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24 results for “urban grit”

Heavy Traffic

1973 ★ 6.5

A white dropout struggles to become a cartoonist and filmmaker, drawing inspiration from the harsh, gritty world around him. Still sharing his rundown apartment

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Caliber 9

2011 ★ 4.2

In a French town riddled with corruption, Yann, a naive urban planner comes into ownership of a 9mm handgun possessed by the soul of Sarah, a murdered prostitut

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Blue Murder

2001 ★ 6.1

Blue Murder is a Canadian crime drama television series, featuring stories that reflected the turbulence of urban life and the crimes that make headlines. The B

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City Guys

1997 ★ 8.3

An edgy, hip look at urban teen life in NYC, tracing the relationship between a smart Black kid from Harlem and a rich White kid from Park Avenue. "City Guys" i

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Pimp

2018 ★ 6.2

An urban love story set on the hard streets of the Bronx. A struggling female pimp, named Wednesday, grows up learning the game from her dad. Once he's gone she

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Once Were Warriors

1994 ★ 7.4

In a violent relationship, it takes a mother’s strength to save herself and her children from the man she loved. Once Were Warriors is a violent love story set

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Hill Street Blues

1981 ★ 7.6

A realistic glimpse into the daily lives of the officers and detectives at an urban police station. Hill Street Blues is an American serial police procedural te

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TOKYO TRIBE 2

2006 ★ 5.6

This is the other side of Tokyo, a Tokyo of a different color. There, various tribes are living. The SARU from Japan's Musashino, WU-RONZE of Bukuro, and HANDS

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The Boys

2019 ★ 8.4

A group of vigilantes known informally as “The Boys” set out to take down corrupt superheroes with no more than blue-collar grit and a willingness to fight dirt

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Shutline

2024 ★ 6.5

Doing what he can to pay his bills, Moon Shingun works as a rogue mechanic on the city streets. He barely scrapes by with this illegal work, so he does not thin

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Top Boy

2019 ★ 8.0

Two seasoned drug dealers return to the gritty street of London, but their pursuit of money and power is threatened by a young and ruthless hustler. Top Boy is

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Combat Shock

1986 ★ 6.4

A dangerously disturbed Vietnam veteran struggles with life 15 years after his return home, and slowly falls into insanity from his gritty urban lifestyle. War

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The Detective

1968 ★ 5.9

New York City Police detective Joe Leland investigates the grisly murder of Teddy Leikman, the gay son of a politically influential department store owner. Whil

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Oz

1976 ★ 5.4

Teenage groupie Dorothy rides with a small-time rock band when, suddenly, the van runs off the road, and she hits her head. She awakes in a fantasy world as gri

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A Touch of Frost

1992 ★ 7.5

Jack Frost is a gritty, dogged and unconventional detective with sympathy for the underdog and an instinct for moral justice who attracts trouble like a magnet.

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Robot Wars

2016 ★ 3.0

In a dystopian near future, a corporate heist goes wrong and the team members struggle to survive a desperate escape through the apocalyptic sprawl with their s

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Memoirs of a French Whore

1979 ★ 6.2

Marie is nineteen and bored in her little suburban life with no future. In a café, she meets the charismatic and beautiful Gerard. Blinded by adoration, Mary de

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Sidestreet

1975 ★ 6.7

Community service police detectives navigate social and urban issues in Toronto rather than just traditional major crimes. Drama drama social urban gritty commu

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Route 187

2026 ★ 10.0

Citizens combat urban violence until a bus driver and student's murders by thugs spark outrage, leading authorities to hunt the culprits captured on video. Crim

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Tekkonkinkreet

2006 ★ 7.4

Two penniless orphans, Black and White, struggle to survive on the mean streets of Treasure Town. When a megacorporation threatens to tear down the town to buil

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Shopping

1994 ★ 5.4

A dark, hip, urban story of a barren and anonymous city where the underclass' sport of choice is ram-raiding. An exciting game in which stolen cars are driven t

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Akilla's Escape

2021 ★ 4.4

In a crime-noir about the urban child-soldier, Akilla Brown captures a fifteen-year-old Jamaican boy in the aftermath of an armed robbery. Over one gruelling ni

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The Exterminator

1980 ★ 5.5

When a man's best friend is killed on the streets of New York, he transforms into a violent killer, turning New York into a war zone. The Exterminator is a 1980

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Street Girls

1975 ★ 3.7

When a middle-aged father searches for his dropout daughter, Angel, his quest takes him into the underworld of prostitutes, pimps, drug addicts and thieves. Ang

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