Movies like The Human Tornado

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The Human Tornado (1976)
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The Human Tornado (1976)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Dolemite comes to the rescue of Queen Bee, whose Nightclub is threatened by the Mafia.
Style: humorous, semi serious, exciting, witty, stylized, grindhouse, independent film, cult classic, spoof, offbeat ...
Plot: blaxploitation, superhero, martial arts, exploitation, racism, injustice, rivalry, fighting crime, heroes, lone wolves, gangster, african american, corrupt cop, racial prejudice, ethnic slur, black, disco, avenger, nightclub, mafia, kung fu, female nudity, torture, male nudity, gay stereotype ...
Time: 70s
Place: california, usa
Keyword: gangsters

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Most similar movies to The Human Tornado

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, independent film, grindhouse and exciting films with plots about rivalry, martial arts, gangster, blaxploitation, heroes, female nudity and exploitation mostly in Action, Drama and Comedy genres. Some movies like The Human Tornado: Disco Godfather (1979), Dolemite (1975), Black Dynamite (2009), Petey Wheatstraw (1977), Dynamite Brothers (1974). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Disco Godfather (1979)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A retired cop becomes a DJ/celebrity at the Blueberry Hill disco-- he's the "Disco Godfather!" All is well until his nephew flips out on a strange new drug that's sweeping the streets, called "angel dust," or PCP. Disco ...
Style: independent film, black comedy, retro, surreal, fast ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: disco, blaxploitation, nightclub, martial arts, vice squad, exploitation, drug, black, african, drug abuse, black cop, african american ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
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95%
 5.6
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Dolemite (1975)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Dolemite is a pimp who was set up by Willie Greene and the cops, who have planted drugs, stolen furs, and guns in his trunk and got him sentenced to 20 years in jail. One day, Queen B and a warden planned to get him out of Jail and get Willie Green ...
Style: grindhouse, hood, surreal, funny, black comedy ...
Plot: blaxploitation, martial arts, exploitation, profanity, black, prison, frame up, african american, insult, shootout, hip hop, woman with a gun ...
Time: year 1975, 20th century, 70s
Place: usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
87%
 7.4
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Black Dynamite (2009)
Genre: Action, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: This is the story of 1970s African-American action legend Black Dynamite. The Man killed his brother, pumped heroin into local orphanages, and flooded the ghetto with adulterated malt liquor. Black Dynamite was the one hero willing to fight The Man ...
Style: parody, spoof, grindhouse, humorous, funny ...
Audience: boys' night, manly, adult
Plot: blaxploitation, martial arts, mob boss, exploitation, organized crime, justice, black, drug, kung fu, fighting crime, tough heroes, injustice ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, year 2009
Place: usa, washington d.c., california
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
Petey Wheatstraw (1977)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Petey Wheatstraw (Rudy Ray Moore) is a candidate to become the devil's son-in-law. The storyline is a scaffolding on which Rudy Ray Moore's standup humor can be unfolded. Beginning life as the afterbirth to a watermelon, the young ...
Style: not serious, humorous, offbeat, independent film
Plot: blaxploitation, devil, african american, black, supernatural horror, underground, american horror, deal with the devil, supernatural, gangster, violent content, silly humor ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: usa, los angeles, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
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Dynamite Brothers (1974)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Young black man teams up with a Chinese kung-fu expert to fight a drug ring.
Style: grindhouse, independent film, realistic, semi serious, rough
Audience: boys' night
Plot: blaxploitation, organized crime, martial arts, law enforcement, buddies, heroes, rivalry, society, siblings relations, defiant, gangster, partner ...
Time: 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
Bad Asses on the Bayou (2015)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: The third installment in the successful Bad Ass action-comedy franchise. Bad Asses on the Bayou reunites the dynamic duo, Frank Vega (Danny Trejo) and Bernie Pope (Danny Glover), as they travel to Louisiana to attend the wedding of their dear friend ...
Style: exciting, realistic, rough, humorous, semi serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: kidnapping, partner, vigilantism, rivalry, danger, elderly, partners against crime, aging, heroes, vigilante, superhero, meme ...
Time: 21st century
Place: louisiana, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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Blind Rage (1976)
Genre: Action, Comedy
Country: Philippines
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Five friends get together and decide to plan an operation to rob a bank. The main difference between this and other bank-robbing gangs, however, is that all five men are blind.
Style: crime drama, grindhouse, independent film, realistic, semi serious ...
Plot: blaxploitation, blindness, black, martial arts, heist, gangster, injustice, criminal heroes, dishonesty, private detective, gang, rivalry ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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Shafted! (2000)
Genre: Action, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Steven Byzinsky is convinced he's a blaxploitation superhero. Like Shaft, Dolemite and Black Belt Jones before him, he's keeping' the streets safe for the brother and trying to stay one step ahead of The Man. There's only one ...
Style: not serious, parody, humorous, absurd, captivating ...
