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Max Havoc - Ring of Fire (2006)
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Max Havoc - Ring of Fire (2006)
Genre: Action
Country: USA, Canada, Germany
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Max, having forsaken his life as a former world kick-boxing champion to redefine himself as a world class photographer, is on his way to photograph top tennis star and athlete Suzy Blaine. While on assignment, Max uncovers a crime ring and relies on his skills as a martial artist to set the situation straight.
Style: exciting, serious, tense, suspense, independent film, rough, realistic, suspenseful, fast
Plot: martial arts, resort, gangster, gang, rivalry, tough heroes, criminal, kickboxing, showdown, fighting crime, heroes, orphan, life is a bitch, sexual content, uninhibited rivalry, nudity, violent content, kung fu, violence, warrior, tough guy, photographer, tennis, villain, champion ...
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: usa, washington d.c., seattle
Keyword: gangsters

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, exciting, realistic and rough films with plots about martial arts, rivalry, master warrior, heroes, violence, fistfight and brawl mostly in Action, Drama and Sport genres. Some movies like Max Havoc - Ring of Fire: Max Havoc: Curse of the Dragon (2004), Pit Fighter (2005), The Executioner (1974), Fist 2 Fist (2011), Urban Fighter (2012). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Max Havoc: Curse of the Dragon (2004)
Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Ex-kickboxing champion turned sports photographer Max Havoc again finds himself in Guam on a publicity photo shoot. Max's helpful ways land him in the lives of the vacationing sisters Jane and Christy Goody who have acquired a rare jade dragon, ...
Style: realistic, exciting, rough, serious, independent film ...
Plot: martial arts, chase, heroes, gangster, rivalry, danger, kickboxing, violence, martial artist, fistfight, love interest, warrior ...
Time: 21st century
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Pit Fighter (2005)
Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Jack Severino has no memory, all he knows is the brutal sport of Pit Fighting. When his past catches him up, he realizes he is not who he thought he was. For some men must fight for redemption.
Style: serious, realistic, rough, tense
Audience: boys' night
Plot: kickboxer, haunted by the past, vengeance, rivalry, memory loss, martial arts, murder, wrestler, boxing, heroes, dog fighting, tough heroes ...
Place: latin america, mexico
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The Executioner (1974)
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: exciting, serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, kung fu, fight, ninja, sexploitation, heroes, gangster, drug dealing, leadership, rivalry, danger, law enforcement ...
Time: 70s
Place: tokyo, asia, japan
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Fist 2 Fist (2011)
Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Still haunted by his failure to prevent the murder of a young couple years earlier, a mixed martial arts teacher must confront the skeleton in his closet when the boy who was orphaned by the killing shows up at his door.
Style: exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, rough
Audience: boys' night
Plot: master warrior, redemption, haunted by the past, moral dilemma, rivalry, ambition, martial arts, fight, tough guy, martial arts training, guilty conscience, tough heroes ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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Urban Fighter (2012)
Genre: Action
Country: Germany
Duration: 102 min.
Story: The "Bloods" are the most intimidating and violent gang in the city. A lawless city... where gangs rule the streets... The vicious and blood thirsty murderer Slater is their leader. The city is his domain... he rules! There are those who ...
Style: exciting, captivating, tense, suspense, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, vengeance, rivalry, murder, good versus evil, master warrior, chaos, tough heroes, escapades, danger, fight, heroes ...
Time: 21st century
Place: germany
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Redemption (2002)
Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A disgraced cop goes to work for the mob, and must choose between good and evil when he goes up against his former friends on the force.
Style: suspense, exciting, tense, serious, captivating ...
Plot: tough guy, tough cop, heroes, warrior, drug dealing, martial arts, brutality, police brutality, gunfight, showdown, gangster, woman with a gun ...
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The Purifiers (2004)
Genre: Action
Country: UK
Duration: 85 min.
Story: The story of martial arts clubs who have created their own city infrastructure after tiring of government initiatives. Responding to the greed and corruption creeping into the other clubs, headed by capitalist-wannabe Moses, The Purifiers battle to ...
Style: exciting, captivating, suspense, tense, grindhouse ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, fighting crime, gang, vengeance, rivalry, tough heroes, vigilantism, society, gangster, danger, murder, heroes ...
Time: future
Place: england, scotland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
American Shaolin (1991)
Genre: Action
Country: USA, Hong Kong
Duration: 106 min.
Story: After being humiliated in the ring by a dirty kickboxer who pulled down his shorts and then hit him, a martial arts master decides to travel to China and enter a monastery where he may learn the Shaolin form of fighting. The film then veers into ...
Style: realistic, exciting, rough, serious, tense ...
Audience: boys' night
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Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: usa, china, asia, beijing china
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Kung Fu Killer (2008)
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, suspense, tense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, revenge, kung fu, escapades, medieval, tough heroes, rivalry, race against time, village, chase, love, warlord ...
Time: 20th century, 1920s
Place: china, asia
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24%
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Blackbelt (1992)
Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 88 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
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Time: 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Tiger Claws (1992)
Genre: Action
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: The police does not know what to do. They have to deal with a serial killer who aims at martial arts masters. One after another is killed in the same brutal way. This may be a chance for detective Linda Masterson to work on her first murder case. ...
