Movies like Dolemite
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Dolemite (1975)
7K
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 and Mitchell busted for what they did to him.
Style:
grindhouse, hood, funny, surreal, black comedy, cult classic, spooky, parody, offbeat, humorous ...
Plot:
blaxploitation, martial arts, exploitation, profanity, black, prison, frame up, african american, revenge, murder, hip hop, cocaine, explosions, urban, insult, woman with a gun, black history, shootout, fight, sex scene, racial slur, ex convict, police corruption, heroes, misfit ...
Time:
year 1975, 70s, 20th century
Place:
los angeles, usa
Keyword:
vulgarity, gangsters, partners
Most similar movies to Dolemite
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, humorous, black comedy and black cinema films with plots about gangster, black, blaxploitation, african american, urban, partner and law enforcement mostly in Crime, Action and Comedy genres. Some movies like Dolemite: I'm Gonna Git You Sucka (1988), The Human Tornado (1976), Black Dynamite (2009), Cotton Comes to Harlem (1970), Disco Godfather (1979). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Jack Spade returns from the army in his old ghetto neighbourhood when his brother, June Bug, dies. Jack declares war on Mr. Big, powerful local crimelord. His army is led by John Slade, his childhood idol who used to fight bad guys in the 70s.
Style:
parody, spoof, funny, hood, cult classic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
blaxploitation, hip hop, satire, ghetto, pimp, black, urban, black history, heroes, gunfight, violence, stupidity ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, 70s
Place:
indiana, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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:
semi serious, humorous, exciting, stylized, witty ...
Plot:
blaxploitation, superhero, martial arts, exploitation, fighting crime, rivalry, injustice, racism, heroes, lone wolves, gangster, racial prejudice ...
Time:
70s
Place:
california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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 ⇓
35%
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 ⇓
33%
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Clyde Williams and Billy Foster are a couple of blue-collar workers in Atlanta who have promised to raise funds for their fraternal order, the Brothers and Sisters of Shaka. However, their method for raising the money involves travelling to New ...
Style:
black comedy, action comedy, semi serious, realistic, witty ...
Plot:
blaxploitation, boxing, black, african american, hypnosis, gambling, urban, fight, church, gang, money, gangster ...
Time:
year 1975, 70s
Place:
new orleans, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Goldie returns from five years at the state pen and winds up king of the pimping game. Trouble comes in the form of two corrupt white cops and a crime lord who wants him to return to the small time.
Style:
grindhouse, hood, funny, cult classic, independent film ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
blaxploitation, urban, black, exploitation, african american, ghetto, black history, gangsta, mafia, tough guy, blues, hip hop ...
Time:
70s
Place:
bay area, usa, california, oakland california
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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%
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Sidney Poitier and Bill Cosby team up in this hilarious misadventure as buddies Steve and Wardell, who head uptown to a swanky nightclub. Unfortunately, thieves hit the club and steal Steve's wallet -- which happens to hold a winning lottery ...
Style:
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Audience:
boys' night, adult
Plot:
blaxploitation, african american, black, caper, hip hop, robbery, chase, urban, gangster, gambling, lottery, lottery winner ...
Time:
70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
After her younger sister gets involved in drugs and is severely injured by contaminated heroin, a nurse sets out on a mission of vengeance and vigilante justice, killing drug dealers, pimps, and mobsters who cross her path.
Style:
grindhouse, hood, sexy, neo noir, grim ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
blaxploitation, vigilante, revenge, gangster, female exploitation, tough girl, violence, vigilantism, exploitation, addiction, black, murder ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A black detective becomes embroiled in a web of danger while searching for a fortune in missing drug money. During the course of his investigation, he encounters various old connections, ultimately confronting the criminal responsible for ...
Style:
humorous, talky, realistic, suspenseful, action comedy ...
Audience:
boys' night, adult
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Back in sunny southern California and on the trail of two murderers, Axel Foley again teams up with LA cop Billy Rosewood. Soon, they discover that an amusement park is being used as a front for a massive counterfeiting ring – and it's run by ...
Style:
action comedy, detective, suspense, funny, black comedy ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, adult
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
beverly hills, los angeles, california, usa, michigan ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A voluptuous black woman takes a job as a high-class prostitute in order to get revenge on the mobsters who murdered her boyfriend.
Style:
grindhouse, cult classic, hood, sexy, neo noir ...
Audience:
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Plot:
blaxploitation, revenge, rape, rape and revenge, vigilante, gangster, female exploitation, prostitution, exploitation, black, drug addiction, social commentary ...
Time:
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Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Two inept criminals are mistakenly delivered a package of cocaine and think they've hit the jackpot, triggering a series of events that changes ten people's lives forever.
Style:
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Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
usa, philadelphia, pennsylvania
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Two broke buddies feel lucky when they come upon a truckload of cellular phones and begin selling them out of the back of their van. Trouble arises though, when the phones develop faults. The two friends then not only have to deal with unsatisfied ...
Style:
funny, humorous, light, hood, semi serious ...
Plot:
hip hop, gangster, justice, ghetto, dishonesty, disorder, stoner, odd couple, nothing goes right, unlikely criminals, buddies, misfit ...
