Movies Like Shaft's Big Score!

Ranked by shared directors, cast, themes, genre, and era — not just generic recommendations.

Shaft

1971·1h 40m·★ 6.6·Gordon Parks

Shaft Collection2 shared crewBoth star Richard Roundtree & Moses Gunn

Shaft in Africa

1973·1h 52m·★ 5.9·John Guillermin

Shaft CollectionAction & Crime & DramaStarring Richard Roundtree

Die Hard: With a Vengeance

1995·2h 8m·★ 7.6·John McTiernan

Themes: bomb, helicopterAction & Thriller

Super Fly

1972·1h 31m·★ 6.4·Gordon Parks Jr.

Fans also likedCrime & Drama & Action & ThrillerStarring Julius Harris

Black Caesar

1973·1h 35m·★ 6.4·Larry Cohen

Fans also likedAction & Crime & Drama & ThrillerStarring Julius Harris

Memories of Murder

2003·2h 11m·★ 8.1·Bong Joon Ho

TMDB recommendsCrime & Drama & Thriller

A Better Tomorrow

1986·1h 35m·★ 7.4·John Woo

TMDB recommendsAction & Crime & Drama

Backdraft

1991·2h 17m·★ 6.7·Ron Howard

TMDB recommendsDrama & Thriller & Action & Crime

Innocents with Dirty Hands

1975·2h·★ 6.8·Claude Chabrol

TMDB recommendsThriller & Crime & Drama

Shutter Island

2010·2h 18m·★ 8.2·Martin Scorsese

TMDB recommendsDrama & Thriller

Manhunter

1986·2h·★ 7.2·Michael Mann

TMDB recommendsCrime & Thriller

Mr. Brooks

2007·2h·★ 7.2·Bruce A. Evans

TMDB recommendsCrime & Thriller

Pacific Heights

1990·1h 42m·★ 6.4·John Schlesinger

TMDB recommendsThriller & Drama

The Broken

2008·1h 33m·★ 5.4·Sean Ellis

TMDB recommendsThriller & Drama

Undisputed II: Last Man Standing

2006·1h 33m·★ 7.0·Isaac Florentine

Fans also likedAction & Crime & Thriller & Drama

Kill the Irishman

2011·1h 46m·★ 7.0·Jonathan Hensleigh

Fans also likedAction & Crime & Thriller & Drama

Across 110th Street

1972·1h 42m·★ 7.0·Barry Shear

Fans also likedAction & Crime & Drama & Thriller

No Retreat, No Surrender 3: Blood Brothers

1990·1h 41m·★ 5.3·Lo Yuen-Ming

Fans also likedAction & Crime & Drama & Thriller

High Rollers

2025·1h 41m·★ 3.9·Randall Emmett

Fans also likedAction & Crime & Thriller

Gang Related

1997·1h 51m·★ 6.4·Jim Kouf

Fans also likedAction & Crime & Thriller & Drama

How Good Is Shaft's Big Score!?

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