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10 Best Movies Like Velvet Smooth

If you loved Velvet Smooth, 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 Velvet Smooth for fans of 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 Velvet Smooth for fans of 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 Velvet Smooth for fans of 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
Across 110th Street

Across 110th Street

1972★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Velvet Smooth for fans of 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...

#5
Al Capone

Al Capone

1959★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Velvet Smooth for fans of 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...

#6
Belly

Belly

1998★ 6.1

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

Tommy 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...

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