Movies like The Return of Superfly
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The Return of Superfly (1990)
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
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Style:
retro
Plot:
blaxploitation, hip hop, hip hop culture, violence, cocaine, drug dealer, african american, corrupt cop, woman on top, bare breasts, telephone call, shotgun, exploding car, mini skirt, woman shot, interrupted sex, person in a car trunk, nude black woman
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, rough and suspenseful films with plots about blaxploitation, african american, black, violence, gangsters, murder and gun mostly in Drama, Action and Crime genres. Some movies like The Return of Superfly: The Messenger (1986), Crack (2000), No Way Back (1976), Death Journey (1976), Before I Self Destruct (2009). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA, Italy
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
When his girlfriend dies of a drug overdose, a former Green Beret decides to take vengeance on the drug gangs responsible for her death.
Plot:
blaxploitation, revenge, drug overdose, mafia, cocaine, green beret, african american, prostitute, restaurant, death, rape, sadism ...
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vietnam, chicago illinois, new york, las vegas, nevada ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Two buddies from the hood are forced to rob a mafia-backed crack house or go to prison.
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gunfight, murder, money, drugs, helicopter, gas mask, african american, robbery, violence, corrupt cop, female nudity, gore ...
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Crowder is a an unethical private detective in pursuit of a gangster who's after embezzled money.
Plot:
blaxploitation, private investigator, fight, private detective, prostitution, embezzlement, violence, betrayal, death, brutality, bank, gangsters ...
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story:
Fearful that their star witness might be murdered, two attorneys hire a protector to bring him from Los Angeles to New York. Jesse Crowder (Fred Williamson) is a no-nonsense tough guy. He buddies up with the witness, an accountant, and they hit the ...
Plot:
blaxploitation, exploitation, train, electrocution, african american, airport, car chase, witness, urban, knife attack, thrown from a train, ford mustang ...
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70%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
A coming of age story about an inner-city youth raised by a hardworking single mother. When his dream of becoming a basketball player fails to materialize, he finds himself employed in a supermarket. After his mother is tragically gunned down, ...
Style:
serious, rough, realistic
Plot:
desire for fame, hopes, rivalry, family relations, criminal heroes, youth, single parent, life is a bitch, working class, siblings relations, basketball, hip hop ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Rival prison factions surround a Los Angeles convict (Jim Brown) who has $1.5 million stashed on the outside.
Plot:
blaxploitation, prison, murder, organized crime, jail, heist, gangsters, prison escape, bandit, interracial relations, african american, hidden money ...
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64%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A gang war/drug story set in a Los Angeles ghetto about the coming of age of a 15-year-old black youth.
Plot:
blaxploitation, coming of age, gang, social issues, ghetto, high school, basketball, fight, gang member, friendship, african american, single mother ...
Time:
70s
Place:
los angeles
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61%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
A high-level government hit squad is sent into the streets in order to complete a deadly mission.
Style:
realistic, rough, suspenseful, serious, stylized
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gang, rival gang, working undercover, undercover, life is a bitch, urban ghetto life, rivalry, partners against crime, partners, gang war, african american, gang warfare ...
Time:
90s
Place:
usa, detroit
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
Story:
Zack Homer takes over managing the barbershop after Joe is killed for trying to rip off his "investor", Mr. Lovejoy. All Zack wants to do is run a traditional barbershop giving traditional haircuts, but modern styles have passed him by and ...
Style:
student film
Plot:
hip hop, hip hop culture, blaxploitation, murder, photographer, african american, husband wife relationship, death, jehovah's witness, barbershop, black american, death of partner ...
Place:
new york, brooklyn new york city
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61%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Ace is an impressionable young man working for a dry cleaning business. His friend, drug dealer Mitch goes to prison. In an unrelated incident, he finds some cocaine in a pants pocket. Soon, Ace finds himself dealing cocaine for Lulu. Via lucky ...
Style:
tense, rough, serious, realistic, disturbing ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
urban ghetto life, gangsters, organized crime, drugs, rise and fall, drug dealing, street life, cocaine, criminal heroes, social decay, friends, buddies ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1986
Place:
harlem, new york, usa, manhattan new york city
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61%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Slaughter, a former Green Beret, avenges the killing of loved ones by the Mob, and in so doing is coerced by the Feds into traveling to Mexico to finish off surviving mobsters.
Style:
neo noir, tense, realistic, serious, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
blaxploitation, gangsters, vietnam war, organized crime, murder, heroes, vigilantism, mafia, black hero, brutality, airport, revenge ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
mexico, latin america, south america
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A Vietnam veteran gets caught in a mob war with a couple of double-crossers.
Plot:
blaxploitation, exploitation, vietnam war, mafia, vietnam veteran, bandit, gang, veteran, heist, massacre, violence, murder ...
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59%
Genre: Action, Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
Flea was a basketball player, happy with his subtle hustle, until a Dominican connect introduced him to a new way to spread the work and make money.
Plot:
rap, hip hop, drug dealing, cocaine, materialism, power, business, money, african american, urban setting, criminality, urban ...
Place:
harlem, harlem, new york city, new york, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A singer returns to her hometown and puts together a team of fighters to go after local gangsters.
Plot:
blaxploitation, revenge, sexploitation, sex, african american, female nudity, gangsters
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56%
745
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
A federal agent whose daughter dies of a heroin overdose is determined to destroy the drug ring that supplied her. He recruits various people whose lives have been torn apart by the drug trade and trains them. Then they all leave for France to track ...
Style:
serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful, neo noir ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
blaxploitation, murder, exploitation, revenge, daughter, vigilantism, drug dealing, investigation, police detective, life is a bitch, vengeance, law enforcement ...
