Fencing movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant fencing movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, serious, captivating, stylized, cult film and exciting films and TV shows about / with fencing, sword fight, martial arts, heroes, rivalry, sword, fight, vengeance, violence and duel plots mostly in Drama, Action and Adventure genres shot in Japan, USA, France and other countries.
fencing
TOP 10 movies tagged as fencing: On The Edge (2020), By the Sword (1991), The Fencer (2015), Twenty Five Twenty One (2022), Ring of Steel (1994), The Duellists (1977), Swordsman of Siena (1962), The Sword of Doom (1966), Demon's Claw (2006), The Black Tulip (1964).
Best films
List of fencing movies
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: Russia
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
The film's two main protagonists are Russia's best saber fencers. One of them has long been in the limelight, the other only recently made it into the national team and has been winning almost every tournament since. The two athletes begin ...
Style:
captivating, serious, uplifting, realistic, exciting ...
Plot:
fencing, swordsman, athlete's life, contests and competitions, athlete and trainer, rivalry, professional rivalry, sport, ambition, professional sports, rivals, hopes ...
Place:
moscow russia, russia
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A mysterious man, Suba, gets himself a job at a fencing academy, and as he learns the way of the students, the school, and its maestro, they learn that there's more to him than meets the eye. He gains (or regains?) his fencing skills and his ...
Style:
realistic, serious, rough, sincere, cult film
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
fencing, swordsman, sword, sword fight, suspense, sport, sword duel, redemption, vengeance, contests and competitions, rivalry, fight ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Sport
Country: Finland, Estonia, Germany
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Fleeing from the Russian secret police, a young Estonian fencer is forced to return to his homeland, where he becomes a physical education teacher at a local school. The past however catches up and puts him in front of a difficult choice.
Style:
inspirational, captivating, sincere, disturbing
Plot:
fencing, sport, coach, school, teacher, hiding, courage, fear, rivalry, politics, professor, world war one ...
Time:
year 1953, year 1952, 50s
Place:
estonia, ussr
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 70 min.
TV show
Story:
The dreams of two young people are crushed by an overwhelming financial crisis in the 1990s. But when they reunite at the ages of 25 and 21, the spirited pair finds friendship and affection in times of adversity as they venture into adulthood ...
Style:
sincere, captivating, disturbing, dorama
Plot:
fencing, first love, first kiss, friendship, couple relations, broken promise, ambition, direction and purpose, follow your dream, teenage life, male female relationship, teenager ...
Time:
year 2001, 90s, year 2000
Place:
new york, paris france
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Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A champion fencer accidentally kills an opponent in a match. Disgraced, he is blackballed from the fencing community, until a mysterious stranger saves his life one night from a gang of muggers. He soon finds himself caught up in the world of ...
Style:
erotic, neo noir
Plot:
fencing, martial arts, immortal, sex scene, making love, nude, heroes, gangsters, katana, combat, male female relationship, showdown ...
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
In 1800, as Napoleon Bonaparte rises to power in France, a rivalry erupts between Armand and Gabriel, two lieutenants in the French Army, over a perceived insult. For over a decade, they engage in a series of duels amidst larger conflicts, including ...
Style:
visually appealing, realistic, stylized, colourful, enigmatic ...
Plot:
napoleonic wars, sword duel, fencing, swordsman, sword fight, military, nude, napoleonic era, medieval, cossack, adaptation, existentialism ...
Time:
19th century, regency period, 1810s, 18th century
Place:
france, canada, europe
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Genre: Adventure, Romance
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A 16th-century Spanish overlord hires Thomas Stanswood (Stuart Granger) to protect his, less than eager, fiancee (Sylva Koscina) from rebels. Thomas finds himself drawn to both the fiancee and the rebels side.
Plot:
swordsman, fencing, swashbuckler, historical event, sword, sword fight, bodyguard, duel, love interest, evil man, adventurer, betrayal ...
Time:
16th century
Place:
italy
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Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Through his unconscionable actions against others, a sociopathic samurai builds a trail of vendettas that follow him closely.
Style:
cerebral, tense, stylized, bleak, thought provoking ...
Plot:
samurai, martial arts, fencing, violent, ninja, medieval, vengeance, master warrior, sword fight, guilt, visceral, greed ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
japan, tokyo, asia
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Genre: Horror
Country: Czech Republic, Canada
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A group of women while visiting a castle studying the history of a mad noblewoman from medieval times finds themselves drawn back into time and into her evil lair where they are expected to become her new handmaidens and endure her debauchery.
Style:
disturbing, suspenseful, scary, sexploitation film
Plot:
erotica, lesbian vampire, fencing, sword fight, castle, lesbian, vampire, sexploitation, lechery, sexual fantasy, time travel, women ...
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy
Country: France, Italy, Spain
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
In 1789, when the Revolution went on, a bandit named "Black Tulip" held the surroundings of village Roussillon in fear. The poor people respected him as Robin Hood, who declare himself a revolutioner but Count Guillaume de Saint Preux ...
