Movies like Clockers

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Clockers (1995)
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Clockers (1995)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story: Strike is a young city drug pusher under the tutelage of drug lord Rodney Little. When a night manager at a fast-food restaurant is found with four bullets in his body, Strike's older brother turns himself in as the killer. Det. Rocco Klein doesn't buy the story, however, setting out to find the truth, and it seems that all the fingers point toward Strike & Rodney.
Style: hood, detective, grim, neo noir, realistic, dark, social, controversial, crime drama, tense ...
Plot: ghetto, hip hop, urban, organized crime, drug, violence, blaxploitation, black, gangster, murder, gang, investigation, cop, gangsta, police, african american, brutality, mentor, drug addict, mysticism, train, caper, drug lord, black cast, drug dealer ...
Time: year 1995, 90s
Place: new york, brooklyn new york city, usa, africa, california, new jersey
Keyword: gangsters, poster

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Most similar movies to Clockers

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, hood, serious and rough films with plots about gangster, urban, black, gang, ghetto, life is a bitch and hip hop mostly in Drama, Crime and Thriller genres. Some movies like Clockers: Fresh (1994), New Jersey Drive (1995), Bad Lieutenant (1992), Hustle & Flow (2005), Get Rich or Die Tryin' (2005). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Fresh (1994)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, France
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Michael is a 12-year-old drug pusher who lives in a crowded house with his cousins and aunt. His father has become a street bum,but still meets with Fresh on occasion to play chess. Fresh is rather quiet in a crazy world. Fresh's sister is a ...
Style: hood, realistic, bleak, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Audience: teens
Plot: chess, coming of age, african american, ghetto, drug dealing, drug, hip hop, drug lord, drug addiction, father son relationship, black, adolescence ...
Time: 90s, year 1994
Place: new york, brooklyn new york city, usa
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New Jersey Drive (1995)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: New Jersey Drive is a 1995 film about black youths in Newark, New Jersey, the unofficial "car theft capital of the world". Their favorite pastime is that of everybody in their neighborhood: stealing cars and joyriding. The trouble starts ...
Style: realistic, hood, melancholic, brutal, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gang, brutality, police, police investigation, urban, vengeance, hip hop, ghetto, murder, lone hero, black, teenage life ...
Time: 90s
Place: new jersey, new york, usa
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Bad Lieutenant (1992)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: While investigating a young nun's rape, a corrupt New York City police detective, with a serious drug and gambling addiction, tries to change his ways and find forgiveness.
Style: neo noir, independent film, disturbing, detective, bleak ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: gambling, redemption, police, rape, corruption, drug addiction, masturbation, baseball, police corruption, heroin, police lieutenant, nun ...
Time: 90s, year 1992, 20th century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Hustle & Flow (2005)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: With help from his friends, a Memphis pimp in a mid-life crisis attempts to become a successful hip-hop emcee.
Style: realistic, touching, bleak, hood, intense ...
Plot: hip hop, rapper, midlife crisis, music, hip hop culture, career, friendship, drug abuse, black, ghetto, musician, drug dealing ...
Time: 21st century
Place: memphis, tennessee, usa, egypt, mount everest
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100%
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Get Rich or Die Tryin' (2005)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Music
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 117 min.
Story: A tale of an inner city drug dealer who turns away from crime to pursue his passion, rap music.
Style: hood, harsh, stylized, serious, rough ...
Plot: hip hop, ghetto, rapper, rap, gangster, urban ghetto life, redemption, music, urban, rags to riches, gang, going straight ...
Time: year 2005, 80s, 21st century
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Do the Right Thing (1989)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: On the hottest day of the year on a street in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, everyone's hate and bigotry smolders and builds until it explodes into violence.
Style: realistic, talky, hood, stylized, independent film ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: heat wave, hip hop, police brutality, pizzeria, urban ghetto life, racism, pizza, ghetto, prejudice, african american, black, social commentary ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, year 1989
Place: new york, usa, brooklyn new york city, africa, new york state
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100%
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Belly (1998)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Tommy Brown 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 on them and new players are looking for a come up, will their reign ...
Style: hood, independent film, stylized, crime drama, realistic ...
Plot: urban ghetto life, african american gangster, hip hop, gangster, urban, african american, ghetto, black, drug, violence, drug dealer, gang ...
Time: year 1998, 90s
Place: jamaica, new york, usa
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41%
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Sugar Hill (1993)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story: In the Harlem neighborhood of New York City, the Mafia steps in when a drug dealer quits his partner brother to lead a straight life with his girlfriend.
Style: hood, serious, suspenseful, tense, realistic ...
Plot: urban, drug dealing, black, gang, going straight, urban ghetto, juvenile delinquency, life is a bitch, addiction, siblings relations, drug abuse, gangster ...
Time: 90s, year 1993
Place: usa, harlem, new york, harlem, new york city, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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South Central (1992)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A man is put to prison for 10 years. Coming out of prison he wants to live a normal life and stop with crime but his son has yet followed the criminal path of his father.
