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    The Chosen (1978)

    Robert Caine (Kirk Douglas) is a wealthy and powerful industrialist, an engineer who develops...

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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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    Cornbread, Earl & Me

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

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    Urban Cowboy (1980)

    A Texas farmer (John Travolta) moves to the city, immerses himself in honky-tonk and falls for a...

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    Dark Blue (2003)

    A rookie policeman (Scott Speedman) objects when his hard-edged partner (Kurt Russell) conspires...

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    Changing Lanes (2002)

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

  • Crash picture
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    Crash (2005)

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

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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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    You Got Served (2004)

    Street dancers (Marques Houston, Omari Grandberry, Jarell Houston) work together to win a...

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    City of Hope (1991)

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

  • Babe 2: Pig in the City picture
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    Babe 2: Pig in the City (1998)

    A farmer's (James Cromwell) wife (Magda Szubanski) and her young porker are detained in a city...

  • The Bonfire of the Vanities picture
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    The Bonfire of the Vanities (1990)

    A Wall Street tycoon's life becomes a shambles when an unscrupulous journalist implicates him in a...

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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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    Jungle Fever (1991)

    Trouble follows an architect's (Wesley Snipes) biracial affair with a woman (Annabella Sciorra) in...

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    The Warriors (1979)

    Gang members blamed for the murder of a charismatic street leader are forced to fight their way back...

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    Saturday Night Fever (1977)

    A Brooklyn paint-store clerk (John Travolta) dons a white suit and becomes king of the dance floor...

  • Mean Streets picture
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    Mean Streets (1973)

    Small-time hoods (Robert De Niro, Harvey Keitel) hang out in a bar and get into big trouble in New...

  • Stand and Deliver picture
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    Stand and Deliver (1988)

    Los Angeles high-school teacher Jaime Escalante (Edward James Olmos) leads a street punk (Lou...

  • Blue Hill Avenue picture
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    Blue Hill Avenue (2003)

    About four friends living in Boston's South End.

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    Chan Is Missing (1982)

    Two cabbies (Wood Moy, Marc Hayashi) search San Francisco's Chinatown for their missing partner and...

  • Straight Out of Brooklyn picture
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    Straight Out of Brooklyn (1991)

    A ghetto teen (Lawrence Gilliard Jr.) takes part in an ill-fated robbery to help his parents (George...

  • Bones picture
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    Bones (2001)

    A murdered hoodlum rises from the dead 20 years later to seek revenge on the friends who betrayed...

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    The Dreamlife of Angels (1999)

    Isa is twenty. All her possessions fit into a rucksack and she lives through hard times with a...

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    Way Past Cool (2003)

    A group of 12 and 13-year-old kids living in Oakland fight to protect their neighborhood from drug...

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    Fear City (1985)

    An ex-boxer turned talent agent (Tom Berenger) hunts a sick martial artist out to rid Manhattan of...

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    The Wanderers (1979)

    Satin-jacketed members (Ken Wahl, John Friedrich) of an ethnic gang face adulthood in the 1963...

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    EvenHand

    Officer Ted Morning has a philosophy: If you want to help people you arrest them, because that is...

  • Gang War: Bangin' in Little Rock picture
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    Gang War: Bangin' in Little Rock

    A chronicle of the lives of rival gang members in Little Rock, Arkansas which shows that gang...

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    Studs Lonigan (1960)

    A young man tries to escape the South Side of 1920s Chicago.