Movies like The Master 1980

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The Master (1980)
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The Master (1980)
Original name: 背叛師門
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 he was stabbed in a sneak attack and now has to hide from his pursuers, the Three Devils. Gao helps him and in return, Jin decides to teach him some serious kicks. Gao has to live alone for a year after Shi believes that he is traitor of his school. Then he tries to kill him but Jin interferes in order to save Gao and as his wounds are not fixed yet, he gets into a final battle with the three Devils. So it is Gao's turn to seek for revenge.
Style: serious, slapstick comedy, slapstick, grindhouse
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, kung fu, kung fu classic, orphan, fight, karate, revenge, martial arts training, heroes, gang, legends and myths, undercover, chases and races, vigilantism, escapades, vengeance, rivalry, danger, imaginary, fighting crime, siblings relations, one man army, government agency, daring rescue, heroic mission ...
Time: 70s
Place: china, asia
Keyword: chinese

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out exciting, serious, realistic and suspenseful films with plots about martial arts, kung fu, heroes, fight, rivalry, master warrior and vengeance mostly in Action, Comedy and Drama genres. Some movies like The Master: Challenge of the Masters (1976), Spiritual Kung Fu (1978), Last Hero in China (1993), The Bodyguard (2004), Half a Loaf of Kung Fu (1978). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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 ⇓
100%
Spiritual Kung Fu (1978)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: Hong Kong, Taiwan
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Jackie Chan plays the part of the class clown in a shaolin temple whose deadliest secret is stolen. All is lost until Jackie's character discovers dancing blue ghosts with bright red hair who haunt the library.
Style: action adventure, serious, stylized
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: shaolin, kung fu, ghost, fight, tough heroes, martial arts, training, temple, legends and myths, working undercover, heroic mission, good versus evil ...
Place: china
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Last Hero in China (1993)
Genre: Action, Comedy, History
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Jet Li stars in this comic spectacle as a Chinese "Robin Hood" who stumbles upon a kidnapping scheme after unwittingly opening a martial arts school next to a brothel!
Style: scenic, romantic, cult classic, humorous, epic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, kung fu, medieval, fight, kung fu fighting, wong fei hung, wire fu, wuxia, one man army, master warrior, heroes, folk hero ...
Time: 19th century
Place: china, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Bodyguard (2004)
Genre: Action, Comedy
Country: Thailand
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A professional bodyguard who failed to protect his Choti, most successful businessman, is fired by his employer's son. The son inherits his fathers company but is then targets by assassins who want to gain control of the estate. He is forced to ...
Style: exciting, semi serious, suspenseful, rough, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, one man army, bodyguard, tough heroes, gang, danger, gangster, assassination, fight, muay thai, kung fu, hitman ...
Time: year 2004, 21st century
Place: bangkok thailand, thailand
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Half a Loaf of Kung Fu (1978)
Genre: Action, Comedy
Country: Taiwan, Hong Kong
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A young daydreamer assumes the identity of a dead martial arts hero and quickly finds himself caught up in a plot by several clans to steal famous martial arts artifacts being transported by an escort company.
Style: fast, semi serious, stylized, humorous, slapstick comedy
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: martial arts, kung fu, tough heroes, righting the wronged, working undercover, against the odds, heroic mission, danger, save the day, master warrior, one man army, gang ...
Time: 70s
Place: asia, hong kong
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Executioners from Shaolin (1977)
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 ...
Style: serious, realistic, rough, tense, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, kung fu, shaolin, fight, medieval, kung fu classic, wuxia, revenge, exploitation, battles, heroes, one man army ...
Place: asia, china
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Return to the 36th Chamber (1980)
Genre: Action, Comedy
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 99 min.
Story: The workers of a dye factory have their pay cut by 20% when the factory owner brings in some Manchu thugs to try and increase production. Desperate to reclaim their full wages, the workers hire an actor to impersonate a priest and kung-fu expert ...
