Movies like Unmasking the Idol

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Unmasking the Idol (1986)
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Unmasking the Idol (1986)
Genre: Action, Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Duncan Jax must stop the evil terrorist Scarlet Leader from acquiring nuclear bombs that could start WW3. Together with the trusty baboon, Boon, he takes on the almost impossible mission! He must steal the gold that Scarlet leader plans to use to purchase the weapons of destruction.
Style: retro, independent film, exciting, bleak, suspenseful, semi serious
Plot: ninja, spy, martial arts, heroes, battles, terrorism, war, escapades, rivalry, danger, hotshot hero, heroic mission, battle zone, anti hero, combat, terrorist, kung fu, karate, blonde, warrior, tough guy, womanizer, tough girl, gunfight, master warrior ...
Time: 80s

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out independent film, suspenseful, serious and fast films with plots about heroes, martial arts, fistfight, violence, brawl, hand to hand combat and tough guy mostly in Action, Adventure and Thriller genres. Some movies like Unmasking the Idol: The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (1964), The Order of the Black Eagle (1987), Ninja Destroyer (1986), Crackerjack 3 (2000), Ballistica (2009). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (1964)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 50 min.
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Story: The Man from U.N.C.L.E. is an American television series that was broadcast on NBC from September 22, 1964, to January 15, 1968. It follows the exploits of two secret agents, played by Robert Vaughn and David McCallum, who work for a fictitious ...
Style: retro, fast, semi serious, exciting, suspenseful ...
Audience: kids
Plot: spy, espionage, secret agent, communist, team, woman with a gun, asexual, 007, wartime, supernatural, police, terrorism ...
Time: 20th century, 60s
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Order of the Black Eagle (1987)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Spy Duncan Jax thwarts a cabal of neo-nazis
Style: cult classic, perverse, political thriller, independent film, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: spy, ninja, secret agent, good versus evil, heroes, baboon, disorder, escapades, rivalry, chases and races, undercover, danger ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
89%
Ninja Destroyer (1986)
Genre: Action, Adventure
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A lucrative emerald mine and the various protagonists who are struggling to wrest control of it for their own profitable ends.
Plot: ninja, gun fu, shootout, sex, pistol, male nudity, hotel, bare breasts, blood, female nudity, violence, katana ...
Time: year 1986
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43%
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Crackerjack 3 (2000)
Genre: Action, Adventure
Country: Canada, Czech Republic
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A group of retired spies once former enemies, are forced to work together in an attempt to retrieve a neutron bomb stolen by a group of new-wave, high-tech operatives who have supplanted them in the post-Cold War intelligence game.
Plot: spy, violence, machine gun, pistol, blood, heroes, karate, terrorism, terrorist group, fistfight, gunfight, brawl ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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Ballistica (2009)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A man has been trained in a deadly form of hand-to-hand combat using ballistics and firearms. He is one of the few Americans who has perfected it, which makes him the CIA's best weapon against International Terrorism.
Style: exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, independent film ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, one against many, danger, terrorism, undercover, heroic mission, battles, rivalry, escapades, showdown, spy, one man army ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, los angeles, california
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Moving Target (2000)
Genre: Action
Country: Ireland, USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Don "The Dragon" Wilson stars in this action drama as a tourist who, through no fault of his own, finds himself on the run from a gang of terrorists, international espionage agents, and the police. Accused of a murder he didn't ...
Style: tense, suspense, captivating, suspenseful, independent film
Plot: murder, terrorist, fight, terrorism, revenge, gunfight, manhunt, kickboxing, kung fu, heroes, master warrior, showdown ...
Place: ireland
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Guilty as Charged (2000)
Genre: Action, Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: US Army Investigator John Murphy (now a Lieutenant, although he was a Major in the previous Base movie) has been sent to look into a series of suspicious deaths that have been going on under the watch of Colonel Strauss. After going undercover and ...
Style: serious, rough, suspenseful, realistic, exciting
Audience: boys' night
Plot: terrorism, military, military base, soldier, gang, rivalry, undercover, military life, secret agent, dishonesty, law enforcement, danger ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
The Executioner (1974)
Genre: Action
Country: Japan
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Three street toughs are hired to take down a Tokyo drug dealer in this hard-hitting Toei karate action film.
