Capoeira movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant capoeira movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out serious, exciting, suspenseful, realistic, fast and captivating films and TV shows about / with capoeira, martial arts, heroes, violence, fight, rivalry, fistfight, hand to hand combat, showdown and blood plots mostly in Action, Drama and Thriller genres shot in USA, Canada, France and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as capoeira: The Assailant (2009), The Circuit 2: The Final Punch (2002), Only the Strong (1993), Undisputed III: Redemption (2010), The Base (1999), The Protector (2005), Mortal Enemies (2011), The Collectors (2003), Rooftops (1989), Get Hard (2015).

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The Assailant (2009)
Genre: Action, Biography, Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Based on the life of a legendary capoeira fighter from Bahia, "Besouro" spins a fantastic tale of a young Brazilian man of African descent in search of his mission.
Style: serious, exciting, suspenseful, captivating, contemplative
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, master warrior, idealism, injustice, rebelliousness, rivalry, society, life is a bitch, racism, hopes, chase, capoeira ...
Time: 1920s, 20th century
Place: brazil, africa, latin america
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The Circuit 2: The Final Punch (2002)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sport
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Prisoners are dying at the Ogden Correctional Institution, a prison where a corrupt Warden has taken justice and business into his own hands. In the bowels of this prison, an underground fighting society has been formed. The Circuit is flourishing ...
Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful, rough
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, fight, prisoner, martial arts tournament, illegal fistfight, prison, criminal's revenge, capoeira, vengeance, heroes, vigilantism, life is a bitch ...
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Only the Strong (1993)
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
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Undisputed III: Redemption (2010)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Russian inmate Boyka, now severely hobbled by the knee injury suffered at the end of Undisputed 2. No longer the feared prison fighter he was, he has declined so far that he is now good only for cleaning toilets. But when a new prison fight ...
Style: serious, realistic, exciting, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience: manly, boys' night
Plot: prison fight, boxing, martial arts, kickboxing, prison, hand to hand combat, mixed martial arts, contests and competitions, fight, capoeira, prison life, tournament ...
Time: year 2010, 21st century
Place: usa
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 4.6
 989
The Base (1999)
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, ...
Style: independent film, fast, serious, realistic, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: undercover, martial arts, hand to hand combat, heroes, soldier, drug dealing, capoeira, us military, loyalty, border patrol, vigilantism, military ...
Time: 90s
Place: mexico, latin america
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 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
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 5.8
 131
Mortal Enemies (2011)
Genre: Action, Crime
Country: Indonesia
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Orphans Sunny and Verdy are like brothers, but are separated when Verdy is adopted by a wealthy couple. Their paths cross again when Verdy (now a successful businessman) and his fiancée are kidnapped by a crew of pirates while on vacation. With the ...
Style: exciting, serious, captivating, tense, suspense ...
Plot: pirate, martial arts, gang, danger, rivalry, friendship, destiny, escapades, orphan, revenge, brother brother relationship, brother vs brother ...
Time: 21st century
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The Collectors (2003)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Logan wanted to follow in his father's footsteps as a kickboxing champion. But his dreams are literally shattered when an automobilie accident leaves him without the use of his legs. His family and former friends watch helplessly as he ...
Style: psychological, serious, exciting, suspenseful, independent film ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, life turned upside down, programmer, rivalry, danger, heroes, virtual reality, disability, violent content, unfulfillment, master warrior, capoeira ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, utah
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 4.7
 683
Rooftops (1989)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: T, as most of his friends, lives in a self-constructed 'house', built on top of an old building in the city. Their one passion is 'combat'. Combat is a dance/streetfight during which the contestants try to push each other out of ...
Style: independent film, hispanic, eighties
Plot: interracial, street kid, teen angst, dancing, street fight, fight, martial arts, brawl, child murder, street fighter, dance, martial artist ...
Time: year 1989
Place: new york
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 6.0
 146K
Get Hard (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: When obscenely rich hedge-fund manager James is convicted of fraud and sentenced to a stretch in San Quentin, the judge gives him one month to get his affairs in order. Knowing that he won't survive more than a few minutes in prison on his own, ...
Style: funny, parody, humorous, hilarious, harsh ...
Audience: teens
Plot: dumb, prison, wealth, millionaire, training, teaching the ways of the world, car wash, countdown, mentor, rags to riches, greed, creativity ...
Time: year 2015, 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa, los angeles, south central los angeles
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 6.5
 412K
Ocean's Twelve (2004)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story: Danny Ocean reunites with his old flame and the rest of his merry band of thieves in carrying out three huge heists in Rome, Paris and Amsterdam – but a Europol agent is hot on their heels.
Style: entertaining, clever, stylized, exciting, intellectual ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick, date night, boys' night, teens
Plot: heist, robbery, con artists, perfect crime, thief, caper, master thief, planning, con men, art thief, money, criminal's revenge ...
