Once Were Warriors (1994), Training Day (2001), Beautiful Thing (1996), The Arbor (2010), Kisses (2008), American Violet (2008), Set It Off (1996), Tea in the Harem (1985) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Housing Project movies.
Storyline: Set in urban Auckland (New Zealand) this movie tells the story of the Heke family. Jake Heke is a violent man who beats his wife frequently when drunk, and yet obviously loves both her and his family. The movie follows a period of several weeks in the family's life showing Jake's frequent outburst of violence and the effect that this has on his family. The youngest son is in trouble with the police and may be put into a foster home while the elder son is about to join a street gang. Jake's daughter has her own serious problems which are a key element in the plot.
Plot Keywords: abusive husband, wife, gang member, foster child, poet, brutal, bleak ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In Los Angeles, a city where streets are overrun by drug dealers, those who have sworn to uphold the law are breaking them to clean up the streets. Denzel Washington plays L.A.P.D. detective Alonzo Harris, a veteran narcotics officer whose methods of enforcing the law are questionable, if not corrupt. 'Training Day' follows Harris as he trains rookie Jake Hoyt over a 24-hour period. Ethical dilemmas arise for Hoyt as well as the audience as questions present themselves as to whether or not Harris' methodology for ridding the streets of South Central Los Angeles of drugs is right or wrong.
Plot Keywords: rookie, detective, drug lord, drug dealer, narcotics officer, gang member, gritty ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A tender love story set during a hot summer on a South-East London housing estate. Jamie, a relatively unpopular lad who bunks off school to avoid football, lives next door to Ste, a more popular athletic lad but who is frequently beaten up by his father and older brother. Such an episode of violence brings Jamie and Ste together: Sandra (Jamie's mum) offers refugee to Ste, who has to 'top-and-tail' with Jamie. Hence, the story tells of their growing attraction for one another, from initial lingering glances to their irrefutable love, which so magnificently illustrated at the end of the film. It deals with the tribulations of coming to terms with their sexuality and of others finding out, in light of Sandra's unwavering loyalty and defence of Jamie and the fear of repercussion should Ste's family find out. The plot is set against sub-texts of Sandra's desire to manage her own pub, and thus escape the estate, and of her new relationship with her hippy boyfriend Tony; and of Leah, the brassy girl next door who has been expelled from school and spends her time listening to Mama Cass records and tripping on a variety of drugs.—Mark Edwards <me93fm@soton.ac.uk>
Plot Keywords: teen boy, friend, mother, boyfriend, neighbor, father, tender ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Portrayal of the late Bradford playwright Andrea Dunbar.
Plot Keywords: playwright, daughter, son, drug addict, mother, bleak, dark ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Two kids, Dylan and Kylie, run away from home at Christmas and spend a night of magic and terror on the streets of inner-city Dublin.
Plot Keywords: boy, girl, abusive father, mother, older brother, prostitute, bleak ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A single mother struggles to clear her name after being wrongly accused and arrested for dealing drugs in an impoverished town in Texas.
Plot Keywords: single mother, district attorney, police officer, mother, defense attorney, narcotics officer, inspiring ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Four Black women, all of whom have suffered for lack of money and at the hands of the majority, undertake to rob banks. While initially successful, a policeman who was involved in shooting one of the women's brothers is on their trail. As the women add to the loot, their tastes and interests begin to change and their suspicions of each other increase on the way to a climactic robbery.
Plot Keywords: detective, bank teller, bank robber, janitor, single mother, brother, thrilling ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In a depressing concrete Parisian suburb in the seventies two friends are keeping boredom at bay with loitering and petty crime.
Plot Keywords: algerian, teen boy, sister, prostitute, single mother, junkie, gritty ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Strike is a young city drug pusher under the tutelage of drug-lord Rodney Little, who, when not playing with model trains or drinking Moo for his ulcer, just likes to chill with his brothers near the benches outside the project houses. When a night man at a fast-food restaurant is found with four bullets in his body, Strike's older brother turns himself in as the killer. Det. Rocco Klein doesn't buy the story, however, and sets out to find the truth, and it seems that all the fingers point toward Strike & Rodney.
Plot Keywords: drug dealer, drug lord, police detective, brother, mother, gritty, bleak ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Helen Lyle is a student who decides to write a thesis about local legends and myths. She visits a part of the town, where she learns about the legend of the Candyman, a one-armed man who appears when you say his name five times, in front of a mirror. Of course, Helen doesn't believe all this stuff, but the people of the area are really afraid. When she ignores their warnings and begins her investigation in the places that he is rumored to appear, a series of horrible murders begins. Could the legend be true?
Plot Keywords: graduate student, professor, ghost, detective, friend, neighbor, shocking ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Bright, educated, handsome Conor O'Neill's promising future was wrecked by his gambling addiction, which dragged him into heavy drinking and petty crime, but worst of all, the stifling grip of loan-shark bookies. Desperate for a loan, he agrees to stand in for lawyer friend Jimmy Fleming as coach of a Chicago ghetto Little League baseball team. His sense of pride, becoming the boys' sole idol, and competition, plus their attractive teacher, motivate Conor. But the crushing loan problem rather requires leaving town.
Plot Keywords: gambler, teacher, baseball player, baseball coach, young boy, mother, inspiring ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A young man lives and learns while growing up on the street and in and out of correctional facilities.
Plot Keywords: juvenile delinquent, mother, stepfather, lawyer, bully, drug dealer, gritty ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Ray Joshua (Saul Williams), a talented black poet from the Washington, D.C., projects, is arrested on petty drug charges and thrown into the black hole that is the D.C. jail. There he meets the two people who can redirect his life: a prison gang leader and a beautiful female poet teaching a self-expression class for inmates.
Plot Keywords: prisoner, poet, teacher, gang leader, drug dealer, engaging, sad ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Two private bankers, Alistair and Jamie, who have the world at their feet get their kicks from playing a 12 hour game of hunt, hide and seek with people from the margins of society. Their next target is Sean Macdonald a parentless teenager who lives with his sister on a housing estate on the outskirts of Edinburgh. She's in debt, he's going nowhere fast. Sean agrees to play for cash. He soon realises he's walked into twelve hours of hell where survival is the name of the game.—Independent
Plot Keywords: banker, interviewee, teen boy, pregnant teen, friend, bleak, suspenseful ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A film that goes head first into the lives of inhabitants of a housing commission tower whose paths cross after a shocking event occurs on their front doorstep. Claudio is an aspiring musician with a tough upbringing , while Jaiwara is a university student from an immigrant family tragedy brings their first meeting. Duke is an ageing crime boss who does things his way, Angelo is his troubled crime prince who aspires to be the boss And go his own way. A story of justice, loyalty, cultural struggles and a beautiful love story underpinning and at the centre of the film, a tale of love and hate. Power struggles all played out masterfully on the screen.—Captain_yobbo
Plot Keywords: crime boss, immigrant, muslim, musician, brutal, dark, emotional ...
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