Style:
70mm film
Plot:
french revolution, fencing, twins, ancient, napoleonic wars, prince, sword, burglar, beauty, fire, drunkenness, father daughter relationship ...
Time:
18th century
Place:
france, south of france
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Genre: Comedy, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
An uptight New York tax lawyer gets his life turned upside down, all in a single day, when he's asked to escort a feisty and free-spirited female ex-convict whom asks him to help prove her innocence of her crime.
Style:
humorous, sexy, twist ending, melancholic, light ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, date night
Plot:
love, fencing, class differences, shoplifting, convict, yuppie, fiance fiancee relationship, framed for murder, reckless driving, interrupted wedding, impulsiveness, screwball ...
Time:
80s, future
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city, harlem
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Genre: Animation, Action, History
Country: Japan
TV show
Story:
In late 16th century, the era of civil war that tore Japan over two centuries is nearing its end and the regional warlords who survived the bloodsheds are ready for a final showdown. In the battlefield where your best ally turns out to be your worst ...
Style:
anime, entertaining, captivating
Plot:
samurai, fencing, martial arts, warrior, battles, epic battle, ninja, showdown, fight, ninja warrior, fight for supremacy, ninja master
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Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story:
Revolutionary Girl Utena is a manga by Chiho Saito and anime directed by Kunihiko Ikuhara. The manga serial began in the June 1996 issue of Ciao and the anime was first broadcast in 1997. The anime and manga were created simultaneously, but, despite ...
Style:
anime, stylized, touching, surreal, psychological ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
lesbian, revolution, high school, lgbt, incest, revolutionary, fencing, school, duel, bisexuality, surrealism, fictional reality ...
Place:
japan
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125K
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A nameless ronin, or samurai with no master, enters a small village in feudal Japan where two rival businessmen are struggling for control of the local gambling trade. Taking the name Sanjuro Kuwabatake, the ronin convinces both silk merchant ...
Style:
cynical, thought provoking, exciting, realistic, bleak ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
samurai, sword fight, small town, bodyguard, betrayal, gang, martial arts, rivalry, gang war, ronin, gangsters, mercenary ...
Time:
19th century, future, 1860s, 18th century
Place:
japan, india, tokyo, asia
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Genre: Adventure, History, Musical, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 290 min.
TV show
Story:
Three naval cadets accidentally get possession of a secret diary that was stolen from Bestuzhev, a vice-chancellor of Russia. If this diary ever gets abroad, the consequences for the country would be grave. The cadets are trying to return the papers ...
Style:
romantic, captivating, entertaining, tense
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
conspiracy, friendship, russian empire, fencing, palace intrigue, love and romance, queen, spy, theatrical producer, corruption, secret agents, horse chase ...
Time:
18th century
Place:
russia
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15K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
In war-torn Japan, the Tokugawa Shogun, desperate to restore peace to his people, orders the assassination of the hostile warlords. A beautiful young woman is raised from birth with nine other orphans, to become an assassin. Her name is Azumi, the ...
Style:
breathtaking, realistic, intense, serious, rough ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
martial arts, samurai, ninja, survival, vengeance, fight, brutality, good versus evil, introspection, elimination, weapons, kung fu ...
Time:
17th century
Place:
japan, ancient china, tokyo, asia
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Yuki's family is nearly wiped out before she is born due to the machinations of a band of criminals. These criminals kidnap and brutalize her mother but leave her alive. Later her mother ends up in prison with only revenge to keep her alive. ...
Style:
suspenseful, bloody, exciting, melancholic, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
vengeance, martial arts, rape, revenge, prison, childbirth, murder, female killer, female protagonist, samurai, female assassin, female warrior ...
Time:
19th century, 1870s, 1890s
Place:
japan, tokyo, asia
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50K
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Zatôichi is a 19th century blind nomad who makes his living as a gambler and masseur. However, behind this humble facade, he is a master swordsman gifted with a lightning-fast draw and breathtaking precision. While wandering, Zatôichi discovers a ...
Style:
atmospheric, humorous, exciting, harsh, stylized ...
Plot:
samurai, martial arts, sword fight, vengeance, master warrior, gang, violence, good versus evil, protector, blind character, escapades, rivalry ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
japan, tokyo, asia
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Genre: Animation, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Join Barbie™ as Corinne™, a young country girl headed to Paris to pursue her big dream – to become a female musketeer! Never could she imagine she would meet three other girls who secretly share the same dream! Using their special talents, the ...
Style:
feel good, light, entertaining, captivating, semi serious ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, preschoolers
Plot:
barbie, musketeer, friends, partners, fencing, three musketeers, friendship, teamwork, girl power, strong female lead, team, group of friends ...
Time:
17th century
Place:
france, paris france
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150
Genre: Action, Fantasy
Country: China
TV show
Story:
By the China Audio Visual, in the studio together to build a positive, gold medal screenwriter, producer is based in Jin Yong's famous novel "Swordsman" on March 24 at the first national 4A-class tourist destination Zhejiang Xiandu ...
Style:
captivating, tense
Plot:
love affair, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, master warrior, couple relations, suspense, battles, martial arts training, male female relationship, relationships, fencing, swordsman, couples ...
