The Best of the Martial Arts Films

The Lone Hero

A Taiwanese Martial Arts film

1973

Dolemite

Dolemite is a pimp who was set up by Willie Greene and the cops, who have planted drugs, stolen furs, and guns in his trunk and got him sentenced to 2

1975

The Big Brawl

A young Asian American martial artist is forced to participate in a brutal formal street-fight competition.

1980

Fearless Hyena

Lung is a talented fighter but prefers to spend his time loafing around and picking fights, despite orders from his grandfather not to fight. Unknown

1979

In Hell

A man must survive a prison where hardened criminals battle to the death for the warden's entertainment.

2003

3 Ninjas Kick Back

During a championship baseball match, the three brothers hear that their grandfather in Japan is in trouble, and head out to help him, conceding the m

1994

Twinkle, Twinkle, Lucky Stars

The third installment in the Lucky Stars series, following Winners and Sinners and My Lucky Stars. The team are released from prison to play detective

1985

To Kill with Intrigue

Young master Cao Le chases his pregnant girlfriend away from the family castle. He does it in order to save her from vicious bandits who are going to

1977

Spiritual Kung Fu

Jackie Chan plays the part of the class clown in a shaolin temple whose deadliest secret is stolen. All is lost until Jackie's character discovers dan

1978

Heart of Dragon

A policeman forsakes his dream of world travel to care for a mentally impaired brother, who is later kidnapped by gangsters.

1985

The Magnificent Butcher

A plump butcher student of Wong Fei Hung, Lam Sai-Wing gets into trouble with a rival kung-fu school known as Five Dragons. He is accused of raping th

1979

Deadful Melody

A young security man must prove himself worthy by defending the one object wanted by all the masters of the Martial Arts world - the Magic Lyre!

1994

Legend of a Fighter

This is a powerful, yet fictionalized life story of Huo Yuan Chia, a real kung fu master in Southern China who brought respect to the populace and all

1982

Operation Scorpio

Budding comic book artist Yu Shu finds himself living out the fantasies of his alternate world when he saves a young girl from an illegal prostitution

1992

Swordsman

When a scroll containing valuable martial arts secrets is stolen from the Emperor, an army detachment is sent to recover it. It is based on the novel

1990

Black Eagle

One of the US Air Force's most modern tactical aircrafts, an F-100 with a new laser guidance system, crashes into the sea near Malta - a region where

1988

The Foreigner

This story is about a freelance agent who is the courier of a package from France to Germany. He soon finds that many people want to get their hands o

2003

Black Belt Jones

Jones is a secret agent who has gone into semi-retirement, concentrating instead on teaching the martial arts to inner city youths. The karate school

1974

Derailed

NATO operative Jacques Kristoff (Jean-Claude Van Damme) is summoned into action—on his birthday, no less—to track down Galina Konstantin (Laura Harrin

2002

Fist of Legend

Chen Zhen, a Chinese engineering student in Kyoto, who braves the insults and abuse of his Japanse fellow students for his local love Mitsuko Yamada,

1994