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New Jersey Drive (1995)
4K
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 when they steal a police car and the cops launch a violent offensive that involves beating and even shooting suspects.
Style:
hood, brutal, melancholic, rough, serious, suspenseful, disturbing, cult classic, independent film, grim ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gang, brutality, ghetto, urban, police investigation, vengeance, hip hop, murder, lone hero, black, teenage life, youth, drug dealing, on the run, criminal heroes, gangster, african american, police corruption, gangsta, african american gangster, rap, caper, car chase, troubled teen, hip hop culture ...
Time:
90s, 70s, 1990s
Place:
new jersey, new york, usa, california
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, rough and hood films with plots about gangster, life is a bitch, urban, drug dealing, urban ghetto, gang and society mostly in Drama, Crime and Action genres. Some movies like New Jersey Drive: Hot Boyz (2000), Clockers (1995), South Central (1992), Boyz n the Hood (1991), Snow on tha Bluff (2011). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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 ...
Style:
hood, realistic, suspenseful, serious, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gangster, gang, urban, frame up, racism, life is a bitch, police investigation, social decay, police corruption, murder, false accusation, criminal heroes ...
Time:
90s, 2000s
Place:
usa, los angeles
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
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Style:
hood, grim, neo noir, realistic, controversial ...
Plot:
ghetto, hip hop, urban, organized crime, drug, violence, blaxploitation, black, gangster, murder, gang, profanity ...
Time:
90s, year 1995
Place:
new york, brooklyn new york city, usa, new jersey, california ...
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100%
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, sexual, captivating, crime drama, independent film ...
Plot:
gang, criminal gang, urban ghetto life, ghetto, urban, black, blaxploitation, hip hop, african american, father son relationship, father son reunion, drug dealing ...
Time:
90s, 80s, year 1992
Place:
los angeles, california, usa, south central los angeles, africa
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100%
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:
cult classic, brutal, independent film, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
hip hop, gang, ghetto, african american, poverty, coming of age, urban ghetto life, street gang, juvenile delinquency, rapper, gangster, teenager ...
Time:
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Place:
los angeles, south central los angeles, california, america, usa ...
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88%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
When Curtis Snow steals a video camera from some college kids during a dope deal, he gives the camera to his best friend, Pancho, and they start documenting their lives. At first its business as usual for Curtis. He robs dope boys, he runs from the ...
Style:
realistic, serious, hood, captivating, rough ...
Plot:
found footage, filmmaking, dealer, introspection, life is a bitch, single parent, urban, down on your luck, rivalry, danger, underworld, propaganda ...
Time:
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Place:
atlanta georgia
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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, tense, realistic, harsh, suspense ...
Audience:
manly, boys' night, adult
Plot:
police corruption, ghetto, gang, corrupt cop, drug dealer, african american, rookie, dirty cop, mentor, twists and turns, gunfight, gang member ...
Time:
year 2001, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, california, south america, usa
Similarity:
100%
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, juvenile delinquency, racism, social decay, dishonesty, city life, dysfunctional family, police investigation, interracial relations, drug dealing, law enforcement ...
Place:
usa, san francisco
Similarity:
100%
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, arms dealing, black, kids in trouble, african american, police, poverty, troubled youth, rap ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Action, 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, life is a bitch, juvenile delinquency, siblings relations, addiction, drug abuse, gangster ...
Time:
90s, year 1993
Place:
usa, harlem, new york, harlem, new york city, manhattan new york city ...
Similarity:
100%
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, serious, realistic, tense ...
Plot:
black, urban, blaxploitation, boot camp, thug life, ghetto, prison, prison life, black history, thug, black man, drug dealing ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
100%
536
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Dante and his girlfrend Micky run a very profitable drug operation in a seaside town, aided and abetted by a host of teens who sell the smack at discos around town, as well as by Lucas, a corrupt cop who's on the take. Their downfall comes when ...
Style:
independent film, realistic, serious, surreal, rough ...
Plot:
deaf, tough heroes, urban ghetto, religions or cults, vengeance, gays and lesbians, juvenile delinquency, law enforcement, rivalry, going straight, criminal heroes, society ...
Time:
year 1996, 1920s, 20th century
Place:
miami, new jersey, florida
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A tough, Jewish ex-con just released from prison crosses a powerful drug dealer and former prison rival in his return to a life of crime.
Style:
hood, independent film, disturbing, stylized, harsh ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
addiction, drug abuse, life philosophy, prison rape, revenge killing, ghetto, violence, drug dealer, gangster, hip hop, character study, life ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, 70s
Place:
new york, usa, brooklyn new york city, california, new jersey
Similarity:
100%
361
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Ty, Hector, and Bao are close friends in a tough section of Boston, where they're called "the PG-13 crew." They're 14, decent kids with few skills who've bailed out of school. A small gang of older tough guys, led by Marcus ...
