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Joker(2019)

R
| 2h 2min | Crime, Thriller, Drama
4.1/5 (with 11,834 votes)

During the 1980s, a failed stand-up comedian is driven insane and turns to a life of crime and chaos in Gotham City while becoming an infamous psychopathic crime figure.

City of God(2002)

2h 10min | Drama, Crime
4.2/5 (with 3,184 votes)

In the slums of Rio, two kids' paths diverge as one struggles to become a photographer and the other a kingpin.

District 13: Ultimatum(2009)

R
| 1h 41min | Action, Thriller, Crime
3.2/5 (with 498 votes)

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 drastic measures to solve the problem.

Akira(1988)

4.0/5 (with 1,769 votes)

A secret military project endangers Neo-Tokyo when it turns a biker gang member into a rampaging psychic psychopath that only two teenagers and a group of psychics can stop.

Directed by Katsuhiro Otomo

Bruce Almighty(2003)

PG-13
| 1h 41min | Fantasy, Comedy
3.4/5 (with 4,936 votes)

Bruce Nolan toils as a 'human interest' television reporter in Buffalo, N.Y., but despite his high ratings and the love of his beautiful girlfriend, Bruce remains unfulfilled. At the end of the worst day in his life, he angrily ridicules God—and the Almighty responds, endowing Bruce with all of His divine powers.

District B13(2004)

3.4/5 (with 809 votes)

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.

Once Upon a Time in America(1984)

R
| 3h 49min | Drama, Crime
4.2/5 (with 2,468 votes)

A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan over thirty years later, where he once again must confront the ghosts and regrets of his old life.

Colombiana(2011)

PG-13
| 1h 48min | Action, Thriller, Crime, Drama
3.3/5 (with 1,167 votes)

After witnessing her parents’ murder as a child in Bogota, Cataleya Restrepo grows up to be a stone-cold assassin. She works for her uncle as a hitman by day, but her personal time is spent engaging in vigilante murders that she hopes will lead her to her ultimate target: the mobster responsible for her parents' death.

Lionheart(1990)

R
| 1h 45min | Action
3.3/5 (with 453 votes)

Lyon Gaultier is a deserter in the Foreign Legion arriving in the USA entirely hard up. He finds his brother between life and death and his sister-in-law without the money needed to heal her husband and to maintain her child. To earn the money needed, Gaultier decides to take part in some very dangerous clandestine fights.

Bound by Honor(1993)

4.0/5 (with 517 votes)

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 members of an East L.A. gang known as the "Vatos Locos", and the story focuses on how a violent crime and the influence of narcotics alter their lives. Miklo is incarcerated and sent to San Quentin, where he makes a "home" for himself. Cruz becomes an exceptional artist, but a heroin addiction overcomes him with tragic results. Paco becomes a cop and an enemy to his "carnal", Miklo.

8 Mile(2002)

1h 50min | Drama, Music
3.6/5 (with 3,204 votes)

For Jimmy Smith, Jr., life is a daily fight just to keep hope alive. Feeding his dreams in Detroit's vibrant music scene, Jimmy wages an extraordinary personal struggle to find his own voice - and earn a place in a world where rhymes rule, legends are born and every moment… is another chance.

Boyz n the Hood(1991)

R
| 1h 52min | Crime, Drama
3.8/5 (with 812 votes)

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 and drug dealing on a daily basis.

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The Warriors(1979)

R
| 1h 33min | Action, Thriller
3.8/5 (with 939 votes)

Prominent gang leader Cyrus calls a meeting of New York's gangs to set aside their turf wars and take over the city. At the meeting, a rival leader kills Cyrus, but a Coney Island gang called the Warriors is wrongly blamed for Cyrus' death. Before you know it, the cops and every gangbanger in town is hot on the Warriors' trail.

Step Up 2: The Streets(2008)

PG-13
| 1h 38min | Music, Drama, Romance / Love
3.3/5 (with 1,043 votes)

When rebellious street dancer Andie lands at the elite Maryland School of the Arts, she finds herself fighting to fit in while also trying to hold onto her old life. When she joins forces with the schools hottest dancer, Chase, to form a crew of classmate outcasts to compete in Baltimore s underground dance battle The Streets.

Escape from New York(1981)

R
| 1h 39min | Science Fiction, Action
3.5/5 (with 1,330 votes)

In the future, crime is out of control and New York City's Manhattan is a maximum security prison. Grabbing a bargaining chip right out of the air, convicts bring down the President's plane in bad old Gotham. Gruff Snake Plissken, a one-eyed lone warrior new to prison life, is coerced into bringing the President, and his cargo, out of this land of undesirables.

