatale, heroes, espionage ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Bridge of Dragons (1999)
Genre: Action, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: The tough and cold mercenary Warchild, is working for the man who took care of his war training and upbringing, the greedy General Ruechang. Ruechang is planning to take over the country by marrying Princess Halo. But Halo discovers that Ruechang ...
Style: serious, futuristic, stylized, suspenseful, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, terrorism, soldier, military, battles, danger, master warrior, good versus evil, coldhearted, heroic mission, adoption, tough heroes ...
Time: 90s
Place: asia, japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever (2002)
Genre: Action, Crime, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Jonathan Ecks, an FBI agent, realizes that he must join with his lifelong enemy, Agent Sever, a rogue DIA agent with whom he is in mortal combat, in order to defeat a common enemy. That enemy has developed a "micro-device" that can be ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, rough, action packed, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: one woman army, spy, assassination, vengeance, femme fatale, martial arts, female martial artist, secret agent, tough girl, tough heroes, gunfight, sniper ...
Time: year 2002
Place: vancouver
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 136 min.
Story: After the cataclysmic events in New York with The Avengers, Steve Rogers, aka Captain America is living quietly in Washington, D.C. and trying to adjust to the modern world. But when a S.H.I.E.L.D. colleague comes under attack, Steve becomes ...
Style: exciting, epic, futuristic, suspenseful, political ...
Audience: teens, kids, girls' night, chick flick, boys' night ...
Plot: superhero, conspiracy, tough girl, one against many, assassin, heroism, comic book, friendship, female agent, chase, villain, anti heroine ...
Time: 2010s, year 2014, future, 21st century
Place: washington d.c., new jersey, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.5
 8K
Naked Weapon (2002)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A mysterious woman, known as Madame M, kidnaps forty pre-teen girls and transports them to a remote island to train them as the most deadly assassins. CIA operative Jack Chen follows the case for 6 years with no leads, but when a series of ...
Style: suspenseful, exciting, rough, serious, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: female assassin, hitman, female killer, assassination, female martial artist, woman kills a man, one woman army, rape and revenge, terrorism, tough heroes, revenge, martial arts ...
Time: 90s, 2000s
Place: hong kong, japan, china, the philippines, tokyo ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Cyborg 2: Glass Shadow (1993)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: In the year 2074, the cybernetics market is dominated by two rival companies: USA's Pinwheel Robotics and Japan's Kobayashi Electronics. Cyborgs are commonplace, used for anything from soldiers to prostitutes. Casella Reese is a prototype ...
Style: suspenseful, bleak, cyber, apocalyptic, erotic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: cyborgs, cyberpunk, on the run, robot, artificial intelligence, sex with a robot, androids and robots, corporation, assassination plot, androids, hitman, rivalry ...
Time: future, 21st century
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
CIA II: Target Alexa (1993)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Movie Info When a top secret nuclear guidance system is stolen by an ex-CIA operative looking to sell the deadly device to the top bidder, it's up to a determined CIA agent and the international terrorist who he has vowed to capture to team up ...
Style: independent film, exciting, realistic, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: terrorism, cia, martial arts, spy, woman with a gun, bossy woman, female assassin, special agent, secret agent, psychopath, working undercover, rivalry ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 4.0
 75K
Street Fighter (1994)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Thriller
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Col. Guile and various other martial arts heroes fight against the tyranny of Dictator M. Bison and his cohorts.
Style: exciting, serious, suspenseful, cult classic, futuristic ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: martial arts, mixed martial arts, street fighter, military, danger, female warrior, beast, master warrior, kung fu, computer game, video game, battles ...
Time: year 1994, 90s, 20th century
Place: thailand, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li (2009)
Genre: Action, Crime, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: Canada, India, USA, Japan, Thailand, China
Duration: 96 min.
Story: When a teenager, Chun-Li witnesses the kidnapping of her father by wealthy crime lord M. Bison. When she grows up, she goes into a quest for vengeance and becomes the famous crime-fighter of the Street Fighter universe.
Style: road movie, serious, suspenseful, action packed, exciting ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: revenge, female fighter, female martial artist, martial arts, street fighter, superhero, good versus evil, vengeance, danger, master warrior, battles, heroic mission ...
Time: year 2009, 2000s, 21st century
Place: asia, san francisco, hong kong, bangkok thailand, thailand
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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 6.1
 115K
Push (2009)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 111 min.
Story: After his father, an assassin, is brutally murdered, Nick Gant vows revenge on Division, the covert government agency that dabbles in psychic warfare and experimental drugs. Hiding in Hong Kong's underworld, Nick assembles a band of rogue ...
Style: exciting, stylized, intense, suspenseful, serious ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, boys' night, teen drama ...
Plot: telekinesis, clairvoyance, psychic, supernatural, danger, superhero, experiment, supernatural ability, chase, imaginary, psychokinesis, conspiracy ...
Time: future, 2000s, year 1945, 21st century
Place: hong kong, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
 5.8
 124K
Mortal Kombat (1995)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: For nine generations an evil sorcerer has been victorious in hand-to-hand battle against his mortal enemies. If he wins a tenth Mortal Kombat tournament, desolation and evil will reign over the multiverse forever. To save Earth, three warriors must ...