Plot: gangster, society, superhero, master villain, rivalry, heroes, save the day, chases and races, dishonesty, escapades, undercover, interracial relations ...
Time: 70s
Place: california, los angeles, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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Surf Nazis Must Die (1987)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: When the grandson of a gun wielding woman is murdered by neo-nazi surf punks in the post-apocalyptic future, this grandma hunts them down for some bloodthirsty revenge.
Style: grindhouse, cult classic, disturbing, absurd, humorous ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: surfing, nazi, beach, chase, gang, exploitation, post apocalypse, blaxploitation, punk, boat, motorcycle, camp ...
Time: 80s
Place: california, los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Bad Ass 2: Bad Asses (2014)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Vietnam vet Frank Vega now runs an East L.A. community center where he trains young boxers to survive in and out of the ring. But when his prize student falls in with the wrong crowd and turns up dead, Frank teams up with his pal Bernie to take ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, rough, humorous, action comedy ...
Plot: murder, fighting crime, vigilantism, society, partners against crime, elderly, rivalry, aging, vigilante, fight scenes, boxing, meme ...
Time: year 2014, 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
One Down, Two to go (1982)
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, grindhouse, realistic, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: blaxploitation, martial arts, black, gangster, kung fu, partner, gang, criminal's revenge, contests and competitions, good versus evil, rivalry, society ...
Time: year 1982, 80s, 70s
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
The Last Dragon (1985)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama, Music, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: A young man searches for the "master" to obtain the final level of martial arts mastery known as the glow. Along the way he must fight an evil martial arts expert and rescue a beautiful singer from an obsessed music promoter.
Style: cult classic, semi serious, humorous, exciting, entertaining ...
Audience: boys' night, family outing, teens
Plot: martial arts, kung fu classic, kung fu, blaxploitation, kidnapping, music, stereotypes, brother brother relationship, dishonesty, gang, ambition, danger ...
Time: 80s, year 1985
Place: new york, usa, harlem, new york city, harlem, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
My Wife Is a Gangster 3 (2006)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama
Country: Hong Kong, China, South Korea
Duration: 115 min.
Story: When Aryong, the daughter of a triad boss from Hong Kong is accused of killing the boss of a competing triad, she is goes into hiding in Korea. Upon arriving, she is guided by a nimble but loyal Gi-chul and his motley crew, who are assigned to ...
Style: suspenseful, semi serious, exciting, realistic, stylized ...
Plot: martial arts, gangster, woman in danger, chase, murder, danger, assassination, heroes, chases and races, uninhibited rivalry, vengeance, rivalry ...
Time: 21st century
Place: hong kong, seoul, asia, korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
American Ninja 2: The Confrontation (1987)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: On a remote Caribbean island, Army Ranger Joe Armstrong saves an old friend from the clutches of "The Lion", an evil super-criminal who has kidnapped a local scientist and mass-produced an army of mutant Ninja warriors.
Style: intense, serious, grindhouse, light hearted, cult classic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: ninja, martial arts, fight scenes, genetics, one man army, soldier, heroes, danger, rescue, mortal combat, kidnapping, one against many ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: caribbean
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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Caged Heat (1974)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: A girl is caught in a drug bust and sent to the hoosegow.
Style: grindhouse, sensual, cult classic, action thriller, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: prison, women in prison, sexploitation, women's prison, rape, exploitation, sexual abuse, prison escape, brothel, prisoner, escape attempt, female pubic hair ...
Time: 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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Hammer (1972)
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 ...
Style: grindhouse, independent film, realistic, serious, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: blaxploitation, boxing, martial arts, black, gangster, interracial sex, prizefight, athlete's life, ambition, rivalry, criminal's revenge, master criminal ...
Time: year 1972, 70s
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Last Tiger from Canton (1973)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Young Jackie was intrigued by Kung-Fu since an early age, but his father strictly forbade its practice. One day, he meets an old beggar who offers to teach Jackie how to fight. Jackie grows up to be quite good though he keeps his knowledge a secret ...
Style: grindhouse, fast, exciting, realistic, semi serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, kung fu, fight, kickass, asian, one man army, heroes, violent content, power relations, rivalry, youth, bare chested male ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: east asia, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Big Bad Mama (1974)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Mama and daughters get forced by circumstances into bootlegging and bank robbing, and travel across the country trailed by the law.
Style: road movie, grindhouse, cult classic, psychotronic, sexy ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: exploitation, nudity, gangster, kidnapping, male nudity, violence, car chase, outlaw, car, criminal, sleaze, age difference ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century
Place: texas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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The Bodyguard (2004)
Genre: Action, Comedy
Country: Thailand
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A professional bodyguard who failed to protect his Choti, most successful businessman, is fired by his employer's son. The son inherits his fathers company but is then targets by assassins who want to gain control of the estate. He is forced to ...
