Best Fighting Movies

Of course, every person who does not have any psychological disorders prefers to sit down and discuss it calmly instead of making their fists talk. However, martial arts are not a fight where you try to beat anyone who comes your way. Thanks to fighting movies, this sport branch, most of which has an ancient history of thousands of years, can be intimate and sometimes we plunge into action-packed scenes by putting ourselves in the place of the character.

Even if Netflix and similar platforms have produced successful productions on new generation fighting movies, legendary productions have a special place for everyone. These films, some of which entered our lives as long-running series, can be evaluated in different genres in terms of the subjects they have, even if they are gathered under the same title. Let’s take a closer look at the best fighting movies according to IMDb scores and briefly the stories they offer to the audience.

Best fighting movies according to IMDb ratings:

• warrior
• Ip Man
• Serbuan Maut
• Jui Kuen series
• Undisputed series
• Rocky series
• Creed series
• Kuro-obi
• Mr. nice guy
• The Karate Kid series
• Kill Bill series

More than sibling rivalry: Warrior

• Year: 2011
• Genre: Action, Drama, Sports
• Director: Gavin O’Connor
• Cast: Tom Hardy, Nick Nolte, Joel Edgerton
• IMDb: 8.2

We are watching the story of two brothers in the movie Warrior, in which the beloved actor Tom Hardy captivated the audience with his performance. The martial arts master son of a former boxer, now an alcoholic, enters a tournament. His opponent in the tournament is his brother, whom he has not seen for a long time. The fight of the two brothers in the ring also turns into a fight where the dust of the past is shaken.

A historical invasion story: Ip Man

• Year: 2008
• Genre: Action, Biography, Drama
• Director: Wilson Yip
• Cast: Donnie Yen, Simon Yam, Siu-Wong Fan
• IMDb: 8.0

Ip Man, where we had the chance to watch Far Eastern martial arts, takes place during the period when China invaded Japan. In this historical story, our character leaves his house due to the occupation and hits the road. When they come together with people who had to leave their homes like themselves, they will struggle to survive somehow.

Trapped cops: Serbuan Maut

• Year: 2011
• Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
• Director: Gareth Evans
• Cast: Iko Uwais, Ananda George, Ray Sahetapy
• IMDb: 7.6

One of the newest fighting movies on our list, Serbuan Maut tells an action-packed raid story every moment. A ruthless mafia boss is hiding in an apartment with his army of murderers. Raiding the building, the SWAT team unwittingly finds that they have fallen into a trap. The only thing to do from this watch is to make the fists talk.

Golden Fist shines: Jui Kuen series

• Year: 1978 – 1994
• Genre: Action, Comedy
• Director: Chia-Liang Liu, Jackie Chan
• Cast: Jackie Chan, Ho-Sung Pak, Lung Ti
• IMDb: 7.5

The Jui Kuen series, published in our country under the name Golden Fist, actually consists of two films, but thanks to the film, it is possible to encounter this name, which Jackie Chan won, in many films. The Accidental Spy, released in 2001 in our country as Golden Fist in Istanbul, offers an adventure full of action and comedy, just like the other films in the series.

Yuri Boyka is undefeated: Undisputed series

• Year: 2002 – 2016
• Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
• Director: Isaac Florentine
• Cast: Scott Adkins, Mykel Shannon Jenkins, Mark Ivanir
• IMDb: 7.4

You may not have understood which movie we are talking about when you say Undisputed series, which consists of four movies and published under the name of Invincible in our country, but if you are a fighting movie lover, the name Yuri Boyka will surely sound familiar. Throughout the series, the character of Yuri Boyka fights tirelessly and gives the audience hours of action.

