Ghetto Movies

List of the best ghetto movies selected by visitors to our site: Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood, Above the Rim, Blue Story, Straight Outta Compton, Girlhood, Juice, Fresh, Training Day, Moonlight, Hustle & Flow.

In the top there are new films of 2020, a plot description and trailers for films that have already been released.

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Country
Markimdb: 6.5
Genrecomedy, crime
CountryUSA
Duration01:29

When Ashtray (Shawn Wayans) moves to South Central L.A. to live with his father (who appears to be the same age he is) and grandmother (who likes to talk tough and smoke reefer), he falls in with his gang-banging cousin Loc Dog (Marlon Wayans), who along with the requisite pistols and Uzi carries a thermo-nuclear warhead for self-defense. Will Ashtray be able to keep living the straight life?

Markimdb: 6.6
Genrethriller, drama, crime, sport
CountryUSA
Duration01:36

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.

Markimdb: 6.2
Genredrama, musical, crime
CountryUnited Kingdom

Blue Story is a tragic tale of a friendship between Timmy and Marco, two young boys from opposing postcodes. Timmy, a shy, smart, naive and timid young boy from Deptford, goes to school in Peckham where he strikes up a friendship with Marco, a charismatic, streetwise kid from the local area. Although from warring postcodes, the two quickly form a firm friendship until it is tested and they wind up on rival sides of a street war. Blue Story depicts elements of Rapman's own personal experiences and aspects of his childhood.

Markimdb: 7.8
Genredrama, music, biography, history
CountryUSA
Duration01:35

    In 1987, five young men, using brutally honest rhymes and hardcore beats, put their frustration and anger about life in the most dangerous place in America into the most powerful weapon they had: their music. Taking us back to where it all began, Straight Outta Compton tells the true story of how these cultural rebels—armed only with their lyrics, swagger, bravado and raw talent—stood up to the authorities that meant to keep them down and formed the world’s most dangerous group, N.W.A. And as they spoke the truth that no one had before and exposed life in the hood, their voice ignited a social revolution that is still reverberating today.

    Markimdb: 6.9
    Genredrama
    CountryFrance
    Duration01:53

    Oppressed by her family setting, dead-end school prospects and the boys law in the neighborhood, Marieme starts a new life after meeting a group of three free-spirited girls. She changes her name, her dress code, and quits school to be accepted in the gang, hoping that this will be a way to freedom.

    Markimdb: 7
    Genrethriller, drama, crime
    CountryUSA, United Kingdom
    Duration01:35

    Four Harlem friends -- Bishop, Q, Steel and Raheem -- dabble in petty crime, but they decide to go big by knocking off a convenience store. Bishop, the magnetic leader of the group, has the gun. But Q has different aspirations. He wants to be a DJ and happens to have a gig the night of the robbery. Unfortunately for him, Bishop isn't willing to take no for answer in a game where everything's for keeps.

    Markimdb: 7.5
    Genrethriller, drama, crime
    CountryUSA, France
    Duration01:54

    Michael is a 12-year-old drug pusher who lives in a crowded house with his cousins and aunt. His father has become a street bum, but still meets with Fresh on occasion to play chess. Fresh is rather quiet in a crazy world. Fresh's sister is a junkie who sleeps with the dealers that Fresh sells for. As the story progresses Fresh realizes that he doesn't want to sell drugs anymore, he wants revenge.

    Markimdb: 7.7
    Genrethriller, drama, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:02

    On his first day on the job as a narcotics officer, a rookie cop works with a rogue detective who isn't what he appears.

    Markimdb: 7.4
    Genredrama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:59

    The tender, heartbreaking story of a young man’s struggle to find himself, told across three defining chapters in his life as he experiences the ecstasy, pain, and beauty of falling in love, while grappling with his own sexuality.

    Markimdb: 7.3
    Genredrama, crime, music
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:56

    With help from his friends, a Memphis pimp in a mid-life crisis attempts to become a successful hip-hop emcee.

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genredrama, crime, detective
    CountryUSA

    Lionel Essrog, a private detective living with Tourette syndrome, ventures to solve the murder of his mentor and best friend — a mystery that carries him from the gin-soaked jazz clubs of Harlem to the slums of Brooklyn to the gilded halls of New York's power brokers.

