Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "youth-gang"

1. A Clockwork Orange (1971)

R | 136 min | Crime, Sci-Fi

In the future, a sadistic gang leader is imprisoned and volunteers for a conduct-aversion experiment, but it doesn't go as planned.

Director: Stanley Kubrick | Stars: Malcolm McDowell, Patrick Magee, Michael Bates, Warren Clarke

Votes: 880,508 | Gross: $6.21M

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: 799,975 | Gross: $7.56M

3. West Side Story (2021)

PG-13 | 156 min | Crime, Drama, Musical

An adaptation of the 1957 musical, West Side Story explores forbidden love and the rivalry between the Jets and the Sharks, two teenage street gangs of different ethnic backgrounds.

Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Ansel Elgort, Rachel Zegler, Ariana DeBose, David Alvarez

Votes: 95,396

4. 21 Jump Street (1987–1991)

TV-14 | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

The cases of an undercover police unit composed of young-looking officers specializing in youth crime.

Stars: Johnny Depp, Dustin Nguyen, Peter DeLuise, Holly Robinson Peete

Votes: 14,062

5. Candyman (1992)

R | 99 min | Horror, Thriller

The Candyman, a murderous soul with a hook for a hand, is accidentally summoned to reality by a skeptic grad student researching the monster's myth.

Director: Bernard Rose | Stars: Virginia Madsen, Xander Berkeley, Tony Todd, Kasi Lemmons

Votes: 100,065 | Gross: $25.79M

6. Attack the Block (2011)

R | 88 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

A teen gang in South London defend their block from an alien invasion.

Director: Joe Cornish | Stars: John Boyega, Jodie Whittaker, Alex Esmail, Leeon Jones

Votes: 111,376 | Gross: $1.02M

7. New Police Story (2004)

R | 123 min | Action, Crime, Thriller

A hero cop accidentally leads his team into a trap from which he is the only survivor. Drowning his guilt in booze, he is eventually assigned a new younger partner who turns out to have his own secrets.

Director: Benny Chan | Stars: Jackie Chan, Nicholas Tse, Charlie Yeung, Daniel Wu

Votes: 28,963

8. Solarbabies (1986)

PG-13 | 94 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

In a post-apocalyptic future ruled by the military, a group of renegade teenage orphans find a legendary orb, Bohdai, that can supposedly bring the rain back to dried up Earth.

Director: Alan Johnson | Stars: Richard Jordan, Jami Gertz, Jason Patric, Lukas Haas

Votes: 4,952 | Gross: $1.58M

9. Prayer of the Rollerboys (1990)

R | 95 min | Action, Crime, Drama

In a dystopian near future America, a young man infiltrates a powerful drug dealing rollerblading youth gang that runs his town in order to end their reign for good.

Director: Rick King | Stars: Corey Haim, Patricia Arquette, Christopher Collet, Julius Harris

Votes: 2,765

10. 100 Streets (2016)

TV-MA | 93 min | Crime, Drama

Three people, three extraordinary stories. All lived out within a hundred London streets.

Director: Jim O'Hanlon | Stars: Gemma Arterton, Idris Elba, Jo Martin, Charlie Creed-Miles

Votes: 4,478

11. Germany Year Zero (1948)

Not Rated | 78 min | Drama

A young German boy faces the problems of the tough life in the immediate post-WWII Berlin.

Director: Roberto Rossellini | Stars: Edmund Moeschke, Ernst Pittschau, Ingetraud Hinze, Franz-Otto Krüger

Votes: 13,692

12. The Damned (1962)

Approved | 87 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

An American tourist, a youth gang leader, and his troubled sister find themselves trapped in a top secret government facility experimenting on children.

Director: Joseph Losey | Stars: Macdonald Carey, Shirley Anne Field, Viveca Lindfors, Alexander Knox

Votes: 4,014

13. Eastern Boys (2013)

Unrated | 128 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

A businessman makes a regular arrangement with a Ukrainian prostitute, despite the youngster's involvement in a controlling street gang.

Director: Robin Campillo | Stars: Olivier Rabourdin, Kirill Emelyanov, Daniil Vorobyov, Edéa Darcque

Votes: 3,838 | Gross: $0.02M

14. Crime in the Streets (1956)

Passed | 91 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Social worker tries to befriend local slum gang.