Place:
ancient china
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
In this 2003 remake of the classic 1952 French film, Fanfan la Tulipe is a swashbuckling lover who is tricked into joining the army of King Louis XV by Adeline La Franchise, who tells Fanfan that by doing so, he will eventually marry one of the ...
Style:
captivating, semi serious, humorous, tense, exciting ...
Plot:
heroes, fight scenes, escapades, wooing, love and romance, soldier, chase, dishonesty, training camp, fencing, swashbuckler, satire ...
Time:
18th century
Place:
france, europe
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59K
Genre: Action, Drama, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
Peace in 17th-century Japan causes the Shogunate's breakup of warrior clans, throwing thousands of samurai out of work and into poverty. An honorable end to such fate under the samurai code is ritual suicide, or hara-kiri.
Style:
tense, disturbing, bleak, melancholic, enigmatic ...
Plot:
samurai, suicide, poverty, revenge, vengeance, seppuku, sword fight, courage, tragedy, life & death, rivalry, society ...
Time:
17th century
Place:
japan, asia, tokyo
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39K
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Toshiro Mifune swaggers and snarls to brilliant comic effect in Kurosawa's tightly paced, beautifully composed "Sanjuro." In this companion piece and sequel to "Yojimbo," jaded samurai Sanjuro helps an idealistic group of ...
Style:
atmospheric, tense, witty, stylized, realistic ...
Plot:
samurai, sword fight, corruption, betrayal, rescue, martial arts, police investigation, culture clash, visceral, transformation, small town, one against many ...
Time:
19th century, future
Place:
japan, india, tokyo, asia
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
The adventures of a blind, gambling masseur and master swordsman. Zatoichi targets a yakuza-controlled village, because war with a neighbouring town's smaller gang is brewing.
Style:
art house, captivating, realistic, serious, atmospheric ...
Plot:
samurai, martial arts, sword fight, yakuza, medieval, exploitation, fencing, warrior, ancient, ninja, heroes, gang war ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
japan, asia
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Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Shiba, a wandering ronin, encounters a band of peasants who have kidnapped the daughter of their dictatorial magistrate, in hopes of coercing from him a reduction in taxes. Shiba takes up their fight, joined by two renegades from the ...
Style:
cynical, realistic, serious, rough, suspenseful ...
Plot:
samurai, katana, martial arts, change of heart, bribery, betrayal, medieval, shame, peasant, murder, infamy, ronin ...
Place:
japan
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
The mother of a feudal lord's only heir is kidnapped away from her husband by the lord. The husband and his samurai father must decide whether to accept the unjust decision, or risk death to get her back.
Style:
tense, emotional, stylized, atmospheric, sincere ...
Plot:
samurai, father son relationship, rebellion, revenge, martial arts, violence, vengeance, kidnapping, family relations, injustice, rebelliousness, master warrior ...
Time:
18th century, 70s
Place:
japan, tokyo, asia
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Sex & Fury chronicles Ocho's exploits as she searches for her father's killers, each identified by unique tattoos on their backs (a deer, a boar, and a butterfly). Along the way, she also crosses paths with Shonusuke, a radical set on ...
Style:
erotic, disturbing, bloody, controversial, exciting ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
nun, martial arts, revenge, female yakuza, murder, exploitation, erotica, bondage, gambler, samurai, sexploitation, nude ...
Time:
20th century, 19th century, 1880s
Place:
japan, asia, tokyo
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Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Legendary swordplay filmmaker Hideo Gosha’s Sword of the Beast chronicles the flight of the low-level swordsman Gennosuke, who kills one of his ministers as part of a reform plot. His former comrades then turn on him, and this betrayal so shakes ...
Style:
serious, realistic, exciting, rough, stylized ...
Plot:
samurai, martial arts, medieval, kung fu, ronin, tokugawa shogunate, ancient, fight, fencing, gambling, strangulation, reform ...
Time:
19th century, 60s
Place:
japan
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: Japan, UK
Duration: 141 min.
Story:
A bravado period action film set at the end of Japan's feudal era in which a group of unemployed samurai are enlisted to bring down a sadistic lord and prevent him from ascending to the throne and plunging the country into a war-torn future.
Style:
unusual plot structure, intense, visually appealing, harsh, tense ...
Plot:
samurai, sword fight, samurai sword, warrior, seppuku, battles, martial arts, revenge, fight, massacre, shogun, swordsman ...
Time:
19th century, 1840s
Place:
japan, tokyo, asia
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
In an ancient time when majestic fire-breathers soared through the skies, a knight named Bowen comes face to face and heart to heart with the last dragon on Earth, Draco. Taking up arms to suppress a tyrant king, Bowen soon realizes his task will be ...
Style:
fairy tale, humorous, epic, entertaining, scenic ...
Audience:
kids, family outing
Plot:
dragon, knight, medieval, magic, sword fight, good versus evil, immortality, friendship, sword and sorcery, betrayal, heroes, battles ...
Time:
10th century, middle ages
Place:
england, europe
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