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Honour of the Knights (Quixotic) (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Trusting in fate, Don Quixote and Sancho pursue their travels in search of adventure day and night. They ride through fields, talking about subjects as varied as spirituality, chivalry and daily life. A growing bond of friendship unites them.
Style: experimental, realistic, semi serious, aesthetic, slow cinema ...
Plot: don quixote, destructive relationship, gang, friendship, tragic love, prison life, society, idealism, hopes, life is a bitch, escape, lovers reunited ...
Time: 21st century
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Girl, Positive (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A popular high school girl finds out that a boy she slept with is HIV positive.
Style: semi serious, disturbing, realistic, exciting, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, teen drama
Plot: hiv, high school, sexually transmitted disease, terminal illness, family in crisis, teenage love, infected, danger, disability, youth, teenage life, teachers and students ...
Time: 21st century
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 3.0
 145
Battle B-Boy (2016)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Directed by Frank Lin this movie tells the story of a group of talented but financially struggling B-Boys that join an underground fighting ring in Downtown Los Angeles that uses Hip-Hop music and Break dancing to battle for money. To save the life ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, captivating
Plot: martial arts, follow your dream, rivalry, ambition, underdog, hopes, kickass, intergender wrestling, female fight, urban ghetto, battles, urban ghetto life ...
Time: future
Place: los angeles
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Imperial Dreams (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A 21-year-old reformed gangster's devotion to his family and his future is put to the test when he is released from prison and returns to his old stomping grounds in Watts, Los Angeles.
Style: touching, uplifting, serious, rough, hood ...
Plot: going straight, life is a bitch, family relations, street kid, hopes, parents and children, society, urban ghetto life, black lives matter, black, blaxploitation, gang ...
Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles, indiana, usa
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The Inevitable Defeat of Mister & Pete (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Coming of age story about two inner city youths, who are left to fend for themselves over the summer after their mothers are taken away by the authorities.
Style: touching, serious, realistic, emotional, hood ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: urban ghetto life, homeless, coming of age, youth, life is a bitch, friendship, teenage life, lifestyle, working class, hopes, forceful separation, redemption ...
Time: 21st century
Place: brooklyn new york city, usa, new york
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Under the Skin of the City (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Tuba works daily at a grueling textile factory in Iran, returning home every night to deal with the rest of her problematic family, which includes: a pregnant daughter whose husband beats her regularly; a teenage son, who's been getting into ...
Style: serious, realistic, emotional, suspenseful, suspense ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, politics, introspection, life is a bitch, factory worker, family relations, couples, working class, family life, human nature, parents and children, injustice ...
Time: 21st century
Place: iran, japan, persia, middle east
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Groenten uit Balen (2011)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Belgium
Duration: 110 min.
Story: The story of the laborer family Debruycker during the turbulent strike by Vieille Montagne in 1971.
Style: realistic, serious, sincere, gloomy
Plot: fighting the system, working class, labor union, parents and children, family life, human spirit, factory worker, workplace situations, life is a bitch, workplace, society, factory ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: belgium, europe
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Porn in the Hood (2012)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story: 3 childhood friends who have never left their hometown in the suburb try to get into porn as a way earning easy money.
Style: humorous, not serious, light, entertaining, sex comedy ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: looking for sex, obsessive quest, partner, fish out of water, misfit, society, buddies, escapades, disorder, goofy hero, filmmaking, sexual fantasy ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: france
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 8.5
 5K
The Corner (2000)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 376 min.
TV show
Story: The Corner presents the world of Fayette Street using real names and real events. The miniseries tells the true story of men, women and children living amid the open-air drug markets of West Baltimore. It chronicles a year in the lives of ...
Style: rough, serious, emotional, sitcom, crime drama ...
Plot: rehabilitation, heroin, addiction, drug dealing, drug abuse, african american, urban, lifestyle, teenage life, social decay, going straight, life is a bitch ...
Time: 90s
Place: baltimore
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 3.3
 775
The Purifiers (2004)
Genre: Action
Country: UK
Duration: 85 min.
Story: The story of martial arts clubs who have created their own city infrastructure after tiring of government initiatives. Responding to the greed and corruption creeping into the other clubs, headed by capitalist-wannabe Moses, The Purifiers battle to ...
