| Blade Runner (1982) | 8.1 | |
| Mosul (2019) | 7.1 | |
| Candyman (2021) | 5.9 | |
| Batman: The Animated Series (1992) | 9.0 | |
| Prospects (1986) | 8.5 |
Urban decay movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant urban decay movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out suspense, serious, dark, tense, rough and suspenseful films and TV shows about / with urban decay, violence, murder, police, police officer, brutality, death, storytelling, urban setting and revenge plots mostly in Drama, Thriller and Crime genres shot in USA, UK, Canada and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as urban decay: Ratcatcher (1999), Falling Down (1993), Taxi Driver (1976), The Wire (2002), Candyman (2021), Escape from New York (1981), Death Wish (1974), RoboCop (1987), The Fool (2014), Morphine (2008).
Best films
New films
| The Mannequin (2025) | 4.6 | |
| The Town (2025) | 6.5 | |
| The Gentleman (2025) | 4.8 | |
| Long Bright River (2025) | 6.8 | |
| Cometierra (2025) | 6.1 |
List of urban decay movies
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, France
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
James Gillespie is 12 years old. The world he knew is changing. Haunted by a secret, he has become a stranger in his own family. He is drawn to the canal where he creates a world of his own. He finds an awkward tenderness with Margaret Anne, a ...
Style:
disturbing, bleak, crying, depressing, art house ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
children, poverty, boy, friendship, coming of age, bully, neighbor, urban decay, rat, strike, british, death of child ...
Time:
70s, year 1999, 90s, 20th century
Place:
glasgow scotland, scotland, britain, nebraska
Is relevant?
224K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
On the day of his daughter's birthday, William "D-Fens" Foster is trying to get to the home of his estranged ex-wife to see his daughter. His car breaks down, so he leaves his car in a traffic jam in Los Angeles and decides to walk. ...
Style:
cult classic, psychological, rough, black comedy, philosophical ...
Audience:
date night, manly
Plot:
rage, vigilante, anger, midlife crisis, alienation, violence, character study, social commentary, urban decay, losing-it hero, traffic jam, road rage ...
Time:
90s, 80s, 20th century
Place:
los angeles, california, persia, usa
Is relevant?
1.0M
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
A mentally unstable Vietnam War veteran works as a night-time taxi driver in New York City where the perceived decadence and sleaze feeds his urge for violent action, attempting to save a preadolescent prostitute in the process.
Style:
psychological, neo noir, bleak, atmospheric, cult classic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
loner, vigilante, character study, alienation, vigilantism, violence, obsession, loneliness, psychology, lone wolves, taxi, social decay ...
Time:
70s, year 1976, 20th century, year 1975
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, usa, america, harlem ...
Is relevant?
425K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Told from the points of view of both the Baltimore homicide and narcotics detectives and their targets, the series captures a universe in which the national war on drugs has become a permanent, self-sustaining bureaucracy, and distinctions between ...
Style:
clever, tense, detective, cynical, dramatic ...
Plot:
corruption, organized crime, police detective, working undercover, urban ghetto life, gang, drug dealing, police, fighting crime, police investigation, urban decay, shooting ...
Time:
2000s, future, year 2002, 20th century, 1950s ...
Place:
baltimore, maryland, usa
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83K
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada, Australia, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
For as long as residents can remember, the housing projects of Chicago's Cabrini Green neighborhood were terrorized by a word-of-mouth ghost story about a supernatural killer with a hook for a hand, easily summoned by those daring to repeat his ...
Style:
scary, suspense, slasher, demonic, suspenseful ...
Audience:
kids, adult
Plot:
urban legend, strong violent content, murder, gay brother, urban decay, art exhibition, candyman, african american, supernatural, vengeful ghost, mirror, revenge ...
Time:
2020s, year 2019, year 1977, 2010s, 70s
Place:
chicago, usa, oceania
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
In 1997, the island of Manhattan has been walled off and turned into a giant maximum security prison within which the country's worst criminals are left to form their own anarchic society. However, when the President of the United States crash ...
Style:
retro, exciting, tech noir, apocalyptic, perverse ...
