Movies like Hustle & Flow
Hustle & Flow (2005) is a crime movie directed by Craig Brewer. The list below collects the movies that people who loved it enjoyed most, best known first.
1. Straight Outta Compton (2015)
★ 7.8 · 4,330 votes · Drama, Music, History
In 1987, five young men, using brutally honest rhymes and hardcore beats, put their frustration and anger about life in the most dangerous place in America into the most powerful weapon they had: their music. Taking us back to where it all began, Straight Outta Compton tells the true story of how these cultural rebels—armed only with their lyrics, swagger, bravado and raw talent—stood up to the authorities that meant to keep them down and formed the world’s most dangerous group, N.W.A. And as they spoke the truth that no one had before and exposed life in the hood, their voice ignited a social revolution that is still reverberating today.
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2. 8 Mile (2002)
★ 7.1 · 8,026 votes · Drama, Music
For Jimmy Smith, Jr., life is a daily fight just to keep hope alive. Feeding his dreams in Detroit's vibrant music scene, Jimmy wages an extraordinary personal struggle to find his own voice - and earn a place in a world where rhymes rule, legends are born and every moment… is another chance.
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3. Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007)
★ 6.6 · 796 votes · Comedy, Music
Following a childhood tragedy, Dewey Cox follows a long and winding road to music stardom. Dewey perseveres through changing musical styles, an addiction to nearly every drug known and bouts of uncontrollable rage.
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4. Get Rich or Die Tryin' (2005)
★ 6.8 · 1,082 votes · Drama, Crime, Music
A tale of an inner city drug dealer who turns away from crime to pursue his passion, rap music.
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5. Juice (1992)
★ 7.2 · 487 votes · Crime, Drama, Thriller
Four Harlem friends -- Bishop, Q, Steel and Raheem -- dabble in petty crime, but they decide to go big by knocking off a convenience store. Bishop, the magnetic leader of the group, has the gun. But Q has different aspirations. He wants to be a DJ and happens to have a gig the night of the robbery. Unfortunately for him, Bishop isn't willing to take no for answer in a game where everything's for keeps.
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6. Let It Shine (2012)
★ 7.0 · 329 votes · Family, Music, TV Movie
A teenage rapper must use his musical talent to help a friend and win the girl of his dreams while overcoming self-doubt and the expectations of his strict religious parents.
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7. Honey (2003)
★ 6.4 · 1,268 votes · Music, Drama, Romance
Honey Daniels dreams of making a name for herself as a hip-hop choreographer. When she's not busy hitting downtown clubs with her friends, she teaches dance classes at a nearby community center in Harlem, N.Y., as a way to keep kids off the streets. Honey thinks she's hit the jackpot when she meets a hotshot director casts her in one of his music videos. But, when he starts demanding sexual favors from her, Honey makes a decision that will change her life.
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8. Notorious (2009)
★ 7.0 · 830 votes · Music, Drama, History
"Notorious" is the story of Christopher Wallace. Through raw talent and sheer determination, Wallace transforms himself from Brooklyn street hustler (once selling crack to pregnant women) to one of the greatest rappers of all time: The Notorious B.I.G. Follow his meteoric rise to fame and his refusal to succumb to expectations - redefining our notion of "The American Dream."
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9. Hannibal Rising (2007)
★ 6.3 · 2,486 votes · Crime, Thriller, Horror
The story of the early, murderous roots of the cannibalistic killer, Hannibal Lecter – from his hard-scrabble Lithuanian childhood, where he witnesses the repulsive lengths to which hungry soldiers will go to satiate themselves, through his sojourn in France, where as a medical student he hones his appetite for the kill and learnt sword skills from his Japanese girlfriend, who happened to have similar fate
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10. The Town (2010)
★ 7.2 · 5,892 votes · Crime, Drama, Thriller
A proficient group of thieves rob a bank and hold the manager hostage. Things begin to get complicated when one of the crew members falls in love with her.
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11. Menace II Society (1993)
★ 7.5 · 963 votes · Drama, Crime, Thriller
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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12. The Doors (1991)
★ 7.1 · 1,664 votes · Music, Drama
The story of the famous and influential 1960s rock band and its lead singer and composer, Jim Morrison.
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13. Requiem for a Dream (2000)
★ 8.0 · 11,385 votes · Crime, Drama
The drug-induced utopias of four Coney Island residents are shattered when their addictions run deep.
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14. Killer Joe (2012)
★ 6.5 · 1,647 votes · Crime, Thriller, Drama
A cop who moonlights as a hit man agrees to kill the hated mother of a desperate drug dealer in exchange for a tumble with the young man's virginal sister.
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15. We Die Young (2019)
★ 6.8 · 363 votes · Drama, Action, Crime
Lucas, a 14-year-old boy inducted into the gang life in Washington D.C., is determined that his 10-year-old brother won't follow the same path. When an Afghanistan war veteran comes into the neighborhood, an opportunity arises.
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16. The Substitute (1996)
★ 7.0 · 610 votes · Action, Crime, Drama
When an inner-city Miami schoolteacher gets her knee broken after standing up to the school's gang leader, her mercenary combat specialist boyfriend goes undercover as a substitute teacher to take down the punk. Soon he discovers a conspiracy of criminals at work, and must reassemble his team from his last jungle raid to stop them.
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17. The Brave One (2007)
★ 6.6 · 1,135 votes · Crime, Drama, Thriller
A woman struggles to recover from a brutal attack by setting out on a mission for revenge.
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