Movies like Shaft in Africa
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Shaft in Africa (1973)
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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:
hood, exciting, rough, feel good, serious, realistic, suspenseful, psychotronic, poliziottesco, sexy ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
blaxploitation, private detective, exploitation, nudity, black, sex, slavery, violence, male nudity, gunfight, gangster, racism, circumcision, afrikaans, heroes, muslim, american abroad, nude black woman, african american protagonist, human trafficking, illegal immigration, investigation, kidnapping, undercover, espionage ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, 80s
Place:
africa, paris france, ethiopia, italy, france, new york, tokyo
Keyword:
serbian, gangsters
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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 violence, shootout, rivalry, fistfight, martial arts, gunfight and murder mostly in Action, Drama and Crime genres. Some movies like Shaft in Africa: Shaft's Big Score! (1972), Shaft (1971), Hammer (1972), Slaughter's Big Rip-Off (1973), Detroit 9000 (1973). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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:
epic, neo noir, hood, grim, fast ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
blaxploitation, murder, gangster, private detective, chase, exploitation, police investigation, undercover, black, investigation, racism, gunfight ...
Time:
year 1972, 70s, 20th century
Place:
new york, harlem, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Cool black private eye John Shaft is hired by a crime lord to find and retrieve his kidnapped daughter.
Style:
grindhouse, stylized, tense, harsh, neo noir ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
private detective, blaxploitation, gangster, lone hero, gang, anti hero, mafia, organized crime, urban, gunfight, hitman, kidnapping ...
Time:
70s, year 1971, 20th century
Place:
new york, usa, america, africa, harlem ...
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745
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 ⇓
58%
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:
independent film, exciting, serious, realistic, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
blaxploitation, black man white woman relationship, exploitation, black, woman with a gun, robbery, vigilante, hitman, nudity, gangster, vigilantism, heroes ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
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:
action thriller, crime thriller, neo noir, independent film, fast ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
blaxploitation, urban, heist, exploitation, teenager, female boss, black, cop, hitman, police, murder, prostitution ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
michigan, detroit, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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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, grindhouse, cult classic, independent film, tense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
blaxploitation, gangster, vietnam war, organized crime, murder, black, profanity, heroes, vigilantism, mobster, male nudity, black hero ...
Time:
year 1972, 70s, 20th century
Place:
mexico, latin america, south america
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Former federal agent Jack Bauer confronts African dictator Benjamin Juma, whose forces have been ordered to capture the children Bauer oversees for malicious military training.
Style:
intense, serious, rough, suspenseful, exciting ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
terrorist plot, politics, secret agent, kidnapping, tough heroes, brutality, violence, spy, chases and races, danger, political unrest, police corruption ...
Time:
year 2008, 21st century
Place:
africa, washington d.c., usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
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:
grindhouse, fast, serious, realistic, exciting ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
medieval, martial arts, yakuza, kung fu, shootout, abduction, showdown, karate, gangster, heroes, one man army, violent content ...
Time:
70s
Place:
japan, usa, new york, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Sean Kane is forced to resign from the San Francisco Police Department's Narcotics Division when he goes berserk after his partner is murdered. He decides to fight alone and follows a trail of drug traffickers into unexpected high places.
Style:
suspense, serious, cult classic, exciting, tense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
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Time:
80s, year 1981
Place:
san francisco, bay area, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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 ...
Style:
grindhouse, crime drama, independent film, hispanic, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gang, blaxploitation, cannon, drug, drug addiction, black, rape victim, poverty, nudity, drug dealing, gang rape, gang violence ...
Time:
80s
Place:
los angeles, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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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, crime drama, cult classic, exciting, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
blaxploitation, exploitation, black, frame up, female boss, music, woman with a gun, boxing, gambling, police, murder, billiards ...
Time:
year 1972, 70s, 20th century
Place:
los angeles, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A DEA agent and his brother, a Los Angeles cop, battle the Russian mafia.
Style:
independent film, realistic, serious, rough, suspenseful
Plot:
martial arts, two man army, police shootout, karate, police detective, siblings relations, kgb, dishonesty, law enforcement, rivalry, chases and races, fighting crime ...
Time:
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Place:
usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A terrorist places an atom bomb somewhere in an American metropolis. The president of the U.S. has no other choice; he has to call Delta Force.
Style:
suspense, grindhouse, cult classic, independent film, fast ...
Audience:
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Plot:
terrorism, gunfight, martial arts, cavalry, military, heroes, tough heroes, nightmare comes true, heroic mission, hijacking, chases and races, rivalry ...
Time:
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Place:
miami, florida, usa, middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A Presidential candidate running against the Vice-President plans a trip to the Balkans to negotiate the release of American servicemen being held hostage. Before he leaves, he receives a disk documenting evidence that the Vice-President has been ...
Style:
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Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
terrorism, hijacking, one man army, political conspiracy, state affairs, law enforcement, confined, undercover, race against time, save the day, danger, secret agent ...
Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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:
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Audience:
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Plot:
blaxploitation, exploitation, gangster, black, mafia, gang, murder, mobster, gotham city, underground, ghetto, police corruption ...
Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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Genre: Action, Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
US Army Investigator John Murphy (now a Lieutenant, although he was a Major in the previous Base movie) has been sent to look into a series of suspicious deaths that have been going on under the watch of Colonel Strauss. After going undercover and ...
Style:
serious, rough, suspenseful, realistic, exciting
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
terrorism, military, military base, soldier, gang, rivalry, undercover, military life, secret agent, dishonesty, law enforcement, danger ...
Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
The fates of an aging hitman and a washed up detective become entwined when one last job leads to one last chance to settle an old score.
Style:
serious, suspenseful, rough, realistic, independent film ...
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Plot:
gangster, hitman, rivalry, aging, elderly, dishonesty, law enforcement, criminal heroes, one last chance, mafia, investigation, revenge ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
chicago, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
When Nick Davis leaves prison after one year in solitaire, he is hired to operate forklift in a warehouse in the harbor owned by the Japanese Yakuza patriarch Isshin Tendo. The place is assaulted by the Italian Mafia leaded by Dino Campanela and ...
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boys' night
Plot:
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Time:
90s
Place:
japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Israel
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Mike Anderson, a tough American reporter on a dangerous foreign assignment, finds his own life in jeopardy when he uncovers a deadly labyrinth of political intrigue that threatens the lives of thousands. Dispatched to investigate a mysterious and ...
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Audience:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Czech Republic, UK, France, Spain, USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A CIA agent gets caught up in political intrigue after he gets brought in to solve the murder of a Cuban ambassador.
Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
90s
Place:
prague, czech republic, new york, europe, cuba ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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Country: USA, Aruba
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
The deranged military and former CIA agent Dean Cage is in a rehab program, trying to forget the traumatic loss of his best friend Scott in Bosnia. When he dates with his girl-friend and Scott's sister, Detective Amy Knight, in a dinning ...
Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
One of the US Air Force's most modern tactical aircrafts, an F-100 with a new laser guidance system, crashes into the sea near Malta - a region where the Soviet forces are highly present, too. The CIA immediately sends out their best secret ...
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Plot:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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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:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Place:
new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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27%
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Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Place:
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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:
serious, exciting, suspenseful, rough, crime drama ...
Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
pittsburgh, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Spears, a private detective working in L.A. receives word from an old friend that the friend's sister (and Spears' ex-girlfriend), Kim, has been kidnapped by a criminal gang. At first, Spears doesn't want to get involved, especially ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Time:
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26%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama
Country: Australia, Hong Kong
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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