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Fighter (2007)
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Fighter (2007)
Genre: Action, Drama, Romance
Country: Denmark, Sweden
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Aïcha, a high-school student, is a passionate kung fu fighter. Her Turkish parents expect her to get good grades so she can get into medical school, like her brother Ali. But school doesn´t inspire her. Defying her family, Aïcha starts secretly training at a professional, co-ed kung fu club. A boy, Emil, helps Aïcha train for the club championship and they fall in love. But the rules of life are not as simple as the rules of kung fu, and Aïcha is forced to decide who she is and what she wants.
Style: serious, rough, realistic, intercultural, inter cultural
Plot: martial arts, school, father daughter relationship, love and romance, youth, fall in love, coming of age, underdog, mother daughter relationship, brother sister relationship, father son relationship, tradition, strong female lead, gender, female fight, intergender wrestling, immigrant, kung fu, student, muslim, teenage girl, wedding, rivalry, society, ambition ...
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: copenhagen, copenhagen denmark
Keyword: danish

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Most similar movies to Fighter

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, rough and exciting films with plots about society, love and romance, rivalry, martial arts, youth, family relations and ambition mostly in Drama, Romance and Action genres. Some movies like Fighter: Star Runner (2003), Five Fingers of Death (1972), Only the Strong (1993), Serenades (2001), Little Vera (1988). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Star Runner (2003)
Genre: Action, Drama, Romance
Country: Hong Kong, South Korea
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Preparing for the hand-to-hand battle of his life and the title of Champion Star Runner, a headstrong fighter creates a deadly hybrid mix of Thai kickboxing and Chinese kung fu. Get ready for the ultimate Pan-Asian mixed martial arts competition, ...
Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful, rough, exciting
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: martial arts, love affair, athlete's life, ambition, rivalry, tragic love, heroes, contests and competitions, hopes, love and romance, starting over, tournament ...
Time: 21st century
Place: hong kong, korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
Five Fingers of Death (1972)
Genre: Action, Drama, Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A young boxer joins a martial arts school to increase his skill so he can enter a martial arts competition. he leaves the school when he hears that a local gangster is terrorizing the town. he comes to the aid of a young singer and brings on the ...
Style: grindhouse, cult classic, serious, realistic, stylized ...
Audience: kids, boys' night
Plot: martial arts, kung fu, kung fu classic, exploitation, fight, wuxia, martial arts tournament, karate, competition, gangster, power relations, tough heroes ...
Time: year 1972, 70s
Place: china, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
Only the Strong (1993)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: France, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Former Green Beret Louis Stevens returns to his hometown of Miami after completing military service in Brazil, only to learn that his old high school has become a haven for gangs and drug dealers. After Stevens uses his capoeira skills to kick ...
Style: serious, rough, realistic, independent film
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: martial arts, fight, high school, kung fu, mixed martial arts, capoeira, friends, school, youth, teacher, karate, hardcore ...
Time: 90s, year 1993
Place: usa, miami, florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
 6.5
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Serenades (2001)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A girl is born to an Aboriginal mother and an Afgan father.
Style: serious, touching, captivating, sincere, tense ...
Plot: forbidden love, interracial relations, tragic love, culture clash, human spirit, injustice, true love, parents and children, society, hopes, youth, fall in love ...
Time: 19th century, 1860s
Place: australia, afghanistan
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
 6.9
 2K
Little Vera (1988)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 128 min.
Story: A story about a young woman, Vera, who is somebody, living the life of a troubled teenager in the time right before the end of the Soviet Union. She lives in a very small Russian apartment with her mother and father, however being this close to each ...
Style: serious, suspense, cynical, rough, disturbing ...
Audience: teens
Plot: youth, parents and children, family life, father daughter relationship, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, society, love and romance, eccentric family, perestroika, coming of age, temper, school ...
Time: 80s
Place: soviet union, moscow russia, ussr, russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
Greencard Warriors (2013)
Genre: Action, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: The tragic struggle of an undocumented Latino family in Los Angeles after they have sent their eldest son to war.
Style: serious, realistic, captivating, tense, exciting ...
