Movies like Kung Fu League

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Kung Fu League (2018)
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Kung Fu League (2018)
Original name: 功夫联盟
Genre: Action, Comedy
Country: Hong Kong, China
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A poor comic book artist summons four legendary Kung Fu masters to learn the highest level of martial arts and help him get his girl.
Style: exciting, intense, serious, captivating, stylized, semi serious, epic
Audience: boys' night, family outing, teens
Plot: master warrior, shaolin, shaolin monk, hand to hand combat, kung fu, shaolin kung fu, medieval, martial artist, martial arts, friendship, mentor, good versus evil, warrior, monk, battles, danger, fistfight, religions or cults, combat, monastery, rivalry, showdown, palaces castles and temples, adventure
Place: china, asia
Keyword: chinese

Most similar movies to Kung Fu League

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out exciting, realistic, semi serious and humorous films with plots about martial arts, kung fu, master warrior, heroes, rivalry, fight and violence mostly in Action, Comedy and Drama genres. Some movies like Kung Fu League: The Fearless Hyena (1979), Martial Arts of Shaolin (1986), The Shaolin Temple (1982), Shaolin (2011), Snake in the Eagle's Shadow (1978). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Fearless Hyena (1979)
Genre: Comedy, Action
Country: Hong Kong, South Korea
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Jackie Chan is a youngster, living in a remote vllage with his grandfather who teaches him Kong-Fu (naturally). He keeps getting into fights, even though his grandfather warns him not to show their Kong-Fu to others. Jackie, though, is tempted by ...
Style: slapstick, action adventure, cult classic, serious, slapstick comedy
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, kung fu, medieval, school, fight, kung fu classic, wuxia, asian, karate, heroes, wing chun, vengeance ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: east asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 3.9
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Kung Fu Kid (2007)
Genre: Action
Country: Japan
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A young martial arts student gets caught up in a series of Kung Fu adventures with a woman who manages a Chinese restaurant.
Style: exciting, sincere, captivating, entertaining, semi serious ...
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: child martial arts, shaolin monk, martial arts, restaurant, master warrior, escapades, prodigy, danger, rivalry, school, kung fu master, kung fu classic ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Martial Arts of Shaolin (1986)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama
Country: Hong Kong, China
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Jet Li weasels out of the north Shaolin temple to assassinate a despotic ruler at the ruler's extravagant public birthday celebration. Two other men from the south Shaolin temple also set out to assassinate the ruler, but all three fail and are ...
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful, exciting, cult classic
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, kung fu, shaolin monk, shaolin, master warrior, one against many, soldier, heroes, kung fu master, vengeance, fight, kung fu fighting ...
Time: 80s
Place: china, asia, beijing china
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
The Shaolin Temple (1982)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama
Country: China, Hong Kong
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The Tang emperor is betrayed by one of his generals, who installs himself as emperor in the East Capital. The son of one of his slave workers escapes to the Shaolin Temple, learns kung fu, and sets out to kill the traitor who killed his father. ...
Style: exciting, serious, stylized, captivating, touching ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, kung fu, master warrior, heroes, fight, coming of age, vengeance, monastery, medieval, renegade, tough heroes, monk ...
Time: 7th century
Place: china, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
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Shaolin (2011)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Hong Kong, China
Duration: 131 min.
Story: China is plunged into strife as feuding warlords try to expand their power by warring over neighboring lands. Fuelled by his success on the battlefield, young and arrogant Hao Jie sneers at Shaolin's masters when he beats one of them in a duel. ...
Style: serious, stylized, exciting, captivating, realistic ...
Plot: martial arts, shaolin, shaolin monk, monk, shaolin kung fu, wu shu, kung fu, conquering, martial artist, dictatorship, refugee, fight ...
Time: 2010s, 1920s, 20th century
Place: china, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
Shaolin Temple 2: Kids from Shaolin (1984)
Genre: Action, Comedy
Country: Hong Kong, China
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Two rivaling families live on opposite sides of a river. One of them practices Shaolin kung fu and has only sons, while the other has only daughters and practices the Wu-Tang sword. The father of the Wu-Tang family is so paranoid about the Shaolin ...
