Ghetto Movies

Yamakasi - Les samouraïs des temps modernes is a 2001 French movie written by Luc Besson. It demonstrates the skills of the Yamakasi, a group of...

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...

After getting out of prison, a Latino criminal tries to go straight.

Based on a controversial French novel, Lila Says tells the story of a quiet young poet named Chimo who develops a crush on the pretty, blond Lila, a...

To be closer to his children following his divorce, Laurent Monier, a history and geography teacher in a peaceful provincial high school, accepts a...

A day in the life of a group of troubled 15-year-olds growing up in west London.

A struggling young dancer joins forces with two breakdancers and together they become a street sensation.

A translator working for the police gets involved in the other side of drug dealing.

First there was Kidulthood then Adulthood now comes Noel Clarkes last installment brotherhood With Sam facing up to the new world he realizes it also...

Two young kids in love, one young graffiti artist and the other a foster-child, find trouble on the mean streets on the other side of the river in...

Death and violence anger twelve year old drug courier Fresh, who sets his rival employers against each other.

In the Warsau ghetto of 1943, one man's struggle to keep his family together leads him to the ultimate crisis of faith and one final chance at...

A young ghetto kid despairs of ever getting out of that environment and making something of himself, until one day he gets a job as an assistant in a...

Three Italian-American brothers, living in the slums of 1940's New York City, try to help each other with one's wrestling career using one brother's...

Paulette lives alone in a housing project in the Paris suburbs. With her meager pension, she can no longer make ends meet.

KYRIE and SHAKA come from two different worlds. Kyrie insists that no one picks him up directly from his home in East Cleveland and Shaka, who is far...

An angry Vietnam veteran leads a Los Angeles street gang in a war on drug dealers.

Every school day, African-American teenagers William Gates and Arthur Agee travel 90 minutes each way from inner-city Chicago to St. Joseph High...

In a ghetto where religion and drug trafficking rub shoulders, Dounia has a lust for power and success. Supported by Maimouna, her best friend, she...

A documentary film that highlights two street derived dance styles, Clowning and Krumping, that came out of the low income neighborhoods of L.A.....