Topic: Street Gangs

Direction Fernando Meirelles · Kátia Lund

Cast Alexandre Rodrigues · Leandro Firmino · Phellipe Haagensen · Douglas Silva

Plot Cidade de Deus (City of God) is a housing project built in the 1960's that--in the early 80's--became one of the most dangerous places in Rio de Janeiro. The tale...

Direction Tony Kaye

Cast Edward Norton · Edward Furlong · Fairuza Balk · Stacy Keach

Plot Derek Vinyard (Edward Norton) is a Southern Californian skinhead who must do time after committing a hateful murder. Once in jail, his mind opens and he sees the error of...

Direction Stanley Kubrick

Cast Malcolm McDowell · Patrick Magee · Michael Bates · Adrienne Corri

Plot United Kingdom. In an undetermined future, Alex (Malcolm McDowell) is the leader of a gang of «droogs» who walks the streets of London cultivating his sole two passions: ultraviolence and...

Direction Mathieu Kassovitz

Cast Vincent Cassel · Hubert Koundé · Saïd Taghmaoui · Abdel Ahmed Ghili

Plot Vinz (Vincent Cassel), who is Jewish, Hubert (Hubert Kounde), who is Black, and Said (Said Taghmaoui), who is Arabic, are young men from the lower rungs of the French economic...

Direction Robert De Niro

Cast Robert De Niro · Chazz Palminteri · Lillo Brancato · Francis Capra

Plot Set in the 60s, Robert DeNiro stars in his directorial debut as Lorenzo Anello, a dutiful father and blue-collar bus driver from the harsh New York City borough of the...

Direction Taylor Hackford

Cast Damian Chapa · Jesse Borrego · Benjamin Bratt · Enrique Castillo

Plot 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...

Direction Robert Wise · Jerome Robbins

Cast Natalie Wood · Richard Beymer · George Chakiris · Russ Tamblyn

Plot This romantic musical update of 'Romeo and Juliet' won ten Oscars. The tale of a turf war between rival teenage gangs in Manhattan's Hell's Kitchen and the two lovers who...

Direction Francis Ford Coppola

Cast Matt Dillon · Mickey Rourke · Diane Lane · Dennis Hopper

Plot Rusty James (Matt Dillon) is an up-and-coming street hoodlum, lamenting the salad days of the gangs when his older brother (Mickey Rourke), The Motorcycle Boy, ran things as President of...

Direction Kôichi Hatsumi · Katsuya Asano · Takahiro Ono · Saori Tachibana

Plot TV Series (2021). Watching the news, Takemichi Hanagaki learns that his girlfriend from way back in middle school, Hinata Tachibana, has died. The only girlfriend he ever had was just...

Direction Shane Meadows

Cast Thomas Turgoose · Stephen Graham · Jo Hartley · Andrew Shim

Plot Set in 1983, against the aftermath of the Falklands War, the film introduces us to eleven-year-old Shaun (Thomas Turgoose), whose soldier father was killed in the conflict. Living with his...

Direction Manoel de Oliveira

Cast Nascimento Fernandes · Fernanda Matos · Horácio Silva · Antonio Santos

Plot One of the earliest features by Portugal's most renowned director, it was also one of De Oliveira's best-known works for many years. Using the actual children of the area, the...

Direction Stephen Kemp · Neil Rawles · Carl Hindmarch · John L'Ecuyer

Cast Damon Runyan · Ari Cohen · Paulino Nunes · James Cade

Plot TV Series (2015-2016). 2 Seasons. 14 Episodes. A gritty fact based drama series that tells the astonishing story of a drug dealer who was arrested then given a desperate ultimatum:...

Direction Walter Hill

Cast Michael Beck · David Harris · James Remar · Deborah Van Valkenburgh

Plot Walter Hill's hip, super-stylized action film unfurls in a dystopian near-future, when various gangs control New York City. Each gang sports a unique moniker ('The Warriors,' 'The Baseball Furies,' 'The...

Direction John Singleton

Cast Ice Cube · Cuba Gooding Jr. · Morris Chestnut · Laurence Fishburne

Plot John Singleton's portrayal of social problems in inner-city Los Angeles takes the form of a tale of three friends growing up together 'in the 'hood.' Half-brothers Doughboy and Ricky Baker...

Direction Pablo Fendrik

Cast Gabriel Goity · Nicolás Furtado · Diego Velázquez · Diego Cremonesi

Plot It is the golden age of gangs, and one of the darkest times for the police, who are controlled by a group of millionaire commissioners sharing in the illicit businesses...

Direction Cary Joji Fukunaga

Cast Paulina Gaitan · Edgar Flores · Kristyan Ferrer · Diana García

Plot The stories of Sayra (Paulina Gaitan), a teenager living in Honduras and hungering for a brighter future, and teen gang members Smiley and Casper, for whom the Mara Salvatrucha is...

Direction Steven Spielberg

Cast Rachel Zegler · Ansel Elgort · David Álvarez · Ariana DeBose

Plot Steven Spielberg’s adaptation of the Broadway musical “West Side Story.” The original was inspired by William Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet,” and centers on the rivalry between the Jets and the...

Direction Lexi Alexander

Cast Elijah Wood · Charlie Hunnam · Claire Forlani · Marc Warren

Plot A wrongfully expelled Harvard undergrad moves to London, where he is introduced to the violent undeworld of soccer hooliganism.

Direction Francis Ford Coppola

Cast C. Thomas Howell · Matt Dillon · Ralph Macchio · Diane Lane

Plot Francis Ford Coppola's stylized teen melodrama is based on the popular novel by S. E. Hinton. In 1960s Tulsa, the "right" and "wrong" sides of the tracks are represented by...

Direction Kenji Iwaisawa

Plot One summer's day, a group of yobbish high-school kids, who've never touched an instrument in their lives, decide to form a band. This is how they start playing a youthful...