Films like Hot Summer Nights
In 1991, a sheltered teenager comes of age during a wild summer on Cape Cod, getting rich from selling pot to gangsters, falling in love for the first time, partying, and eventually realizing that he's in way over his head.
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L.I.E.
Film · 2001 · also crime and dramaWith his mother dead and his father busy at work, Howie feels adrift in his New York suburb. He and his friend Gary spend their time burglarizing their neighbors' homes —...
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What Doesn't Kill You
Film · 2008 · also crime and dramaTwo childhood friends from South Boston turn to crime as a way to get by, ultimately causing a strain in their personal lives and their friendship.
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CrissCross
Film · 1992 · also crime and dramaA 12-year-old boy comes of age in 1969 Key West against the backdrop of the Apollo moon landing, when he begins to sell cocaine so his mother can stop stripping.
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Kids
Film · 1995 · also crime and dramaA group of bored, disaffected New York City teenagers spend a day skating, smoking, drinking, partying, deflowering virgins, and getting into fights.
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River's Edge
Film · 1986 · also crime and dramaA group of high-school friends must come to terms with the fact that one of them, Samson, killed another, Jamie. Faced with the brutality of death, each must decide wheth...
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Light Sleeper
Film · 1992 · also crime and dramaJohn LeTour is a recovering drug user who suffers insomnia and still deals to a high-end New York clientele, even though he’s trying to move on from the business. John’s...
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Adulthood
Film · 2008 · also crime and dramaAfter serving six years for killing his schoolmate, a young man learns that someone is out for revenge.
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American Honey
Film · 2016 · also dramaA restless teenager escapes her troubled home and joins a traveling crew of young drifters selling magazines across the American Midwest. Immersed in a world of reckless...
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The United States of Leland
Film · 2003 · also crime and dramaA withdrawn young man, Leland Fitzgerald is imprisoned for the murder of a mentally disabled boy, who also happened to be the brother of his girlfriend, Becky. As the com...
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American Gangster
Film · 2007 · also crime and dramaLoosely based on the criminal career of Frank Lucas, a gangster from La Grange, North Carolina, who smuggled heroin into the United States on American service planes retu...
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