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Shaolin Deadly Kicks (1979)
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Original name: 太極八蛟
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, rough, bleak, serious, suspenseful, stylized, cult film
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
kung fu, martial arts, shaolin kung fu, martial artist, blind woman, heroes, betrayal, chases and races, escapades, rivalry, danger, partner, dishonesty, criminal heroes, violent content, thief, fight, prostitute, treasure hunt, violence, tough guy, villain, doctor, sword fight, brothel ...
Time:
80s
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, exciting, rough and suspenseful films with plots about martial arts, heroes, kung fu, master warrior, hand to hand combat, rivalry and brawl mostly in Action, Drama and Western genres. Some movies like Shaolin Deadly Kicks: Once Upon a Time in China IV (1993), Crippled Masters (1979), Ong Bak 2 (2008), The Executioner (1974), Champ vs. Champ (1980). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Country: Thailand
Duration: 98 min.
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: Japan
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, serious, exciting, rough, suspenseful
Audience:
boys' night
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Place:
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Country: South Korea, Hong Kong
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A gang leader targets the daughter of an enemy who's been promised to a local fighter. After losing his leg to a poison arrow, the fighter learns to fight again using a metal leg.
Style:
semi serious, exciting, stylized, rough, suspenseful
Audience:
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Time:
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Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
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Style:
semi serious, humorous
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
100%
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Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
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Style:
brutal, suspense, intense
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Time:
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Similarity:
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Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
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Style:
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boys' night
Plot:
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Place:
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Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Hong Kong, Taiwan
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
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boys' night
Plot:
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hong kong
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42%
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Genre: Action
Country: Thailand
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Ong Bak 3 picks up where Ong Bak 2 had left off. Tien is captured and almost beaten to death before he is saved and brought back to the Kana Khone villagers. There he is taught meditation and how to deal with his Karma, but very soon his arch rival ...
Style:
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boys' night
Plot:
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Place:
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41%
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Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Ex-kickboxing champion turned sports photographer Max Havoc again finds himself in Guam on a publicity photo shoot. Max's helpful ways land him in the lives of the vacationing sisters Jane and Christy Goody who have acquired a rare jade dragon, ...
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Plot:
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Time:
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Similarity:
40%
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Country: Hong Kong, Taiwan
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
20 years after the death of his parents, a martial artist sets out to avenge their deaths by pretending he doesn't know kung fu. But when it is revealed that he does know kung fu, the killer sets to kill him and his friends.
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Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Style:
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boys' night
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Place:
china, asia
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Country: Hong Kong
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Country: Hong Kong
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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