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American History X (1998)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Derek Vineyard is paroled after serving 3 years in prison for killing two thugs who tried to break into/steal his truck. Through his brother, Danny Vineyard's narration, we learn that before going to prison, Derek was a skinhead and the leader ...
Style: dramatic, serious, cerebral, rough, tense ...
Audience: boys' night, date night, teens, teen drama
Plot: skinhead, prison, racism, gang, neo nazi, racial slur, nazism, character change, juvenile delinquency, rape, african american, racial prejudice ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, year 1998
Place: los angeles, usa, california, america, north america ...
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 7.0
 4K
Tough Enough (2006)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 98 min.
Story: From the youth directed novel of the same name by Greogor Tressnow comes a film by Detlev Buck that is a realistic portrait of life in the section of Berlin called Neukölln. It’s about power and weakness, delinquents and victims, and the ...
Style: realistic, suspenseful, serious, tense, rough ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: juvenile delinquency, street gang, youth gang, coming of age, gang, bullying, friendship, urban ghetto, urban ghetto life, parents and children, high school life, murder ...
Time: 21st century
Place: germany, berlin germany
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 2.3
 516
Death Toll (2008)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: New Orleans has the No. 1 per capita murder rating in the nation. A decade earlier the city was dubbed the "Murder Capital of the Country." Drugs and violence controlled the streets, taking a toll on the city's law enforcement, ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, realistic, exciting, captivating ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: murder, undercover, partner, police corruption, fighting crime, police investigation, partners against crime, danger, law enforcement, master criminal, dishonesty, tough guy ...
Place: usa, louisiana, new orleans
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Over the Edge (1979)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: The music of Cheap Trick, The Cars, and The Ramones highlights this realistic tale of alienated suburban youth on the rampage. Dillon makes his screen debut in this updated, well-done "Rebel Without a Cause." Shelved for several years, the ...
Style: grindhouse, offbeat, cult classic, hood, realistic ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, teen angst, marijuana, teenage gang, teenager, street gang, lsd, youth, gang, punk rock, teensploitation, drug ...
Time: 70s, year 1979, 20th century
Place: colorado, usa, denver colorado
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 6.3
 479
Chouf (2016)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Chouf: It means “look” in Arabic, but it is also the name of the watchmen in the drug cartels of Marseille. Sofiane is 20. A brilliant student, he comes back to spend his holiday in the Marseille ghetto where he was born. His brother, a dealer, ...
Style: disturbing, captivating, tense, suspense
Plot: teenage gang, drug traffic, drug dealer, drug trade, ghetto, gang violence, street gang, death of brother, revenge, urban ghetto life, drug, bandit ...
Time: 2010s
Place: marseille
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 5.6
 824
3:15 (1986)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Violent crime is routine. Organized drug trade runs rampant in the face of powerless authority. And a vicious street gang holds dominion with a savage reign of terror. Welcome to Lincoln High! Here the cobras rule the school and everyone in it. ...
Style: independent film, fast, exciting, serious, realistic ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: teenager, street gang, high school gang, club, gangster, high school, school, vengeance, rivalry, youth, drug dealing, starting over ...
Time: 80s
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Banshee Origins (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
TV show
Story: Banshee: Origins is a series of webisodes based on the American drama television series produced by Cinemax called Banshee. The series offers flashbacks in-between the time where Lucas Hood was arrested and when Sheriff Lucas Hood first arrived in ...
Style: suspenseful, realistic, rough, serious, captivating ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: criminal, law enforcement, ex convict, vigilante, sheriff, small town, criminal heroes, tough heroes, heroes, cons and scams, gang war, con artists ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, pennsylvania
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The Young Savages (1961)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A district attorney investigates the racially charged case of three teenagers accused of the murder of a blind Puerto Rican boy.
Style: social, tense, cynical, serious, realistic ...
Plot: street gang, racism, gang, murder trial, juvenile delinquent, class differences, courtroom, lawyer, murder, juvenile delinquency, law, serial killer ...
Time: year 1961, 20th century, 50s, 60s
Place: new york, harlem, usa, manhattan new york city, new york state
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 6.7
 20K
Kidulthood (2006)
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: hood, serious, tense, rough, teen ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: urban ghetto life, bullying, gang, ghetto, coming of age, juvenile delinquency, urban, teenage life, social decay, gangster, friendship, teenage love ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: london, england, united kingdom, britain, europe
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Godfather of Harlem (2019)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 55 min.
TV show
Story: Loosely based on infamous crime boss Bumpy Johnson, who in the early 1960s returned from ten years in prison to find the neighborhood he once ruled in shambles. With the streets controlled by the Italian mob, Bumpy attempts to regain his piece of ...
