Hood movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant hood movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out hood, realistic, serious, black cinema, rough and independent film films and TV shows about / with gang, ghetto, gangster, urban, hip hop culture, violence, culture, racial, black and discrimination plots mostly in Drama, Crime and Thriller genres shot in USA, France, Japan and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as hood: Fresh (1994), Above the Rim (1994), Friday (1995), Notorious (2009), Do the Right Thing (1989), Tales from the Hood (1995), Fruitvale Station (2013), Friday After Next (2002), Belly (1998), Straight Outta Compton (2015).
Best films
New films
| They Cloned Tyrone (2023) | 6.7 | |
| Black as Night (2021) | 4.5 | |
| Bull (2021) | 6.5 | |
| Trap House (2025) | 5.4 | |
| First Date (2021) | 5.4 |
List of hood movies
16K
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, neo noir ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
chess, childhood trauma, coming of age, drug dealing, drug lord, african american, ghetto, father son relationship, drug, hip hop, urban ghetto, blaxploitation ...
Time:
90s, year 1994
Place:
new york, brooklyn new york city, usa, new jersey, africa
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Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
When Ashtray (Shawn Wayans) moves to South Central L.A. to live with his father (who appears to be the same age he is) and grandmother (who likes to talk tough and smoke reefer), he falls in with his gang-banging cousin Loc Dog (Marlon Wayans), who ...
Style:
parody, hood, funny, absurd, humorous ...
Audience:
teens, date night, adult
Plot:
gang, friendship, stoner, dumb, youth, ghetto, social satire, african american, gangster, hip hop, city life, stupidity ...
Time:
90s
Place:
california
Is relevant?
Genre: Crime, Drama, Sport, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Story of a promising high school basketball star and his relationships with two brothers, one a drug dealer and the other a former basketball star fallen on hard times and now employed as a security guard.
Style:
hood, inspirational, independent film, serious, realistic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
hip hop, basketball, african american, gang, high school, urban, ghetto, black, gangster, violence, coming of age, thug ...
Time:
year 1994, 90s, 20th century, 80s
Place:
harlem, new jersey, new york
Is relevant?
136K
Genre: Comedy, Drama
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.
Style:
hood, funny, independent film, feel good, light ...
Plot:
african american, ghetto, hip hop, weed, marijuana, friendship, drug, rap, friends, rapper, friendship between men, drug dealer ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 1995
Place:
los angeles, south central los angeles, california, usa, new jersey
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48K
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
NOTORIOUS is the story of Christopher Wallace. Through raw talent and sheer determination, Wallace transforms himself from Brooklyn street hustler (once selling crack to pregnant women) to one of the greatest rappers of all time; THE NOTORIOUS ...
Style:
hood, sincere, melancholic, factual, serious ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
hip hop, african american, urban ghetto life, music, biopic, rising to stardom, musician, fame, success, ghetto, female singer, sacrifice ...
Time:
year 2009, 20th century, 80s, year 1983, 90s
Place:
new york, usa, los angeles, brooklyn new york city, new jersey
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
On the hottest day of the year on a street in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, everyone's hate and bigotry smolders and builds until it explodes into violence.
Style:
hood, independent film, controversial, sexy, realistic ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
heat wave, racism, pizzeria, culture clash, hip hop, police brutality, pizza, african american, ghetto, boycott, black history, prejudice ...
Time:
20th century, year 1989, 80s
Place:
new york, usa, brooklyn new york city, africa, new york state
Is relevant?
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A strange funeral director tells four strange tales of horror with an African American focus to three drug dealers he traps in his place of business.
Style:
anthology, hood, cult classic, disturbing, scary ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
child abuse, mortician, afterlife, brutality, murder, funeral home, police brutality, hip hop, supernatural, drug, storytelling, blaxploitation ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
los angeles, usa, south central los angeles, california, southern california
Is relevant?
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
The true story of Oscar, a 22-year-old Bay Area resident, who crosses paths with friends, enemies, family, and strangers on the last day of 2008.
Style:
hood, independent film, thought provoking, sad, sincere ...
Audience:
preschool
Plot:
racism, african american, police brutality, black, marijuana, murder, black history, prison visit, introspection, black lives matter, civil rights, character study ...
Time:
year 2013, 2000s, year 2008, year 2009, 2010s ...
Place:
california, new york, usa, oakland california, san francisco ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Craig and Day Day have finally moved out of their parents houses and into their own crib. The cousins work nights at a local mall as security guards. When their house is robbed on Christmas Eve they team up to track him down.
Style:
hood, funny, humorous, stylized, witty ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
christmas, thief, marijuana, weed, african american, security guard, robbery, pimp, urban, shopping mall, hip hop, voice over narration ...
Time:
year 2002
Place:
california, los angeles
Is relevant?
14K
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 ...
Style:
hood, independent film, stylized, crime drama, realistic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
gangster, hip hop, african american, urban, urban ghetto life, ghetto, drug dealer, black, drug, violence, gangsta, gang ...
Time:
year 1998, 90s
Place:
jamaica, new york, usa, new jersey
Is relevant?
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Music, Musical
Country: USA, Japan
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, hood, intense, clever, inspirational ...
Audience:
manly
Plot:
hip hop, racism, music, ghetto, gangster, redemption, rap, rags to riches, profanity, rapper, african american, gang ...
Time:
90s, year 2015, 2010s, year 1990, year 1995 ...
Place:
los angeles, california, milwaukee wisconsin, usa, detroit ...
Is relevant?
512K
Genre: 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.
Style:
neo noir, tense, realistic, harsh, suspense ...
