Karate Warrior (1987)
Gênero : Ação
Runtime : 1H 34M
Director : Fabrizio De Angelis
Sinopse
Anthony is in the Phillipines visiting his father. He inadvertently interferes with the affairs of local gangster Quino, who also happens to be a champion Karate fighter. After embarrassing Quino near a local tournament, Anthony is beaten up and left for dead. An old monk nurses Anthony back to health and teaches him the ways of martial arts so he may go back and fight Quino again.
It's back to the Shaolin Monastery for one of the most unusual action-paced tales to invade its hallowed halls. Lo Lieh is the ringleader of the Snake Sect, intent on reviving a deadly faction known as the "Five Poison Web." In order to do so, he has an affair with the sexy ringleader of the Scorpion Sect, Angela Yu Chien. However, there is also the Centipede Sect to contend with, as well as other assorted martial artists, among them played by Shaw Brothers talents Yueh Hua, Ching Li, and Lily Li.
Lucky Luciano is one of the bosses of the Mafia. He orders the slaughter of 40 other responsibles, therefore becoming the only boss. But a few years later he is put into jail. In 1946, he got a pardon and is sent back to Sicilia. There, he begins becoming one of the chief of the Mafia. The US Army seems to refrain from interfering.
A crusading politician falls prey to the temptations of power.
Special prosecutor John Conroy hopes to combat organized crime in his city and appoints his cop father Matt as chief investigator. John doesn't understand why Matt is reluctant, but cynical reporter Jerry McKibbon thinks he knows: he's seen Matt with mob lieutenant Harrigan. Jerry's friendship with John is tested by the question of what to do about Matt, and by his attraction to John's girl Amanda. Meanwhile, the threatened racketeers adopt increasingly violent means of defense.
Po (Jack Black) vive o sonho de ser o dragão guerreiro, protegendo o Vale da Paz ao lado dos mestres Shifu (Dustin Hoffman), Tigresa (Angelina Jolie), Macaco (Jackie Chan), Víbora (Lucy Liu), Louva-deus (Seth Rogen) e Garça (David Cross). Sua vida pacata chega ao fim quando surge um novo inimigo, o lorde Chen (Gary Oldman), que possui uma arma secreta capaz de permitir a conquista da China e provocar o fim do kung fu. Para impedi-lo, Po e os Cinco Furiosos precisam cruzar o país e derrotá-lo.
He's lost his memory, but not his skill: After a fierce battle with a local tong, Hoi is thrown over an embankment and left for dead. He survives the ordeal but has lost all of his memory, but not his kung-fu. His fateful meeting with a beggar leads to their teaming up for cleaning up that tong.
Passado durante a Dinastia Sung, monges patrióticos do Templo Shaolin lutam contra a invasão estrangeira que desejam recuperar um Selo Imperial que está em poder de um dos monges do templo.
An escaped, but framed, prisoner escapes prison during a cobalt explosion and soon discovers he has grown a special power that makes his body impervious to everything. Learning this, he seeks vengeance on the bad guys who framed him for jail.
Mousy, the laundry guy, is attacked several times by an angry theatre troupe member. Although he survives, his friend doesn't. So, he overcomes his cowardice and decides to avenge his friend's death.
This delightful action comedy came out a full two years before Ghostbusters premiered. Coincidence? You be the judge. Whatever the inspiration, nothing can compare to this amazing showcase of wushu and wizardry as one of the best all-star fighting casts take on spectres, spirits, and phantoms as well as each other.
Após descobrir um complô para assassinar o chefe da aldeia de Fo Shan, Chan Wah encontra-se em fuga de uma quadrilha de bandidos liderado pelo empresário corrupto, Mo. Wah é forçado a se esconder dos bandidos na residência de Leung Jan, médico e mestre do estilo Wing Chun. Após a gangue matar sua mãe, Wah implora a Leung Jan para adotá-lo como aluno para que ele possa vingar sua morte. Leung Jan recusa, mas acaba por reconsiderar a sua decisão após a intervenção de seu aluno, Fei Chun.
