Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "urban-violence"

1. Joker (I) (2019)

R | 122 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

During the 1980s, a failed stand-up comedian is driven insane and turns to a life of crime and chaos in Gotham City while becoming an infamous psychopathic crime figure.

Director: Todd Phillips | Stars: Joaquin Phoenix, Robert De Niro, Zazie Beetz, Frances Conroy

Votes: 1,487,867 | Gross: $335.45M

2. City of God (2002)

R | 130 min | Crime, Drama

In the slums of Rio, two kids' paths diverge as one struggles to become a photographer and the other a kingpin.

Directors: Fernando Meirelles, Kátia Lund | Stars: Alexandre Rodrigues, Leandro Firmino, Matheus Nachtergaele, Phellipe Haagensen

Votes: 800,841 | Gross: $7.56M

3. Predator 2 (1990)

R | 108 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi

The Predator returns to Earth, this time to stake a claim on the war-torn streets of a dystopian Los Angeles.

Director: Stephen Hopkins | Stars: Danny Glover, Gary Busey, Kevin Peter Hall, Rubén Blades

Votes: 182,493 | Gross: $30.67M

4. RoboCop (1987)

R | 102 min | Action, Crime, Sci-Fi

In a dystopic and crime-ridden Detroit, a terminally wounded cop returns to the force as a powerful cyborg haunted by submerged memories.

Director: Paul Verhoeven | Stars: Peter Weller, Nancy Allen, Dan O'Herlihy, Ronny Cox

Votes: 283,006 | Gross: $53.42M

5. Falling Down (1993)

R | 113 min | Action, Crime, Drama

An ordinary man frustrated with the various flaws he sees in society begins to psychotically and violently lash out against them.

Director: Joel Schumacher | Stars: Michael Douglas, Robert Duvall, Barbara Hershey, Rachel Ticotin

Votes: 206,605 | Gross: $40.90M

6. Chappie (2015)

R | 120 min | Action, Crime, Drama

In the near future, crime is patrolled by a mechanized police force. When one police droid, Chappie, is stolen and given new programming, he becomes the first robot with the ability to think and feel for himself.

Director: Neill Blomkamp | Stars: Sharlto Copley, Dev Patel, Hugh Jackman, Sigourney Weaver

Votes: 269,580 | Gross: $31.57M

7. Elite Squad (2007)

R | 115 min | Action, Crime, Drama

In 1997 Rio de Janeiro, Captain Nascimento has to find a substitute for his position while trying to take down drug dealers and criminals before the Pope visits.

Director: José Padilha | Stars: Wagner Moura, André Ramiro, Caio Junqueira, Milhem Cortaz

Votes: 110,237 | Gross: $0.01M

8. Menace II Society (1993)

R | 97 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

A young street hustler attempts to escape the rigors and temptations of the ghetto in a quest for a better life.

Directors: Albert Hughes, Allen Hughes | Stars: Tyrin Turner, Larenz Tate, June Kyoto Lu, Toshi Toda

Votes: 64,445 | Gross: $27.90M

9. Fritz the Cat (1972)

X | 78 min | Animation, Comedy, Drama

Fritz drops out of college, starts a riot in Harlem and hits the road with an ex-girlfriend before getting mixed up with domestic terrorists.

Director: Ralph Bakshi | Stars: Skip Hinnant, Rosetta LeNoire, John McCurry, Judy Engles

Votes: 14,336 | Gross: $25.00M

10. Class of 1984 (1982)

R | 98 min | Action, Crime, Drama

A new teacher at a troubled inner-city high school soon ends up clashing with a delinquent punk posse who run the institute with an iron fist.

Director: Mark L. Lester | Stars: Perry King, Merrie Lynn Ross, Timothy Van Patten, Roddy McDowall

Votes: 13,250

11. The Brave One (2007)

R | 122 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Struggling to recover emotionally from a brutal assault that killed her fiancé and left her in a coma, a radio personality begins a quest for vengeance against the perpetrators that leaves a bloody trail across New York City.

Director: Neil Jordan | Stars: Jodie Foster, Terrence Howard, Naveen Andrews, Nicky Katt

Votes: 63,485 | Gross: $36.79M

12. Fish Tank (2009)

Not Rated | 123 min | Drama

Everything changes for 15-year-old Mia when her mum brings home a new boyfriend.

