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Movies: Best "slang" Movies


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Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood(1996)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 29min | Comedy
3.5/5 (with 537 votes)

When Ashtray moves to South Central L.A. to live with his father (who appears to be the same age he is) and grandmother (who likes to talk tough and smoke reefer), he falls in with his gang-banging cousin Loc Dog, who along with the requisite pistols and Uzi carries a thermo-nuclear warhead for self-defense. Will Ashtray be able to keep living the straight life?

Snatch(2000)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 44min | Crime, Comedy
3.9/5 (with 3,963 votes)

Unscrupulous boxing promoters, violent bookmakers, a Russian gangster, incompetent amateur robbers and supposedly Jewish jewelers fight to track down a priceless stolen diamond.

Ball of Fire(1941)

3.7/5 (with 79 votes)

A group of academics have spent years shut up in a house working on the definitive encyclopedia. When one of them discovers that his entry on slang is hopelessly outdated, he ventures into the wide world to learn about the evolving language. Here he meets Sugarpuss O’Shea, a nightclub singer, who’s on top of all the slang—and, it just so happens, needs a place to stay.

Games of Love and Chance(2003)

3.4/5 (with 56 votes)

A group of teenagers living in a housing project in the outskirts of Paris rehearse a scene from Marivaux's play of the same name. Krimo is determined not to take part, but after developing feelings for Lydia, he quickly assumes the main role and love interest in the play.

Crooks in Clover(1963)

1h 45min | Action, Comedy, Crime
3.9/5 (with 219 votes)

An aging gangster, Fernand Naudin is hoping for a quiet retirement when he suddenly inherits a fortune from an old friend, a former gangster supremo known as the Mexican. If he is ambivalent about his new found wealth, Fernand is positively nonplussed to discover that he has also inherited his benefactor’s daughter, Patricia. Unfortunately, not only does Fernand have to put up with the thoroughly modern Patricia and her nauseating boyfriend, but he also had to contend with the Mexican’s trigger-happy former employees, who are determined to make a claim.

What's Cookin'?(1942)

1h 9min | Comedy, Music
2.5/5 (with 1 vote)

J. P. Courtney wants to update the music on the radio program he sponsors, but his wife, Agatha Courtney, is the final authority and addicted to the classics and won't allow him to replace Professor Bistell and his symphonic orchestra. Conspiring with his daughter Sue and her friends, Marvo the Great, the Andrews Sisters, Anne Payne and bandleader Woody Herman, they devise a sabotage plot that gets rid of Professor Bistell, and a new sound is soon heard on the program.

Directed by Edward F. Cline - With Jane Frazee, Robert Paige, Gloria Jean, The Andrews Sisters

By Whose Hand?(1932)

1h 3min | Mystery, Crime
3.5/5 (with 1 vote)

A man tries to hide aboard a moving train after murdering a jewelry magnate.

Directed by Benjamin Stoloff

The N Word(2006)

1h 26min | Documentary
3.3/5 (with 3 votes)

The film explores the history of the word throughout its inception to present day. Woven into the narrative are poetry, music, and commentary from celebrities about their personal experiences with the word and their viewpoints. Each perspective is unique, as is each experience... some are much more comfortable with the word than others.

Directed by Todd Williams

Symphony in Slang(1951)

3.6/5 (with 16 votes)

At the gates of Heaven, the admitting officials have a hard time understanding a newcomer's life story with all his contemporary slang.

Directed by Tex Avery

American Spoken Here(1940)

11min

This MGM John Nesbitt's Passing Parade series short takes a look at the origins of North American slang.

Francis Covers the Big Town(1953)

2.8/5 (with 3 votes)

A man who has a talking mule gets a job on a newspaper, and both get mixed up in a murder trial.

Murder by Invitation(1941)

1h 7min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery
2.7/5 (with 3 votes)

The relatives of a rich old woman unsuccessfully try to have her declared insane, so they can divide up her money. To show them that there are no hard feelings, she invites them to her estate for the weekend so she can decide to whom she actually will leave her money when she dies. Soon, however, family members begin turning up dead.

Directed by Phil Rosen
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They Never Come Back(1932)

1h 4min | Drama, Action, Crime

Prizefighter Jimmy Nolan, facing an opportunity to get a championship fight, is knocked out when he sustains what is apparently a permanent injury to his arm. From there, Nolan's path leads downhill. He is drawn into a romance with a nightclub entertainer, then is framed on a theft charge by a jealous suitor. After his prison term, Nolan makes a spectacular comeback in a fight which proves his courage and integrity, while disproving the fallacy about the old sports adage that "they never come back.".

Directed by Fred C. Newmeyer - With Regis Toomey