Movies like New Jack City

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New Jack City (1991)
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New Jack City (1991)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A gangster, Nino, is in the Cash Money Brothers, making a million dollars every week selling crack. A cop, Scotty, discovers that the only way to infiltrate the gang is to become a dealer himself.
Style: hood, stylized, suspense, harsh, intense, serious, tense, captivating, neo noir, cult classic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: organized crime, gang war, ghetto, gangster, drug, hip hop, mafia, gang, betrayal, chase, urban, addiction, drug dealing, african american, drug lord, urban ghetto, black, friendship, african american gangster, violence, drug addiction, gangsta, rise and fall, life is a bitch, ambition ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, 90s, 1990s
Place: harlem, new york, usa, america, turkey, manhattan new york city, california ...
Keyword: gangsters, american, compilation, partners, retrospective, buddy movie

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Most similar movies to New Jack City

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, rough, realistic and suspenseful films with plots about murder, violence, gangster, police, blood splatter, shot to death and revenge mostly in Crime, Drama and Thriller genres. Some movies like New Jack City: Boyz n the Hood (1991), American Gangster (2007), Scarface (1983), Sugar Hill (1993), Blood In, Blood Out (1993). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Boyz n the Hood (1991)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Boyz n the Hood is the popular and successful film and social criticism from John Singleton about the conditions in South Central Los Angeles where teenagers are involved in gun fights and drug dealing on a daily basis.
Style: disturbing, tense, hood, cult classic, bleak ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: hip hop, ghetto, african american, poverty, gang, urban ghetto life, street gang, juvenile delinquency, rapper, coming of age, black, african american gangster ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, 80s, year 1991, year 1984
Place: los angeles, california, america, south central los angeles, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
American Gangster (2007)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 157 min.
Story: Following the death of his employer and mentor, Bumpy Johnson, Frank Lucas establishes himself as the number one importer of heroin in the Harlem district of Manhattan. He does so by buying heroin directly from the source in South East Asia and he ...
Style: serious, tense, realistic, suspense, harsh ...
Audience: manly, boys' night, adult
Plot: organized crime, mafia, gangster, mob boss, heroin, drug lord, mobster, police, violence, crime boss, drug traffic, gang ...
Time: 60s, 70s, year 2007, 20th century, year 1970 ...
Place: new york, new jersey, vietnam, china, cuba ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 8.3
 909K
Scarface (1983)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 170 min.
Story: After getting a green card in exchange for assassinating a Cuban government official, Tony Montana stakes a claim on the drug trade in Miami. Viciously murdering anyone who stands in his way, Tony eventually becomes the biggest drug lord in the ...
Style: serious, cult classic, exciting, rough, suspense ...
Audience: manly, date night, boys' night, adult
Plot: gangster, mafia, organized crime, gunfight, drug lord, mob boss, drug cartel, drug dealing, cocaine, drug abuse, ambition, violence ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1983, year 1980
Place: miami, cuba, miami beach, florida, bolivia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
 5.8
 5K
Sugar Hill (1993)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story: In the Harlem neighborhood of New York City, the Mafia steps in when a drug dealer quits his partner brother to lead a straight life with his girlfriend.
Style: hood, serious, suspenseful, tense, realistic ...
Plot: urban, drug dealing, black, gang, going straight, urban ghetto, juvenile delinquency, life is a bitch, addiction, siblings relations, drug abuse, gangster ...
Time: 90s, year 1993
Place: usa, harlem, new york, harlem, new york city, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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Blood In, Blood Out (1993)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 180 min.
Story: Based on the true life experiences of poet Jimmy Santiago Baca, the film focuses on half-brothers Paco and Cruz, and their bi-racial cousin Miklo. It opens in 1972, as the three are members of an East L.A. gang known as the "Vatos Locos", ...
Style: intense, entertaining, bad ending, realistic, serious ...
Plot: gang, prison gang, prison, street gang, drug abuse, ghetto, drug addiction, violence spree, destiny, jail, police shootout, survival ...