Style: hood, captivating, sexual, crime drama, social ...
Plot: urban ghetto life, gang, ghetto, urban, black, african american, hip hop, criminal gang, drug dealing, blaxploitation, organized crime, black history ...
Time: 90s, year 1992, 80s
Place: los angeles, california, usa, south central los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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In Too Deep (1999)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A fearless cop is taking on a ruthless crimelord. He knew the risks. He just didn't know how far he would have to go.
Style: hood, entertaining, exciting, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gangster, ghetto, hip hop, friendship, brutality, transformation, betrayal, mentor, twists and turns, urban, police detective, chase ...
Time: year 1999, 90s
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39%
Straight Out of Brooklyn (1991)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A Special Jury Award winner at the Sundance Film Festival, this drama stars a then-19-year-old Matty Rich (who also wrote and directed it). Rich plays Larry, a troubled teen living in the rough Red Hook section of Brooklyn who decides he wants out ...
Style: hood, independent film, realistic, serious, bleak ...
Audience: teens
Plot: urban, gang, black, hip hop, african american, hip hop culture, downbeat ending, blaxploitation, villain, thug life, thug, gangsta ...
Time: year 1991, 90s
Place: new york, usa, brooklyn new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Menace II Society (1993)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Menace II Society is a coming of age tale detailing the summer after its protagonist Caine (Tyrin Turner) graduates from high school. This is Caine's story, which details real life in today's tough inner city.
Style: bleak, realistic, stylized, tense, hood ...
Audience: teens, teen drama, adult
Plot: hip hop, ghetto, african american, urban ghetto life, murder, police brutality, coming of age, street gang, friendship, organized crime, gangsta, gunfight ...
Time: 90s, year 1993, 20th century, 70s
Place: california, los angeles, usa, south central los angeles, north america
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Paid in Full (2002)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Ace is an impressionable young man working for a dry cleaning business. His friend, drug dealer Mitch goes to prison. In an unrelated incident, he finds some cocaine in a pants pocket. Soon, Ace finds himself dealing cocaine for Lulu. Via lucky ...
Style: hood, tense, rough, realistic, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: urban ghetto life, rapper, organized crime, ghetto, urban, drug dealing, drug, gangster, drug lord, black, rise and fall, street life ...
Time: 80s, year 2002, 20th century, year 1986
Place: harlem, new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Streets of Blood (2009)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A police officer's partner has died during Hurricane Katrina, but he later discovers that his partner may have been murdered. An investigation follows, taking the officer and his new partner into the depths of the criminal underworld.
Style: serious, realistic, bleak, rough, hood ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: ghetto, murder, investigation, police detective, undercover, law enforcement, chaos and mayhem, gunfight, cop, urban, gangster, police ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new orleans
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37%
Blue Hill Avenue (2001)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story: A child of a middle class home with solid moral values is lured into a world of crime and corruption.
Style: hood, bleak, realistic, rough, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gang, urban, friends, drug dealing, black, fighting crime, juvenile delinquency, police investigation, betrayal, urban ghetto life, criminal heroes, going straight ...
Place: usa, boston
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Training Day (2001)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: On his first day on the job as a narcotics officer, a rookie cop works with a rogue detective who isn't what he appears.
Style: neo noir, realistic, tense, harsh, suspense ...
Audience: manly, boys' night, adult
Plot: police corruption, gang, corrupt cop, ghetto, gunfight, drug dealer, police, african american, rookie, mentor, dirty cop, drug ...
Time: year 2001, 2000s, 21st century
Place: los angeles, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Sucker Free City (2004)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: The film follows three young men as they are drawn into lives of crime. Nick (Crowley) uses his entry-level corporate job to commit credit card fraud and deals drugs on the side. K-Luv (Mackie) is a member of the "V-Dubs", an ...
Style: rough, realistic, serious, bleak, tense ...
Plot: urban ghetto life, gangster, racism, life is a bitch, social decay, juvenile delinquency, drug dealing, dishonesty, city life, police investigation, dysfunctional family, law enforcement ...
Place: usa, san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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The Mack (1973)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Goldie returns from five years at the state pen and winds up king of the pimping game. Trouble comes in the form of two corrupt white cops and a crime lord who wants him to return to the small time.
Style: grindhouse, hood, funny, cult classic, independent film ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: blaxploitation, urban, black, exploitation, african american, ghetto, black history, gangsta, mafia, tough guy, blues, hip hop ...
Time: 70s
Place: bay area, usa, california, oakland california
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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New Jack City (1991)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A gangster, Nino, is in the Cash Money Brothers, making a million dollars every week selling crack. A cop, Scotty, discovers that the only way to infiltrate the gang is to become a dealer himself.
Style: hood, stylized, suspense, intense, harsh ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: organized crime, gang war, ghetto, gangster, drug, hip hop, mafia, gang, chase, betrayal, urban, addiction ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, 90s
Place: harlem, new york, usa, america, turkey ...
