Ghetto movies and TV shows – page 5

List of ghetto movies

Watch Trailers From This List to Choose a Movie
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A card shark and his unwillingly-enlisted friends need to make a lot of cash quick after losing a sketchy poker match. To do this they decide to pull a heist on a small-time gang who happen to be operating out of the flat next door.
Style: dark comedy, humorous, clever, witty, cynical ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gangster, heist, dark humor, organized crime, twists and turns, crime gone awry, disorder, gang, nothing goes right, debt, violent, friends ...
Time: 20th century, year 1998, 90s
Place: england, united kingdom, london, britain, europe
Is relevant ?
 6.1
 5K
Shottas (2002)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA, Jamaica
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A raw urban drama about two friends raised on the dangerous streets of Kingston, Jamaica. Biggs and Wayne take on the "Shotta" way of life to survive. As young boys, they begin a life of crime, eventually moving to the US where they begin ...
Style: hood, realistic, serious, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gang violence, gangster, street gang, urban, police chase, criminal heroes, social decay, black, disorder, life is a bitch, crime gone awry, society ...
Place: caribbean, miami, usa, florida, jamaica
Is relevant ?
Dead Man Running (2009)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A loan shark gives ex-con Nick a period of 24 hours in order to pay back the money he owes. Up against it, Nick involves his best mate on a multi-part mission in order to raise the cash before it's too late for them both
Style: exciting, serious, suspenseful, hood, tense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gangster, rivalry, buddies, ultimatum, loan, robbery, british gangster, ghetto, violence, badass, gangsta, gang ...
Time: 20th century, 21st century
Place: england, britain, london, europe, manchester
Is relevant ?
 8.3
 909K
Scarface (1983)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 170 min.
Story: After getting a green card in exchange for assassinating a Cuban government official, Tony Montana stakes a claim on the drug trade in Miami. Viciously murdering anyone who stands in his way, Tony eventually becomes the biggest drug lord in the ...
Style: serious, cult classic, exciting, rough, suspense ...
Audience: manly, date night, boys' night, adult
Plot: gangster, mafia, organized crime, gunfight, drug lord, mob boss, drug cartel, drug dealing, cocaine, drug abuse, ambition, violence ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1983, year 1980
Place: miami, cuba, miami beach, florida, bolivia ...
Is relevant ?
Related movie lists
hood movies
927
gangsta movies
360
gangster movies
5202
gangs movies
704
 7.1
 11K
Ill Manors (2012)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Music
Country: UK
Duration: 121 min.
Story: Ensemble film revolving around characters living in Forest Gate, London. Over the course of a few days, six inter-linking stories explore issues of drug use, prostitution and urban poverty.
Style: tense, realistic, serious, hood, anthology ...
Plot: urban ghetto life, gangster, drug addict, society, urban, ghetto, hip hop, police raid, british gangster, mafia, rivalry, danger ...
Time: year 2012, 21st century
Place: london, england, united kingdom, britain
Is relevant ?
 7.0
 10K
Girlhood (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Oppressed by her family setting, dead-end school prospects and the boys law in the neighborhood, Marieme starts a new life after meeting a group of three free-spirited girls. She changes her name, her dress code, and quits school to be accepted in ...
Style: sentimental, captivating, touching, serious, hood ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, friendship, society, teenager, youth, innocence lost, peer pressure, poverty, street gang, against the rules, dull life, teenage life ...
Time: 2010s, 90s, 21st century
Place: paris france, africa, france
Is relevant ?
 7.4
 329K
Moonlight (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: The tender, heartbreaking story of a young man’s struggle to find himself, told across three defining chapters in his life as he experiences the ecstasy, pain, and beauty of falling in love, while grappling with his own sexuality.
Style: serious, lgbt cinema, art house, hood, inspirational ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, date night, teen drama, adult
Plot: lgbt, forgiveness, african american, drug dealer, lgbtq, coming of age, gay, homosexuality, drug addict, dysfunctional family, bullying, beach ...
Time: year 2016, 2000s, 2010s
Place: florida, indiana, idaho, atlanta georgia, miami
Is relevant ?
 7.0
 51K
Gomorrah (2008)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 137 min.
Story: An inside look at Italy's modern-day crime families, the Camorra in Naples and Caserta. Based on a book by Roberto Saviano. Power, money and blood: these are the "values" that the residents of the Province of Naples and Caserta have ...
Style: disturbing, tense, harsh, realistic, serious ...
Plot: juvenile delinquency, organized crime, gang war, mafia, gangster, camorra, italian mafia, danger, gang, character study, power, debt ...
Time: year 2008, 2000s, 21st century
Place: italy, europe, southern italy, miami, venice ...
Is relevant ?
 2.6
 1K
Corrupt (1999)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 69 min.
Story: After decades of terror, two deadly street gangs reach a delicate truce and young MJ (Silkk the Shocker) sees a way out of the hood once and for all. Only Corrupt (Ice-T) stands in MJ's way, resulting into a violent and brutal roller coaster ...
Style: hood, independent film, realistic, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: ghetto, gang, urban, hip hop, discrimination, underworld, hip hop culture, urban setting, gangster, urban ghetto, life is a bitch, social misfits ...
