Genre "Urban Drama" Movies
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| 1. 12 (year: 2002) |
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| 2. 13 Moons (year: 2002) |
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The director of such off-beat independent films as In the Soup, director Alexandre Rockwell once again teams with that film's star to deliver this Los ...
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| 3. 2 G's & A Key (year: 2000) |
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In this hard-edged urban drama, a drug dealer finds himself doing battle over control of the local dope trade with an ex-con who previously conspired ...
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| 4. 8 Mile (year: 2002) |
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Controversial rap star Eminem makes his acting debut in this hard-edged urban drama, inspired in part by incidents from the musician's own life. Jimmy ...
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| 5. A Bronx Tale (year: 1993) |
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Robert De Niro made his directorial debut with this expanded adaptation of Chazz Palminteri's one-character play. DeNiro's role of Lorenzo Anello, an ...
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| 6. A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints (year: 2006) |
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The harsh realities of life on the street merge with the universal themes of youthful pain and exhilaration in director Dito Montiel's telling tale of ...
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| 7. Above the Rim (year: 1994) |
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A young aspiring professional basketball player must make some tough decisions in this sports melodrama. Kyle Lee is a talented basketball player in h ...
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| 8. Adrift in Manhattan (year: 2007) |
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Adrift in Manhattan, the third feature effort of Hispanic writer/director Alfredo de Villa (Washington Heights, Yellow), intercuts three intensely dra ...
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| 9. Akeelah and the Bee (year: 2006) |
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A young girl learns to believe in herself and value her intelligence in this critically-acclaimed, family-friendly drama. Akeelah Anderson (Keke Palme ...
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| 10. Al Caer la Noche (year: 1992) |
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The Spanish language revenge thriller Al Caer la Noche tells the tale of a mother who sets out to destroy drug dealers who killed her son.
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| 11. American History X (year: 1998) |
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Tony Kaye made his feature directorial debut with this dramatic exploration into the roots of race hatred in America. In a shocking opening scene, tee ...
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| 12. Amores Perros (year: 2000) |
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Three stories of life along the margins in Mexico City converge in this inventive thriller. Octavio is sharing an apartment with his brother, which le ...
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| 13. Aparajito (year: 1956) |
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The Unvanquished is the second of Indian director Satyajit Ray's "Apu Trilogy" (the first was Pather Panchali). Ray's young protagonist Apu ...
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| 14. Baby Boy (year: 2001) |
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Ten years later, writer and director John Singleton returns to the South Central Los Angeles neighborhoods of his debut film Boyz 'N the Hood (1991). ...
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| 15. Belly (year: 1998) |
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Music video director Hype Williams made his feature film debut with this visually inventive urban drama. Tommy Brown (DMX) and his friend Sincere (Nas ...
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| 16. Boston Kickout (year: 1995) |
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In Britain, when bored street punks go on violent destructive sprees late at night through local yards and neighborhoods it is called a "Boston k ...
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| 17. Bringing Out the Dead (year: 1999) |
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This tense urban drama stars Nicolas Cage as Frank Pierce, a paramedic on the brink of physical and emotional collapse. Frank has worked for years in ...
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| 18. Brother (year: 1997) |
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| 19. Changing Lanes (year: 2002) |
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Director Roger Michell follows up the hit romantic comedy Notting Hill (1999) with this thought-provoking thriller. Ben Affleck and Samuel L. Jackson ...
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| 20. Chicano Blood (year: 2008) |
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The thriller Chicano Blood tells the tale of a young man who has extricated himself from his days as a member in a street gang. Although he thought he ...
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| 21. City of God (year: 2002) |
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Fernando Meirelles' City of God is a sweeping tale of how crime affects the poor population of Rio de Janeiro. Though the narrative skips around in ti ...
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| 22. Code Unknown (year: 2000) |
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German-born filmmaker Michael Haneke continues the bleak, formalist experimentation of his 1994 breakthrough 71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance wi ...
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| 23. Colors (year: 1988) |
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Colors stars Robert Duvall and Sean Penn as partners on the LAPD's gang crime division. Duvall had hoped to spend more time with his family, but he's ...
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| 24. Cool! (year: 2004) |
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Theo Van Gogh's Cool! tells the tale of three teenage criminals - (Abdel, Jacky, and Jeffrey) - who end up doing time in a juvenile detention center a ...
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| 25. Coyote Ugly (year: 2000) |
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An aspiring musician becomes one of the most famous bartenders in New York in this high-spirited comedy-drama. Small-town girl Violet Sanford (Piper P ...
