List of hood films

• Cooley High, 1975[https://cinapse.co/new-on-blu-cooley-high-1975-still-highly-cool-c14e20c0b0d6 New On Blu: COOLEY HIGH — Still Highly Cool - Cinapse]
• Walk Proud, 1979{{Cite web |title=The Cinematic Legacy of Evan Hunter aka Ed McBain |url=https://neotextcorp.com/culture/the-cinematic-legacy-of-evan-hunter-aka-ed-mcbain/ |access-date=2022-07-30 |website=NeoText |language=en-US |archive-date=2022-07-30 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220730021741/https://neotextcorp.com/culture/the-cinematic-legacy-of-evan-hunter-aka-ed-mcbain/ |url-status=live }}

• The Outsiders, 1983[https://www.avclub.com/the-outsiders-rumble-fish-1798201090 The Outsiders & Rumble Fish - The A.V. Club]
• Rumble Fish, 1983[https://bampfa.org/event/rumble-fish Rumble Fish|BAMPFA]
• Colors, 1988{{Cite web |last=Schultz |first=Ian |date=2015-08-18 |title=Blu-Ray Review - Colors (1988) |url=https://thepeoplesmovies.com/2015/08/blu-ray-review-colors-1988/ |access-date=2022-07-30 |language=en-GB |archive-date=2021-01-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210119083819/https://thepeoplesmovies.com/2015/08/blu-ray-review-colors-1988/ |url-status=live }}
• Do the Right Thing, 1989{{Cite web |last=Singh |first=Chris |date=2015-09-09 |title=The Strength of Street Knowledge: Our favourite 'Hood Films' of all time |url=https://www.theaureview.com/watch/the-strength-of-street-knowledge-our-favourite-hood-films-of-all-time/ |access-date=2022-07-30 |website=The AU Review |language=en-AU |archive-date=2022-04-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220407131719/https://www.theaureview.com/watch/the-strength-of-street-knowledge-our-favourite-hood-films-of-all-time/ |url-status=live }}