Plot: gang, immigrant, urban ghetto life, family relations, life is a bitch, parents and children, teenage life, society, coming of age, love and romance, social problems, couples ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
A Fighter's Blues (2000)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Before he went exclusively style-over-substance, Daniel Lee directed fighting drama A FIGHTER’S BLUES, about an aging boxer (Andy Lau, in a mature and underrated performance) seeking a shot at redemption. Co-starring Japanese drama queen Takako ...
Style: serious, rough, touching, sentimental, realistic
Plot: tough heroes, fall in love, rivalry, starting over, redemption, unlikely couple, ambition, martial arts, hopes, underdog, boxing, father daughter relationship ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: thailand, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
Fight the Fight (2011)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama
Country: China, Hong Kong
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Having taken his father's advice, one man decides to return home in pursuit of a fresh start. While training at his father's martial arts school, he learns that his father has given consent to sell the school to a rival martial arts school.
Style: serious, exciting, rough, realistic
Audience: boys' night
Plot: kung fu, martial arts, love and romance, contests and competitions, family relations, parents and children, rivalry, uninhibited rivalry, athlete and trainer, unlikely couple, siblings relations, love affair ...
Time: 21st century
Place: hong kong, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
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Bare Knuckles (2010)
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 ...
Style: realistic, serious, exciting, rough, independent film
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, female boxer, boxing, contests and competitions, single parent, family relations, ambition, female fight, single mother, trophy, love, brutality ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story (1993)
Genre: Action, Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: This film is a glimpse into the life, love and the unconquerable spirit of the legendary Bruce Lee. From a childhod of rigorous martial arts training, Lee realizes his dream of opening his own kung-fu school in America. Before long, he is discovered ...
Style: uplifting, captivating, realistic, serious, cult classic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, kung fu, biopic, master warrior, actor's life, filmmaking, culture clash, training, father son relationship, american dream, prodigy, rising to stardom ...
Time: 1940s, year 1993, 20th century, 60s, 70s ...
Place: hong kong, los angeles, seattle, california, asia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
 5.3
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Major Saab (1998)
Genre: Action, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 165 min.
Story: Major Jasbir Singh Rana (Amitabh Bachchan) trains cadets to become officers in the national defence academy. A spoilt brat Virendra Pratap Singh (Ajay Devgan) joins the academy. Little does he know the major is a strict disciplinarian who takes a ...
Style: entertaining, realistic, semi serious
Plot: army, courage, training, cadet, military, love and romance, soldier, rebellion, army investigation, rebelliousness, rivalry, youth ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: india
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 5.2
 483
My Kingdom (2011)
Genre: Action, Drama, Romance
Country: China, Hong Kong
Duration: 108 min.
Story: In the 19th century, the Prince Regent of the Qing Dynasty orders the mass execution of the entire Meng clan. Before his beheading, the leader vows that his family will avenge this travesty of justice. Awaiting his death, a five-year-old Meng boy ...
Style: serious, exciting, sentimental, realistic, captivating ...
Plot: martial arts, ambition, desire for fame, vengeance, medieval, actor's life, uninhibited rivalry, love and romance, siblings relations, love triangle, teachers and students, family relations ...
Time: 20th century, 1920s
Place: china, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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The Rebel (2007)
Genre: Action, Drama, Romance
Country: Vietnam
Duration: 103 min.
Story: 1920s. Vietnam under colonial French ruling. Anti-French rebellions emerge all over the country to disrupt the foreign occupiers. In respond, the colonialist employed units of Vietnamese agents to track and destroy these rebels. The film follows the ...
Style: serious, realistic, exciting, touching, suspenseful
Plot: martial arts, assassination attempt, secret agent, social decay, vengeance, fighting the system, undercover, genocide, wartime life, political intrigue, working undercover, political unrest ...
Time: 1920s
Place: southeast asia, asia, vietnam
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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 ⇓
45%
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Thrashin' (1986)
Genre: Action, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Corey and his band of skater buddies sometimes make mischief, but they're more interested in girls and having fun on their boards than in getting into any real trouble. Notorious enemy crew the Daggers, led by Tommy Hook, get their kicks ...
Style: independent film, period piece, colorful, sentimental, realistic ...