Time:
90s, year 1998
Place:
los angeles, south central los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Genre: Action, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
An Afro-American organization, the B.R.O.T.H.E.R.H.O.O.D., is in permanent fight against a white organization "The Man" defending the values of the black people in North America. When the Afro-American candidate Gen. Warren Boutwell ...
Style:
parody, spoof, funny, feel good, stylized ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
blaxploitation, sexy girl, spy, racism, secret agent, heroic mission, black, fighting the system, hidden identity, double life, disorder, righting the wronged ...
Time:
year 2002, 70s, 2000s, 20th century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
292K
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
When Hong Kong Inspector Lee is summoned to Los Angeles to investigate a kidnapping, the FBI doesn't want any outside help and assigns cocky LAPD Detective James Carter to distract Lee from the case. Not content to watch the action from the ...
Style:
humorous, funny, buddy comedy, exciting, action comedy ...
Audience:
family friendly, chick flick, teens, boys' night
Plot:
martial arts, police, kung fu, reluctant partners, fight scenes, buddy cop, two man army, buddy, chase, african american, triad, fbi ...
Time:
90s, year 1998, 20th century, year 1997
Place:
los angeles, china, california, hong kong, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Tough-talking Detroit cop Axel Foley heads to the rarified world of Beverly Hills in his beat-up Chevy Nova to investigate a friend's murder. But soon, he realizes he's stumbled onto something much more complicated. Bungling rookie ...
Style:
buddy comedy, humorous, funny, exciting, witty ...
Audience:
kids, boys' night, teens, adult
Plot:
police, car chase, fish out of water, buddy cop, buddy, reluctant partners, undercover, investigation, death of friend, law enforcement, damsel in distress, gunfight ...
Time:
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Place:
los angeles, detroit, beverly hills, usa, michigan ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
122K
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
For the past two years, high-school security guard Ben has been trying to show decorated APD detective James that he's more than just a video-game junkie who's unworthy of James' sister, Angela. When Ben finally gets accepted into the ...
Style:
buddy comedy, funny, humorous, action comedy, exciting ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens
Plot:
two man army, police, law enforcement, escapades, gunfight, buddy cop, car chase, gangster, partner, black, kidnapping, disorder ...
Time:
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Place:
usa, georgia, atlanta georgia
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A United States Special Agent is assigned to crack down on drug-trafficking in the U.S. and abroad. After she burns a Turkish poppy field, the notorious drug-lord Mommy is furious at the loss of her supply and vows to destroy her.
Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
blaxploitation, female warrior, martial arts, female spy, spy, exploitation, murder, police, black, jazz, black history, women ...
Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
When Ashtray (Shawn Wayans) moves to South Central L.A. to live with his father (who appears to be the same age he is) and grandmother (who likes to talk tough and smoke reefer), he falls in with his gang-banging cousin Loc Dog (Marlon Wayans), who ...
Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
90s
Place:
california
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
"Sugar" Ray is the owner of an illegal casino, who contend with the pressures of vicious gangster and corrupt policemen who want to see him go out of business. In the world of organized crime and police corruption in the 1920s, any ...
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Audience:
boys' night, adult
Plot:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Money Talks is a 1997 American comedy film directed by Brett Ratner. Sought by police and criminals, a small-time huckster makes a deal with a TV newsman for protection.
Style:
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Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
los angeles, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Paper Soldiers follows an overeager burglar named Shawn (Kevin Hart) through the ups and downs of his short, stressful career.
Style:
semi serious, humorous, hood, realistic, exciting ...
Plot:
african american, hip hop, gangster, partner, drug dealing, dishonesty, nothing goes right, criminal heroes, ambition, unlikely criminals, disorder, urban ...
Place:
usa, memphis
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
It's 1934, and the evil local land baron forecloses on Angie's place, and she and her two daughters must leave and continue their life of crime. A reporter witnesses their heist of a bank, and helps them become folk legends by writing a ...
Style:
sex comedy, grindhouse, cult classic, independent film, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
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Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
Marcus Burnett is a hen-pecked family man. Mike Lowry is a foot-loose and fancy free ladies' man. Both are Miami policemen, and both have 72 hours to reclaim a consignment of drugs stolen from under their station's nose. To complicate ...
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Genre: Action, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Snap, Crackle, and Pop are top dogs in the Eastsidaz gang in Long Beach. Pop, also known as Killa, is the alpha dog. He has Crackle and Snap set up a big drug deal that's going to put him on easy street. But Crackle and Snap have their own ...
Style:
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Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
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Time:
90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Detroit cop, Axel Foley heads for the land of sunshine and palm trees to find out who shot police Captain Andrew Bogomil. Thanks to a couple of old friends, Axel's investigation uncovers a series of robberies masterminded by a heartless weapons ...
Style:
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Audience:
boys' night, teens, adult
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
los angeles, beverly hills, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Genre: Crime, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
How does retired cop Joshua Burke (James Earl Jones) get two career criminals, Manny Durrell (Sidney Poitier) and Dave Anderson (Bill Cosby), to follow the straight and narrow? Con them into helping juvenile delinquents turn over a new leaf. But ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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