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• New Jack City, 1991
• Boyz n the Hood,{{cite web |title=Boyz N the Hood |url=http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=boyznthehood.htm |website=Box Office Mojo |access-date=January 19, 2015 |archive-date=October 16, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071016153911/http://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=boyznthehood.htm |url-status=live }} 1991
• Straight Out of Brooklyn, 1991{{Citation |last=Munby |first=Jonathan |title=From Gangsta to Gangster: The Hood Film's Criminal Allegiance with Hollywood |date=2007 |url=https://doi.org/10.1007/9780230206229_12 |work=The New Film History: Sources, Methods, Approaches |pages=166–179 |editor-last=Chapman |editor-first=James |place=London |publisher=Palgrave Macmillan UK |language=en |doi=10.1007/9780230206229_12 |isbn=978-0-230-20622-9 |access-date=2022-07-30 |editor2-last=Glancy |editor2-first=Mark |editor3-last=Harper |editor3-first=Sue |archive-date=2022-07-31 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220731093019/https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/9780230206229_12 |url-status=live }}
• Deep Cover, 1992{{Cite web |last=Berrueta |first=Sergio J. |date=2022-04-20 |title='Deep Cover' – '92 Cinema Revue |url=https://cinemarevue.com/2022/04/20/deep-cover-92-cinema-revue/ |access-date=2022-07-30 |website=Cinema Revue |language=en |archive-date=2022-04-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220420232645/https://cinemarevue.com/2022/04/20/deep-cover-92-cinema-revue/ |url-status=live }}
• Juice, 1992
• Just Another Girl on the I.R.T., 1992{{Cite journal |last=deWaard |first=Andrew |date=2012 |editor-last=Richardson |editor-first=Chris |editor2-last=Skott-Myhre |editor2-first=Hans A. |title=The Hood is Where the Heart is: Melodrama, Habitus, and the Hood Film |url=http://andrewdewaard.com/publications/deWaard%20-%20The%20Hood%20is%20Where%20the%20Heart%20Is%20-%20Melodrama%20Habitus%20and%20the%20Hood%20Film%20(2012).pdf |journal=Intellect |isbn=978-1-84150-479-7 |access-date=2022-07-30 |archive-date=2020-09-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200920012958/http://andrewdewaard.com/publications/deWaard%20-%20The%20Hood%20is%20Where%20the%20Heart%20Is%20-%20Melodrama%20Habitus%20and%20the%20Hood%20Film%20(2012).pdf |url-status=live }}
• South Central, 1992{{Cite web |last=Dazed |date=2015-08-25 |title=A guide to LA hood films |url=https://www.dazeddigital.com/artsandculture/article/25997/1/a-guide-to-la-hood-films |access-date=2022-07-30 |website=Dazed |language=en |archive-date=2022-06-11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220611005224/https://www.dazeddigital.com/artsandculture/article/25997/1/a-guide-to-la-hood-films |url-status=live }}
• Trespass, 1992{{Cite book |last=Metcalf |first=Josephine |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/877868409 |title=Rapper, writer, pop-cultural player : ice-T and the politics of Black cultural production |date=2014 |others=Will Turner |isbn=978-1-4724-1835-7 |location=Burlington |oclc=877868409}}
• Menace II Society,{{cite web |url=http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=menaceiisociety.htm |title=Menace II Society (1993) |publisher=Box Office Mojo |date=1993-07-27 |access-date=2010-09-16 |archive-date=2010-05-14 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100514221350/http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=menaceiisociety.htm |url-status=live }} 1993
• Blood In Blood Out, 1993
• Poetic Justice, 1993{{Cite book |last=Fisher |first=Celeste A. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ObyWKnSwe_gC&dq=%22hood+films%22&pg=PR12 |title=Black on Black: Urban Youth Films and the Multicultural Audience |date=2006-05-03 |publisher=Scarecrow Press |isbn=978-1-4616-5688-3 |language=en |access-date=2022-07-30 |archive-date=2022-07-31 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220731093022/https://books.google.com/books?id=ObyWKnSwe_gC&newbks=0&printsec=frontcover&pg=PR12&dq=%22hood+films%22&hl=en |url-status=live }}
• I Like It Like That, 1994{{Cite book |last=Missouri |first=Montré Aza |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/902803229 |title=Black magic woman and narrative film : race, sex and afro-religiosity |date=2015 |isbn=978-1-137-45417-1 |location=Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire |oclc=902803229}}
• Sugar Hill, 1994{{Cite book |last=Deakin |first=Pete |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zja0DwAAQBAJ&dq=%22Sugar+Hill%22+%22hood+film%22&pg=PA124 |title=White Masculinity in Crisis in Hollywood's Fin de Millennium Cinema |date=2019-10-15 |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield |isbn=978-1-4985-8520-0 |language=en |access-date=2022-07-30 |archive-date=2022-07-30 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220730021742/https://books.google.com/books?id=zja0DwAAQBAJ&newbks=0&printsec=frontcover&pg=PA124&dq=%22Sugar+Hill%22+%22hood+film%22&hl=en |url-status=live }}
• Mi Vida Loca, 1994
• Fresh, 1994
• Jason's Lyric, 1994{{Cite journal |last=Pierson |first=Eric |date=1997 |title=Black on Black Crime: Hollywood's Construction of the Hood. |url=https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED410329.pdf |journal=University of Illinois at Urbana |access-date=2022-07-30 |archive-date=2020-12-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201204151603/https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED410329.pdf |url-status=live }}
• Rude, 1995{{Cite book |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/666901575 |title=Working on screen : representations of the working class in Canadian cinema |date=2006 |publisher=University of Toronto Press |others=Malek Khouri, Darrell Varga |isbn=978-1-4426-8368-6 |location=Toronto |oclc=666901575}}
• Soul Survivor, 1995
• Tales from the Hood,{{cite web|last1=Alter|first1=Ethan|title=How 'Tales From the Hood' Went From Cult Hit to Hardcore Halloween Classic|url=https://www.yahoo.com/movies/how-tales-from-the-hood-went-from-cult-hit-to-161405344.html|website=yahoo.com|date=29 October 2015 |publisher=Yahoo! Movies|access-date=2016-04-16|archive-date=2016-04-23|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160423160647/https://www.yahoo.com/movies/how-tales-from-the-hood-went-from-cult-hit-to-161405344.html|url-status=live}} 1995
• Clockers, 1995
• Dead Presidents, 1995{{Cite web |last=Hudson |first=David |title=The Passion of John Singleton |url=https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/6323-the-passion-of-john-singleton |access-date=2022-07-30 |website=The Criterion Collection |language=en |archive-date=2021-07-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210726142217/https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/6323-the-passion-of-john-singleton |url-status=live }}
• Friday, 1995
• New Jersey Drive, 1995
• La Haine, 1995
• Set It Off, 1996
• One Eight Seven, 1997
• Fakin' da Funk, 1997{{Cite book |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1124761865 |title=Hollywood at the intersection of race and identity |date=2019 |others=Delia Caparoso Konzett |isbn=978-0-8135-9935-9 |location=New Brunswick |oclc=1124761865}}
• I'm Bout It, 1997
• American History X, 1998{{Cite web |last=Voice |first=Village |date=1998-11-03 |title=Under the Skin |url=https://www.villagevoice.com/1998/11/03/under-the-skin/ |access-date=2022-07-31 |website=The Village Voice |archive-date=2018-09-16 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180916063127/https://www.villagevoice.com/1998/11/03/under-the-skin/ |url-status=live }}
• Streets Is Watching, 1998
• Short Sharp Shock, 1998{{Cite book |last=Stehle |first=Maria |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/889963977 |title=Ghetto Voices in Contemporary German Culture : Textscapes, Filmscapes, Soundscapes |date=2013 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-1-57113-834-7 |location=Cambridge |oclc=889963977}}
• I Got the Hook-Up, 1998{{Cite web |title=WIRTB Review: The "Hood Cinema" Files, Part One |date=6 April 2016 |url=http://www.definearevolution.com/2016/04/wirtb-review-hood-cinema-files-part-one.html |access-date=2023-03-27}}
• Belly, 1998
• Slam, 1998{{Cite book |last1=Donalson |first1=Melvin |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=A85aK5B3Pc8C&dq=%22hood+films%22&pg=PA36 |title=Hip Hop in American Cinema |last2=Donalson |first2=Melvin Burke |last3=Donalson |first3=Professor Melvin |date=2007 |publisher=Peter Lang |isbn=978-0-8204-6345-2 |language=en |access-date=2022-07-30 |archive-date=2022-07-31 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220731093023/https://books.google.com/books?id=A85aK5B3Pc8C&newbks=0&printsec=frontcover&pg=PA36&dq=%22hood+films%22&hl=en |url-status=live }}
• In Too Deep, 1999
• Corrupt, 1999{{Cite web |url=https://eprints.lincoln.ac.uk/id/eprint/44214/1/Compton%20Luke%20-%20Media%20-%20October%202020%20%28final%29.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=2022-07-31 |archive-date=2022-07-31 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220731093024/https://eprints.lincoln.ac.uk/id/eprint/44214/1/Compton%20Luke%20-%20Media%20-%20October%202020%20%28final%29.pdf |url-status=live }}
• Thicker than Water (1999 film), 1999
• Urban Menace, 1999{{Cite web |date=2002-03-29 |title=Urban Menace |url=https://www.avclub.com/urban-menace-1798195081 |access-date=2022-08-11 |website=The A.V. Club |language=en-us}}

