Movies like Fists of Bruce Lee
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Fists of Bruce Lee (1978)
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Original name: 伏擊
Genre: Drama, Action
Country: Taiwan, Hong Kong
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Fighters ally with each other and fight for no apparent reason. The plot is meaningless, just a vehicle to see fight scenes.
Style:
independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, fast, cult film
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
martial arts, kung fu, secret organization, secret agent, survival, kidnapping, battles, undercover, fall in love, rivalry, drug dealing, danger, working undercover, law enforcement, confined, drug abuse, dishonesty, righting the wronged, lawyer, fight, money, police officer, gang, violence, murder ...
Time:
70s
Most similar movies to Fists of Bruce Lee
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, suspenseful and exciting films with plots about martial arts, kung fu, heroes, rivalry, violence, fight and vengeance mostly in Action, Drama and Crime genres. Some movies like Fists of Bruce Lee: In the Line of Duty (1986), Executioners from Shaolin (1977), Challenge of the Masters (1976), Bruce Lee: A Dragon Story (1977), Two Champions of Shaolin (1980). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Michelle Yip of the Hong Kong police is a mild-mannered Kung Fu expert; Michael Wong from air security is happy-go-lucky, stuck on himself, constantly talking, and smitten by her; Yamamoto is quiet, hard-boiled, leaving the Tokyo police to spend ...
Style:
perverse, hood, cult classic, fast, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night, adult
Plot:
martial arts, female martial artist, kung fu, kickass women, terrorism, police shootout, police, female fight, gang, hot chick, woman with a gun, fight ...
Time:
80s
Place:
hong kong, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
To free his girlfriend from her contract with a greedy madam, Shang Li (Don Wong) teams up with a cold-blooded thief called the Sparrow (Chiang-lung Wen) to hijack a large shipment of silver. But when the heist suddenly goes bad, Shang Li finds ...
Style:
captivating, exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful ...
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boys' night
Plot:
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Time:
70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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 ...
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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 ⇓
31%
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 ...
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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 ⇓
31%
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Bruce Li plays a young kung fu expert (and waiter) who is trying to live peacefully in San Francisco with his marital arts-challenged friend. But they run afoul of some American thugs, and the fight is on...right!
Style:
independent film, captivating, exciting, serious, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
martial arts, kung fu, heroes, master warrior, righting the wronged, tough heroes, rivalry, philosopher, asian man, movie star, martial artist, fistfight ...
Time:
70s
Place:
california, usa, san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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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 ...
Style:
exciting, realistic, serious
Plot:
good versus evil, martial arts, master warrior, tough heroes, actor's life, heroes, biopic, violent content, righting the wronged, gang, daring rescue, artists and showbiz ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
hong kong
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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
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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%
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 ...
Style:
grindhouse, stylized, perverse, exciting, offbeat ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
martial arts, kung fu, shaolin, fight, kung fu classic, medieval, wuxia, ninja, karate, exploitation, monster, violent content ...
Place:
asia, china
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Genre: Action, Crime
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
The thriving narcotics smuggling operations in Bangkok are headed by rival American and Chinese interests. The former is led by huge bearded nightclub owner, menacingly played by Paul Smith. His bitter rival Tse-Chan goes to elaborate lengths to ...
Style:
grindhouse, fast, exciting, realistic, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
kung fu, money, crime boss, undercover, drug dealing, martial arts, violent content, secret agent, partner, gangster, injustice, righting the wronged ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
thailand, holland, china
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
As two rival Godfathers view to take control of the city, a hot-tempered family member kills two relatives of the opposing family, breaking the "Truce of Honor". Now the war begins! As a young boxer seeks revenge for his fiancée's ...
Style:
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Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
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Time:
70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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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:
action adventure, cult classic, fast, realistic, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
martial arts, kung fu, medieval, fight, heroes, master warrior, wartime life, school, murder, heroic mission, against the odds, tough heroes ...
Place:
taiwan, asia, hong kong
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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:
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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 ⇓
24%
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
An ex-cop finds himself caught up in a battle between Japanese mobsters and local gangland thugs and discovers that he was framed for wrong-doings by a corrupt cop.
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Wolf (Donnie Yen) is a war veteran who recounts the tale of his legendary youth to a young upstart killer (Edmond Leung). Flashback to a post-World War 2 time when the young Wolf (Yen) is wandering the Chinese countryside in search of his missing ...
