The Hate U Give

Movie · 8.1 / 10 · 19 Oct 2018 · English

Raised in a poverty-stricken slum, a 16-year-old girl named Starr now attends a suburban prep school. After she witnesses a police officer shoot her unarmed best friend, she's torn between her two very different worlds as she tries to speak her truth.

Bound by Honor

Movie · 8.2 / 10 · 5 Feb 1993 · English

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.

Juice

Movie · 7.2 / 10 · 17 Jan 1992 · English

Four Harlem friends -- Bishop, Q, Steel and Raheem -- dabble in petty crime, but they decide to go big by knocking off a convenience store. Bishop, the magnetic leader of the group, has the gun. But Q has different aspirations. He wants to be a DJ and happens to have a gig the night of the robbery. Unfortunately for him, Bishop isn't willing to take no for answer in a game where everything's for keeps.

Shaft

Movie · 6.4 / 10 · 25 Jun 1971 · English

Cool Black private eye John Shaft is hired by a crime lord to find and retrieve his kidnapped daughter.

Boyz n the Hood

Movie · 7.6 / 10 · 12 Jul 1991 · English

In the middle of the Los Angeles ghetto, drugs, robberies and shootings dominate everyday life. During these times, Furious tries to raise his son Tre to be a decent person. Tre's friends, on the other hand, have little regard for the law and drag the entire neighborhood into a street war...

Get Rich or Die Tryin'

Movie · 6.8 / 10 · 9 Nov 2005 · English

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

Bad Boys

Movie · 7.0 / 10 · 25 Mar 1983 · English

Mick O'Brien is a young Chicago street thug torn between a life of petty crime and the love of his girlfriend. But when the heist of a local drug dealer goes tragically wrong Mick is sentenced to a brutal juvenile prison where violence is a rite of passage and respect is measured in vengeance.

The Many Saints of Newark

Movie · 6.3 / 10 · 22 Sept 2021 · English

Young Anthony Soprano is growing up in one of the most tumultuous eras in Newark, N.J., history, becoming a man just as rival gangsters start to rise up and challenge the all-powerful DiMeo crime family. Caught up in the changing times is the uncle he idolizes, Dickie Moltisanti, whose influence over his nephew will help shape the impressionable teenager into the all-powerful mob boss, Tony Soprano.

Crown Vic

Movie · 6.2 / 10 · 1 Nov 2019 · English

One memorable night in the life of veteran patrol officer Ray Mandel and his trainee, ambitious rookie cop Nick Holland in the LAPD's Olympic Division. With two cop killers on the loose and hunting for more targets, Mandel and Holland must contend with a city about to boil over, as well as Jack VanZandt, an unhinged rogue cop out for payback running wild in their patrol zone.

God Is a Bullet

Movie · 6.1 / 10 · 22 Jun 2023 · English

Vice detective Bob Hightower finds his ex-wife murdered and daughter kidnapped by a cult. Frustrated by the botched official investigations, he quits the force and infiltrates the cult to hunt down the leader with the help of the cult’s only female victim escapee, Case Hardin.

Colors

Movie · 6.5 / 10 · 15 Apr 1988 · English

A confident young cop is shown the ropes by a veteran partner in the dangerous gang-controlled barrios of Los Angeles, where the gang culture is enforced by the colors the members wear.

A Crooked Somebody

Movie · 6.3 / 10 · 5 Oct 2018 · English

An attention-seeking psychic is kidnapped and tries to use the situation to boost his popularity.