Dalton, un ancien combattant de l'UFC tente d'échapper à son sombre passé et à son penchant pour la violence. Il est repéré par Frankie, propriétaire d'un relais routier dans les Keys de Floride. Elle l'engage comme nouveau videur dans l'espoir d'empêcher un gang violent, travaillant pour le patron du crime Brandt, de détruire son bar bien-aimé.
Dalton est un talentueux videur de boîte de nuit adepte des arts martiaux, bachelier en philosophie et formé par le vétéran du métier, Wade Garrett. Il prend un poste au Double Deuce, discothèque malfamée de Jasper City dans le Missouri, afin d'y rétablir l'ordre. Il se rapproche rapidement d'Elizabeth Clay, une jeune docteure, et s'oppose à Brad Wesley, qui fait régner la peur sur la ville.
Xavier Laflamme, joueur vedette d'une équipe de hockey sur glace, a perdu tous ses repères suite à un échec sévère et une commotion cérébrale. Afin de lui permettre de retrouver ses moyens et sa touche magique, son entraineur engage Doug Glatt, un jeune videur dur à cuire, qui sera le castagneur de l'équipe avec pour mission de protéger Laflamme et de dégommer les adversaires. Une stratégie qui va les conduire vers les sommets.
Un ancien garde du corps qui enchaine les petits boulots de sécurité dans des boites de nuit pour élever sa fille de 8 ans se retrouve contraint de collaborer avec la police. Sa mission: infiltrer l’organisation d’un dangereux chef de gang flamand.
Un Australien solitaire apprend que la femme qu'il a autrefois aimée n'est pas morte, comme il le croyait. Il doit la tirer des griffes d'une organisation criminelle dans ce conte de fées moderne et violent.
10 years before the debut of the Ultimate Fighting Championship. In 1979, Bill Viola and Frank Caliguri dreamed up a contest pitting barroom bigmouths against wrestlers, martial artists, boxers, bouncers and brawlers, billed as no-holds-barred new type of competitive fighting. When the fights succeeded beyond their wildest expectations, they were swept up in a chain of events that ended in the first mixed-martial arts ban in the nation. “Tough Guys” chronicles the inception of Caliguri and Viola’s first bouts and the colorful, crazy cast of fighters who made them a hit as well as the politicians who brought it all crashing down. The film brings to life a moment when the national martial arts craze was building to a crescendo as the economies of Pennsylvania steel towns were plummeting to levels of unemployment never seen, breeding desperate men looking for a chance to prove their worth and make some money in the ring.
A seasoned bouncer is forced to deal with severe consequences after letting two minors slip into the nightclub, he's employed to guard.
Bruise Brubaker (Mr. T), “videur” dans une boite de nuit, est un ex-Marine du Viet Nam. Il s’occupe aujourd’hui d’un centre pour jeunes délinquants. mais il découvre que le centre va fermer ses portes, pour cause de manque d’argent. Il doit trouver 100 000 dollars. Sa seule chance est de participer à la compétition de "l'homme le plus fort du monde". Son adversaire est le poulain de la mafia de Chicago et ne veut pas lâcher son titre. Mais Bruise a la force et le droit pour armes, grâce auxquels il deviendra l'homme le plus fort du monde...
Quand une stripteaseuse est tuée, ses anciennes collègues de travail embauchent un garde du corps pour les protéger. Mais alors que la tension sexuelle ne cesse de grandir entre les différents protagonistes, le mystère du dangereux assassin lève le voile...
At the remote and hidden Shaolinji temple, Miyoko, also known as Shaolin Grandma , has practiced martial arts fighting techniques there for many years. When she is badly defeated by Ippon-ashi, her young and attractive rival, Miyoko is thrown out of the temple. Loosing her identity, Miyoko and her two Shaolinji apprentice misfits drift to an urban town.
Carl McFarlane quitte son Texas natal où il était champion de moto, pour faire fortune à Hollywood. Il trouve un emploi de videur dans une boite de nuit et découvre rapidement un trafic de drogue derrière la facade du night-club...
Steven Cantor's award-winning documentary chronicles of the lives of bouncers - the burly boys who guard both sides of the door in nightclubs across America. The film takes an inside look at the mindset of these frequently ridiculed, but always feared enforcers of the night and examines whether they are skilled experts in security, hired to anticipate trouble, or just hired thugs meant to intimidate. Revealed within is a world of notorious nightclub bouncers, including New York's Terence "The Black Prince" Buckley and British legend Lenny "The Guv'nor" McLean who appeared in "Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels" Written by Sujit R. Varma
When Werner Herzog was still a child, his father was beaten to death before his eyes. His mother was overwhelmed with his upbringing and thereupon shipped him off to one of the toughest youth welfare institutions in Freistatt. This was followed by a career as a bouncer in the city's most notorious music club and an attempt to start a family. Today, the 77-year-old from Bielefeld lives with his dog Lucky in a lonely house in the country. Despite adverse living conditions, he has survived in his own unique and inimitable way.
Shane MacQuade is a rising star in Hong Kong's underworld kickboxing rings... until he wins a fight he was supposed to lose. Framed for murder, running from both the Triad mob and the police, Shane escapes to America. There, a chance encounter with a professional hitman in the Nevada desert ends with Shane taking the man's identity and his life. Shane finds that the violent world he left behind in Hong Kong is too strong to escape. A crooked Las Vegas fight promoter and a stripper named Angelique draw him into a web of sex and murder that will test his martial arts skills to their limit and change his life forever.
Portraits of the bouncers of the Flamingo Club in Zurich.
Tom Maranta has been a 'bouncer' for years, but he has decided to give the toughs, pushers, pimps and prostitutes the flick. As he makes that decision, Pharoah, his bitter enemy, is released from prison for stabbing him in a bloody and vicious street fight three years earlier. After three years of sleepless nights and haunting nightmares, Tom realizes a showdown is inevitable and he enlists the help of a friend and together they are confronted by Pharoah and his army.
Libreville, Gabon, Afrique, 2016. Christ Olsen Mickala, un jeune boxeur, s'entraîne sans relâche le jour et gagne sa vie la nuit comme videur dans des boîtes de nuit. Au même moment, se déroule le combat des élections présidentielles. Alors que Christ espère réussir, tout un pays espère qu'une transition démocratique triomphe enfin.
Charlie is a refugee from South Sudan who works as a bouncer at a Melbourne pub. An altercation with a local man reveals that sometimes people have more in common with each other than is first apparent.
