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Divines (2016) is a drama movie directed by Houda Benyamina. The list below collects the movies that people who loved it enjoyed most, best known first.

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  1. City of God

    1. City of God (2002)

    ★ 8.4 · 8,520 votes · Drama, Crime

    In the poverty-stricken favelas of Rio de Janeiro in the 1970s, two young men choose different paths. Rocket is a budding photographer who documents the increasing drug-related violence of his neighborhood, while José “Zé” Pequeno is an ambitious drug dealer diving into a dangerous life of crime.

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  2. 8 Mile

    2. 8 Mile (2002)

    ★ 7.1 · 8,025 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. La Haine

    3. La Haine (1995)

    ★ 8.1 · 4,744 votes · Drama

    After a chaotic night of rioting in a marginal suburb of Paris, three young friends, Vinz, Hubert and Saïd, wander around unoccupied waiting for news about the state of health of a mutual friend who has been seriously injured when confronting the police.

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  4. Boyz n the Hood

    4. Boyz n the Hood (1991)

    ★ 7.6 · 2,373 votes · Drama, Crime

    Three friends growing up in South Central Los Angeles navigate a neighborhood plagued by violence, unemployment, and crime, each responding differently to the harsh realities of street life. As tragedy strikes close to home, their friendship, choices, and hopes for a better future are put to the ultimate test.

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  5. District B13

    5. District B13 (2004)

    ★ 6.8 · 2,072 votes · Action, Thriller, Sci-Fi

    Set in the ghettos of Paris in 2010, an undercover cop and ex-thug try to infiltrate a gang in order to defuse a neutron bomb.

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  6. Get Rich or Die Tryin'

    6. 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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  7. American Gangster

    7. American Gangster (2007)

    ★ 7.6 · 6,300 votes · Drama, Crime

    Loosely based on the criminal career of Frank Lucas, a gangster from La Grange, North Carolina, who smuggled heroin into the United States on American service planes returning from the Vietnam War, before being detained by a task force led by Newark Detective Richie Roberts.

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  8. Menace II Society

    8. 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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  9. Street Flow

    9. Street Flow (2019)

    ★ 6.9 · 377 votes · Drama, Crime

    Noumouké, from the suburb of Paris, is about to decide which brother's foot steps to follow - the lawyer student Soulaymaan or the gangster Demba.

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  10. New Jack City

    10. New Jack City (1991)

    ★ 6.7 · 650 votes · Thriller, Crime, Drama

    A gangster, Nino, is in the Cash Money Brothers, making a million dollars every week selling crack. A cop, Scotty, discovers that the only way to infiltrate the gang is to become a dealer himself.

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  11. Shaft

    11. Shaft (1971)

    ★ 6.4 · 443 votes · Crime, Thriller, Drama

    Cool Black private eye John Shaft is hired by a crime lord to find and retrieve his kidnapped daughter.

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