Taekwondo movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant taekwondo movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out captivating, realistic, exciting, serious, suspenseful and independent film films and TV shows about / with taekwondo, martial arts, kung fu, fight, karate, master warrior, hand to hand combat, violence, brawl and fistfight plots mostly in Action, Drama and Comedy genres shot in South Korea, Hong Kong, USA and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as taekwondo: The Kick (2011), The Showdown (2005), Best of the Best (1989), Lucky With You (2020), Spin Kick (2004), Backstreet Rookie (2020), Kill 'em All (2012), Ironheart (1992), Belles of Taekwondo (1975), Underdog Knight (2008).

List of taekwondo movies

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 5.5
 952
The Kick (2011)
Genre: Action, Sport
Country: Thailand, South Korea
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Korean family made up of taekwondo experts moves to Thailand, where they set up a taekwondo gym. However, one member of the family, Taeju, wants to become a famous pop singer instead. The family becomes famous after stopping treasure robbers.
Style: exciting, semi serious, suspenseful, captivating
Plot: martial arts, taekwondo, family relations, follow your dream, family business, rescue, heroes, parents and children, family in danger, workplace, robbery, aspiring singer ...
Time: 21st century
Place: thailand, asia, bangkok thailand
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 5.8
 142
The Showdown (2005)
Genre: Action
Country: South Korea
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Eight martial arts masters trained in a variety of different fighting styles are summoned to the mountains for a fierce competition.
Style: independent film
Plot: taekwondo, showdown, muay thai, master warrior, judo, kung fu fighting, mixed martial arts, duel, kung fu master, karate, boxer, boxing ...
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Best of the Best (1989)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A team from the United States is going to compete against Korea in a Tae Kwon Do tournament. The team consists of fighters from all over the country--can they overcome their rivalry and work together to win?
Style: inspirational, emotional, exciting, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night, family friendly, teens
Plot: martial arts, martial artist, martial arts tournament, underdog, culture clash, redemption, vengeance, taekwondo, violence, kung fu, fight scenes, fight ...
Time: 80s, year 1989
Place: seoul, asia, korea
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Lucky With You (2020)
Genre: Action, Drama, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: A love story between a female bodyguard who used to be a Taekwondo athlete and her tall, rich and handsome client. Someone has broken into Hou Jue's (Johnny Huang) house. In the face of inexplicable death threats, Hou Zhirong (Wang Ce) who ...
Style: captivating, disturbing
Plot: rich man poor woman, female bodyguard, custody battle, taekwondo, protector, male female relationship, master warrior, relationships, divorced woman, family problems, martial arts, female protagonist ...
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 6.0
 382
Spin Kick (2004)
Genre: Action, Comedy
Country: South Korea
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A school director is forced to train the 'worst' students of his school to master Taekwondo as the old coach, taking along the best of his athletes, left the school.
Style: entertaining, captivating, feel good, satirical, humorous
Plot: martial arts school, martial arts, school, athlete and trainer, martial arts training, troubled youth, ambition, teamwork, master warrior, martial arts tournament, contests and competitions, humour ...
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Backstreet Rookie (2020)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: It tells an unpredictable 24-hour love story of the four-dimensional innocent girl Jung Saet Byeol who was once a troublemaker and the adorkable caring male store manager, Choi Dae Hyun, in the context of a convenience store. They have met each ...
Style: dorama, romantic, captivating, humorous, entertaining
Plot: strong female lead, family relations, love at first sight, friendship, love triangle, female friendship, unspoken love, family business, asian, entertainment, slice of life, celebrity ...
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 4.5
 1K
Kill 'em All (2012)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Captured international assassins are locked up inside a high-tech bunker known as the Killing Chamber. To break out of this concrete hell they must duel each other, fight deadly ninjas and battle against gangs of masked maniacs. And... if they ...
Style: exciting, suspenseful, rough, serious, realistic
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, mortal combat, murder, survival, rivalry, battles, captivity, danger, medieval, violence, brutality, female fighter ...
Time: year 2012, 21st century
Place: thailand, usa
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 3.3
 567
Ironheart (1992)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: South Korea, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: An L.A. cop goes after a gang of murderous drug dealers.
Style: independent film
Plot: martial arts, mixed martial arts, hitman, smuggling, kung fu, taekwondo, showdown, crooked cop, vengeance, nightclub, bare breasts, police ...
Time: 90s
Place: los angeles
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Belles of Taekwondo (1975)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Carter Wong plays a young chinese martial arts student who travels to Korea to learn Taekwondo. Soon he comes up against a vicious gang who want all the local martial arts schools to join their evil association. But before he can defeat the bad ...
Plot: martial arts, kung fu classic, student, evil, taekwondo, young
Place: korea
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Underdog Knight (2008)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Hong Kong, China
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Lao San is a young veteran high in Kungfu power but low in intelligence. After landing on a job as a body guard for a wealthy antique collector, Lao San finds out his boss's plot to rob the National Art Museum.
