Movies like The Devil's Express

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The Devil's Express (1976)
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The Devil's Express (1976)
Original name: Devil's Express
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Warhawk Tanzania plays Luke Curtis who along with his friend Rodan (Wilfredo Roldan) takes a break from the city streets to train kung fu in China. Whilst there, Rodan steals an ancient amulet which prevents an evil spirit from leaving his tomb. The evil spirit now free, possesses somebody and lurks in the subways killing and mutilating its victims. Can kung fu master Luke Curtis right Rodan's wrong and put a stop to the killings?
Style: detective, grindhouse, hood, psychotronic, independent film, weird
Plot: blaxploitation, martial arts, demon, street gang, demonic possession, gang war, gang, gangster, ghetto, fear, exploitation, supernatural horror, monster, kung fu, subway, african american protagonist, serial killer, fight, artist, murder, punk, racism, priest, sword, tough girl ...
Time: year 2016
Place: new york, ancient china
Keyword: gangsters

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Most similar movies to The Devil's Express

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, independent film, realistic and suspenseful films with plots about martial arts, murder, violence, gangster, revenge, gang and fistfight mostly in Action, Crime and Thriller genres. Some movies like The Devil's Express: Black Samurai (1976), Deadbeat at Dawn (1988), Sugar Hill (1974), The Warriors (1979), Mean Johnny Barrows (1975). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Black Samurai (1976)
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: grindhouse, cult classic, hood, independent film, weird
Plot: blaxploitation, martial arts, spy, samurai, mixed martial arts, karate, master warrior, snake, black, exploitation, gang, ghetto ...
Place: mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
Deadbeat at Dawn (1988)
Genre: Action, Crime, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Goose leaves the gang life behind after pleas from his girlfriend. But it isn't long before he's pulled back into the world of violence.
Style: independent film, bloody, controversial, indie film, action adventure ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: exploitation, gang war, street gang, gory, martial arts, gang, violence, gangster, rivalry, extreme, erotica, ghetto ...
Time: 80s
Place: ohio, midwest
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
 5.8
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Sugar Hill (1974)
Genre: Action, Crime, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: When her boyfriend is brutally murdered, after refusing to be shaken down by the local gangsters running their protection racket, Sugar Hill, decides not to get mad, but BAD! Calling upon the help of aged voodoo queen Mama Maitresse, Sugar entreats ...
Style: scary, suspenseful, rough, suspense, independent film ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: zombie, blaxploitation, vengeance, murder, black american, gory, racial slur, voodoo, frame up, wizards and magicians, danger, supernatural ability ...
Time: 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
 7.5
 110K
The Warriors (1979)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Prominent gang leader Cyrus calls a meeting of New York's gangs to set aside their turf wars and take over the city. At the meeting, a rival leader kills Cyrus, but a Coney Island gang called the Warriors is wrongly blamed for Cyrus' ...
Style: neo noir, grindhouse, futuristic, stylized, suspense ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, teen drama, adult
Plot: survival, street gang, gang, violence, gang war, subway, gang member, gangster, chase, murder, graffiti, assassination ...
Time: future, year 1979, 70s, near future
Place: new york, coney island brooklyn new york city, bronx new york city, usa, brooklyn new york city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
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Mean Johnny Barrows (1975)
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.
Style: grindhouse, independent film
Plot: blaxploitation, exploitation, mafia, black, vietnam war, urban, vietnam veteran, veteran, gang, mobster, murder, machine gun ...
Time: year 1976
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
 6.6
 21K
Shaft (1971)
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 ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Maniac Cop (1988)
Genre: Action, Crime, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: In New York, people are slain and strangled to death brutally on the open street. All witnesses agree that the murderer was in a cop's uniform. Soon the police searches and finds a suspect in its own ranks: Jack Forrest, turned in by his own ...
Style: slasher, scary, serious, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: serial killer, murder, police investigation, police, violence, false accusation, police corruption, vengeance, unlikely criminals, danger, couple relations, stalking ...
Time: 80s, year 1988, 20th century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
Karate Warriors (1976)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 89 min.
Story: The fourth and final film in the "Street Fighter" series, where Tsurugi protects a little boy while coping with rival gangs.
Style: grindhouse
Plot: martial arts, karate, medieval, kung fu, fight, samurai, ancient, gang, yakuza, gang war, revenge, katana ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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American Dragons (1998)
Genre: Action, Crime
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Murders in Seoul, Korea and in America pair two cops from each of the countries together to solve the crimes. The investigation leads to a gang war between the Mafia and the Yakuza, but one that may not be of either of their making. A shadowy ...
Style: independent film, serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: yakuza, reluctant partners, buddy cop, killer, die hard, police investigation, cop, gangster, violent content, special agent, partner, profanity ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: new york, seoul, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
 5.4
 1K
Tiger Claws (1992)
Genre: Action
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: The police does not know what to do. They have to deal with a serial killer who aims at martial arts masters. One after another is killed in the same brutal way. This may be a chance for detective Linda Masterson to work on her first murder case. ...
Style: exciting, serious, rough, independent film, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, serial killer, murder, woman with a gun, police detective, master warrior, police investigation, one woman army, tough heroes, law enforcement, master criminal, rivalry ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
 4.1
 1K
Hot Boyz (2000)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Injustice begets a criminal. Kool is an artist without prospects, a black belt in karate, and in love with LaShawna, poised and college bound. One night she witnesses a stabbing and discovers the victim is a cop as he dies in her arms. She's ...
Style: hood, realistic, suspenseful, serious, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gangster, gang, urban, frame up, racism, life is a bitch, police investigation, murder, social decay, police corruption, false accusation, law enforcement ...
Time: 90s
Place: usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
 5.5
 998
Tenement (1985)