Style: suspenseful, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing ...
Plot: gang leader, black cast, mobster, gang war, gang, violence, danger, crime boss, organized crime, power struggle, showdown, criminal gang ...
Time: 60s, 2020s, 2010s
Place: harlem, new york, harlem, new york city
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Malibu's Most Wanted (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A senator arranges for his son, a rich white kid who fancies himself black, to be kidnapped by a couple of black actors pretending to be murderers to try and shock him out of his plans to become a rapper.
Style: funny, humorous, melancholic, intense, satirical ...
Audience: teens
Plot: ghetto, fish out of water, street gang, gangster, gang, justice, betrayal, father son relationship, family relations, disorder, partner, goofy hero ...
Place: california, los angeles, malibu california, south central los angeles, usa
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Charm City Kings (2020)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story: Mouse desperately wants to join The Midnight Clique, the infamous Baltimore dirt bike riders who rule the summertime streets. When Midnight’s leader, Blax, takes 14-year-old Mouse under his wing, Mouse soon finds himself torn between the ...
Style: serious, atmospheric, exciting, uplifting, hood ...
Audience: teens
Plot: motorcycle race, motorcycle chase, motorcycle racing, 14 year old boy, street gang, legal, biker gang, motorcycle, african american, street life, life, city life ...
Place: baltimore
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 8.1
 4K
Mocro Mafia (2018)
Genre: Crime
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Best friends Romano, Potlood and De Paus rise in the rank of the criminal world. Before they know it, they run Amsterdam's entire coke market. Because of jealousy, their relation becomes complicated and ends up hostile.
Style: disturbing, neo noir, suspense, bleak, tense ...
Plot: mafia, friendship, gang war, character study, organized crime, gangster, street gang, danger, unfulfillment, police corruption, criminal heroes, power ...
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Stone Jungle Laws (2015)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: Four guys from the outskirts of Moscow decide to make easy money - to overtake a car with stolen cargo inside. Not really thinking about the consequences, they make one mistake after another, and very soon they have serious problems with the law. ...
Style: realistic, disturbing, captivating, suspenseful, light ...
Plot: peril, youth, friends, danger, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, escapades, best friend, bandit, prison, partner, gang, breaking the law ...
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 8.6
 796K
City of God (2002)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Brazil, France, Germany
Duration: 130 min.
Story: Cidade de Deus is a shantytown that started during the 1960s and became one of Rio de Janeiro’s most dangerous places in the beginning of the 1980s. To tell the story of this place, the movie describes the life of various characters, all seen by ...
Style: disturbing, rough, bleak, hood, stylized ...
Audience: teen drama, adult
Plot: gang, coming of age, storytelling, organized crime, society, gang war, juvenile delinquency, life is a bitch, photographer, journalism, favela, police corruption ...
Time: 2000s, 70s, year 2002, 20th century, year 2003 ...
Place: latin america, rio de janeiro, brazil, south america
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 8.2
 3K
City of Men (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: City of Men is a Brazilian television programme created by Kátia Lund and Fernando Meirelles, the directors of the film City of God. The series was watched by 35 million viewers in Brazil and was released internationally on DVD shortly after the ...
Style: stylized, captivating, serious, atmospheric, rough ...
Plot: kids in trouble, friendship, street gang, juvenile delinquency, life is a bitch, social decay, street kid, struggle, social problems, society, youth, gang ...
Time: 21st century
Place: brazil, rio de janeiro, sao paulo brazil, latin america
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 6.1
 1K
Defiance (1980)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Tommy takes up temporary housing in a New York neighborhood plagued by a violent gang called the Souls. Tommy is waiting for his next assignment as a seaman and though he tries to avoid the gang and his neighbors, it does not work. Soon he is ...
Style: independent film, grindhouse, cult classic, exciting, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: vigilante, gang, street gang, vigilantism, revenge, violence, city, criminal, urban, criminal gang, sailor, nightclub ...
Time: year 1980, 70s
Place: new york, usa
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 2.2
 9K
Crossover (2006)
Genre: Action, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: The clock strikes midnight, money changes hands, the crowd is on their feet, and the court is alive with fast-paced razzle-dazzle basketball. These players don't play for a school or a pro team. They play for the street and it's ...
Style: tense, serious, realistic, suspense
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: basketball, against the odds, athlete's life, human spirit, sport team, friendship, contests and competitions, street gang, hopes, lifestyle, buddies, underdog ...
Time: year 2006
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 7.5
 14K
Fresh (1994)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, France
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Michael is a 12-year-old drug pusher who lives in a crowded house with his cousins and aunt. His father has become a street bum,but still meets with Fresh on occasion to play chess. Fresh is rather quiet in a crazy world. Fresh's sister is a ...
