Ghetto movies and TV shows – page 3

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Lila Says (2004)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: France, UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Based on a controversial French novel, Lila Says tells the story of a quiet young poet named Chimo who develops a crush on the pretty, blond Lila, a girl who recently moved into his Arab ghetto with her aunt. When the leader of a rival gang also ...
Style: erotic, sexy, emotional, non-linear, artsy ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: sex, dream girl, love, blonde, horniness, coming of age, erotic fantasy, flirting, erotica, love triangle, friends, sexual relations ...
Time: near future, year 2004
Place: paris france, maghreb, lebanon, middle east, france ...
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 6.9
 23K
Clockers (1995)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story: Strike is a young city drug pusher under the tutelage of drug lord Rodney Little. When a night manager at a fast-food restaurant is found with four bullets in his body, Strike's older brother turns himself in as the killer. Det. Rocco Klein ...
Style: hood, detective, grim, neo noir, realistic ...
Plot: ghetto, hip hop, urban, organized crime, drug, violence, blaxploitation, black, gangster, murder, gang, investigation ...
Time: year 1995, 90s
Place: new york, brooklyn new york city, usa
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Amongst Men (2021)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Argentina
TV show
Story: It is the golden age of gangs, and one of the darkest times for the police, who are controlled by a group of millionaire commissioners sharing in the illicit businesses of Buenos Aires.
Style: detective, thrilling, captivating, tense, hood ...
Plot: gangster, ghetto, gang, mafia, secret, drug, party, murder, criminal, destroying evidence, forensic evidence, police ...
Time: 90s, year 1996
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 6.5
 7K
Enforcement (2020)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Denmark
Duration: 108 min.
Story: The exact details of what took place while Talib Ben Hassi was in police custody remain unclear. Police officers, Jens and Mike, are on routine patrol in Svalegården's ghetto when news of Talib's death comes in over the radio, igniting ...
Style: tense, suspense, captivating, perverse, hood ...
Plot: gang, ghetto, police partner, teenage boy, riot, police officer, partner, urban ghetto, civil unrest, showdown, struggle for survival, trapped ...
Place: copenhagen, denmark
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 6.8
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The Immortal (2019)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy, Germany
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Ciro's body is sinking in the dark waters of the Gulf of Naples. And as it sinks deeper and deeper, memories emerge. The sounds muffled by the water merge with the screams of fleeing people. It is 1980, the earth shakes, the palace collapses, ...
Style: harsh, serious, intense, rough, hood
Audience: boys' night
Plot: organized crime, gang, ghetto, conspiracy, mafia, danger, escapades, social problems, criminal, corrupt cop, urban ghetto, robbery ...
Time: 2010s
Place: naples italy, europe, italy
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 7.5
 110K
The Warriors (1979)
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: neo noir, grindhouse, futuristic, stylized, suspense ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, teen drama, adult
Plot: survival, street gang, gang, violence, gang war, subway, gang member, gangster, chase, murder, graffiti, assassination ...
Time: future, year 1979, 70s, near future
Place: new york, coney island brooklyn new york city, bronx new york city, usa, brooklyn new york city ...
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Leprechaun in the Hood (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: When Butch, Postmaster P, and Stray Bullet loot the local hip-hop mogul's studio to fund their demo album, the threesome unwittingly ends up with the secret of Mack Daddy's success: a magical flute. Their gigs instantly turn golden but a ...
Style: suspense, scary, humorous, parody, slasher ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: leprechaun, monster, hip hop, magic, reluctant partners, fantasy world, homeless, storytelling, brutality, ghetto, armed robbery, curses spells and rituals ...
Time: 90s
Place: california, usa
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I Got the Hook Up (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Two broke buddies feel lucky when they come upon a truckload of cellular phones and begin selling them out of the back of their van. Trouble arises though, when the phones develop faults. The two friends then not only have to deal with unsatisfied ...
Style: funny, humorous, light, hood, semi serious ...
Plot: hip hop, gangster, justice, ghetto, dishonesty, disorder, stoner, odd couple, nothing goes right, unlikely criminals, buddies, misfit ...
Time: 90s, year 1998
Place: los angeles, south central los angeles
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White Men Can't Jump (1992)
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Billy Hoyle and Sidney Deane are an unlikely pair of basketball hustlers. They team up to con their way across the courts of Los Angeles, playing a game that's fast dangerous - and funny.
Style: light, entertaining, feel good, buddy comedy, talky ...
Plot: basketball, friendship, buddies, buddy, hip hop, black, con artists, ghetto, ambition, contests and competitions, blacks and whites, sex scene ...
Time: 90s, year 1992, 20th century
Place: los angeles, usa, california, venice beach california
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Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (1999)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France, Germany, USA, Japan
Duration: 116 min.