Time: year 2004, 2000s, 21st century
Place: las vegas, rome italy, europe, iran, paris france ...
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 6.4
 58K
Shaft (2019)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: JJ, aka John Shaft Jr., may be a cyber security expert with a degree from MIT, but to uncover the truth behind his best friend’s untimely death, he needs an education only his dad can provide. Absent throughout JJ’s youth, the legendary ...
Style: humorous, action comedy, captivating, semi serious, hood ...
Audience: kids, adult
Plot: dark humor, investigation, drug lord, gunfight, african american, father son relationship, fbi, grandfather, black, revenge, conspiracy, organized crime ...
Time: year 2007, year 2012, year 1997, year 2009, year 1989 ...
Place: new york, harlem, brooklyn new york city, manhattan new york city
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 6.7
 143K
The Rundown (2003)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: When Travis, the mouthy son of a criminal, disappears in the Amazon in search of a treasured artifact, his father sends in Beck, who becomes Travis's rival for the affections of Mariana, a mysterious Brazilian woman. With his steely ...
Style: stylized, exciting, humorous, funny, entertaining ...
Audience: manly, boys' night, teens
Plot: treasure hunt, jungle, treasure, buddy, lone hero, chase, bounty hunter, fight, gold, tough guy, tough heroes, respect ...
Time: year 2003, 2000s, 21st century
Place: brazil, latin america, los angeles
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Samurai Champloo (2004)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan, Poland
Duration: 24 min.
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Story: Mugen is a ferocious, animalistic warrior with a fighting style inspired by break-dancing. Jin is a ronin samurai who wanders the countryside alone. They may not be friends, but their paths continually cross. And when ditzy waitress Fuu gets ...
Style: anime, exciting, thought provoking, captivating, atmospheric ...
Audience: kids, adult
Plot: samurai, pride and honor, martial arts, sword fight, friendship, master warrior, danger, katana, breakdance, on the road, road trip, journey ...
Time: 17th century
Place: japan, okinawa japan
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 5.4
 10K
The Contractor (2007)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Bulgaria, UK, USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Former CIA Operative, James Dial is coaxed back into action to kill a terrorist in London, but it all goes wrong and he is forced into hiding, where he meets and befriends a 12 year old girl.
Style: serious, exciting, suspenseful, realistic, action thriller ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: hitman, manhunt, frame up, assassination, betrayal, heroes, murder, on the run, friendship, danger, law enforcer killer, spy ...
Place: england, iraq, london, europe, usa ...
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 7.1
 296K
Blade (1998)
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: When Blade's mother was bitten by a vampire during pregnancy, she did not know that she gave her son a special gift while dying: All the good vampire attributes in combination with the best human skills. Blade and his mentor Whistler battle an ...
Style: suspense, intense, rough, scary, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night, manly, teens, adult
Plot: vampire, martial arts, superhero, supernatural, good versus evil, sword fight, vampire hunter, dark hero, one man army, master warrior, mentor, one against many ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, year 1998, 60s, year 1967
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 6.2
 2K
Oh My God! (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Musical
Country: Brazil
Duration: 96 min.
Story: During the Carnival in the historical site of Pelourinho (Salvador, Bahia, Brazil), we follow the lives of the tenants of a falling-to-pieces tenement house who try to get by using creativity, irony, humor and music.
Style: semi serious, sentimental, sincere, realistic
Plot: optimism, social differences, urban ghetto life, life is a bitch, urban ghetto, friendship, racism, partner, social relations, friends, culture clash, interracial relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: latin america, brazil, northeast brazil
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 6.3
 14K
Mindhorn (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A washed up actor who played Mindhorn, a secret agent with a bionic eye, returns to the Isle of Man, the area where his most famous role was set, to help catch a killer.
Style: parody, captivating, entertaining, light, humorous ...
Plot: murderer, conspiracy, amateur detective, husband wife relationship, betrayal, mental illness, paranoia, revenge, deception, corruption, kidnapping, heroes ...
Time: 2010s, year 1989, 80s
Place: london
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 4.7
 1K
Redline (1997)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, Netherlands
Duration: 97 min.
Story: In the future of post-Soviet and economically devastated Russia, Big Brother still rules with an iron hand of brutality, brain-washing and ruthless dictatorship. Into this cauldron of corruption and terror plunges American crook and smuggler John ...
Style: futuristic, cyber, tech noir, serious, bleak ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: reluctant partners, apocalypse, cyberpunk, dystopian future, capoeira, gangster, partner, murder, black market, rivalry, chases and races, life is a bitch ...