Time: 20th century, year 1993, 90s, 70s, 80s
Place: los angeles, california, usa, panama, beverly hills ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.2
 8K
SuperFly (2018)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Career criminal Youngblood Priest wants out of the Atlanta drug scene, but as he ramps up sales, one little slip up threatens to bring the whole operation down before he can make his exit.
Style: suspense, hood, captivating, disturbing, exciting ...
Plot: money, african american, police, driving, corruption, cocaine, car chase, drug, deception, betrayal, drinking, urban ...
Time: 2010s
Place: montenegro, birmingham alabama, el paso texas, miami, atlanta georgia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
 7.0
 30K
Juice (1992)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Four Harlem friends -- Bishop, Q, Steel and Raheem -- dabble in petty crime, but they decide to go big by knocking off a convenience store. Bishop, the magnetic leader of the group, has the gun. But Q has different aspirations. He wants to be a DJ ...
Style: hood, cult classic, tense, social, neo noir ...
Audience: teens
Plot: urban ghetto life, hip hop, coming of age, gang, friendship, african american gangster, ghetto, african american, teenager, black, urban, gangster ...
Time: year 1992, 90s
Place: new york, harlem, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
 6.3
 14K
Trespass (1992)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Two Arkansas firemen, Vince and Don, get hold of a map that leads to a cache of stolen gold in an abandoned factory in East St. Louis. What they don't know is that the factory is in the turf of a local gang, who come by to execute one of their ...
Style: exciting, tense, rough, bleak, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: treasure hunt, gangster, murder, revenge, drug dealing, chase, hip hop, violence, ghetto, partner, danger, rivalry ...
Time: 90s
Place: usa, illinois, arkansas, st. louis missouri
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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Brooklyn's Finest (2009)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 132 min.
Story: Enforcing the law within the notoriously rough Brownsville section of the city and especially within the Van Dyke housing projects is the NYPD's sixty-fifth precinct. Three police officers struggle with the sometimes fine line between right and ...
Style: tense, realistic, suspense, neo noir, hood ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: corrupt cop, police corruption, police, corruption, organized crime, rookie, nypd, dirty cop, betrayal, swat team, robbery, murder ...
Time: year 2010, year 2009, 21st century
Place: new york, brooklyn new york city, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
 6.7
 30K
Colors (1988)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: A confident young cop is shown the ropes by a veteran partner in the dangerous gang-controlled barrios of Los Angeles, where the gang culture is enforced by the colors the members wear.
Style: realistic, hood, psychological, serious, exciting ...
Plot: police, gangster, gang, ghetto, hip hop, buddy cop, gunfight, chase, mafia, cop, urban, gang war ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: california, los angeles, usa, venice beach california, south central los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Boiling Point (1993)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Red is an aging scam-artist who's just been released from prison together with Ronnie, a young and not-so-bright hoodlum who is easily manipulated. Their new business is to organize fake-money sales and then kill the buyer to take his money; ...
Style: suspense, exciting, neo noir, suspenseful, tense ...
Audience: manly, boys' night
Plot: undercover cop, murder, organized crime, prison, redemption, revenge, vengeance, investigation, undercover, tough heroes, working undercover, master criminal ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: california, los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Never Die Alone (2004)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A drug kingpin's return home touches off a turf war.
Style: hood, tense, serious, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gangster, manhunt, addiction, ghetto, redemption, murder, interracial relations, journalism, criminal heroes, rise and fall, dishonesty, life is a bitch ...
Time: year 2004, 2000s
Place: usa, detroit, los angeles, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Menace II Society (1993)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Menace II Society is a coming of age tale detailing the summer after its protagonist Caine (Tyrin Turner) graduates from high school. This is Caine's story, which details real life in today's tough inner city.
Style: bleak, realistic, stylized, tense, hood ...
Audience: teens, teen drama, adult
Plot: hip hop, ghetto, african american, urban ghetto life, murder, police brutality, coming of age, street gang, friendship, organized crime, gangsta, gunfight ...
Time: 90s, year 1993, 20th century, 70s
Place: california, los angeles, usa, south central los angeles, north america
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Deep Cover (1992)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: The black policeman Russell Stevens applies for a special anti-drug squad which targets the highest boss of cocaine delivery to LA: the Colombian foreign minister's nephew. Russell works his way up from the bottom undercover, until he reaches ...
