Movies like Foxy Brown (1974)
The best movies like Foxy Brown (1974) are Hit Man (1972), Fight for Your Life (1977) and Violent City (1970). If Foxy Brown hooked you with its action and crime, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedMr. Majestyk (1974)6.8/10 from 218 votes
- NewestHandgun (1983)Released 1983
Hit Man (1972)
Bernie Casey portrays Tyrone and Pamela Grier plays a sultry skin-flick star in this first Americanized remake of the iconic Michael Caine action film Get Carter. From Watts to the West Side, from porno parlors to a high-rise, from motel dives to a crime kingpin’s sprawling pleasure dome, from corner hangouts to a wildlife preserve, Tyrone covers a lot of real estate, busts a lot of heads.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & crime
Fight for Your Life (1977)
A minister dispenses justice on three convicts who take his family hostage.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & crime
SnoozefestMovies like thisViolent City (1970)
A hitman is double-crossed by his girlfriend and barely escapes a murder attempt. He then sets out to take his revenge on the woman and the gang boss who put her up to it.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & crime
SnoozefestMovies like thisMs .45 (1981)
After being attacked and raped twice in one day, a timid, mute seamstress becomes a violent agent of revenge for wronged women.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMr. Majestyk (1974)
A melon farmer battles organized crime and a hit man who wants to kill him.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & crime
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisWelcome Home Brother Charles (1975)
After wrongly doing time in prison for murder, a man seeks revenge on a racist law enforcement system and the detective who framed him.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & thriller
'Gator Bait (1974)
Desirée lives deep in the swamp and supports herself and her siblings by poaching. After an accident involving Deputy Billy and a friend, the Sheriff, Deputy and a family of locals go after Desirée. Soon the hunters become the hunted as she exacts her revenge for their violence against her family.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & thriller
Coffy (1973)
After her younger sister gets involved in drugs and is severely injured by contaminated heroin, a nurse sets out on a mission of vengeance and vigilante justice, killing drug dealers, pimps, and mobsters who cross her path.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThat Man Bolt (1973)
Fred Williamson chop-sockeys his way through this popular blaxploitation adventure as Jefferson Bolt, a Kung Fu expert assigned to deliver a cool $1 million to Mexico City from Hong Kong with a stop in Los Angeles. When Bolt discovers the cash is dirty mob money and his gal has been killed, he heads back to the Far East to get even.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action
TNT Jackson (1974)
A woman encounters thugs and drug dealers after traveling to Hong Kong to search for her missing brother.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisHandgun (1983)
Shortly after moving to Dallas, a young woman is raped at gunpoint. Her intense anger drives her to seek revenge, and she becomes a hunter on a vengeance mission.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & crime
Cleopatra Jones (1973)
After federal agent Cleopatra Jones orders the burning of a Turkish poppy field, the notorious drug lord Mommy vows to destroy her.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & crime
SnoozefestMovies like thisHit! (1973)
A federal agent whose daughter dies of a heroin overdose is determined to destroy the drug ring that supplied her. He recruits various people whose lives have been torn apart by the drug trade and trains them. Then they all leave for France to track down and destroy the ring.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & crime
Black Mama, White Mama (1973)
When two troublemaking female prisoners (one a revolutionary, the other a former harem-girl) can't seem to get along, they are chained together and extradited for safekeeping. The women, still chained together, stumble, stab, and cat-fight their way across the wilderness, igniting a bloody shootout between gangsters and a group of revolutionaries.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & crime
SnoozefestMovies like thisShaft (1971)
Cool Black private eye John Shaft is hired by a crime lord to find and retrieve his kidnapped daughter.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThree the Hard Way (1974)
After his wife is kidnapped by a group of White supremacists, a record producer teams up with a PR man and a martial artist to get her back and put a stop to their plot to poison the water supply with a toxin that only kills Black people.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisFriday Foster (1975)
Friday Foster, a magazine photographer, goes to Los Angeles International airport to photograph the arrival of Blake Tarr, the richest black man in America. Three men attempt to assassinate Tarr. Foster photographs the melee and is plunged into a web of conspiracy involving the murder of her childhood friend, a US senator, and a shadowy plan called "Black Widow".
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDolemite (1975)
Dolemite is a pimp who was set up by Willie Greene and the cops, who have planted drugs, stolen furs, and guns in his trunk and got him sentenced to 20 years in jail. One day, Queen B and a warden planned to get him out of Jail and get Willie Green and Mitchell busted for what they did to him.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & crime
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Lady in Red (1979)
A farm girl's life turns upside down after she moves to Chicago and becomes trapped in a vicious cycle of prostitution and crime.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & crime
SnoozefestMovies like thisTruck Turner (1974)
Truck Turner and his partner Jerry, who make their living as bounty hunters in Los Angeles, are hired to hunt down Gator, a pimp who has skipped bail.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBlack Shampoo (1976)
A promiscuous Black hairstylist has sex with his white female clientele, but when he begins a relationship with his Black secretary, her white mobster ex-boyfriend resorts to violent measures to get her back.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & crime
Black Caesar (1973)
Raised in Harlem, Tommy Gibbs becomes a successful mob boss but he clashes with the rival Mafia and his old enemy, dirty cop McKinney.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & action
SnoozefestMovies like thisSlaughter (1972)
Slaughter, a former Green Beret, avenges the killing of loved ones by the Mob, and after being blackmailed by the feds, is forced to head to South America to finish the mobsters off.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & crime
Super Fly (1972)
Priest, a New York City drug kingpin, devises a scheme to get out of the business and retire with a big payday, but his plans are complicated when a street dealer rats him out to the police.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisShaft in Africa (1973)
Detective John Shaft travels incognito to Ethiopia, then France, to bust a human trafficking ring.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMacon County Line (1974)
A vengeful Southern sheriff is out for blood after his wife is brutally killed by a pair of drifters. Low-budget film set in Georgia in 1953 and at the time of release, purported to be based on a true story.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action
Black Snake (1973)
On a 19th century Caribbean island, slaves revolt against their beautiful and sadistic mistress.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & thriller
Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song (1971)
After saving a Black Panther from some racist cops, a black male prostitute goes on the run from "the man" with the help of the ghetto community and some disillusioned Hells Angels.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & crime
SnoozefestMovies like thisWalking Tall (1973)
Ex-wrestler and Tennessee Sheriff Buford Pusser walks tall and carries a big stick as he tussles with county-wide corruption and moonshining thugs.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & crime
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBlack Gunn (1972)
A successful and popular nightclub owner who believes financial independence is the path to equality and success, must act as a go-between for militant-minded brother and the white gang syndicate his brother has attacked and robbed. Their involvements lead to a breathless race course chase, the destruction of a dopepusher and a violent waterfront climax.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & thriller
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Foxy Brown?
The closest matches to Foxy Brown are Hit Man (1972), Fight for Your Life (1977) and Violent City (1970). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Foxy Brown?
People who watched Foxy Brown most often go on to Hit Man (1972), Fight for Your Life (1977) and Violent City (1970).
What is the highest-rated movie like Foxy Brown?
Mr. Majestyk (1974), rated 6.8/10 by 218 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Foxy Brown?
Handgun (1983) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like Foxy Brown?
Yes: Hit Man (1972), Fight for Your Life (1977) and Ms .45 (1981).
How are movies similar to Foxy Brown chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Foxy Brown, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.