Story: An African-American Mafia hit man who models himself after the samurai of old finds himself targeted for death by the mob.
Style: art house, stylized, atmospheric, cult classic, hood ...
Plot: african american, mafia, samurai, hitman, hip hop, loneliness, loner, racial slur, friendship, assassin, martial arts, lone wolves ...
Time: 90s, year 1999, future, 20th century
Place: new york, usa, new jersey, brooklyn new york city, japan
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Gully Boy (2019)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 154 min.
Story: A coming-of-age story based on the lives of street rappers in Mumbai.
Style: psychological, captivating, disturbing, sincere, fast ...
Audience: teens
Plot: success, poverty, slum, ghetto, fight, friend, rivalry, ambition, escapades, youth, society, motivation ...
Place: mumbai india
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Set It Off (1996)
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, neo noir, tear jerker, uplifting ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: lesbian, heist, african american, bank robbery, ghetto, bank robber, urban, hip hop, gangster, women, black, girl gang ...
Time: 90s
Place: los angeles, indiana, usa, mexico
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Baby Boy (2001)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story: The story of Jody, a misguided, 20-year-old African-American who is really just a baby boy finally forced-kicking and screaming to face the commitments of real life. Streetwise and jobless, he has not only fathered two children by two different ...
Style: hood, stylized, intense, light, emotional ...
Plot: womanizer, single parent, gang, african american, black, unlikely friendships, gangster, urban, organized crime, twists and turns, ghetto, hip hop ...
Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles, california, south central los angeles, usa
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House Party (1990)
Genre: Comedy, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Young Kid has been invited to a party at his friend Play's house. But after a fight at school, Kid's father grounds him. None the less, Kid sneaks out when his father falls asleep. But Kid doesn't know that three of the thugs at ...
Style: hood, funny, cult classic, light, black comedy ...
Audience: teens
Plot: hip hop, african american, high school, teenager, black, urban, dancing, ghetto, gangster, coming of age, school, police ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: usa
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Next Friday (2000)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Ice Cube returns as Craig Jones, a streetwise man from South Central Los Angeles who has a knack for getting into trouble. This time out, Craig is still trying to outsmart neighborhood bully Debo (Tommy "Tiny" Lister Jr.); after Craig gets ...
Style: funny, humorous, hood, feel good, light ...
Audience: adult
Plot: weed, hip hop, black, urban, stoner, ghetto, marijuana, dishonesty, friendship, family relations, society, lifestyle ...
Time: 90s, y2k, year 2000
Place: los angeles, california, usa
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Gridlock'd (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: After a friend overdoses, Spoon and Stretch decide to kick their drug habits and attempt to enroll in a government detox program. Their efforts are hampered by seemingly endless red tape, as they are shuffled from one office to another while being ...
Style: dark comedy, hood, stylized, harsh, talky ...
Plot: addiction, hip hop, drug addiction, drug, urban, drug abuse, murder, heroin, gangster, justice, crime gone awry, culture clash ...
Time: 20th century, year 1997, 90s
Place: usa, detroit, new york
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Yamakasi (2001)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Yamakasi - Les samouraïs des temps modernes is a 2001 French movie written by Luc Besson. It demonstrates the skills of the Yamakasi, a group of traceurs who battle against injustice in the Paris ghetto. They use parkour to steal from the rich in ...
Style: semi serious, witty, exciting, realistic, sincere ...
Audience: teens
Plot: parkour, thief, money, chase, police, gang, yakuza, climbing, friends, unlikely criminals, hospital, ghetto ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: paris france, france, europe
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City of Men (2007)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Best buddies Acerola and Laranjinha, about to turn 18, discover things about their missing fathers' pasts which will shatter their solid friendship, in the middle of a war between rival drug gangs from Rio's favelas.
Style: tense, bleak, harsh, suspense, disturbing ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: friendship, street gang, slum, betrayal, coming of age, favela, relationships, best friend, character study, brutality, storytelling, adaptation ...
Time: year 2008, year 2007, 21st century
Place: rio de janeiro, brazil, latin america
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Strapped (1993)
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, black, arms dealing, kids in trouble, african american, poverty, police, thug life, thug ...
Time: 90s
Place: new york, usa
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Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song (1971)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: After saving a Black Panther from some racist cops, a black male prostitute goes on the run from "the man" with the help of the ghetto community and some disillusioned Hells Angels.
Style: controversial, grindhouse, serious, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot: blaxploitation, racism, gang, on the run, police corruption, betrayal, chase, prostitute, manhunt, ghetto, vengeance, life is a bitch ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s, year 1971, 70s
Place: los angeles, latin america, usa, california, south central los angeles ...
