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The Sanctuary (2009)
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The Sanctuary (2009)
Original name: สามพันโบก
Genre: Action
Country: Thailand
Duration: 87 min.
Story: In 1897, the “Poisoned Knife” clan broke into the royal palace of Thailand to steal the Royal Antiques which the King intended to give to America as a reward for its help in negotiations that avoided Thai territorial cuts. The clan succeeded in stealing the antiques, but the thieves didn’t escape with their lives. Before their deaths, they hid the antiques somewhere close to the palace. During his interrogation, the last bandit chose to end his life by Master Sawang’s sword and let the place where the Royal Antiques were hidden die with him.
Style: rough, serious, exciting, suspenseful, stylized
Audience: boys' night
Plot: save the world, danger, criminal heroes, heroic mission, treasure hunt, master warrior, good versus evil, one man army, race against time, dishonesty, master villain, daring rescue, martial arts, heroes, battles, soldier, chases and races, escapades, rivalry, religions or cults, righting the wronged, violent content, villainess, graphic violence, palaces castles and temples ...
Time: 19th century, 21st century
Place: thailand

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, exciting, suspenseful and rough films with plots about heroes, danger, rivalry, martial arts, master warrior, violent content and escapades mostly in Action, Comedy and Thriller genres. Some movies like The Sanctuary: BKO: Bangkok Knockout (2010), The Bodyguard (2004), Underground (2007), The Protector 2 (2013), Wushu Warrior (2011). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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BKO: Bangkok Knockout (2010)
Genre: Action
Country: Thailand
Duration: 106 min.
Story: A group of martial arts students are enjoying a reunion party when a bomb goes off in the building. When they wake up, some of their friends have been kidnapped and they soon find a group of assassins coming after them. The only way to survive is to ...
Style: realistic, serious, exciting, suspenseful, action packed ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, master warrior, fight, martial arts tournament, heroic mission, danger, rivalry, escapades, daring rescue, heroes, trapped in a building, competition ...
Time: 21st century
Place: thailand, asia
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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
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100%
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Underground (2007)
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, ambition, heroic mission, escapades, fighting crime, heroes, rivalry, danger, master warrior, underdog, ultimatum, battles ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
The Protector 2 (2013)
Genre: Action
Country: Thailand
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Kham is the last in long line of guards who once watched over the King of Thailand's war elephants. Traditionally, only the perfect elephants could successfully help defend the throne, after his harrowing quest to retrieve the elephants, Kham ...
Style: rough, exciting, suspenseful, serious, action thriller ...
Audience: boys' night
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Time: 21st century
Place: thailand
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Wushu Warrior (2011)
Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: China, 1862: Lord Lindsey rules the opium trade and enslaves the innocent. The only hope for the oppressed nation, is a covert group of trained Wushu Warriors - The Red Lotus Society – who will fight to restore justice to its people.
Style: exciting, captivating, tense, entertaining, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: wu shu, martial arts, hopes, rebellion, good versus evil, drug dealing, rivalry, society, righting the wronged, escapades, danger, battles ...
Time: 19th century
Place: china, asia
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Extraction (2013)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: A major feature exclusively for digital, EXTRACTION follows a U.S. Black Ops team member who finds himself the only survivor of a botched prisoner extraction mission. Forced to fight his way out of a maximum-security Chechen prison, he must keep his ...
Style: exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful, realistic
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, heroic mission, daring rescue, one man army, danger, prison, conflict, escape, master warrior, heroes, violent content, confined ...
Time: 21st century
Place: russia
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The 5th Execution (2011)
Genre: Action
Country: Russia, USA, Netherlands
Duration: 110 min.
Story: On a remote island in Southeast Asia, a team of scientists, studying the regenerative properties of the salamander, discovers what their Bangkok headquarters refer to as "The Priceless Gift": an elixir of life. News of the discovery ...
Style: exciting, suspenseful, bleak, suspense, serious ...
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Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Submerged (2000)
Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Navy SEALs launch a rescue mission after terrorists plunge a jet carrying a missile-launching computer into the sea.
Style: exciting, serious, suspenseful, rough, independent film ...
Audience: boys' night
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Time: 20th century, 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Dragonwolf (2013)
Genre: Action
Country: Thailand
Duration: 120 min.
Story: The Devil's Cauldron, a city where depravity and violence has forged a society in which only the lethal and callous can survive, two young men who possess the intellect and ferocity to flourish, carve a name for themselves as the most efficient ...
Style: serious, realistic, exciting, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
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Time: 21st century
Place: thailand
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 3.2
 458
Urban Fighter (2012)
Genre: Action
Country: Germany
Duration: 102 min.
Story: The "Bloods" are the most intimidating and violent gang in the city. A lawless city... where gangs rule the streets... The vicious and blood thirsty murderer Slater is their leader. The city is his domain... he rules! There are those who ...