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• Baller Blockin', 2000
• Leprechaun in the Hood, 2000
• Tha Eastsidaz, 2000
• Baby Boy, 2001
• Choices: The Movie, 2001
• Prison Song, 2001
• Brooklyn Babylon, 2001
• Blue Hill Avenue, 2001
• Training Day, 2001
• How High, 2001{{Cite web |date=2021-01-29 |title=The 20 Best B-List Hip-Hop Movies of All Time - Okayplayer |url=https://www.okayplayer.com/culture/best-hip-hop-movies-of-all-time.html,%20https://www.okayplayer.com/culture/best-hip-hop-movies-of-all-time.html |access-date=2023-03-27 |website=www.okayplayer.com |language=en-US}}
• Paper Soldiers, 2002
• Barbershop, 2002
• City of God, 2002
• 8 Mile,{{cite magazine|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/reviews/8-mile-20021108|title=8 Mile|magazine=Rolling Stone|date=8 November 2002|access-date=15 September 2016|archive-date=29 September 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170929175222/http://www.rollingstone.com/movies/reviews/8-mile-20021108|url-status=live}} 2002
• State Property, 2002
• Paid in Full, 2002
• Leprechaun: Back 2 tha Hood, 2003
• Bullet Boy, 2004{{Cite web |title=An Introduction To UK Hood Movies |url=https://www.complex.com/pop-culture/2016/06/guide-to-uk-hood-cinema/ |access-date=2022-06-04 |website=Complex |language=en |archive-date=2022-04-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220409014440/https://www.complex.com/pop-culture/2016/06/guide-to-uk-hood-cinema/ |url-status=live }}
• Never Die Alone, 2004{{Cite book |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/428541452 |title=African Americans and popular culture |date=2008 |publisher=Praeger |others=Todd Boyd |isbn=978-0-313-06408-1 |location=Westport, Conn. |oclc=428541452}}
• Back in the Day, 2005
• Hustle & Flow, 2005
• Get Rich or Die Tryin',{{Cite web|url=http://www.cinepassion.org/Archives/GetRichKissBang.html|title=Sheridan Shortchanged by 50 Cents. Plus, "Wink Wink Nudge Nudge"|website=www.cinepassion.org|access-date=2020-04-04|archive-date=2021-10-21|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211021050412/http://www.cinepassion.org/Archives/GetRichKissBang.html|url-status=live}} 2005
• Hood of the Living Dead, 2005
• ATL, 2006
• Kidulthood, 2006
• Waist Deep, 2006{{Cite web |last=Mukhopadhyay |first=Arka |date=2021-05-04 |title=Is Waist Deep a True Story? |url=https://thecinemaholic.com/is-waist-deep-a-true-story/ |access-date=2022-08-01 |website=The Cinemaholic |language=en-US}}
• Killa Season, 2006
• Tough Enough, 2006
• City of Men, 2007
• Adulthood, 2008
• Before I Self Destruct, 2009
• Notorious, 2009{{Cite web |last=Tenreiro |first=Clarisse |date=2019-02-15 |title=12 Coolest Movies About Hood Life |url=https://thecinemaholic.com/movies-about-hood-life/ |access-date=2022-07-31 |website=The Cinemaholic |language=en-US |archive-date=2022-06-08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220608013017/https://thecinemaholic.com/movies-about-hood-life/ |url-status=live }}{{div col end}}