Director: Don Siegel | Stars: John Cassavetes, Sal Mineo, James Whitmore, Mark Rydell

Votes: 1,386

15. Life Is Hot in Cracktown (2009)

R | 99 min | Crime, Drama

Various stories of how crack cocaine has infiltrated the inner-city streets.

Director: Buddy Giovinazzo | Stars: Evan Ross, Stephanie Lugo, Maurice Blake, Omar Regan

Votes: 1,886

16. The Veteran (2011)

R | 98 min | Action, Crime, Thriller

A soldier returning from the war in Afghanistan uncovers a conspiracy involving the intelligence services and a gang of drug dealers.

Director: Matthew Hope | Stars: Toby Kebbell, Adi Bielski, Tony Curran, Ashley Thomas

Votes: 7,398

17. Murdered for Being Different (2017 TV Movie)

61 min | Crime, Drama

On August 11, 2007, twenty-year-old Sophie Lancaster was brutally attacked in a park by a gang of teenagers and died 13 days later in hospital. She and her boyfriend Robert Maltby were attacked because they were dressed as Goths.

Director: Paul Andrew Williams | Stars: Chanel Cresswell, Nico Mirallegro, Abigail Lawrie, Sally Lindsay

Votes: 710

18. PTU (2003)

R | 85 min | Action, Crime, Drama

When an obnoxious detective loses his gun to four young thugs, it's up to the P.T.U. (Police Tactical Unit) and their iron-willed leader to recover the weapon and clean up the mess before daybreak.

Director: Johnnie To | Stars: Simon Yam, Suet Lam, Ruby Wong, Maggie Siu

Votes: 5,147

19. The Children of Times Square (1986 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 94 min | Crime, Drama

An alienated teenage boy runs away from home and ventures to New York City where he falls in with a gang of juvenile delinquents working as drug dealers and pickpockets for a shady crime boss.

Director: Curtis Hanson | Stars: Howard E. Rollins Jr., Joanna Cassidy, David Ackroyd, Larry B. Scott

Votes: 425

20. The Inheritors (1983)

TV-MA | 90 min | Drama

A neo-Nazi organization is recruiting in the 1980s, and two youths of high-school age join for similar reasons, despite class differences. Thomas is the son of a self-made industrialist ... See full summary »

Director: Walter Bannert | Stars: Nikolas Vogel, Roger Schauer, Wolfgang Gasser, Anneliese Stöckl-Eberhard

Votes: 276

21. The Crew (2008)

R | 123 min | Action, Crime, Drama

As a major heist approaches and with betrayal all around him, a respected crime boss has to summon all his street nous and killer instinct as he fights for survival.

Director: Adrian Vitoria | Stars: Scot Williams, Kenny Doughty, Cordelia Bugeja, Rosie Fellner

Votes: 2,815

22. Six Bridges to Cross (1955)

Approved | 96 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

The emotional story of a lifelong friendship between a Boston rookie cop and a young street-wise delinquent.

Director: Joseph Pevney | Stars: Tony Curtis, George Nader, Julie Adams, Jay C. Flippen

Votes: 717

23. Hue and Cry (1947)

82 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime

A gang of street boys foil a master crook who sends commands for robberies by cunningly altering a comic strip's wording each week, unknown to writer and printer. The first of the Ealing comedies.

Director: Charles Crichton | Stars: Alastair Sim, Frederick Piper, Harry Fowler, Vida Hope

Votes: 1,774

24. Alan Partridge's Scissored Isle (2016)

Not Rated | 44 min | Short, Comedy

Alan leaves behind his comfortable existence and heads north to ask whether, in this once United Kingdom, a `schasm` has formed between north and south.

Directors: Neil Gibbons, Rob Gibbons | Stars: Steve Coogan, John Thomson, Ben Rufus Green, Jean Ellwood

Votes: 1,809

25. Beautiful Target (1995 Video)

88 min | Crime, Horror, Thriller

A doctor/policewoman is stalked by a madman who rapes girls, photographs them and kills them in various ways.

