Street gangster movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant street gangster movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, cult classic, serious, stylized, talky and hood films and TV shows about / with street gangster, gang, violence, criminal, gangster, street gang, brutality, revenge, fight and vengeance plots mostly in Drama, Crime and Action genres shot in USA, France, South Korea and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as street gangster: Menace II Society (1993), Gangs of New York (2002), The Lords of Flatbush (1974), Akira (1988), The Wanderers (1979), American History X (1998), Vendhu Thanindhathu Kaadu (2022), Trouble in the Heights (2011), American Gangster: Trap Queens (2019), Guns and Roses (2012).
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List of street gangster movies
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.
Style:
stylized, bloody, serious, rough, hood ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama, adult
Plot:
ghetto, hip hop, friendship, african american, urban ghetto life, murder, police brutality, violence, coming of age, gangster, organized crime, street gang ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 70s, year 1993
Place:
los angeles, california, usa, south central los angeles, north america
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA, Italy
Duration: 167 min.
Story:
It's 1863. America was born in the streets. Amsterdam Vallon returns to the Five Points of America to seek vengeance against the psychotic gangland kingpin, Bill the Butcher, who murdered his father years earlier. With an eager pickpocket by ...
Style:
tense, rough, bloody, epic, atmospheric ...
Audience:
boys' night, adult
Plot:
revenge, gang, vengeance, gangster, organized crime, street gang, violence, betrayal, racism, courage, violent, gang war ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1800s, 1860s, 50s ...
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city
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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 ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
friendship, gang, greaser, street gang, wedding, motorcycle, high school, street gangster, adolescence, youth, coming of age, human nature ...
Time:
1950s, 50s, 20th century, 80s, future
Place:
new york, brooklyn new york city, usa, north america, california ...
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Genre: Animation, Action, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Childhood friends Tetsuo and Kaneda are pulled into the post-apocalyptic underworld of Neo-Tokyo and forced to fight for their very survival. Kaneda is a bike gang leader, and Tetsuo is a member of a tough motorcycle crew who becomes involved in a ...
Style:
anime, futuristic, surreal, adult animation, atmospheric ...
Audience:
kids, boys' night, adult
Plot:
cyberpunk, post apocalypse, motorcycle gang, motorcycle, teenager, protest, dystopia, body horror, psychic power, military, experiment, hallucination ...
Time:
future, near future, distant future, 2010s, 80s ...
Place:
japan, tokyo, east asia, asia
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Netherlands
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
The streets of the Bronx are owned by 60’s youth gangs where the joy and pain of adolescence is lived. Philip Kaufman tells his take on the novel by Richard Price about the history of the Italian-American gang ‘The Wanderers.’
Style:
grindhouse, cult classic, hood, serious, realistic ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, cheerleader, street gang, street gangster, american football, rock and roll, bullying, gang, high school, bare chested male, male pubic hair, male orgasm ...
Time:
year 1979, year 1963, 20th century, 60s, 80s
Place:
new york, bronx new york city, usa, new jersey, california
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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:
cerebral, rough, serious, clever, disturbing ...
Audience:
boys' night, date night, teens, teen drama
Plot:
gang, skinhead, racism, prison, neo nazism, neo nazi, character change, nazism, juvenile delinquency, murder, politics, african american ...
Time:
20th century, year 1998, 90s
Place:
los angeles, usa, california, america, north america ...
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 177 min.
Story:
A youngster from Tamil Nadu goes to Bombay in search of a better life and gets sucked into the underworld. Will he be able to find a way out of the violence and bloodshed?
Style:
tense, crime drama, thrilling, captivating, dark ...
Plot:
gangster, underground, street gangster, gangsta grip, criminal gang, gang, criminal, rise and fall, violence, migration, gang warfare, social realism ...
Place:
mumbai india, india
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Near the shadow of the George Washington Bridge, a young Dominican teenager is hunted by a drug kingpin as his older brother must fight for both their survival over the course of a day in their Washington Heights neighborhood of New York.
Style:
suspenseful, captivating, thrilling, psychological, tense ...
Plot:
survival, brotherhood, drug, gang, drug dealer, criminal gang, street gangster, threat, drug lord, gangsta, bandit, gangster ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, washington d.c.
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Genre: Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 41 min.
TV show
Story:
American Gangster: Trap Queens is a new installment of the critically acclaimed American Gangster series that examines the lives and the legend behind some of America's most notorious female criminals.
Style:
tense, thrilling, captivating, crime drama, suspenseful ...
Plot:
true crime, gangster, legend, gang member, street gang, historical figure, gang leader, criminal, criminal gang, bandit, street gangster, gang ...
