Movies like Johnny
If Johnny's mix of street gang, vomiting and video tape stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what Johnny's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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Menace II Society
1993 · Directed by Allen Hughes · 97 min7.5
Why you'll like itShares: street gang · Also drama and crime · From the same decade (1990s)
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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End of Watch
2012 · Directed by David Ayer · 109 min7.4
Why you'll like itShares: street gang · Also crime and drama
Two young officers are marked for death after confiscating a small cache of money and firearms from the members of a notorious cartel during a routine traffic stop.
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Juice
1992 · Directed by Ernest R. Dickerson · 96 min7.2
Why you'll like itShares: street gang · Also crime and drama · From the same decade (1990s)
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.
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Paid in Full
2002 · Directed by Charles Stone III · 98 min6.9
Why you'll like itShares: street gang · Also crime and drama
Ace is an impressionable young man working for a dry cleaning business. His friend, drug dealer Mitch, goes to prison. In an unrelated incident, he finds some cocaine in a pants pocket.
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Get Rich or Die Tryin'
2005 · Directed by Jim Sheridan · 116 min6.8
Why you'll like itShares: street gang · Also drama and crime
A tale of an inner city drug dealer who turns away from crime to pursue his passion, rap music.
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Colombiana
2011 · Directed by Olivier Megaton · 108 min6.7
Why you'll like itShares: street gang · Also thriller and crime
After witnessing her parents’ murder as a child in Bogota, Cataleya Restrepo grows up to be a stone-cold assassin. She works for her uncle as a hitman by day, but her personal time is spent engaging in vigilante…