Hood film is a film genre originating in the United States, which features aspects of urban African-American or Hispanic-American culture such as hip hop music, street gangs, maras, racial discrimination, broken families, drug use and trafficking, illegal immigration into the United States and the problems of young men coming of age or struggling amid the relative poverty and violent gang activity within such neighborhoods.
Critic Murray Forman notes that the "spatial logic" of hip-hop culture, with heavy emphasis on place-based identity, locates "black youth urban experience within an environment of continual proximate danger", and this quality defines the hood film. In a 1992 essay in Cineaction, Canadian critic Rinaldo Walcott identified the hood film's primary concerns as issues of masculinity and "(re)gaining manhood for black men".
Films that fit these criteria include Boy,z n the Hood and Menace II Society. Among the directors who have made films in this genre are John Singleton, Mario Van Peebles, F. Gary Gray, Hughes Brothers, and Spike Lee. The genre has also been parodied with such films as Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood. The genre reached the height of its popularity in the 90's due to the acclaim of films Boyz n the Hood, Juice and Menace II Society. With the plethora horrors of films both dramas and comedies, hood films of the 90's are in a sense neo-Blaxploitation films.
A Jamaican film of this genre has been made, such as Shottas. City of God is a Brazilian film depicting life in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro. British films of this genre have also been made, such as Bullet Boy, Kidulthood, Adulthood, and the parody Anuvahood. The French films La Haine, Ma 6-T va crack-er, Yamakasi, and Banlieue 13 are also examples of this genre.
Cooley High, 1975
Cornbread, Earl and Me, 1975
The Warriors, 1979
Boulevard Nights, 1979
Babylon, 1980
Bad Boys, 1983
Good to Go, 1986
Colors, 1988
Stand and Deliver, 1988
Last Exit to Brooklyn, 1989
Lean on Me, 1989
Do the Right Thing, 1989
King of New York, 1990
Boyz n the Hood, 1991
Jungle Fever, 1991
New Jack City, 1991
Straight Out of Brooklyn, 1991
American Me, 1992
Trespass, 1992
Deep Cover, 1992
Juice, 1992
South Central, 1992
Menace II Society, 1993
Blood In Blood Out, 1993
Strapped, 1993
Poetic Justice, 1993
Crooklyn, 1994
Above the Rim, 1994
Sugar Hill, 1994
Mi Vida Loca, 1994
Fresh, 1994
Jason's Lyric, 1994
My Family, 1995
Higher Learning, 1995
Tales from the Hood, 1995
Clockers, 1995
Dangerous Minds, 1995
Dead Presidents, 1995
Friday, 1995
New Jersey Drive, 1995
La Haine, 1995
Sunset Park, 1996
Original Gangstas, 1996
Bullet, 1996
Set It Off, 1996
Swallowtail, 1996
One Eight Seven, 1997
Ma 6-T va crack-er, 1997
Squeeze, 1997
Always Outnumbered, 1998
He Got Game, 1998
Caught Up, 1998
Belly, 1998
Slam, 1998
Streetwise, 1998
In Too Deep, 1999
Colorz of Rage, 1999
Light It Up, 1999
The Wood, 1999
Hot Boyz, 1999
Baller Blockin', 2000
Road Dogz, 2000
Lockdown, 2000
Turn It Up, 2000
Tha Eastsidaz, 2000
Baby Boy, 2001
Yamakesi, 2001
Gang Tapes, 2001
How High, 2001
Blue Hill Avenue, 2001.
Hardball, 2001
Training Day, 2001
Shottas, 2002
Paper Soldiers, 2002
Barbershop, 2002
City of God, 2002
8 Mile, 2002
State Property, 2002
Empire, 2002
Paid In Full, 2002
Narc, 2002
The Job, 2003
Ride or Die, 2003
A Man Apart, 2003
Doing Hard Time, 2004
Banlieue 13, 2004
Never Die Alone, 2004
Bullet Boy, 2004
Shooting Gallery, 2005
Harsh Times, 2005
Back in the Day, 2005
Full Clip, 2005
Hustle & Flow, 2005
Coach Carter, 2005
State Property 2, 2005
Four Brothers, 2005
Get Rich or Die Tryin', 2005
Dirty, 2005
ATL, 2006
Gridiron Gang, 2006
Waist Deep, 2006
Killa Season , 2006.
Belly 2: Millionaire Boyz Club, 2006
Quinceañera, 2006
Kidulthood, 2006
Freedom Writers, 2007
City of Men, 2007
Adulthood, 2008
Gangster's Paradise: Jerusalema, 2008
Street Kings, 2008
Gran Torino, 2008
Linewatch, 2008
Fallout, 2008
Before I Self Destruct, 2009
Sin Nombre, 2009
Notorious, 2009
Brooklyn's Finest, 2009
A Day In The Life, 2009
Dough Boys, 2009
La Mission, 2009
Lottery Ticket, 2010
Ghetto Stories: The Movie, 2010
Gun, 2010
Gun Hill Road, 2011
Street Kings: Motor City, 2011
Snow on tha Bluff, 2012
Gun Hill, 2012
Ill Manors, 2012
End of Watch, 2012
Mosquita y Mari, 2012
Spring Breakers, 2012
LUV, 2012
Snitch, 2013
Fruitvale Station, 2013
The Inevitable Defeat of Mister and Pete, 2013
Out of the Furnace, 2013
Crossed the Line, 2014
Dope, 2015
Straight Outta Compton, 2015
Chiraq, 2015
Brotherhood, 2016
Barbershop: The Next Cut, 2016
Moonlight, 2016
House Party
House Party 2
Class Act
CB4
Fear of a Black Hat
House Party 3
Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood
High School High
Bulworth
Trippin'
Malibu's Most Wanted
Anuvahood
A Haunted House
School Dance
Keanu