Audience:
manly, teens, boys' night
Plot:
prison, cyberpunk, dystopia, escape, post apocalyptic, race against time, rescue, post apocalypse, hostage, lone hero, taxi, dystopian future ...
Time:
future, near future, 80s, year 1997, year 1981 ...
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, new jersey, usa, brooklyn new york city ...
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
After his wife is murdered by street punks, a pacifistic New York City architect becomes a one-man vigilante squad, prowling the streets for would-be muggers after dark.
Style:
cult classic, controversial, grindhouse, harsh, disturbing ...
Audience:
boys' night, manly
Plot:
vigilantism, vigilante, violence, revenge, vengeance, rape, police, gunfight, architect, gang, female nudity, hospital ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, usa, honolulu hawaii, new york state ...
Is relevant?
306K
Genre: Action, Crime, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
In a violent, near-apocalyptic Detroit, evil corporation Omni Consumer Products wins a contract from the city government to privatize the police force. To test their crime-eradicating cyborgs, the company leads street cop Alex Murphy into an armed ...
Style:
futuristic, entertaining, black comedy, cyber, intense ...
Audience:
boys' night, kids, teens, manly
Plot:
cyberpunk, robot, cyborgs, androids and robots, dystopia, robocop, police, revenge, graphic violence, law enforcement, satire, gory ...
Time:
future, near future, 80s, year 1987
Place:
usa, detroit, michigan
Is relevant?
18K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Russia
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
The Fool is a movie about a simple plumber. An honest man, he is up against an entire system of corrupted bureaucrats. At stake are the lives of 800 inhabitants of an old dorm that is at risk of collapsing within the span of the night.
Style:
harsh, atmospheric, realistic, bleak, serious ...
Plot:
fighting the system, apartment building, courage, injustice, society, tragedy, moral dilemma, dishonesty, violence, small town, lone hero, plumber ...
Time:
2010s, year 2014, 90s, 21st century
Place:
russia, soviet union
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
The year is 1917. We are in the Russian countryside. It is the middle of freezing winter. A pale young, newly educated doctor arrives. Having to deal with one medical challenge after another he soon becomes the center of everyone's attention. ...
Style:
tense, serious, realistic, atmospheric, disturbing ...
Plot:
drug abuse, addiction, morphine, urban decay, doctor, mental disorder, drug addiction, civil war, hopelessness, world war one, loneliness, hardship ...
Time:
1910s, 20th century, year 1917
Place:
russia
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Officer Carey Mahoney and his cohorts have finally graduated from the Police Academy and are about to hit the streets on their first assignment. Question is, are they ready to do battle with a band of graffiti-tagging terrorists? Time will tell, but ...
Style:
funny, humorous, slapstick comedy, slapstick, relaxing ...
Audience:
kids, teens
Plot:
police academy, public nudity, misfit, prank, police station, urban decay, destruction of property, police partner, criminal gang, undercover police officer, police officer, police captain ...
Time:
80s, year 1985, 20th century
Place:
los angeles
Is relevant?
875K
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Hong Kong
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
In the smog-choked dystopian Los Angeles of 2019, blade runner Rick Deckard is called out of retirement to terminate a quartet of replicants who have escaped to Earth seeking their creator for a way to extend their short life spans.
Style:
neo noir, futuristic, tech noir, atmospheric, thought provoking ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
artificial intelligence, cyberpunk, dystopia, existentialism, dystopian future, distopia, androids, cyborgs, fugitive, police detective, fugitives, flying car ...
Time:
future, 2010s, year 2019, 20th century, near future ...
Place:
los angeles, california, bolivia, usa
Is relevant?
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
From the sight of a police officer this movie depicts the life in New York's infamous South Bronx. In the center is "Fort Apache", as the officers call their police station, which really seems like an outpost in enemy's country. ...
Style:
realistic, bleak, surprise ending, crime drama, perverse ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
murder, police, hospital, police station, prostitute, corrupt cop, hostage, police brutality, cop killer, guilt, police captain, puerto rican ...
Time:
80s, year 1981, 70s
Place:
bronx new york city, new york, usa, new jersey, san francisco ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
In a not-too-distant future, a lethal virus sweeps across Europe, prompting the creation of quarantine refugee camps in the United States. Police officers Delon (Natasha Henstridge) and Lemieux (Christopher Lambert) learn of a grisly murder in the ...
