Movies like Angel Town
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Angel Town (1990)
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Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A graduate student and martial-arts expert rents a room in a house owned by a single mother who lives there with her son. A local street gang is trying to recruit the son, but the new tenant tries to help the boy's mother keep him out of the gang. When they learn of this, they target both the mother and her new tenant.
Style:
hood, action adventure, independent film, exciting, tense, rough, serious, realistic, fast
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gang, martial arts, master warrior, gangster, ghetto, kung fu, karate, mixed martial arts, heroes, vigilante, single mother, life is a bitch, rivalry, danger, juvenile delinquency, lone wolves, family in danger, violence spree, revenge, violence, murder, tough guy, kickboxing, competition, vigilantism ...
Time:
90s
Place:
los angeles, usa, california
Keyword:
gangsters
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, rough and suspenseful films with plots about martial arts, heroes, fistfight, showdown, rivalry, brawl and violence mostly in Action, Drama and Crime genres. Some movies like Angel Town: Ring of Fire (1991), Pushed to the Limit (1992), Only the Strong (1993), The Tracker (2001), Martial Outlaw (1993). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Action, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
The main character, Johnny Woo, is a Chinese doctor who has given up fighting in the ring. His brother is a teacher in a kick-boxing club. Johnny Woo fall in love with Julie, whose brother is a teacher in a rival kick-boxing club. Tension builds ...
Style:
independent film, fast, exciting, realistic, serious ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
martial arts, streetfighting, street fighter, street gang, tough heroes, gang war, illegal fistfight, kickboxing, shakespeare, competition, fight, heroes ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
los angeles, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Magnificent Mimi is a woman with a destiny and a bright future ahead of her. She is the world's greatest female wrestling champion, she has a loving boyfriend and loyal family members who care and love her. But things take a turn for the worst ...
Style:
independent film, exciting, realistic, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot:
female bodybuilder, wrestling, female fight, martial arts, women's wrestling, competition, fight, kickass, revenge, murder, female wrestler, femme fatale ...
Time:
90s
Place:
las vegas
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 ⇓
100%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Spears, a private detective working in L.A. receives word from an old friend that the friend's sister (and Spears' ex-girlfriend), Kim, has been kidnapped by a criminal gang. At first, Spears doesn't want to get involved, especially ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, realistic, tense, disturbing ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
martial arts, tough heroes, kung fu, hand to hand combat, gunfight, russian mafia, gangster, gang, danger, law enforcement, rivalry, private detective ...
Time:
90s
Place:
usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A DEA agent and his brother, a Los Angeles cop, battle the Russian mafia.
Style:
independent film, realistic, serious, rough, suspenseful
Plot:
martial arts, two man army, police shootout, karate, police detective, siblings relations, kgb, dishonesty, law enforcement, rivalry, chases and races, fighting crime ...
Time:
90s
Place:
usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Kickboxing champion Matt Reeves witnesses the murder of his friend Johnny. While investigating the crime, he learns that a Mr. Negaal in South Africa has founded a new kickboxing association and does not leave international champions much of a ...
Style:
independent film, serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
martial arts, vigilante, tough heroes, kickboxing, vigilante justice, kickboxer, boxer, showdown, fight, terrorism, murder, rivalry ...
Time:
90s
Place:
south africa, africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
418
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A sexy and lethal female mercenary takes on an international syndicate of weapons smugglers run by the Russian Mafia.
Style:
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Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
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100%
Genre: Action, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
1865. A young French officer, travelling the U.S. in search of the murderer of his best friend, gets involved in a struggle between poor farmers and a rich landowner. To help the farmers, he offers them his "Savate" (French kickboxing) ...
Style:
independent film, exciting, rough, suspenseful, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
kickboxing, martial arts, fight, competition, master warrior, soldier, kickboxer, revenge, best friend, military, lone wolves, vengeance ...
Place:
texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Hong Kong, USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
The Black Mask must stop a group intent on setting off a DNA bomb that could cause mutations to the human race.
Style:
serious, stylized, tense, suspense, cult classic ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
superhero, secret identity, heroic mission, superhuman powers, good versus evil, fighting crime, save the day, danger, undercover, save the world, rivalry, vigilante ...
Place:
hong kong, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Almost the whole staff of a tax consultant office is slayed by a team of professional killers, only Paul Damone can escape. He didn't know that his partner used to wash gangster Louis Sarazin's money and had to testify as chief witness ...
Style:
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Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
martial arts, police protection, revenge, one man army, vigilante, gangster, murder, master warrior, heroes, bounty hunter, cop, killer ...
Time:
90s
Place:
boston, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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Genre: Action, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Johnny Woo and Julie play an enduring couple who survive all sorts of interference from rival kick-box gangs in their effort to put a little romance in their lives.
Style:
independent film, serious, realistic, rough
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
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Time:
90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
As two rival Godfathers view to take control of the city, a hot-tempered family member kills two relatives of the opposing family, breaking the "Truce of Honor". Now the war begins! As a young boxer seeks revenge for his fiancée's ...
