🏷 Discover The Best Street Life Movies & TV Shows To Watch Today

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Street Life: Exploring the Best Movies and TV Shows

Immerse yourself in the gritty world of street life with our curated list of movies and TV shows that delve into the harsh realities and raw emotions of urban living. From crime dramas to coming-of-age stories, discover the most compelling tales that showcase the resilience and strength of those living on the streets.

Cast

Dev Patel

Rooney Mara

David Wenham

Nicole Kidman

Lion (2016)

8.0 7.0K votes

Genre: Drama

Country: Australia, United Kingdom

Duration: 118 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: A five-year-old Indian boy gets lost on the streets of Calcutta, thousands of kilometers from home. He survives many challenges before being adopted by a couple in Australia; 25 years later, he sets out to find his lost family.

Plot: based on novel or book, adoption, affectation, biography, based on true story, missing child, long lost relative, tasmania, ...

Place: australia, india

Cast

Jamie Bell

Gary Lewis

Julie Walters

Jean Heywood

Billy Elliot (2000)

7.6 4.1K votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music

Country: France, United Kingdom

Duration: 111 min.

Audience: R

Story: County Durham, England, 1984. The miners' strike has started and the police have started coming up from Bethnal Green, starting a class war with the lower classes suffering. Caught in the middle of the conflict is 11-year old Billy Elliot, who, after leaving his boxing club for the day, stumbles upon a ballet class and finds out that he's naturally talented. He practices with his teacher Mrs. Wilkinson for an upcoming audition in Newcastle-upon Tyne for the royal Ballet school in London.

Plot: dancing, friendship, dreams, dancing class, northern england, workers' quarter, strike, homophobia, ...

Time: 1980s

Cast

Angelina Jolie

John Malkovich

Jeffrey Donovan

Michael Kelly

Changeling (2008)

7.6 4.5K votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery

Country: United States of America

Duration: 142 min.

Audience: R

Story: Los Angeles, 1928. When single mother Christine Collins leaves for work, her son vanishes without a trace. Five months later, the police reunite mother and son. But when Christine suspects that the boy returned to her isn't her child, her quest for truth exposes a world of corruption.

Plot: biography, based on true story, clergyman, child in peril, police corruption, los angeles, california, single mother, ...

Time: 1920s

Cast

Kazunari Ninomiya

Yu016bsuke Iseya

Yu Aoi

Kankuro Kudo

Tekkonkinkreet (2006)

7.4 428 votes

Genre: Action, Adventure, Animation

Country: Japan

Duration: 103 min.

Audience: R

Story: Two penniless orphans, Black and White, struggle to survive on the mean streets of Treasure Town. When a megacorporation threatens to tear down the town to build an amusement park, Black and White engage in the fight of their life.

Style: psychological

Plot: flying, yakuza, minotaur, based on manga, urban setting, urban development, street children, save the neighborhood, ...

Cast

Lee Kang-sheng

Chen Chao-jung

Wang Yu-wen

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Jen Chang-bin

Rebels of the Neon God (1994)

7.3 155 votes

Genre: Crime, Drama

Country: Taiwan

Duration: 106 min.

Audience: NR

Story: In Taipei, four youths face alienation, loneliness, and moments of existential crisis amidst a series of minor crimes.

Plot: nihilism, megacity, identity, obsession, flooding, vandalism, urban life, dysfunctional family, ...

Place: taipei

Cast

Jackie Chan

Anita Mui Yim-Fong

Franu00e7oise Yip

Bill Tung Biu

Rumble in the Bronx (1995)

6.9 1.2K votes

Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime

Country: Hong Kong

Duration: 106 min.

Audience: R

Story: Keong comes from Hong Kong to visit New York for his uncle's wedding. His uncle runs a market in the Bronx and Keong offers to help out while Uncle is on his honeymoon. During his stay in the Bronx, Keong befriends a neighbor kid and beats up some neighborhood thugs who cause problems at the market. One of those petty thugs in the local gang stumbles into a criminal situation way over his head.

Plot: new york city, martial arts, supermarket, diamond, gang war, disabled child, revenge, vigilante, ...

Cast

Jean-Claude Van Damme

Harrison Page

Lisa Pelikan

Ashley Johnson

Lionheart (1990)

6.6 1.2K votes

Genre: Action

Country: United States of America

Duration: 105 min.

Audience: R

Story: Lyon Gaultier is a deserter in the Foreign Legion arriving in the USA entirely hard up. He finds his brother between life and death and his sister-in-law without the money needed to heal her husband and to maintain her child. To earn the money needed, Gaultier decides to take part in some very dangerous clandestine fights.

Plot: drug dealer, martial arts, street gang, sports, upper class, foreign legion, fistfight, foreign legionaire, ...