Audience: teens, kids
Plot: skateboard, rivalry, teenager, punk, gang, blonde, ford mustang, skater, martial arts, extreme sports, affair, motivation ...
Time: year 2016, 80s
Place: southern california, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
 6.8
 996
Hapkido (1972)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Hong Kong, South Korea
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Korea, 1934. During the Japanese occupation, there is open warfare between rival martial arts schools. There is a fight in the marketplace, and three Chinese students can't stand the unfair way of students that side up with the invasors, when ...
Style: cult classic, stylized, serious, realistic
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, kung fu, fight, kung fu classic, dojo, female fight, rivalry, heroes, master warrior, murder, society, hopes ...
Time: 1930s
Place: china, korea, hong kong, asia, japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Once Upon a Time in High School: The Spirit of Jeet Kune Do (2004)
Genre: Action, Drama, History
Country: South Korea
Duration: 116 min.
Story: A model student transfers to the notorious Jungmoon High School known for its severe corporal punishment by teachers and power struggles between school gangs.
Style: serious, captivating, touching, suspenseful, realistic ...
Audience: manly, teen drama
Plot: mixed martial arts, martial artist, hand to hand combat, rivalry, teenage life, troublemaker, buddies, youth, love and romance, love triangle, unfulfilled love, high school ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: seoul, asia, korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
 5.8
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Cristo Rey (2013)
Genre: Action, Drama, Romance
Country: Haiti, France, Dominican Republic
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Set in the Dominican Republic, Leticia Tonos Paniagua’s uniquely Caribbean retelling of Romeo and Juliet chronicles the love between a kind-hearted teenager, ostracized for his mixed Haitian-Dominican descent, and the beautiful sister of a local ...
Style: serious, rough, realistic, touching
Plot: gang, family relations, fall in love, life is a bitch, society, love and romance, siblings relations, love triangle, love, love story, urban ghetto, urban ghetto life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: caribbean, haiti, dominican republic
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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 2K
The Rainbow (1989)
Genre: Action, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Ken Russell's rather loose adaptation of the last part of D.H. Lawrence's "The Rainbow" sees impulsive young Ursula coming of age in pastoral England around the time of the Boer War. At school, she is introduced to lovemaking by ...
Style: erotic, historical drama, erotic drama, sensual, independent film ...
Plot: coming of age, foot fetish, love, making love, sexual awakening, lesbian, sex, sex scene, bisexual, lgbt, erotica, british empire ...
Time: year 1989, 19th century, 1900s, victorian era
Place: england, europe, warsaw poland, poland
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
 5.2
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Only the Brave (1994)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 59 min.
Story: Alex is in love with her best friend, Vicki, her mother has dissapeared and she sets fire to things in her spare time. Vicki comes from an abusive home and wants Alex to run away with her. Alex is a bit of a nerd and a teachers pet, so takes ...
Style: sad, realistic, serious, psychological, bleak ...
Plot: lgbt, coming of age, erotica, incest, sexual abuse, friendship, drug abuse, teachers and students, life is a bitch, love and romance, self discovery, social misfits ...
Time: 90s
Place: australia, sydney australia, melbourne
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Shanghai Affairs (1998)
Genre: Action, Drama, Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A Shanghai doctor named Tangsan, is trying to help the town's poor people. Meanwhile, he has the murderous Axe Gang to deal with as well as his feelings for the gang leader's sister.
Style: romantic, scenic, realistic, serious, captivating ...
Plot: pirate, kung fu, martial arts, frame up, chaos and mayhem, heroic mission, casino, gambling, legends and myths, rivalry, dishonesty, gang ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: china, hong kong, shanghai
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
 5.8
 2K
Friends (2000)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 155 min.
Story: A story about a girl named Priya (Preity Zinta) who is the apple of her parents' eyes. She defied the Indian culture when she got pregnant out of marriage by Saif Ali Khan
Style: emotional, realistic, serious, touching, crying
Plot: pregnancy, family relations, family problems, hopes, against the rules, redemption, family life, love and romance, single parent, unfulfillment, siblings relations, unfulfilled love ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: india
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
 7.2
 3K
Crying Fist (2005)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sport
Country: South Korea
Duration: 134 min.