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Hoodlum (1997)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story: In 1934, the second most lucrative business in New York City was running "the numbers". When, Madam Queen, the powerful woman who runs the scam in Harlem, is arrested. Ellsworth "Bumpy" Johnson takes over the business and must ...
Style: hood, stylized, black and white, neo noir, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: mafia, organized crime, mobster, african american, gangster, black, gangsta, black history, urban, corruption, gunfight, death ...
Time: 1930s, 90s, 20th century
Place: harlem, new york, israel, illinois, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
First Time Felon (1997)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Inspired by the true story of Greg Yance. In the film, Yance (Epps) is a hood who goes to jail for possession of drugs. He is given a choice: 5 years in jail or a couple of months in boot camp. He chooses boot camp and finds out it is tougher than ...
Style: hood, inspirational, tense, serious, realistic ...
Plot: black, urban, boot camp, ghetto, thug life, prison, black man, black history, blaxploitation, thug, drug dealing, drug dealer ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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Strapped (1993)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Ex-con attempting to go straight runs across serious problems. His girlfriend gets arrested for dealing crack to an undercover police officer. In a desperate attempt to get the charges dropped against his woman, he strikes deal with weapons cop to ...
Style: hood, grim, crime drama, realistic, serious ...
Plot: urban, ghetto, hip hop, gang, black, arms dealing, kids in trouble, african american, poverty, police, thug life, thug ...
Time: 90s
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
State Property (2002)
Genre: Drama, Crime, Action
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Frustrated with being broke, Beans decides that the only way to grasp the American Dream is to take it.
Style: hood, serious, suspenseful, rough, bleak ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: urban ghetto life, gang, urban, gangster, drug dealing, family life, ghetto, ambition, social decay, city life, criminal heroes, juvenile delinquency ...
Time: year 2002
Place: usa, philadelphia, memphis
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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Across 110th Street (1972)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: In a daring robbery, some $300,000 is taken from the Italian mob. Several mafiosi are killed, as are two policemen. Lt. Pope and Mattelli are two New York City cops trying to break the case. Three small-time criminals are on the run with the money. ...
Style: neo noir, grindhouse, grim, cynical, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: blaxploitation, murder, mafia, organized crime, urban, african american, gangster, mobster, exploitation, black, cop, brutality ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: new york, harlem, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
 6.6
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Above the Rim (1994)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Sport, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Story of a promising high school basketball star and his relationships with two brothers, one a drug dealer and the other a former basketball star fallen on hard times and now employed as a security guard.
Style: hood, inspirational, independent film, serious, realistic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: basketball, hip hop, african american, gang, african american gangster, high school, urban, ghetto, black, violence, gangster, coming of age ...
Time: year 1994, 20th century, 90s
Place: harlem
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
 7.2
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Mean Streets (1973)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: A small-time hood must choose from among love, friendship and the chance to rise within the mob.
Style: neo noir, tense, realistic, atmospheric, bleak ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gangster, mafia, organized crime, friendship, money, character study, urban ghetto life, life philosophy, mobster, friends, urban, street gang ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, year 1973
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
 7.0
 30K
Juice (1992)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Four Harlem friends -- Bishop, Q, Steel and Raheem -- dabble in petty crime, but they decide to go big by knocking off a convenience store. Bishop, the magnetic leader of the group, has the gun. But Q has different aspirations. He wants to be a DJ ...
Style: hood, cult classic, tense, social, neo noir ...
Audience: teens
Plot: urban ghetto life, hip hop, coming of age, gang, friendship, african american gangster, ghetto, african american, teenager, black, urban, gangster ...
Time: year 1992, 90s
Place: new york, harlem, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (2009)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: Terrence McDonagh, a New Orleans Police sergeant, who starts out as a good cop, receiving a medal and a promotion to lieutenant for heroism during Hurricane Katrina. During his heroic act, McDonagh injures his back and later becomes addicted to ...
Style: surreal, stylized, neo noir, dark comedy, disturbing ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: police corruption, drug lord, organized crime, drug abuse, corruption, drug, redemption, police, police brutality, brutality, hallucination, gangster ...
Time: year 2009, 20th century, 21st century
Place: new orleans, louisiana, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Thicker Than Water (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: In Los Angeles, two rival gang leaders are also trying to be music producers. When DJ's equipment shorts out and Lonzo is cut out of the action by a record producer, the two join forces, which also requires a tentative peace between gangs. With ...
Style: hood, independent film, realistic, serious, cynical ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: hip hop, urban, ghetto, rapper, discrimination, hip hop culture, black, drug dealing, gang, partner, gangster, rise and fall ...
Time: 90s
Place: los angeles, new orleans, california, usa, south central los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Willie Dynamite (1974)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Willie Dynamite is a pimp who operates in New York City. Willie was a big success as a pimp, but now, just as fast as he rose to the top, he has hit bottom. A former prostitute who has become a social worker tries to get Willie to clean up his life ...
Style: crime drama, grim, hood, captivating, realistic ...
Plot: blaxploitation, prostitute, black, urban, pimp, african american, cop, violent content, isolation, cons and scams, social decay, urban ghetto life ...
Time: 70s
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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