Just pure fist-fighting here. I love many martial arts films, but I judged these mainly on the complexity and variety of the choreography, not on the level of action or even how much fun it was (not that these films aren't all a blast). There may be weapons fights in some of these selections, but these are films where hand to hand is the highlight. 

These are in no particular order.

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Nicolas Cage and Holly Hunter in Raising Arizona (1987)

Natalie Portman and Jean Reno in Léon: The Professional (1994)

Milla Jovovich in The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc (1999)

Justice Smith in I Saw the TV Glow (2024)

Erika Alexander, Tracee Ellis Ross, Jeffrey Wright, Sterling K. Brown, and Issa Rae in American Fiction (2023)

Jack Nicholson and Faye Dunaway in Chinatown (1974)

Terry Chen, Richard T. Jones, Eric Keenleyside, Sally Hawkins, and CJ Adams in Godzilla Minus One (2023)

Chris Hemsworth, Mariami Kovziashvili, and Marta Kovziashvili in Extraction II (2023)

Matthew McConaughey in Interstellar (2014)

Christopher Walken in Sleepy Hollow (1999)

Chevy Chase, Beverly D'Angelo, Dana Hill, and Jason Lively in National Lampoon's European Vacation (1985)

Dan Castellaneta in The Simpsons Movie (2007)

Burt Reynolds, Adam Sandler, Chris Rock, Bill Goldberg, Terry Crews, Nelly, Lobo Sebastian, Nicholas Turturro, Bob Sapp, Michael Irvin, and Dalip Singh in The Longest Yard (2005)

Michael Mann, Penélope Cruz, and Adam Driver in Ferrari (2023)

Will Ferrell and Kevin Hart in Get Hard (2015)

Robert De Niro, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Lily Gladstone in Killers of the Flower Moon (2023)

Tina Majorino, Haylie Duff, Efren Ramirez, Aaron Ruell, and Jon Heder in Napoleon Dynamite (2004)

Robert Downey Jr., Ben Stiller, and Jack Black in Tropic Thunder (2008)

Isla Fisher, Bill Hader, Danny McBride, Jorma Taccone, and Andy Samberg in Hot Rod (2007)

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