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Movies Like Hot Bodies for a Bodyguard

If you liked Hot Bodies for a Bodyguard (1989), a movie directed by SX Kowalski, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.

  1. 1Al Capone

    Al Capone (1959)

    ★ 6.6/10

    In this unusually accurate biography, small-time hood Al Capone comes to Chicago at the dawn of Prohibition to be the bodyguard of racketeer Johnny Torrio. Capone's rise in Chicago gangdom is followed through murder…

  2. 2Pimp

    Pimp (2018)

    ★ 6.2/10

    An urban love story set on the hard streets of the Bronx. A struggling female pimp, named Wednesday, grows up learning the game from her dad. Once he's gone she's left to look out for her prostitute mother and…

  3. 3Jawbone

    Jawbone (2017)

    ★ 6.1/10

    A former youth boxing champion, Jimmy McCabe is a man in search of hope but looking in all the wrong places. When he hits rock bottom he turns to his childhood boxing club and the only family he has left: gym owner…

  4. 4Newness

    Newness (2017)

    ★ 6.1/10

    In contemporary Los Angeles, two millennials navigating a social media–driven hookup culture begin a relationship that pushes both emotional and physical boundaries.

  5. 5Death Wish II

    Death Wish II (1982)

    ★ 6.2/10

    Paul Kersey is again a vigilante trying to find five punks who murdered his housekeeper and daughter in Los Angeles.

  6. 6Rise of the Footsoldier

    Rise of the Footsoldier (2007)

    ★ 6.4/10

    Carlton Leach rises from one of the most feared generals of the football terraces to becoming a member of a notorious gang of criminals who rampaged their way through London and Essex in the late '80s and early '90s.

  7. 7In the Blood

    In the Blood (2014)

    ★ 5.8/10

    When her husband goes missing during their Caribbean vacation, a woman sets off on her own to take down the men she thinks are responsible.

  8. 8Foxy Brown

    Foxy Brown (1974)

    ★ 6.3/10

    A voluptuous black woman takes a job as a high-class prostitute in order to get revenge on the mobsters who murdered her boyfriend.

  9. 9I.D.

    I.D. (1995)

    ★ 6.6/10

    Four policemen go undercover and infiltrate a gang of football hooligans hoping to route out their leaders. For one of the four, the line between 'job' and 'yob' becomes more unclear as time passes . . .

  10. 10Hard to Die

    Hard to Die (1990)

    ★ 6/10

    While doing the inventory for a lingerie outlet in a high rise office building, five attractive women are terrorized by a series of bizarre killings. They suspect that the strange janitor, who witnessed another series…

  11. 11Zero Days

    Zero Days (2016)

    ★ 7.4/10

    Alex Gibney explores the phenomenon of Stuxnet, a self-replicating computer virus discovered in 2010 by international IT experts. Evidently commissioned by the US and Israeli governments, this malware was designed to…

  12. 12Vice Squad

    Vice Squad (1982)

    ★ 6.2/10

    An unlikely Hollywood hooker helps a detective set a trap for a mutilator pimp.

  13. 13Asylum

    Asylum (2005)

    ★ 6.1/10

    A woman becomes very curious about one of her psychiatrist husband's inmates, a man who was found guilty in the murder and disfigurement of his former wife.

  14. 14Facing Ali

    Facing Ali (2009)

    ★ 7.3/10

    Ten of Muhammad Ali's former rivals pay tribute to the three-time world heavyweight champion.

  15. 15Pretty Persuasion

    Pretty Persuasion (2005)

    ★ 5.8/10

    A 15-year-old girl incites chaos among her friends and a media frenzy when she accuses her drama teacher of sexual harassment.

  16. 16No Retreat, No Surrender 2: Raging Thunder

    No Retreat, No Surrender 2: Raging Thunder (1987)

    ★ 6/10

    In this sequel, Scott Wylde, an American kickboxer, must go to Cambodia to rescue his Vietnamese girlfriend from Russian and Vietnamese troops.

  17. 17Rise of the Footsoldier 3

    Rise of the Footsoldier 3 (2017)

    ★ 6.4/10

    In the late 1980s, Pat Tate journeys from peddling pills in Marbella to his time in prison, where he solidifies his power before his release to reclaim his turf.

  18. 18Coffy

    Coffy (1973)

    ★ 6.6/10

    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…

  19. 19Grindhouse

    Grindhouse (2007)

    ★ 7/10

    Grindhouse combines Robert Rodriguez's Planet Terror, a horror comedy about a group of survivors who battle zombie-like creatures, and Quentin Tarantino's Death Proof, an action thriller about a murderous stuntman who…

  20. 20We Still Kill the Old Way

    We Still Kill the Old Way (2014)

    ★ 6/10

    A group of aging London gangsters go on a vigilante killing spree when one of their number is murdered by a street gang.

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