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Menace II Society (1993)
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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, rough, serious, harsh, intense, bloody ...
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, violence, gangster, juvenile delinquency, black, urban, graduation, social decay, thug, police dog, drug, overcoming, african american family, drug dealing ...
Time: 90s, year 1993, 20th century, 70s, 1990s
Place: california, los angeles, usa, south central los angeles, north america, united states, united states of america
Keyword: vulgarity, gangsters, american, korean, latin

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, hood and cult classic films with plots about ghetto, gangster, gang, violence, murder, african american and urban mostly in Crime, Drama and Thriller genres. Some movies like Menace II Society: Boyz n the Hood (1991), Dead Presidents (1995), Paid in Full (2002), Juice (1992), Sugar Hill (1993). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Boyz n the Hood (1991)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Boyz n the Hood is the popular and successful film and social criticism from John Singleton about the conditions in South Central Los Angeles where teenagers are involved in gun fights and drug dealing on a daily basis.
Style: disturbing, tense, hood, cult classic, bleak ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: hip hop, ghetto, african american, poverty, gang, urban ghetto life, street gang, juvenile delinquency, rapper, coming of age, black, african american gangster ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, 80s, year 1991, year 1984
Place: los angeles, california, america, south central los angeles, usa ...
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Dead Presidents (1995)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Depicts a heist of old bills, retired from circulation and destined by the government to be "money to burn". However, more broadly, it addresses the issues of Black Americans' involvement in the Vietnam War and their subsequent ...
Style: realistic, suspense, disturbing, intense, neo noir ...
Audience: teens
Plot: vietnam war, heist, robbery, african american, violence, ghetto, redemption, gangster, caper, blaxploitation, black, brutality ...
Time: 60s, 20th century, 70s
Place: new york, bronx new york city, vietnam, usa, asia
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100%
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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 ⇓
92%
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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
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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 ⇓
100%
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
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83%
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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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100%
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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
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
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City of God (2002)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Brazil, France, Germany
Duration: 130 min.
Story: Cidade de Deus is a shantytown that started during the 1960s and became one of Rio de Janeiro’s most dangerous places in the beginning of the 1980s. To tell the story of this place, the movie describes the life of various characters, all seen by ...
Style: disturbing, rough, bleak, hood, stylized ...
Audience: teen drama, adult
Plot: gang, coming of age, storytelling, organized crime, society, gang war, juvenile delinquency, life is a bitch, photographer, journalism, favela, police corruption ...
Time: 2000s, 70s, year 2002, 20th century, year 2003 ...
Place: latin america, rio de janeiro, brazil, south america
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
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Colors (1988)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: A confident young cop is shown the ropes by a veteran partner in the dangerous gang-controlled barrios of Los Angeles, where the gang culture is enforced by the colors the members wear.
Style: realistic, hood, psychological, serious, exciting ...
Plot: police, gangster, gang, ghetto, hip hop, buddy cop, gunfight, chase, mafia, cop, urban, gang war ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: california, los angeles, usa, venice beach california, south central los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
Blood In, Blood Out (1993)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 180 min.
Story: Based on the true life experiences of poet Jimmy Santiago Baca, the film focuses on half-brothers Paco and Cruz, and their bi-racial cousin Miklo. It opens in 1972, as the three are members of an East L.A. gang known as the "Vatos Locos", ...
Style: intense, entertaining, bad ending, realistic, serious ...
Plot: gang, prison gang, prison, street gang, drug abuse, ghetto, drug addiction, violence spree, destiny, jail, police shootout, survival ...
Time: 20th century, year 1993, 90s, 70s, 80s
Place: los angeles, california, usa, panama, beverly hills ...
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75%
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Triple 9 (2016)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: A gang of criminals and corrupt cops plan the murder of a police officer in order to pull off their biggest heist yet across town.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, tense, stylized, intense ...
Plot: heist, police corruption, murder, bank robbery, dirty cop, corrupt cop, mafia, violence, corruption, betrayal, strip club, gangster ...
Time: year 2015, year 2016, 2010s, 21st century
Place: atlanta georgia, usa, tel aviv israel
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Traffic (2000)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 147 min.
Story: An exploration of the United States of America's war on drugs from multiple perspectives. For the new head of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, the war becomes personal when he discovers his well-educated daughter is abusing cocaine ...
Style: suspense, bleak, political, realistic, dramatic ...
Plot: drug abuse, organized crime, addiction, drug dealer, drug lord, drug addiction, drug traffic, drug cartel, drug, corruption, war on drugs, heroin ...
Time: year 2000, y2k, 90s, 20th century, 2000s
Place: mexico, latin america, california, ohio, los angeles ...
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100%
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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100%
My Crazy Life (1993)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Mousie and Sad Girl are childhood best friends in a contemporary Los Angeles poor Hispanic neighborhood. But when Sad Girl becomes pregnant by Mousie's boyfriend, a drug dealer named Ernesto, the two become bitter enemies. While their dispute ...
Style: realistic, talky, serious, hood, cult classic ...
Plot: coming of age, friendship, chicano, juvenile delinquency, gang member, teenager, unlikely friendships, drug dealing, urban ghetto, urban, youth, urban ghetto life ...
Time: year 1993, 90s
Place: los angeles, usa
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100%
King of New York (1990)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A former drug lord returns from prison determined to wipe out all his competition and distribute the profits of his operations to New York's poor and lower classes in this stylish and ultra violent modern twist on Robin Hood.
Style: neo noir, atmospheric, hood, intense, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gang, organized crime, drug lord, mob boss, gangster, murder, chase, violence, african american gangster, cocaine, drug, urban ...
