Vennerne Miklo, Paco og Cruz vokser op i 70'ernes East Los Angeles. Da de tre kommer i klammeri med de lokale bander for det vidtrækkende og meget forskellige konsekvenser for resten af deres liv.
Los Angeles. Jake Hoyt er nyuddannet politimand og ivrig efter at arbejde for narkoafdelingens eltitegruppe, der ledes af den erfarne Alonzo Harris. Harris tilbyder Hoyt, at han kan komme med på patrulje en enkelt dag og vise, at han dur til noget. I løbet af dagen bliver Hoyt klar over, at Harris har fortolker loven på sin egen måde. Mens Hoyt kæmper med sin samvittighed, får han mistanke om, at han i virkeligheden skal bruges som offer i en kompliceret komplot.
Oscarvinderen Robert Duvall (Den sidste drøm) og Sean Penn (Dead Man Walking) giver sig i kast med rå, hårdkogt og nervepirrende spænding i en film, der smukt skildrer det tydelige præg, bandetilværelsen har sat på Los Angeles. Bob Hodges (Duvall) er en rutineret betjent, som har lært meget i sin lange karriere, mens hans nye unge makker, Danny McGavin (Penn), ingenting har lært - men han ved det hele. De tvinges til at danne makkerpar i Los Angeles' politis berømte antibande-enhed C.R.A.S.H., og går i gang med at efterforske et brutalt bandemord. De er forhadt og forfulgt af begge sider, og de to betjente befinder sig pludselig midt i en strid om territorier. Der er ingen vej tilbage, så de bliver overfaldet, bedraget og beskudt i en nådesløs gadekamp. Efterhånden som volder eskalerer, må disse to vidt forskellige personer erkende et vigtigt faktum - hvis de vi vil overleve, må de arbejde sammen!
An abandoned child steals to survive and has problems when he decides to steal from the priest who helps him.
A focus on life in a gang, Boulevard Nights portrays the dangers of street violence. Richard Yniguez plays a young Chicano who tries to get out of the gang, but he keeps finding himself drawn back into it.
Lefty-a hard working, light hearted man is looking to make a decent buck. But when a simple bet goes horribly wrong, Lefty is stuck between a rock and gangster who's dead set on collecting his money.
Thriller - Two Chicano brothers, Estaban and Raul grow up hard on the streets of Los Angeles. Their papa gets executed for a drug deal gone bad when only seven years old. Half Irish, half Mexican gangster named Mickey Solis takes the two boys in and brings them up as lieutenants in his family business. - Damian Chapa, Gabriel Tang, Ricco Chapa
This Filipino vampire film co-directed by Peque Gallaga and Lore Reyes tells the story of an aswang, the traditional shape-shifting creature of local legend. Here, the vampire makes appearances as a giant snake, a young woman (Alma Moreno), and a withered old hag (Lilia Cuntapay). The aswang has a lengthy cinematic history, having been the subject of the first sound film ever produced in the Philippines (1932's Ang Aswang) and migrating, in somewhat altered form, to films in Hong Kong, India, Japan, and, in 1994, to the United States. Aiza Seguerra co-stars with Janice de Belen, Aljon Jimenez, John Estrada, and Alma Moreno.
Chicano gangster Micky Solis finds that his family has been slaughtered by the Chinese mob. His whole life force turns to finding the killers. A slick lawyer (Angus MacFadyen) leads Micky to a "nun" (Paz De La Huerta) who shows him who the killers are that took his family from him. Micky unleashes a war of bullets and emotions on the family until each one dies by the same sword they wielded. The only thought on Micky's mind is REVENGE: VENGANZA.
Rico 'Honeyboy' Ramirez is a Puerto Rican from the South Bronx who finds fame and fortune as a middleweight boxer. But he soon learns that it's not all it's cracked up to be when he loses sight of his goals. He becomes romantically involved with his attractive publicist, and then he has to prove himself in the ring after learning that his biggest victory was rigged by his shady, mob-connected, promoters.
After getting out of prison, a Latino criminal tries to go straight.
Set during the post-Marcos regime in a remote village of Dolores, chronicles the life of Jimmy Cordero, a political prisoner who have just been freed from prison after the decline of the Marcos dictatorship. From his revolutionary past, he got himself into human rights activism following his prison release. He and his wife’s brother once conducted a fact-finding mission to Dolores only to find out the terror brought about to its residents by the Orapronobis, a government backed anti-communist paramilitary troop deployed in the town of Dolores.
In this hard-edged urban drama, when a shocking murder is committed in a Hispanic neighborhood in East Lost Angeles, the local residents are up in arms and demand action from the police. When the cops prove slow to investigate the killing, the local street gangs who prowl the area put aside their differences and set out to find the murderer themselves.
Violence erupts when two vicious street gangs go to war in the inner city. Duke, the gang leader of Tokers Town, is feeling the pressure from his Barrio to go to war with their rival gang 14th St. But while Duke was in jail he made a peace treaty with the leader of 14th St. only to discover they had broken it. Now with his homies getting shot and his mothers pleas to stop the violence he is at the breaking point.
A Latino barber in a macho world faces a tough road ahead when an attraction develops for a handsome stranger during a hot and sweaty summer in Brooklyn.
Rodrigo is a marginalized and lonely being who prefers to die before being forced to kill. He finds himself trapped in a city that oppresses him, calls him, marginalizes him.
Psychoanalysis in El Barrio shows the experience of Latino psychoanalysts in the United States bringing psychoanalysis to Latino communities. It features interviews with ten Latino analysts (whose heritage is from a variety of Latino cultures) as well as students. It uniquely shows some of those communities in Philadelphia, New York City, and Texas and Interviews Latinos in the street on their thoughts about therapy. And it discusses issues of culture, bias, language and transference that occur for Latino analysts and their patients. The video challenges psychoanalysts to understand the culture and economic circumstances of Latinos in the United States and to bring psychoanalytically informed therapy to them. It Is a consequence of conferences held by the Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research (IPTAR) and the Clinical Psychology Department of The New School.
A modern-day retelling of Romeo and Juliette w/a Latino flare. Angelina and Plato want to be together, but her brother has something to say about that! Tensions reac a fever pitch, and before the night is over, one love will be changed forever!
Remembering his old memories, he will leave a photograph in every place where he was happy.
