American films about Kung Fu masters

List of the best American films about the masters of Kung Fu according to the audience: Kung Fu Jungle, Kung Fu Panda: Secrets of the Masters, Birth of the Dragon, The Paper Tigers, A Dog's Journey, A Perfect Pairing, An American Pickle, Dance Camp, Dead of Summer, Let's Kill Ward's Wife.

In the top there are new films of 2023, a plot description and trailers for films that have already been released.

Country
Markimdb: 6.4
Genreaction, thriller, crime
CountryChina, Hong Kong
Duration01:40

A martial arts instructor working at a police academy gets imprisoned after killing a man by accident. But when a vicious killer starts targeting martial arts masters, the instructor offers to help the police in return for his freedom.

Markimdb: 6.8
Genreaction, comedy, adventure, family, cartoon, short
CountryUSA
Duration00:21

Po and the Furious Five uncover the legend of three of kung fu's greatest heroes: Master Thundering Rhino, Master Storming Ox, and Master Croc.

Markimdb: 5.6
Genreaction, drama, biography
CountryUSA, China, Canada

Set against the backdrop of San Francisco’s Chinatown, this cross-cultural biopic chronicles Bruce Lee’s emergence as a martial-arts superstar after his legendary secret showdown with fellow martial artist Wong Jack Man.

Markimdb: 6.3
Genreaction, comedy
CountryUSA

Three Kung Fu prodigies have grown into washed-up, middle-aged men, now one kick away from pulling their hamstrings. But when their master is murdered, they must juggle their dead-end jobs, dad duties, and old grudges to avenge his death.

Markimdb: 7.4
Genrefantasy, comedy, drama, adventure, family
CountryUSA, India, China, Hong Kong
Duration02:47

A dog finds the meaning of his own existence through the lives of the humans he meets.

Markimdb: 6.1
Genrecomedy, melodrama
CountryUSA

To land a major client, an LA wine exec travels to an Australian sheep station, where she signs on as a ranch hand and hits it off with a rugged local.

Markimdb: 5.7
Genrefantastic, comedy, drama
CountryUSA

An immigrant worker at a pickle factory is accidentally preserved for 100 years and wakes up in modern day Brooklyn. He learns his only surviving relative is his great grandson, a computer coder who he can’t connect with.

Markimdb: 3.8
Genrecomedy, drama, musical
CountryUSA

When Hunter gets sent to a dorky summer dance camp, he thinks he's about to have the worst summer of his life. But the quirky charm of the camp grows on him when he meets the passionate Cheyenne and joins her dance troupe to challenge the arrogant champion Lance in the camp’s Legends of Dance competition.

Markimdb: 6.1
Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, drama, detective
CountryUSA
Duration00:59

Set in the late 1980s, school is out for the summer, and a sun-drenched season of firsts beckons the counselors at Camp Clearwater, a seemingly idyllic Midwestern summer camp, including first loves, first kisses – and first kills. Clearwater’s dark, ancient mythology awakens, and what was supposed to be a summer of fun soon turns into one of unforgettable scares and evil at every turn.

Markimdb: 5.4
Genrethriller, comedy, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:22

Everyone hates Ward’s wife and wants her dead, Ward (Donald Faison) most of all. But when his friends’ murderous fantasies turn into an (accidental) reality, they have to deal with a whole new set of problems — like how to dispose of the body and still make their 3 p.m. tee time. Scott Foley's directorial debut, also starring Foley, Patrick Wilson, Amy Acker, and Nicolette Sheridan, is a blackly comic caper about helping a friend out of a bad relationship by any means necessary.

Markimdb: 5.3
Genrecomedy
CountryUSA

Spurred by a gun incident at a school, the women of one Texas town lead a movement to get rid of guns by withholding sex from their husbands.

Markimdb: 5.1
Genrecomedy, melodrama
CountryUSA
Duration01:43

The weeks leading up to a young couple's wedding is comic and stressful, especially as their respective fathers try to lay to rest their feud.

Markimdb: 4
Genremelodrama, drama
CountryRussia, USA
Duration02:14

Him and her. A husband and a wife staying in a cozy hotel where you can come for just a couple of days with a risk to get stuck forever. It is so easy to get trapped in the daily routine. Indeed, nothing is more permanent than the temporary. Their time is like a flat circle. He has his phone calls and business meetings. She is wrapped in her dreams and doubts. All reactions are predictable, all conversations are learnt by heart. An endless LP record of life keeps playing again and again repeating itself. But a few things can break this tune, like a scratch on the record, a crack on a wine glass, a sudden glance or a meeting with a stranger. And then you know: tomorrow will come soon. Any moment something can go wrong, throw you off course, and force you to make a choice.

Markimdb: 5.8
Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, fantasy, comedy, drama, detective, biography
CountryUSA
Duration01:29

A documentary filmmaker turns his lens on an enigmatic conspiracy theorist who claims he's found the entrance to a vast underground city populated entirely by monsters.

Markimdb: 6.3
Genrehorror, fantasy, comedy, adventure
CountryUSA
Duration01:57

A frustrated artist gets lost inside the cardboard fort he builds in his living room.

