Movies like Bloodfight 1988

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Bloodfight (1988)
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Bloodfight (1988)
Original name: Qualcuno Pagherà
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Greene plays an up and coming boxer with a powerful right hand and a heart of gold. He works night shifts in a bar and has a girlfriend whose father played by Ernest Borgnine disapproves of the relationship thinking Greene is a no good for nothing loser. To prove himself Greene catches the attention of a local boxing promoter played by Giuliano Gemma who decides to make a champion out of his newfound protégé.
Plot: boxing, boxer, alcoholic, coach, father, arm wrestling, corruption, weightlifting, fistfight, muscleman, boxing match, sparring, father daughter conflict, kidnapped woman, punched in the groin, kicked in the crotch, young, lifting weights, punched in the crotch
Time: year 2016
Place: miami

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Most similar movies to Bloodfight

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, independent film and exciting films with plots about boxing, boxer, martial arts, fistfight, rivalry, fight and ambition mostly in Drama, Action and Sport genres. Some movies like Bloodfight: The Brutal Boxer (1972), Split Decisions (1988), Busted Up (1986), They Died with Their Boots On (1978), Amma Nanna O Tamila Ammayi (2003). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Prodigal Boxer: The Kick of Death (1972)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Taiwan, Hong Kong
Duration: 90 min.
Story: THE PRODIGAL BOXER features Chinese folk hero Fong Sai Yuk (aka Fong Si Yu), the subject of dozens of HK kung fu films. The role is played by Meng Fei as a callow, unschooled youth and wrongfully accused murderer. Two vicious masters of the local ...
Style: grindhouse
Plot: martial arts, kung fu, combat, student, father, revenge, boxing, kickboxing, kung fu classic, boxer, kickboxer, fistfight ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
The Brutal Boxer (1972)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 87 min.
Story: The bloodiest Kung Fu battles ever fought. The subtitle says it all, as there is hardly any story, but all the more raw fighting.
Plot: heroes, master warrior, boxing, kickboxing, violence, combat, showdown, tough guy, kung fu, martial artist, martial arts, mixed martial arts ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
Split Decisions (1988)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: When a boxer is killed because he wouldn't take a dive, his brother tries to find a way to avenge him even if only symbolically.
Style: independent film, exciting, serious, realistic, sincere
Audience: boys' night
Plot: boxing, boxer, martial arts, fight, ambition, conflict, gangster, power relations, family relations, parents and children, contests and competitions, rivalry ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
 4.6
 128
Busted Up (1986)
Genre: Action, Drama, Music, Sport
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Prolific actor-stuntman Conrad Palmisano directed this average action-thriller about the owner of an inner-city gym. Earl (Paul Coufos) happens to also be a skilled fighter, and when he is pressured by real-estate developers to close the gym, he ...
Style: independent film
Plot: boxing, boxer, interracial, junkie, neighborhood, marital separation, diner, coach, gym, singer, father daughter relationship, singing ...
Place: toronto ontario canada, canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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They Died with Their Boots On (1978)
Genre: Action, Drama, Western
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Young boy who sees his father gunned down kills the assassin. Years later, he has grown up to be a successful bounty hunter who is feared by many. And then one day he discovers secrets to his past...
Style: spaghetti western, action thriller, euro western
Plot: medieval, conservative, woman with a gun, child kidnapping, hunting, violence, blood, massacre, sadism, horse, father, boy ...
Place: spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Amma Nanna O Tamila Ammayi (2003)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sport
Country: India
Duration: 154 min.
Story: Chandu is very passionate about kickboxing and his life revolves around his mother and his girlfriend. His life is shattered when his dying mother asks him to meet his estranged father Raghuveer.
Style: thrilling, psychological, captivating
Plot: father, boxer, boxing, battles, ambition, boxing champion, fight, bereavement, ambitious man, life is a bitch, boxing trainer, son ...
Place: india
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Strength and Honour (2007)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Ireland
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A single father decides to break his dying wife's last wish to not box again in order to save his young son from certain death.
Style: sincere, serious, emotional, realistic
Plot: boxing, bittersweet, family relations, human spirit, hopes, parents and children, last wish, family in danger, underdog, contests and competitions, athlete's life, single parent ...
Place: ireland
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
 6.5
 10K
Gladiator (1992)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A story of two teenagers trapped in the world of illegal underground boxing. One is fighting to save his fathers life and using the money pay off gambling debts accumulated by his father. The second is fighting for the money to get out of the ...
Style: serious, realistic, rough, harsh, hood ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: boxing, friendship, underdog, contests and competitions, urban ghetto life, against the odds, human spirit, hopes, athlete and trainer, unlikely friendships, ambition, boxer ...
Time: 90s, year 1992
Place: chicago, cuba, british columbia, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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 7.6
 12K
Saala Khadoos (2016)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sport
Country: India
Duration: 109 min.
Story: The story of a former boxer who quits boxing following a fallout with the authorities over the underlying politics but goes on to coach a fisherwoman to fulfill his dream through her. Thisi is a simultaneously shot Hindi version of the Tamil film ...
