 Belly 1998  R, 95 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Hype Williams
Cast: DMX, Nas, Method Man, Taral Hicks, Tyrin Turner, Tionne "T-Boz" Watkins, Hassan Johnson, Oliver "Power" Grant, Kurt Loder, Stan Drayton, Louie Rankin, James Parris, Frank Vincent, Jay Black, Ben Chavis
Petty criminals Tommy (DMX) and Sincere (Nas) up the ante when they find an opening in the Midwestern drug market. But when Tommy and Sincere ply their trade of interstate heroin dealing, the feds quickly pursue them, and the bodies start to pile up.
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Crime Partners 2001 R, 100 min.
Genre: Drama
aka: Crime Partners 2000
Director: J. Jesses Smith
Cast: Ice-T, Snoop Dogg, Ja Rule, Tyrin Turner, John "B.J." Bryant, Steve Porcelli, Chino XL, Laz Alonso, Dorian Missick, Clifton Powell
Two young men at the lowest level of a crime ring get their chance to climb the ladder of success when a competing crime boss hires them to perform an assassination. Weak ghetto crime thriller.
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Little Boy Blue 1997 R, 105 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Antonio Tibaldi
Cast: Ryan Phillippe, John Savage, Nastassja Kinski, Jenny Lewis, Shirley Knight, Adam Burke, Tyrin Turner, Devon Michael, John Doman, Brent Jennings
Ray West (John Savage) is a Vietnam vet in dire need of psychiatric help because he constantly terrorizes his wife (Nastassja Kinski) and sons (Ryan Phillippe, Adam Burke, and Devon Michael).
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 Menace II Society 1993  R, 97 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Albert Hughes, Allen Hughes
Cast: Tyrin Turner, Larenz Tate, Samuel L. Jackson, Glenn Plummer, Khandi Alexander, Jada Pinkett Smith, Bill Duke, Charles S. Dutton, Arnold Johnson, Vonte Sweet, Anthony Johnson, Brandon Hammond, Reginald Ballard, Jullian Roy Doster, Marilyn Coleman
Inner city violence is the theme of this story about 18-year-old drug-dealer Caine Lawson (Tyrin Turner) trying to find an escape from the street culture in the projects of Watts. Caine's father (Samuel L. Jackson) was a drug dealer, but he and Caine's drug addicted mother have now both died, and his grandparents have kicked him out of their house. Caine's one hope to break out of his lifestyle is Ronnie (Jada Pinkett Smith) who is a single mother trying to find her way out of Watts. A love affair between Caine and Ronnie leads to the decision to move south to Atlanta. But, tragedy lies ahead as they prepare to leave.
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The Method 1997 N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Drama / Thriller
Director: Kevin Lewis
Cast: Nicholas Sadler, Sean Patrick Flanery, Tyrin Turner, Michael P. Bondies, Natasha Gregson Wagner, Robert Forster, Amanda Anka, Laurie Bogdanovich, Dennis James, Monica Evans
Jack (Nicholas Sadler), the director of a university theater production concerning a bank robbery, is having troubles motivating the cast. To add to the reality and creativity of the cast, he provides real guns. This does the trick when the cast decides to rob a real bank.
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| 1. Belly (1998)
2. Crime Partners (2001)
aka: Crime Partners 2000
3. Little Boy Blue (1997)
4. Menace II Society (1993)
5. The Method (1997)
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