Story: Jobless, besieged by creditors, and abandoned by his wife, the once silver medalist Tae-shik has sunk to street hustling, becoming a human punching bag. Meanwhile, young Sang-hwan's delinquent ways land him behind bars. Both men look to boxing ...
Style: serious, realistic, rough, tense, gloomy
Audience: manly
Plot: juvenile delinquency, boxing, ex athlete, confined, ambition, society, contests and competitions, athlete's life, rivalry, prison life, underdog, down on your luck ...
Time: 21st century
Place: korea, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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Wings of Glass (2000)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Sweden
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Vingar av glas är en svensk film från 2000 regisserad av Reza Bagher, det var hans debutfilm. I huvudrollerna ses Alexander Skarsgård som en "vanlig svensk kille" och Sara Sommerfeld som en invandrartjej. Det blir problem mellan dem.
Style: serious, sincere, realistic, touching, teen
Audience: teens
Plot: wedding party, immigrant, family relations, parents and children, siblings relations, single parent, youth, sister sister relationship, father daughter relationship, european, adolescence, single father ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Under the Protection of Ka'Bah (2011)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Indonesia
Duration: 121 min.
Story: Growing up in West Sumatra in the 1920s, Hamid and Zainab comes from families from very different social classes. Hamid is poor, while Zainab is wealthy. Hamid receives a scholarship from Zainab’s father and Hamid’s mother works for Zainab’s ...
Style: touching, serious, realistic, emotional, indonesian
Plot: forbidden love, fall in love, social differences, rich and poor, love and romance, youth, society, parents and children, teenage life, religions or cults, islam, love ...
Time: 1920s, 20th century
Place: indonesia
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 5.7
 7K
Damage (2009)
Genre: Action, Drama
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, psychological, tense, cult classic ...
Plot: martial arts, fight, danger, fall in love, rivalry, contests and competitions, ambition, underground tournament, wrestler, violence, love, friendship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, seattle
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Circle of Friends (1995)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Ireland, USA, UK
Duration: 103 min.
Story: 'Circle Of Friends' is set in 1950's Ireland. The movie focuses on Benny Hogan and her best friend, Eve Malone. The story centers around Benny and Eve as they enter student life at University College, Dublin. Here Benny and Eve ...
Style: period piece, emotional, sentimental, realistic, sweet ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: coming of age, friendship, college, small town, love, pregnancy, class differences, college life, adaptation, love affair, lust, breakup ...
Time: 1950s, 20th century, 50s, year 1957, year 1949
Place: ireland, dublin ireland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
 5.2
 208
Stryker (2004)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story: The film follows a 14-year-old arsonist in Winnipeg who becomes involved in a turf war between the Indian Posse and the Asian Bomb Squad (a now defunct Filipino gang). He is known only as Stryker, a slang term for a prospective gang member.
Style: serious, realistic, rough, tense, independent film ...
Plot: gang, juvenile delinquency, teenage life, rivalry, life is a bitch, danger, youth, coming of age, society, urban ghetto life, nudity, innocence lost ...
Time: 21st century
Place: winnipeg, canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
The Dream Prince (1996)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Sweden
Duration: 107 min.
Story: 14-year old Em likes to hang around in her old play house. One day a boy, Jakob, sets fire to it, and Em catches a brief glimpse of him before he disappears. They meet again a few days later. For the first time in her life, Em falls in love. Plot by ...
Style: teen, serious, realistic, touching
Audience: teens
Plot: european, first love, teenager, family relations, parents and children, teenage love, teenage life, society, love and romance, coming of age, innocence lost, youth ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Gaby: A True Story (1987)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 110 min.
Story: The life of Gaby Brimmer, a girl physically handicapped, who finally gets her goals of study and triumph.
Style: realistic, uplifting, touching, sincere, emotional ...
Plot: disability, hopes, human spirit, college, misfit, forbidden love, artists and showbiz, unfulfillment, mother daughter relationship, father daughter relationship, love, teenage girl ...
Time: 1940s, year 1987, 1930s
Place: mexico, latin america, austria
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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