Film genre originating in the United States
This is a list of hood films . These films focus on the culture and life of African-Americans , Hispanic-Americans , and, in some cases, Asian-Americans or White Americans who live in segregated, low-income urban communities. This list also includes comparably economically disenfranchised and crime adjacent communities in other countries such as the UK and Canada.[ 1] [ 2] [ 3]
List of hood films
1970s
1980s
1990s
New Jack City , 1991[ 9]
Boyz n the Hood ,[ 10] 1991
Straight Out of Brooklyn , 1991[ 11]
Deep Cover , 1992[ 12]
Juice , 1992[ 9]
Just Another Girl on the I.R.T. , 1992[ 13]
American Me , 1992
South Central , 1992[ 14]
Trespass , 1992[ 15]
Zebrahead , 1992
Menace II Society ,[ 16] 1993
Blood In Blood Out , 1993[ 14]
Strapped , 1993
Poetic Justice , 1993[ 17]
Above the Rim , 1994
I Like It Like That , 1994[ 18]
Sugar Hill , 1994[ 19]
Mi Vida Loca , 1994[ 14]
Fresh , 1994[ 9]
Jason's Lyric , 1994[ 20]
Higher Learning , 1995
Rude , 1995[ 21]
Soul Survivor , 1995[ 21]
Tales from the Hood ,[ 22] 1995
Bad Boys , 1995
Clockers , 1995[ 9]
Dangerous Minds , 1995
Dead Presidents , 1995[ 23]
Friday , 1995[ 9]
New Jersey Drive , 1995[ 9]
La Haine , 1995[ 24]
Sunset Park , 1996
Bullet , 1996
Set It Off , 1996[ 9]
The Substitute , 1996
One Eight Seven , 1997[ 14]
Ma 6-T va crack-er , 1997
Squeeze , 1997
First Time Felon , 1997
Fakin' da Funk , 1997[ 25]
I'm Bout It , 1997[ 15] [ 26]
Always Outnumbered , 1998
American History X , 1998[ 27]
He Got Game , 1998
Streets Is Watching , 1998[ 26]
Streetwise , 1998
Caught Up , 1998
The Players Club , 1998
Short Sharp Shock , 1998[ 28]
I Got the Hook-Up , 1998[ 26] [ 29]
Zona J , 1998
Belly , 1998[ 9]
Slam , 1998[ 30]
In Too Deep , 1999[ 9]
Corrupt , 1999[ 31]
Light It Up , 1999
Hot Boyz , 1999
Thicker than Water (1999 film) , 1999[ 26]
Whiteboyz , 1999
The Wood , 1999
Urban Menace , 1999[ 32] [ 26]
2000s
Baller Blockin' , 2000[ 29] [ 26]
Amores Perros , 2000
Leprechaun in the Hood , 2000[ 33]
3 Strikes , 2000
Tha Eastsidaz , 2000[ 26]
Turn It Up , 2000
Next Friday , 2000
Baby Boy , 2001[ 14]
Choices: The Movie , 2001[ 26] [ 29]
Gang Tapes , 2001
Prison Song , 2001[ 26]
Brooklyn Babylon , 2001[ 26]
Blue Hill Avenue , 2001
Hardball , 2001
Training Day , 2001[ 24]
Bones , 2001
How High , 2001[ 26]
Shottas , 2002
Paper Soldiers , 2002[ 26]
Barbershop , 2002[ 34]
City of God , 2002[ 9]
8 Mile ,[ 35] 2002
State Property , 2002[ 31] [ 26]
Snipes , 2002
Paid in Full , 2002[ 31]
Empire , 2002
Bad Boys II , 2003
Leprechaun: Back 2 tha Hood , 2003[ 33]
Ride or Die , 2003
Bullet Boy , 2004[ 36]
Doing Hard Time , 2004
Never Die Alone , 2004[ 33]
Divided City , 2004
On the Outs , 2004
Back in the Day , 2005
Hustle & Flow , 2005[ 9]
Coach Carter , 2005
State Property 2 , 2005
Four Brothers , 2005
Get Rich or Die Tryin' ,[ 37] 2005
Dirty , 2005
Boss'n Up , 2005
Hood of the Living Dead , 2005[ 33]
ATL , 2006[ 9]
Gridiron Gang , 2006
Kidulthood , 2006[ 36]
Waist Deep , 2006[ 38]
Killa Season , 2006[ 26]
Tough Enough , 2006[ 28]
Quinceañera , 2006
Hood of Horror , 2006
City of Men , 2007[ 24]
Freedom Writers , 2007
American Gangster , 2007
Weapons , 2007
Adulthood , 2008[ 36]
Death Toll , 2008
Street Kings , 2008
Gran Torino , 2008
Talento de Barrio , 2008
Streets of Blood , 2008
Baby , 2008
Fallout , 2008
Precious , 2009
Before I Self Destruct , 2009
Notorious , 2009[ 24]
Brooklyn's Finest , 2009
A Day in the Life , 2009
Dough Boys , 2009
La Mission , 2009
2010s
Lottery Ticket , 2010
Gun , 2010
Ghetto Stories: The Movie , 2010
Down for Life , 2010
Shank , 2010[ 36]
Attack the Block , 2011[ 36]
Gun Hill Road , 2011
Snow on tha Bluff , 2011
Ill Manors , 2012[ 36]
End of Watch , 2012
LUV , 2012
Spring Breakers , 2012
Snitch , 2013
Fruitvale Station , 2013
The Inevitable Defeat of Mister and Pete , 2013
Avenged , 2013
Girlhood , 2014[ 34]
Blame It On the Streets , 2014[ 26]
Imperial Dreams , 2014[ 39]
Dope , 2015[ 9]
Brotherly Love , 2015
Straight Outta Compton , 2015[ 9]
Chi-Raq , 2015[ 40] [ 41]
Tangerine , 2015[ 34]
Kicks , 2016[ 42]
Barbershop: The Next Cut , 2016
Brotherhood , 2016[ 43]
Moonlight , 2016[ 44]
Cardboard Gangsters , 2017[ 45]
Deuces , 2017
Lowriders , 2017
All Eyez on Me , 2017
True to the Game , 2017
Dayveon , 2017
Kings , 2017
Roxanne Roxanne , 2017[ 39]
Gook , 2017[ 25]
The First Purge , 2018[ 46]
White Boy Rick , 2018
City of Lies , 2018
The Hate U Give , 2018
Tales from the Hood 2 , 2018
Blindspotting , 2018
Pimp , 2018
Blood Brother , 2018
Blue Story , 2019[ 47]
Canal Street , 2019
Brian Banks , 2019
Bel-Air , 2019
Gully , 2019
Street Flow , 2019[ 39]
2020s
Parodies
House Party , 1990[ 9]
CB4 , 1993[ 48]
Fear of a Black Hat , 1994[ 34]
Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood , 1996[ 9]
High School High , 1996[ 49]
Malibu's Most Wanted , 2003
Death of a Dynasty , 2003
Dance Flick , 2009
Anuvahood , 2011[ 36]
School Dance , 2014
Grow House , 2017
Bodied , 2017
Sumotherhood , 2023[ 50]
See also
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