Style: cult classic, fast, semi serious, realistic, stylized ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, kung fu, medieval, shaolin monk, fight, wuxia, village, master warrior, heroes, shaolin, tough heroes, legends and myths ...
Time: 80s
Place: asia, hong kong
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
Snake in the Eagle's Shadow (1978)
Genre: Action, Comedy
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Everyone abuses and humiliates a downtrodden orphan (Chan) until he befriends an old man, who turns out to be the last master of the "snake fist" fighting style. Jackie becomes the old man's student and finds himself in battle with ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, grindhouse, cult classic, fast paced ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, kung fu, vengeance, wuxia, fight, heroes, hand to hand combat, medieval, master warrior, mentor, martial artist, orphan ...
Time: year 2016
Place: china, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
Return to the 36th Chamber (1980)
Genre: Action, Comedy
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 99 min.
Story: The workers of a dye factory have their pay cut by 20% when the factory owner brings in some Manchu thugs to try and increase production. Desperate to reclaim their full wages, the workers hire an actor to impersonate a priest and kung-fu expert ...
Style: grindhouse, fast, semi serious, realistic, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, kung fu, shaolin kung fu, medieval, wuxia, kung fu classic, ninja, fight, violent content, rivalry, hopes, self discovery ...
Time: 18th century
Place: china, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
Movie in collections
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Dragon Inn (1992)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 88 min.
Story: During the Ming Dynasty, Tsao Sui Yan, the power-hungry and ruthless eunuch leader of East Chamber, craves his own kingdom. He intends on destroying the rebelling clans by using a traitorous secretary's children as bait. Ultimately, the two ...
Style: exciting, realistic, serious, stylized, epic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, wuxia, rescue, rivalry, medieval, danger, master warrior, escapades, good versus evil, heroic mission, kung fu, battles ...
Place: china, japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Iron Fingers of Death (1982)
Genre: Action, Comedy
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Two princes are seperated by birth. One is raised by the Prime Minister. The other is raised by three mad Shaolin Monks. They both learn kung-fu. When they are 23, they meet and combine there forces to defeat the evil 9th Prince.
Style: exciting, tense, semi serious, realistic, humorous ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, kung fu, ninja, kung fu classic, wuxia, karate, shaolin, violent content, one man army, escapades, master warrior, rivalry ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: china, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
Once Upon a Time in China IV (1993)
Genre: Action
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Wong Fei Hung must deal with both foreign threats and the nationalist Red Lantern Society in this continuation of the popular kung fu series.
Style: anamorphic, cult classic
Plot: martial arts, kung fu, kung fu fighting, kung fu classic, medieval, wong fei hung, good versus evil, violence, revenge, fight, sword fight, sword duel ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
The Butcher, the Chef, and the Swordsman (2010)
Genre: Action, Comedy
Country: China, Hong Kong, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A tale of revenge, honor and greed follows a group of misfits that gets involved with a kitchen cleaver made from the top five swords of the martial arts world in this wild and brash action comedy.
Style: humorous, captivating, stylized, semi serious, exciting ...
Plot: martial arts, vengeance, imaginary, medieval, danger, master warrior, curses spells and rituals, uninhibited rivalry, food, wuxia, sword, butcher ...
Place: china, asia, ancient china
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
The Legend of Drunken Master (1994)
Genre: Action, Comedy
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Returning home with his father after a shopping expedition, Wong Fei-Hong is unwittingly caught up in the battle between foreigners who wish to export ancient Chinese artifacts and loyalists who don't want the pieces to leave the country. ...
Style: humorous, entertaining, semi serious, cult classic, slapstick ...
Audience: manly, teens, boys' night
Plot: martial arts, kung fu, kung fu master, martial artist, kung fu classic, boxing, fight scenes, fight, kung fu fighting, wuxia, heroes, good versus evil ...
Time: year 1994, 1920s, 20th century
Place: china, hong kong, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Shaolin Temple (1976)
Genre: Action
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 126 min.
Story: There is no place more hallowed in the martial art world than China's Shaolin Temple. This special place deserves a special epic, which is what the martial arts maestro delivers in this battle between a brave brand of Chinese boxers and ...
