Films like 8 Mile
For Jimmy Smith, Jr., life is a daily fight just to keep hope alive. Feeding his dreams in Detroit's vibrant music scene, Jimmy wages an extraordinary personal struggle to find his own voice - and earn a place in a world where rhymes rule, legends are born and every moment… is an...
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Get Rich or Die Tryin'
Film · 2005 · also drama and musicA tale of an inner city drug dealer who turns away from crime to pursue his passion, rap music.
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All Eyez on Me
Film · 2017 · also drama and musicAll Eyez on Me chronicles the life and legacy of Tupac Shakur, including his rise to superstardom as a hip-hop artist, actor, poet and activist, as well as his imprisonme...
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Patti Cake$
Film · 2017 · also drama and musicStraight out of Jersey comes Patricia Dombrowski, a.k.a. Killa P, a.k.a. Patti Cake$, an aspiring rapper fighting through a world of strip malls and strip clubs on an unl...
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Hustle & Flow
Film · 2005 · also drama and musicWith help from his friends, a Memphis pimp in a mid-life crisis attempts to become a successful hip-hop emcee.
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Juice
Film · 1992 · also dramaFour 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...
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Notorious
Film · 2009 · also drama and music"Notorious" is the story of Christopher Wallace. Through raw talent and sheer determination, Wallace transforms himself from Brooklyn street hustler (once selling crack t...
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The Five Heartbeats
Film · 1991 · also drama and musicIn the early 1960s, a quintet of hopeful, young African-American men form an amateur vocal group called The Five Heartbeats. After an initially rocky start, the group imp...
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Brick Mansions
Film · 2014 · also dramaIn a dystopian Detroit, grand houses that once housed the wealthy are now homes of the city's most-dangerous criminals. Surrounding the area is a giant wall to keep the r...
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Beats
Film · 2019 · also drama and musicAn agoraphobic hip-hop prodigy and a disgraced former music manager cross paths in Chicago’s South Side and help each other face demons of their pasts.
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Mogul Mowgli
Film · 2020 · also drama and musicZed, a young British rapper, is about to start his first world tour, when a crippling illness strikes him down, forcing him to move back in with his family. He tries to f...
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