Is there room for principle in Los Angeles? Mike Terry teaches jujitsu and barely makes ends meet. His Brazilian wife, whose family promotes fights, wants to see Mike in the ring making money, but to him competition is degrading. A woman sideswipes Mike's car and then, after an odd sequence of events, shoots out the studio's window. Later that evening, Mike rescues an action movie star in a fistfight at a bar. In return, the actor befriends Mike, gives him a gift, offers him work on his newest film, and introduces Mike's wife to his own - the women initiate business dealings. Then, things go sour all at once, Mike's debts mount, and going into the ring may be his only option.

A corrupt town official and his equally corrupt sheriff blow up the farm of Ruben Rocha in order to seize the property. Fortunately, Ruben Rocha is the uncle of five world-class jiu jitsu experts. And boy are they mad.

One hundred mid- and low-level gangsters who are on their boss' bad side are locked inside a newly-built high-security prison, and given plenty of guns, ammo, and baseball bats, then told that the last survivor will get a suitcase with 10 million dollars.

A passenger train has been hijacked by an electronics expert and turned into an untraceable command center for a weapons satellite. He has planned to blow up Washington DC and only one man can stop him, former Navy SEAL Casey Ryback.

A kickboxing champion is forced to fight cyborgs in a tournament when the company kidnaps his fiancee.

David Sloan must travel to Mexico to save his wife from a savage international terrorist.

A barfly jazz pianist must commit murder in exchange for his drug debt to a crocked cop.