Movies like Hammer 1972
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Hammer (1972)
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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 by Davis and begins a lucrative career in the ring, only to find out that his new employer wants him to throw a fight and take part in other illicit activities. Hammer reacts to this news violently, and the feud is on.
Style:
exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, neo noir, cult film
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
blaxploitation, boxing, martial arts, gangsters, prizefight, master criminal, injustice, rivalry, drug dealing, ambition, downfall, criminal's revenge, athlete's life, sex, mafia, combat, bandit, killer, revenge, fight, murderer, police officer, violence, boxer, female nudity ...
Time:
70s
Place:
los angeles
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, suspenseful and rough films with plots about gunfight, violence, gun, murder, rivalry, blood and fistfight mostly in Action, Crime and Drama genres. Some movies like Hammer: Hell Up in Harlem (1973), Black Shampoo (1976), Slaughter's Big Rip-Off (1973), Slaughter (1972), Trouble Man (1972). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Tougher than Shaft and smoother than Superfly, this high-voltage sequel to Black Caesar explodes with enough action to incinerate New York City. Packed with machine-gun mayhem and riveting adventure, Hell Up in Harlem is nothing less than a ...
Style:
neo noir, serious, realistic, exciting, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
blaxploitation, gangsters, exploitation, mafia, gang, murder, city, police corruption, african american, kidnapping, grizzly bear, city life ...
Time:
70s
Place:
new york, harlem, usa, los angeles, coney island brooklyn new york city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
John Daniels stars as Jonathan Knight, the owner of "Mr. Jonathans", the most successful hair salon for women on the Sunset Strip. Everything is cool for Jonathan until he messes with the mob in an effort to protect his young, attractive ...
Style:
campy, cult film, sexploitation film
Plot:
blaxploitation, exploitation, gangsters, african american, organized crime, slutty attitude, lolita, hairdresser, woman in a bikini, broken mirror, dinner, male star appears nude ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Vigilante Slaughter comes under attack from Duncan, a local money launderer whose hit-man traps Slaughter in a car at a cliff, but Slaughter escapes, arms himself, and goes after Duncan's hideout.
Style:
exciting, serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
blaxploitation, exploitation, robbery, hitman, vigilante, nude, vigilantism, heroes, gangsters, graphic violence, sexual content, tough heroes ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
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 ⇓
67%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
It seems that masked men are knocking over the floating crap games of Chalky and Pete. Chalky and Pete hire the cool, loose, elegant Mr. T to fix things. Then, the masked manipulators set up the death of a collector for a rival gang lord. It looks ...
Style:
neo noir, exciting, serious, realistic, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
blaxploitation, exploitation, frame up, gangsters, music, female boss, gambling, police, billiards, gang, private detective, murder ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
los angeles, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
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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 ⇓
61%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Tommy Gibbs is a tough kid, raised in the ghetto, who aspires to be a kingpin criminal. As a young boy, his leg is broken by a bad cop on the take, during a payoff gone bad. Nursing his vengeance, he rises to power in Harlem, New York. Angry at the ...
Style:
neo noir, psychotronic, realistic, serious, bleak ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
blaxploitation, gangsters, mafia, tough guy, exploitation, gang, city, organized crime, bad father, african american gangster, legal, martial arts ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1953, year 1965, year 1972 ...
Place:
new york, harlem, usa, california, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
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 ⇓
60%
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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 ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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 ⇓
48%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
John Shaft is back as the lady-loved black detective cop on the search for the murderer of a client.
Style:
sexy, neo noir, bad ending, atmospheric, unusual plot structure ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
blaxploitation, murder, helicopter, chase, private detective, exploitation, undercover, gangsters, gang, police investigation, investigation, racism ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
new york, tokyo, africa, usa, harlem
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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:
suspenseful, realistic, rough, serious, exciting ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
martial arts, gangsters, suspense, gang, rivalry, dishonesty, heroes, vengeance, law enforcement, tough heroes, missing person, final showdown ...
Time:
90s
Place:
los angeles, hong kong, usa, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Detective John Shaft travels incognito to Ethiopia, then France, to bust a human trafficking ring.
Style:
sexy, splatter, talky, stylized, melancholic ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
blaxploitation, exploitation, espionage, private detective, nude, slavery, gangsters, gunfight, male nudity, sex, violence, circumcision ...
Time:
70s, 80s, 20th century
Place:
africa, new york, paris france, tokyo, ethiopia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Brandon plays Brandon Ma, a regular working Joe who holds down two jobs, so he can support his girlfriend May and his dream of owning a motorcycle. Brandon's best friend is Michael, an ambitious and murderous dope peddler. Michael covets May ...
Style:
realistic, serious, suspenseful, neo noir, cult film
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
martial arts, kung fu, heroic bloodshed, medieval, revenge, fight club, gangsters, heroes, friends, law enforcement, dishonesty, rivalry ...
Time:
80s
Place:
hong kong, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
New York City factory worker Eddie Marino (Robert Forster, Oscar nominee for JACKIE BROWN) is a solid citizen and regular guy, until the day a sadistic street gang brutally assaults his wife and murders his child. But when a corrupt judge sets the ...
