Movies like Black 2015
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Black (2015)
5K
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Belgium
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Mavela, 15 years old, is a Black Bronx. She falls madly in love with Marwan, an extremely charismatic member of a rival gang, the 1080s. The young couple is forced to make a brutal choice between gang loyalty and the love they have for one another. An impossible dilemma.
Style:
tragic ending, bleak, disturbing, rough, suspense, hood, touching, twist ending
Plot:
shoplifting, gangster, rape, dog attack, teenage love, street gang, gang, teenager, criminal, teenage protagonist, criminal gang, teen romance, police, interracial relations, mother daughter relationship, police station, brother brother relationship, police detective, cousin cousin relationship, tragic event, danger, ghetto, rivalry, gang rape, brutality ...
Place:
belgium, france, brussels
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Most similar movies to Black
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out tense, hood, realistic and serious films with plots about gang, gangster, criminal, police, ghetto, murder and gun mostly in Drama, Crime and Action genres. Some movies like Black: Juice (1992), Divines (2016), End of Watch (2012), Colors (1988), A Gangland Love Story (2010). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
33K
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
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, sexual, tense, social ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
coming of age, ghetto, hip hop, gang, african american, friendship, black, teenager, urban, urban ghetto life, rapper, blaxploitation ...
Time:
year 1992, 90s, 80s
Place:
new york, harlem, usa, manhattan new york city, africa ...
Similarity:
100%
11K
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France, Qatar
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
In a ghetto where religion and drug trafficking rub shoulders, Dounia has a lust for power and success. Supported by Maimouna, her best friend, she decides to follow in the footsteps of Rebecca, a respected dealer. But her encounter with Djigui, a ...
Style:
captivating, tense, suspenseful, thought provoking, disturbing ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens
Plot:
poverty, friendship, slum, police, seduction, urban decay, ghetto, street gang, dancer, greed, danger, full moon ...
Time:
2010s, year 2016, 21st century
Place:
paris france, france, indiana
Similarity:
100%
290K
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Two young officers are marked for death after confiscating a small cache of money and firearms from the members of a notorious cartel during a routine traffic stop.
Style:
emotional, suspense, independent film, harsh, brutal ...
Audience:
boys' night, adult
Plot:
gunfight, latinos, gang member, cop, fighting crime, street gang, shooting, urban ghetto, police officer, police, police investigation, police protagonist ...
Time:
year 2012, 2010s, year 2011, 70s, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, california, south central los angeles, south america, usa ...
Similarity:
100%
33K
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, gang, gangster, hip hop, buddy cop, chase, gunfight, mafia, urban, cop, gang member, partner ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
los angeles, california, usa, south central los angeles, venice beach california ...
Similarity:
35%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
The younger sister of a feared African American crime boss and the nephew of his powerful Latina nemesis go on the run in a customized Cadillac convertible packed with $20 million in drugs in this romantic crime drama. Julia and Romano have fallen ...
Style:
captivating, suspense, tense, psychological, rough ...
Plot:
gangster, lovers on the run, chase, rivalry, young lovers, forbidden love, family relations, gang, drug dealing, interracial relations, danger, couples ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 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 ...
Style:
hispanic, crime drama, grindhouse, independent film, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gang, blaxploitation, cannon, drug, drug addiction, gang rape, gang violence, drug dealer, black, poverty, rape victim, nudity ...
Time:
80s
Place:
los angeles, usa, california
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA, Jamaica
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A raw urban drama about two friends raised on the dangerous streets of Kingston, Jamaica. Biggs and Wayne take on the "Shotta" way of life to survive. As young boys, they begin a life of crime, eventually moving to the US where they begin ...
Style:
hood, realistic, serious, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gang violence, gangster, street gang, urban, police chase, criminal heroes, social decay, black, immigrant, partner, disorder, drug dealing ...
Place:
caribbean, miami, usa, florida, jamaica
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A day in the life of a group of troubled 15-year-olds growing up in west London.
Style:
serious, tense, rough, hood, teen ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
bullying, gang, urban ghetto life, ghetto, juvenile delinquency, coming of age, urban, teenage life, social decay, gangster, friendship, teenage love ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
london, england, united kingdom, britain, europe
Similarity:
31%
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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, rom com, bleak, neo noir ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens, girls' night
Plot:
lesbian, african american, bank robbery, female thief, ghetto, black, urban, hip hop, girl gang, women, gangster, robbery ...
