The best Jim Kelly’s movies

Jim Kelly

Jim Kelly

05/05/1946- 29/06/2013
We present our ranking of the best Jim Kelly’s movies. Do you love cinema? Or are you looking for a movie of your favorite actor to watch tonight? Surely you have some to see or that you did not know yet about Jim Kelly.
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Enter the Dragon

Enter the Dragon
7.6/10
  • Genre: Action
  • Release: 17/08/1973
  • Character: Williams
A martial artist agrees to spy on a reclusive crime lord using his invitation to a tournament there as cover.

Bruce Lee: The Man and the Legend

Bruce Lee: The Man and the Legend
6.3/10
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release: 14/10/1973
  • Character: Himself
This documentary tells the story of Bruce Lee and his unsuccessful efforts to start a acting career in the U.S., he returned to Hong Kong where he became an international star, and his death at age 32.

Three the Hard Way

Three the Hard Way
6.2/10
  • Genre: Action
  • Release: 26/06/1974
  • Character: Mister Keyes
The story involves a white supremist plot to taint the United States water supply with a toxin that is harmless to whites but lethal to blacks. The only obstacles that stand in the way of this dastardly plan are Jim Brown, Fred Williamson and Jim Kelly, who shoot, kick and karate chop their way to final victory.

Black Samurai

Black Samurai
4.7/10
Robert Sand, agent of D.R.A.G.O.N. (Defense Reserve Agency Guardian Of Nations), is playing tennis on his vacation with a beautiful black girl, when his commanding officers ask him to save a Chinese girl who happens to be Sand's girlfriend, and the daughter of a top Eastern Ambassador. The ransom for the abduction was the secret for a terrific new weapon - the freeze bomb.

Take a Hard Ride

Take a Hard Ride
5.7/10
After his cattle rancher boss dies, right-hand man Pike is given the job of returning $86,000 to some families who live across the border in Senora, Mexico. Honest Pike is joined on the trip through the wilderness by a dishonest gambler named Tyree

Death by Misadventure: The Mysterious Life of Bruce Lee

Death by Misadventure: The Mysterious Life of Bruce Lee
6.6/10
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release: 31/12/1993
  • Character: Himself
Death by Misadventure: The Mysterious Life of Bruce Lee exposes the truth behind Lee's death and the cover-up that ensued.

Hot Potato

Hot Potato
3.9/10
  • Genre: Action
  • Release: 09/04/1976
  • Character: Jones
Martial-arts expert tries to rescue an ambassador's daughter who was kidnapped in Thailand.

Golden Needles

Golden Needles
5.2/10
  • Genre: Action
  • Release: 17/07/1974
  • Character: Jeff
An ancient Asian statue with the power to grant health and long life via secret acupuncture points is being pursued by a wealthy criminal, but his plans are put in peril when a slovenly detective is tasked with protecting the relic.

Black Belt Jones

Black Belt Jones
6.2/10
  • Genre: ActionComedy
  • Release: 29/01/1974
  • Character: Black Belt Jones
Jones is a secret agent who has gone into semi-retirement, concentrating instead on teaching the martial arts to inner city youths. The karate school is run by a kindly old coot named Pops ,played by Scatman Crothers. His gambling debts, however, bring the local thug, Pinky, down on him. To make matters worse, Pinky is then hired by some white thugs who want to get a hold of the property Pops' school occupies so they can build a shopping mall. When things get heavy, Black Belt Jones leaps into action. Only he's not alone. Pops' daughter, Sidney, shows up to lend a hand, proving herself every bit as agile and powerful a martial artist as Jones.

Ultimatum

Ultimatum
5.9/10
  • Genre: Action
  • Release: 23/02/1994
  • Character: Executive
Dina Bonnevie played a Filipina working with a US-based chemical company which sent a team to the Philippines to check a branch here. Eddie Garcia played the Chief of Police assigned to protect the chemical company's visiting group which fell victim to a terrorist gang headed by Vernon Wells. Eddie was only too obsessed to save the chemical company group because Dina happened to be his girlfriend, who, against Eddie's wishes, had gone to the U.S.A. for greener pastures.

The Tattoo Connection

The Tattoo Connection
5.2/10
  • Genre: Action
  • Release: 27/07/1978
  • Character: Lucas
When a diamond is stolen in Hong Kong, the company insuring the diamond sends a former CIA agent to Hong Kong to retrieve it. Meanwhile, one of the thieves begins to have a change of heart because his girlfriend wants him to leave his criminal organization.

Mr. No Legs

Mr. No Legs
5/10
A double amputee known as Mr. No Legs oversees a drug syndicate while cavorting around in his double shotgun-equipped wheelchair. When one of the syndicate's drug dealers accidentally kills his own girlfriend—whose brother is a cop—after she announces plans to leave him, the game is on to bury the evidence, protect the syndicate and evade the long arm of the law.

Top Fighter

Top Fighter
6.2/10
Welcome to the world of the martial arts. A voyage for the times of the martial arts cinema, from the beginning in China in the 6th Century A.C. by a Buddhist monk, Bodhidharma, until the actual time and the influence in the world, with interviews to actors and historians, and a review to the most important movies of all times and to the most famous action movies actors. A magnificent jewel of this genre what nobody wouldn't lose.

Stranglehold

Stranglehold
4.8/10
  • Genre: Action
  • Release: 01/01/1994
  • Character: Executive #4
Deep inside the nation's top chemical weapons facility, a brilliant terrorist takes a Congresswoman hostage. The Navy can't stop him. The Air Force can't reach him. The Coast Guard can't kill him. Only one man can do the job: special agent Ryan Cooper. He's in a race against time to save the world, facing his greatest challenge yet!

Melinda

Melinda
5.8/10
A slick, smooth-talking, womanizing young black DJ falls hard for an enigmatic woman he's just met. Things take a turn for the worse, though, when she is found dead in his apartment. It turns out that she was killed by the local mob, which is trying to frame him for the crime. With the police after him, he calls on some of his old acquaintances to help clear his name and avenge the woman's death.

BaadAsssss Cinema

BaadAsssss Cinema
6.9/10
With archive film clips and interviews, this brief look at a frequently overlooked historical period of filmmaking acts as an introduction rather than a complete record. It features interviews with some of the genre's biggest stars, like Fred Williamson, Pam Grier, and Richard Roundtree. Director Melvin Van Peebles discusses the historical importance of his landmark film Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song. For a contemporary perspective, the excitable Quentin Tarantino offers his spirited commentary and author/critic bell hooks provides some scholarly social analysis.

Afro Ninja

Afro Ninja
4.3/10
This homage to martial arts legend Jim Kelly is based on a hugely successful YouTube video. Reggie's got a dead end job, a cruel boss, and no real prospects. Until he uncovers a pair of magic nun-chucks that gives him karate superpowers and set Reggie up for a battle with the evil Kung Fu Master.

Death Dimension

Death Dimension
4.3/10
The Pig has a plan to eradicate some people with a freeze bomb that instantly freezes people to death. It is up to Detective Ash to stop him and protect the woman with the secret to the ice bomb embedded in a microdot under the skin of her forehead.

Bruce Lee: In His Own Words

Bruce Lee: In His Own Words
6.7/10
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release: 01/07/1998
  • Character: Himself (archive footage)
A collection of old interviews with Bruce Lee show us his beliefs, thoughts on fighting and what martial arts means to him.

One Down, Two to Go

One Down, Two to Go
4.5/10
  • Genre: ActionCrime
  • Release: 19/11/1982
  • Character: Chuck
A pair of tough cops go after the mob who jinxed the martial arts tournament and injured their buddy.

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