Style: exciting, captivating, suspense, tense, grindhouse ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, fighting crime, gang, vengeance, rivalry, tough heroes, vigilantism, society, gangster, danger, murder, heroes ...
Time: future
Place: england, scotland, europe
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Black Dynamite (2011)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story: Black Dynamite is an American animated television series based on the 2009 film of the same name, although the series follows a separate continuity, with some back-references to the film. The series was announced shortly after the release of the ...
Style: adult animation, exciting, realistic, humorous, anime ...
Audience: teens, kids, adult
Plot: organized crime, vengeance, fighting crime, tough heroes, society, martial arts, hotshot hero, black, mature, moving, blaxploitation, pimp ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: usa
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 6.1
 1K
Gang Tapes (2001)
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: serious, rough, hood, suspense, tense ...
Plot: gang, found footage, ghetto, urban, social decay, tough heroes, life is a bitch, juvenile delinquency, drug dealing, teenage life, kids in trouble, going straight ...
Place: los angeles, california, usa
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No. 6 (2011)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
TV show
Story: In the near future, most of mankind now lives in a handful of city states. There, for the privileged elite, life should be perfect. But for young Sion, life has become a nightmare since letting a strange boy spend the night in his apartment. ...
Style: anime, atmospheric, yaoi, bleak, exciting ...
Plot: uncover truth, life turned upside down, social differences, secret organization, conspiracy, fugitives, boys love, lgbt, teenage life, life is a bitch, lgbtq, love ...
Time: future
Place: japan, asia
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 6.3
 2K
Sarafina! (1992)
Genre: Drama, Musical
Country: South Africa, UK, France, USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: The plot centers on students involved in the Soweto Riots, in opposition to the implementation of Afrikaans as the language of instruction in schools. The stage version presents a school uprising similar to the Soweto uprising on June 16, 1976. A ...
Style: realistic, retro, political, contemplative, uplifting ...
Plot: teacher, broadway, children, racism, high school, dedicated educator, dance, girl, black woman, coming of age, black, black cast ...
Time: year 1992, 90s
Place: africa, south africa
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A Day In The Life (2009)
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 ...
Style: hood, serious, tense, captivating, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: hip hop, rivalry, gang, vengeance, urban ghetto life, gangster, moral dilemma, going straight, introspection, drug dealing, lifestyle, urban ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, california, los angeles
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 6.1
 1K
Chalk (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Life in the trenches of that most honorable and frustrating profession...teaching. It's the start of a memorable new year at Harrison High. The self-conscious Mr. Stroope is convinced that his time has come - this year he will be furnished with ...
Style: mockumentary, humorous, semi documentary, captivating, psychological ...
Audience: date night, teens
Plot: teacher, high school, teachers and students, ambition, power relations, youth, hardcase students, lifestyle, education, rivalry, teaching, college ...
Time: year 2006
Place: usa, texas
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Knights of the South Bronx (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A business man decides that he wants to teach school in the inner city and chooses a tough school in the South Bronx. He teaches the children how to play the game of chess, and along the way they learn a lot about life.
Style: uplifting, touching, realistic, serious, spiritual
Audience: family outing
Plot: chess, teacher, misfit, youth, against the odds, hardcase students, lifestyle, ambition, juvenile delinquency, life is a bitch, hopes, human spirit ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, bronx new york city
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Blue Hill Avenue (2001)
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, bleak, realistic, rough, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gang, urban, friends, drug dealing, black, fighting crime, juvenile delinquency, police investigation, betrayal, urban ghetto life, criminal heroes, going straight ...
Place: usa, boston
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Sucker Free City (2004)
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, racism, life is a bitch, social decay, juvenile delinquency, drug dealing, dishonesty, city life, police investigation, dysfunctional family, law enforcement ...
Place: usa, san francisco
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The Mortician (2011)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Alienated and cold, The Mortician (Method Man) processes the corpses with steely disregard. He is lonely and isolated. He is introduced to his new employee, Noah, (EJ Bonilla) by the morgue boss (Edward Furlong). Noah is a volatile youth working as ...
Style: neo noir, psychological, tense, bleak, serious ...
Plot: mortician, murder, haunted by the past, redemption, danger, emotionless, social decay, corpse, black, urban ghetto life, urban ghetto, life is a bitch ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england
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 4.7
 2K
Sket (2011)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 83 min.