Time:
90s
Place:
los angeles, indiana, usa, mexico
Similarity:
30%
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:
29%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Assigned to go undercover to take down an impenetrable crime ring, a detective finds himself falling under the sway of it's enigmatic leader.
Style:
tense, hood, crime drama, disturbing, captivating ...
Plot:
organized crime, urban, black, undercover, covert operation, working undercover, criminal gang, criminal, gang, intrigue, undercover agent, master criminal ...
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: USA, Canada, UK
Duration: 156 min.
Story:
A remake of the 1961 film about two youngsters from rival New York City gangs fall in love, but tensions between their respective friends build toward tragedy.
Style:
suspenseful, disturbing, captivating, surprise ending, visual ...
Audience:
teens, date night
Plot:
forbidden love, love at first sight, dance, fight, shakespeare, teenager, rivals, racism, street gang, male female relationship, gang war, tragic event ...
Time:
1950s, 2020s, year 1961, year 1957, 60s ...
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Musical
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Feature adaptation of Rapman's YouTube series about two young friends who become rivals in a street war.
Style:
hood, heartbreaking, dark, tense, controversial ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
ghetto, street gang, gang member, bandit, gang, teenager, criminal gang, gunfight, gang violence, youth, friends, rivalry ...
Place:
london
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
As the police launch a full-scale crackdown on organized crime, it ignites a national yakuza struggle between the Sanno of the East and Hanabishi of the West. What started as an internal strife in Outrage has now become a nationwide war in Outrage ...
Style:
tense, realistic, serious, rough, neo noir ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
yakuza, gangster, power struggle, criminal heroes, danger, rivalry, law enforcement, gang, elimination, japanese mafia, organized crime, police ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
japan, asia
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Juan Garcia is a boy on the threshold of manhood living in a gang-controlled neighborhood. His role models could not be further apart: his older sister Angie, a single mom, struggling to gain a foothold in the white corporate world and his uncle ...
Style:
tense, disturbing, suspense, captivating, crime drama ...
Plot:
coming of age, gang, poverty, teenage life, gang member, criminal gang, family problems, criminal, life is a bitch, teenager, bandit, social problems ...
Similarity:
25%
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:
80s, year 2002, 20th century, year 1986
Place:
harlem, new york, usa, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Nordvest is a gangsterfilm set in the suburbs of Copenhagen. Casper (18), the oldest of 3 siblings, survives life on the streets by committing burglaries for the neighbourhood boss, Jamal. When Casper gets an offer to work for Jamal’s rival ...
Style:
realistic, suspenseful, serious, tense, bleak ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
urban ghetto life, gang, gangster, juvenile delinquency, life is a bitch, friendship, family problems, criminal heroes, criminal's revenge, vengeance, teenage boy, organized crime ...
Time:
year 2013, 21st century
Place:
denmark, copenhagen
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 153 min.
Story:
In the slums of the upper West Side of Manhattan, New York, a gang of Polish-American teenagers called the Jets compete with a rival gang of recently immigrated Puerto Ricans, the Sharks, to "own" the neighborhood streets. Tensions are ...
Style:
romantic, stylized, tear jerker, neo noir, aesthetic ...
Audience:
date night, teens, chick flick, girls' night, adult
Plot:
forbidden love, rivalry, tragic love, dance, street gang, gang, broadway, interracial relations, shakespeare, racism, dancing, love story ...
Time:
1950s, 20th century, year 1961, 50s, 1930s
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, usa, empire state building manhattan new york city
Similarity:
24%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Denmark, Belgium, France
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
The exact details of what took place while Talib Ben Hassi was in police custody remain unclear. Police officers, Jens and Mike, are on routine patrol in Svalegården's ghetto when news of Talib's death comes in over the radio, igniting ...
Style:
tense, suspense, captivating, social, hood ...
Plot:
ghetto, police partner, gang, police officer, civil unrest, riot, urban ghetto, showdown, struggle for survival, criminal gang, trapped, partner ...
Place:
denmark, copenhagen
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A story of a bank heist that almost ended in disaster (for the robbers) until their getaway driver Wah Dee (Andy Lau) took a young woman Jo Jo(Jacklyn Wu) hostage. After preventing her from getting killed by his accomplices, both began a forbidden ...