Plot: kung fu, friend, vigilante, taekwondo, deaf, brain damage, job, power, simpleton, bodyguard, art museum, woman shot in the forehead ...
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The Foot Fist Way (2006)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: An inept taekwondo instructor struggles with marital troubles and an unhealthy obsession with fellow taekwondo enthusiast Chuck "The Truck" Williams.
Style: funny, humorous, dark comedy, harsh, stylized ...
Audience: teens
Plot: martial arts, obsession, disorder, life is a bitch, buddies, ambition, breaking point, dark humor, contests and competitions, goofy hero, infidelity, school ...
Time: 21st century
Place: north carolina, usa
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The God of High School (2020)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sport
Country: Japan, South Korea
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: When an island half-disappears from the face of the earth, a mysterious organization sends out invitations for a tournament to every skilled fighter in the world. "If you win you can have ANYTHING you want," they claim. They’re ...
Style: anime, suspense, captivating, manga, disturbing ...
Plot: martial arts, fight, friends, secret organization, worship, supernatural, supernatural power, high school student, contests and competitions, martial arts tournament, rivalry, battles ...
Place: south korea
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13 Hours: Race Against Time (2010)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: Germany
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story: Allein gegen die Zeit is a German real-time television series, aired since 2009. Broadcast on KI.KA, structurally, it resembles the series 24.
Style: suspense, captivating, tense
Plot: school, teenager, escapades, terrorizing, terrorist, showdown, hostage, hostage situation, terrorist attack, terrorism, technology, bio weapon ...
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 4.2
 152
Time Heroes (2016)
Genre: Adventure, Family
Country: Germany
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Berlin students Ben, Jonas, Leo, Ozzi and Sophie are on a class trip to "boring" Hildesheim. Their schedule includes visiting the medieval cathedral and witnessing a complete solar eclipse, but destiny intervenes… A bomb goes off at the ...
Style: captivating, unusual plot structure, suspense
Plot: female martial artist, friendship, strong female lead, tough girl, strong female character, saving a life, group of friends, friends, battles, struggle for survival, teenager, self defense ...
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Every Breath U Take (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Philippines
Duration: 105 min.
Story: The movie Every Breath U Take is a story of a woman looking for love and a man who doesn’t care much about love. Angelica Panganiban plays the role of Majoy, a “virgin-virginan” looking for signs and waiting all these years for her one true ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, sincere, touching
Plot: opposites attract, looking for love, womanizer, love and romance, mistaken identity, virgin, rivalry, jealousy, real estate deal, bare chested male, suicide attempt, workout ...
Time: 21st century
Place: the philippines
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In-Laws, Out-Laws (2004)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Raymond Wong's Mandarin Films jumps back into the Lunar New Year fray with In-Laws, Out-Laws, an ensemble comedy which recalls the Lunar New Year flicks of years past. Like some of the other flicks Wong had his name on (Eighth Happiness, ...
Style: slapstick comedy
Plot: family relations, sword fight, flashback, swimming pool, variety show, taekwondo, robbery, coach, tour guide, father son relationship, nightmare, dysfunctional marriage ...
Place: hong kong
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Golden Dragon, Silver Snake (1979)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Hong Kong, South Korea
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Kung Fu star Dragon Lee appears as 'Golden Dragon', who teams up with 'Silver Snake' to take revenge on the men responsible for his brother's murder...
Plot: kung fu classic, jeet kune do, violence, karate, hand to hand combat, brawl, asian man, kung fu, fight, taekwondo, action violence, martial arts ...
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The One-Armed Boxer (1972)
Genre: Action, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Taiwan, Hong Kong
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Tien Lung, the best fighter at the Ching Te martial arts school, gets into a fight with the Hook Gang, part of a local opium-dealing and prostitution ring run by a man named Chao, and easily defeats them. The beaten Hook gang members return to Chao, ...
Style: grindhouse
Plot: martial arts, kung fu, medieval, wuxia, violent, exploitation, fight, kung fu classic, boxer, handicapped, disabled, disabled character ...
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Dragon Bruce Lee, Part II (1981)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 87 min.
Story: While transporting funds for independence movement, Lee Han-saeng is shot in the legs by the Japanese military police. He recovers from his wounds with the help of Jang Geo-chil, an independence fighter, and his daughter, Wan-ah. When the Japanese ...
Plot: bare chested male, violence, martial arts, karate, beefcake martial arts, kung fu, beefcake, tough guy, kung fu classic, fight, taekwondo, martial artist ...
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The True Game of Death (1979)
Genre: Action
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 81 min.
Story: The film begins with footage of Bruce Lee's funeral. The narrator then says that there is a new actor "who looks quite like him" that will become Lee's successor. His name is Hsao Lung. Later Hsao Lung is filming a movie. On the ...
Style: independent film
Plot: martial arts, kung fu, betrayal, poisoned drink, jeet kune do, wing chun, violence, hand to hand combat, fistfight, taekwondo, action violence, kung fu classic ...
