1.Tropa de Elite (original title Portuguese) Elite Squad (2007) - 1997, Captain Nascimento has to find a substitute for his occupation while trying to take down drug dealers and criminals before the Pope comes to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0861739/
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2.Banlieue 13 (original title french) District B13 (2004) - Set in the ghettos of Paris in 2010, an undercover cop and ex-thug try to infiltrate a gang in order to defuse a neutron bomb. (Parkour)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0414852/
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3.The Intouchables (2011)
After he becomes a quadriplegic from a paragliding accident, an aristocrat hires a young man from the projects to be his caretaker.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1675434/
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4.City of God (2002)
Cidade de Deus (original title)
Two boys growing up in a violent neighborhood of Rio de Janeiro take different paths: one becomes a photographer, the other a drug dealer.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0317248/
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5.Ong-bak (2003 Thai) The Thai Warrior (English title) When the head of a statue sacred to a village is stolen, a young martial artist goes to the big city and finds himself taking on the underworld to retrieve it. (Muay thai).
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0368909/
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6.Celda 211 (original title Spanish) Cell 211 (2009)
The story of two men on different sides of a prison riot -- the inmate leading the rebellion and the young guard trapped in the revolt, who poses as a prisoner in a desperate attempt to survive the ordeal.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1242422/
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7.Gangster's Paradise: Jerusalema (2008) Jerusalema (original title)
Young hoodlum's rise from a small-time criminal to a powerful crime entrepreneur during the turbulent years before and after the fall of apartheid.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0783532/