Hand to hand combat movies and TV shows – page 3

List of hand to hand combat movies

Watch Trailers From This List to Choose a Movie
Kung Pow: Enter the Fist (2002)
Genre: Action, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: A movie within a movie, created to spoof the martial arts genre. Writer/director Steve Oedekerk uses contemporary characters and splices them into a 1970s kung-fu film, weaving the new and old together. As the main character, The Chosen One, ...
Style: parody, spoof, funny, satirical, stylized ...
Audience: teens
Plot: martial arts, kung fu, silly humor, one against many, heroes, female martial artist, brutality, irreverent, violence, hand to hand combat, fistfight, kung fu master ...
Time: 20th century
Is relevant ?
 6.6
 486K
Divergent (2014)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 139 min.
Story: In a world divided into factions based on personality types, Tris learns that she's been classified as Divergent and won't fit in. When she discovers a plot to destroy Divergents, Tris and the mysterious Four must find out what makes ...
Style: exciting, serious, teen, suspenseful, futuristic ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, kids, girls' night
Plot: distopia, fighting the system, heroine, rebellion, survival, dystopia, danger, chosen one, choice, post apocalypse, society, youth ...
Time: future, year 2014, 2010s, near future
Place: chicago, usa
Is relevant ?
Escape Plan 2: Hades (2018)
Genre: Action, Crime, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: China, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Ray Breslin manages an elite team of security specialists trained in the art of breaking people out of the world's most impenetrable prisons. When his most trusted operative, Shu Ren, is kidnapped and disappears inside the most elaborate prison ...
Style: suspense, suspenseful, exciting, bleak, tense ...
Audience: boys' night, chick flick, family friendly
Plot: prison, prison escape, teamwork, conspiracy, martial arts, hostage, betrayal, danger, security system, survival, hand to hand combat, secret place ...
Time: 2010s
Place: chechnya, shanghai, bangkok thailand, atlanta georgia
Is relevant ?
London Has Fallen (2016)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Bulgaria
Duration: 99 min.
Story: In London for the Prime Minister's funeral, Mike Banning discovers a plot to assassinate all the attending world leaders.
Style: exciting, intense, serious, psychotronic, action adventure ...
Audience: boys' night, manly, chick flick, girls' night
Plot: terrorism, secret service, terrorist, hostage, president, terrorist attack, conspiracy, survival, danger, save the day, assassination, head of state ...
Time: year 2016, 2010s, 21st century
Place: england, london, buckingham palace, tokyo, europe ...
Is relevant ?
Related movie lists
Never Back Down 2: The Beatdown (2011)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Four fighters different backgrounds come together to train under an ex MMA rising star and then ultimately have to fight each other and the traitor in heir midst.
Style: exciting, suspenseful, serious, realistic, inspirational ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: martial arts, martial arts tournament, fight, streetfighting, boxer, kickboxing, kickboxer, cage fighting, athlete and trainer, martial arts training, bully, hand to hand combat ...
Time: year 2011, 21st century
Place: louisiana, usa
Is relevant ?
 6.0
 101K
Lockout (2012)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Set in the near future, Lockout follows a falsely convicted ex-government agent , whose one chance at obtaining freedom lies in the dangerous mission of rescuing the President's daughter from rioting convicts at an outer space maximum security ...
Style: futuristic, exciting, suspense, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: prison, space station, secret service, hotshot hero, outer space, rescue mission, hostage, lone hero, heroic mission, space, maximum security prison, prison fight ...
Time: future, year 2012, 2010s, 21st century
Place: washington d.c., usa, new york
Is relevant ?
 7.0
 39K
The Protector (2005)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Thailand, USA, Hong Kong, France, Australia
Duration: 111 min.
Story: In Bangkok, the young Kham was raised by his father in the jungle with elephants as members of their family. When his old elephant and the baby Kern are stolen by criminals, Kham finds that the animals were sent to Sidney. He travels to Australia, ...
Style: action packed, brutal, stylized, light, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, kung fu, muay thai, elephant, revenge, chase, gangster, fight scenes, fight, heroes, robbery, power struggle ...
Time: year 2005, 21st century
Place: australia, asia, sydney australia, thailand
Is relevant ?
