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Plot Summary:
A beautiful supermodel-turned-gangster double crosses her ruthless partners after the gang steals a precious relic from a Manila museum. now an enterprising young Interpol agent, with the help of a comical taxi driver, must stop the vicious gang and return the relic to its rightful owners.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 75
Genere: Action
Country: Taiwan, Hong Kong, Philippines
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
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Princess Madam (1989)
Plot Summary:
Moon Lee takes on the part as Mona, the good cop, when she fights with and against her partner Lisa.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 154
Genere: Action
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The Hero (1975)
Plot Summary:
During the Manchu (Qing) Dynasty, commissioner Ma Chui Kau was a man of peace until a massacre tore apart his family and honor-bounds him to capture the notorious outlaw Hsiung-Wu; that is, until the outlaw captures the commissioner.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 134
Genere: Action
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, cult film
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The Descendant Of Wing Chun (1978)
Plot Summary:
Fierceful fighting displays the Wing Chun style of kung fu in this tale of revenge. Evil bandit Ma Lung escapes from prison and seeks revenge on retired Wing Chun teacher Lam Chan, who had helped to imprison him. Ma wreaks havoc on Lam's Wing Chun school and kills a few of Lam's students. Lam has no choice but to avenge his students' deaths at a final showdown confronting Ma. Director Wang Ha creates an unforgettable tale of vengeance that won"t release you from its grips until the final credits.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 76
Genere: Action
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags:
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The True Game of Death (1979)
Plot Summary:
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 set, he is approached by a group of gangsters, led by a man named George, who want to control Hsao Lung. Hsao Lung declines, so they go after his girlfriend Alice, forcing her poison Hsao. During sex, the poison takes action and Hsao supposedly dies. Hsao fakes his death and pretends to be a chef so that he can watch over Alice. Alice is kidnapped by the gangsters, so Hsao starts looking for her and goes to a shipyard. There he fights off 4 motorcycle-riding gangsters that are wearing multi-colored tracksuits, one of them being the iconic green and black one from Game of Death. He defeats them and goes to the tower of death.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 128
Genere: Action
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The Young Dragons (1974)
Plot Summary:
The powerful mobster Leung, who is protected by the dangerous and wicked Huan Fai, sells two hundred Japanese weapons and ammunition to a Chinese gang. He uses the smuggler Luy Fu to bring the weapons but the smalltime thief Kim and his gang heist the shipment on the road and dump the cargo into the sea. However, he lures Luy Fu and asks a large amount to return the weapons with the intention of traveling abroad with his brother. Meanwhile Kim befriends Fan Ming, an undercover police office from Shanghai that is investigating the illegal activities of Leung. When the mobster finds that Fan Ming is a policeman, Leung ambushes him and Huan Fai and his men stab the officer that falls from a cliff into the sea. Kim brings Fan Ming's fiancée Ipi Feng to the house of his lover, the prostitute Hung, and tells Ipi Feng that her fiancé was murdered by Leung. She decides to revenge the death of her beloved Fan Ming with tragic consequences.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 169
Genere: Action
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
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Eternal Fist (1992)
Plot Summary:
In a post-apocalyptic world, a man helps a beautiful young girl get revenge against a roving gang of renegades that destroyed her village.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 115
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Philippines
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Blood Ring (1991)
Plot Summary:
Max, a prize boxer who has developed a drinking habit after his girlfriend Susan left him, gets involved in dirty business once she asks him to help her find her missing husband.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 105
Genere: Action
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Red Shield (1991)
Plot Summary:
A pair of detectives are after a smuggling ring, and when they come to the leader, they need back-up by a navy seals team - as the traffickers possess not only drugs, but heavy military equipment.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 59
Genere: Action
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: poliziottesco
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The Prodigal Boxer: The Kick of Death (1972)
Plot Summary:
THE PRODIGAL BOXER features Chinese folk hero Fong Sai Yuk (aka Fong Si Yu), the subject of dozens of HK kung fu films. The role is played by Meng Fei as a callow, unschooled youth and wrongfully accused murderer. Two vicious masters of the local kung fu school, seeking revenge against Fong Sai Yuk, attack his home and kill his father while Fong is away. Fong’s attempts to avenge the death of his father result in his being badly beaten. Fong trains at the hands of his martial artist mother as she puts him through rigorous training and an herbal bath that makes him invulnerable. A trail of revenge is set in motion with Fong against the two masters, played by formidable kung fu villains Yasuaki Kurata and Wang Ching. Can a year's worth of training prepare Fong Sai Yuk for his deadly confrontation with the vicious masters?.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 336