Time:
2000s, 90s
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Genre: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
The film tells the story of a group of Chinese youths who robbed a bank of the “Manchuguo”, a puppet regime formed in China’s northeastern provinces by Japanese invaders in the 1930s and ’40s.
Style:
captivating, thrilling, psychological, period piece, action drama ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
gangster, conspiracy, heist, bank robbery, conspirator, gang member, burglar, bandit, criminal gang, criminal, robbery, street gangster ...
Time:
1930s, 1940s
Place:
east asia
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Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
TV show
Story:
A restaurant opens at midnight until seven in the morning. Its mysterious owner and chef, simply called the "Master," has no fixed items on his menu, but will take orders from any customer and cook up whatever they ask for. As the Master ...
Style:
enigmatic, serious, suspenseful, dramatic, seinen
Plot:
food, restaurant, slice of life, chef, customer, past, mysterious past, secret, street gangster, secret past, secrets, actor ...
Place:
korea
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Genre: Action, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A young Chinese nobody sets out to become a Don in the Italian Mafia. It turns out that earning respect, finding love, and discovering his identity doesn't come so easy. He'll have to fight his way to the top.
Style:
captivating, funny, entertaining, satirical, humorous ...
Plot:
organized crime, bandit, gang, gangster boss, satire, gang leader, love interest, love and romance, humour, power struggle, mafia, criminal gang ...
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Sport
Country: Croatia
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
ZG80 is a prequel of Metastaze. The movie brings back its characters to prewar Yugoslavia where they, as part of Bad Blue Boys, go on a football match in Belgrade to see Dinamo play against Crvena Zvezda. They encounter guest fans, their arch rivals ...
Style:
tense, realistic, retro, pre war, period drama ...
Plot:
violence, football, hooliganism, derby, fan culture, conflict, chaos, riot, urban, nationalism, loyalty, youth ...
Time:
80s
Place:
belgrade, former yugoslavia, croatia, serbia
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 153 min.
Story:
In the slums of the upper West Side of Manhattan, New York, a gang of Polish-American teenagers called the Jets compete with a rival gang of recently immigrated Puerto Ricans, the Sharks, to "own" the neighborhood streets. Tensions are ...
Style:
romantic, stylized, tear jerker, neo noir, aesthetic ...
Audience:
date night, teens, chick flick, girls' night, adult
Plot:
forbidden love, rivalry, tragic love, dance, street gang, gang, broadway, interracial relations, shakespeare, racism, dancing, love story ...
Time:
1950s, 20th century, year 1961, 50s, 1930s
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, usa, empire state building manhattan new york city
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Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Peter Fonda plays 'Heavenly Blues', the leader of Hell's Angels chapter from Venice, California while Bruce Dern plays 'Loser', his best pal. When they both botch their attempt to retrieve Loser's stolen bike, Loser ...
Style:
psychotronic, serious, suspenseful, rough, grindhouse ...
Plot:
biker, motorcycle, gang, swastika, bike, hospital, biker gang, tough heroes, violence spree, life is a bitch, buddies, on the road ...
Time:
year 1966, 60s
Place:
los angeles, california, usa, italy, europe ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
At first gas station attendant Poet is happy when the rockers gang “Hell’s Angels” finally accepts him. But he’s shocked when he learns how brutal they are – not even murder is a taboo to them. He gets himself in trouble when the ...
Style:
grindhouse, cult classic, independent film, contemplative, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
motorcycle, motorcycle race, biker, jealousy, biker gang, marriage proposal, murder, outlaw, bar fight, love triangle, exploitation, gang ...
Time:
year 1967, 60s
Place:
california, oakland california, usa, san francisco, nevada
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Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Two brothers have a plan on how to rob the Ceasar's Palace in Las Vegas. They join a motorcycle gang and while the others are drinking and partying outside of town, they change their clothes and head off to rob the casino. Of course, the police ...
Style:
independent film, grindhouse, psychotronic, road movie
Plot:
biker, motorcycle, biker gang, bike, playboy, outlaw biker, motorcycle chase, motorcyclist, half brother half brother relationship, rich man, rudeness, plan gone wrong ...
Place:
las vegas
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Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
The lone inhabitants of an abandoned police station are under attack by the overwhelming numbers of a seemingly unstoppable street gang.
Style:
cult classic, tense, grindhouse, suspenseful, intense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
survival, gunfight, police station, street gang, claustrophobia, siege, violent, prison, female warrior, gang, convict, revenge ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1976
Place:
los angeles, california, usa, north america
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Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Prominent gang leader Cyrus calls a meeting of New York's gangs to set aside their turf wars and take over the city. At the meeting, a rival leader kills Cyrus, but a Coney Island gang called the Warriors is wrongly blamed for Cyrus' ...