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
Is relevant ?
 4.2
 475
Moving Target (1996)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: A bounty hunter with a pregnant wife who is urging him to get a regular job gets framed for murder and trapped in a war between Russian gangsters.
Style: suspenseful, serious, intense, independent film, realistic
Audience: boys' night
Plot: heroes, chase, hand to hand combat, murder, gangster, fugitives, dishonesty, chases and races, criminal's revenge, on the run, master warrior, violence ...
Time: 90s
Is relevant ?
Dragon Strike (1982)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Sport
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Dragon and his madcap pal Cowboy spend their days getting into mischief, frustrating the elders, chasing girls, and competing in the village sport. When Dragon overhears a fiendish plot by smugglers to sell China's national treasures overseas, ...
Style: semi serious, touching, captivating, tense, cult classic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, kung fu, kung fu master, one against many, partner, cons and scams, against the odds, righting the wronged, rivalry, wing chun, one man army, hand to hand combat ...
Time: 80s
Place: china, hong kong, asia
Is relevant ?
Black Scorpion (1995)
Genre: Action, Crime, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Darcy is a cop who is also a supehero named Black Scorpion at night who kicks and beats evildoers to a pulp. She soon catches wind of an asthmatic mad scientist who plans on tainting the city's air supply with a toxin. Only Darcy in her ...
Style: action adventure, fast, exciting, serious, rough ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: superheroine, female martial artist, female protagonist, tough girl, hand to hand combat, female police officer, sex scene, secret identity, superhero, vigilante, female fight, anti hero ...
Time: 90s
Is relevant ?
 4.0
 8K
Starcrash (1978)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A pair of smugglers manage to pick up a castaway while running from the authorities, who turns out to be the only survivor from a secret mission to destroy a mysterious superweapon designed by the evil Count Zartharn. The smugglers are soon ...
Style: futuristic, psychotronic, grindhouse, funny, retro ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: space opera, robot, space, space travel, female warrior, lightsaber, spacecraft, space battle, emperor, exploitation, father son reunion, supernatural power ...
Time: year 1978
Is relevant ?
Related movie lists
 4.9
 325
Street Hunter (1990)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Logan Blade is a tough police officer who has to confront a gang led by ruthless Colonel Walsh.
Style: independent film
Plot: doberman, bounty hunter, black hero, hand to hand combat, anti hero, crime boss, one against many, shootout, murder, blood, pistol, police ...
Is relevant ?
Spartacus: Gods of the Arena (2011)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 331 min.
TV show
Story: Before Spartacus struck down his first opponent in the arena, there were many gladiators who passed through the gates onto the sand.'Spartacus: Gods of the Arena' tells the story of the original Champion of the House of Batiatus: Gannicus ...
Style: exciting, epic, realistic, serious, stylized ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: ancient history, ancient rome, roman empire, gladiator, arena, roman, slave, heroes, warrior, sword fight, slavery, master warrior ...
Time: ancient times, 1st century b.c., 1st century
Place: hawaii
Is relevant ?
 5.0
 9K
Surf Ninjas (1993)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Two Asian-American "surfer-dude" brothers discover they are the long lost princes from a China Sea Island. Part of their inheritance are magically-induced martial arts prowess. Using their new powers they act to overthrow the island's ...
Style: humorous, slapstick, independent film, slapstick comedy, semi serious ...
Audience: kids, family outing, teens, pre-teens
Plot: ninja, surfing, martial arts, destiny, hand to hand combat, fistfight, brother brother relationship, surfer, adoptive father adopted son relationship, royalty, showdown, high school ...
Time: year 1993, 20th century, 90s
Place: california, southeast asia, usa, asia, vietnam ...
Is relevant ?
Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story: Princess Leia is captured and held hostage by the evil Imperial forces in their effort to take over the galactic Empire. Venturesome Luke Skywalker and dashing captain Han Solo team together with the loveable robot duo R2-D2 and C-3PO to rescue the ...
Style: saga, cerebral, epic, entertaining, futuristic ...
Audience: kids, family friendly, family outing, date night, girls' night ...
