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Genre "Urban Drama" Movies
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| 51. Naked (year: 1993) |
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A scathing look at Britain in the post-Thatcher era, Mike Leigh's Naked stars David Thewlis as Johnny, an unemployed layabout with a philosophical ben ...
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| 52. New Jack City (year: 1991) |
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The ruthless leader of a New York City drug syndicate battles to maintain his power and avoid imprisonment in this fast-moving action drama. While the ...
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| 53. Nil by Mouth (year: 1997) |
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A working class British family struggles with their demons — sometimes violently — in this intensely emotional drama that marked t ...
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| 54. Nobody Knows (year: 2004) |
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Hirokazu Kore-eda, who wrote and directed the international success After Life, returns with this story about a family dealing with an unusual dilemma ...
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| 55. On the Waterfront (year: 1954) |
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This classic story of Mob informers was based on a number of true stories and filmed on location in and around the docks of New York and New Jersey. M ...
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| 56. Pixote (year: 1981) |
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The Brazilian Pixote so closely resembles the films of Luis Buñuel that one is almost shocked to see writer/director Hector Babenco's name on the cred ...
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| 57. Rebels of the Neon God (year: 1992) |
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Hsiao Kang is a cab driver's son, driven to study by his parents, who are ambitious for him to go to college. One day, the family cab is vandalized by ...
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| 58. Requiem for a Dream (year: 2000) |
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Based on the novel by Hubert Selby Jr., this gritty drama concerns four people trapped by their addictions. Harry (Jared Leto), and his best friend Ty ...
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| 59. Rounders (year: 1998) |
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John Dahl directed this exploration of New York private clubs devoted to high-stakes poker, with first-person narration from the film's central figure ...
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| 60. Saturday Night Fever (year: 1977) |
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John Travolta graduated from minor celebrity to superstar with Saturday Night Fever. Travolta plays Tony Manero, a Brooklyn paint-store clerk who'd gi ...
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| 61. Shooting Gallery (year: 2005) |
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A billiard-savvy street kid resorts to desperate measures after finding himself caught between a pair of veteran hustlers and a corrupt vice cop in th ...
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| 62. Short Cuts (year: 1993) |
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Based on stories by Raymond Carver, Short Cuts follows 22 Los Angeles residents whose lives intersect over the course of a few days. Ann and Howard Fi ...
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| 63. Shortbus (year: 2006) |
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John Cameron Mitchell, who created a cult sensation as writer and director of Hedwig and the Angry Inch, blazes a brave new trail with this comedy-dra ...
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| 64. Smoke (year: 1995) |
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A Brooklyn cigar shop is the setting for this drama from director Wayne Wang that interweaves the stories of several characters that have fractured fa ...
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| 65. The Commitments (year: 1991) |
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"The Irish are the blacks of Europe, Dubliners are the blacks of Ireland, and the North Siders are the blacks of Dublin ... so say it loud &m ...
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| 66. The Hillside Strangler (year: 2004) |
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A real-life series of killings that held Los Angeles, CA, in the grip of fear during the late '70s provides the inspiration for this tense crime drama ...
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| 67. The Navigators (year: 2001) |
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| 68. The Warriors (year: 1979) |
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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 ...
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| 69. Three Seasons (year: 1999) |
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Winner of an unprecedented three major awards at the 1999 Sundance Film Festival (including the Grand Jury, Audience and Cinematography awards), this ...
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| 70. Tokyo Psycho (year: 1999) |
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| 71. Trainspotting (year: 1996) |
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Mark Renton (Ewan McGregor), a young man with few prospects and fewer ambitions, lives in economically depressed Edinburgh. Like most of his friends, ...
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| 72. Where the Day Takes You (year: 1992) |
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Marc Rocco's gritty drama Where the Day Takes You stars Dermot Mulroney as King, a street-smart hustler who acts as a father figure to a motley collec ...
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