Movies Like Black Jack City
If you liked Black Jack City (1991), a movie directed by Jim Enright, 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.
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Belly (1998)
★ 6.3/10Tommy Bundy and Sincere are best friends as well as infamous and ruthless criminals and shot-callers in the hood. Respected by many but feared by all. As the police are closing in on them and new players are looking…
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The Corruptor (1999)
★ 6.1/10Danny is a young cop partnered with Nick, a seasoned but ethically tainted veteran. As the two try to stop a gang war in Chinatown, Danny relies on Nick but grows increasingly uncomfortable with the way Nick gets…
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Raw Deal (1986)
★ 5.9/10Mark Kaminsky is kicked out of the FBI for his rough treatment of a suspect. He winds up as the sheriff of a small town in North Carolina. FBI Chief Harry Shannon, whose son has been killed by a mobster named…
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Siberian Education (2013)
★ 6.8/10The story of a gang of children growing up in a community of banished criminals, in a forgotten corner of the former Soviet Union. This community rejects the world outside. The only law it obeys… is its own. Against…
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Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood (1996)
★ 7/10When Ashtray 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, who…
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The Wild One (1953)
★ 6.5/10The Black Rebels Motorcycle Club ride into the small California town of Wrightsville, eager to raise hell. Brooding gang leader Johnny Strabler takes a liking to Kathie, the daughter of the local lawman, as another…
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Last Man Standing (1996)
★ 6.4/10John Smith is a mysterious stranger who is drawn into a vicious war between two Prohibition-era gangs. In a dangerous game, he switches allegiances from one to another, offering his services to the highest bidder. As…
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The Fastest Gun Alive (1956)
★ 6.9/10Whenever it becomes known how good he is with guns, ex-gunman George and his wife Dora have to flee the town, in fear of all the gunmen who might want to challenge him. Unfortunately he again spills his secret when…
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Paid in Full (2002)
★ 6.9/10Ace is an impressionable young man working for a dry cleaning business. His friend, drug dealer Mitch, goes to prison. In an unrelated incident, he finds some cocaine in a pants pocket. Soon, Ace finds himself dealing…
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Miller's Crossing (1990)
★ 7.4/10Set in 1929, a political boss and his advisor have a parting of the ways when they both fall for the same woman.
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West Side Story (1961)
★ 7.2/10In Manhattan’s Upper West Side, rival gangs of Polish-Americans and newly arrived Puerto Ricans clash for control of the neighborhood, even as two young members from opposite sides fall dangerously in love.
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China Girl (1987)
★ 6/10Teenage lovers Tony and Tyan-Hwa tip the balance of power in New York's Little Italy and Chinatown.
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Shaft (1971)
★ 6.4/10Cool Black private eye John Shaft is hired by a crime lord to find and retrieve his kidnapped daughter.
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The Substitute (1996)
★ 7/10When an inner-city Miami schoolteacher gets her knee broken after standing up to the school's gang leader, her mercenary combat specialist boyfriend goes undercover as a substitute teacher to take down the punk. Soon…
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Beverly Hills Cop (1984)
★ 7.2/10Fast-talking, quick-thinking Detroit street cop Axel Foley has bent more than a few rules and regs in his time, but when his best friend is murdered, he heads to sunny Beverly Hills to work the case like only he can.
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Code of Silence (1985)
★ 6/10A Chicago cop is caught in the middle of a gang war while his own comrades shun him because he wants to take an irresponsible cop down.
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Gangster No. 1 (2000)
★ 6.4/10An old gangster is advised that Freddie Mays would leave jail after thirty years in prison. His mood changes and he recalls when he was a young punk and who joined Freddie's gang—a man he both envied and ultimately…
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Straight Outta Compton (2015)
★ 7.8/10In 1987, five young men, using brutally honest rhymes and hardcore beats, put their frustration and anger about life in the most dangerous place in America into the most powerful weapon they had: their music. Taking us…
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Jolt (2021)
★ 6.5/10A bouncer with an anger management problem goes on a furious and resentful rampage after the murder of a friend.
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Cobra (1986)
★ 6.2/10A tough-on-crime street cop must protect the only surviving witness to a strange murderous cult with far reaching plans.