Martial Arts
see all genres ›Asian fighters of many stripes bring athletic beauty and deadly force to this popular genre. Hong Kong martial arts films began being exported widely in the 1970s but the genre is incredibly diverse. Every decade of martial arts filmmakers (many outside Hong Kong) have reinvigorated the action film with new choreography and new styles of storytelling.
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Miami Connection
Motorcycle ninjas tighten their grip on Florida's narcotics trade, viciously annihilating anyone who dares move in on their turf. Multi-national martial arts rock band Dragon Sound have had enough, and embark on a roundhouse wreck-wave of crime-crushing justice. When not...Watch Movie
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My Kingdom
A story of honor, love and revenge set against the backdrop of the Chinese opera during its heyday in 1920s Shanghai, MY KINGDOM centers on two sworn brothers and their quest to regain their master’s honor. After years spent training in martial arts, Guan Yilong (Wu Chun) and Meng Erkui (Han...Watch Movie
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The Shaolin Drunken Monk
Gordon Liu, the star of THE 36TH CHAMBER Of SHAOLIN (aka MASTER KILLER), returns in this dazzling kung fu classic directed by the legendary Lau Ka Liang. After a Shaolin kung fu master is murdered by his own students, his son flees for his own life. When he meets up with a...Watch Movie
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Fighter in the Wind
A young Korean Taekwondo competitor arrives in Japan near the end of World War II with hopes of being a fighter pilot, but ends up on the streets battling racism, organized crime, occupying American servicemen, and his own fear of failure as a martial artist. He retires to the...Watch Movie
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War of the Shaolin Temple
It's monk vs. monk in a classic kung fu fight to the death. Invading Manchu warriors, led by a vicious abbot general, seek to destroy all 3,000 master fighters at the Shaolin Temple. The monastery's only hope is an insane, drunken monk outcast! Shot on location and with...Watch Movie
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Karate Girl
Real-life black-belt Rina Takeda stars as an ordinary high school student turned martial arts master in this throwback action film with a refreshing lack of CGI and special effects and a surprisingly old-school focus on hand-to-hand martial arts action. Years ago, a murderous clan of ninjas...Watch Movie
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March with the Devil
The final directorial effort of late producer, director and screenwriter Zalman King, this deeply atmospheric 75 minute documentary (subtitled "Confessions of a French Foreign Legionnaire") proves a riveting portrait of Dominiquie Vandenberg, a professional soldier–turned–Zen...Watch Movie
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Mad Cowgirl
Sarah Lassez delivers a star-making performance as Therese, an ass-kicking health inspector with a failed marriage, an on-going affair with a creepy televangelist, nymphomania and an obsession with old kung-fu movies. Further complicating her life is a very questionable relationship with her...Watch Movie
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Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter
The "Second Coming" is upon us and Jesus has returned to Earth. But before he can get down to the serious business of judging the living and the dead, he has to contend with an army of vampires that can walk in the daylight. Combining Kung Fu action with Biblical prophecy and...Watch Movie
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Dynamite Brothers
Before RUSH HOUR there was DYNAMITE BROTHERS, the first movie to team an African-American action star and an Asian Martial Arts star! It's action all the way from the ghettos of L.A. to the streets of San Francisco's Chinatown as Larry Chin and Stud Brown blast apart the...Watch Movie
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Female Convict: Scorpion
A young housewife imprisoned unjustly transforms herself into a hard-boiled killing machine in Joe Ma’s brutal femme-fatale thriller, an update of the notorious Japanese exploitation series. Based on a popular manga, Toei Studio's multi-film FEMALE CONVICT: SCORPION series was...Watch Movie
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Shamo
From director Cheang Pou-soi, comes this long-awaited and equally brutal live-action adaptation of the cult Japanese manga by Izo Hashimoto. Ryo Narushima is a talented, college-bound student who suddenly snaps one day and murders both of his parents in cold blood. He is sent to a correctional...Watch Movie
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The New Math(s)
Two students and their teacher seem to be literally fighting over the proper solution to a complex mathematical equation. Is it the key to time and space or a coded instruction manual about their own secret urges? An alchemical action movie? A real life cartoon with original music by Dutch...Watch Movie
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Fists and Guts
Gordon Liu stars in this kung fu comedy directed by the legendary Chia Yung Liu and co-starring the great Lo Lieh. While searching for a fugitive, the Master uncovers a scheme to steal the priceless Jade Buddha. But in order for him to stop the theft, the Master must fight his way through a...Watch Movie
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Shaolin vs. Evil Dead
It's KILL BILL meets THE EVIL DEAD in this rousing martial arts horror actioner starring the one and only "Master Killer" himself, Gordon Liu. Taoist priests Pak (Liu) and Hak (Terry Fan from THE STORY OF RICKY) have been competing with each other for leadership of their...Watch Movie
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The Dragon Lives
The true story of Bruce Lee, a phenomenal legend and the greatest martial arts star the world has ever known. This biopic stars Bruce Li, a sixth-degree black belt in his own right, who studied with the great Lee. The film concentrates on Lee's college years, his training, his...Watch Movie
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18 Secrets of Kung Fu
Li Tai must endure terrible hardship under his sadistic kung fu master in order to perfect his fighting technique. The ambitious young man finally has a chance to prove himself when his old master meets his match and Li has to use the eighteen secrets of kung fu to fight the...Watch Movie