Style: serious, realistic, exciting
Plot: martial arts, kung fu, shaolin kung fu, master warrior, rivalry, betrayal, heroes, dishonesty, vengeance, shaolin, medieval, kung fu classic ...
Time: 18th century
Place: china, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Ninja in the Dragon's Den (1982)
Genre: Action, Comedy
Country: Hong Kong, Japan
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Two rival warriors, a Japanese and a Chinese, are forced to work together after their master has been killed by a mighty enemy.
Style: scenic, fast, exciting, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: ninja, martial arts, kung fu, medieval, fight, samurai, karate, exploitation, kung fu classic, shaolin, revenge, battles ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: japan, china, hong kong
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
 7.2
 11K
Tai-Chi Master (1993)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Falsely accused for cheating in a martial arts competition, two boyhood friends are banished from their Shaolin Temple and go their separate ways. As adults, they join opposing sides in a civil war. When one betrays the other, they settle their ...
Style: cult classic, fast, serious, exciting, stylized
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, kung fu, female warrior, tai chi, medieval, monk, fight, wuxia, revenge, martial artist, shaolin, wire fu ...
Time: middle ages
Place: china
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
The Last Kung Fu Monk (2010)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: China, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: When a car accident orphans his young nephew, a Shaolin monk journeys to the United States to look after the lad and open his own martial arts academy, but he soon gets caught up in a dangerous kung fu underworld.
Style: exciting, semi serious, humorous, entertaining, tense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, shaolin, shaolin kung fu, orphan, fish out of water, rescue, save the day, master warrior, misfit, contests and competitions, buddies, danger ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, china, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Once Upon a Time in China V (1994)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Epic adventure set during a tumultuous time in China, when left without a leader, the cavalry is attacked by the powerful allies and pirate bands. A martial arts master, Wong Fei-Hong and Aunt Yee return to do battle against these evil forces.
Style: intense, suspense, brutal
Plot: martial arts, kung fu, medieval, one against many, fight, warrior, hand to hand combat, sword fight, mixed martial arts, fistfight, martial artist, corruption ...
Time: 1910s
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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5 Masters of Death (1974)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Hong Kong, Taiwan
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Hu Te et al. escape the burning Shaolin temple after the Qing soldiers destroyed it in Shaolin Temple. The group of 5 decide to develop secret codes to identify fellow patriots, enlist those patriots and eventually meet up again to escape to the ...
Style: realistic, serious, tense, exciting, rough
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, kung fu, kung fu classic, medieval, fight, karate, martial arts training, fistfight, violent content, master warrior, vengeance, danger ...
Place: china, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Princess and Seven Kung Fu Masters (2013)
Genre: Action, Comedy
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 90 min.
Story: During the early years of the Republic era, in the North-East region of China, the people are suffering from the power struggle among the local Warlords, bandits, and Japanese invaders. Warlord Lam (Sammo Hung), is not a leader of great vision, but ...
Style: entertaining, feel good, semi serious, captivating, satirical
Plot: kung fu, medieval, martial arts, master warrior, battles, kung fu fighting, princess, fight, satire, warrior, kung fu master
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Magnificent Guardsmen (1978)
Genre: Action
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Chan is asked by a young, wealthy lady to take her sick brother to a particular doctor in order to be cured. To reach this doctor, Chan and a handful of travelling companions must pass through bandit-infested wild country. They meet and ...
Style: semi serious, humorous
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, kung fu, heroes, siblings relations, heroic mission, on the road, escapades, clergy, race against time, obsessive quest, rivalry, danger ...
Time: middle ages
Place: asia, china
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Once Upon a Time in Shanghai (2014)
Genre: Action, Crime
Country: China, Hong Kong
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A laborer moves to Shanghai in the hope of becoming rich. But ends up using his kung fu skills to survive. Remake of The Boxer From Shantung.
Style: exciting, serious, realistic, captivating, tense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, kung fu, rivalry, gang, danger, fight, society, master warrior, heroes, violent content, hopes, kurd ...
Time: 2010s, 1900s
Place: shanghai, china, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Enter the Phoenix (2004)
Genre: Action, Comedy
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Georgie Hung is handsome, stylish and charming but he hides a secret that his old-fashion father, Hung who is a Triad leader, can never forgive. He has been sent to Thailand since he was a child and never returned. After Hung's death, his ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, captivating, fast, realistic ...
