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Bound by Honor(1993)

R
| 3h | Crime, Action, Drama, Thriller
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.

Directed by Taylor Hackford - With Damian Chapa, Jesse Borrego, Benjamin Bratt, Delroy Lindo, Raymond Cruz, Danny Trejo, ...

New Police Story(2004)

R
| 2h 3min | Action, Thriller, Crime, Drama
3.6/5 (with 302 votes)

Sent into a drunken tailspin when his entire unit is killed by a gang of thrill-seeking punks, disgraced Hong Kong police inspector Wing needs help from his new rookie partner, with a troubled past of his own, to climb out of the bottle and track down the gang and its ruthless leader.

Directed by Benny Chan - With Jackie Chan, Charlene Choi, Charlie Yeung, Daniel Wu, Nicholas Tse, Yu Rongguang, ...
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A Brighter Summer Day(1991)

NR
| 3h 57min | Crime, Drama, Romance / Love
4.2/5 (with 121 votes)

A boy experiences first love, friendships and injustices growing up in 1960s Taiwan.

Directed by Edward Yang - With Chang Chen, Elaine Jin, Chen Yi Wen, Chang Kuo-chu, Zhang Han, ...
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City of Men(2007)

1h 46min | Drama
3.6/5 (with 122 votes)

Best buddies Acerola and Laranjinha, about to turn 18, discover things about their missing fathers' pasts which will shatter their solid friendship, in the middle of a war between rival drug gangs from Rio's favelas.

Directed by Paulo Morelli - With Douglas Silva, Darlan Cunha, Jonathan Haagensen
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The Principal(1987)

R
| 1h 49min | Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama
3.3/5 (with 118 votes)

Burglary. Drugs. Assault. Rape. The students at Brandel High are more than new Principal Rick Latimer bargained for. Gangs fight to control the school using knives - even guns - when they have to. When Latimer and the head of security try to clean up the school and stop the narcotics trade, they run up against a teenage mafia. A violent confrontation on the campus leads to a deadly showdown with the drug dealer's gang, and one last chance for Latimer to save his career... and his life.

Directed by Christopher Cain - With Jim Belushi, Louis Gossett Jr., Rae Dawn Chong, Esai Morales, Troy Winbush, Jacob Vargas, ...

The Time to Live and the Time to Die(1985)

PG
| 2h 18min | Drama
3.7/5 (with 38 votes)

The semi-autobiographical film on director Hou Hsiao-Hsien's childhood and adolescence, when he was growing up in Taiwan.

Directed by Hou Hsiao-Hsien - With Tien Feng, Fang Mei, Ai Hsiao, Tang Ru-Yun, You Anshun, Chen Shu-fang, ...
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The Wild Boys(2017)

NR
| 1h 51min | Drama, Adventure, Fantasy
3.3/5 (with 67 votes)

Island of La Réunion, in the beginning of the 20th century. Five teenagers commit a savage crime. As punishment, a Dutch captain takes them to a supernatural island with luxuriant vegetation and bewitching powers.

Directed by Bertrand Mandico - With Vimala Pons, Diane Rouxel, Mathilde Warnier, Sam Louwyck, Elina Löwensohn, Nathalie Richard, ...

The Wild Soccer Bunch(2003)

1h 34min | Comedy, Kids & Family
3.2/5 (with 51 votes)

The school year is over and for a diverse group of carefree kids, soccer is king! These kids believe that they are the local gold team and there is nothing they like more than improving their game. "If you want to be cool, you should be wild." However, the relentless rain turns their field into a swamp, so they have to take an unexpected break. And when the sun finally comes, a gang of older, bigger and dumber boys has just taken over the field. They won't give it back unless they lose a match against the kids.

Directed by Joachim Masannek - With Jimi Blue Ochsenknecht, Raban Bieling, Sarah Kim Gries, Constantin Gastmann, Wilson Gonzalez, Marlon Wessel, ...

Shank(2009)

1h 34min | Drama, Action
3.1/5 (with 20 votes)

Teenage gang member Cal, hides his sexuality from his fellow gang members despite their often violent dislike of anyone that isn't the same as them, be they unsuspecting shoppers, foreign students, gays, etc. When his world collides with Olivier, a student he rescues from a pointless beating, he encounters a lifestyle that presents as many new experiences as it does obstacles.

Directed by Simon Pearce, Christian Martin
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The Damned(1962)

NR
| 1h 27min | Horror, Science Fiction
3.2/5 (with 45 votes)

An American tourist, a youth gang leader, and his troubled sister find themselves trapped in a top secret government facility experimenting on children.

Directed by Joseph Losey - With Macdonald Carey, Shirley Anne Field, Oliver Reed, Alexander Knox, Viveca Lindfors, Barbara Everest, ...