Director: Andrea Arnold | Stars: Katie Jarvis, Michael Fassbender, Kierston Wareing, Rebecca Griffiths

Votes: 65,034 | Gross: $0.37M

13. Rumble in the Bronx (1995)

R | 87 min | Action, Comedy, Crime

A young man visiting and helping his uncle in New York City finds himself forced to fight a street gang and the mob with his martial art skills.

Director: Stanley Tong | Stars: Jackie Chan, Anita Mui, Françoise Yip, Bill Tung

Votes: 45,978 | Gross: $32.39M

14. Elite Squad 2: The Enemy Within (2010)

Not Rated | 115 min | Action, Crime, Drama

After a prison riot, former-Captain Nascimento, now a high ranking security officer in Rio de Janeiro, is swept into a bloody political dispute that involves government officials and paramilitary groups.

Director: José Padilha | Stars: Wagner Moura, Irandhir Santos, André Ramiro, Milhem Cortaz

Votes: 86,754 | Gross: $0.10M

15. Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song (1971)

R | 97 min | Action, Crime, Drama

After saving a Black Panther from some racist cops, a black male prostitute goes on the run from "the man" with the help of the ghetto community and some disillusioned Hells Angels.

Director: Melvin Van Peebles | Stars: Melvin Van Peebles, Hubert Scales, John Dullaghan, Simon Chuckster

Votes: 5,862 | Gross: $15.18M

16. The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat (1974)

R | 77 min | Animation, Comedy

Fritz the Cat may have lost one of his lives in the comics, but in his new movie, he has eight more lives left to go! While his wife screams at him, Fritz lights up a joint and reminiscences about what could have been.

Director: Robert Taylor | Stars: Skip Hinnant, Reva Rose, Bob Holt, Robert Ridgely

Votes: 3,002 | Gross: $1.09M

17. Tsotsi (2005)

R | 94 min | Crime, Drama

Six days in the violent life of a young Johannesburg gang leader.

Director: Gavin Hood | Stars: Presley Chweneyagae, Mothusi Magano, Israel Matseke-Zulu, Terry Pheto

Votes: 31,604 | Gross: $2.91M

18. Salaam Bombay! (1988)

Not Rated | 113 min | Crime, Drama

Young Krishna struggles to survive among the drug dealers, pimps, and prostitutes in the back alleys and gutters of India.

Director: Mira Nair | Stars: Shafiq Syed, Anjaan, Amrit Patel, Murari Sharma

Votes: 10,091 | Gross: $2.08M

19. The Killing of America (1981)

R | 90 min | Documentary, Crime

A documentary of the decline of America. It features footage (most exclusive to this film) from race riots to serial killers and much, much more.

Director: Sheldon Renan | Stars: Chuck Riley, Ed Dorris, Thomas Noguchi, Sirhan Sirhan

Votes: 2,369

20. Little Murders (1971)

PG | 108 min | Comedy, Crime

Pitch black comedy about a young nihilistic New Yorker coping with pervasive urban violence, obscene phone calls, rusty water pipes, electrical blackouts, paranoia and ethnic-racial conflict during a typical summer of the 1970s.

Director: Alan Arkin | Stars: Elliott Gould, Marcia Rodd, Vincent Gardenia, Elizabeth Wilson

Votes: 3,564 | Gross: $0.26M

21. Divines (2016)

105 min | Crime, Drama

A street teenager from a dysfunctional family from a banlieue (HLMs) in Paris comes across a young dancer who turns her life upside down.

Director: Houda Benyamina | Stars: Oulaya Amamra, Déborah Lukumuena, Kévin Mischel, Jisca Kalvanda

Votes: 10,522

22. Tenement (1985)

X | 94 min | Action, Crime, Horror

A drug selling and violent street-gang terrorize the renters of a big trashy apartment-house.

Director: Roberta Findlay | Stars: Joe Lynn, Mina Bern, Walter Bryant, Corinne Chateau

Votes: 1,018

23. Shéhérazade (2018)

TV-MA | 109 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller

Zachary, 17 years old, gets out of jail. Rejected by his mother, he hangs out in the mean streets of Marseille. This is where he meets Shéhérazade.

