Movies like Strapped 1993
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Strapped (1993)
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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 turn in local gun dealers. How ever, the D.A. is not satisfied with the results, resulting in some serious game playing and double crossing.
Style:
rough, bleak, serious, realistic
Plot:
gang, gangsters, arms dealing, kids in trouble, police, african american, rap, hip hop, undercover, hip hop culture, troubled youth, blaxploitation, ex convict, youth, life is a bitch, society, drug dealing, law enforcement, down on your luck, juvenile delinquency, innocence lost, going straight, criminal heroes, urban ghetto life, urban ghetto ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new york, usa
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, rough and bleak films with plots about gang, urban ghetto life, urban ghetto, life is a bitch, society, urban and gangsters mostly in Drama, Crime and Action genres. Some movies like Strapped: Corrupt (1999), Turn It Up (2000), The Wrecking Crew (2000), Thicker Than Water (1999), Bobby G. Can't Swim (1999). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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:
realistic, serious, suspenseful, bleak, rough
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gangsters, gang, hip hop, hip hop culture, urban setting, urban ghetto, drug dealing, life is a bitch, social misfits, criminal heroes, youth, society ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new york, usa, bronx new york city
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Action, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Trying to bootstrap his way out of Brooklyn's mean streets is Diamond, a rap musician. With his long-time pal Gage acting as his manager, he's trying to lay down a demo tape with cut-rate studio time. To pay the bills, he and Gage run ...
Style:
disturbing, realistic, serious, rough
Plot:
hip hop, rap, gang, friendship, musician's life, lifestyle, social decay, addiction, down on your luck, artists and showbiz, juvenile delinquency, going straight ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new york, usa
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84%
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, rough, suspenseful, serious, stylized
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gang, rival gang, working undercover, undercover, life is a bitch, urban ghetto life, rivalry, partners against crime, partners, gang war, african american, gang warfare ...
Time:
90s
Place:
usa, detroit
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
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:
cynical, realistic, serious, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
hip hop, gangsters, hip hop culture, drug dealing, gang, friends, estrangement, urban ghetto, drug abuse, city life, urban ghetto life, going straight ...
Time:
90s
Place:
los angeles, new orleans, california, usa, south central los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Bobby G. lives life on the edge in this real, raw New York street drama. Bobby is a small-time coke dealer, always on the hustle but rarely successful. He lives in Hell's Kitchen with his Puerto Rican girlfriend Lucy, who makes ends meet as a ...
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realistic, psychological, serious, tense, bleak ...
Plot:
urban ghetto life, prostitute, poverty, urban ghetto, gang, juvenile delinquency, criminal heroes, going straight, redemption, gangsters, life is a bitch, society ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city
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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.
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boys' night
Plot:
gangsters, gang, family life, drug dealing, buddies, ambition, juvenile delinquency, chaos and mayhem, city life, urban ghetto life, friendship, criminal heroes ...
Place:
usa, memphis, philadelphia
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82%
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Anthony ‘Blest’ (Mark Webber) is one of the most talented and notorious graffiti artists in New York City. Despite the tragic loss of his older brother during a nightly 'bombing' foray with a graffiti crew, Anthony has the same ...
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realistic, serious, suspenseful, captivating, rough
Plot:
street art, juvenile delinquency, gang, social decay, hip hop, kids in trouble, life is a bitch, society, youth, teenage life, politics, art ...
Place:
new york, usa
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79%
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 ...
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realistic, suspenseful, serious, rough, bleak
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gangsters, gang, frame up, racism, life is a bitch, police investigation, social decay, murder, false accusation, police corruption, dishonesty, legal ...
Time:
90s
Place:
usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
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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:
realistic, serious, bleak, suspenseful, rough
Audience:
teens
Plot:
gang, african american, gangsters, blaxploitation, downbeat ending, hip hop culture, villain, hip hop, african american gangster, racism, drug dealing, social decay ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new york, usa, brooklyn new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Scott Barnes is an alcoholic turned social worker hellbent on saving a young boy named Tommy from self-destructing when he finds out he has begun selling crack in an organization called YIP, run by Carlos.
Style:
tense, serious, realistic, psychotronic
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gang, undercover, drugs, social worker, addiction, alcohol abuse, working undercover, urban ghetto life, teenage life, society, youth, life is a bitch ...
Time:
90s
Place:
miami, florida, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
When a brutal carjacking yields a videocamera, a teenage boy decides to document his life and the lives of his fellow gangbangers.
Style:
rough, serious, tense, realistic
Plot:
gang, tough heroes, juvenile delinquency, life is a bitch, social decay, found footage, criminal heroes, teenage life, going straight, society, youth, kids in trouble ...
Place:
california, los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
72%
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 ...
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rough, serious, realistic, bleak, tense
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gangsters, urban ghetto life, gang, racism, social decay, juvenile delinquency, life is a bitch, drug dealing, police investigation, city life, interracial relations, dishonesty ...
Place:
usa, san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A young man coming home after serving time in the penitentiary finds his city in control by local thugs, stops at nothing to gain sole control of a city he feels is rightfully his.
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captivating, exciting, tense, serious, realistic ...