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: Taiwan, Hong Kong
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: grindhouse
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Fighting Ace (1979)
Plot Summary:
20 years after the death of his parents, a martial artist sets out to avenge their deaths by pretending he doesn't know kung fu. But when it is revealed that he does know kung fu, the killer sets to kill him and his friends.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 96
Genere: Action
Country: Hong Kong, Taiwan
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags:
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In the Line of Duty III: Force of the Dragon (1988)
Plot Summary:
In a bloody beginning, a pair of stylish Japanese thieves steal some valuable gems. In a harrowing scene, during their escape, they kill the partner of a ruffled detective (think Columbo with a Chuck Barris hairdo). The detective swears revenge, and the thieves played by the athletic and lovely Michiko Nishiwaki and her terminally ill partner/lover played by Stuart Ong plan on going to Hong Kong, sell the loot, and buy weapons for the Red Army. All the while Cynthia, a rookie cop in Hong Kong, tries to get in on the action of the task force she has been assigned to, but unfortunately her superior is her uncle who wants to keep her out of harms way. The Japanese thieves and the detective trailing them, all make their way to Hong Kong, and Cynthia ends up entangled in the same mess with the detective, trying to bring the cold blooded and desperate thieves to justice. People on both sides are killed, leading to crossed paths of personal revenge, everyone out for each others blood.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 703
Genere: Action
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: perverse, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, stylized, fast, detective
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The Death Duel (1972)
Plot Summary:
The Death Duel is a Taiwan Martial Arts movie.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 14
Genere: Action
Country: Taiwan, Hong Kong
Duration:
Plot tags:
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Ten Tigers of Shaolin (1978)
Plot Summary:
The noble Ten Tigers, one woman and nine men, protect their Cantonese region the villainous Lord Yung and his underlings. When Yung kidnaps the wife of one of the Tiger's students, the Tigers disguise themselves as a Princess and her followers in an attempt to gain access to Yung's palace on his birthday.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 102
Genere: Action
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Blood Ring 2: The Killer Instinct (1995)
Plot Summary:
Convicted for a crime he did not commit, kickboxer Max Rivers is sentenced to life imprisonment in Carcel de Cordoba, the world's most impenetrable prison. He discovers a corrupt regime run by the chief warden, who organizes high-stake fighting contests. When Rivers' appeal is quashed by a crooked judge, he finds himself forced to rely once again on his fighting instincts as he enters the ring in the prison.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 50
Genere: Action
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Image of Bruce Lee (1978)
Plot Summary:
A band of counterfeiters wants to make Hong Kong their new territory. The disgraced leader of the Special Squad will have to team-up with a group of Hong Kong police officers in an attempt to stop the dirty business of crime lord Han Tin Lung, but Han's problem not only is the interference of the Police force, his Japanese ally Kimura is not happy with his 'cut' in the counterfeit deal and will try to put Donna (a relative of Han) on his side a make Han's business his own property. Both policemen and criminals are highly trained Martial Arts fighters and they will have the chance to prove who has the best Kung Fu techniques.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 307
Genere: Action
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: serious, fast, independent film, cult film
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The Showdown (2005)
Plot Summary:
Eight martial arts masters trained in a variety of different fighting styles are summoned to the mountains for a fierce competition.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 141
Genere: Action
Country: South Korea
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Strike of the Panther (1988)
Plot Summary:
Jason Blade is a man who can't bring himself to commit fully to his woman, and who spends all his time with a special crime task force taking on assignments to fight crime and right wrong do-ers. When his love is kidnapped by his arch-enemy the race is on to get into the power station where she is being held and battle an army of ninjas. Only then can he face Baxter, his arch-enemy, and stop a bomb from exploding to save his sweetheart, and show her that he is a man. A man who can commit. A man who is strong.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 248
Genere: Action
Country: Australia
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: independent film, cult film
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The Big Fight (1972)
Plot Summary:
This film is set during the Japanese occupation of China circa WWII. In it, the Japanese occupiers (and the Chinese Quislings who work for them) are portrayed as total monsters who kill children and rape all women. The heroes are resistance fighters who oppose the occupation.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 97
Genere: Action
Country: Taiwan, Hong Kong
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: cult film
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Fire Phoenix (1990)
Plot Summary:
