Movies like The Guy from Harlem
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The Guy from Harlem (1977)
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Original name: The Guy From Harlem
Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Tough streetwise private investigator Al Connors, who works in Florida but originally hails from Harlem, is hired by the CIA to guard a visiting African princess. Moreover, Connors uses all his sharp street smarts and fierce fighting skills to find another woman who's been abducted by the evil Big Daddy.
Style:
cult film
Plot:
blaxploitation, martial arts, african american, drugs, fight, money, female nudity, cia agent, office, interracial relations, cult, private detective, secretary, gym, male protagonist, protection, private investigator, kidnapped daughter, ladies man, masseuse, attempted rape, fistfight, man dressed as woman, nude, black ...
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Most similar movies to The Guy from Harlem
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out cult film, serious, realistic and suspenseful films with plots about martial arts, fistfight, gunfight, violence, heroes, fight and kung fu mostly in Action, Crime and Drama genres. Some movies like The Guy from Harlem: TNT Jackson (1974), Low Blow (1986), Image of Bruce Lee (1978), The Big Fight (1972), Killpoint (1984). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Action
Country: Philippines, USA
Duration: 72 min.
Story:
A woman encounters thugs and drug dealers after traveling to Hong Kong to search for her missing brother.
Style:
funny, campy, realistic, serious, cult film
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
blaxploitation, martial arts, revenge, exploitation, vengeance, karate, female fight, kung fu, heroine, ambush, women, survival ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
hong kong, asia
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95%
607
Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Leo Fong plays a private investigator who is in search of a young girl kidnapped by a religious cult. Destined to save her, he teams up with a Vietnam vet, a pro-boxing champ and a former cop to save her...
Style:
cult film
Plot:
cult, fight, villainess, martial arts, intergender wrestling, female fight, kickboxer, muay thai, violence, boxing, kidnapped girl, private detective ...
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75%
Genre: Action
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A band of counterfeiters wants to make Hong Kong their new territory. The disgraced leader of the Special Squad will have to team-up with a group of Hong Kong police officers in an attempt to stop the dirty business of crime lord Han Tin Lung, but ...
Style:
serious, cult film
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
martial arts, kung fu, undercover, forgery, master warrior, heroes, partners, gang, law enforcement, tough law enforcer, rivalry, track down ...
Time:
70s
Place:
hong kong, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
Genre: Action
Country: Taiwan, Hong Kong
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
This film is set during the Japanese occupation of China circa WWII. In it, the Japanese occupiers (and the Chinese Quislings who work for them) are portrayed as total monsters who kill children and rape all women. The heroes are resistance fighters ...
Style:
cult film
Plot:
martial arts, kung fu, world war two, cult, jeet kune do, brawl, kung fu fighting, fight, kung fu classic, fistfight, japanese occupation
Place:
china, hong kong
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
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Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
An L.A. cop investigating the rape and murder of his wife traces the crime to a psycho biker gang that smuggles guns. He teams up with an FBI agent to stop them and catch his wife's killers.
Style:
cult film
Plot:
weapons, gangsters, robbery, smuggling, nightclub, martial arts, bodybuilder, fistfight, dancer, murder, rape, police ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
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Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Jones is a secret agent who has gone into semi-retirement, concentrating instead on teaching the martial arts to inner city youths. The karate school is run by a kindly old coot named Pops ,played by Scatman Crothers. His gambling debts, however, ...
Style:
disturbing, realistic, serious, suspenseful, cult film
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
blaxploitation, martial arts, gangsters, exploitation, kung fu, african american, secret agents, cult, heroes, vigilantism, chase, heist ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
los angeles, california, usa, australia, south central los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
Genre: Action
Country: Hong Kong, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
When fellow operatives (and childhood friends) Matthew Johnson and Melvin Johnson disappear during an undercover mission in Hong Kong, Cleopatra Jones travels there to find them. With the help of local detective Mi Ling, Cleopatra discovers that her ...
Style:
serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful, neo noir ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
blaxploitation, martial arts, spy, kung fu, murder, black history, woman with a gun, women, strong female lead, female fight, heroin, casino ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
hong kong, asia, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
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Genre: Action, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
To make money, a Los Angeles street-fighter goes to work for gangsters.