The moment he's released from prison, the honorable gangster Miyamoto recovers the stolen diamonds he had stashed before getting pinched. When he returns to his haunt to make good by friend who took a bullet for him, he is diverted by the greedy boss Oyane and his insatiable taste for Miyamoto's precious stones. Replete with film noir style, "Underworld Beauty" is one of Suzuki's best nods to the American gangster genre.
Leaving behind an inch of sword in the spent corpses of his opponents, Tuan Changqing is known as the Deadly Breaking Sword. After barely surviving a duel, one of his foes is treated by the diabolical Dr. Kuo, who uses his powers of mind control to transform the man into a somnambulistic killer. After Tuan Changqing teams up with Rabelaisian gambler Xiao Dao, the story proceeds as a comical kung fu buddy flick.
Marseille. Heaps of flowers and funeral wreaths... "A man who no longer defends his colors is no longer a man."
In the 1930s, amoral blonde tommy-gun girl Bonnie Parker cut a swath of bodies across the South-West. Starting out on gas stations and bars with side-kick Guy Darrow she graduated to bank hold-ups with Darrow's brother and, after bloodily springing him, her jailed husband. But there was never any doubt who was in charge.
Estamos em 1957. J.C. Cullen é um jovem de uma cidade pequena, com talento para vencer no jogo de dados, que parte para a cidade grande para trabalhar como jogador profissional. Enquanto está lá, ele quebra a banca em um jogo de dados privado no Gem Club, de propriedade de George Cole, e se apaixona por duas mulheres, uma delas a esposa de Cole.
A young girl named Burma attends a beach party with her boyfriend and after she smokes marijuana with a bunch of other girls, she gets pregnant and another girl drowns while skinny dipping in the ocean. Burma and her boyfriend go to work for the pusher in order to make money so they can get married. However, during a drug deal her boyfriend is killed leaving Burma to fend for herself. Burma then becomes a major narcotics pusher in her own right after giving up her baby for adoption.
The thrills continue in this second part of this cherished adventure, created by the renowned director Chu Yuan and ingenious novelist Chin Yung. Only the union of the title weapons can save the six remaining martial arts sects who are vying for mastery. So just sit back and enjoy the movie event which spawned a legacy that continues even today with a long-running, internationally loved television series, a role-playing game, and even collectible replicas of the Heaven Sword and Dragon Sabre themselves!
Três escolas de artes marciais estão em uma grande disputa para eleger quem é a melhor dentre elas. Uma delas, semeando discórdia e traição entre seus participantes, tenta desacreditar as outras duas provocando o caos para o mestre Huang. Enquanto isso, seu filho Wong Fei-Hung e seu amigo Ynlin passam o tempo tentando, sem conseguir nenhum sucesso, se passar por mestres do Kung-Fu. Até mesmo após serem humilhados por um verdadeiro instrutor das artes marciais, os dois não desistem e continuam tentando. Porém, graças a um acidente, Yinlin é seriamente ferido por Shan, um mestre de Kung-Fu da escola Jing Wu do norte. E, quando ele tem as pernas quebradas pelos capangas de Shan, tem início um dos mais genuínos clássicos do Kung-Fu já produzidos, onde as emoções e a adrenalina estão a toda velocidade.
No passado, oito jovens tiveram suas famílias mortas pelo General Hsiao e três deles se encontram anos depois. Na busca por vingança, dois deles são presos, e o único que escapa, é salvo por um cozinheiro, que se revela ser mais um daqueles jovens, além de uma garota disfaçada de homem que aparece e se junta aos outros. Dentro dos domínios de Hsiao, mais dois jovens também foram vítimas de Hsiao e agora que os grupo está completo, se juntam para acabar com a tirania do General e seus homans, principalmente o grupo conhecido por "Nove Chicotes".