Style:
independent film, serious, rough, suspenseful, apocalyptic ...
Audience:
boys' night, girls' night
Plot:
brutality, quarantine, chase, survival, virus, race against time, catastrophe, ghetto, violence, female police officer, urban decay, massacre ...
Time:
year 2007, future, 21st century
Place:
boston, usa, europe
Is relevant?
11K
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Darryl is a childlike man with a genius for inventing various gadgets out of junk. When he stumbles on a method to make his clothes bulletproof, he decides to use his skills to be the lowest budgeted superhero of all.
Style:
parody, humorous, laugh out loud, black comedy, semi serious ...
Audience:
boys' night, family outing, teens
Plot:
blaxploitation, vigilante, secret identity, gangster, superhero, african american, gadget, urban decay, brother brother relationship, inventor, masked man, black ...
Time:
year 1994, 90s
Place:
chicago, illinois, usa
Is relevant?
254K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Bulgaria, USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
In town for a job interview, a young woman arrives at her Airbnb late at night only to find that it has been mistakenly double-booked and a strange man is already staying there. Against her better judgement, she decides to stay the night anyway, but ...
Style:
psychological horror, scary, suspense, spooky, slasher ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
basement, secret passageway, locked in a room, fear, kidnapping, secret room, locked in, psychopath, rape, serial rapist, terror, serial killer ...
Time:
2020s, 80s
Place:
detroit, brooklyn new york city, usa
Is relevant?
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
A teenage boy begins to suspect that his wholesome, all-American dad is actually the serial killer terrorizing their small town.
Style:
psychological thriller, suspense, independent film, psychological, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens, adult, teen drama
Plot:
serial killer, father son relationship, dark past, church, serial murder, small town, teenager, murder, double life, fear, mysterious villain, investigation ...
Time:
90s, 70s
Place:
kentucky, midwest
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A mild-mannered father is transformed into a killing machine after his family is torn apart by a violent act.
Style:
detective, suspense, exciting, suspenseful, controversial ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
vigilante, home invasion, vigilantism, dark hero, father daughter relationship, justice, attempted rape, death of wife, vengeance, revenge, hottie, moral dilemma ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
chicago, usa, new york, illinois
Is relevant?
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Genre: Action, Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A drug-dealing band of violent street thugs terrorize the tenants of a South Bronx apartment building
Style:
disturbing, terrifying, controversial, grindhouse, hood ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gang, exploitation, revenge, apartment building, urban decay, rape, home invasion, ghetto, street gang, violence, city, drug overdose ...
Time:
80s
Place:
new york, usa
Is relevant?
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
When 4 year old Amanda McCready disappears from her home and the police make little headway in solving the case, the girl's aunt, Beatrice McCready hires two private detectives, Patrick Kenzie and Angie Gennaro. The detectives freely admit that ...
Style:
twist ending, suspense, surprise ending, neo noir, thought provoking ...
Audience:
kids, adult
Plot:
kidnapping, private detective, twists and turns, investigation, conspiracy, violence, moral dilemma, police investigation, death, murder mystery, moral ambiguity, missing child ...
Time:
year 2007, 20th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
boston, massachusetts, usa
Is relevant?
34K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, France
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Following the arrest of her mother, Ramona, young Vanessa Lutz decides to go in search of her estranged grandmother. On the way, she is given a ride by school counselor Bob Wolverton. During the journey, Lutz begins to realize that Bob is the ...
Style:
disturbing, dark comedy, bloody, black comedy, neo noir ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
serial killer, dysfunctional family, disfigurement, road trip, murder, little red riding hood, brutality, police investigation, juvenile delinquent, strangulation, prostitution, perversion ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
los angeles, california, san diego california
Is relevant?
1.7M
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 140 min.
Story:
Driven by tragedy, billionaire Bruce Wayne dedicates his life to uncovering and defeating the corruption that plagues his home, Gotham City. Unable to work within the system, he instead creates a new identity, a symbol of fear for the criminal ...
Style:
dark, exciting, saga, visually stunning, suspense ...