Style: feel good, thought provoking, suspenseful, exciting, captivating ...
Plot: boxing, boxing trainer, corruption, ex boxer, temper, politics, gym, coach, game, anger, feminist, fight club ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Last Man Standing (1987)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sport
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Roo Marcus has just spent 8 years in a mental institution, and takes up bare-knuckle boxing and gets a job fighting in a gym run by Napoleon. Roo is often tormented by memories of shock treatment and inhumane conditions. His friends, Capser and ...
Style: independent film
Plot: martial arts, boxing, boxer, punk rocker, corrupt cop, father daughter relationship, police corruption, female boxer, fight club, barefoot, obscene finger gesture
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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Fist Fighter (1988)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sport
Country: USA, Spain, Mexico
Duration: 97 min.
Story: C.J. Thunderbird, a down-on-his-luck professional fighter is informed that his old friend has been killed in an illegal fight. He finds out that the killer is a goon named Rhino and, with vengeance on his mind, tracks him down in Bolivia. The ...
Style: perverse, independent film
Plot: illegal fistfight, martial arts, boxing, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, dying, murder, violence, female nudity, money, friend, drunkenness, revenge ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Call Me Dragon (1974)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Golden Sand City is filled with brothels and casinos funded by drug lord Yim Kung Ho (evil Mr. Yem) and policed by the iron fist of his henchman Panther (Leopard Head). Vigilantes Inspector Big Dragon (Bruce Liang), Little Mouse, and Black Cat plan ...
Style: independent film
Plot: fight, master warrior, kung fu fighting, kung fu classic, kung fu, kung fu master, martial arts, martial artist, fistfight, violence, young, fighting
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 7.6
 309K
Creed (2015)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 133 min.
Story: The former World Heavyweight Champion Rocky Balboa serves as a trainer and mentor to Adonis Johnson, the son of his late friend and former rival Apollo Creed.
Style: inspirational, suspense, emotional, brutal, sentimental ...
Audience: boys' night, manly, teens, family outing, adult
Plot: boxing, underdog, boxer, fight, training, athlete and trainer, coach, legacy, mentor, boxing match, courage, gym ...
Time: 2010s, year 2015, year 2016, year 1998, 90s ...
Place: philadelphia, usa, mexico, pennsylvania, los angeles ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 6.9
 2K
Saint George (2016)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Portugal, France
Duration: 112 min.
Story: In 2011 Portugal began the so-called "year of the Troika" (EU, IMF and ECB budget cuts and economic restructuring), with the level of debt among the Portuguese people reaching staggering amounts and a growing number of families and ...
Plot: boxing, economist, debt collector, boxer, debt, boxing training, runaway, boxing match, father son relationship, extortion, interracial relations, intimidation ...
Time: year 2016
Place: portugal, lisbon portugal
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 3.7
 128
One More Round (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Basically the Christian version of Rocky
Style: christian film
Plot: religious, faith, fighter, coworker, coach, salesman, dojo, christian, boxer, ex boxer, husband wife relationship, money problems ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 7.1
 231K
Rocky Balboa (2006)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: When he loses a highly publicized virtual boxing match to ex-champ Rocky Balboa, reigning heavyweight titleholder, Mason Dixon retaliates by challenging Rocky to a nationally televised, 10-round exhibition bout. To the surprise of his son and ...
Style: inspirational, sincere, touching, melancholic, action packed ...
Audience: boys' night, teens, manly, family outing
Plot: boxing, father son relationship, boxer, athlete's life, life, comeback, training, aging, fight, life philosophy, against the odds, determination ...
Time: year 2006, 2000s, 21st century
Place: philadelphia, pennsylvania, usa, las vegas
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 4.6
 650
Final Impact (1992)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A former kick-boxing world champion discovers a young fighter, and believes together they can win back the world crown.
Style: independent film, exciting, realistic, serious
Plot: martial arts, tough heroes, swimming pool, training, kickboxer, gym, gambling, suspicion of adultery, relationship problems, championship, nightclub, washed up star ...
Time: 90s
Place: ohio, usa, las vegas
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Aryan: Unbreakable (2006)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sport
Country: India
Duration: 135 min.
Story: Aryan is the college champion in boxing. He is training under Ranveer Singh in order to achieve his dream: winning the national championship. His girlfriend Neha supports him unconditionally and he relies heavily upon her. However, after his life ...
Style: uplifting, realistic, serious, tense
Plot: boxing, ambition, human spirit, athlete's life, follow your dream, family relations, athlete and trainer, rivalry, hopes, lifestyle, pregnancy, championship ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Sarpatta Parambarai (2021)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sport
Country: India
Duration: 173 min.
Story: When Sarpatta Parambarai is challenged to a do-or-die match, Kabilan, a young labourer, must choose whether to put on the gloves himself and lead his clan to victory, or be dissuaded by his disapproving mother and dangerous politics.
Style: disturbing, tense, captivating
Plot: boxing, fight, politics, crime family, gang war, organized crime, criminal gang, gang, political intrigue, bandit, prizefighter, power struggle ...