A true legend: the Rocky series

• Year: 1976 – 20016
• Genre: Action, Drama, Sports
• Director: Sylvester Stallone
• Cast: Sylvester Stallone, Antonio Tarver, Milo Ventimiglia
• IMDb: 7.1

We are watching the story of a boxer named Rocky Balboa in the five-film Rocky series, the first movie of which was released in 1976. Making the name of Sylvester Stallone a true legend in both the world of cinema and action, our character faces a new opponent in each movie of the series and uses both his fists and his heart to defeat him.

The legend is no longer in the ring: the Creed series

• Year: 2015 – 2023
• Genre: Drama, Sports
• Director: Steven Caple Jr.
• Cast: Michael B. Jordan, Sylvester Stallone, Tessa Thompson
• IMDb: 7.1

In the Creed series, which we can consider as the continuation of the Rocky series, this time our legendary boxer is behind the ropes as a teacher, not in the ring. Adonis Johnson Creed is a young man who dreams of becoming a boxer, but does not put in enough effort. Starting to work with his father’s friend, former champion Rocky Balboa, will open the doors of a new era in his life.

Don’t forget your education: Kuro-obi

• Year: 2007
• Genre: Action, Drama, Sports
• Director: Shunichi Nagasaki
• Cast: Akihito Yagi, Tatsuya Naka, Yuji Suzuki
• IMDb: 6.9

We follow the story of three students of a martial arts master in the movie Kuro-obi, which was released in the world as Black Belt. These students joined the army at the time and then went on different paths. When they come together after years of injustice, they remember everything they learned in the past and start to fight shoulder to shoulder.

He didn’t look like that at all: Mr. nice guy

• Year: 1997
• Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy
• Director: Sammo Kam-Bo Hung
• Cast: Jackie Chan, Richard Norton, Miki Lee
• IMDb: 6.2

A comedy full of misunderstandings, Mr. Nice Guy, as the name suggests, tells the story of a kind man. Our character, a Chinese chief, seizes the tape of a mafia as a result of a chain of coincidences. After chasing the mafia, he is forced to use the martial arts he is actually a master of and tries to do justice.

A story handed down from generation to generation: The Karate Kid series

• Year: 1984 – 2010
• Genre: Action, Family, Sports
• Director: John G. Avildsen
• Cast: Pat Morita, Ralph Macchio, Pat E. Johnson
• IMDb: 6.1

The original The Karate Kid series is three films made in 1984, 1986 and 1989. In 1994, The Next Karate Kid, about a young girl’s adventure in learning karate, was made. In 2010, the series was crowned with the movie in which we watched the legendary actor Jackie Chan as a master. Throughout the series, we follow the story of a young man who has nothing to do with karate, turning into a fighter step by step.

Such is revenge: the Kill Bill series

• Year: 2003 – 2004
• Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
• Director: Quentin Tarantino
• Cast: Uma Thurman, Sonny Chiba, Lucy Liu
• IMDb: 8.2

Quentin Tarantino, the extraordinary name of the cinema world, is in the director’s chair of the two-film Kill Bill series, which we have been waiting for years for his new movie to come. Our character, who experienced the worst moment of his life on his wedding day, swears revenge when he regains consciousness. Our character, who has become a master fighter thanks to the training he has received, will no longer feel sorry for anyone and will take a terrible revenge on those who hurt him.

And a must: Fight Club

• Year: 1999
• Genre: Drama
• Director: David Fincher
• Cast: Brad Pitt, Edward Norton, Helena Bonham Carter
• IMDb: 8.8

David Fincher is in the director’s chair of the movie Fight Club, which is adapted from the novel of the same name by Chuck Palahniuk, the master of underground literature. The movie, which has a multi-layered story, begins with the character of Jack meeting Tyler Durden. Things get complicated when a woman named Marla is included in the story, but the real event reaches its peak with the establishment of Fight Club, which has a system that is far from martial arts.

We briefly talked about the stories they presented to the audience by listing the best fighting movies according to IMDb scores, which you can not get enough of watching every second of action. Of course, this list could have been much longer. You can share the fighting movies you want to be on our list in the comments.