Time: 90s
Place: new york, usa, bronx new york city
Is relevant ?
Thicker Than Water (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: In Los Angeles, two rival gang leaders are also trying to be music producers. When DJ's equipment shorts out and Lonzo is cut out of the action by a record producer, the two join forces, which also requires a tentative peace between gangs. With ...
Style: hood, independent film, realistic, serious, cynical ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: hip hop, urban, ghetto, rapper, discrimination, hip hop culture, black, drug dealing, gang, partner, gangster, rise and fall ...
Time: 90s
Place: los angeles, new orleans, california, usa, south central los angeles
Is relevant ?
 9.3
 373K
The Wire (2002)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 59 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, serious ...
Plot: organized crime, corruption, police detective, police, urban ghetto life, working undercover, life is a bitch, drug dealing, fighting crime, shooting, police investigation, urban decay ...
Time: 2000s, future, year 2002, 20th century, 1950s ...
Place: baltimore, maryland, usa
Is relevant ?
 6.3
 7K
Pride (2007)
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: In this uplifting film based on a true story, coach Jim Ellis (Terrence Howard) shocks the community and changes lives when, aided by a local janitor (Bernie Mac), he sets out to form Philadelphia's first black swim team. But the odds are ...
Style: inspirational, serious, uplifting, emotional, realistic ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: racism, swimming, life is a bitch, ambition, against the odds, teacher, african american, human spirit, athlete's life, rivalry, youth, black ...
Time: 70s, year 2007, 20th century, 60s
Place: philadelphia, africa, usa
Is relevant ?
Related movie lists
Original Gangstas (1996)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A violent street gang, the Rebels, rule the streets of Gary, Indiana. The Rebels shoot Marvin Bookman, a store-keeper, for giving the police information about a drive-by shooting they committed. Marvin's son, former NFL star John who created ...
Style: hood, cult classic, independent film, serious, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: blaxploitation, vigilante, urban, female warrior, vigilantism, gang, murder, black, ghetto, vengeance, tough heroes, culture clash ...
Time: year 1996, year 2016, 90s
Place: indiana, usa
Is relevant ?
 7.6
 102K
The Hurricane (1999)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 146 min.
Story: The story of Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, a boxer wrongly imprisoned for murder, and the people who aided in his fight to prove his innocence.
Style: thought provoking, touching, inspirational, factual, motivational ...
Plot: prison, boxing, racism, courtroom, prison life, legal, death penalty, injustice, justice, biopic, african american, discrimination ...
Time: 20th century, 60s, 70s, 80s, 1940s ...
Place: new jersey, africa, toronto ontario canada, canada
Is relevant ?
 4.1
 1K
Hot Boyz (2000)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Injustice begets a criminal. Kool is an artist without prospects, a black belt in karate, and in love with LaShawna, poised and college bound. One night she witnesses a stabbing and discovers the victim is a cop as he dies in her arms. She's ...
Style: hood, realistic, suspenseful, serious, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gangster, gang, urban, frame up, racism, life is a bitch, police investigation, murder, social decay, police corruption, false accusation, law enforcement ...
Time: 90s
Place: usa, los angeles
Is relevant ?
 6.5
 3K
Bullet Boy (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Ricky is just out of a young offenders institute, heading home to Hackney and determined to go straight. Instead, he heads straight for trouble when he becomes involved in a street confrontation, siding with his best friend Wisdom against a local ...
Style: realistic, psychological, serious, rough, hood ...
Plot: urban ghetto life, gang, youth, juvenile delinquency, urban, life is a bitch, going straight, kids in trouble, social decay, friendship, orphan, society ...
Place: england, africa, london, europe
Is relevant ?
 5.5
 9K
Booty Call (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story: Rushon is sexually pent-up and ready to take thing things to the next level with his girlfriend, Nikki. But when he calls for a date, she asks to make it a double -- bringing along her brash friend Lysterine, whom Rushon sets up with his lewd buddy, ...
Style: sexy, humorous, black comedy, sexual, rom com ...
Audience: date night, teens, chick flick
Plot: looking for sex, hip hop, best friend, urban, women, womanizer, lifestyle, black, dating, sexuality, sex, nothing goes right ...
Time: year 1997, 20th century, 90s
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
Is relevant ?
 6.5
 4K
Beat Street (1984)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: An aspiring DJ, from the South Bronx, and his best friend, a promoter, try to get into show business by exposing people to hip-hop music and culture.
Style: hood, independent film, grim, serious, realistic ...
Plot: hip hop, dancing, graffiti, subway, rap, hip hop culture, gangster, urban, black, ghetto, music, street gang ...
Time: 80s
Place: new york, usa, bronx new york city
Is relevant ?
Related movie lists
 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
Is relevant ?
 7.1
 85
Bakerman (2016)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Denmark
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Jens has a midlife crisis and chooses to settle some old debts.
Style: neo noir, ambiguous ending, suspense, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot: serial killer, killer, superhero, love, forbidden love, rage, morality, paranoia, ghetto, racial slur, obsession, isolation ...