Style: exciting, captivating, tense, suspense, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
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Time: 21st century
Place: germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Frogmen Operation Stormbringer (2002)
Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Captain Rick Jeffries is the head of a group of elite soldiers who swim into action, doing the dirty jobs no else can or wants to do. They are in pursuit of a world traveling terrorist known only as Casper, and have the difficult job of bringing him ...
Style: serious, exciting, rough, suspenseful, realistic
Audience: boys' night
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Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Shaolin Deadly Kicks (1979)
Genre: Action
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Eight thieves steal a treasure map and split it into eight pieces, vowing to regroup three years later. But they'll have to deal with a deadly-kicking cop.
Style: exciting, serious, stylized, bleak, rough ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
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Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
TEKKEN: Kazuya's Revenge (2014)
Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A young man, Kazuya Mishima, wakes up alone in an unfamiliar hotel room without any recollection of who he is or how he got there. He is tormented by flashes of his past and by the face of an ominous stranger. The next thing he knows, Kazuya is ...
Style: serious, rough, futuristic, exciting, action adventure ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
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Time: 2010s, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Bandits, Prostitutes and Silver (1977)
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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36%
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The Vanquisher (2009)
Genre: Action
Country: Thailand
Duration: 90 min.
Story: After completing a covert mission in southern Thailand, CIA agent Gunja finds herself forced to fight off operatives who've been ordered to take her out at all costs. She survives and after two years of laying low, re-emerges in Bangkok to face ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
U.S. Seals II: The Ultimate Force (2001)
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Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
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⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
When the Cobra Strikes (2012)
Genre: Action
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Story: One man travels across country, smuggling illegal black diamonds to sell in order to pay for his father's pardon in South Africa. When he arrives to the United States to finalize what appeared to be a simple transaction he is soon ...
Style: exciting, serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating ...
Audience: boys' night
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⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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 344
To Be the Best (1993)
Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Eric Kulhane, a member of the U.S. Kickboxing Team, lets his quick temper and obsessive love for beautiful Cheryl make him the perfect target for blackmail. In order to stop ruthless gambler from rigging the World Championship and killing Cheryl, ...
Style: independent film, fast, realistic, serious, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
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Time: 20th century, 90s
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⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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Ancient Warriors (2003)
Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: No overview found.
Style: serious, rough, exciting, suspenseful, independent film
Audience: boys' night
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⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 4.2
 490
Steel Sharks (1997)
Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
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Style: independent film, exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
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⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Yakuza-Busting Girls: Duel in Hell (2010)
Genre: Action
Country: Japan
Duration: 73 min.
Story: Asami returns exhausted after three years of intense training to become a yakuza hunter. She decides to visit her old master, Inokuma, who runs a bar. However, she finds his place in ruins and nothing is as it was when she left. As it turns out, the ...
Style: exciting, stylized, rough, suspenseful, serious ...
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Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 5.6
 240
Hit Team (2001)
Genre: Action
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 94 min.
Story: An undercover cop badly injured in a raid is blamed for the raid's failure and thrown out of the police department. His injuries result in his being paralyzed form the waist down, and doctors tell him that if he doesn't have an operation ...
Style: serious, rough, suspenseful, exciting, realistic
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⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 5.0
 329
Raging Inferno (2007)
Genre: Action
Country: Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A fire breaks out in the Berlin Fernsehturm (Radio Tower) trapping several people in the restaurant and observation deck at the top. A team of firefighters, including a disgraced former member, rush to the rescue as chaos erupts among the trapped.
Style: exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Audience: boys' night
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⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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Vigilante (2008)
Genre: Action
Country: Australia
Duration: 90 min.
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Style: rough, exciting, serious, suspenseful, realistic
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34%
Sticks of Death (1986)
Genre: Action
Country: Philippines
Duration: 98 min.
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Style: independent film, realistic, serious, exciting, rough ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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Genre: Action
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 86 min.
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Style: exciting, serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful
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33%
Spirited Killer (1994)
Genre: Action
Country: Thailand
Duration: 85 min.
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Style: exciting, serious, slasher, rough, suspenseful
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⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
 5.8
 753
Ashura (2005)
Genre: Action, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Adapted from the successful play, the film takes place in 19th-century Japan, where a war between demons and their slayers is fought. Izumo, a kabuki actor with a demon-slaying past, meets and falls in love with Tsubaki. However, something is not ...
Style: serious, exciting, stylized, suspenseful
Plot: fall in love, rivalry, good versus evil, love and romance, imaginary, haunted by the past, danger, save the world, supernatural, forced into action, martial arts, fight ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
 3.9
 117
Last Stand (2000)
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⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Ong Bak 2 (2008)
Genre: Action
Country: Thailand
Duration: 98 min.
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33%
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