could someone tell me the name of some ghetto movies... please?

Answer 1

I have to recommend Spike Lee's wonderful film "Do The Right Thing" (1989)

Here is a review of the film by Vincent Canby of the New York Times.

It's the dawn of a day that's going to be the longest and hottest of the summer. Mr. Senor Love Daddy, Bedford-Stuyvesant's favorite disk jockey, starts his wake-up show at top volume, ''doing the nasty to your ears, playing the platters that matter.''


''Do the Right Thing'' begins at a fever pitch that continues to climb until the unrepentant fadeout on two contradictory quotes, which are seen just before the end titles. The first, in which the Rev, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. advocates nonviolence, is followed by a quote from Malcolm X, which says, in effect, that nonviolence is fine, but only as long as it works.

With ''Do the Right Thing,'' which he wrote, directed and stars in, Mr. Lee reveals himself to be an increasingly self-assured film maker without compromising his position as an aggressively outspoken advocate of black rights.

The action takes place within a 24-hour period, from one meltingly hot dawn to the next. Tempers fray, kidding turns mean, long-hidden bigotry becomes manifest and violence explodes in and around Sal's Famous Pizzeria, which has been a neighborhood fixture for years. In the film's fury, Mr. Lee recalls, but in no way follows, the events of the Howard Beach case in which white youths attacked a group of black youths who had ''invaded'' their territory.

The movie was photographed by Ernest Dickerson and has the vivid look of a Bed-Stuy wall painting. It's acted with enormous elan by Danny Aiello, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, Richard Edson and, in particular, by Mr. Lee himself. Though small and skinny, Mr. Lee has a screen presence that is successively funny, laid-back and steely. He plays a neighborhood ne'er-do-well, a fast-talking if reluctant delivery man of Sal's famous pizzas, who becomes radicalized in the course of a day.

Mr. Lee's movie is anything but minimalist. It is bursting with character, color, incident and music, including a militant rap number performed by Public Enemy.

It is also the first film I've seen that appreciates the psychologically corrosive effect of sheer noise. Though ''Do the Right Thing'' is really no louder than, say, ''Francesco,'' it makes commonplace urban din a characterized component of the drama.

Mr. Lee tempered what appeared to be the movie's favorable attitude toward violence.

It isn't the job of movie makers to offer solutions, he said: ''All we can do is to present the problems.'' When one critic noted with surprise that the movie contains no references whatsoever to drugs, he said that the omission was a conscious one. ''The movie isn't about drugs,'' he said. ''It's about bigotry and violence. Drugs are such a big issue that to introduce them as a subplot would not do justice to the problem.''

Answer 2

Juice, Boyz-N-Tha-Hood, C-B4, Menace to Society, Jason's Lyric, Friday, Next Friday, Friday After Next, The Warriors, I'm Gonna Git You Sucka there are tons more, these are some of my faves.

Answer 3

Schindler's List

Answer 4

Hoop Dreams
Black And White
Tupac: Resurrection

Answer 5

All the Friday movies... they are ghetto but sooo funny!

Answer 6

hustle and flow (this was a great movie)
get rich or die tryin (ok)
boyz in the hood (great)
new jack city (good action)
king of NY (one of my faves)
deep cover (awesome laurence fishburne)

Answer 7

sugar hill
white man can't jump
menace II socitey
new jack city

well these r some i just like.

Answer 8

boyz n' the hood. ghetto

Answer 9

menace to society, new jack city, colors, boyz in the hood. friday

Answer 10

Pootie Tang
Friday (and the rest of them)