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Plot Summary:
MMA fighter loses everything due to some bad life choices. Now local gangster make him back to the sports. But this time he will fight in the boxing ring.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 230
Genere: Action, Drama, Sport
Country: Poland
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, disturbing
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NXT TakeOver: London (2015)
Plot Summary:
NXT TakeOver: London is an upcoming major professional wrestling show in the NXT TakeOver series that is scheduled to take place on December 16, 2015, produced by WWE, showcasing its NXT brand, and will be streamed live on the WWE Network. The show will be the first NXT TakeOver broadcast from outside the United States as the finale of the first ever NXT tour of the United Kingdom.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 278
Genere: Action, Sport
Country: UK
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating, disturbing
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UFC 205: Alvarez vs. McGregor (2016)
Plot Summary:
UFC 205: Alvarez vs. McGregor is a mixed martial arts event promoted by the Ultimate Fighting Championship held on November 12, 2016 at Madison Square Garden in New York City, New York.
IMDB Rating: 8.6
IMDB Votes: 306
Genere: Sport
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating
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Submission (2019)
Plot Summary:
After two marines make it home following an ISIS interrogation, one struggles to survive while the other fights his way back into the mixed martial arts world that he left behind years ago.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 816
Genere: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Bigil (2019)
Plot Summary:
A do-gooder don wants his footballer son to uplift the life of his people by becoming a champion, but fate draws the youngster into a life of violence. Will he be able to fulfill his father’s dream when an opportunity comes his way seven years later?.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 24000
Genere: Action, Drama, Sport
Country: India
Duration: 179 min
Plot tags: captivating, disturbing
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Bartkowiak (2021)
Plot Summary:
After his brother dies in a car crash, a disgraced MMA fighter takes over the family nightclub — and soon learns his sibling's death wasn’t an accident.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Crime, Sport
Country: Poland
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Glass Jaw (2018)
Plot Summary:
Glass Jaw is the redemption story of Travis Austin, a one time champion boxer who goes to prison and loses everything. After his release, he experiences the trials and tribulations of redeeming his reputation, his belt, and his true love.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Sport, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: psychological, thought provoking, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Crazy Fist (2021)
Plot Summary:
After an opponent dies mid-match, a prominent MMA champion swore never to fight again and retired to run his family's company. But when his best friend dies under suspicious circumstances, he has no choice but to step back in the ring.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 61
Genere: Action
Country: USA, China
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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NXT TakeOver XXV (2019)
Plot Summary:
NXT TakeOver XXV is a professional wrestling show and WWE Network event produced by WWE for their NXT brand. It took place on June 1, 2019, at the Webster Bank Arena in Bridgeport, Connecticut. It was the twenty-fifth event under the NXT TakeOver chronology.
IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 232
Genere: Action, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 159 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating
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Bruised (2020)
Plot Summary:
Jackie Justice is a mixed martial arts fighter who leaves the sport in disgrace. Down on her luck and simmering with rage and regret years after the fight, she's coaxed into a brutal underground fight by her manager and boyfriend Desi and grabs the attention of a fight league promoter who promises Jackie a life back in the Octagon. But the road to redemption becomes unexpectedly personal when Manny - the son she gave up as an infant - shows up at her doorstep. A triumphant story of a fighter who reclaims her power, in and out of the ring, when everyone has counted her out.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Drama, Sport
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 129 min
Plot tags: inspirational, tense, captivating, disturbing, motivational, touching, deep, twisted, queer cinema
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Cagefighter: Worlds Collide (2020)
Plot Summary:
Reiss is the greatest champion to ever fight in a LEGENDS cage. But when promoter Max Black pits him against wrestling superstar Randy Stone, Reiss finds himself in the toughest fight of his life.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 582
Genere: Action, Sport
Country: UK
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: inspirational, captivating, suspense, suspenseful
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WWE Elimination Chamber (2010)
Plot Summary:
Elimination Chamber (2010) was a PPV which took place on February 21, 2010 at the Scottrade Center in St. Louis, Missouri. It was the first Elimination Chamber event. The concept of the event was that the two main event matches would occur in an Elimination Chamber. Each match featured six competitors: the defending champion and five challengers. Sheamus defended the WWE Championship against Triple H, Ted DiBiase, Randy Orton, John Cena, and Kofi Kingston in the Raw Elimination Chamber. In the SmackDown Elimination Chamber match, The Undertaker defended the World Heavyweight Championship against Chris Jericho, John Morrison, Rey Mysterio, CM Punk and R-Truth. On the undercard, Drew McIntyre defended the WWE Intercontinental Championship against Kane, The Miz defended the WWE United States Championship against Montel Vontavious Porter, and Maryse and Gail Kim competed against Team Lay-Cool (Layla and Michelle McCool) in an interbrand Divas tag team match.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 207
Genere: Action, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 160 min
Plot tags: exciting, captivating, entertaining
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Notorious Nick (2021)
Plot Summary:
Nick Newell, a one-armed MMA fighter gets a rare chance to fight for the lightweight championship. He strives to win for himself and all the other people in the world with physical challenges.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 535
Genere: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Hammer (2016)
Plot Summary:
Victor aka Hammer is an MMA champion with the world title fight ahead. After running into the mobster Shark Hammer gets injured but is still determined to win. Victor doesn't know Shark will stick at nothing to make Victor lose.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 925
Genere: Drama, Sport
Country: Russia
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Shadowboxing (2005)
Plot Summary:
