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Bare Knuckles (2010)
528
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Women will go to extreme lengths for those they love and single mother Samantha Rogers is no exception. Along with her young daughter, Milla, Sam struggles to make ends meet, taking her licks as a stunt double by day and cocktail waitressing at a rowdy bar at night. When Sam uses her skills to end a bar fight between two drunk women, down and out fight promoter Sonny Cool sees an opportunity to get back into the game. He tells Sam all about the "show," a high class, underground illegal all female bare knuckle fight tournament, where brutality and elegance mix with high stakes and deception. Is the price too much for her...? Bare Knuckles..... a knockout punch of strength and determination, inspired by a true story.
Style:
realistic, serious, exciting, rough, independent film
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
martial arts, female boxer, boxing, single parent, contests and competitions, family relations, ambition, female fight, love, brutality, single mother, mother daughter relationship, determination, trophy, mixed martial arts, hand to hand combat, fight, boxer, competition, sexual content, strong female presence, bar fight, tough heroes, violent content, violence ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
usa
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, exciting and rough films with plots about martial arts, rivalry, contests and competitions, fight, mixed martial arts, ambition and underground fighting mostly in Action, Drama and Sport genres. Some movies like Bare Knuckles: Unrivaled (2010), Circle of Pain (2010), Damage (2009), Final Impact (1992), The Philly Kid (2012). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Action, Drama, Sport
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
mixed martial arts, martial arts, tough heroes, rivalry, ambition, lifestyle, underdog, heroes, athlete's life, contests and competitions, fight, making love ...
Time:
year 2010, 21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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boys' night
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
usa
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100%
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Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
An ex-con battles it out in the cage to pay for the operation that would save the daughter of his victim. Along the way he finds fatherly love, and friendship, in the most unlikely of places.
Style:
exciting, captivating, tense, psychological, cult classic ...
Plot:
martial arts, fight, contests and competitions, danger, rivalry, fall in love, ambition, underground tournament, wrestler, tough guy, violence, friendship ...
Time:
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Place:
usa, seattle
Similarity:
100%
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, serious, realistic, exciting
Plot:
martial arts, kickboxer, tough heroes, underground fighting, swimming pool, training, relationship problems, gambling, gym, nightclub, championship, competition ...
Time:
90s
Place:
ohio, usa, las vegas
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Action, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A former NCAA champion wrestler is paroled after 10 years in prison. Now, to save a friend's life, in a series of cage fights he must agree to do the impossible - lose.
Style:
exciting, suspenseful, realistic, serious, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
mixed martial arts, fight, martial arts, ambition, rivalry, contests and competitions, prisoner, prison, murder, manslaughter, student athlete, underground fighting ...
Time:
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Place:
usa, louisiana
Similarity:
100%
35K
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Small-town boy Shawn MacArthur has come to New York City with nothing. Barely earning a living selling counterfeit goods on the streets, his luck changes when scam artist Harvey Boarden sees that he has a natural talent for streetfighting. When ...
Style:
intense, suspense, atmospheric, stylized, harsh ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens, girls' night
Plot:
street fighter, boxing, martial arts, streetfighting, underground fighting, brutality, boxer, battles, athlete and trainer, mixed martial arts, kickboxer, rags to riches ...
Time:
year 2009, 20th century
Place:
new york, usa, brooklyn new york city, alabama, bronx new york city ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Plot:
lesbian couple, female fight, female martial artist, fight, competition, lgbtq, boxing, fight club, underground fighting, murder, justice, martial arts ...
Place:
new jersey
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
In the city where image is everything, the criminal underworld holds a fight tournament where legends are born, and the men who own them rule the streets.
Style:
serious, realistic, suspense, tense, rough
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
athlete's life, tough heroes, heroes, ambition, rivalry, contests and competitions, vengeance, underdog, fight, underground tournament, underground fighting, competition ...
Similarity:
100%
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389
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Sidelined by an injury incurred while protecting his young brother, underground fighter Charlie Fontaine feels blindsided when he discovers his brother having sex on his couch with his new wife, Kat. Fueled by rage, a determined Charlie makes plans ...
Style:
serious, exciting, realistic, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
martial arts tournament, sex scene, martial arts, contests and competitions, rivalry, siblings relations, athlete's life, family relations, hot and sexy, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, underground tournament, mixed martial arts ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new orleans, usa
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
SUPREME CHAMPION is a fun, sexy, stylized and fast paced fight action thriller about honor and courage featuring eight world class mixed martial arts champions.
Style:
serious, exciting, captivating, tense, psychological ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
martial arts, rivalry, contests and competitions, danger, tough heroes, cage fighting, abduction, blackmail, mixed martial arts, kickass, underground fighting, intergender wrestling ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
"From the day I was born I had to fight to survive. I fought everyone and everything that came in front of me. On the streets, confessions are made in Blood. They say that when you confess your sins, only then can you be redeemed. This is my ...
Style:
serious, rough, realistic, suspenseful
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
underground fighting, martial arts, prison, tough heroes, rivalry, vengeance, starting over, vigilantism, contests and competitions, haunted by the past, redemption, criminal heroes ...
