History Main / HoodFilm

* ''Film/ThePurge'' has often focused on a multiracial, working-class cast of characters trying to survive its titular murder holiday, but only with the fourth film in the series, the prequel ''Film/TheFirstPurge'', did it go all-out with this. It takes place in the projects and ghettoes of Staten Island, and features a mostly Black cast that includes a drug kingpin, Dmitri, who spends the Purge fighting off his rivals, a small-time dealer, Isaiah, who takes part in the Purge to get revenge on a junkie who mugged him, and a street activist, Nya, who protests the Purge as an excuse to KillThePoor and tries to help her community survive the night.

* ''Film/{{Belly}}'' follows the lives of two criminals who decide to take different paths to achieve their goals.

* ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoSanAndreas'' is an homage to the genre, being set in [[TheNineties 1992]] in the fictional West Coast state of [[UsefulNotes/{{California}} San Andreas]] in the midst of the crack epidemic. GangsterFiction

* The ''Film/{{House Party|1990}}'' films (at least the first and third films) are a comedy version of this. The third one especially is more skewered toward this this, involving some bits of the aforementioned examples.

* ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoSanAndreas'' is an homage to the genre, being set in [[TheNineties 1992]] in the fictional West Coast state of [[UsefulNotes/{{California}} San Andreas]] in the midst of the crack epidemic.
* The first two ''VideoGame/SaintsRow'' games were Creator/{{Volition}}'s way to recreate this style of film in an open-world action video game, but detractors and critics deemed the games "clones" of the video game franchise above because of this, so the later games scaled it down a lot.

* ''Film/CutthroatAlley'' is an early 2000's [[SlasherMovie slasher]] that focuses on a group of African-American gangbangers in the ghetto of South Central Los Angeles being murdered by a masked killer.

* The original ''VideoGame/SaintsRow1'' was Creator/{{Volition}}'s attempt to recreate this style of film in an open-world action video game, but most players agree that they went [[PoesLaw too far with the 'hood motif]], so the later games in the series would scale it down a lot.

* ''Film/CoachCarter'' deals with a basketball coach trying to [[SaveOurStudents educate young teens]] to aspire to be more than hoodlums and gang members when they leave school.

A SubTrope of GangsterFiction and KitchenSinkDrama. Compare to {{Blaxploitation}}. Not to be confused with InTheHood, which is about hooded garments (though "hoodies" are not uncommon apparel here).

* ''Film/DontBeAMenaceToSouthCentralWhileDrinkingYourJuiceInTheHood'' is a [[Creator/TheWayansFamily Wayans Bros.]] parody of the genre. Ashtray is left by his mother to live with his estranged father (who is literally younger than him) in the hood. While hanging out with his crazy cousin Loc Dog and their friends, he quickly gets caught up in violence and crime.

* ''{{Film/Belly}}'' follows the lives of two criminals who decide to take different paths to achieve their goals.

* The ''Film/HouseParty'' films (at least the first and third films) are a comedy version of this. The third one especially is more skewered toward this this, involving some bits of the aforementioned examples.

->''One out of every ten black males will be forced to sit through at least one "Growing Up In The Hood" movie in their lifetime.''

* ''{{Film/Belly}}'' follows the lives of two criminals who decides to take different paths to achieve their goals.

* ''{{Film/Belly}}'' follows the lives of two criminals who decides to take different paths to achieve their goals

* {{Film/Belly}}: Follows the lives of two criminals who decides to take different paths to achieve their goals

* 1988's ''Film/LeanOnMe'' is a [[VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory somewhat biographical]] film about a Black principal, Joe Clark, who takes over a New Jersey high school in a Black neighborhood and tries to reform its delinquent students.
* The early films of Creator/SpikeLee are some of the earliest examples.
** ''Film/DoTheRightThing'', about racial tensions between the Black and Italian residents of [[BigApplesauce Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn]], is often seen as the GenrePopularizer.
** ''Film/JungleFever'', about an interracial relationship between Flipper, a Black architect from Harlem, and his Italian co-worker Angie, is half this on Flipper's side of the story. While he himself is successful and middle-class, the rest of his family still lives in the 'hood, especially his crackhead brother Gator, who is constantly begging him and his family for money [[spoiler:and eventually steals their mother's TV to sell for crack]].
** ''Film/{{Crooklyn}}'', about a young Black girl named Troy raised by struggling working-class parents in Bed-Stuy in TheSeventies, was based on Lee's own upbringing.
** ''Film/HeGotGame'' is about Jake, a Black man who is in prison for killing his wife, and whose son Jesus is the top basketball prospect in the country. The state's governor gives Jake a week of parole so that he can talk to Jesus and convince him to play for the governor's alma mater.

In the late [[TheEighties '80s]] and TheNineties, a genre known as the "hood film" emerged in the US. The focus is on working-class Black or (less commonly) Latino life in American urban ghettoes (or "'hoods," being shorthand for an "urban neighborhood"). Common themes include [[GangBangers gang violence]], PoliceBrutality, institutional racism, TeenPregnancy, {{Junkie Parent}}s, and commonplace problems of growing up in poverty. Academic settings within said hood are usually poorly-financed and horribly-run {{Sucky School}}s where a {{Cool|Teacher}} or SternTeacher is called to SaveOurStudents from street violence. HipHop music and culture often feature heavily. Most, especially in the genre's early days, were made by up-and-coming Black filmmakers eager to see their stories told on the big screen, not unlike how the British KitchenSinkDrama was crafted by upwardly-mobile men of working-class backgrounds; perhaps not surprisingly, [[TransatlanticEquivalent one can find a number of similar tropes across the two genres]].[[note]]''Theatre/EducatingRita'', a British KitchenSinkDrama, was even planned to get an American remake involving a Black woman from the ghetto trying to get an education.[[/note]]

In the late [[TheEighties '80s]] and TheNineties, a genre known as the "hood film" emerged in the US. The focus is on working-class Black or (less commonly) Latino life in American urban ghettoes (or "'hoods," being shorthand for an "urban neighborhood"). Common themes include [[GangBangers gang violence]], PoliceBrutality, institutional racism, TeenPregnancy, {{Junkie Parent}}s, and commonplace problems of growing up in poverty. HipHop music and culture often feature heavily. Most, especially in the genre's early days, were made by up-and-coming Black filmmakers eager to see their stories told on the big screen, not unlike how the British KitchenSinkDrama was crafted by upwardly-mobile men of working-class backgrounds; perhaps not surprisingly, [[TransatlanticEquivalent one can find a number of similar tropes across the two genres]].[[note]]''Theatre/EducatingRita'', a British KitchenSinkDrama, was even planned to get an American remake involving a Black woman from the ghetto trying to get an education.[[/note]]