Movies like The Miracle Fighters

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The Miracle Fighters (1982)

7.0

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Original name: 奇門遁甲

Genre: Action, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror

Country: Hong Kong

Duration: 100 min.

Story: Two elderly Taoist priests, Chi Men (Leung Kar Yan) and Dun Jai (Yuen Cheung Yan), who learn their magic from the same teacher always quarrel with each other. They provide mirth and expert kung fu tuition to young man (Yuen Yat Chor) who is mistakenly presumed to be the crown prince of the Imperial Court, missing since childhood. The emperor dispatches an eunuch with the magic powers to apprehend the young man. But he must first deal with Chi Men and Dun Jia who are the young man's protector.

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Most similar movies to The Miracle Fighters

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out cult film, semi serious, humorous and stylized films with plots about martial arts, kung fu, fight, kung fu classic, heroes, farce and master warrior mostly in Action, Comedy and Fantasy genres. Some movies like The Miracle Fighters: The Thundering Mantis (1980), Dreadnaught (1981), Magic Crystal (1986), Spooky Encounters (1980), The Odd Couple (1979). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.

The Thundering Mantis (1980)

6.6

280

Genre: Action, Comedy

Country: Hong Kong, Taiwan

Duration: 89 min.

Story: Ah Chi (Ka-Yan Leung) is obsessed with the martial arts and, more often than not, his kung-fu clowning gets him into trouble. Ending up facing Hsia (Eddie Ko) of the notorious Jade Brotherhood is inevitable. As a result, Hsia forces Chi's ...

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Dreadnaught (1981)

7.2

931

Genre: Action, Comedy, Horror

Country: Hong Kong

Duration: 95 min.

Story: A short-tempered, violent criminal named "White Tiger" is on the run from the police and joins a theater troupe for disguise, killing anyone who angers him or who suspects his identity. One person he unsuccessfully tries to kill several ...

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Magic Crystal (1986)

5.9

575

Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi

Country: Hong Kong

Duration: 95 min.

Story: Looking to cash in on the popularity of Steven Spielberg's mega-hits E.T. and Raiders of the Lost Ark, Hong Kong schlockmeister Wong Jing directs this yarn about Andy who, along with buddies Pin-pin and Pancho ventures to Greece to find his ...

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Spooky Encounters (1980)

7.0

Genre: Action, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror

Country: Hong Kong

Duration: 102 min.

Story: Sammo is Courageous Cheung, a pedicab driver in a rural community who is known around town as the man who fears nothing. Well, this is proved false before the opening credits finish when he endures a particularly frightening nightmare of ...

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The Odd Couple (1979)

7.1

564

Genre: Action, Adventure

Country: Hong Kong

Duration: 97 min.

Story: Hailed as possibly the greatest classical weapons movie ever made and starring world-renowned martial arts master, director and action-choreographer, Sammo Hung. This film showcases some of the most spectacular and intricate weapons duels ever ...

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Enter the Fat Dragon (1978)

6.6

924

Genre: Action, Comedy

Country: Hong Kong

Duration: 92 min.

Story: Ah Lung is a pig farmer and a devoted Bruce Lee fan who is anxious to follow in Lee's footsteps, but only ridiculed for his attempts. He is sent to the city to earn a living working at his uncle's restaurant, but when he arrives, he finds ...

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Human Lanterns (1982)

6.5

990

Genre: Horror, Action

Country: Hong Kong

Duration: 99 min.

Story: This is it: one of the most talked about cult films ever made -- a maniacal masterpiece of the macabre, the martial arts, and the just plain weird. Shaw's first international star Lo Lieh stars as the insane swordsman who makes Chinese lamps ...

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Warriors Two (1978)

7.2

Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama

Country: Hong Kong

Duration: 95 min.

Story: In an attempt to save his village from being taken over by brutes, Wah is beaten to a pulp and his mother brutally murdered. Determined to take revenge, Wah learns the art of Wing Chun and enters into a showdown with the nasty villains.

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Mad Monkey Kung Fu (1979)

6.7

Genre: Action, Comedy

Country: Hong Kong

Duration: 116 min.

Story: A disgraced former Kung Fu expert makes a living as a merchant with the help of a hot headed friend. When the men are harassed by gangsters, the merchant decided to teach his friend monkey boxing so they can defend their business.

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Knockabout (1979)

7.2

Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama

Country: Hong Kong

Duration: 92 min.

Story: Yuen Baio and Ka-Yan Leung play brothers Yipao and Taipao, lovable rogues who convince a martial arts expert to take them on as students. When Yipao discovers that their teacher is actually a wanted criminal, Silver Fox (Chia Yung Liu), he is ...

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Dance of the Drunken Mantis (1979)

6.9

778

Genre: Action, Comedy

Country: Hong Kong

Duration: 94 min.

Story: A year after training young Jackie Chan in the Drunken Fist, Sam the Seed discovers he has a son, Foggy. He tries to train Foggy but to no avail. Foggy is then trained in Drunken Fist from his uncle as he must face his father's rival, Rubber ...

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Encounter of the Spooky Kind II (1989)

6.6

420

Genre: Action, Comedy, Horror

Country: Hong Kong

Duration: 100 min.

Story: Impoverished teahouse worker (and martial-arts student) Abao is engaged to his boss' daughter, Little Chu, and fights to protect her from the lecherous advances of the wealthy but repulsive Master Shi. The two men's romantic rivalry ...

