George T. Odom

Shadow, a once-promising boxer, finds it hard to readjust to civilian life after spending ten years in prison. Offered the chance to fight again

A lonely plumber poses as a movie director to meet women, and the writer whose script he's stolen builds on his ruse to get her movie made.

Basada en hechos reales. Rubin "Huracán" Carter era un boxeador negro que se sobrepuso a su problemática juventud y se convirtió en aspirante al título de los pesos medios. Sin embargo, sus sueños se vinieron abajo cuando, en junio de 1966, fue injustamente acusado de un triple asesinato ocurrido en un bar de Nueva Jersey. Condenado en un juicio lleno de errores, Carter fue condenado a tres cadenas perpetuas.

The actual experiences of New York City subway riders are dramatized in a collection of 10 intriguing and very different vignettes. The tales showcase an ensemble of familiar faces, and range from stories of compassion and love to reflections on violence and loss. Among them: a disabled beggar quarrels with a woman and ruins her shoes with his wheelchair, provoking onlookers to wrath and pity; a skittish tourist proves to be her own worst enemy; a newlywed trysts with a mysterious sexpot; a commuter helplessly witnesses a suicide attempt; and, in the most affecting segment, a young woman grieves over her mother's imminent death.

A museum worker pretends to be an artist in order to impress women. When an attractive assistant director of a SoHo art gallery overhears him, she offers to exhibit his work. He plays along, which leads to a series of complications following his newfound double life. He starts falling in love with the assistant director, but her art critic fiancé grows suspicious.

John Gotti, jefe de un reducido grupo mafioso neoyorquino, rompe algunas de las viejas reglas familiares, lo que le permite convertirse en el cabeza de la familia Gambino y en el jefe de la Mafia más conocido en Estados Unidos. Sin embargo, varios años después de ascender hasta la cúpula del crimen organizado, tanto su avaricia y su falta de escrúpulos como su notoriedad provocan su caída. (FILMAFFINITY)

Ed Lover and Doctor Dre are two inept barbers. Deciding that maybe they ought to find another line of work, they join the police. A big mistake, as far as their duty sergeant, Sgt Cooper is concerned, who proceeds to harass them at every turn. Despite this, they discover a major crime, and proceed to solve it in their own unusual fashion.

Malcolm Little (1925–1965) nació en Omaha (Nebraska). Su padre, ministro baptista, murió siendo él niño, y su madre acabó en un psiquiátrico cuando el Ku Klux Klan incendió su casa. Después de ser rechazado por el ejército, cayó en la delincuencia y fue a parar a la cárcel. Allí se convirtió al Islam y cambió radicalmente su vida, convirtiéndose pronto en un carismático líder del movimiento de liberación de la comunidad negra norteamericana.

A Special Jury Award winner at the Sundance Film Festival, this drama stars a then-19-year-old Matty Rich (who also wrote and directed it). Rich plays Larry, a troubled teen living in the rough Red Hook section of Brooklyn who decides he wants out and turns to crime to fund his escape. But his plan involves scamming the neighborhood's biggest drug kingpin, a heist that's dangerous at best.