swap_horiz Shaft (2019) Alternatives

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Death of a Snowman

Also released as *Soul Patrol*, this 1978 South African action film directed by Christopher Rowley blends blaxploitation...

Action Classic Crime Urban

6.6 Fair

2

Come Back, Charleston Blue

Come Back, Charleston Blue is a 1972 Harlem crime comedy, Mark Warren's sequel to Cotton Comes to Harlem, with music by...

Detective Crime Comedy Sequel

6.5 Fair

3

Trouble Man

Trouble Man is Ivan Dixon's 1972 crime thriller starring Robert Hooks as fixer Mr. T, remembered for Marvin Gaye's self-...

Action Drama Detective Crime

6.5 Fair

4

Willie Dynamite

Willie Dynamite is a 1973 blaxploitation drama by Gilbert Moses, released in New York in 1974 as the first Zanuck-Brown...

Action Drama Crime 1974

6.2 Fair

5

Shaft (2000)

Shaft is a 2000 action thriller directed by John Singleton, starring Samuel L. Jackson as John Shaft with Richard Roundt...

Action Crime 2000S Sequel

6.2 Fair

6

Gordon's War

Gordon's War is Ossie Davis's 1973 action film starring Paul Winfield as a Vietnam veteran fighting Harlem drug dealers...

Action Crime Revenge Veterans

6.0 Fair

7

The Slams

The Slams is a 1973 prison-action film directed by Jonathan Kaplan, starring Jim Brown as a robber hiding stolen loot be...

Action Classic Crime 1970S

6.0 Fair

8

The Final Comedown

The Final Comedown is Oscar Williams's 1972 drama starring Billy Dee Williams, built around a shootout between Black mil...

Action Drama Activism Crime

5.8 Mediocre

9

Hit!

Hit! is Sidney J. Furie's 1973 action thriller starring Billy Dee Williams as a federal agent targeting heroin trafficke...

Action Crime Thriller Drugs

5.8 Mediocre

10

Original Gangstas

Original Gangstas is a 1996 Larry Cohen action film set in Gary, Indiana, notable for reuniting Fred Williamson, Jim Bro...

Action Nostalgia Community Crime

5.6 Mediocre

11

Brother on the Run

Brother on the Run is a 1973 blaxploitation film co-directed by Edward J. Lakso and Herbert Stock, noted for Johnny Pate...

Action Classic Crime Urban

5.6 Mediocre

12

Hammer

Hammer is Bruce D. Clark's 1972 boxing crime film starring Fred Williamson as B.J. Hammer, helping establish him as a bl...

Action Drama Boxing Crime

5.5 Mediocre

13

Melinda

Melinda is Hugh A. Robertson's 1972 MGM crime drama starring Calvin Lockhart, and it includes karate champion Jim Kelly'...

Action Drama Mystery Crime

5.5 Mediocre

14

Slaughter's Big Rip-Off

Slaughter's Big Rip-Off is Gordon Douglas's 1973 sequel to Slaughter, starring Jim Brown opposite Ed McMahon, with music...

Action Crime Revenge Sequel

5.5 Mediocre

15

That Man Bolt

That Man Bolt is a 1973 Universal action film starring Fred Williamson as courier Jefferson Bolt, mixing blaxploitation,...

Action Crime Spy Martial Arts

5.5 Mediocre

16

Three Tough Guys

Three Tough Guys is a 1974 Italy-France-U.S. crime action film by Duccio Tessari, starring Lino Ventura, Isaac Hayes and...

Action International Crime 1974

5.5 Mediocre

17

Solomon King

Solomon King is a 1974 independent blaxploitation film produced, written, co-directed, and starring Sal Watts, later res...

Action Classic Crime 1970S

5.5 Mediocre

18

Superfly T.N.T.

Superfly T.N.T. is Ron O'Neal's 1973 sequel to Super Fly, with O'Neal directing and reprising Youngblood Priest in Rome...

Action International Crime Sequel

4.8 Poor

19

Return of Superfly

The Return of Superfly is a 1990 crime drama directed by original producer Sig Shore, notable for replacing Ron O'Neal w...

Action Crime Sequel Drugs

4.3 Poor

20

Super Fly 2000

This modern continuation of the Super Fly franchise updates the classic blaxploitation narrative of a drug dealer naviga...

Action Crime 2000S Sequel

3.8 Poor