Movies like Hot Boyz
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Hot Boyz (2000)
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Injustice begets a criminal. Kool is an artist without prospects, a black belt in karate, and in love with LaShawna, poised and college bound. One night she witnesses a stabbing and discovers the victim is a cop as he dies in her arms. She's jailed for murder by the infamous Ramparts Division of the LAPD. Kool wants to prove her innocence, and Tully, the cynical detective in charge, ignores LaShawna's case but uses Kool to break up an incipient crime operation. She's in danger because the guilty parties fear that the officer talked before he died. While in jail awaiting a hearing and legal help, she's beaten to death by a rogue cop. Kool vows revenge: the Hot Boyz are born.
Style:
hood, realistic, suspenseful, rough, serious, crime drama, independent film, bleak
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gangster, gang, urban, frame up, racism, murder, life is a bitch, false accusation, police corruption, police investigation, social decay, betrayal, legal, law enforcement, dishonesty, criminal heroes, partners against crime, urban ghetto, ghetto, hip hop, police officer killed, police shootout, racial slur, black, rap ...
Time:
90s
Place:
usa, los angeles
Keyword:
gangsters
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, rough and suspenseful films with plots about gangster, urban, gang, drug dealing, criminal heroes, life is a bitch and society mostly in Drama, Crime and Action genres. Some movies like Hot Boyz: Winner Takes All (1998), Sucker Free City (2004), New Jersey Drive (1995), Paid in Full (2002), The Wrecking Crew (2000). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Two rapper childhood friends turn to the quick and easy life of crime to support their needy parents. But after a foiled robbery, one of them is jailed while the other flees, changes his name, joins the military, and grows up to become a narcotics ...
Style:
independent film, realistic, serious, bleak, rough
Audience:
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Plot:
assassination, police investigation, drug dealing, society, criminal's revenge, life is a bitch, friendship, rise and fall, rivalry, criminal heroes, dishonesty, law enforcement ...
Time:
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Place:
florida, kentucky
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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:
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Place:
usa, san francisco
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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
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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:
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Plot:
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Place:
harlem, new york, usa, manhattan new york city
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100%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
A high-level government hit squad is sent into the streets in order to complete a deadly mission.
Style:
realistic, suspenseful, rough, serious, stylized ...
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
usa, detroit
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A gang of bank robbers, led by the ultra-violent Snake Underwood, pull off a daring mid-day heist that leaves dozens of burning police cars and scores of innocent victims in its wake. Heading the investigation into the gang is the equally violent ...
Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
usa, philadelphia, memphis
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
year 1998, 90s
Place:
jamaica, new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 69 min.
Story:
After decades of terror, two deadly street gangs reach a delicate truce and young MJ (Silkk the Shocker) sees a way out of the hood once and for all. Only Corrupt (Ice-T) stands in MJ's way, resulting into a violent and brutal roller coaster ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
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.
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Plot:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
When the South Side Gang and the Cut Throat Mafia start a drug war at a local high school in Santa Ana, CA, detective McClure goes undercover to investigate the brutal murder of a young Latina student. The gang members are the key suspects but ...
Style:
serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful, independent film ...
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Genre: Action, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
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Story:
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Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
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Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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42%
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Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Story:
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Style:
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Story:
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Two corrupt cops have a successful, seemingly perfect money making scheme- they sell drugs that they seize from dealers, kill the dealers, and blame the crimes on street gangs. Their scheme is going along smoothly until they kill an undercover DEA ...
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Country: USA
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Story:
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Story:
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Country: USA
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Story:
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Country: USA
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Story:
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Country: USA
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Story:
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38%
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Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
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Story:
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Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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37%
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