6.9Street Flow
Street Flow
Noumouké, from the suburb of Paris, is about to decide which brother's foot steps to follow - the lawyer student Soulaymaan or the gangster Demba.
6.4Girlhood
Girlhood
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 ...
7.3Once Were Warriors
Once Were Warriors
A drama about a Maori family living in Auckland, New Zealand. Lee Tamahori tells the story of Beth Heke’s strong will to keep her family together during times of unemployment and abuse ...
6.4Paulette
Paulette
Paulette lives alone in a housing project in the Paris suburbs. With her meager pension, she can no longer make ends meet.
6.5Colors
Colors
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.
6.5New Jack City
New Jack City
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 ...
6.0Yamakasi
Yamakasi
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 ...
7.7Divines
Divines
In a ghetto where religion and drug trafficking rub shoulders, Dounia has a lust for power and success. Supported by Maimouna, her best friend, she decides to follow in the footsteps of ...
7.5Menace II Society
Menace II Society
A young street hustler attempts to escape the rigors and temptations of the ghetto in a quest for a better life.
6.6Half Nelson
Half Nelson
Despite his dedication to the junior-high students who fill his classroom, idealistic teacher Dan Dunne leads a secret life of addiction that the majority of his students will never ...
6.7Get Rich or Die Tryin’
Get Rich or Die Tryin’
A tale of an inner city drug dealer who turns away from crime to pursue his passion, rap music.
6.4District 13: Ultimatum
District 13: Ultimatum
Damien and Leito return to District 13 on a mission to bring peace to the troubled sector that is controlled by five different gang bosses, before the city’s secret services take ...
8.1Bound by Honor
Bound by Honor
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 ...
6.6Street Kings
Street Kings
Tom Ludlow is a disillusioned L.A. Police Officer, rarely playing by the rules and haunted by the death of his wife. When evidence implicates him in the execution of a fellow officer, ...
5.8Brick Mansions
Brick Mansions
In a dystopian Detroit, grand houses that once housed the wealthy are now homes of the city's most-dangerous criminals. Surrounding the area is a giant wall to keep the rest of Detroit ...
6.7District B13
District B13
Set in the ghettos of Paris in 2010, an undercover cop and ex-thug try to infiltrate a gang in order to defuse a neutron bomb.
7.6Boyz n the Hood
Boyz n the Hood
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 ...
5.9Triple 9
Triple 9
A gang of criminals and corrupt cops plan the murder of a police officer in order to pull off their biggest heist yet across town.
7.9Freedom Writers
Freedom Writers
A young teacher inspires her class of at-risk students to learn tolerance, apply themselves, and pursue education beyond high school.
7.7Straight Outta Compton
Straight Outta Compton
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 ...
8.0La Haine
La Haine
After a chaotic night of rioting in a marginal suburb of Paris, three young friends, Vinz, Hubert and Saïd, wander around unoccupied waiting for news about the state of health of a ...
7.5American Gangster
American Gangster
Following the death of his employer and mentor, Bumpy Johnson, Frank Lucas establishes himself as the number one importer of heroin in the Harlem district of Manhattan. He does so by ...
7.3Moonlight
Moonlight
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 ...
8.4City of God
City of God
In the slums of Rio, two kids' paths diverge as one struggles to become a photographer and the other a kingpin.