Plot: martial arts, leadership, mistaken identity, gangster, gang, dishonesty, rivalry, disorder, triad, gay son, mafia, gender ...
Time: 21st century
Place: hong kong, china, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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True Legend (2010)
Genre: Action, Drama, History
Country: China
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Su Qi-Er, a wealthy man living during the Qing Dynasty who loses his fortune and reputation as a result of a conspiracy against him. After being forced out onto the streets, Su dedicates his life to martial arts and reemerges as a patriotic hero ...
Style: exciting, stylized, suspenseful, serious, epic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: fight, martial arts, kung fu, wuxia, good versus evil, vengeance, family relations, family feud, family in danger, uninhibited rivalry, escapades, rescue ...
Time: 2010s, 1900s, 1860s
Place: china, asia, ancient china
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
American Shaolin (1991)
Genre: Action
Country: USA, Hong Kong
Duration: 106 min.
Story: After being humiliated in the ring by a dirty kickboxer who pulled down his shorts and then hit him, a martial arts master decides to travel to China and enter a monastery where he may learn the Shaolin form of fighting. The film then veers into ...
Style: realistic, exciting, rough, serious, tense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, kickboxer, fight, master warrior, vengeance, escapades, misfit, contests and competitions, uninhibited rivalry, rivalry, tough heroes, fish out of water ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: usa, china, asia, beijing china
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
 7.4
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Drunken Master (1978)
Genre: Action, Comedy
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Jackie Chan stars as Wong Fei-Hung, whose mischievous antics land him in hot water. Having tolerated enough of his son's mishaps, Fei-Hung's dad enlists his sadistic uncle, who specializes in drunken-style kung fu, to teach the lad some ...
Style: humorous, grindhouse, funny, exciting, cult classic ...
Audience: manly, boys' night, teens
Plot: martial arts, kung fu, wu shu, wuxia, teacher, master, redemption, alcoholic, karate, fight, undisciplined, female martial artist ...
Time: year 1978, 20th century, 19th century
Place: china, asia, east asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
Shaolin Wooden Men (1976)
Genre: Action
Country: Taiwan, Hong Kong, Japan
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Little Mute is an orphan traumatized into silence by the death of his father at the hands of a vicious fighting master. Living at the Shaolin monastery, he befriends a dangerous prisoner who teaches him a secret form of deadly kung fu. Seeing his ...
Style: cult classic, action adventure, semi serious, stylized
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, kung fu, shaolin monk, tough heroes, sexual abuse, kung fu classic, master warrior, asian, buddhist, shaolin kung fu, rivalry, fighting crime ...
Time: 70s
Place: east asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
The Young Master (1980)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Youthful martial arts master Lung is searching for his missing brother, when he is mistaken for a criminal on the run. He must prove his innocence by solving the case himself, while local lawmen and merciless mercenaries are hot on his trail.
Style: humorous, stylized, tense, light, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: kung fu, martial arts, on the run, wuxia, mentor, fighter, kung fu master, chase, nothing goes right, contests and competitions, orphan, down on your luck ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: china
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Ip Man: Kung Fu Master (2019)
Genre: Action
Country: China
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Ip Man’s promising career as a Policeman is ruined after he is framed for murder and targeted by a mob boss’s daughter.
Style: atmospheric, emotional, suspenseful, realistic, entertaining ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: wing chun, tai chi, martial arts, kung fu, fight, medieval, martial artist, battles, master warrior, loss, pride and honor, leader ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s, 1930s
Place: hong kong, china, japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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The Legend (1993)
Genre: Action, Comedy, History
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 100 min.
Story: This Hong Kong martial-arts extravaganza tells of evil emperors and true love. The secret Red Lotus Flower Society is committed to the overthrow of the evil Manchu Emperor and his minions. One of his Governors is sent on a mission to retrieve a list ...
Style: cult classic, stylized, humorous, exciting, realistic ...
Plot: kung fu, martial arts, wuxia, medieval, wu shu, martial artist, fight, kung fu fighting, violence, hardcore, exodus, wire fu ...
Time: 90s
Place: china, hong kong, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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