Genre: Action, Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A drug-dealing band of violent street thugs terrorize the tenants of a South Bronx apartment building
Style: disturbing, terrifying, hood, controversial, independent film ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gang, exploitation, revenge, urban decay, apartment building, rape, home invasion, ghetto, street gang, violence, city, gangster ...
Time: 80s
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
 4.8
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Bogard (1975)
Genre: Action, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: To make money, a Los Angeles street-fighter goes to work for gangsters.
Style: grindhouse, independent film
Plot: blaxploitation, martial arts, urban, money, gangster, female nudity, streetfighting, street fighter, junkie, poker, swimming pool, barbershop ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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 ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Forced Vengeance (1982)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA, Hong Kong
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A casino security guard is forced into violence from when the Hong Kong mob threatens his friends.
Style: cult classic, psychotronic, exciting, serious, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, gay, kung fu, vietnam war, casino, organized crime, showdown, machine gun, mixed martial arts, heroes, hitman, gambling ...
Time: year 1982, 80s
Place: hong kong, china, vietnam, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 5.6
 7K
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 ⇓
37%
New York Ninja (2021)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: After his wife is murdered, a man becomes a ninja to take revenge on her killers across the streets of New York, in this film that was originally abandoned in 1984 until it was discovered and completed by Vinegar Syndrome.
Style: hood, weird
Plot: ninja, martial arts, gang, gangster, ghetto, kung fu, wife, sex in car, pregnancy, abduction, pregnant woman, helicopter ...
Time: year 1984
Place: manhattan new york city, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Breaker! Breaker! (1977)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Truck driver searches for his brother, who has disappeared in a town run by a corrupt judge.
Style: intense, rough, realistic, exciting, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, chase, small town, corruption, trucker, missing person, justice, police corruption, judge, buddies, partner, kidnapping ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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The Perfect Weapon (1991)
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 ...
Style: detective, cult classic, crime drama, independent film, psychotronic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, kung fu, one man army, friendship, one against many, teacher student relationship, homecoming, father son estrangement, showdown, brother brother relationship, crime boss, revenge ...
Time: year 1991, 90s
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
The Annihilators (1985)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Upon his return from Vietnam, an ex-soldier finds his neighborhood has deteriorated badly, and is being terrorized by a vicious street gang. He calls some of his GI buddies, and together they hatch a plan to get rid of the gang.
Style: hood, retro, independent film
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⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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 ⇓
35%
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Youngblood (1978)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A gang war/drug story set in a Los Angeles ghetto about the coming of age of a 15-year-old black youth.
Style: grindhouse, hood, independent film
Plot: blaxploitation, coming of age, gang, social issues, ghetto, friendship, single mother, teenager, african american, basketball, gang member, high school ...
Time: 70s
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⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
An Eye for an Eye (1981)
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
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Time: 80s, year 1981
Place: san francisco, bay area, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Shaft in Africa (1973)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
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Style: hood, exciting, realistic, serious, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: blaxploitation, private detective, exploitation, nudity, black, gangster, gunfight, male nudity, violence, slavery, sex, afrikaans ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
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⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Teeth and Blood (2015)
Genre: Action, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A beautiful diva is murdered on the set of horror director Vincent Augustine's latest film "Chapel Blood." Somewhere between the crime scene and the coroner's van, the body mysteriously disappears. Meanwhile, the city's ...
Style: bleak, exciting, suspenseful, tense, psychotronic ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Action, Crime, Horror
Country: Italy, USA, UK
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Set in the fictional country of Heaven Valley, the film is the story of a man, Adam, who following the suspicious death of his wife begins to investigate her murder and in doing so, discovers the involvement of local mafia boss: Denny Richards. ...
Style: disturbing, bleak, suspenseful, serious, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
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⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
The Oily Maniac (1976)
Genre: Action, Crime, Horror
Country: Hong Kong, Malaysia
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A cripple takes revenge on criminals by using a magic spell that transforms him into an oily monster/superhero.
Style: psychotronic, weird
Plot: exploitation, body horror, monster, superhero, serial killer, killer, supernatural horror, creature, female nudity, legal action, chase, revenge ...
Place: malaysia
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Black Dragon's Revenge (1975)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Hong Kong, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Three rival gangs embark on a search for Bruce Lee's handwritten "finger fighting " manual.
Plot: martial arts, blaxploitation, exploitation, investigation, kung fu, city, fight, violence, revenge
Time: year 2016
Place: hong kong
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
 6.1
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Romeo Must Die (2000)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Two warring gang families (one African-American, the other Chinese) maneuver for bragging rights to the Oakland, California, docks. Hang Sing and Trish O'Day uncover a trail of deceit that leaves most of the warring factions dead … or worse!
Style: intense, suspenseful, exciting, rough, action packed ...
Audience: boys' night
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Time: year 2000, y2k, 20th century, 90s
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⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
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Style: serious, rough, suspense, tense, hood ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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