In the winter of 1991 an ABC film crew spent six weeks following Sydney's Redfern police.
The inner city patrol of Redfern is predominantly working class with a large aboriginal and migrant population.
The police in this film are general duties officers mostly on mobile patrols.
At the time of filming 78% of police at Redfern were under the age of 25.
Set in a social housing estate in central Sydney, 57 Lawson preserves the disparate voices of the tenants at a time when these communities are becoming increasingly marginalised by the city around them. A patient observation of the daily lives of the area’s inhabitants over the course of one evening, 57 Lawson is a hybrid drama-documentary film about a specific place at a specific time.
Sheffield stands in as 'Smokedale', an industrial Everytown, in this stirring call for "new schools, new hospitals, new roads, new life", after WWII.
One of the earliest exploitation films from South Africa, directed and produced by independent film maker Pierre D. Botha. This is a classic example of a ‘restless youth’ film. The action takes place in Johannesburg (The Godless city of the title) and focuses on the youth sub culture of the ‘Ducktails’ (“a white youth gang subculture which emerged within post Second World War South Africa. Rebellious, hedonistic, apolitical and showing little respect for the law, education or work”).
A documentary on young black children living in Toronto public housing.
Vietnam veteran Archibald Wright is a house painter hired to work on a Beverly Hills mansion where he becomes involved in the life of the resident family. The owner Elaine left her husband J.P. while he was serving in Vietnam, causing him to become an alcoholic hobo living in downtown Los Angeles. Archibald tries to help their daughter Tory to continue her relationship with her father, even though Elaine is strongly against it.
On a gang-controlled dead end street, Sheree Farmer is raising her six children alone. With the help of Mary Abernathy, a former fashion industry executive turned community activist, Sheree struggles to buy her first home and escape her violent and drug-infested Newark neighborhood. In HOME, director Jeffrey Togman follows these two exceptional women in an intimate story that speaks to the future of America's cities.
When East Baltimore drug King Pin, Ontario Banks (Nelson Irizarry) decides he wants total control of the entire city-wide drug trade, he enlists the help of his closest friends, Lucky (Micaiah Jones), Vince (Chris Clanton) and Littles (Kelvin Page), and his crew to take it all, one body at a time. Even if it means one of his own people. A war will rage in between Ontario, and Italian Drug cartel leader Michael Caprisci (Mike McMullin) on who will hold the crown.
A group of street kids find that the only way to make it through the day is to hold onto their dreams while their reality is eating out of dumpsters, turning tricks and squatting in abandoned buildings.
A revisionist twist on Cinderella with an all-black cast and set in Harlem during WWII. Cindy is a country bumpkin who moves from South Carolina to live with her father and his new family. When her stepmother and two stepsisters refuse to take her to the Sugar Hill Ball, her draft-dodging, chauffeur neighbor whips up a little "magic" and at the ball she catches the eye of the richest man in Harlem.
A short film about a boys troubled journey across a hostile inner city and an unexpected discovery he makes.
After decades of terror, two deadly street gangs reach a delicate truce and young MJ (Silkk the Shocker) sees a way out of the hood once and for all. Only Corrupt (Ice-T) stands in MJ's way, resulting into a violent and brutal roller coaster ride of action!
A homeless ex-boxer and an inner-city kid's unlikely bond, helps them face their future, while fighting the tragedy from their past!
A group of ghetto kids try to find out who killed a popular police officer.
With a spate of violence that rocks the inner city, L.A.P.D. and ex-Marine John Kross investigates its cause: a new drug called Chaos. With help from his partner Carpenter, they delve into the mystery, only to discover a link between the drug and a terrifying supernatural power unleashed during the gulf war, witnessed by Kross twelve years ago. Now, Kross must race against time to stop the destruction, battle his own demons and come to grips with his destiny as he discovers that his reality has been mapped by a power much greater than himself.
Søde, pæne Anne Hathaway (Princess Diaries) forsøger at lægge sit polerede Disney-image bag sig ved at smide tøjet og springe på et par latino bandemedlemmer. Historien følger to piger, der dropper det pæne forstadsliv til fordel for L.A.'s gangsterinficerede undergrund og må sande, at her kan selv de mest uskyldige handlinger få katastrofale konsekvenser.
In a bid to extend his adolescence, Gordon convinces his reluctant fiancée to allow his best-friend Jez and himself to live in the house they have just bought in a bachelor pad situation for the year before they get married.
Caleb Loomis is an agoraphobic twenty-something. In his spare time he makes UFO videos with miniature cities and takes an unhealthy amount of LSD. One afternoon he hears Beatrice, the lady next door, being abused. After striking an odd friendship through the wall Caleb is made aware of who lives with Beatrice.. setting in to a motion a pitch-black psychedelic revenge fantasy.
2'eren fortsætter præcis i samme spor, som 1'eren forlod: Mens Calvin kæmper med tanken om unfair konkurrence fra den anden side af gaden, prøver Terri - den eneste kvindelige barber - at finde ud af, om hun har en fremtid med Ricky. Og Eddie forfølges af en flamme fra fortiden. Salonens eneste hvide barber, Isaac, tror stadig, at han er den sorteste i flokken, og den afrikanskfødte Dinka er stadig hemmeligt forelsket i Eve. Endelig overtages Kimmys tomme stol af Calvins fætter, Kenard, der dog tilsyneladende ikke fatter et hak af barbersalonens fundamentale formål; at skabe tryghed, frihed, bekræftelse og underholdning for sine kunder - og en sjælden gang, en klipning...