Style: hood, realistic, bleak, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Audience: teens
Plot: chess, coming of age, african american, ghetto, drug dealing, drug, hip hop, drug lord, drug addiction, father son relationship, black, adolescence ...
Time: 90s, year 1994
Place: new york, brooklyn new york city, usa
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 2.1
 204
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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Abusing Protocol (2015)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Story: After the death of his brother (Tommy), RJ moves in with Gang Leader (Cane) and quickly finds himself wrapped up in a world of abuse and drugs. Local businessman (Dave) is watching the things he loves disappear in front of his very eyes. What ...
Style: suspenseful, tense, psychological, suspense, disturbing
Plot: gang, gangster, drug, drunkenness, police, sex, violence, robbery, street gang, gang leader, murder, crime family ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england
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The Lords of Flatbush (1974)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Directed by Martin Davidson and Stephen Verona, The Lords of Flatbush is a low budget film starring Perry King, Henry Winkler and Sylvester Stallone (who also wrote additional dialog). Set in the late 1950s, the coming-of-age story follows four ...
Style: realistic, stylized, sentimental, intense, serious ...
Plot: friendship, coming of age, adolescence, youth, human nature, friends, gang, self discovery, goofy hero, parents and children, buddies, crime gone awry ...
Time: 1950s, 50s, 20th century
Place: new york, brooklyn new york city, usa
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The Devil's Express (1976)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Warhawk Tanzania plays Luke Curtis who along with his friend Rodan (Wilfredo Roldan) takes a break from the city streets to train kung fu in China. Whilst there, Rodan steals an ancient amulet which prevents an evil spirit from leaving his tomb. The ...
Style: detective, grindhouse, hood, psychotronic, independent film ...
Plot: blaxploitation, martial arts, demonic possession, demon, gang war, street gang, gangster, gang, exploitation, fear, ghetto, supernatural horror ...
Time: year 2016
Place: ancient china, new york
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Hey Good Lookin' (1982)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min.
Story: An outrageous, affectionate look at coming of age in the Eisenhower era in Brooklyn.
Style: adult animation, dark comedy, independent film, humorous, semi serious ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: street gang, coming of age, erotica, teen angst, hamburger, cheating, prostitute, surrealism, jewish american, nostalgia, satire, flashback ...
Time: year 1982, 80s, 50s, 1950s
Place: usa, new york
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 5.5
 20K
Havoc (2005)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A wealthy Los Angeles teen and her superficial friends wants to break out of suburbia and experience Southern California's "gangsta" lifestyle. But problems arise when the preppies get in over their heads and provoke the wrath of a ...
Style: disturbing, sexy, independent film, erotic, psychological ...
Audience: teens
Plot: youth, nudity, teenager, sex scene, sex with a stranger, juvenile delinquency, promiscuity, hip hop, gang, gangster, erotica, female nudity ...
Time: year 2005, 21st century
Place: los angeles, california, usa
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 7.2
 12K
The Outlaws (2017)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 121 min.
Story: Ma Seok-do works as a detective squad chief. His team struggles to bust a criminal ring who originally came from Yanbian, China and led by Jang Chen.
Style: suspense, tense, brutal, crime drama, intense ...
Plot: organized crime, police, tough law enforcer, street gang, cruelty, strong violent content, brutality, crime boss, police investigation, tough cop, peril, extortion ...
Time: 2000s
Place: south korea, seoul
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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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Enemy Territory (1987)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: An insurance salesman inadvertently gets trapped after dark in an apartment building that is terrorized by a street gang called "The Vampires."
Style: realistic, rough, suspenseful, serious, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: survival, gang, danger, society, life is a bitch, urban ghetto life, ghetto, street gang, urban, murder, violence, racial injustice ...
Time: 80s
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 7.8
 2K
Rocky (2021)
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 129 min.
Story: A gangster who is released from prison goes in search of his sister only to find his violent past tagging along and threatening to derail his attempt to lead a normal life.
Style: disturbing, suspense, tense, captivating
Plot: past, criminal gang, street gang, gangster, organized crime, ex convict, brother and sister, criminal, gang, troubled past, past coming back to haunt, gang member ...
Place: india
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 6.9
 6K
Suburbia (1983)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: When household tensions and a sense of worthlessness overcome Evan, he finds escape when he clings with the orphans of a throw-away society. The runaways hold on to each other like a family until a tragedy tears them apart.
Style: independent film, psychotronic, retro, political, indie film ...
Audience: teens
Plot: punk rock, punk, subculture, teenager, coming of age, friendship, dysfunctional family, skinhead, graffiti, runaway, punk music, friendship between men ...
Time: 80s, year 1983
Place: california, los angeles, usa, southern california
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