Urban Drama
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    Get Rich or Die Tryin' (2005)

    A drug dealer (Curtis ``50 Cent'' Jackson) wants to leave his violent life behind and pursue his...

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    Gran Torino (2008)

    An unlikely friendship forms between a bigoted war veteran (Clint Eastwood) and an Asian boy (Bee...

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    Taxi Driver (1976)

    A disturbed New York cabby (Robert De Niro) befriends a teenage hooker (Jodie Foster) and frees her...

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    8 Mile (2002)

    Living with his destitute mother (Kim Basinger), a young man (Eminem) in Detroit tries to overcome...

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    Madea's Family Reunion (2006)

    A Southern matriarch (Tyler Perry) deals with a host of personal and family issues while planning...

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    Deuces Wild (2002)

    Two brothers (Stephen Dorff, Brad Renfro) and their gang battle violent rivals who threaten to...

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    On the Waterfront (1954)

    A conscience-stricken ex-boxer (Marlon Brando) stands up to a corrupt union boss after unwittingly...

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    Mystic River (2003)

    A detective (Kevin Bacon) investigates the brutal beating and murder of the daughter of a childhood...

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    Hustle & Flow (2005)

    A pimp (Terrence Howard) in Memphis, Tenn., sees rap music as the way to escape his dead-end...

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    Cornbread, Earl & Me

    Friends, relatives and a lawyer (Moses Gunn) question the case of a ghetto basketball star slain by...

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    Akeelah and the Bee (2006)

    Akeelah (Keke Palmer), an 11-year-old girl living in South Los Angeles, discovers she has a talent...

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    Colors (1988)

    A veteran policeman (Robert Duvall) and his rookie partner (Sean Penn) fight Los Angeles street...

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    Heights (2005)

    A famous actress (Glenn Close), her daughter (Elizabeth Banks) and several other New Yorkers face...

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    How She Move (2008)

    Forced to return to public school after her sister's death, a young dancer (Rutina Wesley) has a...

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    Freedomland (2006)

    A detective (Samuel L. Jackson) investigates a carjacking that resulted in the abduction of the...

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    The Commitments (1991)

    An Irish hustler (Robert Arkins) puts together a Dublin band that covers hits of 1960s American...

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    House of D (2005)

    His son's 13th birthday prompts an artist to revisit his own adolescence in New York's Greenwich...

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    Death Wish 3 (1985)

    The vigilante architect (Charles Bronson) shops by mail for what he needs to waste punks in the...

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    Fighting (2009)

    A scam artist (Terrence Howard) introduces a young man (Channing Tatum) to New York's bare-knuckle...

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    Changing Lanes (2002)

    An attorney (Ben Affleck) and a recovering alcoholic (Samuel L. Jackson) have a car accident which...

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    Crash (2005)

    Racial tensions collide in a collection of intertwined stories involving residents (Sandra Bullock,...

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    ATL (2006)

    Four Atlanta teenagers, whose lives revolve around hip-hop and rollerskating, face life-changing...

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    Something New (2006)

    A black woman (Sanaa Lathan) raises eyebrows among her friends when she develops a budding romance...

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    A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints (2006)

    A writer (Robert Downey Jr.) thinks about his childhood in a violent neighborhood in Queens, N.Y.,...

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    Little Odessa (1995)

    A job returns a Russian-Jewish hit man (Tim Roth) to his family (Edward Furlong) and the Mafia in...

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    Movies

    Finding Forrester (2000)

    While studying at a prep school, an aspiring writer (Rob Brown) befriends a reclusive author (Sean...

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    Waist Deep (2006)

    An ex-convict (Tyrese Gibson) collides with members of a street gang after his car is stolen with...

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    Alphabet City (1984)

    A mob drug runner (Vincent Spano) is ordered one night to torch the New York building where his...

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    Maria Full of Grace (2004)

    Unemployed and pregnant, a Colombian teenager (Catalina Sandino Moreno) takes a job smuggling drugs...

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    Bright Lights, Big City (1988)

    Dumped by his wife (Phoebe Cates) and aided by his buddy (Kiefer Sutherland), a young Manhattan...

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    3-Iron (2005)

    A model (Seung-yeon Lee) falls in love with a young drifter (Hee Jae) after he whisks her away from...

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    Coyote Ugly (2000)

    A woman (Piper Perabo) finds her dreams of singing sidelined by the notoriety she receives as a New...

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    Freedom Writers (2007)

    A dedicated Los Angeles teacher (Hilary Swank) inspires her class of at-risk students to believe in...

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    All or Nothing (2002)

    A cabdriver (Timothy Spall), his wife (Lesley Manville), a cashier and other working-class Britons...

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    25th Hour (2002)

    The day before he begins a prison sentence, a New York drug dealer (Edward Norton) spends time with...

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    Ironweed (1987)

    A schizophrenic drifter spends Halloween in his home town after returning there for the first time...

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    Breaking and Entering (2006)

    An office break-in leads to an affair between a landscape architect (Jude Law) in the middle of a...

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    Crack House (1989)

    A gang member goes undercover for the police to nail a drug lord (Jim Brown) who has corrupted his...

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    City of Hope (1991)

    A third-generation Italian-American struggles to break free from his father's grasp. Meanwhile, the...

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    Movies

    Prince of the City (1981)

    A New York police detective (Treat Williams) wears a ``wire'' for federal agents to nail his friends...

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    Breathless (1961)

    A French hood (Jean-Paul Belmondo) kills a policeman and heads for Italy with his American...

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    Shortbus (2006)

    Sexual tensions collide in a collection of intertwined stories involving residents (Sook-Yin Lee,...

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    Defiance (1980)

    A merchant seaman (Jan-Michael Vincent) stands alone against a street gang terrorizing his New York...

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    Gridlock'd (1997)

    Two heroin addicts (Tim Roth, Tupac Shakur) seek rehabilitation, but police, gangsters and...

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    Dangerous Minds (1995)

    An ex-Marine English teacher (Michelle Pfeiffer) uses karate, drug talk and bribes to get through to...

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    Movies

    Half Nelson (2006)

    A Brooklyn teacher (Ryan Gosling) struggles with drug addiction while trying to serve as a father...

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    Poetic Justice (1993)

    A beauty-salon worker (Janet Jackson) goes from South Central Los Angeles to Oakland in a mail truck...

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    Do the Right Thing (1989)

    Spike Lee's account of erupting racial tensions on a summer afternoon in a predominantly black...

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    Kidulthood

    A day in the life of a group of troubled 15-year-olds growing up in west London.

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    Movies

    Midnight Cowboy (1969)

    Texas hustler Joe Buck (Jon Voight) works 42nd Street with ailing con man Ratso Rizzo (Dustin...