Style:
cult film
Plot:
blaxploitation, martial arts, fight, money, gangsters, streetfighting, street fighter, junkie, poker, barbershop, fight club, cult ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
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Genre: Action, Crime
Country: Philippines, USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
Kickboxing champ Jerry Trimble plays a straight shooting man caught up in the politics of a crooked little town. To get to the truth about his grandfather's death, he must first kick out the criminals --including the sheriff-- effectively ...
Style:
cult film
Plot:
martial arts, exploitation, brawl, heroes, kickboxer, sheriff, showdown, nude, election, violence, female nudity, funeral ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
Genre: Action
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Shipment of American weapons is stolen in the Philippines. An American named Hawkins tries to find the weapons. Hawkins ends up dead. Chicago policeman Bob Malone is called in to investigate. Along with Interpol agent Greg Duncan, Malone travels the ...
Style:
buddy movie, cult film
Plot:
martial arts, spy, blaxploitation, violence, female nudity, african american, cave, burglar, robbery, one against many, jungle, warehouse ...
Place:
chicago illinois, manila philippines, the philippines
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
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Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Friday Foster, an ex-model magazine photographer, goes to Los Angeles International airport to photograph the arrival of Blake Tarr, the richest black man in America. Three men attempt to assassinate Tarr. Foster photographs the melee and is plunged ...
Style:
neo noir, realistic, serious, rough, suspenseful
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
blaxploitation, exploitation, murder, conspiracy, woman with a gun, gangsters, african american, hitman, photographer, pimp, badass female lead, strong female lead ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
usa, los angeles, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
Genre: Action
Country: Australia
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A martial-arts expert goes after a criminal gang and its boss, who were responsible for the death of his partner.
Style:
cult film
Plot:
martial arts, chase, murder, undercover cop, sex, violence, male nudity, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, female nudity, organized crime, death, dancer ...
Place:
australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Thomas Hoshino (Willson) is a tough Japanese detective, who lost his partner by a deadly Yakuza killer Jaho (Lew). He tracks down the killer and his master to Los Angeles, where he teams up with Det. Karen Ryder (Farrell). Soon they discover that ...
Style:
buddy movie, buddy comedy, cult film
Plot:
martial arts, swordsman, yakuza, police shootout, fistfight, nypd, kung fu, maverick cop, kendo, sword, ninja, gunfight ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Don Wilson returns to the screen as a man unjustly accused of a brutal crime. Within the prison he must fight for survival, freedom and justice.
Style:
cult film
Plot:
martial arts, exploitation, kung fu, prison fight, convict, kickboxer, martial artist, karate, prison riot, chase, female nudity, kickboxing ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
The story involves a white supremist plot to taint the United States water supply with a toxin that is harmless to whites but lethal to blacks. The only obstacles that stand in the way of this dastardly plan are Jim Brown, Fred Williamson and Jim ...
Style:
exciting, captivating, serious, realistic, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
blaxploitation, martial arts, african american, tough guy, city, evil, criminal activity, genocide, racism, injustice, dishonesty, vigilantism ...
Time:
70s
Place:
new york, los angeles, detroit, washington d.c., chicago illinois
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A pair of tough cops go after the mob who jinxed the martial arts tournament and injured their buddy.
Style:
psychotronic, serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
blaxploitation, martial arts, gangsters, kung fu, fighting crime, partners against crime, buddies, good versus evil, law enforcement, criminal's revenge, rivalry, ambition ...
Time:
80s, 70s
Place:
new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Genre: Action
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
In Hong Kong, a weapon dealer has a special computer chip, which is needed to build a secret missile. He is trying to sell it to a foreign goverment. The local secret police, the CIA and an enemy band is looking for him, but he has a very rich and ...
Plot:
martial arts, nude, gunfight, war violence, knife fight, fight, fistfight, female martial artist, martial artist, kung fu, bloodbath, brutality ...
Place:
thailand, hong kong
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
When family fortune, beautiful mistresses and control of an international smuggling operation are at stake, family rivalry turns to rage as two brothers meet in one final battle...a deathfight.
Plot:
merchant, defense attorney, gunfight, gangsters, fistfight, jail, fight, martial artist, sex scene, martial arts, murder of wife, framed for murder ...
Place:
southeast asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A former CIA agent lives a suburban life as a high school teacher with his teen son. When the agent is attacked by former allies because of knowledge he possesses and his son is kidnapped, he is forced back into the business and his son suddenly ...