    Markimdb: 8.6
    Genredrama, crime
    CountryBrazil, France
    Duration02:10

      Cidade de Deus is a shantytown that started during the 1960s and became one of Rio de Janeiro’s most dangerous places in the beginning of the 1980s. To tell the story of this place, the movie describes the life of various characters, all seen by the point of view of the narrator, Buscapé. Buscapé was raised in a very violent environment. Despite the feeling that all odds were against him, he finds out that life can be seen with other eyes...

      Markimdb: 5
      Genrecomedy, melodrama
      CountryUSA

      Two pairs of best friends - Montel & Clyde and Brandy & Adina meet at the party, where Clyde makes Adina think he is very rich and gets her into bed the same evening. When Adina finds out that she's been fooled, she becomes Clyde's worst enemy. Meanwhile Montel and Brandy fall in love and plan to marry, and Adina and Clyde try to do everything to stop them.

      Markimdb: 8.6
      Genredrama, military, music, biography
      CountryFrance, Poland, United Kingdom, Germany
      Duration02:29

      The true story of pianist Wladyslaw Szpilman's experiences in Warsaw during the Nazi occupation. When the Jews of the city find themselves forced into a ghetto, Szpilman finds work playing in a café; and when his family is deported in 1942, he stays behind, works for a while as a laborer, and eventually goes into hiding in the ruins of the war-torn city.

      Markimdb: 7.3
      Genredrama
      CountryItaly, France
      Duration01:39

      A psychoanalyst and his family go through profound emotional trauma when their son dies in a scuba diving accident.

      Markimdb: 5.9
      Genrethriller, drama, crime
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:24

      A big time drug dealer Victor Rosa is looking to get out of the game and sees his chance with a big deal with a new friend who happens to be a Wall St. stockbroker. Thinking this will be his chance to go out on top Victor soon finds out that he has been double crossed and his last option is to get revenge.

      Markimdb: 6.5
      Genredrama
      CountryUnited Kingdom

      Ricky is just out of a young offenders institute, heading home to Hackney and determined to go straight. Instead, he heads straight for trouble when he becomes involved in a street confrontation, siding with his best friend Wisdom against a local rude boy. The trouble escalates into a series of tit-for-tat incidents that threaten to spiral out of control. Ricky's 12-year-old brother Curtis, hero-worships Ricky, though he appears smart enough to know he doesn't want to follow his example. Yet, despite the stern warnings from his mother and support from her friends in the community, might Ricky's bad boy allure be too attractive for Curtis to resist?

      Markimdb: 7.5
      Genrethriller, drama, crime
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:37

      Sobering and incisive, this cautionary drama centers on a street tough 18-year-old facing a moral quandary while trying to turn his life around.

      Markimdb: 5.4
      Genredrama, crime, music, biography
      CountryUSA, Canada
      Duration01:57

      A tale of an inner city drug dealer who turns away from crime to pursue his passion, rap music.

      Markimdb: 7
      Genreaction, drama, crime
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:17

      Ace is an impressionable young man working for a dry cleaning business. His friend, drug dealer Mitch goes to prison. In an unrelated incident, he finds some cocaine in a pants pocket. Soon, Ace finds himself dealing cocaine for Lulu. Via lucky breaks and solid interpersonal skills, Ace moves to the top of the Harlem drug world. Of course, unfaithful employees and/or rivals conspire to bring about Ace's fall.

      Markimdb: 6.8
      Genredrama, crime
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:39

      A man is put to prison for 10 years. Coming out of prison he wants to live a normal life and stop with crime but his son has yet followed the criminal path of his father.

      Markimdb: 7.2
      Genredrama, music
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:50

      The setting is Detroit in 1995. The city is divided by 8 Mile, a road that splits the town in half along racial lines. A young white rapper, Jimmy "B-Rabbit" Smith Jr. summons strength within himself to cross over these arbitrary boundaries to fulfill his dream of success in hip hop. With his pal Future and the three one third in place, all he has to do is not choke.

      Markimdb: 6.3
      Genrethriller, drama, crime
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:13

      A gang of criminals and corrupt cops plan the murder of a police officer in order to pull off their biggest heist yet across town.

      Markimdb: 7.6
      Genredrama, crime, biography
      CountryGermany, USA
      Duration02:03

      A young teacher inspires her class of at-risk students to learn tolerance, apply themselves, and pursue education beyond high school.

