Films like The Hate U Give

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   Freedom Writers

   Film · 2007 · also crime and drama

   A young teacher inspires her class of at-risk students to learn tolerance, apply themselves, and pursue education beyond high school.

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   1992

   Film · 2024 · also crime

   In 1992, Mercer is desperately trying to rebuild his life and his relationship with his son amidst the turbulent Los Angeles uprising following the Rodney King verdict. A...

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   Disgrace

   Film · 2008 · also crime and drama

   Disgrace is the story of a South African professor of English who loses everything: his reputation, his job, his peace of mind, his good looks, his dreams of artistic suc...

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   American Pastoral

   Film · 2016 · also crime and drama

   Set in postwar America, a man watches his seemingly perfect life fall apart as his daughter's new political affiliation threatens to destroy their family.

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   Boyz n the Hood

   Film · 1991 · also crime and drama

   Three friends growing up in South Central Los Angeles navigate a neighborhood plagued by violence, unemployment, and crime, each responding differently to the harsh reali...

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   Lean On Me

   Film · 1989 · also drama

   When principal Joe Clark takes over decaying Eastside High School, he's faced with students wearing gang colors and graffiti-covered walls. Determined to do anything he m...

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   Light It Up

   Film · 1999 · also drama

   On a winter day in a southside Queens high school, events collide and six students are suddenly in an armed standoff with the NYPD. At the school, classrooms freeze, teac...

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   Mob Town

   Film · 2019 · also crime and drama

   Based on the true story of the notorious 1957 ‘mob summit’ in upstate New York. Spearheaded by Vito Genovese, more than 50 leaders of the organized crime syndicates from...

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   We Need to Talk About Kevin

   Film · 2011 · also drama

   After her son Kevin commits a horrific act, troubled mother Eva reflects on her complicated relationship with her disturbed son as he grew from a toddler into a teenager.

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    I'm Not Ashamed

    Film · 2016 · also crime and drama

    Based on the journal entries of Rachel Joy Scott, the first student killed in the Columbine High School shooting in 1999.

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