Markimdb: 5.2
Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
CountryUSA
Duration01:59

A homicide detective teams up with a criminal profiler to catch a serial killer whose crimes are inspired by the children's game, Hangman.

Markimdb: 6.1
Genrecomedy, melodrama
CountryUSA, Canada

Veterinarian Dr. Carly Monroe makes it a habit to stop by the local dog shelter as often as possible because she loves dogs and secretly loves the shelter’s owner, Dan. Unfortunately, he has agreed to marry his glamorous TV personality girlfriend and move to the Big Apple. With Dan’s big move looming, his sister decides to take matters into her own hands.

Markimdb: 6.2
Genrecomedy, drama, adventure
CountryUSA, Canada
Duration01:43

Three fanatical bird-watchers spend an entire year competing to spot the highest number of species as El Nino sends an extraordinary variety of rare breeds flying up into the U.S., but they quickly discover that there are more important things than coming out on top of the competition

Markimdb: 5.1
Genrehorror, thriller
CountryUSA
Duration02:20

A psychiatrist tries to put her life back together after a violent attack by seeking to repair the life of a new patient, but he has his own terrifying history.

Markimdb: 7.2
Genremelodrama, drama
CountryAustralia, USA
Duration02:23

An adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's Long Island-set novel, where Midwesterner Nick Carraway is lured into the lavish world of his neighbor, Jay Gatsby. Soon enough, however, Carraway will see through the cracks of Gatsby's nouveau riche existence, where obsession, madness, and tragedy await.

Markimdb: 5.7
Genrethriller, comedy, drama, crime
CountryUnited Kingdom, USA

An overlooked pencil-pusher catches her husband in bed with another woman, the shock of which causes him to die of a heart attack. So she buries his body and takes advantage of the growing celebrity status that comes from having a missing husband. But she quickly finds herself in over her head, dodging cops and criminals, all while trying to keep the truth from her sister, a local news anchor who’s desperate for a story.

Markimdb: 2.6
Genrethriller
CountryUSA

A young hacker creates an "antisocial" networking app that matches enemies instead of friends. When her enemies start turning up dead, she must uncover who or what is behind it before it's too late

Markimdb: 5.7
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUSA
Duration02:41

It's Hollywood, 1958. Small town beauty queen and devout Baptist virgin Marla Mabrey, under contract to the infamous Howard Hughes, arrives in Los Angeles. At the airport, she meets her driver Frank Forbes, who is engaged to be married to his seventh grade sweetheart and is a deeply religious Methodist. Their instant attraction not only puts their religious convictions to the test, but also defies Hughes' number one rule: No employee is allowed to have any relationship whatsoever with a contract actress. Hughes' behavior intersects with Marla and Frank in very separate and unexpected ways, and as they are drawn deeper into his bizarre world, their values are challenged and their lives are changed.

Markimdb: 6
Genrecomedy, drama, family
CountryUSA
Duration01:26

A series of mishaps threaten a recently divorced mom's attempts to make her two kids' first Christmas "without dad" perfect.

Markimdb: 4.7
Genrecomedy
CountryUSA

When a super girly-girl is dumped by her boyfriend; she decides to do everything she can to get him back by building a college gymnastics team, quickly learning that she is capable of a lot more than just getting an MRS degree.

Markimdb: 5.4
Genrecomedy, drama, family
CountryUSA
Duration01:22

After a breakup with her boyfriend, a young woman moves in with her older brother, his wife, and their 2-year-old son.

Markimdb: 6.7
Genredocumentary
CountryUSA
Duration01:06

The Xbox Originals documentary that chronicles the fall of the Atari Corporation through the lens of one of the biggest mysteries of all time, dubbed “The Great Video Game Burial of 1983.” Rumor claims that millions of returned and unsold E.T. cartridges were buried in the desert, but what really happened there?

Markimdb: 5.1
Genrecomedy, biography
CountryUSA
Duration02:32

Gary Faulkner is an ex-con, unemployed handyman, and modern day Don Quixote who receives a vision from God telling him to capture Osama Bin Laden. Armed with only a single sword purchased from a home-shopping network, Gary travels to Pakistan to complete his mission. While on his quest, Gary encounters old friends back home in Colorado, the new friends he makes in Pakistan, the enemies he makes at the CIA - and even God and Osama themselves.

Markimdb: 4.9
Genrecomedy
CountryUSA
Duration01:36

After he flunks a fertility test, a man realizes that the only way he can get his wife pregnant is by robbing a sperm bank to take back the last of the deposits he made there years earlier.

Markimdb: 6.3
Genrecomedy, drama, detective
CountryUSA
Duration01:37

An uptight documentary filmmaker and his wife find their lives loosened up a bit after befriending a free-spirited younger couple.

Markimdb: 4.4
Genrecomedy, melodrama
CountryUSA
Duration01:37

Teenager Rick Stevens is willing to do whatever it takes to win the heart of Nina Pennington. He'll have to deal with his best friend's horny mom, a drug abusing boss and even the mob if he ever hopes to land the girl of his dreams. Love is never easy!