Artem Kolchin was one of many, but he wanted glory. And he has chosen the way: he became the boxer. Now Artem the applicant for a champion title, fighter, known worldwide as Great White Hope. But the main fight in his life has not gone how he expected.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Drama, Sport
Country: Russia
Duration: 132 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, tense, captivating, rough
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Prizefighter: The Life of Jem Belcher (2022)
Plot Summary:
At the turn of the 19th century, Pugilism was the sport of kings and a gifted young boxer fought his way to becoming champion of England.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Biography, Drama, History, Sport
Country: UK, USA, Malta
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, disturbing
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Back in the Day (2016)
Plot Summary:
A young boxer is taken under the wing of a mob boss after his mother dies and his father is run out of town for being an abusive alcoholic.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 856
Genere: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Never Back Down: Revolt (2021)
Plot Summary:
An amateur fighter is lured by a trafficking syndicate specializing in elite underground fighting where her brutal captor forces her to fight or face certain death.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 761
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Street (2015)
Plot Summary:
Remo Street is a young fighter who comes from a world where nothing is easy, so when he is faced with the opportunity to train with a world class coach, he has to choose between the long hard road to honor and glory, or succumbing to a brutal future as a cage fighter for the Russian Mafia.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Kaala (2018)
Plot Summary:
A gangster from Tirunelveli, who is the King of Dharavi, fights for keeping the land safe from mighty politicians and the land mafia.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 162 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, action packed, period drama
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Acharya (2022)
Plot Summary:
Acharya, a middle-aged Naxalite-turned-social reformer, launches a fight against the Endowments Department over misappropriation and embezzlement of temple funds and donations.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 152 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, disturbing
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Saamy (2003)
Plot Summary:
A policeman accepts bribes from corrupt politicians and local thugs to help them in their illegal work. However, he decides to correct his mistakes after he falls in love with a woman.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 150 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, disturbing, cult film
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Sarpatta Parambarai (2021)
Plot Summary:
When Sarpatta Parambarai is challenged to a do-or-die match, Kabilan, a young labourer, must choose whether to put on the gloves himself and lead his clan to victory, or be dissuaded by his disapproving mother and dangerous politics.
IMDB Rating: 8.5
IMDB Votes: 25000
Genere: Action, Drama, Sport
Country: India
Duration: 173 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, disturbing
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Kammatipaadam (2016)
Plot Summary:
Krishnan, who has been living away from his family and friends in Mumbai, gets a call from his friend Ganga in Kerala, out of the blue. He senses danger, and leaves for Kammattipadam, where both of them grew up.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 177 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, tense, captivating, disturbing
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Split Decisions (1988)
Plot Summary:
When a boxer is killed because he wouldn't take a dive, his brother tries to find a way to avenge him even if only symbolically.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, sincere, serious, realistic
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Born a Champion (2021)
Plot Summary:
After a blood- soaked jujitsu match in Dubai, fighting legend Mickey Kelley falls to superstar Blaine. But years later, an online video proves that Blaine cheated, and the world demands a rematch. Can the aging underdog get back into shape in time to vanquish his foe, get revenge, and claim his prize?.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, inspirational
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Unbeatable (2013)
Plot Summary:
Fai, once a world champion in boxing, escapes to Macau from the loan sharks and unexpectedly encounters Qi, a young chap who is determined to win a boxing match. Fai becomes Qi's mentor and rediscovers his passion to fight not only in the ring but for his life and the cares.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Drama, Sport
Country: China, Hong Kong
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: tense, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, captivating
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Yogi (2007)
Plot Summary:
Eeshwar Chandra Prasad (Prabhas) is the son of Ram Murthy (Chalapathi Rao) and Shantamma (Sharada Urvashi). Ram Murthy wants his son to do some job. However, Shantamma pampers Eeshwar very much and hence he doesn't want to leave the village. Ram Murthy dies and in order to fulfil his last wish, Eeshwar goes to the city to earn money on the advice of his friend Basha (Ali), who was a pickpocket. Eeshwar could not meet Basha. On the other hand Kotaiah (Kota Srinivasa Rao) runs big land mafia in Hyderabad city and a bitter rival of Narsing Pahilwan (Pradeep Rawat). Saidulu (Subbaraju) is Narsing's brother. Once Saidulu hacks Kotaiah and his assistant, when Eeshwar accidentally saves him. Eeshwar gets a job in a tea stall run by Chandranna (Chandra Mohan). He earns good money and purchases two gold bangles for his mother and plans to leave the city.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 723
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 155 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Aaraattu (2022)
Plot Summary:
Goparajan / Gopan, a native of Neyyattinkara and a real estate tycoon buys a large piece of land in Chittur for a construction purpose, but on his arrival, he learns that the residents are forcefully and unlawfully evicted from their properties by an Andhra based real estate mafia using illegal land acquisition rules with support from the local authorities and government officials.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 167 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, disturbing
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Boone: The Bounty Hunter (2017)
Plot Summary:
When fame-seeking reality show bounty hunter, Boone, attempts to bring down a drug lord and his empire, he uncovers more than he bargains for and learns that justice means more than ratings.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Boon (2022)
Plot Summary:
Mercenary Nick Boon is trying to atone for his life as an enforcer for a ruthless syndicate. Running from his past, Boon moves to a remote area in the pacific northwest where he meets a struggling widow and her son. When he finds the pair living in fear of a criminal kingpin, Boon realizes the only way to protect them is to do what he does best: kill.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing