Movies like Thunder and Lightning
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Thunder and Lightning (1977)
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A young man who hauls liquor for moonshiners comes up against a competing gang of moonshiners who intend to get rid of him and take over his operation.
Style:
cult film
Plot:
car chase, hicksploitation, redneck, bootlegging, sniper, gangsters, martial arts, kung fu, heroes, police, gang, violence, hitman, truck, forbidden love, female nudity, kidnapping, warrior, tough guy, beach, golf, master warrior, bartender, chase, organized crime ...
Time:
70s
Place:
florida, southern usa
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out cult film, realistic, exciting and humorous films with plots about fistfight, heroes, martial arts, brawl, violence, showdown and tough guy mostly in Action, Crime and Comedy genres. Some movies like Thunder and Lightning: 99 and 44/100% Dead (1974), Dragon Fight (1989), Dragons Forever (1988), Breaker! Breaker! (1977), Carquake! (1976). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Uncle Frank Kelly calls on Harry Crown to help him in a gang war. The war becomes personal when Harry's new girlfriend is kidnapped by Uncle Frank's enemy, Big Eddie.
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Time:
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Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Jimmy and Tiger are members of the Chinese national wushu team. The two are in Los Angeles to perform exhibitions. However, for Tiger, he plans to defect to L.A. to make a name for himself. When Jimmy learns of Tigers plan to defect, an attempt to ...
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martial arts, kung fu, fight, heroes, master warrior, artist, irony of fate, gangsters, car accident, massacre, combat, male female relationship ...
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san francisco
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70%
Genre: Action, Comedy, Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 102 min.
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Plot:
martial arts, kung fu, fight, lawyer, factory, art, dishonesty, cons and scams, karate, courtroom, gangsters, one man army ...
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68%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Truck driver searches for his brother, who has disappeared in a town run by a corrupt judge.
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intense, realistic, rough, exciting, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
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martial arts, chase, small town, corruption, vengeance, truck, missing person, justice, police corruption, judge, buddies, partners ...
Time:
70s, future, 80s, 20th century
Place:
usa, california, texas
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66%
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Coy "Cannonball" Buckman (David Carradine) and his blazing red Pontiac enter the Trans-America Grand Prix, an underground road race spanning the continent in which there are no rules, no speed limits and no heed for the law. En route, ...
Style:
road movie, humorous, sexy, psychotronic, stylized ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
car, chase, on the road, race, car racing, car chase, weapons, violence, gangsters, death, mafia, auto racing ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
new york, los angeles, new jersey, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
The archetypical renegade Texas Ranger wages war against a drug kingpin with automatic weapons, his wits and martial arts after a gun battle leaves his partner dead. All of this inevitably culminates a martial arts showdown between the drug lord and ...
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Audience:
boys' night, manly
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texas ranger, martial arts, fbi, vengeance, law enforcement, buddy cop, lone wolves, gang, special agents, fighting crime, confined, fight scenes ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
texas, austin texas, mexico, usa, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
Genre: Action
Country: USA, South Africa
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Kickboxing champ Rick Quinn decides to retire from the ring, but his main adversary, Denard, wants him to fight again and murders Quinn's wife. Quinn suspects Denard, but can't do anything. Three month later, Quinn is jailed after a ...
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Place:
south africa
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56%
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 139 min.
Story:
A country boy becomes the head of a gang through the purchase of some lucky roses from an old lady. He and a singer at the gang's nightclub try to do a good deed for the old lady when her daughter comes to visit.
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martial arts, kung fu, fight scenes, coming of age, fight, mafia, gangsters, nightclub, bandit, leadership, unlikely criminals, rivalry ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century
Place:
hong kong, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min.
Story:
Exotic Eastern European beauty, Linda Allen, flies in to Los Angeles to track down the evil mobsters who tortured and murdered her sister. Meanwhile, the mobsters are trying to find a tape with information that would be incriminating to them. ...
Plot:
female fighter, martial arts, badass female lead, female fight, woman with a gun, strong female lead, martial artist, police, burned alive, female nudity, policewoman, exploitation ...
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50%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
An officially "dead" cop is trained to become an extraordinary unique assassin in service of the US President.