Style:
psychotronic, serious, realistic, bleak, disturbing ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gang, revenge, vigilantism, vigilante, gangsters, jail, home invasion, rape and revenge, city, car chase, violence, police ...
Time:
80s
Place:
new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Three renegade cops team up to take on the corrupt chief of police and a crime lords hatchet-man.
Style:
exciting, realistic, serious, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
suspense, monster, police officer, renegade, police detective, prostitute, undercover, gangsters, chase, computer cracker, police corruption, working undercover ...
Time:
90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A violent street gang, the Rebels, rule the streets of Gary, Indiana. The Rebels shoot Marvin Bookman, a store-keeper, for giving the police information about a drive-by shooting they committed. Marvin's son, former NFL star John who created ...
Style:
reflective, satirical, allegory, visually appealing, unusual plot structure ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
blaxploitation, gang, gangsters, vigilante, vigilantism, murder, vengeance, culture clash, hospital, redemption, violence, death ...
Time:
70s, 90s
Place:
indiana, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
As two rival Godfathers view to take control of the city, a hot-tempered family member kills two relatives of the opposing family, breaking the "Truce of Honor". Now the war begins! As a young boxer seeks revenge for his fiancée's ...
Style:
realistic, serious, exciting, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
martial arts, bad father, heroes, gangsters, murder, kung fu, rivalry, vengeance, investigation, law enforcement, dishonesty, buddies ...
Time:
70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
College student Jake Lo is pursued by smugglers, mobsters and crooked federal agents after he witnesses a murder by a Mafia kingpin.
Style:
exciting, intense, serious, suspenseful, stylized ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens, manly
Plot:
martial arts, gangsters, police investigation, police corruption, justice, gunfight, fighting crime, tough law enforcer, fight scenes, violent, murder, machismo ...
Time:
90s
Place:
los angeles, tokyo, hong kong, chicago illinois, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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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 ⇓
39%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Karate master and anti-drug vigilante Chiba returns to his home in Japan, where he holds a press conference announcing his intention to wipe out the nation's drug industry. He also offers his services as a bodyguard to anyone who is willing to ...
Style:
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Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
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Time:
70s
Place:
japan, usa, asia, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A tough, violent cop who doesn't mind bending the law goes after a machine-gun-carrying, hunchbacked psychotic killer.
Style:
exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
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Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
italy, rome italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Jeff, a young delinquent, is enrolled by his father in a kenpo school, in the hopes of teaching the boy some self-discipline. Years later, Jeff's mentor, Kim, is being threatened by one of the Korean mafia families. Jeff tries to help his old ...
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psychotronic, realistic, serious, rough, surprise ending ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
martial arts, kung fu, one man army, friendship, martial artist, showdown, teacher student relationship, homecoming, father son estrangement, brother brother relationship, revenge, crime boss ...
Time:
90s
Place:
los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A Russian ex-hit man is called back to Russia for one last job. This time against his former employees, the Russian mob.
Style:
serious, realistic, suspenseful, rough, perverse
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
heroes, gangsters, gang, death, kidnapping, prostitute, hitman, soldier, rivalry, graphic violence, vengeance, revenge ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
653
Genre: Action, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
Ving Rhames, Pam Grier, and Robert Patrick headline this throwback action thriller set in 1975, and following a renegade cop who skirts the law in order to capture a ruthless crime boss.
Style:
exciting, suspenseful, rough, serious, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gangsters, vengeance, rivalry, tough heroes, criminal heroes, graphic violence, police officer, murder, drug dealer, love, car, sexual content ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, year 1975
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A DEA agent and his brother, a Los Angeles cop, battle the Russian mafia.
Style:
serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful
Plot:
martial arts, police shootout, two man army, karate, police detective, siblings relations, kgb, rivalry, dishonesty, law enforcement, fighting crime, crime boss ...
Time:
90s
Place:
los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Gino Felino (Steven Seagal) is an NYPD detective from Brooklyn who knows everyone and everything in his neighborhood. Killing his Partner was someone's mistake, because he's now Out For Justice.
Style:
bloody, suspenseful, talky, stylized, tense ...
Audience:
manly, boys' night
Plot:
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Time:
80s, 90s
Place:
new york, brooklyn new york city, usa
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33%
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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serious, realistic, suspenseful, rough, cult film
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 ⇓
33%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
In this action packed film, an L.A. cop speeds off to get revenge upon the dirty drug-dealing dogs who killed his partner
Style:
cult film
Plot:
chase, brutality, drugs, revenge, murder, car chase, violence, showdown, heroes, maverick cop, bar fight, fistfight ...
Place:
los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
447
Genre: Action, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A female assassin named "Quick" is hired to bring in a Mafia accountant, who is under police protection. Double crossed by the mafia, she takes her hostage to California to retrieve $3M that he took before running. The mafia and ...
Style:
realistic, suspenseful, rough, serious, exciting ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gangsters, betrayal, chase, mafia, on the run, femme fatale, hitman, accountant, corruption, murder, manhunt, bodyguard ...
Time:
90s
Place:
california, los angeles, beverly hills
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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