Directors: Toshiharu Ikeda, Naosuke Kurosawa | Stars: Yôko Natsuki, Shiho, Michihiro Yamanishi, Taka Higuchi

Votes: 58

26. Tagged: The Jonathan Wamback Story (2002 TV Movie)

120 min | Drama

Tagged: The Jonathan Wamback Story is the true story of a teenage gang's attack on high school student Jonathan Wamback in Ontario, Canada. Following the attack, Jonathan falls into a coma.... See full summary »

Director: John L'Ecuyer | Stars: Tyler Hynes, Christopher Jacot, Marnie McPhail, Ron White

Votes: 357

27. The Ice Cream Wars (2022)

118 min | Documentary, Crime, History

In 1984 six Glasgow family members died in an arson attack. Their murders were followed by one of Scotland's longest trials and a 20-year fight for justice that gripped the nation.

Stars: Douglas Skelton, Marion Scott, Les Trueman, Nanette Pollock

Votes: 60

28. City Across the River (1949)

Approved | 91 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

The macho head of an urban community center tries to reform juvenile delinquents.

Director: Maxwell Shane | Stars: Stephen McNally, Thelma Ritter, Luis Van Rooten, Jeff Corey

Votes: 460

29. Key Witness (1960)

Approved | 82 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

In Los Angeles, a brave witness to murder agrees to testify in court against the street gang leader who's desperate to silence him.

Director: Phil Karlson | Stars: Jeffrey Hunter, Pat Crowley, Dennis Hopper, Joby Baker

Votes: 367

30. Lookin' Italian (1994)

R | 97 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

A former mafia footsoldier tries for a quiet life working in a used book store but his life is up-ended by the arrival of his hot-headed nephew who is instantly drawn into the gangster lifestyle.

Director: Guy Magar | Stars: Jay Acovone, Matt LeBlanc, Stephanie Richards, Lou Rawls

Votes: 289

31. Strangers in the House (1942)

95 min | Crime, Drama

Loursat, a lawyer, lives with his daughter Nicole. Abandoned by his wife about 20 years ago, he has sunk into alcoholism. One day, the corpse of a stranger is discovered in the attic of his residence.

Director: Henri Decoin | Stars: Raimu, Juliette Faber, Gabrielle Fontan, Héléna Manson

Votes: 464

32. Survival of Dana (1979 TV Movie)

96 min | Crime, Drama

High-school transfer student Dana moves from North Dakota to Los Angeles' suburban Valley district after her parents get divorced.

Director: Jack Starrett | Stars: Melissa Sue Anderson, Robert Carradine, Marion Ross, Talia Balsam

Votes: 70

33. Sunnyside (1979)

R | 100 min | Action, Drama

Nick Martin, a young street tough, has a change of heart and attempts to stop the gang violence in his neighborhood.

Director: Timothy Galfas | Stars: Joey Travolta, John Lansing, Stacey Pickren, Andrew Rubin

Votes: 90

34. The Pusher (1960)

Not Rated | 81 min | Crime, Drama

A detective investigating the murder of a heroin addict discovers that there is a connection between the junkie and his fiance, who is his boss' daughter.

Director: Gene Milford | Stars: Kathy Carlyle, Robert Lansing, Felice Orlandi, Douglas Rodgers

Votes: 157

35. Machotaildrop (2009)

91 min | Action, Comedy, Fantasy

Machotaildrop is a highly visual and fantastical journey about an amateur skateboarder, Walter Rhum, who realizes his dream of turning pro and riding for the world's greatest skateboard ... See full summary »

Director: Corey Adams | Stars: Anthony Amedori, James Faulkner, Rick McCrank, Lukács Bicskey

Votes: 181

36. Treed Murray (2001)

R | 90 min | Drama, Thriller

An advertising executive, trapped in a tree by a gang of would-be muggers, manipulates them into fighting to save his life.

Director: William Phillips | Stars: David Hewlett, Aaron Ashmore, Clé Bennett, Kevin Duhaney

Votes: 1,593

37. Harmony Lessons (2013)

120 min | Drama

Lonely Kazakh teenager Aslan is bullied at his new school. He prepares himself for a bloody revenge on the school bully Bolat.

