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Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 175 films · Page 7.
blaxploitation film, hood film
In London in the late 1970s, Guyanese immigrant Ben Jones arrives at Heathrow Airport with a suitcase and a wallet full of money. Immigration officials refuse to believe his naïve explanation that the cash was given by his grandmother, and…
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crime film, drama film, hood film
A high-level government hit squad led by Ice-T's character, is dispatched out into the streets of Detroit in order to take out Snoop Dogg's character, the leader of the Detroit underworld.
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Action, action film, crime film, hood film
Dreamer (Enrique Almeida) is being questioned by Detective Gramm (Resmine Atis). We flash back to Dreamer and Shaggy sitting in a car when another car pulls up and does a drive-by shooting. The drive by kills Shaggy and the bullet passes t…
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crime film, drama film, hood film
hood film
hood film
Cam (Jim Gaffigan) is an employee for a vehicle for hire company who struggles to make ends meet. Particularly, Cam is having difficulty making child support payments, which could mean losing the ability to see his son. Cam gets the opport…
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Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller, hood film
The movie begins with the UK Hip Hop group "Time Served" getting used to living the high life as rap stars. This all comes crashing down however when one of their members Too Fine is killed in a drive-by because he owes a drug dealer, Temp…
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hood film, horror film, slasher film
While pulling an April Fools' Day prank on a nerdy classmate named Melvin, a group of high school friends (Missy, DeAnna, Eva, Diego, Malik, and Marlin) accidentally kill him when Marlin hits Melvin with a football, causing him to fall on …
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crime film, drama film, hood film
After a quick narration by director Stabile, as well as a flash forward, the film's story gets underway by showing Zane, Mikey, Ray and Chicken spending a Saturday night in Ray's basement. Throughout the film, the backgrounds of the four y…
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crime film, drama film, hood film
Drug dealer, Flash (Dylan Duffus) receives a phone call from Angel (Yohance Watson) announcing that he is being released early from prison and wants the £500,000 he has left Flash for safekeeping during his incarceration. Flash is £100,000…
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crime film, drama film, hood film
A young man trying to grow up straight in a crime-ridden neighborhood finds himself on the run after a friend accidentally lures him into a trap in this hard-edged urban drama. Boo grew up in a rough section of Houston, Texas, where many s…
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hood film, musical film, pornographic film, romantic comedy
The satirical film spoofs several recent pop cultural It Girl moments such as Janet Jackson's wardrobe malfunction and Ashlee Simpson's lip synching fiasco.
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drama film, hood film
The film is based on boxing, and Romeo's struggle with God and school. It also shows his struggle with his father's drinking addiction.
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Crime, Gangster Film, Thriller, crime film, hood film
After six long years behind bars, Gilly wants to settle down and live a quiet life. But it is not to be. Within hours of freedom, he discovers that his best friend and perennial partner in crime, "J", has invested all their cash in a huge …
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drama film, hood film
Darrel (Riggs) is a supremely intelligent African-American man who rises from the tough streets of Philadelphia to the world of high finance on Wall Street. He soon learns the white-collar world is filled with as much crime as the drug-fil…
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hood film
The film is about an internationally famous model, Tony "Wise" Good (who is played by Tariq Alexander), that fought his way out of the inner city and rocketed straight to the top. But his swift rise to the top didn't take him high enough t…
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hood film
The basis of the film is a day in the life of two friends, Jamal and Peanut in through their daily routine in Compton. When the two accidentally apprehend a thief found breaking into Jamal's house, the thief then drops dead in front of the…
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documentary film, hood film, musical film
crime film, drama film, hood film
drama film, exploitation film, hood film
crime film, drama film, hood film
Interrogation Room 109 follows the quick rise and cataclysmic fall of the business partnership between Slice, a well-established Jersey City drug dealer, and G-low, a good-natured guy who naively entered the hustling world for extra money …
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drama film, hood film
Animation, Cartoon, Computeranimation, Family Comedy
biographical film, hood film
This movie was inspired by a true story, following the life of a thug being released from prison after an 8 year prison sentence. In the beginning of the movie "G," who is played by The Game, leaves prison determined to not be locked up ag…
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