Style:
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Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
martial arts, bad father, heroes, gangster, murder, kung fu, bare breasts, gang, investigation, chases and races, betrayal, vengeance ...
Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Argentina, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A Japanese cop, Shiro, and his partner Ray are after a bunch of drug dealers. But they are betrayed by an insider and Ray is killed. Shiro follows the murderer, a sadistic drug lord, up to Singapore.
Style:
retro, independent film, realistic, serious, exciting ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
martial arts, ninja, medieval, mixed martial arts, drug lord, shootout, explosions, law enforcement, undercover, dishonesty, betrayal, rivalry ...
Time:
80s
Place:
singapore, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A wealthy businessman is trying to "convince" the inhabitants of an old neighborhood to abandon their homes in order to build a huge business center there. To achieve his goals, he bribes the police and uses organized bands to intimidate ...
Style:
independent film, serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful
Audience:
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Plot:
vigilantism, heroes, gang, vigilante, one against many, alcoholic, urban setting, manipulation, rich and poor, against the odds, dishonesty, rivalry ...
Time:
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Place:
los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
597
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
In a world where street gangs collide with the law, neighborhood friends, Raymond and Gabriel, must decide which side of the battle to join. This will be the ultimate fight - the one for power, family, and HONOR.
Style:
suspense, exciting, captivating, tense, psychological ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
streetfighting, martial arts, gang, urban ghetto life, friendship, uninhibited rivalry, rivalry, organized crime, showdown, gang war, underground tournament, underground fighting ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A lawyer's family is murdered by drug smugglers, and he is beaten and left for dead, but survives although in a coma. When he awakes he only has a partial memory of what happened. In order to find out the real story, he trains with a karate ...
Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Hong Kong, Taiwan
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A brother and sister escape from Japanese-occupied Shanghai to Japanese-occupied Taiwan, to stay with their grandfather who runs a Kung-Fu school there. However, the master of a Japanese Kung-Fu school in Taiwan has designs on bringing all other ...
Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
martial arts, kung fu, medieval, fight, heroes, master warrior, wartime life, school, murder, heroic mission, against the odds, tough heroes ...
Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: UK, Germany, France, South Africa, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Action superstar, Jean-Claude Van Damme (Universal Soldier, Street Fighter), is back and at his hard-hitting best as Ben Archer, an ex-mob enforcer seeking revenge against a ruthless Chinese kingpin responsible for his wife's brutal murder. ...
Style:
exciting, serious, suspenseful, rough, action adventure ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
revenge, martial arts, gangster, child in peril, murder, mortal combat, danger, rivalry, tough heroes, chase, mafia, loss of wife ...
Time:
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Place:
usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
In an underground fight club, blackbelt Travis Brickley is killed after losing to the evil martial arts master Brakus. Travis' death is witnessed by Walter Grady, the son of his best friend Alex Grady. Alex and his partner, Tommy Lee, vow to ...
Style:
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Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
martial arts, vengeance, master warrior, karate, friends, rivalry, contests and competitions, violence, death, kung fu, revenge, fighter ...
Time:
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Place:
las vegas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
492
Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Two police detectives must protect a beautiful call girl from mob hitmen and a crooked cop.
Style:
serious, exciting, rough, suspenseful, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
los angeles, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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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:
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Plot:
martial arts, kickboxing, spy, exploitation, woman, vigilante, heroic bloodshed, martial artist, karate, kickboxer, fistfight, one man army ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
989
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Major Murphy, a US Army Investigator, has received a new assignment. Sgt. Gammon is suspected of dealing cocaine from his base, and Murphy must gather enough evidence to shut down Gammon and his entire operation. Along with his partner, Lt. Andrews, ...
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Injustice begets a criminal. Kool is an artist without prospects, a black belt in karate, and in love with LaShawna, poised and college bound. One night she witnesses a stabbing and discovers the victim is a cop as he dies in her arms. She's ...
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Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gangster, gang, urban, frame up, racism, life is a bitch, police investigation, murder, social decay, police corruption, false accusation, law enforcement ...
Time:
90s
Place:
usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Genre: Action
Country: USA, France
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
It was a brutal murder that sent deranged psychopath Martin Kagan to prison. It was a naive deputy warden that granted him a stay of execution. Now, the police department's tactical defence instructor, John Lomax, wants revenge for his beloved ...
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Audience:
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Plot:
mixed martial arts, prison, murder, psychopath, heroes, serial killer, vigilantism, martial artist, kung fu, martial arts, vigilante, death row ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Mexico, USA, UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Professional killer Holland is forced out of retirement to break a Central American government's political torture ring when one of his friends, a Latin American journalist, is killed. The murderer, Doctor Clement Molloch, is the master sadist ...
Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Genre: Action, Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Sheriff Buford Pusser continues his one-man war against moonshiners and a ruthless crime syndicate after the murder of his wife in late 1960's Tennessee.
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Plot:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
An ex-cop finds himself caught up in a battle between Japanese mobsters and local gangland thugs and discovers that he was framed for wrong-doings by a corrupt cop.
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Hong Kong, Taiwan
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A dishonored student of the Dragon Fist Sect seeks revenge for the death of his teacher.
Style:
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Audience:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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