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| 26. Day on Fire (year: 2006) |
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Five people cross paths in New York City over the course of a day marked by violence in this independent drama from writer and director Jay Anania. Ju ...
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| 27. Deuces Wild (year: 2002) |
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This gang warfare drama is from director Scott Kalvert, whose previous film was the controversial and violent The Basketball Diaries (1995). In the sw ...
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| 28. Dogs in Space (year: 1986) |
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A dramatic story about a houseful of youth with no apparent purpose in life, this film features pounding rock music and attitude problems galore. The ...
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| 29. Empire (year: 2002) |
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A man who has made good in an illegal business discovers going straight is a more complicated matter than he imagined in this urban drama. Victor Rosa ...
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| 30. Finding Forrester (year: 2000) |
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In the spirit of his Oscar-winning Good Will Hunting, Gus Van Sant directs this tale of the unlikely bond that develops between an aging, reclusive no ...
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| 31. Freedom Writers (year: 2007) |
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Assigned the thankless task of teaching freshman English at a gang-infested Long Beach, CA high school, a 23-year-old teacher resorts to unconventiona ...
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| 32. Fresh (year: 1994) |
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| 33. Green Street Hooligans (year: 2005) |
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An American abroad is introduced to the heady but dangerous pleasures of violence in this powerful drama from Great Britain. Matt Buckner (Elijah Wood ...
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| 34. Hannah Takes the Stairs (year: 2007) |
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American independent filmmaker Joe Swanberg's 2007 feature Hannah Takes the Stairs concerns Hannah (Greta Gerwig), a recent college graduate who spend ...
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| 35. Hardball (year: 2001) |
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Television actor-turned-director Brian Robbins follows up Varsity Blues (1999) and Ready to Rumble (2000) with another sports comedy. Keanu Reeves sta ...
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| 36. He Got Game (year: 1998) |
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Denzel Washington and writer-director Spike Lee team for the third time with this contemporary basketball drama focusing on a promising athlete, the s ...
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| 37. Honey (year: 2003) |
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Dark Angel-lead Jessica Alba stars in the title role of this film, the feature debut from music-video director Bille Woodruff. Honey is a girl from th ...
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| 38. How She Move (year: 2007) |
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An aspiring medical student whose drug-addicted sister has recently died and who may be forced to relocate from her posh private school to the crime-i ...
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| 39. Jungle Fever (year: 1991) |
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Spike Lee defines "jungle fever" as sexual attraction between members of two races. In his film Jungle Fever, he examines the repercussions ...
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| 40. Kids (year: 1995) |
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Kids offers a bleak, unblinking view of a group of vacuous, thoughtless New York City teens in their ceaseless quest for sex, drugs, and trouble. The ...
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| 41. La haine (year: 1995) |
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While to most outsiders Paris seems the very picture of beauty and civility, France has had a long and unfortunate history of intolerance toward outsi ...
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| 42. Lackawanna Blues (year: 2005) |
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A young boy grows up among a makeshift family of oddballs and dreamers in this adaptation of Ruben Santiago-Hudson's acclaimed one-man show. Ruben Jun ...
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| 43. Le Signe du Lion (year: 1959) |
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This was the first film directed by Eric Rohmer, and although it is not without flaws, this story of a down-and-out foreigner in Paris has its merits. ...
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| 44. Life Support (year: 2007) |
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Produced by Jamie Foxx for HBO, this drama stars Queen Latifah as Ana a woman struggling to maintain a happy life despite being HIV-positive. Though h ...
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| 45. Little Red (year: 2000) |
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This gritty street drama concerns a group of young people in Baltimore who are struggling to fight their way out of the ghetto and on to a better life ...
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| 46. Magnolia (year: 1999) |
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Writer/director Paul Thomas Anderson followed his critical and commercial breakthrough Boogie Nights with this wildly ambitious story of lives intertw ...
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| 47. Menace II Society (year: 1993) |
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This debut offering from twin brothers Albert and Allen Hughes was one of the most critically-acclaimed urban crime films to appear in the wake of Joh ...
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| 48. Midnight Cowboy (year: 1969) |
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Based on a James Leo Herlihy novel, British director John Schlesinger's first American film dramatized the small hopes, dashed dreams, and unlikely fr ...
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| 49. My Beautiful Laundrette (year: 1985) |
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After the death of his wife and his subsequent descent into alcoholic near-agoraphobia, a crotchety Pakistani intellectual convinces his shady entrepr ...
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| 50. Mystic River (year: 2003) |
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Directed by Clint Eastwood, the mysterious drama Mystic River is based on the novel by Dennis Lehane and adapted by screenwriter Brian Helgeland. Set ...
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