파코(Paco: 벤자민 브래트 분)와 크루스(Cruz: 제시 보레고 분)는 사촌인 미클로(Miklo: 다미안 차파 분)와 LA의 멕시코계 미국인 지역인 치카노에서 성장한다. 파코는 거리의 부사인 반면 크루스는 예술적 재능의 소유자이다. 미클로는 혼혈아로 흰 피부와 푸른 눈 때문에 치카노 세계에서 받아들여지지 않아 치카노 일원이 되려고 애쓴다. 셋은 죽을 때까지 우정을 지킬 것을 서약한다. 어느날 크루스는 캘리포니아주 미술 작품 심사에서 1등을 하나 경쟁 조직인 트레스 푼토스의 습격으로 척추가 부러진다. 다음날 보복을 하기 위해 적의 두목 스파이더(Spider: 레이 오리엘 분)를 모욕하나 스파이더는 총을 피코에게 쏘고, 이를 본 미클로가 스파이더를 사살하나 자신도 중상을 입는다.
알론조는 마약과 폭력으로 얼룩진 LA에서 생존법을 터득한 마약단속반 고참이다. 그는 신참 제이크를 부하로 만들기 위해 무자비한 통과의례에 들어간다. 바른 생활 사나이인 제이크가 품고 있었던 고참에 대한 경외심은 잔인한 사건을 겪으면서 점차 환멸로 변해간다.
{로스엔젤레스 경찰서(Police Department)와 군보안관서(County Sheriff's Department)에는 강력반(A Gang Crime Division)이 따로 있다. 경찰의 강력계는 크래쉬(C.R.A.S.H.: Community Resources Against Street Hoodlums), 보안관서의 강력계는 OSS(O.S.S.: Operation Safe Streets)라고 부르고 두 부서의 수사 요원은 남녀 합해 280명이다. 그러나 로스엔젤레스 주변에는 600개가 넘는 갱단에 7만명이 넘는 단원이 활개를 치고 있다. 87년 한 해, 갱단과 관련된 살인사건은 387건이었다.} 로스앤젤레스 경찰국은 C.R.A.S.H의 갱 범죄부를 가지고 있고 치안국은 O.S.S의 갱 범죄부를 가지고 있다. 이 두 부서는 특별 훈련된 250명의 남며로 구성되어 있다. LA전역에는 70000명의 구성원을 갖는 600개의 갱집단이 있는데 지난해 387개의 살인범죄와 관련 되어 있다. C.R.A.S.H. 요원으로 새로 들어온 숀 펜은 호기심이 강하고 고집이센 젊은 경관이고 베테랑인 로버트 듀발이 그의 파트가 된다.
An abandoned child steals to survive and has problems when he decides to steal from the priest who helps him.
LA의 거리, 레이몬드(Raymond Avila: 리차드 유니게즈 분)는 거리의 갱 생활을 청산하고 어머니의 뜻에 따라 살기위해 새 삶을 살려하나, 동생 츄코(Chuco Avila: 대니 드 라 파즈 분)는 형의 뜻을 몰라주고 불량배 생활을 계속하며 레이몬드를 괴롭히고, 설상가상으로 레이몬드의 탈퇴를 막으려는 옛 동료들의 괴롭힘이 끊이질 않는다. 그들에 의해 어머니가 죽게 되자 레이몬드는 마침내 다시 피비린내나는 LA의 밤거리로 나선다.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
After getting out of prison, a Latino criminal tries to go straight.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
Remembering his old memories, he will leave a photograph in every place where he was happy.
Love and admiration in 16mm. The fusion a beauty that exists throughout three generations; my three Venus.
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.