Movies like The Basketball Diaries
Discover a curated list of captivating movies similar to The Basketball Diaries. Explore films such as The Wolf of Wall Street, Sleepers, and Boyz n the Hood, around the themes of basketball sport, addiction, gay. Other notable keywords include masturbation reference and talking about masturbation.
#1
The Wolf of Wall Street
Synopsis:
A New York stockbroker refuses to cooperate in a large securities fraud case involving corruption on Wall Street, corporate banking world and mob infiltration. Based on Jordan Belfort's autobiography.
Starring:
Jonah Hill,
Margot Robbie,
Jon Bernthal
#2
Sleepers
Synopsis:
Two gangsters seek revenge on the state jail worker who during their stay at a youth prison sexually abused them. A sensational court hearing takes place to charge him for the crimes.
Starring:
Billy Crudup,
Robert De Niro,
Minnie Driver
Plot:
child molestation,
sexual abuse,
sexual predator,
sadistic rape,
pedo,
gore,
revenge,
rape,
confession booth,
physical assault
...
#3
Boyz n the Hood
Synopsis:
Boyz n the Hood is the popular and successful film and social criticism from John Singleton about the conditions in South Central Los Angeles where teenagers are involved in gun fights and drug dealing on a daily basis.
Starring:
Ice Cube,
Morris Chestnut,
Laurence Fishburne
#4
GoodFellas
Synopsis:
The true story of Henry Hill, a half-Irish, half-Sicilian Brooklyn kid who is adopted by neighbourhood gangsters at an early age and climbs the ranks of a Mafia family under the guidance of Jimmy Conway.
Starring:
Robert De Niro,
Joe Pesci,
Ray Liotta
Plot:
gangster,
mafia,
organized crime,
sadistic psychopath,
rise and fall,
mob,
robbery,
gang violence,
adultery,
infidelity
...
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#5
The Boondock Saints
Synopsis:
Tired of the crime overrunning the streets of Boston, Irish Catholic twin brothers Conner and Murphy are inspired by their faith to cleanse their hometown of evil with their own brand of zealous vigilante justice. As they hunt down and kill one notorious gangster after another, they become controversial folk heroes in the community. But Paul Smecker, an eccentric FBI agent, is fast closing in on …
Starring:
Willem Dafoe,
Billy Connolly,
Sean Patrick Flanery
Plot:
homosexual,
fbi agent,
police,
revenge,
cauterizing a wound,
drinking,
groping,
cult film,
independent film,
surprise ending
...
#6
Bound by Honor
Synopsis:
Based on the true life experiences of poet Jimmy Santiago Baca, the film focuses on half-brothers Paco and Cruz, and their bi-racial cousin Miklo. It opens in 1972, as the three are members of an East L.A. gang known as the "Vatos Locos", and the story focuses on how a violent crime and the influence of narcotics alter their lives. Miklo is incarcerated and sent to San Quentin, where he makes a "…
Starring:
Benjamin Bratt,
Raymond Cruz,
Damian Chapa
Plot:
mexican,
gang war,
1980s,
1970s,
mexican american,
hood,
disney,
blowtorch,
slow motion scene,
watching tv
...
#7
Angel Heart
Synopsis:
Down-and-out private detective Harry Angel is ordered by the mysterious Louis Cyphre to go on a mission to find a missing person. His routine failure soon leads to a bloody spar with himself, as he goes on a supernatural journey into his own soul.
Starring:
Robert De Niro,
Charlotte Rampling,
Mickey Rourke
#8
Baby Driver
Synopsis:
After being coerced into working for a crime boss, a young getaway driver finds himself taking part in a heist doomed to fail.
Starring:
Kevin Spacey,
Eiza González,
Ansel Elgort
#9
American Psycho
Synopsis:
A wealthy New York investment banking executive hides his alternate psychopathic ego from his co-workers and friends as he escalates deeper into his illogical, gratuitous fantasies.