Style:
exciting, surprise ending, humorous, captivating, campy ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
martial arts, spy, assassin, kung fu, conspiracy, mentor, race against time, korean war veteran, vigilante, hitman, soldier, ninja ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
new york, usa, pentagon, washington d.c., korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A Chinese chef accidentally gets involved with a news reporter who filmed a drug bust that went awry and is now being chased by gangs who are trying to get the video tape.
Style:
humorous, exciting, semi serious, sexy, buddy movie ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
Genre: Action, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Robert Sand, agent of D.R.A.G.O.N. (Defense Reserve Agency Guardian Of Nations), is playing tennis on his vacation with a beautiful black girl, when his commanding officers ask him to save a Chinese girl who happens to be Sand's girlfriend, and ...
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Family, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 136 min.
Story:
For never-do-well compulsive gambler Fong, there's only one thing more fearsome than debtors at his doorstep - having to coax a crying baby. But what if the baby becomes his golden goose to fend off his debtors? Can he overcome his phobia of ...
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Plot:
babies and infants, martial arts, kidnapping, nothing goes right, ransom, cons and scams, debt, rivalry, partners, chase, organized crime, gang ...
Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Genre: Action, Adventure
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A lucrative emerald mine and the various protagonists who are struggling to wrest control of it for their own profitable ends.
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ninja, sex, female nudity, hotel, violence, male nudity, battles, heroes, master warrior, katana, one against many, tough girl ...
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Uncle Tak is famous for using Chinese herbal medicines to cure diseases. A martial arts expert, he also teaches the young how to defend themselves. One of his students, Johnny, dreams of monopolizing the teaching of kung fu throughout the United ...
Style:
romantic, scenic, serious, realistic, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
martial arts, kung fu, kung fu master, fight, medieval, master warrior, heroes, bus, bank, karate, righting the wronged, tough heroes ...
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80s
Place:
los angeles, hong kong, china, asia, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Jack Hammond is sentenced to life in prison, but manages to escape. To get away from the police he takes a girl as hostage and drives off in her car. The girl happens to be the only daughter of one of the richest men in the state. In a while the car ...
Style:
exciting, road movie, humorous, clever, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night, girls' night, teens
Plot:
car chase, chase, hostage, on the run, suspense, car, gunfight, kidnapping, on the road, escapades, unlikely couple, disorder ...
Time:
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Place:
mexico, california, usa, san francisco, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: Hong Kong, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A young Asian American martial artist is forced to participate in a brutal formal street-fight competition.
Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Genre: Action, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Two rivals, one a cop and the other a martial arts teacher team up to save a little girl from a terrorist and his henchmen.
Style:
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Plot:
martial arts, buddy cop, combat, showdown, skinny dipping, female nudity, violence, ransom, organized crime, heroes, master warrior, battles ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
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Duration: 107 min.
Story:
This cop doesn't carry a gun - his fist is loaded!
Style:
realistic, not serious, exciting, humorous, witty ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
car chase, law enforcement, chase, police, conspiracy, farce, martial arts, heroes, chief of police, murder, corruption, graphic violence ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
africa, napoli italy, italy, naples italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Frequent Jackie Chan cohort Mars stars as Sing, an ex-con who's supposed to dig up the buried loot of his three still-jailed buddies...but when he gets to it, he finds that the treasure chest is full of rocks! The other three are convinced that ...
Plot:
showdown, male female relationship, treasure, heroes, master warrior, prison, violence, prisoner, fight, fistfight, martial arts, kung fu ...
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44%
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Genre: Action, Crime
Country: Russia, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Michael, an American professor teaching history at Moscow University, finances his passion for treasure hunting with competitive street racing. His racing nemesis Wolf becomes his ally as they both embark on a quest to search for a famous ancient ...
Style:
exciting, serious, captivating, realistic
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Place:
russia, moscow russia
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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, ...
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Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Drive follows Toby Wong (Mark Dacascos), whose employers at Hong Kong's Leung Corporation have implanted in his chest a bio-energy module that enhances his physical abilities. Toby has escaped from the Leung Corporation's control and is ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
His wife held hostage, a stunt driver is forced to drive a getaway car in a plot to kidnap the President from a motorcade.
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Plot:
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Time:
90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
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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.
Style:
serious, cult film
Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Country: USA
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Story:
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Story:
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Country: USA
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Story:
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40%
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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Style:
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