Style: neo noir, suspenseful, tense, suspense, hood ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: police investigation, gangster, brutality, drug, murder, drug addiction, undercover, racial slur, undercover cop, black, urban, betrayal ...
Time: year 1992, 90s, 70s, year 1972
Place: los angeles, ohio, cleveland ohio
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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The Specialist (1994)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: May Munro is a woman obsessed with getting revenge on the people who murdered her parents when she was still a girl. She hires Ray Quick, a retired explosives expert to kill her parent's killers. When Ned Trent, embittered ex-partner of ...
Style: suspense, suspenseful, tense, serious, stylized ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: assassination, hitman, sex scene, haunted by the past, organized crime, rivalry, danger, assassin, spy, vengeance, revenge, erotica ...
Time: year 1994, 90s, 20th century, year 1984, 80s
Place: miami, florida, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
10 to Midnight (1983)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Based on the real-life Richard Speck murders, amoral, nearly psychotic killer Warren Stacey (Gene Davis) is a serial killer who has murdered a number of women; he stabs them while they are naked to minimize leaving any physical evidence. Police ...
Style: cult classic, grindhouse, slasher, detective, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: vigilante, male nudity, murder, serial killer, revenge, sex maniac, red light district, serial rape, criminal, vigilantism, psychopath, nudity ...
Time: 80s, year 1983
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 3K
Sex and Fury (1973)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Sex & Fury chronicles Ocho's exploits as she searches for her father's killers, each identified by unique tattoos on their backs (a deer, a boar, and a butterfly). Along the way, she also crosses paths with Shonusuke, a radical set on ...
Style: grindhouse, erotic, sensual, cult classic, crime drama ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: yakuza, female yakuza, nun, martial arts, revenge, sexploitation, murder, exploitation, erotica, forced sex, bondage, gambler ...
Time: 1900s, 19th century, 1880s
Place: japan, asia, tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.6
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Mahaan (2022)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 163 min.
Story: A man's family leaves him when he strays from the path of ideological living in his search for personal freedom. However, as he realizes his ambitions, he also misses the presence of his son in his life. Having fulfilled his dream of becoming a ...
Style: surprise ending, cult classic, independent film, epic, masterpiece
Plot: violence, friendship, gangster, mafia, revenge, father son relationship, fight, gang, mob boss, crime family, patriarch, brutality ...
Time: 2020s, 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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The Principal (1987)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Burglary. Drugs. Assault. Rape. The students at Brandel High are more than new Principal Rick Latimer bargained for. Gangs fight to control the school using knives - even guns - when they have to. When Latimer and the head of security try to clean ...
Style: feel good, hood, realistic, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens, manly
Plot: teacher, high school, youth gang, vigilante, vigilantism, gang, mentor, gangster, ghetto, chase, urban, teenager ...
Time: 80s, year 1987
Place: oakland california
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Last Boy Scout (1991)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: When the girl that detective Joe Hallenback is protecting gets murdered, the boyfriend of the murdered girl (ex-football player Jimmy Dix) attempts to investigate and solve the case. What they discover is that there is deep seated corruption going ...
Style: suspense, neo noir, action comedy, funny, intense ...
Audience: manly, boys' night
Plot: stripper, buddy, american football, football, reluctant partners, private detective, murder, corruption, buddy cop, strip club, conspiracy, ex law enforcer ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: los angeles, usa, cleveland ohio
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
King of New York (1990)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A former drug lord returns from prison determined to wipe out all his competition and distribute the profits of his operations to New York's poor and lower classes in this stylish and ultra violent modern twist on Robin Hood.
Style: neo noir, atmospheric, hood, intense, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gang, organized crime, drug lord, mob boss, gangster, murder, chase, violence, african american gangster, cocaine, drug, urban ...
Time: year 1990, 20th century, 80s, 90s
Place: new york, italy, usa, bronx new york city, manhattan new york city
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18%
 6.4
 60K
Live by Night (2016)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story: A story set in the Prohibition Era and centered around a group of individuals and their dealings in the world of organized crime.
Style: neo noir, stylized, period piece, captivating, exciting ...