Style: exciting, intense, saga, disgusting, gaming ...
Audience: teens, kids, boys' night
Plot: martial arts, monster, good versus evil, tournament, underground fighting, heroic mission, mortal combat, ninja, island, warrior, save the world, fight ...
Time: year 1995, 90s
Place: hong kong, los angeles, china, thailand
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 2.9
 10K
Jiu Jitsu (2020)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Every six years, an ancient order of jiu-jitsu fighters joins forces to battle a vicious race of alien invaders. But when a celebrated war hero goes down in defeat, the fate of the planet and mankind hangs in the balance.
Style: light, intense, exciting, stylized, cult classic ...
Plot: martial arts, chosen one, nunchaku, female warrior, alien invasion, battles, chase, heroes, danger, uninhibited rivalry, escapades, mission ...
Place: burma
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 2.7
 5K
Attack Force (2006)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Romania, UK, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Marshall Lawson is the commander of an elite military unit. Marshall Lawson loses his strike-team in a cold-blooded and seemingly random attack, and he takes it upon himself to investigate the attack, with the help of his girlfriend Tia and his ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, tense, exciting, captivating ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, law enforcement, serial killer, heroes, uncover truth, police investigation, undercover, investigation, frame up, secret agent, life is a bitch, danger ...
Place: paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
 5.3
 16K
Replicant (2001)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Scientists create a genetic clone of a serial killer in order to help catch the killer, teaming up with two cops.
Style: serious, exciting, suspenseful, stylized, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: serial killer, cloning, murder, martial arts, psychopath, police investigation, genetic engineering, cyberpunk, criminal heroes, government agency, law enforcement, rivalry ...
Time: future, 2000s, near future
Place: usa, seattle, washington state
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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2012: Damnation (2011)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A UFO is shot down over Russia in the 1970s and the wreckage is taken to a secret research facility. When the Soviet Union collapses, the alien technology falls into the hands of a mysterious terrorist organisation, which uses it to create a ...
Style: exciting, captivating, tense, suspense, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: save the world, terrorism, secret agent, chaos, escapades, danger, secret mission, female fighter, murder, secret weapon, intrigue, female fight ...
Time: 21st century
Place: russia, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 5.9
 96K
The One (2001)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A sheriff's deputy fights an alternate universe version of himself who grows stronger with each alternate self he kills.
Style: exciting, stylized, serious, suspenseful, entertaining ...
Audience: kids, boys' night
Plot: martial arts, parallel universe, alternate dimension, cyberpunk, alternate universe, time travel, kung fu, law enforcement, lookalikes, multiverse, daring rescue, dual identity ...
Time: year 2001, 2000s
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 4.8
 28K
Tekken (2010)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 91 min.
Story: In the year of 2039, after World Wars destroy much of the civilization as we know it, territories are no longer run by governments, but by corporations; the mightiest of which is the Mishima Zaibatsu. In order to placate the seething masses of this ...
Style: exciting, serious, stylized, futuristic, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: martial arts, ninja, fight, superhero, tough girl, kung fu, fantasy world, heroes, revenge, tough heroes, martial arts tournament, mentor ...
Time: future, 2030s, 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
G.I. Joe: Retaliation (2013)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Framed for crimes against the country, the G.I. Joe team is terminated by Presidential order. This forces the G.I. Joes into not only fighting their mortal enemy Cobra; they are forced to contend with threats from within the government that ...
Style: exciting, tense, serious, stylized, predictable ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, chick flick, boys' night
Plot: good versus evil, president, martial arts, military, superhero, bodyguard, terrorism, gi joe, betrayal, revenge, comic book, conspiracy ...
Time: year 2013, 2010s, 21st century
Place: washington d.c., seattle, north korea, germany, big ben london ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Ninja: Shadow of a Tear (2013)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: Thailand, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Fight everyone and trust no one: it's the code of survival practiced by martial-arts master Casey Bowman after his life of domestic bliss is shattered by a savage act of violence. Vowing revenge, the fearless American stealthily tracks the ...
Style: exciting, serious, suspenseful, captivating, tense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: ninja, martial arts, ninjitsu, kung fu, fight, revenge, master warrior, mortal combat, medieval, murder, murder mystery, karate ...
Time: 2010s, year 2013, 21st century
Place: asia, burma, thailand
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
 6.6
 166K
The Running Man (1987)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: By 2017, the global economy has collapsed and American society has become a totalitarian police state, censoring all cultural activity. The government pacifies the populace by broadcasting a number of game shows in which convicted criminals fight ...
Style: exciting, futuristic, serious, rough, cult classic ...
Audience: boys' night, manly
Plot: dystopian future, distopia, chase, cyberpunk, chases and races, dystopic future, danger, prison, prison escape, tough heroes, stephen king, game of death ...
Time: future, 80s, 20th century, 2010s, year 2019 ...
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 3.0
 4K
The Serpent (2020)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Top special agent Lucinda Kavsky works for a secret part of the CIA. She's given a special assignment but then set up by her own agency
Style: exciting, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, captivating ...
Plot: spy, female spy, special agent, heroes, martial arts, secret agent, danger, murder, death, chase, fight, violence ...
Time: 2020s
Place: usa, manhattan new york city, washington d.c., new york, los angeles ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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