Movies (45) tagged by 'Ghetto'
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La Haine (1996)
Injured by a police inspector during an interrogation, Abdel is at a hospital, almost dead. In the suburbs where he lives, some riots happened during the night...
Save the Last Dance (2001)
A white teenager (Julia Stiles) moves to Chicago after her mother's death and falls for a black student (Sean Patrick Thomas) who shares her l...
Belly (1998)
A stylish urban drama about two childhood friends who stand on opposite sides of the law. A visually stunning, brutally honest film from critically acclaimed m...
Menace II Society (1993)
This urban nightmare chronicles several days in the life of Caine Lawson, following his high-school graduation, as he attempts to escape his violent existence ...
District 9 (2009)
In 1990, a massive star ship bearing a bedraggled alien population, nicknamed "The Prawns," appeared over Johannesburg, South Africa. Twenty years later, the i...
The Mack (1973)
Goldie returns from five years at the state pen and winds up king of the pimping game. Trouble comes in the form of two corrupt white cops and a crime lord who...
District 13 (2004)
In the near future, the worst ghettos of Paris, France are literally walled off and among the worst is District B13. Controlled by the ruthless crime lord, Taha...
Boyz n the Hood (1991)
John Singleton emerged from USC film school with his passionate script already written, and at age 23 he made the film that spawned a score of ghetto dramas. ...
Tupac: Resurrection (2003)
Home movies, photographs, and recited poetry illustrate the life of Tupac Shakur, one of the most beloved, revolutionary, and volatile hip-hop MCs of all time.
New Jersey Drive (1995)
Jason and Midget are two young, black teenagers living in Newark,New Jersey, the unofficial car theft capital of the world. Their favourite pastime is that of e...
I'm Gonna Git You Sucka (1988)
A veteran (Keenen Ivory Wayans), his idol (Bernie Casey) and other ghetto good guys battle a white mobster called Mr. Big.
Bebe's Kids (1992)
To impress his new girlfriend, a man agrees to look after her friend's kids, only to find that they are uncontrollably rambunctious.
Uptown Saturday Night (1974)
Steve Jackson and Wardell Franklin sneak out of their houses to visit Madame Zenobia's: a high-class but illegal nightclub. During their visit, however, the pl...
In Too Deep (1999)
An undercover cop goes too deep into the Cincinnati drug trade. The local drug lord, a man who calls himself God, controls all of the action in Ohio. As the cop...
Nobody's Fool (2018)
A woman is released from prison and reunites with her sister. She soon discovers that her sister is in an online relationship with a man who may not be what he ...
Nothing to Lose (1997)
Nick Beam's life couldn't get any worse. He discovers he has been living a lie and is on the verge of a nervous breakdown. So when T. Paul, a carjacker, attempt...
Freaknik: The Musical (2010)
A rap group heads to Atlanta to participate in Atlanta's revived Freaknik festival.
The People Under the Stairs (1991)
The People Under the Stairs is the story of a young boy (Fool) from the ghetto and takes place on his 13th birthday. In an attempted burglary (along with two ot...
Bullet Boy (2004)
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 ...
Jakob the Liar (1999)
A Jew (Robin Williams) gives hope to others in a Polish ghetto by saying he has a radio which gives reports of Russian victories over the Nazi...
Fakin' Da Funk (1997)
Chinese kid Julian, who was adopted by the black family of Joe and Annabelle Lee and Asian exchange student May-Ling, who is housed with a black family, are try...
Mahogany (1975)
A young black woman rises to fame and fortune as a fashion model, only to later discover that life is meaningless without the man she loves.
Sucker Free City (2004)
In San Francisco, a Caucasian family pressed by the real estate speculation, moves to Hunter's Point, an Afro-American neighborhood ruled by the V-Dub gang and ...
Original Gangstas (1996)
Marvin Bookman is a small shop owner in Gary, Indiana, USA. After he sees a drive-by shooting of Laurie Thompson's son by a local gang, he gives up the license ...
In the Presence of Mine Enemies (1997)
A Rabbi in the Warsaw Ghetto in Poland in 1942 fights to maintain his stance of peace and acceptance of his fellow man despite the growing turmoil and atrociti...
Uprising (2001)
Using radically refashioned archival footage of the Warsaw ghetto, this interview with Jon Avnet the director of Uprising talks about Marek Edelman who is an ev...
Downtown (1990)
Police Officer Alex Kearney works in a rich plush suburb of Philadelphia. (The police station looks like it came from Beverly Hills) When he stops an important...
Just Another Girl on the IRT (1992)
Chantel Mitchell (Ariyan Johnson), a hip, articulate, black high-school girl in Brooklyn, is determined not to become "just another girl on the IRT" (the IRT is...
To All My Friends on Shore (1972)
An airport redcap works hard to get his family out of the ghetto, only to discover that his son has sickle-cell anemia.
The Police Tapes (1977)
A documentary about a police precinct in the South Bronx.
Sprung (1997)
Two pairs of best friends - Montel & Clyde and Brandy & Adina meet at the party, where Clyde makes Adina think he is very rich and gets her into bed the same ev...
Stealing a Nation (2004)
This tells a story literally 'hidden from history'. In the 1960s and 70s, British governments, conspiring with American officials, tricked into leaving, then ex...
Medium Cool (1969)
A TV news reporter finds himself becoming personally involved in the violence that erupts around the 1968 Democratic National Convention.
Tom (1973)
A white ex-GI goes to a black ghetto to deliver a letter from his buddy, a black soldier who died in Vietnam. When he arrives there he encounters hostility and ...
Jakob der Lügner (1974)
A Jewish ghetto in central Europe, 1944. By coincidence, Jakob Heym eavesdrops on a German radio broadcast announcing the Soviet Army is making slow by steady p...
Sweet Jesus, Preacherman (1973)
A Black hit man poses as a Baptist preacher in a ghetto church. He decides to take over the local rackets.
Joey (1975)
Violent and dramatic events dog the life of hot headed rebel Chris Townes. Drifting from one menial job to another, where he finds resentment and eventually arr...
Our America (2002)
The true story of two African-American teen radio reporters and their documentary investigation of a notorious child murder.
The Black Gestapo (1992)
General Ahmed has started an inner-city People's Army to try and relieve the misery of the citizens of Watts. When the locals are put under increasing pressure ...
The Cool World (1963)
A look at the horrors of Harlem ghetto slum life filled with drugs, violence, human misery, and a sense of despair due to the racial prejudices of American soci...
The River Niger (1976)
An intimate look at life in the ghetto: Johnny Williams is a house painter who moonlights as a poet, struggling to financially and emotionally support his cance...
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