Giữa thập niên 1980, nhóm rap N.W.A. nổi lên từ những con phố tồi tàn của Compton đã cách mạng hóa nền văn hóa hip-hop bằng sự nguyên bản thô ráp đầy tính khiêu khích.
Monroe Hutchen từng là một tay đấm hạng nặng đầy triển vọng. Anh bất ngờ bị kết án ngộ sát và nhận án chung thân không ân xá tại nhà từ Sweetwater. Giờ đây, Monroe bị buộc tham gia những cuộc đấu không khoan nhượng được tổ chức trong ngục. Đối thủ xứng tầm xuất hiện, tay đấm James Chambers bị kết án hiếp dâm, xuất hiện tại Sweetwater. Cuộc đấu giữa hai đấu sỹ có thể mở ra cơ hội được phóng thích khi ông trùm Emmanuel treo giải thưởng một triệu đô cho cuộc đấu đẫm máu này.
An African-American Mafia hit man who models himself after the samurai of ancient Japan finds himself targeted for death by the mob.
Roper, a hostage negotiator catches a murderous bank robber after a blown heist. The bank robber escapes and immediately goes after the man who put him behind bars.
Three Italian-American brothers, living in the slums of 1940's New York City, try to help each other with one's wrestling career using one brother's promotional skills and another brother's con-artist tactics to thwart a sleazy manager.
Ace is an impressionable young man working for a dry cleaning business. His friend, drug dealer Mitch, goes to prison. In an unrelated incident, he finds some cocaine in a pants pocket. Soon, Ace finds himself dealing cocaine for Lulu. Via lucky breaks and solid interpersonal skills, Ace moves to the top of the Harlem drug world. Of course, unfaithful employees and/or rivals conspire to bring about Ace's fall.
Spurred by a white woman's lie, vigilantes destroy a black Florida town and slay inhabitants in 1923.
Two hoodlums terrorize the passengers of a late-night New York City subway train.
A drug kingpin's return home touches off a turf war.
A nine-year-old girl who has just moved with her parents to Hamburg, Germany, is desperate for finding a best friend. The daughter of a Brazilian father and German mother, Lola is a little girl who dreams she's a rock star, but mostly dreams of having a best friend.
Bugs fights stereotyped Japanese during World War II.
Julián finds love and a reason for living in the last place imaginable: the Dominican Republic's Najayo Prison. His romance, with fellow prisoner Yanelly, must develop through sign language and without the knowledge of dozens of guards.
A Nazi cult is attempting to track down a mysterious relic which they believe will bring about the rebirth of the Third Reich. Various other factions are closing in, hellbent on gaining the mythical power of the artifact for themselves.
Filmmaker Dan Murdoch meets America's most infamous supremacist group - the Ku Klux Klan - who say they are in the midst of a revival, with a surge in membership and cross lightings across the Deep South.