The Sun's Burial(1960)

1h 27min | Drama
3.3/5 (with 9 votes)

In Osaka's slum, youths without futures engage in pilfering, assault and robbery, prostitution, and the buying and selling of identity cards and of blood. Alliances constantly shift. Tatsu and Takeshi, friends since boyhood, reluctantly join Shin's gang. Shin's an upstart and moves his gang often to avoid the local kingpin. Hanoko is a young woman with ambitions: first she's in the blood business with her father, then she joins forces with Shin. She soon breaks off that partnership, even though she's taken the sensitive Takeshi under her wing. Double crosses multiply. Those with the closest bonds become each others' murderers.

Directed by Nagisa Ōshima - With Masahiko Tsugawa, Fumio Watanabe, Jun Hamamura, Kamatari Fujiwara

Because of the Cats(1973)

R
| 1h 38min | Drama, Crime, Mystery
2.6/5 (with 6 votes)

A gang of six wealthy, well-dressed and well-spoken hoodlums break into a married couple's house and rape the wife while forcing the husband to watch. Thus begins a dogged investigation by a determined detective who quickly finds that their cult-like solidarity can be a serious obstacle to breaking them.

Directed by Fons Rademakers - With Bryan Marshall, Alexandra Stewart, Sylvia Kristel, Delia Lindsay, Edward Judd, Roger Hammond, ...
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The Mayor of Hell(1933)

NR
| 1h 30min | Crime, Drama
3.7/5 (with 10 votes)

Members of a teenage gang are sent to the State Reformatory, presided over by the callous Thompson. Soon Patsy Gargan, a former gangster appointed Deputy Commissioner, arrives and takes over the administration to run the place on radical principles. Thompson needs a quick way to discredit him.

Directed by Archie Mayo, Michael Curtiz - With James Cagney, Madge Evans, Arthur Byron, Allen Jenkins, Frankie Darro
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Beautiful Beings(2022)

1h 40min | Drama
3.7/5 (with 6 votes)

A teenage boy, raised by a mother who considers herself psychic, takes a bullied kid into his group of violent misfits. As the group’s troubles escalate toward life-threatening situations, an inner voice awakens in the boy and, with the help of his mother and his new friend, he manages to find his own path.

Directed by Guðmundur Arnar Guðmundsson - With Áskell Einar Pálmason, Ólafur Darri Ólafsson, Blær Hinriksson, Anita Briem, Ólafur Darri Ólafsson, Blær Hinriksson, ...

Full Speed(1996)

1h 25min | Romance / Love, Drama
2.7/5 (with 10 votes)

A brief extract of four kids' lives somewhere in France. Quentin, who won a writers contest and now pays more attention to his career as an author than to his friends, beautiful Julie, his girl-friend, much more mature than she looks, falling in love with Quentin's very best friend Jimmy, who is kind of stuck in his unability of self-expression and grown up under bad social circumstances. And there is the shy boy Samir, exiled from Algeria, who lost his "brother" and only friend some time ago. Samir heavily falls in love with Quentin, but he can't handle it...

Directed by Gaël Morel - With Stéphane Rideau, Élodie Bouchez, Salim Kechiouche, Mohammed Dib, Pascal Cervo, Meziane Bardadi, ...

Tough Enough(2006)

1h 38min | Drama, Thriller
3.4/5 (with 20 votes)

From the youth directed novel of the same name by Greogor Tressnow comes a film by Detlev Buck that is a realistic portrait of life in the section of Berlin called Neukölln. It’s about power and weakness, delinquents and victims, and the difficulties a 15-year-old faces in a poor and criminal environment.

Directed by Detlev Buck - With David Kross, Arnel Taci, Kai Müller, Oktay Özdemir, Erhan Emre, Jenny Elvers, ...

Be-Bop High School(1985)

1h 30min | Drama, Action
3.5/5 (with 1 vote)

An upbeat, action-filled drama that depicts the lives of two obnoxious high school students, Koji and Toru, who are caught in exciting and dangerous adventures involving their fellow students. Based on the best selling comic series, “Be-Bop High School” has gained popularity among the young audience, and become an icon of Japan’s pop culture in the 1980’s.

Directed by Hiroyuki Nasu - With Kōjirō Shimizu

TwentyFourSeven(1997)

R
| 1h 36min | Drama
3.0/5 (with 12 votes)

In a typical English working-class town, the juveniles have nothing more to do than hang around in gangs. One day, Alan Darcy, a highly motivated man with the same kind of youth experience, starts trying to get the young people off the street and into doing something they can believe in: Boxing. Darcy opens a boxing club, aiming to bring the rival gangs together.

Directed by Shane Meadows - With Bob Hoskins, Bruce Jones, Frank Harper, Danny Nussbaum, James Hooton, Darren Campbell, ...