Starring:
Willem Dafoe,
Christian Bale,
Jared Leto
#10
Spider-Man 3
Synopsis:
The seemingly invincible Spider-Man goes up against an all-new crop of villains—including the shape-shifting Sandman. While Spider-Man’s superpowers are altered by an alien organism, his alter ego, Peter Parker, deals with nemesis Eddie Brock and also gets caught up in a love triangle.
Starring:
J.K. Simmons,
Bryce Dallas Howard,
Kirsten Dunst
#11
The Outsiders
Synopsis:
When two poor Greasers, Johnny and Ponyboy, are assaulted by a vicious gang, the Socs, and Johnny kills one of the attackers, tension begins to mount between the two rival gangs, setting off a turbulent chain of events.
Starring:
Diane Lane,
Patrick Swayze,
Tom Cruise
#12
Lovelace
Synopsis:
Story of Linda Lovelace, who is used and abused by the porn industry at the behest of her coercive husband, before taking control of her life.
Starring:
Hank Azaria,
Amanda Seyfried,
Eric Roberts
Plot:
porn industry,
nudity,
sex toy,
fellatio,
female nudity,
porn star,
rear entry sex,
skinny dipping,
dildo,
orgasm
...
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#13
Starsky & Hutch
Synopsis:
Join uptight David Starsky and laid-back Ken "Hutch" Hutchinson as they're paired for the first time as undercover cops. The new partners must overcome their differences to solve an important case with help from street informant Huggy Bear and persuasive criminal Reese Feldman.
Starring:
Ben Stiller,
Owen Wilson,
Carmen Electra
#14
Joker
Synopsis:
During the 1980s, a failed stand-up comedian is driven insane and turns to a life of crime and chaos in Gotham City while becoming an infamous psychopathic crime figure.
Starring:
Robert De Niro,
Shea Whigham,
Joaquin Phoenix
Plot:
mental illness,
laughing,
evil clown,
stand up comedian,
nihilism,
clown,
comedian,
loneliness,
watching tv,
green hair
...
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#15
City of God
Synopsis:
Buscapé was raised in a very violent environment. Despite the feeling that all odds were against him, he finds out that life can be seen with other eyes...
Starring:
Alice Braga,
Alexandre Rodrigues,
Leandro Firmino
Plot:
photographer,
slum,
gang,
brazil,
coming of age,
murder of a child,
rio de janeiro,
south america,
latin america,
hood
...
#16
21 Grams
Synopsis:
Paul Rivers, an ailing mathematician lovelessly married to an English émigré; Christina Peck, an upper-middle-class suburban housewife and mother of two girls; and Jack Jordan, a born-again ex-con, are brought together by a terrible accident that changes their lives.
Starring:
Naomi Watts,
Danny Huston,
Eddie Marsan
#17
Polar
Synopsis:
When a retiring assassin realizes that he is the target of a hit, he winds up back in the game going head to head with a gang of younger, ruthless killers.
Starring:
Matt Lucas,
Ruby O. Fee,
Vanessa Hudgens
#18
A Clockwork Orange
Synopsis:
In a near-future Britain, young Alexander DeLarge and his pals get their kicks beating and raping anyone they please. When not destroying the lives of others, Alex swoons to the music of Beethoven. The state, eager to crack down on juvenile crime, gives an incarcerated Alex the option to undergo an invasive procedure that'll rob him of all personal agency. In a time when conscience is a commodity…
Starring:
Malcolm McDowell,
Patrick Magee,
Adrienne Corri
#19
Monster
Synopsis:
An emotionally scarred highway drifter shoots a sadistic trick who rapes her, and ultimately becomes the United States' first female serial killer.
Starring:
Christina Ricci,
Charlize Theron,
Pruitt Taylor Vince
#20
Carrie
Synopsis:
Carrie White, a shy and troubled teenage girl who is tormented by her high school peers and her fanatically religious mother, begins to use her powers of telekinesis to exact revenge upon them.
Starring:
Amy Irving,
John Travolta,
P.J. Soles