Der erste Arbeitstag als Undercover Cop läuft für Jake Hoyt völlig anders als erwartet. Sein neuer Vorgesetzter Alonzo Harris interpretiert das Gesetz auf seine eigene Weise und hält sich dabei nicht immer an die Vorschriften. Sein Motto: “Nur wenn du selbst wie ein Wolf bist, kannst du einen Wolf fangen”. Immer tiefer wird Jake in die zweifelhaften Machenschaften von Harris hineingezogen. Als die Gewalt eskaliert, muss Jake eine Entscheidung treffen.
US-amerikanischer Kriminalfilm, der die miteinander verwobenen Leben der drei Brüder Miklo, Cruz und Paco in Chicago ab dem Jahr 1972 bis Mitte der 1980er thematisiert. Miklo ist in den Augen der anderen kein "reiner" Latino und gilt als "Weisser". Als er trotzdem in die Gang aufgenommen wird, ist er sehr stolz. Doch da fangen die Probleme erst an.
Der Cop-Haudegen Bob Hodges muss sich auf seinen letzten Tagen bei einer Spezialeinheit des Los Angeles Police Department mit einem neuen, heißspornigen Kollegen herumschlagen. Danny McGavin nimmt die Bekämpfung der Gangkriminalität wörtlich und ist auf möglichst viele Verhaftungen aus. Das schafft Probleme zwischen den beiden ungleichen Polizisten. Mehr als einmal droht die Situation zu eskalieren und auch Dannys Romanze mit der Latina Louisa steht unter keinem guten Stern …
An abandoned child steals to survive and has problems when he decides to steal from the priest who helps him.
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
Die Geschichte zweier Brüder im Mexikanerviertel von Los Angeles. Während der jüngere sein Selbstbewußtsein und seinen Lebensinhalt aus der Mitgliedschaft in einer Jugendbande bezieht, die sich erbitterte Kämpfe mit anderen Straßengangs liefert, hat der ältere dieses Leben hinter sich gelassen; er arbeitet in einer Autowerkstatt. Nach der Ermordung der Mutter kehrt jedoch auch er auf die Straße zurück. Jugendbandenfilm, der bei allem Anspruch auf Wirklichkeitsnähe mehr Gewicht auf Action als auf die Erhellung psychologischer und sozialer Hintergründe legt.
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.
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.
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.
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.
After getting out of prison, a Latino criminal tries to go straight.
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.
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.
Remembering his old memories, he will leave a photograph in every place where he was happy.
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!
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.
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.
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.
Love and admiration in 16mm. The fusion a beauty that exists throughout three generations; my three Venus.