Style: exciting, serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, kung fu, fight, ninja, sexploitation, heroes, gangster, drug dealing, leadership, rivalry, danger, law enforcement ...
Time: 70s
Place: tokyo, asia, japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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No Retreat, No Surrender 2 (1987)
Genre: Adventure, Action
Country: Hong Kong, USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: In this sequel, Scott Wylde, an American kickboxer, must go to Cambodia to rescue his Vietnamese girlfriend from Russian and Vietnamese troops.
Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful, intense, cult classic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: master warrior, martial arts, kung fu, kidnapping, jungle, heroes, daring rescue, danger, hand to hand combat, fistfight, martial artist, kickboxing ...
Time: 80s
Place: cambodia, asia, bangkok thailand, thailand
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Ninja Terminator (1986)
Genre: Action, Adventure
Country: Hong Kong, Canada, UK
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Three martial-arts students search for the Golden Ninja Warrior, a statue reputed to have magic powers. Ninja mayhem by Godfrey Ho intercut with multiple scenes from Stafferyui Bulcheonggaek
Style: funny, fast, serious
Audience: boys' night
Plot: ninja, martial arts, kung fu, terminator, master warrior, magic, good versus evil, fighting crime, escapades, undercover, heroes, superhero ...
Time: 80s
Place: hong kong
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Bloodfist V: Human Target (1994)
Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Don "The Dragon" Wilson struggles to regain his memory, not knowing who to trust, or even which side he's fighting on.
Style: suspense, independent film
Plot: martial arts, kickboxing, spy, exploitation, shootout, one man army, karate, ak 47, duel, fight, brawl, martial artist ...
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Beyond Justice (1991)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 113 min.
Story: A woman's ex-husband, who is the son of an Arab chieftain, kidnaps their teenage son and brings him back to Morocco, where the boy is to be made the leader of the tribe. The child's mother hires a mercenary to get her son and bring him ...
Style: suspense, action thriller, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: collision, rescue, heroes, kidnapping, desert, tough guy, danger, confined, intrigue, escapades, daring rescue, vengeance ...
Time: year 1992, 90s
Place: morocco
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
The Power Within (1995)
Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Stan Dryer, a teen, afraid to even ask a girl to the prom, finds courage and extreme martial arts skill when he is given a ring by an old man he tried to save from a group of attackers. The ring is a mate to a ring stolen by a double dealing art ...
Style: independent film, semi serious, exciting, suspenseful
Plot: child martial arts, martial arts, heroes, good versus evil, youth, rivalry, supernatural ability, danger, survival, escapades, battles, teenage life ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
U.S. Seals II: The Ultimate Force (2001)
Genre: Action, Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: At a secret Russian nuclear missile base, an ex-U.S. SEAL member is planning to launch a missile strike on the United States, and the only way to stop him is with the best of the best. Because of a natural gas refinery leak, the newly formed team ...
Style: exciting, realistic, serious, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
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The Eliminator (2004)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Former LAPD cop, Dakota Varley, enters a power boat race seeking the prize of $250,000, but immediately discovers, first hand, that this race's risk matches the prize: one racer is killed, 3 others seriously injured in multiple action-packed ...
Style: suspenseful, exciting, rough, suspense, action packed ...
Audience: boys' night
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Time: 21st century
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Bloodfist IV: Die Trying (1992)
Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: When Danny unknowingly repossesses the car of a powerful arms merchant, it sets off a chain of violent retaliation. After his friends are killed and his daughter is kidnapped, Danny takes matters into his own hands. It does not matter that the CIA ...
Style: independent film
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Red Scorpion (1988)
Genre: Action, Adventure
Country: USA, South Africa, Namibia
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A Russian KGB agent is sent to Africa to kill an anti-Communist black revolutionary. However, he has a change of heart when he sees how the Russians and their Cuban allies are killing and repressing the locals, so he switches sides and helps the ...
Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful, cult classic, action adventure ...
