Movies like Boyz n the Hood
If you like "Boyz n the Hood" you are looking for thought provoking, disturbing and tense movies about / with hip hop, african american, ghetto, poverty, gang, urban ghetto life and juvenile delinquency themes of Crime and Drama genre shot in USA.
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Boyz n the Hood (1991)
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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:
thought provoking, disturbing, tense, brutal, bleak, gloomy, rough, suspenseful, stylized, sad ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
hip hop, african american, ghetto, poverty, gang, urban ghetto life, juvenile delinquency, street gang, coming of age, gangsters, rapper, rap, tragic event, violence, teenage life, teenager, mafia, racial slur, civil rights, drugs, racism, father son relationship, brothers, gunfight, revenge ...
Time:
80s, 90s, 20th century, year 1991, year 1984, 1990s
Place:
los angeles, california, cuba, usa, south central los angeles, new jersey
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, interesting and rough films with plots about gangsters, gang, urban, violence, gun, redemption and brutality mostly in Drama, Crime and Thriller genres. Some movies like Boyz n the Hood: Menace II Society (1993), Juice (1992), South Central (1992), New Jack City (1991), Blood In, Blood Out (1993). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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.
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tense, bleak, realistic, stylized, serious ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
african american, ghetto, urban ghetto life, gangsters, hip hop, murder, police brutality, friendship, coming of age, street gang, organized crime, drugs ...
Time:
90s, year 1993, 20th century, 70s
Place:
california, los angeles, usa, north america
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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 ...
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tense, sexy, neo noir, sexual, psychological ...
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gang, urban ghetto life, gangsters, coming of age, street gang, hip hop, friendship, teenager, blaxploitation, high school, african american, crime gone awry ...
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new york, africa, new jersey, usa, harlem ...
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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.
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captivating, sexual, serious, realistic, tense ...
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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
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100%
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:
stylized, intense, harsh, serious, captivating ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gangsters, organized crime, gang, drugs, mafia, ghetto, chase, betrayal, hip hop, addiction, gang war, drug dealing ...
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Place:
harlem, new york, usa, california, new jersey ...
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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", ...
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intense, bad ending, entertaining, realistic, serious ...
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gang, gangsters, street gang, prison, prison gang, drug abuse, drug addiction, violence spree, destiny, jail, police shootout, corruption ...
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20th century, 70s, 80s
Place:
los angeles, california, usa, ecuador, guatemala ...
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78%
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
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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 ...
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boys' night
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gang, brutality, police, police investigation, vengeance, gangsters, hip hop, murder, lone hero, teenage life, youth, on the run ...
Time:
90s, 70s
Place:
new jersey, new york, california, usa
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83%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
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boys' night
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urban ghetto life, gangsters, organized crime, drugs, rise and fall, drug dealing, street life, cocaine, criminal heroes, social decay, friends, buddies ...
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80s, 20th century, year 1986
Place:
harlem, new york, usa, manhattan new york city
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100%
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
Set in the Bronx during the tumultuous 1960s, an adolescent boy is torn between his honest, working-class father and a violent yet charismatic crime boss. Complicating matters is the youngster's growing attraction - forbidden in his ...
Style:
sentimental, intense, realistic, touching, reflective ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gangsters, mafia, coming of age, organized crime, mentor, loyalty, gang leader, father son relationship, friendship, african american, gang, brutality ...
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60s, year 1960, 20th century, year 1968
Place:
new york, bronx new york city, usa, new york state, new jersey
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100%
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 147 min.
Story:
In 1987, five young men, using brutally honest rhymes and hardcore beats, put their frustration and anger about life in the most dangerous place in America into the most powerful weapon they had: their music. Taking us back to where it all began, ...
Style:
realistic, intense, inspirational, lyrical, talky ...
Plot:
hip hop, music, racism, rags to riches, rap, gangsters, rapper, ghetto, fighting the system, police brutality, violence, african american ...
Time:
90s, 80s, 20th century, year 1993, year 1986 ...
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los angeles, california, new jersey, milwaukee wisconsin, usa ...
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100%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
The story of Jody, a misguided, 20-year-old African-American who is really just a baby boy finally forced-kicking and screaming to face the commitments of real life. Streetwise and jobless, he has not only fathered two children by two different ...
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stylized, intense, melancholic, light, emotional ...
Audience:
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Plot:
gang, womanizer, single parent, gangsters, african american, unlikely friendships, organized crime, twists and turns, women, going straight, introspection, adolescence vs adulthood ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Craig and Smokey are two guys in Los Angeles hanging out on their porch on a Friday afternoon, smoking and drinking, looking for something to do.
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funny, feel good, humorous, light, semi serious ...
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african american, weed, marijuana, hip hop, ghetto, rap, rapper, friendship, gang, friends, hip hop culture, drugs ...
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90s, 20th century
Place:
los angeles, california, new jersey, usa, south central los angeles
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100%
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Aimlessly whiling away their days in the concrete environs of their dead-end suburbia, Vinz, Hubert, and Said -- a Jew, African, and an Arab -- give human faces to France's immigrant populations, their bristling resentment at their social ...
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Time:
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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 ...
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Audience:
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gangsters, urban ghetto life, hip hop, gang, violence, african american, african american gangster, organized crime, car, drugs, gunfight, betrayal ...
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100%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
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Audience:
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Plot:
skinhead, racism, childhood, neo nazi, coming of age, friendship, xenophobia, youth, children, prejudice, adolescence, social problems ...
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100%
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Genre: Action, 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.
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boys' night
Plot:
police corruption, gang, gunfight, drug dealer, police, african american, rookie, mentor, ghetto, corrupt cop, gang member, drugs ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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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.
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serious, dark, tense, rough, emotional ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
urban ghetto life, bullying, gang, school, gangsters, coming of age, juvenile delinquency, teenage life, ghetto, social decay, teenage love, friendship ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
Raised in a poverty-stricken slum, a 16-year-old girl named Starr now attends a suburban prep school. After she witnesses a police officer shoot her unarmed best friend, she's torn between her two very different worlds as she tries to speak her ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
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teens, kids, teen drama
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high school, coming of age, teenager, murder, gang, serial killer, small town, nude, death, drug abuse, violence, police ...
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Country: USA
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Feature adaptation of Rapman's YouTube series about two young friends who become rivals in a street war.
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Country: USA
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Story:
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Country: USA
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Country: USA, France
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
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Genre: Crime, Drama
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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.
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Duration: 116 min.
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Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
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Duration: 122 min.
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Johnny Truelove likes to see himself as tough. He's the son of an underworld figure and a drug dealer. Johnny also likes to get tough when things don't go his way. When Jake Mazursky fails to pay up for Johnny, things get worse for the ...
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disturbing, harsh, serious, rough, bleak ...
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Duration: 116 min.
Story:
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atmospheric, thought provoking, art house, stylized, captivating ...
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Country: USA, UK
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Story:
Following the death of his employer and mentor, Bumpy Johnson, Frank Lucas establishes himself as the number one importer of heroin in the Harlem district of Manhattan. He does so by buying heroin directly from the source in South East Asia and he ...
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