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Drunken Master (1978)

7.4

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Genre: Action, Comedy

Country: Hong Kong

Duration: 111 min.

Story: Jackie Chan stars as Wong Fei-Hung, whose mischievous antics land him in hot water. Having tolerated enough of his son's mishaps, Fei-Hung's dad enlists his sadistic uncle, who specializes in drunken-style kung fu, to teach the lad some ...

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The Legend of Drunken Master (1994)

7.5

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Genre: Action, Comedy

Country: Hong Kong

Duration: 102 min.

Story: Returning home with his father after a shopping expedition, Wong Fei-Hong is unwittingly caught up in the battle between foreigners who wish to export ancient Chinese artifacts and loyalists who don't want the pieces to leave the country. ...

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Ninja Hunter (1987)

6.1

300

Genre: Action, Fantasy

Country: Taiwan

Duration: 88 min.

Story: The plot centres around Wu Tang villain, Abbot White, who wants to destroy the Shaolin monks and become supreme martial artist. In order to do so, he teams up with a clan of Ninjas, led by three masters – gold lamé ninja, white mustachioed ninja ...

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Dirty Ho (1979)

7.1

Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama

Country: Hong Kong

Duration: 103 min.

Story: Wang Chin-chin, who is both the 11th prince and an expert fighterm has fun secretly subverting a local con-man, the inept Ho Chi (Wong Yue), but blackmails the crook into becoming his student after making it look like a B-girl named Choi Hung (Kara ...

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The Master (1980)

6.7

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Genre: Action, Comedy

Country: Hong Kong

Duration: 92 min.

Story: Gao Jian is a lazy and arrogant student of the martial arts school ran by vain Si Fu Shi Chen-chung. One night after his punishment in his school a wounded man reaches his house. He is Jin Tien-yun, a legendary warrior fleeing from a fight in which ...

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Prince of the Sun (1992)

5.2

320

Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy

Country: Hong Kong

Duration: 93 min.

Story: Cynthia Rothrock helps to protect a Buddhist boy from villains who wish to stop him from becoming the Prince of the Sun.

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The Gambling Ghost (1991)

5.8

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Genre: Action, Comedy, Fantasy

Country: Hong Kong

Duration: 93 min.

Story: Sammo Hung plays three different characters: Fatty, Fatty's father and Fatty's grandfather, Hung Kau. Fatty is a hotel worker, yearning for sudden wealth. Therefore, he, and his co-worker, enter the gambling world, to the dismay of his ...

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Kung Fu Zombie (1981)

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Genre: Action, Comedy, Horror

Country: Hong Kong

Duration: 80 min.

Story: A criminal comes to town in order to kill Billy Chong over a past dispute. But instead of getting his own hands dirty, he hires a Taoist wizard to animate some zombies to do the job for him. The plan goes horribly awry, and the bad guy ends up ...

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Magnificent Butcher (1979)

7.3

Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama

Country: Hong Kong

Duration: 108 min.

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Kung Fu Hustle (2004)

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Genre: Action, Comedy, Fantasy

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Snake in the Eagle's Shadow (1978)

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Genre: Action, Comedy

Country: Hong Kong

Duration: 97 min.

Story: Everyone abuses and humiliates a downtrodden orphan (Chan) until he befriends an old man, who turns out to be the last master of the "snake fist" fighting style. Jackie becomes the old man's student and finds himself in battle with ...

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Shaolin vs. Evil Dead 2: Ultimate Power (2007)

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Shaolin vs. Evil Dead 2: Ultimate Power (2007)

Genre: Action, Comedy, Horror

Country: Hong Kong

Duration: 94 min.

Story: Sequel to Shaolin vs. Evil Dead

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Magic of Spell (1988)

7.2

Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy

Country: Taiwan

Duration: 80 min.

Story: Peach Boy and his mother live in a village. One day, there is a young man that suddenly comes to the village and asks Peach Boy to be his teacher because. At the same time, the elder of the devil palace wants to set Peach Boy to the deathtrap. They ...

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The Sword of Alexander (2007)

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Genre: Action, Comedy, Fantasy

Country: Japan

Duration: 110 min.

Story: Orichalcum is a mystical metal material that gives great powers to the life form that possesses it. Many Eons ago, the Orichalcum was split into three and landed on Earth. The metal then took the form of three relics: Skanda’s Vajra, Jew’s ...

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Blind Fists of Bruce (1979)

5.4

211

Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy

Country: Hong Kong

Duration: 92 min.

Story: The incomparable martial arts expert, Bruce Li, stars as a wealthy hero who defends his village from the assaults of ill-wishers.

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Coward Bastard (1980)

4.9

Genre: Action, Comedy

Country: Hong Kong

Duration: 88 min.

Story: The plot is a trifle about an obnoxious restaurant delivery boy causing trouble with some local bad guys for the cook who secretly knows kung fu, eventually learning some techniques and finally, with the cook, confronting the bad guys.

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Zu: Warriors from the Magic Mountain (1983)

6.6

Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Horror

Country: Hong Kong

Duration: 98 min.

Story: In the fifth century, constant civil war scars western China. To escape death, Ti, a young scout, jumps through a crevice in the Zu mountains where he meets and becomes the apprentice of Ting Yin, a spiritual man with great fighting powers. They ...