Films like Baby Boy
The story of Jody, a misguided, 20-year-old African-American who is really just a baby boy finally forced-kicking and screaming to face the commitments of real life. Streetwise and jobless, he has not only fathered two children by two different women-Yvette and Peanut but still l...
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Ken Park
Film · 2003 · also drama and thrillerTeen skater Ken Park (nicknamed Krap Nek; his name spelled and pronounced backward) kills himself at a Visalia skate park; his death bookends the lives of four other youn...
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Set It Off
Film · 1996 · also crime and dramaFour inner-city Black women, determined to end their constant struggle, decide to live by one rule — get what you want or die trying. So the four women take back their li...
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Hard to Kill
Film · 1990 · also crime and dramaMason Storm, a 'go it alone' cop, is gunned down at home. The intruders kill his wife, and think they've killed both Mason and his son too. Mason is secretly taken to a h...
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Butterfly on a Wheel
Film · 2007 · also crime and dramaA sociopathic kidnapper methodically pushes a desperate pair of parents to their absolute breaking point.
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Damage
Film · 2009 · also drama and thrillerAn ex-con battles it out in the cage to pay for the operation that would save the daughter of his victim. Along the way he finds fatherly love, and friendship, in the mos...
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Boy Wonder
Film · 2010 · also crime and dramaA young Brooklyn boy witnesses the brutal murder of his mother and grows up obsessed with finding her killer. Thus begins his life as a quiet, straight-A student by day a...
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Violent Ends
Film · 2025 · also crime and dramaLucas Frost, an honest man brought up in a crime family whose only legacy is violence, tries to make his own life with his fiancée, Emma. He is suddenly pulled back into...
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Cop
Film · 1988 · also crime and dramaAn obsessive, insubordinate homicide cop is convinced a serial killer is loose in the Hollywood area and disobeys orders in order to catch him.
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Gangster Squad
Film · 2013 · also crime and dramaLos Angeles, 1949. Ruthless, Brooklyn-born mob king Mickey Cohen runs the show in this town, reaping the ill-gotten gains from the drugs, the guns, the prostitutes and —...
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Assault on Precinct 13
Film · 1976 · also crime and thrillerA highway patrol officer, two criminals, and a station secretary form an unlikely alliance to defend a defunct Los Angeles precinct against a siege by a bloodthirsty stre...
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