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10 Best Movies Like The Manhandlers

If you loved The Manhandlers, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Sharky's Machine

Sharky's Machine

1981★ 6.2

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

Police officer Tom Sharky gets busted back to working vice, where he happens upon a scandalous conspiracy involving a local politician. Sharky's new 'machine' gathers evidence whil...

#2
Vice Squad

Vice Squad

1982★ 6.2

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

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

#3
Foxy Brown

Foxy Brown

1974★ 6.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Manhandlers for fans of Action & 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....

#4
Absolution

Absolution

2024★ 5.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Manhandlers for fans of Action & Crime. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

An aging ex-boxer gangster working as muscle for a Boston crime boss receives an upsetting diagnosis. Despite a faltering memory, he attempts to rectify the sins of his past and r...

#5
Hoodlum

Hoodlum

1997★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Manhandlers for fans of Crime & Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

In 1934, the second most lucrative business in New York City was running 'the numbers'. When Madam Queen—the powerful woman who runs the scam in Harlem—is arrested, Ellsworth 'Bump...

#6
Black Caesar

Black Caesar

1973★ 5.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Manhandlers for fans of Action & 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....

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