Clockers
“When there’s murder on the streets, everyone is a suspect.”
MysteryCrimeDrama
Strike is a young city drug pusher under the tutelage of drug lord Rodney Little. When a night manager at a fast-food restaurant is found with four bullets in his body, Strike’s older brother turns himself in as the killer. Det. Rocco Klein doesn’t buy the story, however, setting out to find the truth, and it seems that all the fingers point toward Strike & Rodney.
VIBE
A raw, unflinching look at the cyclical nature of poverty and crime in urban America. It's a world of desperate choices and compromised morals, where the system itself feels like the antagonist.
grittytensesombercynicalsteadyurban realismneo-noircharacter-driven dramapovertymoralitysystemic oppressionloyalty
drug pushertraindrugsdrug lordbrooklynnew york cityhousing projectinner city life
