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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
Cotton Comes to Harlem

Cotton Comes to Harlem

1970★ 6.2

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

Harlem's African-American population is being ripped off by the Rev. Deke O'Malley, who dishonestly claims that small donations will secure parcels of land in Africa. When New York...

#3
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....

#4
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...

#5
The Seven-Ups

The Seven-Ups

1973★ 6.3

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.

A tough detective who is part of an elite New York City unit is trying to find out who killed his partner, but uncovers a plot to kidnap mobsters for money....

#6
Diablo

Diablo

2025★ 7.3

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.

Ex-con Kris Chaney seizes the daughter of a Colombian gangster to fulfill a noble promise to the young girl's mother. When her father enlists both the criminal underworld and a psy...

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