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Adrenalin: Fear the Rush (1996)
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: rough, serious, suspenseful, independent film, apocalyptic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: survival, brutality, quarantine, virus, chase, race against time, catastrophe, fantasy world, dystopian future, chaos, danger, investigation ...
Time: year 2007, future, 21st century
Place: boston, usa, europe
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The Landlord (1970)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: At the age of twenty-nine, Elgar Enders "runs away" from home. This running away consists of buying a building in a black ghetto in the Park Slope section of Brooklyn. Initially his intention is to evict the black tenants and convert it ...
Style: political, funny, realistic, semi serious, offbeat ...
Plot: racism, landlord, tenant, adoption, one night stand, ghetto, dysfunctional family, apartment building, father son relationship, class differences, interracial relations, satire ...
Time: 60s
Place: new york, brooklyn new york city, usa
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Nothing to Lose (1997)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Advertising executive Nick Beame learns that his wife is sleeping with his employer. In a state of despair, he encounters a bumbling thief whose attempted carjacking goes awry when Nick takes him on an involuntary joyride. Soon the betrayed ...
Style: funny, humorous, action comedy, hilarious, absurd ...
Plot: on the road, revenge, friendship, robbery, husband wife relationship, desert, mistaken identity, culture clash, reckless driving, advertising executive, profanity, infidelity ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, year 1997
Place: arizona, los angeles, usa, new jersey
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Downtown (1990)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Officer Alex Kearney patrols an upscale neighborhood in Philadelphia, where he pulls over a well-connected white collar executive who promises to get even with the policeman. Soon, Kearney learns that he is off the cushy suburban beat and must now ...
Style: detective, action comedy, retro, fast, semi serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: buddy cop, ghetto, police, male nudity, street gang, law enforcement, urban, cop, gangster, police shootout, police partner, arrest ...
Time: 80s
Place: philadelphia, usa
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Dawn of the Dead (1978)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Italy
Duration: 127 min.
Story: During an ever-growing epidemic of zombies that have risen from the dead, two Philadelphia SWAT team members, a traffic reporter, and his television-executive girlfriend seek refuge in a secluded shopping mall.
Style: grindhouse, scary, suspenseful, splatter, psychotronic ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, adult
Plot: zombie, infection, zombie apocalypse, apocalypse, monster, epidemic, end of the world, survival, living dead, siege, shopping mall, undead ...
Time: 70s, year 1978, 20th century
Place: pennsylvania, pittsburgh, philadelphia, bolivia, usa
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Aimee & Jaguar (1999)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance, War
Country: Germany
Duration: 125 min.
Story: Berlin 1943/44 ("The Battle of Berlin"). Felice, an intelligent and courageous Jewish woman who lives under a false name, belongs to an underground organization. Lilly, a devoted mother of four, though an occasional unfaithful wife, is ...
Style: erotic, romantic, sad, historical drama, romantic drama ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: lesbian, lesbian relationship, lesbian love, holocaust, lesbian interest, gender, woman in danger, nazi, gays and lesbians, world war two, couples, forbidden love ...
Time: year 1999, ancient times, 20th century, 1940s, year 1943 ...
Place: germany, europe, berlin germany
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The Gamechangers (2015)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: This 90-minute factual drama goes behind the scenes of the hit video game Grand Theft Auto, arguably the greatest British coding success since Bletchley Park. The fastest-selling entertainment product in history comes not from Silicon Valley, but ...
Plot: video game, courtroom drama, ghetto, journalist, courtroom, christian, business, superhero, computer, real life, biopic, programmer
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House Party 2 (1991)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Kid'N'Play leave their neighborhood and enter the world of adulthood and higher education. Play attempts to get rich quick in the music business while Kid faces the challenges of college.
Style: hood, humorous, black comedy, rom com, independent film ...
Audience: teens
Plot: hip hop, black, urban, ghetto, gangster, college, blaxploitation, african american, party, friendship, stoner, discrimination ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: usa
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House Party 3 (1994)
Genre: Comedy, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Hip Hop duo Kid & Play return in the second follow-up to their 1990 screen debut House Party. Kid (Christopher "Kid" Reid) is taking the plunge and marrying his girlfriend Veda (Angela Means), while his friend Play (Christopher ...
Style: hood, rom com, black comedy, independent film, realistic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: hip hop, ghetto, gangster, urban, black, music, party, black girl, discrimination, stoner, stoned, blaxploitation ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: usa
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Adulthood (2008)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min.
Story: After serving six years for killing his schoolmate, a young man learns that someone is out for revenge.
Style: hood, rough, realistic, serious, cult classic ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: urban ghetto life, gang, vengeance, society, juvenile delinquency, teenage life, drug addict, life is a bitch, youth, criminal's revenge, ghetto, urban ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, united kingdom, britain, europe, london
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