Most Similar Movies to Salaam Bombay! (1988)


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South Central (1992), Sucker Free City (2004), Small Faces (1995), Adulthood (2008), Blue Hill Avenue (2001), Once Were Warriors (1994), Christiane F (1981) ... Let's take a look at the following list...

South Central (1992)

South Central (1992)

6.8/10 Drama

A former gangster fresh out of prison wants to change his life for the better and must save his 10 year old son who has already chosen a gang life.

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Sucker Free City (2004)

Sucker Free City (2004)

6.9/10 Drama

Nick (Ben Crowley), a white mailroom clerk who rips off his coworkers' credit card numbers on the side, moves to a mostly African-American neighborhood and is terrorized by a local gang called the V-Dubs. He befriends K-Luv (Anthony Mackie), a black gang member to whom Nick helps sell bootlegged CDs, and they soon build a relationship with Lincoln (Ken Leung), a low-level Chinese gangster. But tension becomes palpable as the trio begin committing crimes on one another's turf.

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Small Faces (1995)

Small Faces (1995)

7.0/10 Drama

Three teenage brothers, gang-member Bobby, troubled mama's boy Alan and self-assured prankster Lex, reside in a downtrodden section of Glasgow, Scotland, circa 1968. But while Bobby and Alan are beginning to experience the power of raging hormones, the story focuses on Lex, who begins a downward spiral after he accidentally shoots the leader of Bobby's gang. Lex's coc...Read all

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Adulthood (2008)

Adulthood (2008)

6.6/10 Crime, Drama

Six years after KiDULTHOOD, Sam Peel is released from jail for killing Trife, he realizes that life is no easier on the outside than it was on the inside and he's forced to confront the ...

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Blue Hill Avenue (2001)

Blue Hill Avenue (2001)

6.4/10 Crime, Drama

A child of a middle class home with solid moral values is lured into a world of crime and corruption.

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Once Were Warriors (1994)

Once Were Warriors (1994)

7.9/10 Drama, Crime

A family descended from Maori warriors is bedeviled by a violent father and the societal problems of being treated as outcasts.

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Christiane F (1981)

Christiane F (1981)

7.6/10 Drama

A teen girl in 1970's Berlin becomes addicted to heroin. Everything in her life slowly begins to distort and disappear as she befriends a small crew of junkies and falls in love with a drug-abusing male prostitute.

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My Brother the Devil (2012)

My Brother the Devil (2012)

6.6/10 Crime, Drama

Two teenage brothers must face their own prejudices head on if they are to survive the perils of being British Arabs growing up on the streets of gangland London.

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Twelve (2010)

Twelve (2010)

5.7/10 Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller

A young drug dealer watches as his high-rolling life is dismantled in the wake of his cousin's murder, which sees his best friend arrested for the crime.

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Crack House (1989)

Crack House (1989)

5.6/10 Crime, Drama

Rick and Melissa are a pair of young lovers hoping to get out of the slums for good and escape the poverty and crime their families and friends have gotten involved in. All this comes to an end when Rick feels he must rejoin his old gang to avenge the killing of his brother by a rival gang. In the course of getting even, Rick is arrested, leaving Melissa without anyon...Read all

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Fresh (1994)

Fresh (1994)

7.6/10 Thriller, Drama, Crime

Death and violence anger a twelve-year-old drug courier, who sets his employers against each other.

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Nil by Mouth (1997)

Nil by Mouth (1997)

7.3/10 Drama

A rough, short-tempered patriarch of a working class family has his life and the relationships around him slowly unravel.

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Dangerous Ground (1997)

Dangerous Ground (1997)

4.5/10 Mystery, Crime, Drama, Thriller

Vusi Madlazi returns to the South African village he left as a young boy (he was organizing against apartheid, and left in fear of his life) to bury his father. He meets up with his brother Ernest, who tells him their other brother Stephen couldn't be contacted. Vusi goes to Johannesburg to find him, but at first can only find his neighbor/girlfriend, Karin, a strippe...Read all

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Ill Manors (2012)

Ill Manors (2012)

7.1/10 Crime, Drama

The lives of four drug dealers, one user, and two prostitutes are explored.

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Boulevard Nights (1979)

Boulevard Nights (1979)

6.8/10 Drama

From executive producer Tony Bill comes a gritty and groundbreaking look at Los Angeles gang life in the city’s Mexican-American barrios.

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The Landlord (1970)

The Landlord (1970)

9.2/10 Drama, Comedy

A wealthy young man causes a stir within his family when he decides to purchase a tenement house in the ghetto.

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Dusty and Sweets McGee (1971)

Dusty and Sweets McGee (1971)

6.3/10 Drama

A "straight" couple dabbles in drugs and become heroin addicts.

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Hurricane (1997)

Hurricane (1997)

6.3/10 Drama

A teenage petty criminal dreams of escaping his increasingly unlawful lifestyle when he meets a sweet girl who hopes to one day travel to Alaska.

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