After stumbling across a mob hit, a man must run for his life, trying to stay ahead of vicious mercenaries after the $1 million bounty placed on his head.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 18
Genere: Action
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Fury (1988)
Plot Summary:
Chuck (Philip Chan), Jimmy (Waise Lee) and Lucky (Michael Wong) are blood brothers. Jimmy's cousin Jake, acts as a go-between, arranges a trafficking of counterfeit U.S. notes between Jimmy's group and the local triad society in Taiwan. Jake, however, is a double-crosses by informing the police of the trafficking. At the ambush, police injures Lucky and arrests him, while the rest have a narrow escape and land on a boat back to Hong Kong. On their return, Jake deliberately kills Lucky's wife Nina and shots Chuck into the sea. Lucky is free from jail and returns to Hong Kong five years later. Touchingly reunited with Jimmy, Lucky is told that Chuck was dead and Nina was disappeared during their run away. Meantime, Jake assigns his mistress Elsa to keep an eye on Lucky.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 45
Genere: Action
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: heroic, poliziottesco
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The Great Hero (1978)
Plot Summary:
During World War II, Japanese soldiers invade a small Chinese town. Li immediately takes out four of the soldiers who want to steal some chickens. The story then follows the bumbling Japanese soldiers and their commander until Li shows up again for a big forest brawl in yet another classic foot and fist battle. The film finally ends when the mean spirited Japanese give up on the war!.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 34
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: fast paced, independent film
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Max Havoc: Curse of the Dragon (2004)
Plot Summary:
Ex-kickboxing champion turned sports photographer Max Havoc again finds himself in Guam on a publicity photo shoot. Max's helpful ways land him in the lives of the vacationing sisters Jane and Christy Goody who have acquired a rare jade dragon, which belongs to the ruthless Japanese Yakuza who will stop at nothing to get it back. It's up to Max to stop the Yakuza, save the sisters and restore order to the peaceful island.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 968
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, realistic, serious, independent film, fast
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Once Upon a Time in China IV (1993)
Plot Summary:
Wong Fei Hung must deal with both foreign threats and the nationalist Red Lantern Society in this continuation of the popular kung fu series.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: anamorphic, cult classic, cult film
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Pit Fighter (2005)
Plot Summary:
Jack Severino has no memory, all he knows is the brutal sport of Pit Fighting. When his past catches him up, he realizes he is not who he thought he was. For some men must fight for redemption.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, tense
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Honor and Glory (1992)
Plot Summary:
FBI agent Tracy Pride is on a mission to capture businessman Jason Slade, who is involved in extortion and murder. Teaming up with her is her sister Joyce, a news reporter; Dragon, Tracy's partner in Hong Kong, and Jake, a bodyguard who worked for Slade. Can they stop Slade before it's too late.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 887
Genere: Action
Country: Hong Kong, USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic
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Bloodfist VIII: Trained to Kill (1996)
Plot Summary:
A former CIA agent lives a suburban life as a high school teacher with his teen son. When the agent is attacked by former allies because of knowledge he possesses and his son is kidnapped, he is forced back into the business and his son suddenly sees a side of his father that he never knew existed.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 396
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychotronic, independent film, cult film
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Trained To Kill (1989)
Plot Summary:
From the fields of Cambodia to the mean streets of L.A., there's no escaping death and it's blinding revenge.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 158
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: independent film
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To the Death (1992)
Plot Summary:
Kickboxing champ Rick Quinn decides to retire from the ring, but his main adversary, Denard, wants him to fight again and murders Quinn's wife. Quinn suspects Denard, but can't do anything. Three month later, Quinn is jailed after a drunken bar brawl; a rich man named Le Braque bails him out and asks him to fight for him.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 147
Genere: Action
Country: USA, South Africa
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, independent film
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Bloodfist V: Human Target (1994)
Plot Summary:
Don "The Dragon" Wilson struggles to regain his memory, not knowing who to trust, or even which side he's fighting on.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 489
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: suspense, independent film
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Bloodfist IV: Die Trying (1992)
Plot Summary:
When Danny unknowingly repossesses the car of a powerful arms merchant, it sets off a chain of violent retaliation. After his friends are killed and his daughter is kidnapped, Danny takes matters into his own hands. It does not matter that the CIA and the FBI are also involved the Dragon's fire is in his fists!.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 567
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: independent film