      Markimdb: 6.3
      Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:49

      Burglary. Drugs. Assault. Rape. The students at Brandel High are more than new Principal Rick Latimer bargained for. Gangs fight to control the school using knives - even guns - when they have to. When Latimer and the head of security try to clean up the school and stop the narcotics trade, they run up against a teenage mafia. A violent confrontation on the campus leads to a deadly showdown with the drug dealer's gang, and one last chance for Latimer to save his career... and his life.

      Markimdb: 7.2
      Genrecomedy, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:31

      Craig and Smokey are two guys in Los Angeles hanging out on their porch on a Friday afternoon, smoking and drinking, looking for something to do.

      Markimdb: 7.1
      Genrefantastic, action, thriller, crime
      CountryFrance
      Duration01:25

        Set in the ghettos of Paris in 2010, an undercover cop and ex-thug try to infiltrate a gang in order to defuse a neutron bomb.

        Markimdb: 7.5
        Genrecomedy, drama, crime, biography
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:24

        Colorado Springs, late 1970s. Ron Stallworth, an African American police officer, and Flip Zimmerman, his Jewish colleague, run an undercover operation to infiltrate the Ku Klux Klan.

        Markimdb: 7.3
        Genredrama, crime, biography
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:56

        Set in the Depression-era Franklin County, Virginia, a bootlegging gang is threatened by authorities who want a cut of their profits.

        Genredrama
        Duration02:55

        Spanning the years 1945 to 1955, a chronicle of the fictional Italian-American Corleone crime family. When organized crime family patriarch, Vito Corleone barely survives an attempt on his life, his youngest son, Michael steps in to take care of the would-be killers, launching a campaign of bloody revenge.

        Markimdb: 6.7
        Genredrama, crime
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:38

        The film follows the personal relationship between a father and his two sons, one of whom is a hit-man for the Russian mafia in Brooklyn.

        Markimdb: 8.1
        Genredrama
        CountryUSA, Germany
        Duration01:56

          Walt Kowalski is a widower who holds onto his prejudices despite the changes in his Michigan neighborhood and the world around him. Kowalski is a grumpy, tough-minded, unhappy old man who can't get along with either his kids or his neighbors. He is a Korean War veteran whose prize possession is a 1972 Gran Torino he keeps in mint condition. When his neighbor Thao, a young Hmong teenager under pressure from his gang member cousin, tries to steal his Gran Torino, Kowalski sets out to reform the youth. Drawn against his will into the life of Thao's family, Kowalski is soon taking steps to protect them from the gangs that infest their neighborhood.

          Markimdb: 7.8
          Genremelodrama, drama, crime
          CountryUSA
          Duration02:01

          Set in the Bronx during the tumultuous 1960s, an adolescent boy is torn between his honest, working-class father and a violent yet charismatic crime boss. Complicating matters is the youngster's growing attraction - forbidden in his neighborhood - for a beautiful black girl.

          Markimdb: 4.8
          Genreaction, crime
          CountryUSA

          David Cuevas is a family man who works as a gangland tax collector for high ranking Los Angeles gang members. He makes collections across the city with his partner Creeper making sure people pay up or will see retaliation. An old threat returns to Los Angeles that puts everything David loves in harm’s way.

          Markimdb: 6.7
          Genrefantastic, action, melodrama
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:49

          In the not-too-distant future the aging gene has been switched off. To avoid overpopulation, time has become the currency and the way people pay for luxuries and necessities. The rich can live forever, while the rest try to negotiate for their immortality. A poor young man who comes into a fortune of time, though too late to help his mother from dying. He ends up on the run from a corrupt police force known as 'time keepers'.

          Markimdb: 6.4
          Genreaction, thriller, crime
          CountryUSA

          A fast-paced action thriller about a rookie cop who inadvertently captures the murder of a young drug dealer on her body cam. After realizing that the murder was committed by corrupt cops, she teams up with the one person from her community who is willing to help her as she tries to escape both the criminals out for revenge and the police who are desperate to destroy the incriminating footage.

          Markimdb: 4.3
          Genreaction, thriller
          CountryUSA
          Duration02:57

          When the daughter of veteran 911 call center operator Pamela, and her estranged husband Jeremy, a Senior Police Officer, is kidnapped and held hostage, they are left desperate, with no choice but to follow the kidnapper's rules: send messages through dispatch for all police and fire units to scatter to remote locations throughout the city where they are met with chaos. Not knowing who or why, the one thing they do know is if they fail to discreetly collaborate with one another - they will be solely responsible for facilitating the biggest crime in the city's history. Now they must race against the clock to make the choice of their lives - save the city - or save their daughter.

