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Biographical picture, biographical film, drama film, hood film, musical film
In 1997, Biggie Smalls is shot and killed by a drive-by assailant. In the 1980s in Brooklyn, young Biggie sells crack with his friends D-Roc and Lil Cease. By 1990, Biggie's girlfriend Jan is pregnant, so he needs to make more money.
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Police Film, Social Drama, action film, buddy film, crime film, drama film, hood film
Two policemen, "Uncle" Bob Hodges, a respected LAPD officer and Vietnam veteran, and rookie officer Danny McGavin, have just been teamed together in the C.R.A.S.H. unit that patrols Northwest L.A., East L.A. and South L.A..
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Komödie, comedy film, hood film, parody film
Ali G is the leader of Da West Staines Massiv, a fictional gang composed of wannabe gangsters from Staines. Their chief rivals are Da East Staines Massiv. Da West Staines Massiv decide to protest when they learn that their cherished hangou…
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Action, Adventure, Romance Film, action film, drama film, medieval film, swashbuckler film, vigilante film
Richard, the Norman King of England, is taken captive in 1191 by Duke Leopold while returning from the Third Crusade. Richard's treacherous brother Prince John, aided by fellow Norman Sir Guy of Gisbourne, names himself regent of England, …
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American football film, Crime, Drama, Sport, coming-of-age film, crime film, drama film, hood film
Sean Porter works at Kilpatrick Detention Center in Los Angeles. He is frustrated at not being able to help the kids get away from their life problems when they are released from the center, such as street gangs and drug dealings. Porter d…
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Crime, Drama, crime film, drama film, hood film
Twelve-year-old Michael, nicknamed "Fresh", stops at a woman's apartment to pick up dime bags of heroin before he goes to school. Next, he visits another apartment where several women and one man, Herbie, are measuring and cutting bricks o…
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Action, Drama, Gangster Film, action film, buddy cop film, heist film, hood film, martial arts film, thriller film
Anthony Fait and his crew (Daria, Tommy, and Miles) of thieves attempt to steal diamonds for a Frenchman named Christophe, who serves as the middleman for a mysterious employer. When Fait contacts Christophe, a Taiwanese intelligence agent…
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Horror, drama film, hood film, horror film
"Welcome to My Mortuary" (Prologue) Bulldog, Ball, and Stack are street criminals who have arrived at a local mortuary to purchase a stash of drugs from the eccentric and frantic director, Mr. Simms. He claims that he has found the drugs i…
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Drama, Komödie, comedy drama, coming-of-age film, crime film, drama film, hood film
Malcolm Adekanbi and his best friends, Jib Caldones and Diggy Andrews, are high school "geeks" living in "The Bottoms", a high-crime neighborhood in Inglewood, California. They idolize '90s hip hop music and fashion. Malcolm is confident h…
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Tragic Comedy Film, biographical film, comedy drama, coming-of-age film, drama film, hood film
In 1973, 9-year-old Troy Carmichael and her brothers Clinton, Wendell, Nate, and Joseph live in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn with their parents Woody, a struggling musician, and Carolyn, a schoolteacher. The neighborhood…
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Drama, comedy drama, coming-of-age film, hood film, romance film, teen film
Rashad is a teen living in Atlanta, Georgia, with his Uncle George, and his little brother Ant. He and his brother were raised by George since their parents died in a car accident, and they work with him as part of his custodial company. W…
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Crime, coming-of-age film, crime film, drama film, hood film, mystery film
In a Brooklyn housing project, a group of clockers — street-level drug dealers — work for Rodney Little, a local drug lord. Rodney orders Ronald "Strike" Dunham, one of his lead clockers, to kill Darryl Adams, another dealer who has been s…
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Drama, Sport, coming-of-age film, drama film, hood film, sport film, teen film
Kyle-Lee Watson is a talented basketball player who is about to graduate from high school. While he waits to find out if he will receive a scholarship to Georgetown University, he finds himself in a difficult dilemma over a playground bask…
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Animation, children's film, comedy film, fantasy film
Sometime after the events from the first film, Red Pucket, her Granny, the Big Bad Wolf and Twitchy join forces with the Happily Ever After Agency. Wolf, Granny, and Twitchy are on a rescue mission to save Hansel and Gretel from an evil wi…
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Drama, Komödie, comedy drama, comedy film, drama film, hood film
Diana Armstrong reflects on her past while she gazes at the ruins of the Players Club, a strip club where she used to work. She begins reminiscing about the time she moved out of her parents' home. She recalls leaving her parents’ home aft…
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Crime, action film, hood film, neo-noir, thriller film
Frank Wyatt, his younger brother John and their friends, Mike Peterson and Ray Cochran travel in Ray's luxurious RV to watch a professional boxing match in Chicago for the night. Ray exits the expressway and cuts through a run down residen…
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Action, Komödie, Sci-Fi, action film, alien invasion, comedy film, comedy horror, coming-of-age film, hood film, monster film, science fiction film
On Guy Fawkes Night, trainee nurse Samantha Adams is mugged and violently attacked by a gang of teenage hoodlums from South London: Pest, Dennis, Jerome, Biggz and leader Moses. When a meteorite falls from the sky into a nearby car, Samant…
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Action, Drama, Police Film, Psychological Thriller, action film, crime film, hood film, neo-noir, thriller film
In 1983, rookie LAPD officer and law student Nick Styles meets Alice and drifts away from childhood friend Odessa, who has become a drug dealer in South Central Los Angeles. Styles and his partner Larry Doyle patrol a carnival, where they …
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Gangster Film, crime film, drama film, hood film
Upon his parole from the California Youth Authority in 1982, Hoover Street Deuces gang member Bobby Johnson meets with girlfriend Carole, son Jimmie, and fellow "Deuces" Ray Ray, Loco, and Bear. The gang attends a party thrown by a heroin …
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Drama, Thriller, crime film, drama film, hood film, thriller film
Trevor Garfield is a high school science teacher in Brooklyn. Dennis Broadway, a gangster student to whom he had given a failing grade, threatens to murder him, writing the number 187 (the police code for homicide) on every page in a textb…
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Action, Thriller, action film, crime thriller film, drama film, hood film, mystery film, neo-noir
In 1972, Russell Stevens Jr. witnesses his drug-addicted, alcoholic father getting shot and killed while robbing a liquor store. Traumatized by his father's death, Stevens swears that he will never end up like him.
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LGBTQ-related film, Slasher Horror, hood film, horror film
In Los Angeles, California, Mack Daddy O'Nasses and Slug discover a hidden room full of gold, along with a leprechaun that has been kept as a statue by a medallion on its neck. Mack Daddy takes a gold flute, but Slug removes the medallion,…
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Drama, Thriller, crime film, drama film, hood film
Dave Brown, a 24-year veteran of the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD), patrols the Rampart Division. While training a new officer, he roughs up a suspect to find the location of a meth lab. After work, he goes home to his two daughters…
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Crime, Drama, Mafia Film, Thriller, crime film, drama film, hood film
Jeffrey Cole is a recent graduate of the Cincinnati police academy who dreams of working undercover. Cole manages to get an undercover assignment the day of graduation and earns the praise of his superiors. He is soon given the task of tak…
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