Time: 90s, future
Place: russia
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 2.9
 372
Resiklo (2007)
Genre: Action, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Philippines
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Set in December 2021, Resiklo is the story of Crisval Sarmiento, an ex-military Colonel who leads a rag-tag group of survivors in the Philippines against the insect-like alien invaders known as the Balangs. Because of the enormous expenditures in ...
Style: apocalyptic
Plot: dystopia, alien invasion, distopia, epidemic, apocalypse, superhero, advanced technology, ex soldier, bicycle, jealousy, blind man, clairvoyance ...
Time: future, 2020s
Place: the philippines
Is relevant ?
 4.1
 5K
The Marksman (2005)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Chechen rebels take over a Russian nuclear plant and it's up to a mysterious agent(Snipes) to stop them.
Style: suspenseful, rough, serious, captivating, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: terrorism, black american, military, sniper, soldier, heroes, rescue, frame up, heroic mission, daring rescue, political conspiracy, race against time ...
Place: russia
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Three Dancing Slaves (2004)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Annecy is no tourist destination for three working-class Algerian brothers and their father, in the months after their mother has died. Marc is deeply troubled: he tries to stiff drug dealers and then plots revenge. Christophe is released from jail, ...
Style: touching, sentimental, emotional, serious, lgbt cinema ...
Plot: gay, three brothers, transsexual, lgbt, male nudity, dysfunctional family, working class, drug dealing, going straight, teenage life, family problems, youth ...
Place: alps, paris france
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 3.4
 125K
Catwoman (2004)
Genre: Action, Crime, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Liquidated after discovering a corporate conspiracy, mild-mannered graphic artist Patience Phillips washes up on an island, where she's resurrected and endowed with the prowess of a cat -- and she's eager to use her new skills ... as a ...
Style: exciting, action packed, tense, saga, captivating ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, family friendly, chick flick, boys' night
Plot: superhero, female protagonist, tough girl, transformation, female fighter, superheroine, uncover truth, masked superhero, imaginary, superhuman powers, supernatural, one woman army ...
Time: year 2004, 2000s, 21st century
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 4.7
 37K
Snatched (2017)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: When her boyfriend dumps Emily, a spontaneous woman in her 30s, she persuades her ultra-cautious mom to accompany her on a vacation to Ecuador. When these two very different women are trapped on this wild journey, their bond as mother and daughter ...
Style: feel good, humorous, captivating, exciting, light ...
Plot: kidnapping, vacation, women, parent child relationship, tourist, misunderstanding, mother daughter relationship, threat, rescue, escape, struggle for survival, adult filmmaking ...
Time: year 2017
Place: ecuador
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Meet the Fockers (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Hard-to-crack ex-CIA man, Jack Byrnes and his wife, Dina head for the warmer climes of Florida to meet son-in-law-to-be, Greg Focker's parents. Unlike their happily matched offspring, the future in-laws find themselves in a situation of ...
Style: funny, humorous, entertaining, hilarious, not serious ...
Audience: date night, family outing, chick flick, girls' night, teens ...
Plot: family relations, dysfunctional family, meet the parents, eccentric family, parents and children, father in law son in law relationship, wedding, farce, culture clash, family bonds, parenthood, ex law enforcer ...
Time: year 2004, 2000s, 21st century
Place: florida, miami, usa, chicago
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 4.8
 28K
Tekken (2010)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 91 min.
Story: In the year of 2039, after World Wars destroy much of the civilization as we know it, territories are no longer run by governments, but by corporations; the mightiest of which is the Mishima Zaibatsu. In order to placate the seething masses of this ...
Style: exciting, serious, stylized, futuristic, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: martial arts, ninja, fight, superhero, tough girl, kung fu, fantasy world, heroes, revenge, tough heroes, martial arts tournament, mentor ...
Time: future, 2030s, 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa
Is relevant ?
 4.7
 8K
The Doorman (2020)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A former Marine turned doorman at a luxury New York City high-rise must outsmart and battle a group of art thieves and their ruthless leader — while struggling to protect her sister's family. As the thieves become increasingly desperate and ...
Style: captivating, tense, suspenseful, disturbing, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: female protagonist, heroes, danger, safecracker, ak 47, gang, criminal, fistfight, rescue, combat, fight, rehabilitation ...
Time: 2020s
Place: new york, bucharest, manhattan new york city
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The Incredible Hulk (2008)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Scientist Bruce Banner scours the planet for an antidote to the unbridled force of rage within him: the Hulk. But when the military masterminds who dream of exploiting his powers force him back to civilization, he finds himself coming face to face ...
Style: exciting, gloomy, serious, action packed, action adventure ...
Audience: chick flick, kids, teens, boys' night, adult
Plot: superhero, transformation, mutant, superhuman powers, hulk, scientist, chase, unstoppable, creature, experiment gone awry, split personality, giant ...
Time: year 2008, 2000s, 21st century
Place: new york, rio de janeiro, virginia, british columbia, brazil ...
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