Style:
psychotronic, cult film
Plot:
spy, exploitation, boat, showdown, combat, betrayal, master warrior, secret agents, heroes, retirement, martial artist, one man army ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A South American gunrunner uses an island in Hawaii as his base of operations. A squad of beautiful government agents is sent to put him out of business.
Style:
cult film
Plot:
spy, erotica, hitman, woman with a gun, female singer, gunrunner, female impersonator, helicopter, katana, voyeur, female nudity, lust ...
Place:
las vegas, honolulu hawaii
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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Genre: Action, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Robert Sand, agent of D.R.A.G.O.N. (Defense Reserve Agency Guardian Of Nations), is playing tennis on his vacation with a beautiful black girl, when his commanding officers ask him to save a Chinese girl who happens to be Sand's girlfriend, and ...
Style:
weird, cult film
Plot:
blaxploitation, martial arts, spy, samurai, exploitation, snake, gang, gangsters, master warrior, tough girl, heroine, mixed martial arts ...
Place:
mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A female CIA agent is assigned to train and lead an all-female squad to Colombia to stop a renegade agent who has hired himself out to a drug cartel.
Style:
cult film
Plot:
female agent, drugs, spy, woman with a gun, women's prison, drug dealing, white slavery, cia agent, drug cartel, abduction, nipples visible through clothing, girls with guns ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Two Vietnam vets with nothing to lose are called back into the bloodiest action of their lives. Their assignment: locate and destroy a terrorist base and bring back a General's daughter alive.
Style:
cult film
Plot:
vietnam war, jungle warfare, attempted rape, jungle, helicopter, terrorist, kidnapping, bar fight, gunfight, female nudity, murder, man on a mission ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Genre: Action
Country: Philippines, USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Chris Mitchum plays Dean Mitchell (I know, quite a stretch), the one gas station attendant you don't wanna mess with. He's a taciturn Vietnam vet who doesn't say very much. When some stupid baddies DO decide to mess with him, they end ...
Style:
cult film
Plot:
vietnam war, mercenary, vietnam veteran, nude, rape, revenge, drugs, suicide, commando, fictional war, jungle, armored car ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Genre: Action
Country: Hong Kong, Thailand
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Chang Chen-Wai, a martial arts expert who runs a jade-importing business, follows his missing brother to Thailand and learns he has been murdered. Chang vows revenge.
Style:
serious, realistic, exciting, rough, suspenseful ...
Plot:
martial arts, master warrior, gangsters, athlete's life, rivalry, vengeance, heroes, missing person, working undercover, kung fu classic, karate, hapkido ...
Time:
70s
Place:
asia, thailand
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Terrorists take over a nuclear weapons launch site, but don't count on a humble military courier, who happens to be making a visit
Plot:
kickboxing, exploitation, fight, heroes, female nudity, master warrior, showdown, combat, hostile takeover, nuclear, terrorist plot, martial artist ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Genre: Action
Country: South Korea
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A lightning bolt strikes the grave of Bruce Lee. However, that is as much as Bruce Lee has to do with it. Then a kung fu instructor starts a quest to avenge a friend's death, and on the way has a romance with a girl with similar problems. He ...
Style:
surprise ending, cult film
Plot:
martial arts, exploitation, zombie, kung fu, kung fu classic, soldier, jeet kune do, violence, chase, love, organized crime, brutality ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Genre: Action
Country: Australia
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Jason Blade is a man who can't bring himself to commit fully to his woman, and who spends all his time with a special crime task force taking on assignments to fight crime and right wrong do-ers. When his love is kidnapped by his arch-enemy the ...
Style:
cult film
Plot:
knife fight, ambush, showdown, male female relationship, organized crime, heroes, master warrior, gangsters, kung fu classic, brawl, martial artist, tough guy ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Chicago policeman Terry McCain is determined to put away mobster Sal DiMarco, who always gets acquitted on technicalities. While monitoring a drug sale, a shootout ensues, and one of Terry's fellow officers gets away with $3 million of ...
Style:
neo noir, realistic, serious, exciting, tense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
martial arts, conspiracy, police shootout, gunfight, police, suspense, betrayal, gangsters, jazz, rivalry, vengeance, law enforcement ...
Time:
90s
Place:
chicago illinois, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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