European MA films

you guys ever see any European martial art films?

There's French combat systems like Savate (Kickboxing), La Canne (cane fighting), Baton fighting (sorta like Bo Staff) and of course there is "Fencing" with various swords. I wonder if any films were made to focus on European combat systems.

There is Fencing in alot of movies but I can't remember any that actually focus on techniques and training and stuff.

ROOTS OF EVIL, a Dutch kung fu movie. I'd love to see this one again. So bad its good. Was a staple on Black Belt Theater in the 1980s.

I have that film on DVD, Christian Anders plays Karate Teacher Frank Mertins, Deep Roy plays the midget mob boss/drug dealer who tries to take over his Karate School. Who can forget Roy as he gets it on with 3 women while the song Superman, Superman plays. :rollin

The recent-ish French film of Arsène Lupin has the hero using savate (his father is a savate teacher) although I don't know how genuine it is. The only other film I can remember seeing savate in is the Francois Truffaut classic Jules et Jim, where the title characters have one scene where they are sparring in their local club.

For fencing films there is the cheesy By the Sword, with F. Murray Abraham and Eric Roberts as fencing masters. There is also the Spanish film El Maestro de Esgrima (based on a novel by Arturo Perez-Revetre) which is sort of about fencing technique - the hero is a fencing master in 1880s Spain and someone is using his special technique to bump off important people just as he takes on a new and mysterious woman student. And I guess there are loads of films where fencing technique plays an incidental part, like the French film Le Bossu, where the hero learns a signature move where he stabs people through the forehead (great film btw).