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• Shank, 2010
• Attack the Block, 2011
• Ill Manors, 2012
• Girlhood, 2014{{Cite web |date=2015 |title=The rebirth of the hood film |url=https://www.dazeddigital.com/artsandculture/article/25015/1/the-rebirth-of-the-hood-film |url-status=live |website=Dazed Digital |access-date=2022-07-31 |archive-date=2021-06-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210624090750/https://www.dazeddigital.com/artsandculture/article/25015/1/the-rebirth-of-the-hood-film }}
• Blame It On the Streets, 2014
• Imperial Dreams, 2014
• Dope, 2015
• Straight Outta Compton, 2015
• Chi-Raq, 2015{{Cite web |last=Dazed |date=2015-11-04 |title=What's wrong with Spike Lee's Chi-raq trailer? |url=https://www.dazeddigital.com/artsandculture/article/28267/1/what-s-wrong-with-spike-lee-s-chi-raq-trailer |access-date=2022-07-31 |website=Dazed |language=en |archive-date=2020-05-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200509002107/https://www.dazeddigital.com/artsandculture/article/28267/1/what-s-wrong-with-spike-lee-s-chi-raq-trailer |url-status=live }}{{Cite web |title=Chi-Raq: 'Spike Lee'den devrim niteliğinde postmodern ve deneysel bir hood film füzyonu' |url=http://www.keremakca.net/chiraq.html |access-date=2022-07-31 |website=SİNEMA YAZARI KEREM AKÇA'NIN RESMİ WEB |language=tr |archive-date=2021-06-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210621001557/http://www.keremakca.net/chiraq.html |url-status=live }}
• Tangerine, 2015
• Kicks, 2016{{Cite web |last=Dazed |date=2016-09-09 |title=The hood film about a crusade to retrieve stolen Air Jordans |url=https://www.dazeddigital.com/artsandculture/article/32719/1/three-shootings-took-place-during-the-making-of-this-film |access-date=2022-07-31 |website=Dazed |language=en |archive-date=2016-09-13 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160913065753/http://www.dazeddigital.com/artsandculture/article/32719/1/three-shootings-took-place-during-the-making-of-this-film |url-status=live }}
• Brotherhood, 2016{{Cite web |date=2018-04-29 |title=Noel Clarke: We may make TV spin-off of Hood films |url=http://www.irishnews.com/magazine/entertainment/2018/04/29/news/noel-clarke-we-may-make-tv-spin-off-of-hood-films-1316599/ |access-date=2022-06-04 |website=The Irish News |language=en |archive-date=2022-07-31 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220731093026/https://www.irishnews.com/magazine/entertainment/2018/04/29/news/noel-clarke-we-may-make-tv-spin-off-of-hood-films-1316599/ |url-status=live }}
• Moonlight, 2016{{Cite web |last=Brajer |first=Jessica |date=2022-01-01 |title=Every Best Picture Oscar Winner of the 2010s Ranked |url=https://movieweb.com/oscars-best-picture-winner-movies-2010s/ |access-date=2022-08-01 |website=MovieWeb |language=en-US}}
• Cardboard Gangsters, 2017{{Cite news |title=Dublin Boyz n the Hood and gruesome gangland consequence |url=https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/film/dublin-boyz-n-the-hood-and-gruesome-gangland-consequence-1.3101558 |access-date=2022-08-01 |newspaper=The Irish Times |language=en}}
• Roxanne Roxanne, 2017
• Gook, 2017
• The First Purge, 2018{{Cite web |last1=Newby |first1=Richard |date=2018-07-06 |title=How 'First Purge' Takes a Hands-On Approach to Race |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/first-purge-is-a-hood-film-disguised-as-a-horror-movie-1125203/ |access-date=2022-08-01 |website=The Hollywood Reporter |language=en-US}}
• Blue Story, 2019{{Cite web |last=Aldridge |first=James |date=2019-12-01 |title=Berkshire filmmaker who shot Blue Story speaks out over controversy |url=https://www.getreading.co.uk/whats-on/whats-on-news/berkshire-filmmaker-who-shot-blue-17318468 |access-date=2022-06-05 |website=BerkshireLive |language=en |archive-date=2021-01-23 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210123072206/https://www.getreading.co.uk/whats-on/whats-on-news/berkshire-filmmaker-who-shot-blue-17318468 |url-status=live }}
• Street Flow, 2019{{Cite web |date=2022-02-16 |title=6 Best Hood Movies on Netflix Right Now |url=https://thecinemaholic.com/netflix-hood-movies/ |access-date=2022-07-31 |website=The Cinemaholic |language=en-US |archive-date=2022-07-17 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220717195320/https://thecinemaholic.com/netflix-hood-movies/ |url-status=live }}