Life Is Hot in Cracktown(2009)

R
| 1h 39min | Drama
3.3/5 (with 6 votes)

Various stories of how crack cocaine has infiltrated the inner-city streets. Based on Buddy Giovinazzo's novel "Life is Hot in Cracktown".

Directed by Buddy Giovinazzo - With Kerry Washington, Shannyn Sossamon, Brandon Routh, Lara Flynn Boyle, RZA, Victor Rasuk, ...

Paradise Mall(1999)

1h 54min | Action, Drama
3.1/5 (with 4 votes)

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Directed by Friedemann Fromm - With Heiner Lauterbach, Franka Potente, Jürgen Tarrach, Roman Knižka, Ken Duken, Daniel Brühl, ...

The Inheritors(1983)

1h 30min | Drama, Action, War
3.1/5 (with 5 votes)

A neo-Nazi organization is recruiting in the 1980s, and two youths of high-school age join for similar reasons, despite class differences. Thomas is the son of a self-made industrialist father and a scolding social-climbing mother. He attends private school and has a brother who's an accomplished musician, but neither can satisfy mom's constant demands for school and social success. She belittles them, and there's incessant bickering at their table. Charly, a dropout, is the son of an abusive, alcoholic laborer. In the youth group, each finds order, respect, camaraderie, and adults who seem to value them. Where do domestic abuse and sanctioned political violence end?

Directed by Walter Bannert - With Nikolas Vogel

A Criminal Is Born(1938)

21min | Crime, Drama
3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

An entry in MGM's Crime Does Not Pay series, this short tells the true story of how a young man, ignored by his parents, gets into a gang and starts a crime spree which leads to murder.

The Stone Face(1973)

1h 33min | Drama, Crime
3.5/5 (with 1 vote)

After losing his son in a traffic accident and his wife to mental illness, Harry moves to a gloomy Stockholm suburb. A local youth gang is harassing the neighborhood and Harry comes up with the idea of hiring the gang to kill the bureaucrats who are responsible for the construction of the suburb. The film is a fierce critique of the political project of building suburbs designed only for workers to sleep in and also wants to have a say in the debate over nature vs nurture.

Directed by Jan Halldoff - With Jan Blomberg

Rubble Kings(2015)

1h 11min | Documentary
3.6/5 (with 11 votes)

Through archival footage Nicholson tells the story of the real Warriors that walked the streets of New York City in the 1970s and the harsh reality of gang life in a city that seemed to be falling apart.

Directed by Shan Nicholson

The Gravity(2023)

1h 25min | Drama, Action, Science Fiction
2.5/5 (with 5 votes)

As a mysterious planetary alignment sets the sky on fire, two brothers are reunited with a childhood friend.

Directed by Cédric Ido - With Max Gomis, Jean-Baptiste Anoumon, Steve Tientcheu, Olivier Rosemberg, Thierry Godard, Hafsia Herzi, ...

Clouds(1992)

1h 38min | Thriller, Drama, Crime

Tomás is a young teenager who fights for the leadership of a small marginal group. One night, in the world that he cannot control, his fallout leads to the death of one of the group's members. Laura, the possible witness to the crime, becomes a threat.

Il grande Blek(1987)

1h 45min | Drama
3.3/5 (with 1 vote)

Waiting for the train that will take him away, a man goes back over moments of his small-town upbringing: the relationship with his family, his own involvement in the youth protests of 1968 and a childhood friend died too soon.

Directed by Giuseppe Piccioni - With Roberto De Francesco, Sergio Rubini, Francesca Neri, Dario Parisini

Verlierer(1987)

1h 25min | Drama
3.5/5 (with 1 vote)

The director Bernd Schadewald shows the brutal everyday life of the low class generation in the 80s, where two youth gangs fight in a war. The "Sharks" and "Council" defend their territories with their lives. Violence, hatred and brutality are commonplace soundtracked by thrash metal music. As the conflict grows, it comes to the final battle: a man-versus-man duel for Richy (Ralf Richter), the leader of the "Sharks".

Directed by Bernd Schadewald

Mur Murs(1981)

1h 18min | Documentary
3.7/5 (with 14 votes)

Venturing from Venice Beach to Watts, Varda looks at the murals of LA as backdrop to and mirror of the city’s many cultures. She casts a curious eye on graffiti and photorealism, roller disco & gang violence, evangelical Christians, Hare Krishnas, artists, angels and ordinary Angelenos.

Directed by Agnès Varda - With Juliet Berto, Mathieu Demy

Prince(2015)

1h 18min | Comedy, Drama
3.5/5 (with 9 votes)

A troubled teenager attempts to conquer the girl he's in love with, who seems out of reach. He's lured into criminal activities and becomes alienated from family and friends.

Directed by Sam de Jong - With Elsie de Brauw, Sigrid ten Napel
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