Plot: space opera, star wars, outer space, rebellion, robot, spaceship, intergalactic, space wars, rebel, wilhelm scream, sword fight, space ...
Time: future, 20th century, year 1977, 90s, year 2016 ...
Place: space western
Is relevant ?
Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 120 min.
Story: An apocalyptic story set in the furthest reaches of our planet, in a stark desert landscape where humanity is broken, and most everyone is crazed fighting for the necessities of life. Within this world exist two rebels on the run who just might be ...
Style: road movie, exciting, visually stunning, surreal, apocalyptic ...
Audience: boys' night, teens, girls' night, family friendly, adult
Plot: post apocalypse, survival, apocalypse, post apocalyptic, desert, dystopian future, chase, car chase, distopia, car, dystopia, on the run ...
Time: future, year 2015, 2010s, year 2016, distant future ...
Place: australia, los angeles
Is relevant ?
The Perfect Weapon (1991)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Jeff, a young delinquent, is enrolled by his father in a kenpo school, in the hopes of teaching the boy some self-discipline. Years later, Jeff's mentor, Kim, is being threatened by one of the Korean mafia families. Jeff tries to help his old ...
Style: detective, cult classic, crime drama, independent film, psychotronic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, kung fu, one man army, friendship, one against many, teacher student relationship, homecoming, father son estrangement, showdown, brother brother relationship, crime boss, revenge ...
Time: year 1991, 90s
Place: los angeles
Is relevant ?
Related movie lists
combat movies
2332
kung fu movies
1637
warrior movies
3237
Out for Justice (1991)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Gino Felino (Steven Seagal) is an NYPD detective from Brooklyn who knows everyone and everything in his neighborhood. Killing his Partner was someone's mistake, because he's now Out For Justice.
Style: detective, suspense, neo noir, cult classic, bloody ...
Audience: manly, boys' night
Plot: vigilante, martial arts, gangster, psychopath, organized crime, aikido, revenge, car chase, shootout, violence, hitman, serial killer ...
Time: year 1991, 90s
Place: brooklyn new york city, new york, usa, coney island brooklyn new york city
Is relevant ?
 5.7
 26K
Nowhere to Run (1993)
Genre: Action, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Escaped convict Sam Gillen single handedly takes on ruthless developers determined to evict Clydie - a widow with two young children. Nobody knows who Sam is.
Style: exciting, political, cult classic, suspense, fast ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, motorcycle, on the run, widow, farm, manhunt, showdown, hand to hand combat, police officer, one man army, one against many, fistfight ...
Time: year 1993, 90s
Place: california, montana
Is relevant ?
Live and Let Die (1973)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story: James Bond must investigate a mysterious murder case of a British agent in New Orleans. Soon he finds himself up against a gangster boss named Mr. Big.
Style: exciting, humorous, saga, action adventure, slasher ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: james bond, 007, secret agent, spy, snake, fictional country, espionage, interracial romance, virginity, human sacrifice, chase, british ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: new orleans, caribbean, west indies, louisiana, fictional island ...
Is relevant ?
 5.6
 37K
Exit Wounds (2001)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Maverick cop Orin Boyd always brings down the domestic terrorists he tracks, but he ruffles feathers with his unorthodox techniques -- and soon finds himself reassigned to the toughest district in Detroit. When he discovers a group of detectives ...
Style: stylized, suspense, black comedy, detective, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: police corruption, chase, police, aikido, martial arts, kidnapping, police investigation, corrupt cop, conspiracy, secret service, justice, drug dealing ...
Time: year 2001, 2000s
Place: detroit, usa
Is relevant ?
 5.8
 47K
Enough (2002)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Working-class waitress Slim thought she was entering a life of domestic bliss when she married Mitch, the man of her dreams. After the arrival of their first child, her picture perfect life is shattered when she discovers Mitch's hidden ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, psychological, intense, scary ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick
Plot: domestic violence, abusive relationship, violence against women, self defense, violent husband, strong female character, abusive husband, life is a bitch, woman in danger, husband wife relationship, revenge, stalking ...
Time: year 2002, 21st century
Place: san francisco, usa, seattle, los angeles
Is relevant ?
