Movies like The Kid with the Golden Arm
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The Kid with the Golden Arm (1979)
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Original name: 金臂童
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:
exciting, serious, realistic, stylized, cult film
Plot:
kung fu, martial arts, fight, medieval, weapons, kung fu classic, sword fight, heist, special agents, heroes, gang, battles, rich and poor, alcohol abuse, graphic violence, master warrior, intrigue, vengeance, rivalry, contests and competitions, culture clash, siblings relations, government agency, heroic mission, tough heroes ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
china
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Most similar movies to The Kid with the Golden Arm
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, exciting, realistic and stylized films with plots about kung fu, martial arts, fight, heroes, rivalry, master warrior and kung fu classic mostly in Action, Drama and Comedy genres. Some movies like The Kid with the Golden Arm: Five Deadly Venoms (1978), Two Champions of Shaolin (1980), Crippled Avengers (1978), The New One-Armed Swordsman (1971), Executioners from Shaolin (1977). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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 ...
Style:
exciting, serious, stylized, suspenseful, cult film ...
Audience:
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Plot:
martial arts, kung fu, kung fu classic, exploitation, medieval, fight, fight club, monster, ninja, samurai, karate, master warrior ...
Place:
asia
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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:
realistic, serious, suspenseful
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boys' night
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martial arts, kung fu, shaolin, fight, master warrior, tough heroes, righting the wronged, vengeance, uninhibited rivalry, heroes, vigilantism, rivalry ...
Time:
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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:
serious, exciting, suspenseful, weird, cult film
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boys' night
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kung fu, martial arts, kung fu classic, fight, superhero, blind character, mute or deaf, blindness, exploitation, blind man, warrior, ninja ...
Place:
asia, hong kong
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100%
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:
realistic, serious, stylized, exciting
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boys' night
Plot:
martial arts, kung fu, medieval, warrior, fight, graphic violence, disability, rivalry, heroes, master warrior, juggling, battles ...
Place:
asia, china
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100%
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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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serious, realistic, tense, exciting, rough
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boys' night
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martial arts, kung fu, fight, medieval, shaolin, revenge, kung fu classic, exploitation, battles, vengeance, one man army, heroes ...
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china, asia
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49%
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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:
captivating, emotional, stylized, serious, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
martial arts, kung fu, kung fu classic, medieval, samurai, fight, warrior, weapons, exploitation, sword, physical disability, graphic violence ...
Place:
china, asia
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48%
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Venom regulars Philip Kwok, Chiang Sheng, and Sun Chien star as a gang of unemployed martial artists who spend their days stuffing their faces at local restaurants and letting the staff beat them up instead of paying the bill. Their fortunes appear ...
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martial arts, kung fu, framed for murder, suicide, double suicide, fight
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48%
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 ...
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serious, realistic, suspenseful, stylized, exciting ...
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martial arts, kung fu, medieval, fight, friends, revolution, buddies, rebellion, daring rescue, partners, escapades, heroes ...
Place:
asia, china
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Hong Kong, Taiwan
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Hu Te et al. escape the burning Shaolin temple after the Qing soldiers destroyed it in Shaolin Temple. The group of 5 decide to develop secret codes to identify fellow patriots, enlist those patriots and eventually meet up again to escape to the ...
Style:
exciting, tense, rough, serious, realistic
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
martial arts, kung fu, fight, medieval, kung fu classic, fistfight, martial arts training, graphic violence, mortal combat, tough heroes, battles, vengeance ...
Place:
china, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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:
realistic, serious, exciting, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
martial arts, kung fu, fight, kung fu classic, graphic violence, battles, righting the wronged, injustice, tough heroes, one man army, vigilantism, contests and competitions ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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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, exciting, serious, rough, cult film
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
martial arts, ninja, kung fu, kung fu classic, fight, exploitation, ancient, monster, betrayal, female warrior, samurai, ninjitsu ...
Place:
china, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Genre: Action
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
There is no place more hallowed in the martial art world than China's Shaolin Temple. This special place deserves a special epic, which is what the martial arts maestro delivers in this battle between a brave brand of Chinese boxers and ...
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realistic, serious, exciting, cult film
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martial arts, kung fu, shaolin kung fu, master warrior, heroes, dishonesty, vengeance, rivalry, betrayal, shaolin, cult, medieval ...
Time:
18th century
Place:
asia, china
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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 ...
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stylized, perverse, exciting, suspenseful, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
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martial arts, kung fu, fight, medieval, kung fu classic, monster, ninja, exploitation, shaolin, graphic violence, master warrior, escapades ...
Place:
china, asia
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44%
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
The 5 Kao brothers, separated since childhood, are unaware that the master Teng Lung Manor, Lung Chen-feng has killed their father. All five, however, seek to defeat the vicious gangsters at the Manor.
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exciting, captivating, realistic, serious, stylized ...
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boys' night
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martial arts, kung fu, revenge, murder, sibling relationship, sword fight, kung fu master, graphic violence, family relations, battles, escapades, rivalry ...
Place:
asia, china
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44%
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
The Yangs are betrayed by a government official conspiring with the Mongols. All of the Yang family males except the 4th, 5th, and 6th brothers are killed. Fu Sheng loses his mind after the death of his family, while the other brother, takes refuge ...
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perverse, serious, realistic, stylized, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
martial arts, kung fu, fight, medieval, kung fu classic, fight club, weapons, ninja, karate, graphic violence, rivalry, state affairs ...
