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Cidade dos Homens - City of Men (2007), San Quentin (1937), Prince of the City (1981), The Concrete Jungle (1960), Elite Squad (2007), Udta Punjab (2016), Midnight Express (1978) ... Let's take a look at the following list...

Cidade dos Homens - City of Men (2007)
Best buddies Acerola and Laranjinha, about to turn 18, discover things about their missing fathers' pasts which will shatter their solid friendship, in the middle of a war between rival drug gangs from Rio's favelas.
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San Quentin (1937)
An army trainer becomes captain of the prison yard and in time, falls for the sister of a hardened inmate.
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Prince of the City (1981)
A New York police detective (Treat Williams) wears a "wire" for federal agents to nail his friends on the take.
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The Concrete Jungle (1960)
The mastermind (Stanley Baker) of a racetrack robbery escapes from prison to the loot and is double-crossed by his gang.
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Elite Squad (2007)
In 1997 Rio de Janeiro, Captain Nascimento has to find a substitute for his position while trying to take down drug dealers and criminals before the Pope visits.
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Udta Punjab (2016)
A story that revolves around drug abuse in the affluent north Indian State of Punjab and how the youth there have succumbed to it en-masse resulting in a socio-economic decline.
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Midnight Express (1978)
Billy Hayes (Brad Davis), an American college student, is caught smuggling drugs out of Turkey and thrown into prison.
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Christiane F (1981)
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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Menace II Society (1993)
A young street hustler attempts to escape the rigors and temptations of the ghetto in a quest for a better life.
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Out of the Blue (2006)
Based on the Aramoana Massacre that occurred on 13 November and 14 November 1990. Resident David Gray, an unemployed gun collector, went on a rampage in which 13 people were shot dead, before Gray himself was shot by police.
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White Boy (2002)
An Italian street hood gets romantically involved with a woman who is the ex-girlfriend of a leader of a white supremacist gang; after being being brutally attacked by the gang, he seeks revenge via his street connections.
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On the Yard (1979)
A middle-class wife murderer (John Heard) defies the authority of a street-smart inmate boss (Thomas Waites) in prison.
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Vagabond (2019)
A stuntman involved in a tragic airplane crash ends up discovering a national corruption scandal.
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Inside the Walls of Folsom Prison (1951)
At California's Folsom Prison, escape attempts and riots are on the rise due to the old-school sadistic style of management of a brutal warden.
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Doing Time (2002)
A gun collector, Hanawa (Tsutomu Yamazaki), is arrested and convicted of possessing illegal firearms. He's sentenced to three years inside a minimum-security prison. Although the facility is no hell on earth, most people would understandably hate the ordeal -- but not Hanawa, who considers the clockwork minutiae of prison life anything but depressing. He finds an odd comfort in his daily routines and feels that he is more whole with his fellow prisoners than with the world beyond the walls.
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City of God (2002)
After forming a gang in Rio de Janeiro, a young man and his best friend descend from robbery to drug dealing and murder.
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The Delinquents (1989)
A small town in Australia, in the late 1950s: Brownie and Lola are deeply in love. But because they are under-age, their parents are against their relationship and try to separate them.
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Goodfellas (1990)
The story of Henry Hill and his life in the mob, covering his relationship with his wife Karen Hill and his mob partners Jimmy Conway and Tommy DeVito in the Italian-American crime syndicate.
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