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Movies like Amped Up! (2016)

The best movies like Amped Up! (2016) are Black Caesar (1973), Never Back Down: Revolt (2021) and Gabriela (1983). If Amped Up! hooked you, these 20 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.

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  1. 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: Recommended by TMDB viewers

  2. Never Back Down: Revolt (2021)

    An amateur fighter is lured by a trafficking syndicate specializing in elite underground fighting where her brutal captor forces her to fight or face certain death.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers

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  3. Gabriela (1983)

    In 1925, Gabriela, a poor, uneducated, yet charming woman becomes cook, mistress, and then wife of Nacib, a bar owner in Ilhéus, a small Brazilian coastal town run by the local colonels.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers

  4. No Retreat, No Surrender 2: Raging Thunder (1987)

    In this sequel, Scott Wylde, an American kickboxer, must go to Cambodia to rescue his Vietnamese girlfriend from Russian and Vietnamese troops.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers

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  5. Orgazmo (1998)

    A devout Mormon living in L.A. becomes a pornographic actor after his martial arts moves impress a big-time director.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers

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  6. Porno (2019)

    When a group of naive teens working at a movie theater in a small Christian town discover a mysterious film hidden in its basement, they unleash an alluring succubus who gives them a sex education…written in blood.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers

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  7. The Protector (1985)

    Billy Wong is a New York City cop whose partner is gunned down during a robbery. Billy and his new partner, Danny Garoni, are working security at a fashion show when a wealthy man's daughter, Laura Shapiro, is kidnapped. The Federal authorities suspect that Laura's father is involved with Mr. Ko, a Hong Kong drug kingpin, so the NYC police commissioner sends the two cops to Hong Kong to investigate.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers

  8. Macunaima (1969)

    Born a fully grown black man in a village in the Brazilian jungle, Macunaíma later magically transforms into a white man before making an adventure-filled trip to the city of São Paulo. Once there, he becomes something of a dandy, falling in love with Ci, a revolutionary who dies in an accidental bombing. After robbing a ruthless industrialist, Macunaima returns to his village where he finds his newly acquired knowledge and possessions of little use.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers

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  9. Accident Man: Hitman's Holiday (2022)

    The Accident Man is back, and this time he must best the top assassins in the world to protect the ungrateful son of a mafia boss, save the life of his only friend and rekindle his relationship with his maniacal father figure.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers

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  10. Pretty Persuasion (2005)

    A 15-year-old girl incites chaos among her friends and a media frenzy when she accuses her drama teacher of sexual harassment.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers

  11. The Spine of Night (2021)

    When ancient dark magic falls into sinister hands and unleashes ages of suffering onto mankind, a group of heroes from different eras and cultures must band together in order to defeat it at all costs.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers

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  12. The Outfit (1973)

    A two-bit criminal takes on the Mafia to avenge his brother's death. Earl Macklin is a small time criminal who is released from prison after an unsuccessful bank robbery only to discover that a pair of gunmen killed his brother.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers

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  13. Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003)

    An assassin is shot by her ruthless employer, Bill, and other members of their assassination circle – but she lives to plot her vengeance.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers

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  14. Accident Man (2018)

    Mike Fallon, the Accident Man, is a stone cold killer. When a loved one is murdered by his own crew, Fallon is forced to avenge the one person who actually meant something to him.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers

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  15. Heavy Traffic (1973)

    A white dropout struggles to become a cartoonist and filmmaker, drawing inspiration from the harsh, gritty world around him. Still sharing his rundown apartment with his middle-aged parents, an oafish slob of an Italian father and a ditzy nutcase of a Jewish mother, he's ridiculed and looked down upon by his friends, hypocrites who run with violent gangs and the Italian Mafia, and a shallow Black girl who makes her living downtown with the pimps and pushers. The cartoonist gets a chance to pitch a film idea to a movie mogul, but the story proves too outrageous: a far-future Earth, depleted by war and pollution, where a mutant antihero challenges and kills God.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers

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  16. In the Soup (1992)

    An aspiring young filmmaker gets involved with an eccentric gangster for the financing of his first film.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers

    Popcorn FlickMovies like this
  17. King Cobra (2016)

    It’s 2006, YouTube is in its infancy, and internet porn is still behind a paywall. Taking the stage name Brent Corrigan, a fresh-faced, wannabe adult video performer is molded into a star by Stephen, a closeted gay porn mogul who runs the skin flick empire Cobra Video from his seemingly ordinary suburban home.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers

  18. Love Strange Love (1982)

    A man remembers forty-eight crucial hours in his life when, as a child, he visited his mother, the favorite woman of an important politician, in a bordello owned by him, right before some important political changes in 1937 Brazil. In those hours, he discovers his own sexuality.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers

  19. Original Sin (2001)

    A young man is plunged into a life of subterfuge, deceit and mistaken identity in pursuit of a femme fatale whose heart is never quite within his grasp.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers

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  20. Mortal Kombat Legends: Snow Blind (2022)

    The vicious, power-mad Kano is determined to take over Earthrealm, one soul at a time. Assisted by a trio of cold Black Dragon mercenaries, he embarks on a brutal assault from town to defenseless town. The choice is simple: kneel or be annihilated. Kenshi, a rebel warrior, calls on Kuai Liang, the only one powerful enough to challenge the malevolent Kano. But Kuai Liang has given up the ways of the warrior, and Kenshi is too undisciplined to defeat Kano himself. If Kuai Liang cannot break through the glacier of doubt that holds him back, Earthrealm will fall.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers

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Frequently asked questions

What are the best movies like Amped Up!?

The closest matches to Amped Up! are Black Caesar (1973), Never Back Down: Revolt (2021) and Gabriela (1983). Below are 17 more, each with the reason it matches.

What should I watch after Amped Up!?

Start with Black Caesar (1973), the closest match to Amped Up!.

What is the highest-rated movie like Amped Up!?

Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003), rated 8.0/10 by 19,711 TMDB users.

What is the newest movie like Amped Up!?

Accident Man: Hitman's Holiday (2022) is the most recent release on this list.

How are movies similar to Amped Up! chosen?

First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Amped Up!, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.

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