Style: grindhouse, fast, semi serious, realistic, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, kung fu, shaolin kung fu, medieval, wuxia, kung fu classic, ninja, fight, violent content, rivalry, hopes, self discovery ...
Time: 18th century
Place: china, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Shaolin Challenges Ninja (1978)
Genre: Action, Comedy
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Gordon Liu stars as a Chinese martial arts student struggling to relate to his new Japanese wife. When a series of martial misunderstandings spirals into an international incident, he's forced to take on seven of Japan's most powerful ...
Style: realistic, serious, exciting, stylized
Audience: boys' night
Plot: ninja, martial arts, kung fu, nunchaku, kung fu classic, fight, ninjitsu, strong female lead, exploitation, wuxia, bohemian, swordplay ...
Time: 1930s
Place: japan, hong kong, shanghai, asia, china
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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5 Masters of Death (1974)
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: realistic, serious, tense, exciting, rough
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, kung fu, kung fu classic, medieval, fight, karate, martial arts training, fistfight, violent content, master warrior, vengeance, danger ...
Place: china, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Ninja in the Dragon's Den (1982)
Genre: Action, Comedy
Country: Hong Kong, Japan
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Two rival warriors, a Japanese and a Chinese, are forced to work together after their master has been killed by a mighty enemy.
Style: scenic, fast, exciting, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: ninja, martial arts, kung fu, medieval, fight, samurai, karate, exploitation, kung fu classic, shaolin, revenge, battles ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: japan, china, hong kong
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
The Prodigal Son (1981)
Genre: Action, Comedy
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A rich man's son (Yuen Biao) believes himself to be the best kung fu fighter in Canton. Unfortunately, his father, anxious for his son's safety, bribes all his opponents to lose. After a humiliating defeat at the hands of an actor in a ...
Style: cult classic, serious
Audience: boys' night
Plot: wing chun, martial arts, kung fu, wuxia, fight, ninja, hand to hand combat, kung fu classic, anti hero, tough heroes, power relations, rebelliousness ...
Time: year 1981, 19th century, 1880s
Place: hong kong, asia, china
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
Crippled Avengers (1978)
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: cult classic, grindhouse, serious, exciting, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: kung fu, martial arts, kung fu classic, fight, wuxia, superhero, blind character, mute or deaf, blind man, disabled, disabled character, shaolin ...
Place: east asia, hong kong, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Shaolin Temple (1976)
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 ...
Style: serious, realistic, exciting
Plot: martial arts, kung fu, shaolin kung fu, master warrior, rivalry, betrayal, heroes, dishonesty, vengeance, shaolin, medieval, kung fu classic ...
Time: 18th century
Place: china, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Shaolin Temple 2: Kids from Shaolin (1984)
Genre: Action, Comedy
Country: Hong Kong, China
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Two rivaling families live on opposite sides of a river. One of them practices Shaolin kung fu and has only sons, while the other has only daughters and practices the Wu-Tang sword. The father of the Wu-Tang family is so paranoid about the Shaolin ...
Style: cult classic, fast, semi serious, realistic, stylized ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, kung fu, medieval, shaolin monk, fight, wuxia, village, master warrior, heroes, shaolin, tough heroes, legends and myths ...
Time: 80s
Place: asia, hong kong
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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Dreadnaught (1981)
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 ...
Style: serious, exciting, scary, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, kung fu, wong fei hung, kung fu classic, fight, criminal, psychopath, heroes, vengeance, gang, undercover, master criminal ...
Time: 80s
Place: hong kong, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Snake in the Eagle's Shadow (1978)
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 ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, grindhouse, cult classic, fast paced ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, kung fu, vengeance, wuxia, fight, heroes, hand to hand combat, medieval, master warrior, mentor, martial artist, orphan ...
Time: year 2016
Place: china, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Dance of the Drunken Mantis (1979)
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 ...
Style: slapstick, semi serious, exciting, suspenseful, humorous ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, kung fu, fight, kung fu classic, drunken style kung fu, drunk, adopted son, tough heroes, ambition, heroes, rivalry, master warrior ...