Time: 2020s, 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
 4.0
 162
Subterfuge (1996)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Scuba-diver turned beach-bum Jonathan Slade is forced back into his previous milieu - the world of international espionage - in order to retrieve Black Boxes from an American jetliner that crashed under mysterious circumstances into the Black Sea. ...
Plot: beefcake, muscleman, torture, spy, law enforcement, 007, martial arts, underwater fight, bare chested male, airplane, fistfight, motorcycle ...
Place: black sea
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
 6.4
 3K
Jawbone (2017)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sport
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A former youth boxing champion, Jimmy McCabe is a man in search of hope but looking in all the wrong places. When he hits rock bottom he turns to his childhood boxing club and the only family he has left: gym owner Bill corner man Eddie and promoter ...
Style: rough, inspirational, tense, powerful
Audience: boys' night
Plot: boxer, boxing, career, rivalry, change of luck, opponent, life is a bitch, athlete's life, ex boxer, manager, title bout, society ...
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
 5.8
 1K
Revenge (2007)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Sport
Country: Russia
Duration: 135 min.
Story: When Artem Kolchin, Denis Nikiforov, arrives in the U.S. to fight for the championship, he soon finds himself fighting for his life after he sends a young, aggressive boxer, who provokes him into sparring, into a coma and ultimately killing him. ...
Style: exciting, suspenseful, suspense, captivating, tense
Plot: boxing, revenge, rivalry, hopes, violence, murder, brutality, dialogue, love and romance, family relations, life philosophy, fight scenes ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Kickboxer: Retaliation (2018)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: One year after the events of "Kickboxer: Vengeance", Kurt Sloan has vowed never to return to Thailand. However, while gearing up for a MMA title shot, he finds himself sedated and forced back into Thailand, this time in prison. He is there ...
Style: brutal, suspenseful, exciting, bleak, inspirational ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: kickboxing, martial arts, kickboxer, muay thai, muscleman, violence, master warrior, brutality, fight, mentor, vengeance, friendship ...
Place: thailand
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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 7.3
 256K
Southpaw (2015)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sport
Country: Hong Kong, USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: Billy "The Great" Hope, the reigning junior middleweight boxing champion, has an impressive career, a loving wife and daughter, and a lavish lifestyle. However, when tragedy strikes, Billy hits rock bottom, losing his family, his house and ...
Style: touching, inspirational, dramatic, sentimental, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: boxing, boxer, father daughter relationship, athlete's life, death of wife, tragedy, contests and competitions, down on your luck, grief, parenthood, family relations, rise and fall ...
Time: year 2015, 2010s, year 2014, 21st century
Place: pittsburgh, madison square garden manhattan new york city, usa, new york, las vegas ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
 5.6
 180
Sudden Death (1977)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: When Ed Neilson's entire family is viciously murdered, he pleads with retired CIA operative Duke Smith (Robert Conrad) to investigate. He refuses, but relents after Neilson too meets an explosive death. Deception, international intrigue and a ...
Style: political, action thriller, independent film
Plot: violence, murder, burned alive, karate, mercenary, car bomb, killer, fortune, martial arts, fistfight, thug, cia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
 4.5
 227
Fist of Honor (1993)
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: realistic, serious, exciting, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, bad father, heroes, gangster, murder, kung fu, bare breasts, gang, investigation, chases and races, betrayal, vengeance ...
Time: 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
 5.5
 11K
Kranti (2023)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 163 min.
Story: Kranti Rayanna, a business tycoon in Europe is invited by his favorite teacher to attend the Centenary celebrations of the school. Kranti begins a revolution and takes the fight on with Salatri Group trying to takeover 12,000 government schools and ...
Style: dramatic, exciting, suspenseful, tense, captivating
Plot: school, scuffle, evil businessman, business, businessman, dancing, apprentice, militant, corruption, fistfight
Time: 2020s
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
 4.6
 282
Blonde Fist (1991)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sport
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A woman attempts to escape her domestic problems by fleeing to New York in search of her father. She finds him, and also new problems, some friendship, a romance, and an unexpected career as pro-boxer, to make ends meet.
Style: independent film, serious, realistic, touching
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: boxing, women's prison, kickass, female fight, female boxer, love affair, blonde, strong female presence, power relations, hopes, gender, starting over ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: england, liverpool
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
The Clutch of Power (1977)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Taiwan, Hong Kong
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A rogue swordsman known as "Soul of the Sword" kills the father of a young Kung Fu expert, who teams up with a Drunken Monk to put an end to Soul of the Sword’s reign of terror, and thwart the Mongol invasion.
Plot: wuxia, ninja, revenge, duel, kung fu, sword fight, martial artist, martial arts, father, young
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
 5.7
 84
Blood & Guts (1978)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A young athelete becomes the unlikely star of an itinerant wrestling troupe, and a rival promoter will go to any length to steal him away.
Style: independent film
Plot: wrestling, canuxploitation, female nudity, friendship, bus, rape, travel, on the road, coach, professional wrestling, young
Time: 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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