Style: exciting, serious, rough, independent film, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
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Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
The Hard Corps (2006)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: UK, Germany, USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: An Army veteran assembles a team of bodyguards to protect a former boxer. Complications arise when the boxer suspects his sister may be romantically involved with the bodyguard.
Style: serious, realistic, exciting, suspenseful, action packed ...
Audience: boys' night
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⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Forced to Fight (2011)
Genre: Action
Country: Canada
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Once a legend in the brutal world of illicit underground fighting, Shane Slavin (Daniels) decides to turn his life around, promising his wife and young son he's fought his last battle. But when his younger brother betrays a ruthless crime boss ...
Style: exciting, realistic, rough, suspense, tense ...
Audience: boys' night
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Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Puncture Wounds (2014)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: After returning home from a traumatic tour of duty in Iraq, John finds himself struggling with PTSD. What little peace he had managed to build around him is shattered one fateful day when he rescues a local call girl from a group of violent Aryan ...
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Angry Tiger (1973)
Genre: Action
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Duration: 93 min.
Story: Chang Chen-Wai, a martial arts expert who runs a jade-importing business, follows his missing brother to Thailand and learns he has been murdered. Chang vows revenge.
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Honor (2006)
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Duration: 87 min.
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Out for Blood (1992)
Genre: Action
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Duration: 90 min.
Story: A lawyer's family is murdered by drug smugglers, and he is beaten and left for dead, but survives although in a coma. When he awakes he only has a partial memory of what happened. In order to find out the real story, he trains with a karate ...
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Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Street Warrior (2008)
Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
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Style: serious, tense, exciting, captivating, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
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⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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Duration: 99 min.
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Audience: boys' night
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Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: One man travels across country, smuggling illegal black diamonds to sell in order to pay for his father's pardon in South Africa. When he arrives to the United States to finalize what appeared to be a simple transaction he is soon ...
Style: exciting, serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating ...
Audience: boys' night
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American Kickboxer (1991)
Genre: Action, Sport
Country: USA, South Africa
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Kickboxing champion B.J. is jailed for an accidental murder thanks to the testimony of his arch-nemesis Denard. A year later, B.J. is released and then challenged by Denard for $100,000. Will B.J. accept and get even with Denard?
Style: realistic, rough, suspenseful, serious, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
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Place: usa
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21%
Once Upon a Time in Shanghai (2014)
Genre: Action, Crime
Country: China, Hong Kong
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A laborer moves to Shanghai in the hope of becoming rich. But ends up using his kung fu skills to survive. Remake of The Boxer From Shantung.
Style: exciting, serious, realistic, captivating, tense ...
Audience: boys' night
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Time: 2010s, 1900s
Place: shanghai, china, asia
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21%
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Bloodfist 2050 (2005)
Genre: Action
Country: Philippines
Duration: 78 min.
Story: Alex Danko descends into the ultra-violent underworld of extreme martial-arts to find his brother's killer with the help of hardened Detective Ramirez and his brother's alluring ex-lover in this post-apocalyptic allegory of greed and ...
Style: tense, serious, exciting, suspenseful, suspense ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Johnny Sun is a Mexican American with a white mother and Mexican dad. He witnesses his parents murder and gets his revenge years later, leading to a hard life as a gangster in drugs and smuggling. He tries to keep his borther from the life and finds ...
Style: exciting, captivating, tense, suspense, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
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Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Showdown (1993)
Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Ken has just moved from Kansas with his mother. He talks to a girl named Julie, not knowing that her boyfriend Tom is very possessive of her. Tom is learning karate from Lee, a sensei whose brother was killed by a rookie cop named Billy. Billy has ...
Style: independent film, realistic, serious, exciting, rough ...
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Time: 20th century, 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
The Shadow Boxer (1974)
Genre: Action
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Chen Wo-Fu plays construction worker Ku Ting, whose skill at "tai chi" (shadow boxing) is as great as his pacifism. But when his girlfriend is raped by vicious gangsters, he shows everyone the true power and beauty of tai chi.
Style: exciting, serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful
Audience: boys' night
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Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: asia, hong kong
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Ring of Fire (1991)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: The main character, Johnny Woo, is a Chinese doctor who has given up fighting in the ring. His brother is a teacher in a kick-boxing club. Johnny Woo fall in love with Julie, whose brother is a teacher in a rival kick-boxing club. Tension builds ...
Style: independent film, fast, exciting, realistic, serious ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: martial arts, streetfighting, street fighter, street gang, tough heroes, gang war, illegal fistfight, kickboxing, shakespeare, competition, fight, heroes ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: los angeles, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 5.0
 835
Angel Town (1990)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: A graduate student and martial-arts expert rents a room in a house owned by a single mother who lives there with her son. A local street gang is trying to recruit the son, but the new tenant tries to help the boy's mother keep him out of the ...
Style: action adventure, hood, independent film, fast, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
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Time: 90s
Place: los angeles, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Ong Bak 3 (2010)
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 ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Circle of Pain (2010)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Following a fighting accident, Dalton Hunt retired from the world of MMA at the top. Unable to outrun his guilt, he lost his family, his title, and his way. But when a crooked promoter lures him back into a fight against the current undefeated ...
Style: exciting, serious, captivating, suspense, tense ...
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Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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