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Nothing on this site is recommended because people liked it. Films are described by what they are (how heavy, how fast, how far from the real world), and you get the ones closest to what you asked for.
Neither of these is the better film. They are just at opposite ends.
73 films tagged fights, showing 50
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2015 · Action
A driver hauling a stolen war rig runs for the desert with five women escaping a warlord, and picks up a drifter on the way. Nearly the whole film is one chase, out across a stretch of desert and back again.
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2001 · Fantasy
A young hobbit inherits a ring that has to be destroyed, and sets out from a very comfortable village with eight companions and a long way to walk. The first of three, and it ends mid-journey.
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1999 · Science fiction
A software developer who moonlights as a hacker is told the world he lives in is not the real one, and is offered a look at it. Kung fu, long coats, and a lot of talk about what is actually there.
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2014 · Action
A retired hitman is pulled back in after some young men break into his house and take the one thing he had left. It runs on a strict underworld etiquette that the film never stops to justify.
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2022 · Science fiction
A woman running a failing laundromat is hauled in for a tax audit and told she has to save reality by borrowing skills from versions of herself in other universes. It is a family argument and a martial arts film happening at the same time.
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2000 · Crime
A stolen diamond, an unlicensed boxing promoter and a bare-knuckle fighter nobody can understand all end up chasing the same few objects around London. Told fast, with a large cast and a lot of doubling back.
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1990 · Science fiction
A construction worker who keeps dreaming of Mars buys an implanted memory of a holiday there and wakes up with people trying to kill him. Practical effects throughout, and a high body count.
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Little-known
2010 · Action
A dozen samurai are quietly gathered to kill a lord whose cruelty the shogunate would rather not discuss, and they turn a whole village into a trap. The last three quarters of an hour is one long battle.
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2006 · Action
Three hundred Spartan soldiers march out to hold a narrow coastal pass against a Persian army many times their size. It is one fight after another, shot in slow motion, with a narrator carrying you between them.
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1988 · Action
A New York cop visiting his wife's office Christmas party in a Los Angeles tower is the only one out of the room when armed men take it over. He spends the night barefoot in the building's guts.
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2017 · Action
An MI6 agent is sent into Berlin days before the Wall comes down to recover a stolen list of undercover officers. Neon, eighties pop, and long bruising fights shot to look like one take.
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2022 · Science fiction
Jake Sully's family leaves the forest and asks the reef clans for shelter, learning to live on and under the water. It runs well over three hours and is built to be looked at.
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2019 · Action
What is left of the Avengers regroups after losing, and goes looking for a way to undo it. Three hours long, with a huge cast, and it assumes you have seen a good many of the films before it.
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2018 · Action
A warlord crosses the galaxy collecting six stones that would let him do anything he likes with the universe, and every hero on the board tries to stop him. It cuts between half a dozen groups on different planets.
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2015 · Action
A young man raised in a village under a huge waterfall climbs it and finds a kingdom that has been waiting a long time for someone like him. Enormous: armies, cliffs, and fights that ignore what a body can actually do.
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2005 · Action
A billionaire's son leaves Gotham after his parents are killed and spends years abroad learning to fight, then comes back to a city run by mobsters. A good half of it is the training and the building of the kit.
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2000 · Action
A class of Japanese ninth-graders is taken to an island, handed weapons, and told that in three days only one of them may be left. It moves fast and does not soften what the kids do to each other.
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2018 · Action
After his father's death, T'Challa comes home to take the throne of Wakanda, an African country hiding technology no one else has, and finds his claim challenged. A superhero film with a lot of family argument and court politics in it.
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Little-known
2023 · Comedy
Two unpopular high school seniors start a self-defense club, mostly as a way to get near the cheerleaders they like. Broad, rude, and set in a version of high school where nothing has consequences.
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2014 · Action
Steve Rogers is working for a spy agency he trusts less every week when an attack from inside it puts him on the run with Black Widow. It plays like a 1970s conspiracy film with fights in it.
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2006 · Action
A newly promoted British agent is sent to out-play a banker to terrorists at a very expensive poker table in Montenegro. The card game runs long, and the chases around it are done with real bodies and real buildings.
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2000 · Action
A master swordsman hands over his famous blade to be retired, and it is stolen the same night by someone who fights as well as he does. Wire-work fights over rooftops, with a lot of longing in between.
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2016 · Action
A mercenary comes out of an experiment with powers he never asked for and goes after the man who did it to him, talking to the audience the whole way. Rude, fast, and joking through the violence.
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2009 · Science fiction
Twenty years after an alien ship stalls above Johannesburg, its passengers live in a fenced-off slum and a company man is sent in to hand out eviction notices. It starts as a fake documentary and turns into a chase with a lot of gunfire.
