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The Weapons of Death (1981)
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The Weapons of Death (1981)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: In San Francisco's Chinatown, a band of thugs kidnaps a girl for a large Chinese gang. Her half-brother gathers a team of expert fighters to get her back.
Style: rough, serious, realistic, fast, poliziottesco, cult film
Plot: martial arts, kidnapping, martial arts school, motorcycle gang, bar fight, heroes, gang, family relations, parents and children, injustice, rivalry, redemption, good versus evil, fight, cave, female nudity, sword fight, bare breasts, girl, brother sister relationship, bow and arrow, vandalism, man punching a woman, van, falling from height ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: san francisco

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, rough and suspenseful films with plots about rivalry, martial arts, heroes, fight, fighting, tough heroes and gang mostly in Action, Drama and Thriller genres. Some movies like The Weapons of Death: Confessions of a Pit Fighter (2005), Challenge of the Masters (1976), Breathing Fire (1991), One Down, Two to go (1982), Cage (1989). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Confessions of a Pit Fighter (2005)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: "From the day I was born I had to fight to survive. I fought everyone and everything that came in front of me. On the streets, confessions are made in Blood. They say that when you confess your sins, only then can you be redeemed. This is my ...
Style: suspenseful, realistic, rough, serious
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, prison, underground fighting, vigilantism, vengeance, starting over, rivalry, redemption, gangster, ambition, hopes, criminal heroes ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
Challenge of the Masters (1976)
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 ...
Style: fast, exciting, realistic, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, kung fu, wong fei hung, kung fu classic, fight, violent content, best friend, hopes, ambition, heroes, rivalry, one man army ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
 5.1
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Breathing Fire (1991)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story: Michael, a Vietnam vet with two kids, pulls off a bank heist with his gang, which includes the bank's manager. To ensure the loyalty of everyone involved, Mike makes a special set of keys, so that the hiding place for the loot can only be ...
Style: independent film, rough, realistic, serious, suspenseful
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, kickboxing, kung fu, confined, vengeance, parents and children, siblings relations, gang, rivalry, criminal heroes, on the run, kidnapping ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
One Down, Two to go (1982)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A pair of tough cops go after the mob who jinxed the martial arts tournament and injured their buddy.
Style: psychotronic, grindhouse, realistic, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: blaxploitation, martial arts, black, gangster, kung fu, partner, gang, criminal's revenge, contests and competitions, good versus evil, rivalry, society ...
Time: year 1982, 80s, 70s
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
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Cage (1989)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A GI in Vietnam saves his buddy's life, but in the process is shot in the head. The injury results in brain damage to the point where he basically has a child's brain in a (very large) man's body. When they get out of the army the two ...
Style: independent film, realistic, serious, exciting, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: vietnam war, martial arts, competition, fight, friendship, beefcake martial arts, beefcake, cage fighting, vietnam veteran, cell, gangster, confined ...
Time: year 1989, 20th century, 80s
Place: usa, vietnam
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
American Ninja 3: Blood Hunt (1989)
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
Plot: ninja, martial arts, tough heroes, fight scenes, good versus evil, terrorism, heroes, master warrior, one man army, mortal combat, vengeance, island ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: japan, asia, usa, caribbean
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
Ninja Vengeance (1993)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Traveling from California to Houston, a martial arts expert suffers a motorcycle breakdown in a small Texas town. But his bad luck proves to be a blessing in disguise for the local townspeople when he discovers the corrupt sheriff and his KKK ...
Style: independent film, exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Plot: ninja, revenge, martial arts, sexual content, violent content, nudity, small town, racism, master warrior, vengeance, society, heroes ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: texas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
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Back to Back (1996)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: An ex-cop finds himself caught up in a battle between Japanese mobsters and local gangland thugs and discovers that he was framed for wrong-doings by a corrupt cop.
Style: crime drama, fast, exciting, realistic, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: yakuza, buddy cop, martial arts, cop, mafia, robbery, gunfight, hitman, gangster, heroes, hostage, renegade ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
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Kill the Shogun (1975)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Action-drama set during the 1904 occupation of Korea (by Japan). An incident is sparked when the Japanese force the Korean soldiers to strip off their uniforms. Two of the Korean soldiers refuse and go on a rampage against the Japanese, forcing them ...
Style: suspenseful, realistic, serious, tense, rough ...
Plot: martial arts, violent content, battles, rivalry, against the odds, confined, heroes, military, heroic mission, vengeance, violence, kung fu master ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: hong kong, china, korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
 5.6
 348
The Local (2008)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A wealthy out-of-towner hires an indigent man to abduct an estranged family member.
Style: serious, realistic, exciting, rough, suspenseful
Audience: boys' night
Plot: redemption, daring rescue, addiction, danger, drug dealing, lone wolves, life is a bitch, rivalry, heroes, city life, fight, violence ...
Time: future
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
American Brawler (2013)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A martial arts instructor must enter the world of illegal pit fighting in order to save his family and his dojo.
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful, rough
Plot: martial arts, rivalry, dishonesty, contests and competitions, ambition, fight, gambling, corruption, underground fighting, violence, battles, wrestler ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
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 795
The Scorpion (2007)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Featuring a mix of Thai Boxing and Ultimate Fighting, SCORPION has been dubbed The French Fight Club. It stars Jerome Le Banner, who is also known as Hyper Battle Cyborg and The Bulldog of Paris, a true kickboxer, famous for his aggressive style - ...
Style: captivating, exciting, tense, psychological, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, kickboxing, rivalry, redemption, underground fighting, imprisonment, contests and competitions, danger, fight, performer's life, hopes, athlete's life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
Never Surrender (2009)
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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Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
The Legend of Bruce Lee (1976)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 80 min.
Story: The young Bruce Lee (Ho Tsung-Tao AKA Bruce Li) has studied the philosophy and art of kung fu since boyhood, but his girlfriend says that he lives in a world of his own and all he thinks of is fighting. She begs him to change his ways, yet after a ...
Style: exciting, realistic, serious
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⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
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Genre: Drama, Action
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Duration: 93 min.
Story: Fighters ally with each other and fight for no apparent reason. The plot is meaningless, just a vehicle to see fight scenes.
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⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
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Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
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⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
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⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
American Ninja 5: The Nostradamus Syndrome (1992)
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Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
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⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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Genre: Action, Drama
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⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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