Time: 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
The Fearless Hyena (1979)
Genre: Comedy, Action
Country: Hong Kong, South Korea
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Jackie Chan is a youngster, living in a remote vllage with his grandfather who teaches him Kong-Fu (naturally). He keeps getting into fights, even though his grandfather warns him not to show their Kong-Fu to others. Jackie, though, is tempted by ...
Style: slapstick, action adventure, cult classic, serious, slapstick comedy
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, kung fu, medieval, school, fight, kung fu classic, wuxia, asian, karate, heroes, wing chun, vengeance ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: east asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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Magnificent Butcher (1979)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A plump butcher student of 'Wong Fei Hung', Lam Sai-Wing (Sammo) gets into trouble with a rival kung-fu school known as 'Five Dragons'. He is accused of raping the Head of that school's goddaughter and killing his son. Now ...
Style: semi serious, stylized, humorous, slapstick comedy, slapstick ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: martial arts, kung fu, kung fu classic, wong fei hung, fight, master warrior, wuxia, hand to hand combat, kidnapping, heroes, vigilantism, master criminal ...
Time: 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Enter the Fat Dragon (1978)
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 ...
Style: parody, spoof, slapstick comedy
Plot: kung fu, martial arts, satire, fight, city, kickboxing, karate, gag humor, fighting
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28%
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Warriors Two (1978)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 96 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.
Style: fast, serious, realistic, stylized, epic
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, kung fu, wing chun, fight, wuxia, karate, kung fu classic, dishonesty, master criminal, womanizer, vengeance, heroes ...
Time: 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Two Champions of Shaolin (1980)
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: serious, realistic, suspenseful
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, kung fu, shaolin, fight, master warrior, secret agent, heroes, dealing with death, vigilantism, gang, rivalry, vengeance ...
Time: 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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7 Grandmasters (1977)
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: action adventure, road movie, exciting, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, kung fu, medieval, fight, kung fu classic, karate, fight club, violent content, tough heroes, retiring, aging, heroes ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: china
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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The Shaolin Temple (1982)
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. ...
Style: exciting, serious, stylized, captivating, touching ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, kung fu, master warrior, heroes, fight, coming of age, vengeance, monastery, medieval, renegade, tough heroes, monk ...
Time: 7th century
Place: china, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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
Plot: martial arts, kung fu, tai chi, violent content, gangster, tough heroes, heroes, rivalry, vigilantism, master warrior, one man army, vengeance ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: asia, hong kong
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
The Kid with the Golden Arm (1979)
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: cult classic, fast, exciting, realistic, serious ...
Plot: kung fu, martial arts, fight, medieval, kung fu classic, sword, wuxia, shaolin, weapons, asian, sword fight, special agent ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: china, east asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Mad Monkey Kung Fu (1979)
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.
Style: cult classic, grindhouse
Plot: martial arts, kung fu, kung fu classic, fight, medieval, shaolin, wuxia, monkey, kung fu master, martial artist, kung fu fighting, master warrior ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Once Upon a Time in Shanghai (2014)
Genre: Action, Crime
Country: China, Hong Kong
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Style: exciting, serious, realistic, captivating, tense ...
Audience: boys' night
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Time: 2010s, 1900s
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⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
House of Fury (2005)
Genre: Action, Comedy
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Teddy Yu is a former secret agent turned chiropractor who thought he left his past behind. He teaches martial arts to his two kids. However, his past catches up to him as a rogue agent demands to know the whereabouts of an agent known as Dragon. ...
Style: exciting, humorous, semi serious, light, cult classic ...
Plot: martial arts, young heroes, kung fu, secret agent, parents and children, daring rescue, heroes, danger, siblings relations, family relations, fight, wuxia ...
Place: asia, china, hong kong
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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Knockabout (1979)
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 ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, slapstick, slapstick comedy
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, kung fu, revenge, kung fu classic, wuxia, fight, beggar, bare chested male, betrayal, dishonesty, buddies, heroes ...
Time: 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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