Style:
neo noir, crime drama, heroic, serious, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
triad, forbidden love, motorcycle, gang, tragic romance, love, heroic bloodshed, biker, gangster, friendship, chinese mafia, young lovers ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
hong kong
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
After a drug deal gone wrong, two New York City hustlers relocate to Miami, where they set up a lucrative credit card fraud operation. Unfortunately, their new business not only attracts the police, but the city's top criminals -- and both want ...
Style:
tense, suspense, disturbing, captivating, hood ...
Plot:
shaolin, credit card fraud, criminal on the run, criminal, fraud, black, urban, bandit, con artists, criminal underworld, cons and scams, criminal gang ...
Place:
miami
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Single mother Sarah Palmer hides her family in Oregon when her daughter Christy becomes a key witness in a murder against the mob.
Style:
captivating, suspenseful, contemplative, exciting
Plot:
woman with a gun, teenage daughter, single mother, daughter, mother daughter relationship, criminal, female protagonist, gangster, policewoman, police detective, woman in danger, mobster ...
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
The tables turn for cynical police officer Richard Beck (Richard Crenna) when he's viciously attacked by two homicidal crooks. Having never been empathetic toward the victims he's dealt with on a daily basis, Beck must now confront the ...
Style:
bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot:
rape, male rape, homosexual rape, law enforcement, criminal heroes, life is a bitch, rivalry, vengeance, trauma, murder, danger, police officer ...
Time:
80s
Place:
seattle
Similarity:
23%
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Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
1950s New York City. A bad and bloody gang war is about to erupt on the dysfunctional streets of Brooklyn. The Deuces at war with the vicious Vipers. Scott Kalvert directs this tale of lust, drugs, mayhem and madness during one hot summer on the ...
Style:
intense, harsh, realistic, suspense, epic ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
gang, vengeance, gangster, drug addiction, rivalry, uninhibited rivalry, friends, society, youth, greed, criminal, street gang ...
Time:
1950s, year 2002, y2k, 20th century, 50s ...
Place:
usa, new york, brooklyn new york city, new jersey
Similarity:
23%
3K
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Ukraine, Germany, Poland
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Ukraine, 1990s. Young Vova, cruel and tenacious, struggles to find his place among the ruthless members of the underworld in a city where crime and corruption reign.
Style:
suspense, disturbing, captivating, tense, social
Plot:
brutality, organized crime, criminal underworld, gang member, criminal, crime boss, murderer, extreme violence, life is a bitch, violent man, murder, criminal gang ...
Time:
90s
Place:
ukraine
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Brazil, USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Best buddies Acerola and Laranjinha, about to turn 18, discover things about their missing fathers' pasts which will shatter their solid friendship, in the middle of a war between rival drug gangs from Rio's favelas.
Style:
tense, bleak, harsh, suspense, rough ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
friendship, street gang, favela, slum, coming of age, betrayal, brutality, relationships, drug lord, society, gang war, best friend ...
Time:
year 2008, year 2007, future, 70s, 21st century
Place:
rio de janeiro, brazil, south america, latin america
Similarity:
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:
90s, 20th century, 80s, year 1991, year 1984
Place:
los angeles, south central los angeles, california, america, usa ...
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
A policeman gets killed and the short-staffed police chief sends for a few experienced officers to support him in his fight with organized crime. Meanwhile, a conflict between local gangster groups escalates.
Style:
suspense, disturbing, suspenseful, tense, captivating
Plot:
police, life is a bitch, criminal gang, fighting crime, partners against crime, organized crime, police officer killed, gang war, danger, friends, teamwork, bandit ...
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Fourteen-year-old Mo is a lonely, sensitive boy whose hunger for the rant and banter of buddies makes him prone to tread dangerous territories. He idolizes his handsome older brother, Rashid, a charismatic, well-respected member of a local gang, ...
Style:
realistic, touching, bleak, serious, rough ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
gay muslim, gay couple, male homosexuality, lgbtq, gay, closeted homosexual, gang, lgbt, brother brother relationship, family relations, life is a bitch, juvenile delinquency ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
london, europe, east end london, england
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
After 10 years, Eddie Franks is out of prison and trying to stay on the straight and narrow, but his drug-mule brother, Sean has other ideas. Rival gangster brothers demand Sean repay his debt to them, causing Eddie to get tangled in the crossfire, ...
Style:
suspenseful, suspense, tense, disturbing, captivating ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
rivalry, danger, violence, society, police, debt, murder, family relations, escapades, gangster, ghetto, gang ...
Place:
london
Similarity:
21%
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