Style:
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Plot:
gang, black, gas station, optimism, urban ghetto, friends, kids in trouble, realism, society, drug dealing, criminal heroes, dealing with death ...
Time:
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Place:
massachusetts, boston
Similarity:
100%
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Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Place:
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100%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, France
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
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Style:
hood, realistic, bleak, suspenseful, neo noir ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
chess, childhood trauma, coming of age, drug dealing, drug lord, african american, ghetto, father son relationship, drug, hip hop, urban ghetto, blaxploitation ...
Time:
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Place:
new york, brooklyn new york city, usa, new jersey, africa
Similarity:
67%
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, gang, ghetto, african american gangster, organized crime, roman empire, urban, rapper, drug, gangster, drug lord, black ...
Time:
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Place:
harlem, new york, usa, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
100%
223K
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
teens, pre-teens
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
paris france, france, middle east, europe
Similarity:
100%
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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:
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Audience:
teens
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
new york, usa, brooklyn new york city
Similarity:
32%
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, realistic, rough, bleak, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gang, urban, friends, drug dealing, black, juvenile delinquency, fighting crime, police investigation, betrayal, urban ghetto life, criminal heroes, police corruption ...
Place:
usa, boston
Similarity:
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Brazil, France
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:
rough, bleak, hood, sexy, stylized ...
Audience:
teen drama, adult
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
latin america, rio de janeiro, south america, brazil, africa
Similarity:
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Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Style:
hood, entertaining, exciting, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
gang, undercover, gangster, ghetto, police detective, hip hop, adaptation, friendship, brutality, betrayal, mentor, transformation ...
Time:
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26%
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Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
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Style:
grindhouse, hood, independent film, funny, cult classic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
blaxploitation, urban, african american, black, exploitation, ghetto, pimp, corrupt cop, street life, corruption, revenge, prison ...
Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
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Style:
rough, serious, hood, tense, suspense ...
Plot:
gang, found footage, ghetto, urban, tough heroes, social decay, life is a bitch, juvenile delinquency, drug dealing, society, criminal heroes, going straight ...
Place:
california, usa, los angeles
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25%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A promising college athlete takes a turn for the worse when he hooks up with old highschool friends during his summer break.
Style:
serious, surreal, realistic, captivating, suspenseful ...
Plot:
white trash, student athlete, drug dealing, baseball, teen drinking, high school friends, prostitute, juvenile delinquency, friendship, youth, buddies, lifestyle ...
Place:
california, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
The final installment in director Lucas Belvaux's trilogy follows Pascal, a cop who sees a return to credibility in the capture of escaped convict Bruno--who in turn is harbored by Pascal's morphine-addicted wife Agnes. Pascal's ...
Style:
psychological, serious, realistic, bleak, art house ...
Plot:
terrorist, police corruption, drug dealing, haunted by the past, introspection, moral dilemma, downfall, drug abuse, addiction, destructive relationship, life is a bitch, fugitives ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Based upon the true story of Bruce Johnston Sr., his son, and his brothers; together, they constituted one of suburban Philadelphia's most notorious crime families during the 1970's. Their criminal activities ranged from burglary, theft... ...
Style:
neo noir, disturbing, harsh, tense, realistic ...
Plot:
rape, organized crime, small town, father son relationship, sociopath, violence, psychopath, revenge, violent, sexualized violence, gang, murder ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1978, 80s
Place:
pennsylvania, usa, california
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:
hood, serious, rough, suspenseful, bleak ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
urban ghetto life, gang, urban, gangster, drug dealing, family life, ghetto, buddies, juvenile delinquency, friendship, social decay, chaos and mayhem ...
Time:
year 2002
Place:
usa, memphis, philadelphia
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24%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Jimmy and Jon are a couple of Brooklyn guys who somehow never found their way into workaday society; they never found their way into big-time crime, either.
Style:
neo noir, independent film, tense, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
mafia, american mafia, urban ghetto, heist, urban ghetto life, low lives, chaos and mayhem, urban, down on your luck, murder, city life, life is a bitch ...
Time:
year 1992, 90s
Place:
new york, usa, brooklyn new york city
Similarity:
23%
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:
hood, independent film, serious, realistic, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
ghetto, gang, urban, hip hop, hip hop culture, underworld, discrimination, urban setting, gangster, urban ghetto, drug dealing, criminal heroes ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new york, usa, bronx new york city
Similarity:
21%
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