Movies: Ghetto

  • 2001
    Normal People

    Normal People (2001)

    Normal People

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    The plot follows Steva, who is in love with an actress, Duja, who adores his motorcycle, and Bane, who plans to steal the motorcycle. Nikola desperately searches for a job, while Toma is in love with Mira, who is in an abusive relationship and occasi...

    Normal People
  • 2017
    Marcy Me

    Marcy Me (2017)

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    JAY-Z reminisces on his days as a hustler in Marcy Houses in Brooklyn....

    Marcy Me
  • 1993
    There Are No Children Here

    There Are No Children Here (1993)

    There Are No Children Here

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    The devastating story of brothers Lafayette and Pharoah Rivers, children of the Chicago ghetto, is powerfully told here by a Wall Street Journal reporter who first met the boys in 1985 when they were 10 and 7, respectively. Their family includes a mo...

    There Are No Children Here
  • 1970
    Right On!

    Right On! (1970)

    Right On!

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    Filmed on the rooftops of lower Manhattan, this performance film features the original Last Poets performing 28 numbers adapted from their legendary Concept-East Poetry appearance at New York's Paperback Theater in 1969. Described as “a conspiracy of...

    Right On!
  • 1967
    Way Out

    Way Out (1967)

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    A story of two men who become heroin addicts, what they must do to support their habit and how it affects their lives....

    Way Out
  • 2016
    PYRAMUS & THISBE

    PYRAMUS & THISBE (2016)

    PYRAMUS & THISBE

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    In this modern adaptation of the classic Greek myth two young lovers bound by a tragic fate plot to escape their homes to start a new life somewhere far from their families....

    PYRAMUS & THISBE
  • 1933
    Lost in Limehouse or Lady Esmerelda's Predicament

    Lost in Limehouse or Lady Esmerelda's Predicament (1933)

    Lost in Limehouse or Lady Esmerelda's Predicament

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    A slapstick burlesque of 19th Century Victorian melodrama featuring a parody of Holmes and Watson who rescue a heroine held by a mustache-twirling villain in a den of caricatured Chinese gangsters....

    Lost in Limehouse or Lady Esmerelda's Predicament
  • 1995
    Douce France

    Douce France (1995)

    Douce France

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    In this French comedy, the young adult children of working-class Arab immigrants living in the projects of suburban Paris endeavor to find a suitable cultural identity. The story centers on four young men in their 20s: Farida, who tries to live accor...

    Douce France
  • 1977
    The Police Tapes

    The Police Tapes (1977)

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    Filmmakers Alan and Susan Raymond spent three months in 1976 riding along with patrol officers in the 44th Precinct of the South Bronx, which had the highest crime rate in New York City at that time....

    The Police Tapes
  • 2008
    Streets of Rio

    Streets of Rio (2008)

    Streets of Rio

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    Rio de Janeiro. Confronted with the violence that exists in the favela where he lives, Tiago sees the only way out to become a soccer player and, in this way, help his family to have a better life. Although he is the best player in his neighborhood a...

    Streets of Rio
  • 1972
    Slavery In The 70's

    Slavery In The 70's (1972)

    Slavery In The 70's

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    Heroin anti-drug educational film...

    Slavery In The 70's
  • 2005
    Dallas Pashamende

    Dallas Pashamende (2005)

    Dallas Pashamende

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    Dallas Pashamende
  • 2010
    Sly Artistic City

    Sly Artistic City (2010)

    Sly Artistic City

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    Some argue that modern graffiti was born in Philadelphia, where the pioneers of wall-writing became citywide celebrities during the late 1960s and early 1970s. Graffiti eventually consumed the city, and a new mayor made it his top priority to fight b...

    Sly Artistic City
  • 2024
    Chacaleria

    Chacaleria (2024)

    Chacaleria

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    Chacaleria is a crime film about Antonia, a self-made entrepreneur who, after losing her livelihood to the COVID-19 pandemic, wants to secure her financial future by selling and distributing alcohol illegally using a drone during Panama's nationally ...

    Chacaleria
  • 2021
    GOLDS

    GOLDS (2021)

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    "Golds" follows Mercy, a young boy who lives in a poor neighborhood with his ill mom who can not afford the medical attention she needs. Mercy comes up with a creative way to raise money for his mom....

    GOLDS
  • 1976
    I'm a Delinquent

    I'm a Delinquent (1976)

    I'm a Delinquent

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    The film tells the story of Ramón Antonio Brizuela, who since childhood has to deal with rampant violence and the drugs, sex and petty thievery of a Caracas slum. Starting with delinquency, Ramón moves on to serious gang activity and robberies. He gr...

    I'm a Delinquent
  • 1972
    Our Latin Thing (Nuestra Cosa)

    Our Latin Thing (Nuestra Cosa) (1972)

    Our Latin Thing (Nuestra Cosa)

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    Leon Gast's musical documentary reveals New York City's Latin culture and features live performances of salsa greats The Fania All Stars and The Spanish Speaking People of New York. A document of urban American Hispanic culture, Gast's film captures ...

    Our Latin Thing (Nuestra Cosa)
  • 1999
    Cour Interdite

    Cour Interdite (1999)

    Cour Interdite

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    Cour interdite is about drugs, naïve dreams, and the demise of values. A young Arab from the Paris suburbs, where poverty, unemployment and drugs are very much the reality, Djamel Ouahab saw many people around him dying, which led him to this project...

    Cour Interdite
  • 1992
    Cop It Sweet

    Cop It Sweet (1992)

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    In the winter of 1991 an ABC film crew spent six weeks following Sydney's Redfern police. The inner city patrol of Redfern is predominantly working class with a large aboriginal and migrant population. The police in this film are general duties off...

    Cop It Sweet
  • 1974
    Dead Is Dead

    Dead Is Dead (1974)

    Dead Is Dead

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    An educational video exploring drug addiction, including footage of real-life addicts going through rehab therapy....

    Dead Is Dead