Hood Movies

Follows the lives of three young males living in the Crenshaw ghetto of Los Angeles, dissecting questions of race, relationships, violence, and future prospects.

It's Friday, and Craig and Smokey must come up with $200 they owe a local bully or there won't be a Saturday.

Four inner-city teenagers get caught up in the pursuit of power and happiness, which they refer to as "the juice".

Follows a young rapper in the Detroit area, struggling with every aspect of his life; he wants to make it big but his friends and foes make this odyssey of rap harder than it may seem.

A crime lord ascends to power and becomes megalomaniacal while a maverick police detective vows to stop him.

A rookie cop spends his first day as a Los Angeles narcotics officer with a rogue detective who isn't what he appears to be.

On the hottest day of the year on a street in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, everyone's hate and bigotry smolders and builds until it explodes into violence.

A young street hustler attempts to escape the rigors and temptations of the ghetto in a quest for a better life.

Desperation drives four inner-city women to bank robbery in Los Angeles, then they start mistrusting each other.

Story of a promising high school basketball star and his relationships with two brothers, one a drug dealer and the other a former basketball star fallen on hard times and now employed as a security guard.

A young man from Harlem, forced to cope with the 1980s drug scene, builds an illegal empire, only to have a crisis of conscience.

The rap group NWA emerges from the mean streets of Compton in the mid-1980s and revolutionizes hip-hop culture with their music and tales about life in the hood.

A funeral director tells four strange tales of horror with an African American focus to three drug dealers he traps in his place of business.

24 hours in the lives of three young men in the French suburbs the day after a violent riot.

A young Honduran girl and a Mexican gangster are united in a journey across the U.S. border.

In the slums of Rio, two kids' paths diverge as one struggles to become a photographer and the other a kingpin.

An outcast New York City cop is charged with bringing down Harlem drug lord Frank Lucas.

A day in the life of a South Side Chicago barbershop.

Controversy surrounds high school basketball coach Ken Carter after he benches his entire team for breaking their academic contract with him.

LouAnne, a retired US marine, becomes a teacher in a Californian high school. But her mostly Latino and black students from an impoverished and racially segregated locality do not easily embrace her.

Shale's Mercenary team is retired after a (not so) covert mission in Cuba. He becomes a substitute teacher at his teacher fiancee's Miami high school to get those behind kneecapping her. His team helps him.

When their adoptive mother is gunned down in a store robbery, four brothers decide to investigate the murder and find the killers themselves, but not all is what it seems.

Erin Gruwell, a young teacher in a racially divided Los Angeles school, inspires her class of at-risk students, deemed incapable of learning, to learn tolerance, apply themselves, and pursue education beyond high school.

After a Hmong teenager tries to steal his prized 1972 Gran Torino, a disgruntled, prejudiced Korean War veteran seeks to redeem both the boy and himself.

Starr witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend Khalil at the hands of a police officer. Now, facing pressure from all sides of the community, Starr must find her voice and stand up for what's right.