Crime, Action, Drama, Thriller
Based on the true life experiences of poet Jimmy Santiago Baca, the film focuses on half-brothers Paco and Cruz, and their bi-racial cousin Miklo. It opens in 1972, as the three are members of an East L.A. gang known as the "Vatos Locos", and the story focuses on how a violent crime and the influence of narcotics alter their lives. Miklo is incarcerated and sent to San Quentin, where he makes a "home" for himself. Cruz becomes an exceptional artist, but a heroin addiction overcomes him with tragic results. Paco becomes a cop and an enemy to his "carnal", Miklo.
MOVIE COMMENTS
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February
James and Alice
Fragilità
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Street of Fury
Detroit
A Million Miles Away
I'm No Longer Here
Bholaa
Vina: Before 7 Days
It’s Nice in Here
Speak Up! It's So Dark
All the Young Men
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Chiangmai Gangster
IMDB 10 | Sep , 2017
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IMDB 0 | Feb , 2026
A former thief driving through a small town is coerced into stealing a valuable statue but finds himself in hot water after he's accused of murder.Tio's Game
IMDB 0 | Jan , 2003
Guns. Drugs. Violence. Gangs. Murder. The story of what happens when a young man trades his hopes and dreams for vengeance. To save his brother from the clutches of their drug-dealing uncle and a rival drug gang, Juan must make the ultimate sacrifice. Once Juan picks up his first gun, his plans of college, a girlfriend, and a future vanish as he becomes consumed by the darker side of the life his is fighting against. This is a GAME where you either win or lose your life!The Artifice Artist
IMDB 0 | Mar , 2016
A magician desperately trying to perfect a trick as he fails to present it to others, slowly devolving into insanity.Loss of Altitude
IMDB 0 | Jan , 2026
Where do we go when everyone wants their country back? A film about collective guilt and what remains between two people when an entire nation looks away.Curfew Breakers
IMDB 5 | Mar , 1957
Police Lieutenant Lacey, with aid from Coach Bettger, heads a crack-down on dope-peddling to high-school athletes. One kid dies from an overdose, two more kill a gas station attendant in an aborted hold-up attempt to get money to buy dope, and a third dies in a fall in a condemned empty building while fleeing from the law. With the aid of some outraged students, the dope pusher is brought to justice.Woke
IMDB 7 | Jun , 2024
When a young woman meets her boyfriend’s parents for the first time, she finds a grim fate waiting for her at their cabin in Cleveland.February
IMDB 0 | Apr , 2024
A Mexican immigrant struggles to fit into a small town in Wisconsin until he discovers ice fishing.James and Alice
IMDB 6.3 | May , 2016
The married life of James and Alice turns sour due to their busy lifestyles and they end up filing for divorce. However, their lives take a turn when James meets with a car accident.Fragilità
IMDB 0 | Dec , 2025
Hinsehäxan
IMDB 7 | Jan , 2012
About Lillemor Östlin in the 60s and 70s. Her downfall from the glamorous Stockholm nightlife to drug addiction, crime and prostitution.Street of Fury
IMDB 5 | Aug , 1996
Brothers Lung and Fu were raised in Nam Tin housing project. Fu always thought joining the underworld is his only way out. Fu's girlfriend Yi is raped by local bully "Four Eyes" Keung. In a rage Lung and Fu attacked Four Eyes and injured him. They know they can't stay in Nam Tin and decide to move to Portland Street for a new life. Later in a gang fight, Fu insults Keung's boss, Crazy Fai and is chased by him and his gang...Detroit
IMDB 7.3 | Jul , 2017
A police raid in Detroit in 1967 results in one of the largest citizens' uprisings in the history of the United States.A Million Miles Away
IMDB 7.6 | Sep , 2023
The life of engineer and former NASA astronaut José M. Hernández, the first migrant farmworker to go to space.I'm No Longer Here
IMDB 7.9 | Oct , 2019
In Monterrey, Mexico, a young street gang spends their days dancing to slowed-down cumbia and attending parties. After a mix-up with a local cartel, their leader is forced to migrate to the U.S. but quickly longs to return home.Bholaa
IMDB 5.9 | Mar , 2023
An ex-convict must undertake a perilous, violent journey in order to meet his daughter after ten years of imprisonment.Vina: Before 7 Days
IMDB 5.9 | May , 2024
Victim of atrocities by motorbike gangs in Cirebon, VINA did not accept that her death was called a single accident. Her spirit enters to reveal the facts. Before 7 Days, what actually happened?It’s Nice in Here
IMDB 5.8 | Jun , 2023
A fragmented portrait of a moment, a person, and a place, seen through the subjective memories of a young Black girl, Imani, and a rookie police officer, David, who both have wildly different recollections of the same fateful moment in a corner store that will leave their lives altered forever.Speak Up! It's So Dark
IMDB 5.5 | Feb , 1993
Psychological drama about the meeting between a neo-nazi and a Jewish doctor.All the Young Men
IMDB 6.3 | Aug , 1960
During the Korean War, the lieutenant in charge of a Marine rifle platoon is killed in battle. Before he dies, he places the platoon's sergeant, who's black, in charge. The sergeant figures on having trouble with two men in his platoon: a private who has much more combat experience than he does, and a racist Southerner who doesn't like blacks in the first place and has no intention of taking orders from one.