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 4.9
 230
Fight to Win (1987)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story: Martial artists in America battle over the possession of three ancient Chinese statues.
Style: buddy comedy, independent film
Plot: woman with a gun, martial arts, karate, kung fu, martial arts tournament, taekwondo
Time: year 2016
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Bruce's Fists Of Vengeance (1980)
Genre: Action
Country: Philippines
Duration: 87 min.
Story: To compete in his friend Peter's martial arts tournament, Jack flies into Manila from Hong Kong and brings along a book of secret Jeet Kune Do techniques that was entrusted to him by the late martial arts legend Bruce Lee. During the ...
Plot: kung fu, exploitation, katana, jeet kune do, martial arts, ninja, martial arts tournament, cockfight, fight, taekwondo
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When Taekwondo Strikes (1973)
Genre: Action, War, Drama
Country: Hong Kong, South Korea
Duration: 91 min.
Story: The story is about the Japanese occupation of Korea during World War II. A Korean patriot played by Carter Wong gets into a fight with some Japanese people and is chased into a church. The priest there is captured and tortured. Trying to secure his ...
Style: grindhouse
Plot: martial arts, world war two, kung fu, shaolin, fight, resistance, hapkido, japanese occupation of korea, taekwondo, army, imperial japan, atrocity ...
Time: 1930s
Place: japan, korea
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Bruce Lee in G.O.D. (2000)
Genre: Biography
Country: Japan, Hong Kong
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Bruce Lee in G.O.D. is a "docudrama" about the filming of Game of Death. The first 40 minutes of the film is a dramitisation of events before Lee dropped filming for GOD to do Enter the Dragon, interspersed with interviews with people ...
Style: serious, exciting, captivating, realistic
Plot: martial arts, actor, martial artist, tough guy, warrior, asian, wing chun, master warrior, kung fu classic, kung fu master, atheist, taekwondo ...
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 5.6
 448
Whiteout (2000)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 129 min.
Story: A group of terrorists has taken hold of the largest dam in Japan. They also capture the workers as hostages, and demanded $5 billion yen from the government with a 24 hour deadline in exchange for the lives of the hostages. To make things more ...
Style: suspense, serious, suspenseful, tense, cliffhanger
Plot: hostage, terrorist group, reluctant hero, tough guy, wilderness, terrorist, captive, showdown, money, violence, heroic bloodshed, martial arts ...
Place: japan
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 7.8
 40
The Resolve (2010)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story: The Resolve centers around Mike Patterson (Russ Cootey), a beleaguered man, gripped by O.C.D. issues with humanity, unleashed by fiery clashes on others. He explains to his therapist Sean Miller (Alex Ballar - War Wolves) how he has found a way to ...
Style: suspenseful, exciting, tense, suspense, detective
Plot: agent, vigilante, conspiracy, secret, husband wife relationship, justice, cover up, spy, jail, revenge, frame up, fight ...
Place: california, los angeles
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A Bizarre Love Triangle (2002)
Genre: Comedy
Country: South Korea
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Eun-hee is an extravagant and selfish woman who lives a life of luxury. She constantly swears, acts extremely careless, and is unashamedly tactless. Yet she somehow manages to be loved by both her husband, Doo-chan, and Keum-sook, a childhood female ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, captivating, realistic, sexual ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: love triangle, family problems, lifestyle, forbidden love, true love, love affair, friendship, lovers reunited, breakup, gays and lesbians, female homosexuality, wedding ...
Time: future
Place: seoul, korea
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Maximum Cage Fighting (2006)
Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Jimmy Garren, a former Tae Kwon Do world champion, is now retired and a widowed father to ten-year-old Katie. So when he's challenged by a famous cage fighter-and former rival Nick "the Nasty" Harper-to a fight, he refuses...until ...
Style: realistic, serious, rough, suspense
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: martial arts, one man army, tough heroes, rivalry, ambition, save the day, righting the wronged, battles, athlete and trainer, daring rescue, vigilantism, escapades ...
Time: 21st century
Place: brazil
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The Guy with Secret Kung Fu (1980)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Taiwan, Hong Kong
Duration: 86 min.
Story: The Guy with Secret Kung Fu stars Meng Fei and Li Chung Chien as two anti-Qing rebels and kung fu fighters who frequently rescue damsels in distress, including one memorable boat fight at the very beginning of the film. Thugs try to board a boat ...
Style: fast, serious, exciting, suspenseful
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, zombie, ambush, hand to hand combat, fight, soldier, master warrior, heroes, wizards and magicians, danger, imaginary, gang ...
Time: 80s
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 3.5
 188
Fist 2 Fist (2011)
Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Still haunted by his failure to prevent the murder of a young couple years earlier, a mixed martial arts teacher must confront the skeleton in his closet when the boy who was orphaned by the killing shows up at his door.
Style: exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, rough
Audience: boys' night
Plot: master warrior, redemption, haunted by the past, moral dilemma, rivalry, ambition, martial arts, fight, tough guy, martial arts training, guilty conscience, tough heroes ...
Time: 21st century
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