Movies: Fighting

10 years before the debut of the Ultimate Fighting Championship. In 1979, Bill Viola and Frank Caliguri dreamed up a contest pitting barroom bigmouths against wrestlers, martial artists, boxers, bouncers and brawlers, billed as no-holds-barred new t...

A family in rural area of West Java, Indonesia enjoys their time with 'Ngadu Bagong', a sundanese traditional game where dogs put to fight against a wild boar in a single event. Ngadu Bagong has always been some sort of animal abuse but it's been in ...

Soo-ah and Hyeon-jeong have been friends since they were children. Unlike Seon-hee, a hidden master in martial arts, and plain Soo-ah, Hyeon-jeong is pretty and a model student at school. While they want to lead an ordinary student's life, the Yeonso...

A documentary about the confluence of Christianity and mixed martial arts, including ministries which train fighters. The film follows several pastors and popular fighters in their quest to reconcile their faith with a sport that many consider violen...

A kappa village is devastated by a large storm during festival preparations. With no fish in the river, the village is weakened. Kawatarou and his girlfriend head the mountains to find anything to bring back....

In a moment of anger in a grocery store in Lausanne, a father loses patience and disciplines his disobedient child. A shocked customer immediately intervenes to express her concern. Other customers join the conversation and the discussion soon turns ...

An East Indian man served 20 years in prison for standing up to racism. Upon his release, while attempting to reconcile with his son, he realizes the world has not changed. Dayton has been dealing with the same hate and discrimination from a local gr...

Undefeated street fighter Cole is challenged by young fighter Mitt. Everyone claims Mitt is stupid, but the arrogant Cole may not be as strong as everyone believes....

When an evil society sweeps through their town, three small time weed dealers known as the GRRL SCOUTS must untangle a vast conspiracy to save the world and keep the party going....

A documentary about men who engage in extreme combat to channel the rage within them. One of them, the singer Dan Bigras, became a filmmaker to tell us about his friends. For them, the ring acts as a metaphor for an internal battle....

A comedic short film following the plight of a collegiate prospect....

Cris and Jason are two policemen with two opposite personalities and philosophies-Cris is the epitome of the rare, near-extinct breed of honest cops while Jason is the basurero, the legman/front man who does the dirty work of his district's high offi...

Kla and Yod are two Muay Thai fighters during the Ayutthaya period. Yod has been conscripted to an outpost and is attacked by a mountain tribe and reported killed in action. Kla is devastated by the news and finds solace with Yod's wife, Saengchan. B...

Floyd Baer is failing a class. He thinks tutoring will help. But when his supposed saviors are revealed to be the front for a fight club, Floyd will have to literally fight for the grade....

Three selfish fishermen are in danger because of their great envy. And although fate has mercy on them, the men do not learn from it, but everything repeats itself. Estonian/Soviet animation short from 1966....

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Even in Japan, the ancient lifestyle of Uchi Deshi training is all but forgotten. However, a teenager from Tokyo discovers that it's alive and well in the American Deep South....

A Stack City-based outlaw motorcycle club The Steel Knights have lost a big deal from a Mexican cartel to rival the Lake Street Boyz gang. When two reckless members of the MC kill the cartel's liaison, the MC soon finds themselves fighting for surviv...

20 year old kickboxers from opposite ends of Miami, one rich one poor, battle for triumph in sport and their own identities in this coming-of-age action/drama....

Shadow, a once-promising boxer, finds it hard to readjust to civilian life after spending ten years in prison. Offered the chance to fight again...