Place:
china, asia
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Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Taiwan, Hong Kong
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Ming General Cheng (Wang Dao) and his band of soldiers escape to Taiwan after Ching forces topple the Ming Dynasty. Still fearing the deposed general's deadly potential, however, the Ching prince Ta orders his own band of ruthless mercenaries ...
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serious, captivating, exciting, suspenseful, stylized
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martial arts, fight, kung fu classic, drug dealing, vigilantism, heroes, rivalry, state affairs, master warrior, master criminal, soldier, track down ...
Time:
80s
Place:
taiwan, china
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43%
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Hong Kong, Taiwan
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A dishonored student of the Dragon Fist Sect seeks revenge for the death of his teacher.
Style:
exciting, realistic, serious, stylized
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
martial arts, kung fu, medieval, fight, master warrior, heroes, graphic violence, rivalry, violence spree, vengeance, antidote, village ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
asia, china
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43%
Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
An aged Kung Fu practitioner travels across China, challenging the best Grandmaster from each province to prove his mastery of martial arts. Meanwhile is a plot developing behind his back.
Style:
road movie, exciting, serious, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
martial arts, kung fu, medieval, fight, kung fu classic, graphic violence, retiring, tough heroes, ambition, aging, contests and competitions, heroes ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
china
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Hong Kong, Taiwan
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A brother and sister escape from Japanese-occupied Shanghai to Japanese-occupied Taiwan, to stay with their grandfather who runs a Kung-Fu school there. However, the master of a Japanese Kung-Fu school in Taiwan has designs on bringing all other ...
Style:
serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful, cult film
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
martial arts, kung fu, medieval, fight, master warrior, heroes, world war two, against the odds, heroic mission, school, wartime life, murder ...
Place:
taiwan, asia, hong kong
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42%
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
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 ...
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harsh, intense, realistic, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
martial arts, kung fu, fight, sword fight, fight scenes, violence, brutality, master warrior, kung fu classic, kung fu master, folk hero, humiliation ...
Time:
20th century, 1930s
Place:
china, asia, hong kong, japan, tokyo
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Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
One of the last of the Old School Hong Kong martial arts flicks, this one deals with a legendary competition in swordplay and fighting that ends up being fought between two great warriors, a Chinese man and a Japanese man, who, over the course of ...
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perverse, realistic, serious, suspenseful, stylized ...
Plot:
martial arts, ninja, kung fu, samurai, medieval, kung fu classic, weapons, fight, giant, duel, sword duel, martial artist ...
Time:
middle ages
Place:
japan, hong kong, asia, china
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41%
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A survivor of an attack on a rebel group opposing the Manchu invasion of China creates the Goose Fist fighting technique and tries for revenge on a traitor.
Style:
serious, psychotronic
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
martial arts, medieval, exploitation, fight, master warrior, legends and myths, culture clash, heroic mission, working undercover, school, wooing, vigilantism ...
Time:
middle ages
Place:
china, asia, hong kong
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41%
Genre: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
A Mogul king decides to take stealthy action to help overpower his greatest rivals. He chooses nine out thirteen of his loyal generals (who he treats as sons) to embark on the mission. However, jealously amongst them sparks a treacherous family feud ...
Style:
realistic, serious, epic
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
martial arts, kung fu, asian history, betrayal, military, state affairs, gang, track down, rivalry, escapades, heroes, leadership ...
Time:
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Place:
hong kong, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Skilled martial arts director Lau Ka Leung offers you another Kung Fu treat! this Asian classic introduces viewers to the Shaolin Mantis way of fighting! The tale takes you back to the Qing dynasty & Wei Feng, the son of a Qing official who ...
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serious, realistic, touching, exciting, tense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
martial arts, kung fu, fight, kung fu classic, praying mantis, kung fu master, marriage, graphic violence, state affairs, heroes, moral dilemma, one man army ...
Place:
asia, china
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41%
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:
bloody
Plot:
kung fu, martial arts, fight, kung fu classic, monster, murder mystery, weapons, revenge, masked killer, massacre, gore, mask ...
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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 ...
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Plot:
good versus evil, martial arts, master warrior, heroes, actor's life, tough heroes, hotshot hero, rivalry, tragic hero, uninhibited rivalry, gang, artists and showbiz ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
hong kong
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41%
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A pair of evil kung-fu artists, Heaven and Earth, are slaughtering the entire Yin-Yang brotherhood.
Style:
serious, exciting, stylized
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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40%
Genre: Action, Drama, Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A young boxer joins a martial arts school to increase his skill so he can enter a martial arts competition. he leaves the school when he hears that a local gangster is terrorizing the town. he comes to the aid of a young singer and brings on the ...
Style:
campy, realistic, serious, stylized, psychotronic ...
Audience:
kids, boys' night
Plot:
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Time:
70s
Place:
china, asia
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40%
Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama
Country: China, Hong Kong
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
The Tang emperor is betrayed by one of his generals, who installs himself as emperor in the East Capital. The son of one of his slave workers escapes to the Shaolin Temple, learns kung fu, and sets out to kill the traitor who killed his father. ...
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boys' night
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Time:
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Place:
china, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Genre: Action, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
Guo Jing and Yang Kang are the sons of two rebels. The rebels are killed by imperial soldiers and the boys are rescued by six pugilists later. The pugilists agree to separate the two boys, tutor them separately in martial arts, and let them meet ...
Style:
realistic, serious, exciting, epic, cult film
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
martial arts, kung fu, graphic violence, family relations, power relations, love and romance, uninhibited rivalry, vengeance, dishonesty, master warrior, heroes, rivalry ...
Place:
asia, china
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40%
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