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Time: 80s
Place: africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Bloodfist VI: Ground Zero (1994)
Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Terrorists take over a nuclear weapons launch site, but don't count on a humble military courier, who happens to be making a visit
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⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Blast (1997)
Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Terrorists attempt to disrupt the Atlanta Olympics by kidnapping the U.S. women's swim team. If their demands are not met, the team will be executed. Only janitor Jack Bryant, a former Olympic gymnast champion of Tae Kwon Do felled by injuries ...
Style: independent film, fast, exciting, serious, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: terrorism, hostage, nemesis, die hard, janitor, heroes, swimming pool, swimmer, psychopath, danger, chases and races, contests and competitions ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Storm Catcher (1999)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A renegade general plots to bomb Washington using a new top secret jet called the Storm Catcher. The only trouble is only one man is capable of flying it. So they seek to put him on the run in a conspiracy that makes him appear to have murdered ...
Style: realistic, rough, exciting, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: terrorism, conspiracy, heroes, terrorist, state affairs, dishonesty, political conspiracy, false accusation, confined, rivalry, fighting the system, chases and races ...
Time: 90s
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24%
Best of the Best 4: Without Warning (1998)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A group of Russian mobsters have stolen a huge supply of paper for printing U.S. currency, and are now flooding the market with conterfeit bills. When one of the mobsters decides to give herself in and hand over a data CD to the DA, she is shot and ...
Style: fast, exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
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Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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American Ninja (1985)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Joe Armstrong, an orphaned drifter will little respect for much other than martial arts, finds himself on an American Army base in The Philippines after a judge gives him a choice of enlistment or prison. On one of his first missions driving a ...
Style: cult classic, entertaining, exciting, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night, manly
Plot: ninja, martial arts, chase, assassin, fight scenes, karate, heroes, military, master warrior, violence, amnesia, mortal combat ...
Time: 80s, year 1985, 20th century
Place: the philippines, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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To the Death (1992)
Genre: Action
Country: USA, South Africa
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Kickboxing champ Rick Quinn decides to retire from the ring, but his main adversary, Denard, wants him to fight again and murders Quinn's wife. Quinn suspects Denard, but can't do anything. Three month later, Quinn is jailed after a ...
Style: grindhouse, independent film
Plot: martial arts, kickboxing, kickboxer, revenge, sexploitation, martial arts training, fight, boxing, bare chested male, combat, male female relationship, showdown ...
Place: south africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
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Style: independent film
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Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Karate Raider (1995)
Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Jake Turner is back on a rescue mission to liberate an attractive female Drug Enforcement officer captured and held prisoner by an American drug lord in the jungles of Colombia.
Plot: jungle, drug, special forces, shootout, heroes, master warrior, village, commando, karate, soldier, damsel in distress, blood ...
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American Ninja 3: Blood Hunt (1989)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA, Canada, South Africa
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Jackson is back, and now he has a new partner, karate champion Sean, as they must face a deadly terrorist known as "The Cobra", who has infected Sean with a virus. Sean and Jackson have no choice but to fight the Cobra and his bands of ...
Style: serious, cult classic, captivating, grindhouse, independent film ...
Audience: boys' night
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Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: japan, asia, usa, caribbean
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Delta Force 3: The Killing Game (1991)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A terrorist places an atom bomb somewhere in an American metropolis. The president of the U.S. has no other choice; he has to call Delta Force.
Style: suspense, grindhouse, cult classic, independent film, fast ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: terrorism, gunfight, martial arts, cavalry, military, heroes, tough heroes, nightmare comes true, heroic mission, hijacking, chases and races, rivalry ...
Time: 90s
Place: miami, florida, usa, middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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 ⇓
22%
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 ⇓
22%
Bruce Li the Invincible Chinatown Connection (1978)
Genre: Action, Adventure
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 92 min.
Story: After turning against friends of his Kung Fu teacher, Cheung Li Kung is banished to Malaysia, but instead of reforming, Cheung sets up a casino to steal wages back from the miners who work for him. When he also kidnaps the local store owner's ...
Style: independent film
Plot: martial arts, woman fights a man, bare chested male, male wears an earring, cousin cousin relationship, warrior, daughter, kung fu, brawl, fight, forest, mixed martial arts ...
Place: malaysia
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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