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10 Best Movies Like Hell Up In Harlem

If you loved Hell Up In Harlem, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Black Caesar

Black Caesar

1973★ 5.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Hell Up In Harlem for fans of Action & Thriller & Crime & Drama. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

Raised in Harlem, Tommy Gibbs becomes a successful mob boss but he clashes with the rival Mafia and his old enemy, dirty cop McKinney....

#2
Across 110th Street

Across 110th Street

1972★ 6.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Hell Up In Harlem for fans of Action & Thriller & Crime & Drama. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

In a daring robbery, some $300,000 is taken from the Italian mob. Several mafiosi are killed, as are two policemen. Lt. Pope and Capt. Mattelli are two New York City cops trying to...

#3
Al Capone

Al Capone

1959★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Hell Up In Harlem for fans of Action & Crime & Drama. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

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...

#4
Foxy Brown

Foxy Brown

1974★ 6.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Hell Up In Harlem for fans of Action & Thriller & Crime. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

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

#5
The Black Book

The Black Book

2023★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Hell Up In Harlem for fans of Action & Thriller. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

After his son is wrongly accused of kidnapping, a deacon who has just lost his wife takes matters into his own hands and fights a crooked police gang to clear him....

#6
Best of the Best 2

Best of the Best 2

1993★ 5.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Hell Up In Harlem for fans of Action & Thriller & Crime & Drama. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

In an underground fight club, blackbelt Travis Brickley is killed after losing to the evil martial arts master Brakus. Travis' death is witnessed by Walter Grady, the son of his be...

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