Style:
cult classic, neo noir, retro, grindhouse, grim ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, teen drama, adult
Plot:
survival, street gang, gang, gang war, gang member, subway, violence, warrior, gangster, chase, murder, graffiti ...
Time:
future, 70s, year 1979, near future, 80s
Place:
new york, coney island brooklyn new york city, bronx new york city, usa, north america ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A small midwestern town descends into chaos with the arrival of a motorcycle gang.
Style:
cult classic, period piece, slasher, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
motorcycle, biker, bike, biker gang, gang, nudity, bare breasts, female nudity, teenage girl, blonde, waitress, suburbs ...
Time:
year 1960, year 1981, 50s, 1950s, year 1959
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108K
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
When two poor greasers, Johnny, and Ponyboy are assaulted by a vicious gang, the socs, and Johnny kills one of the attackers, tension begins to mount between the two rival gangs, setting off a turbulent chain of events.
Style:
teen, homoerotic, melancholic, intense, hood ...
Audience:
teens, family outing, pre-teens, kids, girls' night ...
Plot:
coming of age, gang, teen angst, dysfunctional family, street gang, teenager, book, brother brother relationship, small town, friendship, juvenile delinquent, rebellious teenager ...
Time:
60s, year 1964, 1900s, 1950s, future ...
Place:
oklahoma, oklahoma city, usa, north america
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Rusty James, an absent-minded street thug struggles to live up to his legendary older brother's reputation, and longs for the days when gang warfare was going on.
Style:
cult classic, surreal, black and white, cerebral, bleak ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, street gang, brother brother relationship, gang, biker, motorcycle, alcoholic father, juvenile delinquent, teenage protagonist, homoerotic friendship, teen angst, character study ...
Time:
80s, year 1983, 20th century, 70s
Place:
oklahoma, california, oklahoma city, usa, pacific ocean
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Genre: Action, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Corey and his band of skater buddies sometimes make mischief, but they're more interested in girls and having fun on their boards than in getting into any real trouble. Notorious enemy crew the Daggers, led by Tommy Hook, get their kicks ...
Style:
period piece, independent film, sentimental, colorful, serious ...
Audience:
teens, kids
Plot:
skateboard, rivalry, forbidden love, teenager, young lovers, gang, blonde, breakdance, competition, arson, brother sister relationship, street gang ...
Time:
year 2016, 80s
Place:
los angeles, southern california
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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 ...
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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:
cult classic, brutal, independent film, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
hip hop, gang, ghetto, african american, poverty, coming of age, urban ghetto life, street gang, juvenile delinquency, rapper, gangster, teenager ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 80s, year 1991, year 1984
Place:
los angeles, south central los angeles, california, america, usa ...
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Genre: Biography, 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", ...
Style:
cult classic, intense, entertaining, bad ending, serious ...
Plot:
gang, street gang, prison gang, drug abuse, prison, gangster, destiny, male nudity, jail, ghetto, violence spree, drug addiction ...
Time:
20th century, year 1993, 90s, 70s, 80s
Place:
los angeles, california, ecuador, south america, usa ...
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Keong comes from Hong Kong to visit New York for his uncle's wedding. His uncle runs a market in the Bronx and Keong offers to help out while Uncle is on his honeymoon. During his stay in the Bronx, Keong befriends a neighbor kid and beats up ...
Style:
humorous, action comedy, cult classic, entertaining, semi serious ...
Audience:
boys' night, manly
Plot:
martial arts, gang, martial artist, vigilante, supermarket, wuxia, gangster, one against many, fight, fight scenes, street life, righting the wronged ...
Time:
year 1995, 90s, 20th century, 80s
Place:
china, new york, bronx new york city, usa, manhattan new york city ...
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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
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Genre: Action, Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller, Western
Country: Australia, UK, France
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Set against the badlands of colonial Australia where the English rule with a bloody fist and the Irish endure, Ned Kelly discovers he comes from a line of Irish rebels—an uncompromising army of cross dressing bandits immortalised for terrorising ...
Style:
psychological, bleak, tense, spaghetti western, art house ...
Plot:
bisexual man, criminal, chase, gang, fight, raped woman, murder, police officer, criminal gang, death, revenge, true crime ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1870s, 1880s
Place:
united kingdom, oceania, australia
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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:
brutal, suspense, tense, crime drama, harsh ...
Plot:
tough cop, brutality, organized crime, tough law enforcer, strong violent content, street gang, cruelty, police, crime boss, police investigation, korean gangster, peril ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
south korea, seoul
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