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2012 · Action
A slave is bought by a German bounty hunter in 1858 and taught to shoot, on the way to a Mississippi plantation where his wife is being held. Long talky stretches broken by short bursts of extreme violence.
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2014 · Science fiction
An officer with no combat experience is dropped into a losing war against aliens and wakes up at the start of the same day every time he is killed. Most of it is him getting better at it, and it is funnier than it sounds.
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2000 · Action
A Roman general betrayed by the new emperor is sold into slavery and fights his way back up through the arenas towards Rome. Big battles, big crowds, and a story that runs in a straight line.
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2024 · Action
Years after the first film, a captured man from a North African city is brought to Rome to fight in the Colosseum for an owner with plans of his own. Big crowds, big fights, and scheming in between.
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2011 · Fantasy
The last of the Harry Potter films picks up mid-run, with three teenagers hunting the objects keeping a dark wizard alive, and ends at the school where it all started. Most of it is the final battle.
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Little-known
2011 · Action
A contractor who does the jobs governments will not admit to is set up on an assignment in Dublin and starts working back through the people who hired her. The fights are long, quiet and have no music.
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2002 · Action
A nameless swordsman is brought before the king of Qin to explain how he killed the three assassins who had been hunting him, and tells it more than once. Each version gets its own color, and the fights are closer to dance than to brawling.
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2007 · Comedy
London's best policeman is promoted sideways to a village where nothing happens and paired with a partner raised on action films. Jokes come thick and fast, and it gets very loud towards the end.
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Little-known
2004 · Action
In ninth-century China two policemen set a trap for a rebel group by freeing a blind dancer they believe will lead them to it. The fights are long and colourful and mostly outdoors.
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2008 · Action
A quiet martial arts master in 1930s Foshan avoids fighting until the Japanese occupation leaves him nowhere to stand. Fights every ten minutes, and the rest is his household getting poorer.
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2008 · Action
A billionaire who sells weapons is taken prisoner in Afghanistan and builds himself a way out, then keeps building once he gets home. Light on its feet, with as much workshop as fighting.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2023 · Action
John Wick goes looking for a way out from under the crime syndicate that has put a price on his head, which means Osaka, Berlin and Paris. Nearly three hours long, and most of it is fighting.
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2010 · Action
A comic-obsessed teenager buys a wetsuit online and starts patrolling his neighbourhood as a superhero, which goes about as well as you would expect. Very violent, and going for laughs throughout.
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2003 · Action
A woman wakes from a coma and starts working through a list of the people who put her there, beginning in a suburban kitchen and ending in a Tokyo nightclub. Huge fights, chapters out of order.
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2014 · Action
A London teenager with a police record is recruited into a very old and very well dressed secret spy service, while a tech billionaire hands out free SIM cards to the world. Loud, rude and full of fights.
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2025 · Animation
A K-pop girl group sell out arenas by day and hunt demons at night, until a rival boy band turns up with a suspiciously good debut. Animated, fast, and packed with full-length songs.
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2008 · Animation
A noodle shop panda who knows every kung fu legend by heart is picked, by accident, to train with masters who did not ask for him. Bright and quick, with fights built like slapstick.
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2017 · Action
An old Wolverine drives a limo near the Mexican border and hides a sick Professor X across it, until a girl with familiar habits needs taking north. A road movie, and much more violent than the ones before.
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2018 · Action
A spy team chases stolen plutonium across Paris, London and the mountains of Kashmir, with a rival agency shadowing every move. The plot is there to get you from one stunt to the next, and the stunts are the real thing.
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2003 · Thriller
A man is locked in one room for fifteen years without being told why, then let out with a few days to find whoever did it. Violent and strange, and it moves like something is chasing it.
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2003 · Adventure
A blacksmith's apprentice teams up with a pirate who has lost his ship to get the governor's daughter back from a crew that cannot be killed. Big, silly, and full of sword fights.
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2022 · Animation
Puss in Boots learns he is down to his last life and sets off after a wishing star, with several other parties chasing the same map. Bright, fast and funny, with fights that stop and hold still.
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Little-known
2024 · Action
A former Marine cycling into a small Southern town to post his cousin's bail is knocked off his bike by police who take his cash and dare him to argue. He tries the front counter and the paperwork first.
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2022 · Action
Two men in 1920s India, one working for the British and one hunting for a girl taken from his village, become close friends without knowing who the other is. Three hours of dancing, fighting and no physics at all.
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Little-known
2012 · Drama
A broke father turns up in the south of France with a five-year-old he barely knows, takes work as a bouncer, and meets a killer whale trainer. Rough and physical, and the love story is not a soft one.
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2010 · Comedy
A slacker bass player in Toronto falls for a girl on rollerblades and learns he has to fight her seven evil exes to date her. Video game rules, comic book panels, and it never slows down.
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