Markimdb: 8.2
Genredrama, musical, music
CountryUSA
Duration02:31

In 1977 New York City, the talented and soulful youth of the South Bronx chase dreams and breakneck beats to transform music history.

Markimdb: 4
Genredrama
CountryUSA

Billy is the self-designated leader of a group of teenagers living in a shelter. Jacob and Rae, Billy's oldest childhood friends, live there as well as part of "the family". Billy has an AIDs-like virus, which he has passed on to his blood brother Jacob. Billy and Rae are boyfriend and girlfriend, much to the dismay of Jacob who has always loved Rae from afar. Billy's philosophy of life, and how that interfaces with having a deadly virus, comes to a head when Billy and Jacob compete in a very unique game of "Tag", with the future of Rae and "the family" dependent upon the outcome.

Markimdb: 5.3
Genreaction, thriller, adventure, crime
CountryUSA
Duration01:35

Nick Malloy portrays an Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) who finds himself caught in a deadly 12-round game of cat and mouse with a vigilante tied to the paramedic's past. With little time to spare and his wife's life hanging in the balance, the EMT must figure out why he's been chosen to be the pawn in this maniac's game before it's too late.

Markimdb: 6.6
Genrehorror, thriller
CountryUSA, Canada
Duration01:50

    The haunted Lambert family seeks to uncover the mysterious childhood secret that has left them dangerously connected to the spirit world.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genreaction, comedy, melodrama, adventure
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:49

      A fugitive couple goes on a glamorous and sometimes deadly adventure where nothing and no one – even themselves – are what they seem. Amid shifting alliances and unexpected betrayals, they race across the globe, with their survival ultimately hinging on the battle of truth vs. trust.

      Markimdb: 6.3
      Genrefantastic, fantasy, comedy
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:51

      Emily Locke lands her dream job as Director of Research and Development for Wayne Security in Charm City, home to super heroes and villains and citizens fed up with the collateral damage of their constant fighting.

      Markimdb: 6.3
      Genrefantasy, drama, crime
      CountryUSA

      A girl with unusual powers escapes from a mental asylum and tries to make it on her own in New Orleans.

      Markimdb: 7.2
      Genreaction, thriller, comedy, adventure, crime, detective
      CountryUSA, France
      Duration01:55

        An FBI agent and an Interpol detective track a team of illusionists who pull off bank heists during their performances and reward their audiences with the money.

        Markimdb: 7.5
        Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:27

        Patrick returns to San Francisco for the first time in almost a year to celebrate a momentous event with his old friends. In the process, he must face the unresolved relationships he left behind and make difficult choices about what’s important to him.

        Markimdb: 5.2
        Genrethriller, drama, detective
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:24

        Samantha Holt had the perfect life with a handsome fiancée and a future that couldn’t look brighter. But an unexpected turn on a dark lonely road puts her on a collision course with Bruce Miller, a devoted family man who descends into madness when he loses everything he ever cared about. One year later, Bruce decides to give Samantha the punishment he believes she escaped. Samantha has struggled with her own demons since that fateful night, and Bruce will take her struggles to the edge when he implements a demented plan to teach her a twisted lesson that may cost her the ultimate price.

        Markimdb: 3.9
        Genrehorror, thriller, drama
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:07

        A mother and her young son release unimaginable horrors from the attic of their rural dream home.

        Markimdb: 8.1
        Genredrama, biography, sport
        CountryUnited Kingdom, Germany, USA
        Duration02:03

        A biographical drama centered on the rivalry between Formula 1 drivers James Hunt and Niki Lauda during the 1976 Formula One motor-racing season.

        Markimdb: 6
        Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:09

        Desperate for a good story, a sex-addicted journalist throws himself into the world of high-class escorts when he starts following a Stanford-educated prostitute.

        Markimdb: 5.3
        Genrehorror, thriller, detective
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:28

        A police officer and a psychologist investigate the deaths of five people who were killed while trying to summon ghosts.

        Markimdb: 5.8
        Genredrama
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:20

        When the situation at her idyllic Palos Verdes home turns volatile, young Medina attempts to surf her way to happiness.

        Markimdb: 6.4
        Genrefantastic, action, comedy, adventure, family, cartoon
        CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Denmark
        Duration01:11

        Joker teams up with Lex Luthor to destroy the world one brick at a time. It's up to Batman, Superman and the rest of the Justice League to stop them.

        Markimdb: 5.1
        Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:01

        Based on true events, The Wannabe, a story about Thomas, a man obsessed with Mafia culture during the 1990s in New York City. When Thomas’s failed attempts to fix the trial of infamous mobster John Gotti gets him rejected by the people he idolizes most, he sets off on a drug infused crime spree with his girlfriend and longtime mob groupie, Rose, by brazenly robbing the local Mafia hangouts.

        Markimdb: 7.6
        Genrethriller, drama, biography, history
        CountryUSA

        A tenacious attorney uncovers a dark secret that connects a growing number of unexplained deaths due to one of the world's largest corporations. In the process, he risks everything — his future, his family, and his own life — to expose the truth.

        Markimdb: 6.4
        Genrecomedy, drama
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:30

        When Danielle is banished to special education because of her misbehavior, she joins Clarke on a road trip to discover themselves.




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