Related movie lists
 5.6
 44K
Double Impact (1991)
Genre: Action, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Jean Claude Van Damme plays a dual role as Alex and Chad, twins separated at the death of their parents. Chad is raised by a family retainer in Paris, Alex becomes a petty crook in Hong Kong. Seeing a picture of Alex, Chad rejoins him and convinces ...
Style: exciting, serious, realistic, entertaining, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, twins, blood, murder, brother brother relationship, female bodybuilder, revenge, violence, tough heroes, instructor, siblings relations, vengeance ...
Time: 90s, year 1991
Place: hong kong, los angeles, asia
Is relevant ?
 7.2
 179K
Dr. No (1962)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: In the film that launched the James Bond saga, Agent 007 battles mysterious Dr. No, a scientific genius bent on destroying the U.S. space program. As the countdown to disaster begins, Bond must go to Jamaica, where he encounters beautiful Honey ...
Style: action packed, stylized, entertaining, saga, exciting ...
Audience: manly, boys' night
Plot: 007, james bond, spy, terrorism, murder, british secret service, terrorist plot, undercover, secret service, spy hero, cold war, espionage ...
Time: 20th century, year 1962, 60s
Place: caribbean, jamaica, west indies, fictional island, england ...
Is relevant ?
 8.2
 940K
Die Hard (1988)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 132 min.
Story: NYPD cop, John McClane's plan to reconcile with his estranged wife is thrown for a serious loop when minutes after he arrives at her office, the entire building is overtaken by a group of terrorists. With little help from the LAPD, wisecracking ...
Style: intense, christmas special, exciting, suspense, action packed ...
Audience: boys' night, manly, date night, chick flick, teens ...
Plot: hostage, gunfight, one man army, heist, tough guy, christmas, terrorist, terrorism, police, shootout, robbery, skyscraper ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1988, year 2016
Place: los angeles, california, usa
Is relevant ?
 6.7
 174K
Commando (1985)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: John Matrix, the former leader of a special commando strike force that always got the toughest jobs done, is forced back into action when his young daughter is kidnapped. To find her, Matrix has to fight his way through an array of punks, killers, ...
Style: tense, action packed, serious, cult classic, exciting ...
Audience: manly, boys' night
Plot: kidnapping, one man army, hostage, commando, machine gun, rescue, revenge, tough guy, gunfight, villain, machismo, warrior ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1985
Place: california, los angeles, latin america
Is relevant ?
Beverly Hills Ninja (1997)
Genre: Action, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Haru, an orphaned American who washes ashore in Japan and is mistaken for the great White Ninja of legend. Raised among the finest Ninjas, Haru grows strong and big - very big. With the grace of all Three Stooges rolled into one body, Haru is an ...
Style: humorous, slapstick comedy, funny, parody, melancholic ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, toddlers
Plot: ninja, martial arts, fish out of water, amateur detective, dojo, crazy, misfit, clumsiness, adoptive father adopted son relationship, hotel, disguise, fistfight ...
Time: 90s, year 1997, 20th century
Place: japan, beverly hills, usa, california, los angeles ...
Is relevant ?
 6.9
 297K
The World's End (2013)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA, Japan
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Five friends who reunite in an attempt to top their epic pub crawl from 20 years earlier unwittingly become humankind's only hope for survival.
Style: witty, absurd, humorous, funny, parody ...
Audience: family friendly, teens, boys' night, adult
Plot: alien invasion, apocalypse, robot, beer, end of the world, alcoholic, fight scenes, violence, small town, british, satire, obsessive quest ...
Time: year 2013, 2010s, year 1990, 21st century
Place: england, britain, europe, london
Is relevant ?
Kung Fu: The Legend Continues (1993)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Kung Fu: The Legend Continues is a spin-off of the 1972–1975 television series Kung Fu. David Carradine and Chris Potter starred as a father and son trained in kung fu - Carradine playing a Shaolin monk, Potter a police detective. This series ...
Style: serious, realistic, exciting, suspenseful
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, police, kung fu, violence, hand to hand combat, kung fu fighting, martial artist, shaolin kung fu, shaolin monk, heroes, police officer, master warrior ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: usa
Is relevant ?
Watch Trailers From This List to Choose a Movie
Related movie lists