          Markimdb: 6
          Genrefantastic, action
          CountryUSA

          An ex-soldier, a teen and a cop collide in New Orleans as they hunt for the source behind a dangerous new pill that grants users temporary superpowers.

          Markimdb: 7.4
          Genrecomedy, drama
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:25

          Stevie is a sweet 13-year-old about to explode. His mom is loving and attentive, but a little too forthcoming about her romantic life. His big brother is a taciturn and violent bully. So Stevie searches his working-class Los Angeles suburb for somewhere to belong. He finds it at the Motor Avenue skate shop.

          Markimdb: 7.3
          Genrethriller, drama, crime
          CountryUSA
          Duration02:04

          After a heist goes awry, a bank robber spends a night trying to free his brother from Riker's Island prison.

          Markimdb: 6.3
          Genrethriller, comedy, crime
          CountryUSA

          A satirical thriller about L.A.'s real estate roller coaster. Double crosses, adultery, murder, mistaken identity, and revenge ensues when a mysterious power player and his sultry wife hire a disgraced Los Angeles property broker to discreetly market and sell their Malibu villa.

          Markimdb: 6.4
          Genreaction, melodrama, drama, military, history
          CountryRomania, Hungary, Canada, USA

          Regent Horthy is the leader of Hungary and a German ally, but his favorable standing with Hitler changes as the war comes to an end. Forced to cede Hungary’s power or else witness the execution of his son, Regent Horthy gives up control of his country to the Nazis, who quickly move Hungarians to ghettos and death camps, with no hope in sight. But the despair changes when a young man named Elek emerges. Separated from his family during the relocations and aided by the woman he loves , Elek defies the enemy by becoming one of them. In a race against time, disguised as a Nazi Officer he embarks on a mission to save his family and thousands of his countrymen.

          Markimdb: 6.2
          Genrecomedy
          CountryUSA

          In his first special since his serious car accident, Tracy Morgan cracks jokes about life in a coma, his second marriage and his family's dark side.

          Markimdb: 7.4
          Genrecomedy, drama, crime
          CountryUSA
          Duration02:18

          Collin must make it through his final three days of probation for a chance at a new beginning. He and his troublemaking childhood best friend, Miles, work as movers, and when Collin witnesses a police shooting, the two men’s friendship is tested as they grapple with identity and their changed realities in the rapidly-gentrifying neighborhood they grew up in.

          Markimdb: 7.5
          Genredocumentary, music, biography
          CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, Sri Lanka
          Duration02:18

          Drawn from a never before seen cache of personal footage spanning decades, this is an intimate portrait of the Sri Lankan artist and musician who continues to shatter conventions.

          Markimdb: 7.2
          Genredrama, military, biography
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:35

          Irena Sendler is a Catholic social worker who has sympathized with the Jews since her childhood, when her physician father died of typhus contracted while treating poor Jewish patients. When she initially proposes saving Jewish children from the Warsaw Ghetto, her idea is met with skepticism by fellow workers, her parish priest, and even her own mother Janina.

          Markimdb: 6.6
          Genrecomedy, drama, music
          CountryUSA
          Duration02:26

          TV producer Pierre Delacroix becomes frustrated when network brass reject his sitcom idea. Hoping to get fired, Delacroix pitches the worst idea he can think of: a 21st century minstrel show. The network not only airs it, but it becomes a smash hit.

          Markimdb: 7.9
          Genredocumentary, music, biography
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:52

          Home movies, photographs, and recited poetry illustrate the life of Tupac Shakur, one of the most beloved, revolutionary, and volatile hip-hop MCs of all time.

          Markimdb: 6.3
          Genreaction, thriller, fantasy, adventure, crime
          CountryUSA
          Duration03:12

          In an alternate present-day where magical creatures live among us, two L.A. cops become embroiled in a prophesied turf battle.

          Markimdb: 5.9
          Genredrama
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:36

          An all-black inner city school has to become an integrated school. Few dozen white kids are transfered there, but the black students are aggressively opposed to this. The school then approaches a tough black teacher for help.




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