Story: When a young woman is cruelly and indiscriminately attacked by a notorious gang led by the violent Trey, her little 16 year old sister Kayla wants revenge and will stop at nothing to get it, even if it means joining a rival girl gang led by the ...
Style: suspenseful, rough, serious, realistic, bleak
Plot: girl gang, gang, vengeance, juvenile delinquency, teenage life, social decay, gang leader, youth, society, criminal heroes, rivalry, urban ghetto life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, britain, london
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 6.9
 3K
Monga (2010)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 140 min.
Story: Set in the 1980s, “Monga” centers on five boys (Mosquito, Monk, Dragon, White Monkey and A-Lan) who join the "Gang of Princes" who are tired of being pushed around. As the "Gang of Princes" rise in stature, they come into ...
Style: realistic, tense, serious, exciting, captivating ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: juvenile delinquency, friendship, friends, society, urban ghetto life, youth, power relations, teenage life, heroic bloodshed, organized crime, rivalry, danger ...
Time: 21st century
Place: taiwan, asia
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State Property (2002)
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, suspenseful, rough, bleak ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: urban ghetto life, gang, urban, gangster, drug dealing, family life, ghetto, ambition, social decay, city life, criminal heroes, juvenile delinquency ...
Time: year 2002
Place: usa, philadelphia, memphis
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The Dead 2: India (2013)
Genre: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 98 min.
Story: The Sequel to the Ford brothers The Dead. The action moves to India.
Style: serious, suspenseful, suspense, bleak, rough ...
Plot: apocalypse, plague, zombie, life is a bitch, chaos and mayhem, danger, on the run, farm, pregnancy, infected, zombie apocalypse, future war ...
Time: 21st century
Place: india, africa
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Blood of My Blood (2011)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Portugal
Duration: 131 min.
Story: A regular family living in the outskirts of Lisbon sees the serenity of their lives shaken beyond any remedy within a week.
Style: touching, sincere, realistic, serious, emotional ...
Audience: adult
Plot: female pubic hair, family relations, family life, juvenile delinquency, single parent, working class, family problems, life is a bitch, hopes, violence, sex, aunt ...
Time: 21st century
Place: portugal, lisbon portugal
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Big Father, Small Father and Other Stories (2015)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Vietnam, France, Germany, Netherlands
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Saigon in the late nineties. Photography student Vu rents a room in a shared flat. With his brand-new camera, a gift from his father, he explores the people, places and things around him. He is particularly fascinated by his flatmate Thang, a ...
Style: serious, realistic, captivating, disturbing, contemplative ...
Plot: gay, submissive woman, photographer, friendship, father son relationship, love triangle, life is a bitch, society, urban ghetto life, poverty, friendship between men, birth control ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, 2000s
Place: vietnam, asia, saigon
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 3.4
 1K
Lambada (1990)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Kevin Laird is a Beverly Hills school teacher by day and a mystery man by night. Using his lambada dance moves to first earn the kid's respect and acceptance, Kevin then teaches them academics. But when a jealous student exposes Kevin's ...
Style: sexy, grindhouse, independent film, feel good, realistic ...
Plot: dance, music, mathematics, school, high school, college, stalking, mathematician, lolita, ambition, couples, power relations ...
Time: 80s
Place: beverly hills, usa
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Red Hook Summer (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story: When his mom deposits him at the Red Hook housing project in Brooklyn to spend the summer with the grandfather he’s never met, young Flik may as well have landed on Mars. Fresh from his cushy life in Atlanta, he’s bored and friendless, and his ...
Style: realistic, serious, touching, captivating, independent film ...
Plot: church, family relations, fish out of water, religions or cults, life is a bitch, society, clergy, youth, family life, disorder, coming of age, blaxploitation ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, brooklyn new york city
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Snitch'd (2003)
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 ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: undercover, gangster, police detective, juvenile delinquency, criminal heroes, gang, police investigation, police corruption, urban ghetto life, working undercover, law enforcement, drug dealing ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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Bomb the System (2002)
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 ...
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful, captivating, rough ...
Plot: graffiti, hip hop, street art, gang, juvenile delinquency, social decay, kids in trouble, life is a bitch, society, youth, teenage life, politics ...
Time: 2000s, 20th century
Place: new york, usa, new york state
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