Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keywords "confrontation", "racial-slur"

1. Goodfellas (1990)

R | 145 min | Biography, Crime, Drama

The story of Henry Hill and his life in the mafia, covering his relationship with his wife Karen and his mob partners Jimmy Conway and Tommy DeVito.

Director: Martin Scorsese | Stars: Robert De Niro, Ray Liotta, Joe Pesci, Lorraine Bracco

Votes: 1,257,378 | Gross: $46.84M

2. Gran Torino (2008)

R | 116 min | Drama

After a Hmong teenager tries to steal his prized 1972 Gran Torino, a disgruntled, prejudiced Korean War veteran seeks to redeem both the boy and himself.

Director: Clint Eastwood | Stars: Clint Eastwood, Bee Vang, Christopher Carley, Ahney Her

Votes: 815,003 | Gross: $148.10M

3. Boyz n the Hood (1991)

R | 112 min | Crime, Drama

Follows the lives of three young males living in the Crenshaw ghetto of Los Angeles, dissecting questions of race, relationships, violence, and future prospects.

Director: John Singleton | Stars: Cuba Gooding Jr., Laurence Fishburne, Hudhail Al-Amir, Lloyd Avery II

Votes: 154,633 | Gross: $57.50M

4. The Hurt Locker (2008)

R | 131 min | Drama, Thriller, War

During the Iraq War, a Sergeant recently assigned to an army bomb squad is put at odds with his squad mates due to his maverick way of handling his work.

Director: Kathryn Bigelow | Stars: Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackie, Brian Geraghty, Guy Pearce

Votes: 473,790 | Gross: $17.02M

5. Enter the Dragon (1973)

R | 102 min | Action, Crime, Thriller

A Shaolin martial artist travels to an island fortress to spy on an opium lord - who is also a former monk from his temple - under the guise of attending a fighting tournament.

Director: Robert Clouse | Stars: Bruce Lee, John Saxon, Jim Kelly, Ahna Capri

Votes: 112,993 | Gross: $25.00M

6. Roots (1977)

TV-14 | 74 min | Biography, Drama, History

A dramatization of author Alex Haley's family line from ancestor Kunta Kinte's enslavement to his descendants' liberation.

Stars: LeVar Burton, Robert Reed, John Amos, Louis Gossett Jr.

Votes: 18,880

7. Mommy (I) (2014)

R | 139 min | Drama

A widowed single mother, raising her violent son alone, finds new hope when a mysterious neighbor inserts herself into their household.

Director: Xavier Dolan | Stars: Anne Dorval, Antoine Olivier Pilon, Suzanne Clément, Patrick Huard

Votes: 61,838 | Gross: $3.49M

8. The Class (2008)

PG-13 | 128 min | Drama

Teacher and novelist François Bégaudeau plays a version of himself as he negotiates a year with his racially mixed students from a tough Parisian neighborhood.

Director: Laurent Cantet | Stars: François Bégaudeau, Agame Malembo-Emene, Angélica Sancio, Arthur Fogel

Votes: 36,432 | Gross: $3.77M

9. Ricochet (1991)

R | 102 min | Action, Crime, Drama

A District Attorney is terrorized by the criminal he put away years ago when he was a cop.

Director: Russell Mulcahy | Stars: Denzel Washington, John Lithgow, Ice-T, Kevin Pollak

Votes: 20,388 | Gross: $21.76M

10. Scum (1979)

R | 98 min | Crime, Drama

An uncompromising story of life in a British juvenile offender institution in the '70s.

Director: Alan Clarke | Stars: Ray Winstone, Mick Ford, Julian Firth, John Blundell

Votes: 13,081

11. Matewan (1987)

PG-13 | 135 min | Drama, History

A labor union organizer comes to an embattled mining community brutally and violently dominated and harassed by the mining company.

Director: John Sayles | Stars: Chris Cooper, James Earl Jones, Mary McDonnell, Will Oldham

Votes: 8,914 | Gross: $1.68M

12. The Defiant Ones (1958)

Approved | 96 min | Crime, Drama

Two chained-together escaped convicts, White and Black, must learn to get along in order to elude capture.

Director: Stanley Kramer | Stars: Tony Curtis, Sidney Poitier, Cara Williams, Theodore Bikel

Votes: 17,832

13. Boys Town (1938)

Passed | 96 min | Biography, Drama, Family

When a death row prisoner tells him he wouldn't have led a life of crime if only he had had one friend as a child, Father Edward Flanagan decides to start a home for young boys.

Director: Norman Taurog | Stars: Spencer Tracy, Mickey Rooney, Henry Hull, Leslie Fenton

Votes: 6,354

14. Chaos (I) (2005)

Not Rated | 74 min | Horror, Thriller

Two teenage girls on a mission to find drugs at a rave get more than they bargained for. One is sexually assaulted and they are both tortured in horrific ways. The attackers seek refuge in the parents' of one of the victims' homes.

