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La Daronne | France
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IMDB
5.9 (331 votes)
Patience Portefeux is a French-Arabic police translator, specialized in phone tappings for the anti-narcotics unit. The job is tough and low-paid, but the commander is charming... One day, whilst listening to wanted drug dealers, she discovers one of them is the son of the fantastic woman who takes care of her mother. She decides to protect him and is brought in the middle of a drug network. When she gets her hands on a huge load of hash, with the help of her new partner, the former police dog DNA, she seizes the opportunity and becomes Mama Weed, drug wholesaler, thanks to her field experience... and all the information she gets in her job!

Le plus beau métier du monde | France
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IMDB
5.8 (963 votes)
Pour se rapprocher de ses enfants a la suite de son divorce, Laurent Monier, professeur d'histoire-geographie dans un paisible lycee de province, accepte un poste dans un college sensible de la banlieue parisienne. On lui attribue la classe la plus dure, la quatrieme techno, et il trouve un appartement a la cite des Muriers, un quartier particulierement difficile.

La Journée de la jupe | France| Belgium
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IMDB
6.9 (2295 votes)
A troubled and emotionally fragile woman finds herself at the center of a firestorm, in this gut-wrenching psychological drama.

La Haine | France
Genre
IMDB
8.1 (139694 votes)
Budget
2,600,000.00$
Aimlessly whiling away their days in the concrete environs of their dead-end suburbia, Vinz, Hubert, and Said - a Jew, African, and an Arab - give human faces to France's immigrant populations, their bristling resentment at their social marginalization slowly simmering until it reaches a climactic boiling point.

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IMDB
6.6 (19874 votes)
Budget
15,000,000.00$
Set during the Rodney King riots, a robbery homicide investigation triggers a series of events that will cause a corrupt LAPD officer to question his tactics.

Freedom Writers | Germany| United States of America
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IMDB
7.5 (64100 votes)
Budget
21,000,000.00$
A young teacher inspires her class of at-risk students to learn tolerance, apply themselves, and pursue education beyond high school.

Get Rich or Die Tryin' | United States of America| Canada
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IMDB
5.3 (42617 votes)
Budget
40,000,000.00$
A tale of an inner city drug dealer who turns away from crime to pursue his passion, rap music.

Boyz n the Hood | United States of America
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IMDB
7.7 (117447 votes)
Budget
6,500,000.00$
Boyz n the Hood is the popular and successful film and social criticism from John Singleton about the conditions in South Central Los Angeles where teenagers are involved in gun fights and drug dealing on a daily basis.

Bound by Honor | United States of America
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IMDB
8.0 (27538 votes)
Budget
35,000,000.00$
Based on the true life experiences of poet Jimmy Santiago Baca, the film focuses on half-brothers Paco and Cruz, and their bi-racial cousin Miklo. It opens in 1972, as the three are members of an East L.A. gang known as the "Vatos Locos", and the story focuses on how a violent crime and the influence of narcotics alter their lives. Miklo is incarcerated and sent to San Quentin, where he makes a "home" for himself. Cruz becomes an exceptional artist, but a heroin addiction overcomes him with tragic results. Paco becomes a cop and an enemy to his "carnal", Miklo.

Menace II Society | United States of America
Genre
IMDB
7.5 (48720 votes)
Budget
3,500,000.00$
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.

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IMDB
7.6 (11555 votes)
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.

Paradise Alley | United States of America
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IMDB
5.8 (4397 votes)
Sylvester Stallone is fighting the odds again, this time in the wrestling ring. As Cosmo Carboni, he and his two brothers dream of getting out of Hell's Kitchen (circa 1946) and into the big time. The exit signs point to Paradise Alley, a sleazy private club where the floorshow consists of raucous wrestling matches with big purses. Stallone not only starred in and wrote this action-packed film, he also made his directorial debut in this tale of three guys who could take anything Hell's Kitchen could dish out.

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