Time: 21st century
Place: copenhagen, europe, denmark
Is relevant ?
Pocket Listing (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A satirical thriller about L.A.'s real estate roller coaster. Double crosses, adultery, murder, mistaken identity, and revenge ensues when a mysterious power player and his sultry wife hire a disgraced Los Angeles property broker to discreetly ...
Style: twist ending, neo noir, captivating, exciting, humorous ...
Plot: broker, money, greed, corporation, realtor, sexuality, redemption, seductress, revenge, power, wealth, murder ...
Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa, california
Is relevant ?
Freaknik: The Musical (2010)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
Story: A rap group heads to Atlanta to participate in Atlanta's revived Freaknik festival.
Style: semi serious, feel good, humorous, adult animation, anime ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: hip hop, youth, music, contests and competitions, drug abuse, celebrity culture, money, party, ghetto, black man, rapper, marijuana ...
Time: 2010s
Place: florida, new orleans, georgia, atlanta georgia
Is relevant ?
Freaks of Nature (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: In the town of Dillford, humans, vampires and zombies were all living in peace - until the alien apocalypse arrived. Now three teenagers-one human, one vampire, and one zombie-have to team up to figure out how to get rid of the visitors.
Style: funny, parody, humorous, horror comedy, semi serious ...
Audience: teens
Plot: zombie, vampire, small town, high school, nerd, alien, supernatural, humanity, alien invasion, monster, save the day, ufo ...
Time: year 2016, 21st century
Place: usa
Is relevant ?
Related movie lists
urban movies
3076
mafia movies
2354
mobster movies
1019
 6.2
 7K
The Hunter (1980)
Genre: Action, Biography, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: During his long career, bounty hunter Ralph "Papa" Thorson has caught over 5,000 criminals. Now, while he is working on apprehending fugitives in Illinois, Texas and Nebraska, he himself is being hunted by a psychotic killer.
Style: cult classic, black comedy, serious, realistic, exciting ...
Plot: chase, car chase, hostage, pregnancy, bounty hunter, stalking, dog, childbirth, tough guy, psychopath, train, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Time: year 1980, 20th century, 70s, 80s
Place: chicago, los angeles, usa
Is relevant ?
The People Under the Stairs (1991)
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: When young Poindexter "Fool" Williams breaks into the creepy, immense old home of his family's greedy and uncaring landlords, he uncovers a disturbing scenario underneath the stairs.
Style: slasher, suspenseful, black comedy, surreal, disturbing ...
Plot: child abuse, serial killer, home invasion, kidnapping, cannibalism, disturbed individual, rottweiler, murder, incest, cannibal, child in peril, guard dog ...
Time: 90s
Place: new york, usa, california, los angeles
Is relevant ?
 6.7
 100K
Candyman (1992)
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, gothic, bloody, rough ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, kids, adult
Plot: urban legend, serial killer, supernatural, ghost, gory, macabre, belief, urban decay, investigation, blood, revenge, mirror ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: chicago, illinois, usa
Is relevant ?
 6.3
 33K
Barbershop (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A day in the life of a barbershop on the south side of Chicago. Calvin, who inherited the struggling business from his deceased father, views the shop as nothing but a burden and waste of his time. After selling the shop to a local loan shark, ...
Style: hood, black comedy, funny, humorous, feel good ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: workplace, urban, hairdresser, black, family business, hip hop, blaxploitation, catastrophe, beauty salon, african american, society, buddies ...
Time: year 2002, 21st century
Place: chicago, indiana, usa, illinois
Is relevant ?
 5.9
 11K
Chi-Raq (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story: A modern day adaptation of the ancient Greek play Lysistrata by Aristophanes, set against the backdrop of gang violence in Chicago.
Style: melancholic, satirical, bad ending, stylized, political ...
Audience: teens
Plot: violence, redemption, black, dysfunctional family, justice, adaptation, women, civil rights, african american, social commentary, blaxploitation, gunfight ...
Time: 90s
Place: chicago, indiana
Is relevant ?
 6.2
 8K
Car Wash (1976)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: This day-in-the-life cult comedy focuses on a group of friends working at Sully Boyar's Car Wash in the Los Angeles ghetto. The team meets dozens of eccentric customers -- including a smooth-talking preacher, a wacky cab driver and an ...
Style: funny, humorous, entertaining, semi serious, feel good ...
Plot: workplace, blaxploitation, car wash, black, culture clash, misfit, ambition, interracial relations, workplace situations, car, muslim, fired from the job ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: los angeles, california, usa
Is relevant ?
Attack the Block (2011)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, France
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A teen gang in a grim South London housing estate must team up with the other residents to protect their neighbourhood from a terrifying alien invasion.
Style: horror comedy, dark comedy, cult classic, unusual plot structure, bleak ...
Audience: teens, date night, family friendly, manly, boys' night
Plot: gang, alien invasion, creature, alien, space and aliens, deadly creature, chase, children, teenage life, danger, violence, gangster ...
Time: year 2011, 2010s, future, 21st century
Place: london, england, somalia
Is relevant ?
Watch Trailers From This List to Choose a Movie
Related movie lists