The Outsiders(1983)

PG
| 1h 30min | Crime, Drama
3.6/5 (with 567 votes)

When two poor Greasers, Johnny and Ponyboy, are assaulted by a vicious gang, the Socs, and Johnny kills one of the attackers, tension begins to mount between the two rival gangs, setting off a turbulent chain of events.

Miller's Crossing(1990)

R
| 1h 55min | Drama, Thriller, Crime
3.7/5 (with 690 votes)

Set in 1929, a political boss and his advisor have a parting of the ways when they both fall for the same woman.

West Side Story(2021)

PG-13
| 2h 36min | Drama, Romance / Love, Crime
3.5/5 (with 624 votes)

Two youngsters from rival New York City gangs fall in love, but tensions between their respective friends build toward tragedy.

Red Heat(1988)

R
| 1h 44min | Action, Crime
3.1/5 (with 619 votes)

A tough Russian policeman is forced to partner up with a cocky Chicago police detective when he is sent to Chicago to apprehend a Georgian drug lord who killed his partner and fled the country.

Get Rich or Die Tryin'(2005)

R
| 1h 57min | Drama, Crime, Music
3.4/5 (with 383 votes)

A tale of an inner city drug dealer who turns away from crime to pursue his passion, rap music.

Shottas(2002)

R
| 1h 35min | Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama
3.8/5 (with 131 votes)

A raw urban drama about two friends raised on the dangerous streets of Kingston, Jamaica. Biggs and Wayne take on the "Shotta" way of life to survive. As young boys, they begin a life of crime, eventually moving to the US where they begin a ruthless climb from the bottom. They remain bound to each other by their shottas loyalty as they aggressively take control of the Jamaican underworld.

Sin Nombre(2009)

R
| 1h 36min | Drama, Action, Thriller, Crime
3.8/5 (with 282 votes)

Sayra, a Honduran teen, hungers for a better life. Her chance for one comes when she is reunited with her long-estranged father, who intends to emigrate to Mexico and then enter the United States. Sayra's life collides with a pair of Mexican gangmembers who have boarded the same American-bound train.

End of Watch(2012)

R
| 1h 49min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
3.7/5 (with 1,402 votes)

Two young officers are marked for death after confiscating a small cache of money and firearms from the members of a notorious cartel during a routine traffic stop.

Rebel Without a Cause(1955)

PG-13
| 1h 51min | Drama
3.8/5 (with 680 votes)

After moving to a new town, troublemaking teen Jim Stark is supposed to have a clean slate, although being the new kid in town brings its own problems. While searching for some stability, Stark forms a bond with a disturbed classmate, Plato, and falls for local girl Judy. However, Judy is the girlfriend of neighborhood tough, Buzz. When Buzz violently confronts Jim and challenges him to a drag race, the new kid's real troubles begin.

Rumble Fish(1983)

R
| 1h 34min | Action, Crime, Drama
3.5/5 (with 284 votes)

Rusty James, an absent-minded street thug, struggles to live up to his legendary older brother's reputation, and longs for the days when gang warfare was going on.

The Wanderers(1979)

R
| 1h 57min | Drama
3.5/5 (with 80 votes)

The streets of the Bronx are owned by '60s youth gangs where the joy and pain of adolescence is lived. Philip Kaufman tells his take on the novel by Richard Price about the history of the Italian-American gang ‘The Wanderers.’.

Oliver Twist(2005)

PG-13
| 2h 10min | Crime, Drama, Kids & Family
3.4/5 (with 524 votes)

Oliver Twist the modern filmed version of Charles Dickens bestseller, a Roman Polanski adaptation. The classic Dickens tale, where an orphan meets a pickpocket on the streets of London. From there, he joins a household of boys who are trained to steal for their master.

1990: The Bronx Warriors(1982)

R
| 1h 29min | Action, Science Fiction
2.5/5 (with 42 votes)

In post-apocalyptic New York City a policeman infiltrates the Bronx which has become a battleground for several murderous street gangs.

Attack the Block(2011)

R
| 1h 22min | Action, Comedy, Science Fiction
3.2/5 (with 895 votes)

A teen gang in a South London housing estate must team up with the other residents to protect their neighbourhood from a terrifying alien invasion.

New Jack City(1991)

R
| 1h 37min | Thriller, Crime, Drama
3.3/5 (with 217 votes)

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 dealer himself.

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