Time: year 1990, 20th century, 80s, 90s
Place: new york, italy, usa, bronx new york city, manhattan new york city
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100%
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Empire (2002)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A big time drug dealer Victor Rosa is looking to get out of the game and sees his chance with a big deal with a new friend who happens to be a Wall St. stockbroker. Thinking this will be his chance to go out on top Victor soon finds out that he has ...
Style: intense, stylized, melancholic, suspense, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: betrayal, organized crime, gangster, greed, twists and turns, drug dealing, wall street, ghetto, criminal heroes, going straight, cons and scams, mafia ...
Time: year 2002
Place: usa, new york, miami, bronx new york city, manhattan new york city
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100%
American History X (1998)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Derek Vineyard is paroled after serving 3 years in prison for killing two thugs who tried to break into/steal his truck. Through his brother, Danny Vineyard's narration, we learn that before going to prison, Derek was a skinhead and the leader ...
Style: dramatic, serious, cerebral, rough, tense ...
Audience: boys' night, date night, teens, teen drama
Plot: skinhead, prison, racism, gang, neo nazi, racial slur, nazism, character change, juvenile delinquency, rape, african american, racial prejudice ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, year 1998
Place: los angeles, usa, california, america, north america ...
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Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (1999)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France, Germany, USA, Japan
Duration: 116 min.
Story: An African-American Mafia hit man who models himself after the samurai of old finds himself targeted for death by the mob.
Style: art house, stylized, atmospheric, cult classic, hood ...
Plot: african american, mafia, samurai, hitman, hip hop, loneliness, loner, racial slur, friendship, assassin, martial arts, lone wolves ...
Time: 90s, year 1999, future, 20th century
Place: new york, usa, new jersey, brooklyn new york city, japan
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100%
The Basketball Diaries (1995)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Film adaptation of street tough Jim Carroll's epistle about his kaleidoscopic free fall into the harrowing world of drug addiction.
Style: emotional, rough, serious, realistic, bleak ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: addiction, heroin, drug abuse, basketball, downfall, life is a bitch, teenage life, junkie, drug addiction, drug overdose, teenager, adolescence ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1995, near future, 60s
Place: new york, seattle, boston, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Tales from the Hood (1995)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A strange funeral director tells four strange tales of horror with an African American focus to three drug dealers he traps in his place of business.
Style: scary, disturbing, anthology, hood, cult classic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: mortician, afterlife, child abuse, murder, funeral home, hip hop, supernatural, brutality, drug, storytelling, blaxploitation, evil doll ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: los angeles, usa, southern california
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100%
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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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15%
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Waist Deep (2006)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: An ex-convict (Tyrese) gets tangled up with a gang after his car is hijacked with his son inside.
Style: hood, intense, suspense, exciting, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: kidnapping, hip hop, gangster, chase, african american, urban, african american gangster, revenge, car chase, ghetto, black, ex convict ...
Time: year 2006, 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa
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28%
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Green Street Hooligans (2005)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Sport, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: After being wrongfully expelled from Harvard University, American Matt Buckner flees to his sister's home in England. Once there, he is befriended by her charming and dangerous brother-in-law, Pete Dunham, and introduced to the underworld of ...
Style: serious, disturbing, factual, intense, bleak ...
Audience: boys' night, teen drama, adult
Plot: soccer, gang, hooliganism, friendship, self discovery, hooligan, subculture, friends, buddies, football, skinhead, bar fight ...
Time: year 2005, 21st century
Place: england, britain, europe, london, harvard university
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.3
 18K
Pusher III (2005)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Denmark
Duration: 108 min.
Story: In this third installment of the 'Pusher' trilogy, we follow Milo ('Zlatko Buric'), the drug lord from the two first films. He is aging, he is planning his daughter's 25th birthday and his shipment of heroin turns out to be ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, realistic, neo noir, dark comedy ...
Plot: heroin, organized crime, drug, heroin addict, family relations, gangster, drug addict, dark humor, master criminal, parents and children, aging, nordic ...
Time: 2000s, year 2005
Place: copenhagen, denmark
⇓ 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
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 17K
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
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26%
 6.6
 24K
Dark Blue (2002)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Germany
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Set during the Rodney King riots, a robbery homicide investigation triggers a series of events that will cause a corrupt LAPD officer to question his tactics.
Style: neo noir, tense, detective, harsh, intense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: police corruption, police investigation, police brutality, cop, police, corruption, investigation, police officer, rookie, robbery, partner, fighting the system ...
Time: 20th century, y2k, 90s, year 1992
Place: los angeles, california, usa, southern california
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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Animal Kingdom (2010)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Following the death of his mother, J finds himself living with his estranged family, under the watchful eye of his doting grandmother, Smurf, mother to the Cody boys. J quickly comes to believe that he is a player in this world. But, as he soon ...
Style: tense, disturbing, bleak, realistic, atmospheric ...
Plot: gangster, interrogation, violence, complex characters, justice, investigation, drug dealer, character study, vengeance, law enforcement, bad mother, power struggle ...
Time: year 2010, 2010s, 21st century
Place: australia, melbourne, oceania, peru
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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Set It Off (1996)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story: Four black women, all of whom have suffered for lack of money and at the hands of the majority, undertake to rob banks. While initially successful, a policeman who was involved in shooting one of the women's brothers is on their trail. As the ...
Style: hood, touching, neo noir, tear jerker, uplifting ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: lesbian, heist, african american, bank robbery, ghetto, bank robber, urban, hip hop, gangster, women, black, girl gang ...
Time: 90s
Place: los angeles, indiana, usa, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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