Director: Emir Baigazin | Stars: Timur Aidarbekov, Aslan Anarbayev, Mukhtar Andassov, Anelya Adilbekova

Votes: 1,014

38. Heroes of Dirt (2015)

PG-13 | 98 min | Action, Drama, Sport

A self-focused BMX dirt rider aspires to become the next stunt champion and is forced to mentor a troubled teen.

Director: Eric Bugbee | Stars: Joel Moody, William Martinez, Vivienne VanHorn, Bill Allen

Votes: 116

39. Dino (1957)

Approved | 94 min | Crime, Drama

A juvenile delinquent (Sal Mineo) on parole receives support from a social worker (Brian Keith) and a girl (Susan Kohner) from a slum.

Director: Thomas Carr | Stars: Sal Mineo, Brian Keith, Susan Kohner, Frank Faylen

Votes: 199

40. Videobook: A Clockwork Orange (2023)

396 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

A Clockwork Orange videobook.

Directors: George Zhuzikasio Ali, Ivan Prokopovich | Stars: George Zhuzikasio Ali, Ivan Prokopovich

41. The Sun's Burial (1960)

87 min | Crime, Drama

In Osaka's slum, capricious folks without futures engage in pilfering, assault and robbery, prostitution, and the trading of ID cards and blood.

Director: Nagisa Ôshima | Stars: Kayoko Honoo, Kôji Nakahara, Masahiko Tsugawa, Fumio Watanabe

Votes: 1,004

42. Die rote Zora (2008)

99 min | Adventure, Drama, Family

A female-led gang of orphaned teenagers fights corruption.

Director: Peter Kahane | Stars: Linn Reusse, Jakob Knoblauch, Nora Quest, David Berton

Votes: 307

43. Downtime (1997)

90 min | Romance, Thriller

Chrissy contemplates suicide with her son. Rob, a former police psychologist, intervenes and asks her on a date. The two, along with Chrissy's son and elderly Pat, become trapped in an elevator after a drunken gang damages it.

Director: Bharat Nalluri | Stars: Paul McGann, Susan Lynch, Tom Georgeson, David Roper

Votes: 264

44. Mike Fright (1934)

Passed | 20 min | Short, Comedy, Family

The gang attends a radio station amateur show.

Director: Gus Meins | Stars: Matthew 'Stymie' Beard, Scotty Beckett, Tommy Bond, George 'Spanky' McFarland

Votes: 204

45. Cowards (2008)

89 min | Drama

A young victim of bullying at school realizes that even the adult world is dominated by fear similar to his own. He pays a high price when he decides to fight back.

Directors: José Corbacho, Juan Cruz | Stars: Eduardo Garé, Eduardo Espinilla, Elvira Mínguez, Antonio de la Torre

Votes: 601

46. The Stars Will Tell, Inspector Palmu (1962)

100 min | Comedy, Crime, Thriller

Inspector Palmu investigates the death of an old astronomer, whose body is found on Helsinki's Observatory Hill, but the investigation is complicated by the media's spreading of false information concerning the case.

Director: Matti Kassila | Stars: Joel Rinne, Matti Ranin, Leo Jokela, Helge Herala

Votes: 1,292

47. Verlierer (1987 TV Movie)

85 min | Drama

The director Bernd Schadewald shows the brutal everyday life of the low class generation in the 80s, where two youth gangs fight in a war. The "Sharks" and "Council" defend their ... See full summary »

Director: Bernd Schadewald | Stars: Mario Irrek, Ralf Richter, Yüksel Bicici, Aram Basyurt

Votes: 143

48. The Devil's Party (1938)

Approved | 65 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

Adults who grew up as slum kids meet later in life, but murder disrupts their reunion.

Director: Ray McCarey | Stars: Victor McLaglen, William Gargan, Paul Kelly, Beatrice Roberts

Votes: 318

49. Svart kung (2014)

99 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Every move is like a choice in life, if it gets wrong, it is not always possible to correct it

Director: Ronnie Brolin | Stars: Rikard Björk, Alexander Strömberg, Hans Mosesson, Emelie Arborén

Votes: 76

50. Khamsa (2008)

110 min | Drama

A 13 year old Gypsy boy escapes from foster home to continue a life of mischief and delinquency during a french summer.

Director: Karim Dridi | Stars: Marc Cortes, Raymond Adam, Tony Fourmann, Simon Abkarian

Votes: 239