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  • 8 Mile picture
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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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    Deuces Wild (2002)

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

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    Dead End (1937)

    A gangster (Humphrey Bogart) returns to his New York slum and teaches the Dead End Kids dirty...

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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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    Dodeskaden (1971)

    Life goes on for the people in a shantytown on the edge of Tokyo.

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    Slumdog Millionaire (2008)

    Flashbacks reveal how a poor youth (Dev Patel) came to be a prize-winning contestant on one of...

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    City of God (2003)

    After forming a gang in Rio de Janeiro, a young man and his best friend descend from robbery to drug...

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    Lady of the Night

    The daughter (Norma Shearer) of a criminal and her look-alike fall in love with an inventor (Malcolm...

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    Ghosts

    A Chinese woman (Ai Qin Lin) faces more exploitation after paying $25,000 to sneak into England.

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    City of Men (2008)

    Two friends (Douglas Silva, Darlan Cunha) land on opposing sides of a gang war in the slums of Rio...

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    People

    Pia Hierzegger

    Pia Hierzegger appeared in the movies Slumming and Contact High.

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    Peter Wirthensohn

    Peter Wirthensohn produced movies such as Slumming, Contact High, and To the Limit.

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    Martina Poel

    Martina Poel appeared in the movie Slumming.

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    Petra Bernhardt

    Petra Bernhardt appeared in the movie Slumming.

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    The Young Savages (1961)

    An assistant district attorney discovers one of the hoodlums he must prosecute is the son of a...

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    Key Witness (1960)

    This is a well-wrought action-thriller with enough menacing violence to keep a shock value high, but...

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    Calcutta (1969)

    Filmmaker Louis Malle examines overpopulation and poverty in the Indian metropolis.

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    Bloody Kids

    The "Bloody" in Bloody Kids is meant in both its scatological in literal sense. Two restless teens...

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    Raven's End (1970)

    A young wanna-be novelist yearns to escape the urban slum he where he lives with his alcoholic...

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    Colossal Youth (2007)

    Ventura, a Cape Verdean laborer living in the outskirts of Lisbon, is suddenly abandoned by his wife...

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    Mister Cory (1957)

    A youth from the slums of Chicago uses his wiles and his gambling savvy and eventually grows to...

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    Favela Rising (2006)

    A man emerges from the slums of Rio to lead the nonviolent cultural movement known as Afro-reggae.

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    The Second Chance (2006)

    Two pastors (Michael W. Smith, Jeff Obafemi Carr) from vastly different parishes must learn to...

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    Where the Heart Is (1990)

    A tycoon (Dabney Coleman) banishes his adult children to a Brooklyn tenement, then joins them after...

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    Salut Cousin! (1997)

    Alilo, a wide-eyed Algerian waif sent to Paris to pick up a suitcase of merchandise for his boss, is...

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    The Optimists (1973)

    A retired entertainer makes his living as a street musician on the streets of London. Two young...

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    Esther (1989)

    The beautiful queen of Persia (Louise Lombard) intervenes to save the Jewish people from a bloody...

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    Sixth and Main

    Sixth and Main is the Los Angeles street corner where on any given day you might find itinerant...

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    Death Collector

    A small-time hoodlum (Joseph Cortese) breaks into organized crime in New Jersey.

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    Acceptable Levels (1983)

    Acceptable Levels begins when a London TV crew interviews the grieving family of a Belfast youth,...