Audience:
manly, boys' night, adult
Plot:
police corruption, ghetto, gang, corrupt cop, drug dealer, african american, rookie, dirty cop, mentor, twists and turns, gunfight, gang member ...
Time:
year 2001, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, california, south america, usa
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
With help from his friends, a Memphis pimp in a mid-life crisis attempts to become a successful hip-hop emcee.
Style:
sexy, realistic, touching, bleak, emotional ...
Plot:
hip hop, music, rapper, midlife crisis, hip hop culture, career, destiny, drug abuse, friendship, black, profanity, ghetto ...
Time:
70s, 21st century
Place:
memphis, southern usa, tennessee, usa, egypt ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
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 ...
Style:
hood, melancholic, brutal, serious, disturbing ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gang, brutality, ghetto, police investigation, urban, vengeance, hip hop, murder, lone hero, black, teenage life, drug dealing ...
Time:
90s, 70s
Place:
new jersey, new york, usa, california
Is relevant?
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.
Style:
hood, sexual, captivating, crime drama, independent film ...
Plot:
gang, criminal gang, urban ghetto life, ghetto, urban, black, blaxploitation, hip hop, african american, father son relationship, father son reunion, drug dealing ...
Time:
90s, 80s, year 1992
Place:
los angeles, california, usa, south central los angeles, africa
Is relevant?
13K
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
As four friends prepare for life after high school, different challenges bring about turning points in each of their lives. The dramas unfold and resolve at their local rollerskating rink, Cascade.
Style:
hood, cult classic, stylized, talky, feel good ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
hip hop, coming of age, friendship, urban, black, drug dealing, ambition, family relations, self discovery, social differences, teenage life, siblings relations ...
Time:
year 2006, 80s, 21st century
Place:
usa, georgia, atlanta georgia, hawaii, london
Is relevant?
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
The story of a young man who must confront his own fears about love as well as his relationships with family and friends.
Style:
sexy, hood, romantic, erotic, serious ...
Audience:
date night, teens, girls' night
Plot:
urban, black, hip hop, african american, sex scene, love, making love, family relations, black history, violence, tragic romance, black woman ...
Time:
year 1994, 90s
Place:
asia, vietnam, texas, houston texas
Is relevant?
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, rough, suspenseful, bleak ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
urban ghetto life, gang, urban, gangster, drug dealing, family life, ghetto, buddies, juvenile delinquency, friendship, social decay, chaos and mayhem ...
Time:
year 2002
Place:
usa, memphis, philadelphia
Is relevant?
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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 ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Ex-con attempting to go straight runs across serious problems. His girlfriend gets arrested for dealing crack to an undercover police officer. In a desperate attempt to get the charges dropped against his woman, he strikes deal with weapons cop to ...
Style:
hood, grim, crime drama, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
urban, ghetto, hip hop, gang, arms dealing, black, kids in trouble, african american, police, poverty, troubled youth, rap ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new york, usa
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
An ex-convict (Tyrese) gets tangled up with a gang after his car is hijacked with his son inside.
Style:
hood, suspense, exciting, suspenseful, crime drama ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gang, kidnapping, hip hop, gangster, chase, african american gangster, urban, revenge, african american, car chase, ghetto, black ...
Time:
year 2006, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, usa, new jersey
Is relevant?
864K
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Brazil, France
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:
rough, bleak, hood, sexy, stylized ...
Audience:
teen drama, adult
Plot:
gang, violence, ghetto, favela, coming of age, storytelling, gang war, gangster, society, juvenile delinquency, organized crime, journalism ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 2003, 2000s, future ...
Place:
latin america, rio de janeiro, south america, brazil, africa
Is relevant?
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
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Genre: Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Hustlers, players and gangsters rule the urban streets of New York in this story about loyalty and betrayal. Billy Goode, a street-smart crook and his partner Jackie Williams are two small time gangsters with dream of seeing their names in the ...
Style:
hood, suspenseful, thrilling, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
urban, gangster, ghetto, moll, criminal gang, investigation, criminal, fighting crime, street gang, bandit, gang, con artists ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
new york
Is relevant?
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:
hood, stylized, suspense, intense, harsh ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gangster, gang, gang war, organized crime, ghetto, blaxploitation, mafia, drug, hip hop, chase, urban, drug lord ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, 90s, year 1986
Place:
harlem, new york, usa, america, manhattan new york city ...
Is relevant?
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
Is relevant?
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 ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Music
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
A tale of an inner city drug dealer who turns away from crime to pursue his passion, rap music.
Style:
hood, stylized, harsh, serious, rough ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
hip hop, ghetto, rap, rapper, gangster, urban ghetto life, redemption, music, urban, rags to riches, male pubic hair, gang ...
Time:
year 2005, 80s, 21st century
Place:
usa, new york, new jersey
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
In this film, we see the world through the eyes of main character Justice, a young African-American poet. A mail carrier invites a few friends along for a long overnight delivery run.
Style:
road movie, hood, realistic, touching, serious ...
Audience:
date night, teens
Plot:
road trip, african american, gang, hip hop, black, ghetto, friendship, writers, urban, on the road, starting over, self discovery ...
Time:
year 1993, 90s, 80s
Place:
los angeles, usa, chicago, south central los angeles, new jersey
Is relevant?
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A fearless cop is taking on a ruthless crimelord. He knew the risks. He just didn't know how far he would have to go.
Style:
hood, entertaining, exciting, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
gang, undercover, gangster, ghetto, police detective, hip hop, adaptation, friendship, brutality, betrayal, mentor, transformation ...
Time:
year 1999, 90s, 70s
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