Highest-Rated Movies about 'Street Gangs'

The Warriors (1979), A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints (2006), Suburbia (1996), My Brother the Devil (2012), Defiance (1979), Hell up in Harlem (1973), Farming (2018), Awaydays (2009) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Street Gangs movies.

#1. The Warriors (1979)

Storyline: Cyrus, the leader of the most powerful gang in New York City, the Gramercy Riffs, calls a midnight summit for all the area gangs, with all asked to send nine unarmed representatives for the conclave. A gang called The Warriors are blamed for killing Cyrus as he gives his speech. They now have to cross the territory of rivals in order to get to their own 'hood. The Warriors slowly cross the dangerous Bronx and Manhattan territories, narrowly escaping police and other gangs every step of the way.

Plot Keywords: action, crime, thriller, new york, survival, chase, violence ...

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#2. A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints (2006)

Storyline: Dito, a writer in L.A., goes home to Astoria, Queens, after a 15-year absence when his mother calls to say his father's ill. In a series of flashbacks we see the young Dito, his parents, his four closest friends, and his girl Laurie, as each tries to navigate family, race, loyalty, sex, coming of age, violence, and wanting out. A ball falls onto the subway tracks at a station, small things get out of hand. Can Dito go home again?

Plot Keywords: coming of age, new york, memoir, youth, family, friendship, street culture ...

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#3. Suburbia (1996)

Storyline: Five young losers spend their days and nights wasting their lives away, hanging out in parking lots and occasionally mentioning that they might want to make something of themselves... someday. On this particular night, they are visited by an old high school friend who has escaped their suburban town to become a pop star.—Andy Bogursky <bogursky@erols.com>

Plot Keywords: suburban life, social outcasts, independent film, 1990s, counterculture, family conflict, escapism ...

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#4. My Brother the Devil (2012)

Storyline: Mo is a young boy growing up in a traditional Egyptian household, but beyond the front door of the family's modest London flat is a completely different world - the streets of Hackney. The impressionable Mo idolizes his handsome older brother Rashid and wants to follow in his footsteps. However, Rashid, a charismatic and shrewd member of a local gang, wants a different life for his little brother and deals drugs hoping to put Mo through college. One eventful summer, Rashid's sexual awakening forces Mo to confront his own fears and phobias and threatens to tear the brothers apart.—Anonymous

Plot Keywords: brotherhood, london, immigration, identity, coming of age, family conflict, cultural conflict ...

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#5. Defiance (1979)

Storyline: Tommy takes up temporary housing in a New York City neighborhood plagued by a violent gang called the Souls. Tommy is waiting for his next assignment as a seaman, and though he tries to avoid the gang and his neighbors, it does not work. Soon he is battling the Souls and not only changing their attitudes, but the attitudes of his previously intimidated neighbors as well.—Ørnås

Plot Keywords: action, adventure, war, drama, history, survival, defiance ...

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#9. Angel Town (1990)

Storyline: A graduate student and martial-arts expert rents a room in a house owned by a single mother who lives there with her son. A local street gang is trying to recruit the son, but the new tenant tries to help the boy's mother keep him out of the gang. When they learn of this, they target both the mother and her new tenant.—frankfob2@yahoo.com

Plot Keywords: action, crime, martial arts, los angeles, revenge, immigration, mentor ...

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