Time:
70s
Place:
france, europe, marseille, british columbia, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Duke Johnson visits a small Southern town, intent on burying his brother. After the funeral, he learns that he must stay for 60 days, for the estate to be processed. A few locals convince Duke to reopen his late brother's nightclub, and soon ...
Style:
serious, realistic, tense, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
blaxploitation, exploitation, african american, redneck, martial arts, brother, prostitute, betrayal, nightclub, interracial relations, small town, racism ...
Time:
70s
Place:
usa, southern usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Hotheaded laborer B.J. Hammer can't go long without ending up in a fight, and, after he comes out on top in a particularly impressive workplace scuffle, word of his brawling skills makes its way to Davis, a top boxing manager. Hammer is hired ...
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exciting, realistic, serious, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
blaxploitation, boxing, martial arts, gangsters, prizefight, master criminal, downfall, ambition, athlete's life, drug dealing, criminal's revenge, rivalry ...
Time:
70s
Place:
los angeles
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54%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Rick and Melissa are a pair of young lovers hoping to get out of the slums for good and escape the poverty and crime their families and friends have gotten involved in. All this comes to an end when Rick feels he must rejoin his old gang to avenge ...
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Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gang, blaxploitation, drugs, drug addiction, poverty, rape victim, nude, drug dealing, gang rape, gang violence, drug dealer, graphic violence ...
Time:
80s
Place:
los angeles, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
After a fundraiser for a black politician is robbed, Detroit police put two detectives, one white and one black, on the case, who try to work together under boiling political pressure.
Style:
exciting, cynical, realistic, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
blaxploitation, heist, exploitation, teenager, female boss, murder, police, hitman, prostitution, interracial relations, money, strong violent content ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
michigan, detroit, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Noble nightclub owner Samson does his best to keep his neighborhood clean of crime and drugs. When vicious mobster Johnny Nappa tries to muscle in on Samson's territory, Samson takes a brave stand against Nappa and his flunkies.
Plot:
blaxploitation, nightclub, lion, bar fight, criminal activity, exploitation, funeral home, strip club, drug dealer, martial arts, one man army, brawl ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Ex-con attempting to go straight runs across serious problems. His girlfriend gets arrested for dealing crack to an undercover police officer. In a desperate attempt to get the charges dropped against his woman, he strikes deal with weapons cop to ...
Style:
serious, realistic, bleak, rough
Plot:
gang, gangsters, arms dealing, kids in trouble, african american, police, hip hop culture, rap, hip hop, blaxploitation, troubled youth, undercover ...
Time:
90s
Place:
usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Upon his return from Vietnam, an ex-soldier finds his neighborhood has deteriorated badly, and is being terrorized by a vicious street gang. He calls some of his GI buddies, and together they hatch a plan to get rid of the gang.
Style:
retro
Plot:
vietnam war, gangsters, funeral, ex soldier, convenience store robbery, gang, exploitation, murder, vietnam veteran, violence, revenge, father son relationship ...
Place:
vietnam
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46%
Genre: Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 46 min.
Story:
Nino never wanted the life of a gangster, but when his father, Don Corleone is gunned down in the street, he must answer the call for revenge. Now Nino is Da Last Don and the family business is in his hands...a world of deceit, back room deals and ...
Plot:
hip hop, gangsters, hip hop culture, female nudity, revenge, murder, violence, corrupt cop, strip club, murder of a nude woman, murder of a pregnant woman, nude
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
On his first day on the job as a narcotics officer, a rookie cop works with a rogue detective who isn't what he appears.
Style:
neo noir, realistic, tense, harsh, cerebral ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
police corruption, gang, gunfight, drug dealer, police, african american, rookie, mentor, ghetto, corrupt cop, gang member, drugs ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A Special Jury Award winner at the Sundance Film Festival, this drama stars a then-19-year-old Matty Rich (who also wrote and directed it). Rich plays Larry, a troubled teen living in the rough Red Hook section of Brooklyn who decides he wants out ...
Style:
realistic, serious, bleak, suspenseful, rough
Audience:
teens
Plot:
gang, african american, gangsters, blaxploitation, downbeat ending, hip hop culture, villain, hip hop, african american gangster, racism, drug dealing, social decay ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new york, usa, brooklyn new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A group of thieves attempt a daring robbery of a football stadium.
Style:
neo noir, retro
Plot:
heist, blaxploitation, suspense, escape, murder, corrupt cop, death, hostage, torture, planning, murder investigation, arrest ...
Time:
future
Place:
los angeles, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
A slick, smooth-talking, womanizing young black DJ falls hard for an enigmatic woman he's just met. Things take a turn for the worse, though, when she is found dead in his apartment. It turns out that she was killed by the local mob, which is ...
Plot:
blaxploitation, drug addict, beach, bank, boat, karate, framed for murder, bandit, dj, pretty woman, mirror, snake ...
Time:
70s
Place:
los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Injustice begets a criminal. Kool is an artist without prospects, a black belt in karate, and in love with LaShawna, poised and college bound. One night she witnesses a stabbing and discovers the victim is a cop as he dies in her arms. She's ...
Style:
realistic, suspenseful, serious, rough, bleak
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gangsters, gang, frame up, racism, life is a bitch, police investigation, social decay, murder, false accusation, police corruption, dishonesty, legal ...
Time:
90s
Place:
usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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:
stylized, intense, harsh, serious, captivating ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gangsters, organized crime, gang, drugs, mafia, ghetto, chase, betrayal, hip hop, addiction, gang war, drug dealing ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, 90s
Place:
harlem, new york, usa, california, new jersey ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A rookie cop on the undercover narcotic squad falls for the junkie who can help him nab a ruthless pusher/killer.
Plot:
blaxploitation, drugs, junkie, rookie, prostitution, drug dealer, gangsters, overdose, inner city
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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