Audience:
teens, manly, chick flick, kids, boys' night
Plot:
superhero, batman, vigilante, secret identity, heroes, double life, disguise, justice, corruption, superpower, good versus evil, martial arts ...
Time:
2000s, year 2005, 20th century, 90s, 80s ...
Place:
usa, himalaya, africa, north america, asia ...
Is relevant?
33K
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: USA, Germany, Canada, United Arab Emirates
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
When ISIS took their homes, families and city, one group of men fought to take it all back. Based on true events, this is the story of the Nineveh SWAT team, a renegade police unit who waged a guerrilla operation against ISIS in a desperate struggle ...
Style:
suspense, captivating, tense, disturbing, perverse ...
Plot:
isis, war on terror, terrorist, military, pow, ex cop, near death experience, police officer, islam, terrorism, anti war, battlefield ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
iraq, middle east
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Mike, a rough sleeper in London, is trapped in a cycle of self-destruction as he attempts to turn his life around. Along the way, he encounters unexpected chances for a fresh start.
Style:
dark, intense, emotional, psychological, surreal ...
Plot:
male protagonist, urban decay, male nudity, redemption, addiction, character study, youth, alienation, isolation, recovery, poverty, desperation ...
Place:
london
Is relevant?
1.7M
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, Australia
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
During the 1980s, a failed stand-up comedian is driven insane and turns to a life of crime and chaos in Gotham City while becoming an infamous psychopathic crime figure.
Style:
thought provoking, atmospheric, suspense, bleak, psychological thriller ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
mental illness, villain, loneliness, mental patient, psycho, comedian, psychological trauma, mental disorder, psychopath, social problems, insanity, social decay ...
Time:
2010s, 80s, year 2019, 20th century, year 1981
Place:
new york, new jersey, los angeles, persia, bronx new york city
Is relevant?
Genre: Adventure, Crime, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Set in a present day urban environment, "Jack Boyz" is the gritty tale of an ambitious crew of stick-up men with a flawless record. Led by the wise and meticulous minded Salim, the gang follows a strict week-long regimen of cleansing and ...
Style:
suspense, parody, tense, contemplative, unusual plot structure ...
Plot:
chase, ghetto, cold case, heist, danger, urban decay, caper, storytelling, money, gangster, telephone call, fake news report ...
Time:
2010s
Is relevant?
860
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Italy
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
In the near future, a small town is surrounded by barbed wire that no one, not even the police, dares to cross. The poorest are left fighting for survival, while gangs compete for the territory. Two thirteen-year-old orphans who grew up together, ...
Style:
tense, disturbing, suspense, suspenseful, captivating
Plot:
gang, gang leader, criminal gang, urban decay, teenage life, city life, outlaw gang, criminal underworld, juvenile delinquency, gang war, urban setting, bandit ...
Time:
future
Place:
italy, southern italy
Is relevant?
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, USA, UK, France, Luxembourg, India
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story:
Iron Man: Armored Adventures is a 3D CGI cartoon series based on the Marvel Comics superhero Iron Man. It debuted in the USA on the Nicktoons on April 24, 2009, and has already begun airing on Canadian network Teletoon. Iron Man: Armored Adventures ...
Style:
stylized, exciting, serious, suspenseful, mecha ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot:
superhero, tough guy, teen superhero, imaginary, danger, hidden identity, good versus evil, rivalry, young heroes, heroes, urban decay, crime fighter ...
Time:
2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Is relevant?
109K
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
The Candyman, a murderous soul with a hook for a hand, is accidentally summoned to reality by a skeptic grad student researching the monster's myth.
Style:
scary, slasher, bloody, frightening, creepy ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, kids, adult
Plot:
urban legend, serial killer, revenge, urban decay, belief, folklore, supernatural, macabre, investigation, ghost, legend, accused of murder ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 80s
Place:
chicago, illinois, usa
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: South Africa, USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A group of homeless misfits must fight for survival when they discover a plot to exterminate every homeless person in the city.
Style:
dark, bleak, tense, political, black comedy ...
Plot:
body horror, homelessness, urban decay, city, survival, class struggle, desperation, social commentary, conspiracy, angry, underdog, moral ambiguity ...
Place:
cape town south africa
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