Audience: teens
Plot: organized crime, prohibition, chase, mafia, revenge, betrayal, criminal, friendship, murder, police, gangster, death ...
Time: 1920s, year 2016, 2010s, 1930s
Place: florida, boston, massachusetts, america, miami ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Point of Impact (1993)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Jack Davis is a tough, outspoken cop who finds himself wrongly accused for the death of a fellow agent by the depraved and power hungry chief of Miami Customs, Martin Cullen. Disgraced and dismissed, Jack swears revenge and goes to work for Roberto ...
Style: suspense, erotic, independent film, realistic, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: bodyguard, passionate sex, extramarital affair, older woman younger man relationship, death, revenge, partner, loss of partner, danger, nudity, sex scene, adultery ...
Time: 90s
Place: miami, florida, cuba
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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 6.2
 20K
Ricochet (1991)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: An attorney is terrorized by the criminal he put away years ago when he was a cop.
Style: exciting, serious, rough, suspenseful, psychotronic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: psychopath, on the run, law enforcement, false accusation, murder, frame up, friendship, rivalry, haunted by the past, career, dishonesty, african american ...
Time: 80s
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
 5.0
 11K
Proud Mary (2018)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Mary is a hit woman working for an organized crime family in Boston, whose life is completely turned around when she meets a young boy whose path she crosses when a professional hit goes bad.
Style: suspense, tense, captivating, exciting, retro ...
Audience: adult
Plot: female warrior, female assassin, gangster, revenge, female killer, female protagonist, murder, death, one woman army, black, violence, strong female lead ...
Time: 2010s
Place: massachusetts, boston
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
 6.6
 42K
The Informer (2019)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada, USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: In New York, former convict Pete Koslow, related to the Polish mafia, must deal with both Klimek the General, his ruthless boss, and the twisted ambitions of two federal agents, as he tries to survive and protect the lives of his loved ones…
Style: suspense, suspenseful, psychological, rough, thought provoking ...
Plot: prison, organized crime, police, prison gang, violence, murder, kidnapping, betrayal, danger, brutality, ex convict, dishonesty ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: manhattan new york city, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 6.8
 68K
Harsh Times (2005)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Jim Davis is an ex-Army Ranger who finds himself slipping back into his old life of petty crime after a job offer from the LAPD evaporates. His best friend is pressured by his girlfriend Sylvia to find a job, but Jim is more interested in hanging ...
Style: tense, bleak, intense, hood, serious ...
Plot: drug, violence, corruption, transformation, gangster, addiction, depression, culture clash, redemption, street gang, lapd, weed ...
Time: year 2005, 21st century
Place: los angeles, mexico, colombia, latin america, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 6.3
 12K
Hoodlum (1997)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story: In 1934, the second most lucrative business in New York City was running "the numbers". When, Madam Queen, the powerful woman who runs the scam in Harlem, is arrested. Ellsworth "Bumpy" Johnson takes over the business and must ...
Style: hood, stylized, black and white, neo noir, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: mafia, organized crime, mobster, african american, gangster, black, gangsta, black history, urban, corruption, gunfight, death ...
Time: 1930s, 90s, 20th century
Place: harlem, new york, israel, illinois, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 5.0
 341
Deadly Target (1994)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A Chinese gangster in Los Angeles escapes on the eve of his deportation to Hong Kong. A martial-arts master detective and his ragtag team get caught up in the action as they track down this ruthless killer.
Style: suspense, independent film, serious, suspenseful, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, triad, cop, gangster, gang, chinese mafia, heroes, law enforcement, missing person, chases and races, rivalry, tough heroes ...
Time: 90s
Place: los angeles, usa, hong kong, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
17%
Internal Affairs (1990)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Keen young Raymold Avila joins the Internal Affairs Department of the Los Angeles police. He and partner Amy Wallace are soon looking closely at the activities of cop Dennis Peck whose financial holdings start to suggest something shady. Indeed Peck ...
Style: suspense, neo noir, suspenseful, intense, atmospheric ...
Plot: police corruption, internal affairs, corrupt cop, police investigation, corruption, manipulation, psychopath, police, abusive husband, rivalry, law enforcement, dishonesty ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, 90s
Place: los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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