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boys' night
Plot:
murder, gang, rivalry, criminal's revenge, drug dealing, gangsters, urban ghetto, ego clash, buddies, police, prison, love ...
Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Ricky is just out of a young offenders institute, heading home to Hackney and determined to go straight. Instead, he heads straight for trouble when he becomes involved in a street confrontation, siding with his best friend Wisdom against a local ...
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urban ghetto life, gang, youth, gangsters, juvenile delinquency, kids in trouble, life is a bitch, going straight, friendship, social decay, family problems, rivalry ...
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england, africa, london, europe
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68%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
A coming of age story about an inner-city youth raised by a hardworking single mother. When his dream of becoming a basketball player fails to materialize, he finds himself employed in a supermarket. After his mother is tragically gunned down, ...
Style:
serious, rough, realistic
Plot:
desire for fame, hopes, rivalry, family relations, criminal heroes, youth, single parent, life is a bitch, working class, siblings relations, basketball, hip hop ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Music, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Onyx rapper Sticky Fingaz directs and stars in this hip-hop musical about a gangster who becomes caught up in a bloody war between two feuding crime families while struggling to leave the streets behind. When Black's family raids one of ...
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serious, tense, captivating, suspenseful, stylized ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
hip hop, gangsters, gang, rivalry, urban ghetto life, vengeance, drug dealing, going straight, introspection, lifestyle, moral dilemma, gang war ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, california, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
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 ...
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inspirational, tense, realistic, serious, rough
Plot:
boot camp, prison, gangsters, blaxploitation, drug dealing, drug dealer, hopes, society, juvenile delinquency, youth, life is a bitch, going straight ...
Time:
90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
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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:
realistic, serious, suspenseful, rough, bleak
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gangsters, undercover, police detective, criminal heroes, police investigation, gang, juvenile delinquency, working undercover, police corruption, urban ghetto life, society, drug dealing ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
In the streets of East Los Angeles, Manny is a formidable drug dealer. Impressed by his extravagant lifestyle and prowess, his young son, Kilo, yearns to follow in his footsteps. Kilo resolves to learn how to prosper in the drug world, and his new ...
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rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, exciting
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
crime boss, gangsters, prison gang, prison, juvenile delinquency, criminal heroes, prison life, life is a bitch, dishonesty, drug dealing, gang, urban ghetto ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
los angeles, california, usa, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
I'm Bout It is a 1997 film by rapper Master P. The plot details his life in a New Orleans uptown ghetto. Master P wrote, directed and acted in the film.
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tense, serious, realistic, rough
Plot:
hip hop, hip hop culture, gangsters, hopes, drug dealing, follow your dream, life is a bitch, ambition, going straight, society, criminal heroes, artists and showbiz ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new orleans, usa, louisiana
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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:
captivating, sexual, serious, realistic, tense ...
Plot:
gang, urban ghetto life, gangsters, african american, african american gangster, ghetto, drug dealing, blaxploitation, hip hop, organized crime, society, coming of age ...
Time:
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Place:
los angeles, california, africa, usa, south central los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
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Genre: Crime, Drama
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 ...
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Time:
90s
Place:
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57%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Rick and Melissa are a pair of young lovers hoping to get out of the slums for good and escape the poverty and crime their families and friends have gotten involved in. All this comes to an end when Rick feels he must rejoin his old gang to avenge ...
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Plot:
gang, blaxploitation, drugs, drug addiction, poverty, rape victim, nude, drug dealing, gang rape, gang violence, drug dealer, graphic violence ...
Time:
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Place:
los angeles, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
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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:
rough, realistic, bleak, serious
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gang, friends, drug dealing, police investigation, urban ghetto life, fighting crime, betrayal, juvenile delinquency, working undercover, criminal heroes, going straight, law enforcement ...
Place:
usa, boston
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Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
The film follows a 14-year-old arsonist in Winnipeg who becomes involved in a turf war between the Indian Posse and the Asian Bomb Squad (a now defunct Filipino gang). He is known only as Stryker, a slang term for a prospective gang member.
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realistic, serious, rough, tense, bleak
Plot:
gang, juvenile delinquency, teenage life, youth, rivalry, life is a bitch, society, coming of age, urban ghetto life, nude, urban ghetto, immigrants ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Follows the choices made by three young women - one a drug dealer, one an addict, one a pregnant teen - in Jersey City.
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Time:
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Place:
new jersey, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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 ...
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boys' night
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assassination, partners against crime, life is a bitch, buddies, criminal's revenge, police investigation, gang, criminal heroes, partners, rivalry, law enforcement, dishonesty ...
Time:
90s
Place:
florida, kentucky
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
After John’s absent father is struck by a stray bullet, Primo takes it upon himself to verse the young boy in the code of the streets—one founded on respect and upheld by fear. A member of the Bloods since the age of twelve—both in the film ...
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Time:
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Place:
usa, new york
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46%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Ecuador
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
The world of Salvador, a young and naive petty thief is changed by the arrival of his cousin Angel, an ex-convict in search of easy money, and with a hideout. Salvador gets wrapped up in Angel's twisted dealings in an attempt to escape from his ...
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