Director: Jean-Bernard Marlin | Stars: Dylan Robert, Kenza Fortas, Idir Azougli, Lisa Amedjout

Votes: 2,658

24. Sound and Fury (1988)

95 min | Drama

Bruno is 14. When his grandmother dies, he returns to Bagnolet with his mother who is rarely there. At school he meets Jean-Roger, who introduces him to a group of delinquents.

Director: Jean-Claude Brisseau | Stars: Vincent Gasperitsch, María Luisa García, François Négret, Bruno Cremer

Votes: 1,157

25. Paris Is Us (2019)

83 min | Drama

Anna misses the flight she should have taken to find Greg in Barcelona. The plane crashes.

Director: Elisabeth Vogler | Stars: Noémie Schmidt, Grégoire Isvarine, Marie Mottet, Lou Castel

Votes: 1,509

26. Stockholmsnatt (1987)

50 min | Crime, Drama

Paolo Roberto and his friends are always looking for trouble. Beating and assaulting people and robbing them is their usual evening. But when police and judges are getting their hands of Paolo things aint so funny any more.

Director: Staffan Hildebrand | Stars: Paolo Roberto, Vincenzo Roberto, Ellen Roberto, Ian Roberto

Votes: 1,078

27. Let It Fall: Los Angeles 1982-1992 (2017)

TV-MA | 144 min | Documentary, History

An in-depth look at the culture of Los Angeles in the ten years leading up to the 1992 uprising that erupted after the verdict of police officers cleared of beating Rodney King.

Director: John Ridley | Stars: Daryl Gates, Tom Bradley, Damian 'Football' Williams, Michael Moulin

Votes: 837

28. Weapons (2007)

Not Rated | 83 min | Crime, Drama

Weapons presents a series of brutal, seemingly random youth-related killings over the course of a weekend in a typical small town in America,and tragically reveals how they are all interrelated.

Director: Adam Bhala Lough | Stars: Nick Cannon, Paul Dano, Mark Webber, John Campo

Votes: 648

29. For Ahkeem (2017)

Not Rated | 90 min | Documentary

A junior high school student sees her chances of a better future jeopardized after she gets in a fight and is expelled.

Directors: Jeremy S. Levine, Landon Van Soest | Star: Daje Shelton

Votes: 174 | Gross: $0.02M

30. Amu (2005)

Not Rated | 102 min | Drama

Amu is the story of an Indian American woman who returns to India. The film takes a dark turn as Kaju learns that a horrifying genocide that took place twenty years ago turns out to hold the key to her mysterious origins.

Director: Shonali Bose | Stars: Konkona Sen Sharma, Yashpal Sharma, Brinda Karat, Ankur Khanna

Votes: 959 | Gross: $0.01M

31. Death Scenes 3 (1993 Video)

88 min | Documentary

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Director: Nick Bougas | Stars: Elena Ceausescu, Nicolae Ceausescu, Maritza Martin Munoz, Benito Mussolini

Votes: 87

32. Howard Beach: Making a Case for Murder (1989 TV Movie)

PG-13 | 94 min | Crime, Drama, History

True crime story. In December, 1986, 3 black men ran into car trouble in Howard Beach, a middle-class neighborhood in New York City. Unable to start their car, they sought refuge in a ... See full summary »

Director: Dick Lowry | Stars: Daniel J. Travanti, William Daniels, Joe Morton, Cliff Gorman

Votes: 119

33. Edge (II) (2009)

3 min | Short, Crime, Drama

Compressing a lifetime of experience and revenge into 3 searing minutes. A young man quietly leaves his home, passing the many familiar landmarks of his life, on his way to commit a terrible crime.

Director: James Webber | Stars: Will Irvine, Jennifer Pratchett, David Avery

Votes: 6

34. Baader-Meinhof: In Love with Terror (2002 TV Movie)

69 min | Documentary

Explores the Baader-Meinhof urban guerrilla movement (aka the Red Army Faction) in 1970s West Germany.

Director: Ben Lewis | Stars: Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin, Bodo Kindermann, Dieter Kunzelmann

Votes: 73

35. The Phoenix (2020)

92 min | Drama

Paul is a country boy who grows up with a fascination for violence and justice. When he moves to the city and sees his friends and brother fall victim to gang attacks, a vigilante is born.