Style:
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Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
martial arts, fight, fight scenes, rivalry, hitman, heroes, assassination attempt, femme fatale, undercover, criminal's revenge, unfulfillment, vengeance ...
Place:
asia, hong kong
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Hong Kong
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Shatter, an international contract killer, has been assigned to assassinate the President of a small African country and collect his fee from a bank in the Far East. On arrival in Hong Kong his life is threatened and when the bank denies all ...
Style:
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boys' night
Plot:
martial arts, murder, killer, assassin, professional, assassination, master warrior, hitman, gangster, battle zone, wrongfully committed, working undercover ...
Time:
70s
Place:
hong kong, england, europe, asia, china ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Argentina, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A Japanese cop, Shiro, and his partner Ray are after a bunch of drug dealers. But they are betrayed by an insider and Ray is killed. Shiro follows the murderer, a sadistic drug lord, up to Singapore.
Style:
retro, independent film, realistic, serious, exciting ...
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boys' night
Plot:
martial arts, ninja, medieval, mixed martial arts, drug lord, shootout, explosions, law enforcement, undercover, dishonesty, betrayal, rivalry ...
Time:
80s
Place:
singapore, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Genre: Action
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A band of counterfeiters wants to make Hong Kong their new territory. The disgraced leader of the Special Squad will have to team-up with a group of Hong Kong police officers in an attempt to stop the dirty business of crime lord Han Tin Lung, but ...
Style:
fast, serious, independent film
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
martial arts, kung fu, partner, undercover, master warrior, forgery, heroes, rivalry, gang, partners against crime, tough law enforcer, law enforcement ...
Time:
70s
Place:
hong kong, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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 ⇓
23%
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Taiwan, Hong Kong
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
After Chen Zhen's execution in Shanghai, the Japanese feared that his death would unite all Chinese kung fu schools against them. Fearing this, the Japanese gave orders to the head of the Hong Ku School, Miyamoto (Lo Lieh) to surpass all ...
Style:
fast paced, independent film
Plot:
martial arts, medieval, karate, kung fu, fight, bare chested male, master warrior, heroes, showdown, jeet kune do, vengeance, murder ...
Time:
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Place:
shanghai
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A pair of tough cops go after the mob who jinxed the martial arts tournament and injured their buddy.
Style:
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Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
blaxploitation, martial arts, black, gangster, kung fu, partner, gang, criminal's revenge, contests and competitions, good versus evil, rivalry, society ...
Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story:
Michael, a Vietnam vet with two kids, pulls off a bank heist with his gang, which includes the bank's manager. To ensure the loyalty of everyone involved, Mike makes a special set of keys, so that the hiding place for the loot can only be ...
Style:
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Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
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Time:
90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Hong Kong, South Korea
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Young master Cao Le chases his pregnant girlfriend away from the family castle. He does it in order to save her from vicious bandits who are going to murder his family.
Style:
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Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
martial arts, asian, kung fu, pregnancy, gory, heroes, fall in love, intrigue, gang, leadership, vengeance, rivalry ...
Time:
70s
Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Iron Fisted Monk, heavyweight HK superstar Sammo Hung's directorial debut, is a powerful old school kung fu movie which sees the portly one at his physical peak on screen as well as calling the shots behind the camera. Husker (Sammo) is a ...
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boys' night
Plot:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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 ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
asia, china
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A clumsy, easy-going but tough restaurant chef witnesses a murder of a cop. This leads him to a world of trouble, as the killer seeks to silence him. Luckily, the vengeful partner of the dead cop is there to help him.
Style:
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Audience:
boys' night
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Major Murphy, a US Army Investigator, has received a new assignment. Sgt. Gammon is suspected of dealing cocaine from his base, and Murphy must gather enough evidence to shut down Gammon and his entire operation. Along with his partner, Lt. Andrews, ...
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Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Hong Kong, Taiwan
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
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Style:
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boys' night
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Taiwan, Hong Kong
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Two men skilled in the arts of Kung-Fu are betrayed by their master and crippled for life, one left with no arms and the other with no legs. Despite their obvious disadvantages, they learn to combine their martial arts skills and seek revenge ...
Style:
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Audience:
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Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
After a U.S. policeman is killed by black market weapons dealers, his partner, Rudy (Robert Madrid), and the murdered cop's father, ex-British Intelligence agent Roger Chambers (Michael York), head to Moscow to find the killers. The two begin ...
Style:
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Audience:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong, Taiwan
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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