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• All Day and a Night, 2020
• One of Them Days, 2025{{cite web |last1=Gleiberman |first1=Owen |title=One of Them Days’ Review: Keke Palmer and SZA in a Fast-Talking Day-in-the-Life-of-the-Hood Comedy Made With a ’90s Verve |url=https://variety.com/2025/film/reviews/one-of-them-days-review-keke-palmer-sza-1236274774/ |website=variety.com |publisher=Variety}}

• House Party, 1990
• CB4, 1993{{Cite web |last=Chatterjee |first=Rhiteek |date=2022-07-05 |title=12 Best Hip-Hop Movies of all Time |url=https://thecinemaholic.com/best-rapper-movies/ |access-date=2022-07-31 |website=The Cinemaholic |language=en-US |archive-date=2022-07-23 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220723095008/https://thecinemaholic.com/best-rapper-movies/ |url-status=live }}
• Fear of a Black Hat, 1994
• Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood, 1996
• High School High, 1996{{Cite book |last=Shary |first=Timothy |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=p7Abxwlp-hwC&dq=%22High+School+High%22+%22hood-film%22+OR+%22hood-films%22+-%22robin-hood%22+-%22riding-hood%22&pg=PA124 |title=Generation Multiplex: The Image of Youth in Contemporary American Cinema |date=2009-01-27 |publisher=University of Texas Press |isbn=978-0-292-77490-2 |language=en |access-date=2022-07-31 |archive-date=2022-07-31 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220731093026/https://books.google.com/books?id=p7Abxwlp-hwC&newbks=0&printsec=frontcover&pg=PA124&dq=%22High+School+High%22+%22hood-film%22+OR+%22hood-films%22+-%22robin-hood%22+-%22riding-hood%22&hl=en |url-status=live }}
• Anuvahood, 2011
• Sumotherhood, 2023{{Cite web |last=Guide |first=British Comedy |date=2022-02-01 |title=Adam Deacon film Sumotherhood to feature top comedy cast |url=https://www.comedy.co.uk/film/news/6695/sumotherhood-cast/ |access-date=2024-04-29 |website=British Comedy Guide |language=en}}

• African American cinema
• Blaxploitation, film genre
• Gangster film
• List of prison films
• Quinqui (film genre)

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