Director: David DeFalco | Stars: Kevin Gage, Sage Stallone, Kelly K.C. Quann, Maya Barovich

Votes: 2,285

15. Dominick and Eugene (1988)

PG-13 | 111 min | Drama

Dominick and Eugene are twins, but Dominick is a little bit slow due to an accident in his youth. They live together, with Dominick working as garbage man to put Eugene through medical ... See full summary »

Director: Robert M. Young | Stars: Tom Hulce, Ray Liotta, Jamie Lee Curtis, Robert Levine

Votes: 3,281 | Gross: $3.08M

16. Crime + Punishment in Suburbia (2000)

R | 100 min | Drama, Thriller

A darkly romantic story of murder and redemption, set against an eerily familiar American landscape.

Director: Rob Schmidt | Stars: Monica Keena, Ellen Barkin, Michael Ironside, Vincent Kartheiser

Votes: 3,511 | Gross: $0.03M

17. Bucktown (1975)

R | 94 min | Action, Crime, Drama

After being hassled by The Man in a southern town, a cool operator asks some violent friends for help. After all, if you can't trust another brother, who can you trust?

Director: Arthur Marks | Stars: Fred Williamson, Pam Grier, Thalmus Rasulala, Tony King

Votes: 1,599

18. Fight for Your Life (1977)

R | 82 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

A mean trashy exploitation picture about three convicts who escape from jail and hole up at the house of a black minister. There are a few nasty scenes where the minister's family is being ... See full summary »

Director: Robert A. Endelson | Stars: Robert Judd, Catherine Peppers, Lela Small, Yvonne Ross

Votes: 1,735

19. Paris Trout (1991 TV Movie)

R | 100 min | Drama

In a small Georgia town in the 1950s, bigoted store owner Paris Trout kills a young black girl when his brother refuses to pay his debts.

Director: Stephen Gyllenhaal | Stars: Dennis Hopper, Barbara Hershey, Ed Harris, Ray McKinnon

Votes: 1,650

20. The River Niger (1976)

R | 105 min | Drama

An intimate look at life in the ghetto: Johnny Williams is a house painter who moonlights as a poet, struggling to financially and emotionally support his cancer-ridden wife Mattie. But ... See full summary »

Director: Krishna Shah | Stars: Cicely Tyson, James Earl Jones, Louis Gossett Jr., Glynn Turman

Votes: 296

21. The Final Comedown (1972)

R | 83 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Black revolutionaries take action in the white suburbs.

Director: Oscar Williams | Stars: Billy Dee Williams, D'Urville Martin, Celia Milius, Maidie Norman

Votes: 446 | Gross: $0.16M

22. Daymaker (2007)

126 min | Comedy, Drama

A day of non-coincidental coincidences and revelations in the lives of about twenty people; normal people with drug and relationship problems despite their intelligence and awareness. Today... See full summary »

Director: Joe LiTrenta | Stars: Michael Nathanson, Cristina Marie Proctor, Myla Pitt, Alexander Hayes

Votes: 457

23. Chasing Life (2007 Video)

R | 82 min | Crime, Drama, Music

A female rock singer and her band, on her way to Los Angeles, in search of love and stardom, is forced to face the secrets of her past when her band breaks down in a racist town in Texas.

Director: Daniel Glasser | Stars: Jodi Nelson-Tabor, Tristan Aronovich, Jason Bonduris, Ransom Boynton

Votes: 8

24. Both a friend and a reason to smile (2011)

15 min | Short, Comedy, Drama

This story begins with Rachel and her new life in Catalonia, after having left her native Brazil along with her brother Kevin and her grandparents, in order to be reunited with her mother here in Catalonia.

Director: Sergi Rubió | Stars: Yailin Cruz Espinal, Sandra Mateo Martínez, Ahmed Akhtari, Raúl Campillo Romero

25. Sons of Anarchy (2008–2014)
Episode: The Culling (2009)

TV-MA | 70 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

The entire SAMCRO family goes on lockdown inside the clubhouse as war with the League approaches. Opie decides not to pursue revenge against Clay or Tig for Donna's death. Jimmy puts an end... See full summary »

Director: Gwyneth Horder-Payton | Stars: Charlie Hunnam, Katey Sagal, Mark Boone Junior, Kim Coates

Votes: 2,998

26. True Detective (2014– )
Episode: Church in Ruins (2015)

TV-MA | 59 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Desperate to locate a missing woman with intel about Caspere, Frank meets with Mexican drug dealers; Ani infiltrates an exclusive inner circle, with Ray and Paul keeping close tabs.

Director: Miguel Sapochnik | Stars: Colin Farrell, Rachel McAdams, Taylor Kitsch, Kelly Reilly

Votes: 10,051

27. Murder in Polná (2016– )
Episode: 2 díl (2016)

TV-PG | 85 min | Crime, Drama, History

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Director: Viktor Polesný | Stars: Jaroslav Plesl, Karel Hermánek Jr., Karel Roden, Gabriela Mícová

Votes: 8