Style: exciting, semi serious, suspenseful, rough, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, one man army, bodyguard, tough heroes, gang, danger, gangster, assassination, fight, muay thai, kung fu, hitman ...
Time: year 2004, 21st century
Place: bangkok thailand, thailand
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Hell Up in Harlem (1973)
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: grindhouse, neo noir, grim, hood, crime drama ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: blaxploitation, exploitation, gangster, black, mafia, gang, murder, mobster, gotham city, underground, ghetto, police corruption ...
Time: 70s
Place: new york, harlem, usa, coney island brooklyn new york city, los angeles ...
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32%
Black Belt Jones (1974)
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: grindhouse, black comedy, action thriller, cult classic, disturbing ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: blaxploitation, martial arts, kung fu, exploitation, black, karate, african american, mixed martial arts, shaolin, heroes, chase, gangster ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: los angeles, california, usa, australia, south central los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Cotton Comes to Harlem (1970)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: The Charismatic black nationalist leader Rev Deke O'Malley is trying to sell the people of Harlem a dream. Invest $100 in his company and live in Africa. But cops Gravedigger and Coffin know all about Deke and his fraudulent schemes that take ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, witty, humorous, neo noir ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: blaxploitation, police investigation, odd couple, investigation, buddies, tough law enforcer, partners against crime, dishonesty, master criminal, law enforcement, partner, racial slur ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: new york, usa, harlem
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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7 Grandmasters (1977)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 89 min.
Story: An aged Kung Fu practitioner travels across China, challenging the best Grandmaster from each province to prove his mastery of martial arts. Meanwhile is a plot developing behind his back.
Style: action adventure, road movie, exciting, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, kung fu, medieval, fight, kung fu classic, karate, fight club, violent content, tough heroes, retiring, aging, heroes ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: china
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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Friday Foster (1975)
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, grindhouse, crime drama, hood, independent film ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: blaxploitation, exploitation, murder, conspiracy, black, woman with a gun, photograph, photography, african american, fight, strong female lead, black cast ...
Time: year 1975, 20th century, 70s
Place: usa, los angeles, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
 6.4
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Mirageman (2006)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: Chile, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: After being brutally assaulted, an incident which also saw the death of his parents and the rape of his younger brother (which mentally scarred him to the point of having to be institutionalized), Maco Gutierrez has devoted his life to fitness and ...
Style: humorous, realistic, exciting, semi serious, rough ...
Plot: martial arts, journalism, tough heroes, fighting crime, vigilantism, hopes, righting the wronged, orphan, buddies, superhero, vigilante, heroes ...
Time: 21st century
Place: chile, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Bamboo Gods and Iron Men (1974)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Comedy, Crime
Country: Philippines, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: The Jefferson’s honeymoon night in Hong Kong will be troubled by a number of people wishing to get hold of a Bouddha statuette that the husband offered her when window-shopping that day. When the going gets rough, it helps that Cal Jefferson is a ...
Style: grindhouse, independent film, exciting, realistic, semi serious ...
Plot: blaxploitation, kung fu, honeymoon, boxer, martial arts, buddha, attempted rape, mute, partner, good versus evil, rivalry, unlikely partners ...
Time: 70s
Place: hong kong, asia, the philippines
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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Bucktown (1975)
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: grindhouse, serious, realistic, tense, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: blaxploitation, exploitation, black, african american, martial arts, redneck, brother, betrayal, prostitute, racism, nightclub, small town ...
Time: year 1975, 70s
Place: usa, southern usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
C.C. & Company (1970)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Motorcycle mechanic C.C. Ryder joins "The Heads," an outlaw biker gang. Fellow gang members menace fashion journalist Ann when her limo breaks down in the desert, but C.C. comes to her rescue. The bikers disrupt a motorcross event tied in ...
Style: psychological, grindhouse, independent film, exciting, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: motorcycle, biker, bike, swing, gang, outlaw, reporter, exploitation, motorcycle gang, violent content, gangster, nudity ...
Time: 60s
Place: baltimore, new york, usa, arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Crippled Avengers (1978)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Crippled Avengers is a 1978 Shaw Brothers kung fu film directed by Chang Cheh and starring four members of the Venom Mob. It has been released in North America as Mortal Combat and Return of the 5 Deadly Venoms. The film follows a group of martial ...
Style: cult classic, grindhouse, serious, exciting, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: kung fu, martial arts, kung fu classic, fight, wuxia, superhero, blind character, mute or deaf, blind man, disabled, disabled character, shaolin ...
Place: east asia, hong kong, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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Super Fly (1972)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Music, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Super Fly is a cocaine dealer who begins to realize that his life will soon end with either prison or his death. He decides to build an escape from the life by making his biggest deal yet.
Style: grindhouse, hood, cult classic, grim, stylized ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: blaxploitation, urban, gangster, hip hop, black, exploitation, ghetto, black history, african american, corruption, fight, drug ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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