Director: Nicolas Moneuse | Stars: Florent Hill, Louis Sers, Léo Ferrand, Mélanie Peyre

Votes: 47

36. Disparos (2012)

78 min | Action, Crime, Thriller

After a shooting assignment, Henrique is mugged by two armed motor-bikers who steal his camera and speed off. Seconds later, he watches both get hit by a pickup truck driven by a ... See full summary »

Director: Juliana Reis | Stars: Gustavo Machado, Caco Ciocler, Julio Adrião, Dedina Bernardelli

Votes: 158

37. Beantown (2007)

95 min | Action, Crime, Drama

A blood-soaked chronicle of the final desperate gang war between Boston's Irish and Italian mobs.

Director: Timothy Norman | Stars: Kristen Savage, Randy Paradis, Sean Fowler, Drew Paradis

Votes: 88

38. Instant BadAss

55 min | Documentary

Young men meet to fight, not for money, not for glory, just to feel alive. they have created a community that allows to feel free from the pressures of daily lives. This is not a story about fighting but about men that fight.

Director: Andy Funnell

39. Peace Process (2006)

60 min | Documentary

"Peace Process" follows Inglewood teen poet Jabril through an informal intervention program during which he is trained to interview other teens, former gang members, journalists, artists ... See full summary »

Director: Katina Parker | Stars: Jabril Muhammad, Aceyalone, Medusa, Saul Williams

40. Skips (2004)

11 min | Drama, Short

Sandy is a 13 year old who can't decide whether its more important to be hanging with his buddies or to start pursuing Darlene, the girl who's caught his eye. When he and his buddies tease ... See full summary »

Director: Steve Curley | Stars: Austin Basis, Camille Delgado, Alexander Flores, Denny Jacobs

Votes: 7

41. I can change, but not 100% (2019)

42 min | Short, Drama

The story of the relationship between Boby, a 24-year-old Romanian Roma who grew up in Marseille, living off illegal activities and Amie, a 24-year-old foolhardy girl who grew up in Tokyo.

Director: Amie-Sarah Barouh

42. On the Line (2007)

Not Rated | 55 min | Documentary

An act of civil disobedience at America's largest ongoing protest brings graduate student Brian DeRouen face-to-face with the pressing constitutional issues of today. His non-violent action... See full summary »

Directors: Peter Glenn, Jason A. Schmidt | Stars: Roy Bourgeois, Brian DeRouen, John Perkins, Helen Prejean

Votes: 35

43. Rosa (1997)

11 min | Short

A policewomen, a drug dealer and a preacher cross their paths in a funk ball.

Director: Bruno Vianna | Stars: Jorge Lendel, Augusto Madeira, Sabrina Rosa

44. Atos dos Homens (2006)

75 min | Documentary

An x-ray of violence in the Baixada Fluminense. The daily lives of residents of the region, who live with great social inequality and the trivialization of death, which becomes commonplace for conflict resolution.

Director: Kiko Goifman

Votes: 34

45. Geraldo Voador (1994)

11 min | Short

Kid from a favela with a special gift gets in trouble with drug dealers.

Director: Bruno Vianna | Stars: Rogério Costa, Robson Dos Santos, Bruno Garcia, Maria Gladys

46. The Vanishing Black Male (2005)

Not Rated | 80 min | Documentary

Are African American males becoming extinct? Will future generations of African American women not be able to find husbands? These are but a few of the questions explored in The Vanishing Black Male.

Director: Hisani DuBose | Star: Melvin Jackson Jr.

Votes: 13

47. Moyers & Company (2012–2015)
Episode: MLK's Dream of Economic Justice (2013)

TV-G | 57 min | News, Talk-Show

Dr. King's other dream: economic justice.

Stars: Taylor Branch, James Cone, Kyle Dargan, Martin Luther King

48. The Raising of America (2015– )
Episode: Wounded Places (2015)

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Director: Llewellyn M. Smith | Stars: Aswad Aarif, Javier Arango, Sandra Bloom, Millie Burns

49. Machine Gun: History Down the Barrel of a Gun (1999)
Episode: Age of Kalashnikov's AK 47 (1999)

60 min | Documentary

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Stars: Lawrence Bayne, Jack Blum, John Bolton, George Bush

50. Smoke City (2017– )
Episode: Walnut Park (2017)

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Director: Cami Thomas | Stars: Julian Keaton, Cami Thomas