Time:
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Similarity:
39%
Genre: Action, Drama, Horror
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A gritty MMA fighter is forced into a twisted, underground gambling ring in which he must fight to the death with other MMA fighters in order to save his wife from certain death at the hands of a maniacal crime boss. In a desperate race against ...
Style:
exciting, serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating ...
Plot:
martial arts, rivalry, survival, danger, contests and competitions, ambition, profanity, violence, mortal combat, fight, murder, underground fighting ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
39%
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, bleak, exciting, inspirational ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
kickboxing, violence, kickboxer, martial arts, muscleman, muay thai, fight, brutality, master warrior, vengeance, mentor, heroes ...
Place:
thailand
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
From the cage to the big screen, the world's greatest Mixed Martial Arts Champions come together for the first time in a major motion picture. When an MMA world champion is lured into the illegal world of underground cage fighting by an elusive ...
Style:
serious, realistic, rough, exciting, suspenseful
Plot:
underground fighting, cage fighting, martial arts, mixed martial arts, rivalry, contests and competitions, athlete's life, fight, danger, heroes, tough heroes, mentor ...
Time:
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Similarity:
37%
Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
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Style:
serious, tense, exciting, captivating, suspense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
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Place:
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36%
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Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
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Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
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Place:
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Genre: Action, Drama, Sport
Country: China, Hong Kong
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A GI in Vietnam saves his buddy's life, but in the process is shot in the head. The injury results in brain damage to the point where he basically has a child's brain in a (very large) man's body. When they get out of the army the two ...
Style:
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Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
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Similarity:
35%
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Genre: Action, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Four fighters different backgrounds come together to train under an ex MMA rising star and then ultimately have to fight each other and the traitor in heir midst.
Style:
exciting, suspenseful, realistic, serious, erotic ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
martial arts tournament, martial arts, streetfighting, fight, kickboxing, boxer, martial artist, cage fighting, kickboxer, athlete and trainer, martial arts training, bully ...
Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
35%
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: South Korea, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Kim, a Taekwondo champion decides to give up his fighting career for good in order to take care of his daughter Sa Rang. But when an evil gambling kingpin kidnaps Sa Rang, Kim must agree to fight in a rigged boxing match in exchange for Sa ...
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
los angeles, south korea
Similarity:
100%
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Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
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Style:
exciting, realistic, serious, rough
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
florida, usa, miami
Similarity:
35%
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Country: Canada
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Once a legend in the brutal world of illicit underground fighting, Shane Slavin (Daniels) decides to turn his life around, promising his wife and young son he's fought his last battle. But when his younger brother betrays a ruthless crime boss ...
Style:
exciting, realistic, tense, suspense, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
martial arts, master warrior, underground fighting, mixed martial arts, martial arts tournament, parents and children, contests and competitions, family relations, siblings relations, heroes, ambition, fight ...
Time:
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Place:
usa
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Ireland
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Style:
sincere, serious, emotional, realistic
Plot:
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Place:
ireland
Similarity:
35%
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Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA, China, Hong Kong
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
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Style:
meditative, serious, suspenseful, exciting, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
martial arts, master warrior, kung fu, tai chi, medieval, revenge, competition, brutality, abuse, violent, mortal combat, police corruption ...
Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
34%
Genre: Action, Drama, Sport
Country: Canada
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
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Style:
serious, realistic, exciting, rough
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
mixed martial arts, martial arts, athlete and trainer, contests and competitions, rivalry, vengeance, youth, young heroes, fight, college, violent content, sexual content ...
Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
34%
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, serious, exciting, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
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Time:
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Similarity:
34%
Genre: Action, Drama, Sport
Country: Bulgaria, USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
In the fourth installment of the fighting franchise, Boyka is shooting for the big leagues when an accidental death in the ring makes him question everything he stands for. When he finds out the wife of the man he accidentally killed is in trouble, ...
Style:
exciting, suspenseful, rough, realistic, disturbing ...
Audience:
boys' night, kids
Plot:
martial arts, prison, boxing, redemption, accidental death, boxer, martial artist, hand to hand combat, tough heroes, epic battle, widow, religion ...
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Featuring a mix of Thai Boxing and Ultimate Fighting, SCORPION has been dubbed The French Fight Club. It stars Jerome Le Banner, who is also known as Hyper Battle Cyborg and The Bulldog of Paris, a true kickboxer, famous for his aggressive style - ...
Style:
captivating, exciting, psychological, tense, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
martial arts, underground fighting, rivalry, redemption, contests and competitions, danger, fight, performer's life, heroes, athlete's life, hopes, prison ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Action
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
In the UK suburbs, an underground tournament is set to challenge twelve fighters from different backgrounds to compete for the price of £500,000. They have been handpicked for a no-holds barred competition that will push each fighter to their ...
Style:
rough, serious, exciting, suspenseful, realistic
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
martial arts, master warrior, tournament, ambition, tough heroes, heroic mission, underground fighting, rivalry, fighting crime, danger, heroes, escapades ...
Time:
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Similarity:
33%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Style:
inspirational, exciting, brutal, harsh, rough ...
Audience:
manly, boys' night
Plot:
martial arts, lone hero, streetfighting, prison fight, kickboxing, prison, fistfight, revenge, boxing, martial artist, hand to hand combat, gangster ...
Time:
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Place:
los angeles, california, usa
Similarity:
33%
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