Gene Ruffini

An Afro-American L.A. gangsta hires some old school Mob has-beens to find thier shipment of drugs dumped from an airplane over desolate deserts of Texas.

Off Jackson Avenue is an interwoven crime story set in New York City involving a Mexican woman who has been tricked into sex-slavery by an Albanian pimp and must find a way to break out; A Japanese hit man who is in town to do a job for the Chinese mob and must finish his assignment despite the fact that he is haunted by his recently-dead mother's ghost; And a local car-thief who must go on one last stealing spree to raise enough money to buy a tire store and go legit. A smack-bang tale of ambition, survival and fate, Off Jackson Avenue reminds us that there are still some parts of New York City that you won't find on any map.

"Ghost Dog" (Whitaker) es un asesino a sueldo de Nueva York, un hombre de actitud tranquila en su vida diaria que se rige bajo el código de honor de los antiguos samuráis.

Bobby G. lives life on the edge in this real, raw New York street drama. Bobby is a small-time coke dealer, always on the hustle but rarely successful. He lives in Hell's Kitchen with his Puerto Rican girlfriend Lucy, who makes ends meet as a prostitute. A typical day finds Bobby selling $20 bags to neighborhood locals and passing cars. A yuppie kid looking to score a kilo of coke approaches him to broker a deal and Bobby sees the opportunity of a lifetime to make some real money. His rough days may just be over. With the tidy profit he could even leave the business. Playing out of his league, Bobby arranges to get the kilo from Astro, a fearsome, high-level drug dealer. Though Lucy announces that she's decided to go back to Puerto Rico and pleads with him to make a fresh start too, Bobby is sticking to his deal and isn't going anywhere now, convinced he'll be 'livin' large in a matter a' days...

Vinnie's a bookie, happily married, running his operation for 30 years out of his bar in Brooklyn. Times change, the boys up the chain want a bigger profit, so Vinnie's expendable He's assigned a hotheaded kid, Tony, the nephew of a local mobster. Vinnie's told to school the lad, use him for collections, and teach him some sense. What Vinnie doesn't know is that once Tony learns the ropes, Vinnie will be out. Tensions mount when Tony goes around Vinnie's paternalistic ways, takes a bet from an unemployed alcoholic, and demands that the loser's wife pay the vig in trade. Is there any way out for Vinnie - with or without his good name?

Simon, un barrendero introvertido y socialmente inadaptado, tiene que mantener con su trabajo a su depresiva madre y a su ninfómana hermana. Al barrio llega un nuevo vecino con el que entabla amistad. Es Henry Fool, un ex presidiario condenado por delitos sexuales.

Un vagabundo acude a la sala de urgencias de un hospital de Nueva York. El doctor Guy Luthan (Hugh Grant) observa que presenta extrañísimos síntomas que le resultan inexplicables.

Las Vegas, 1973. Sam "Ace" Rothstein, un profesional de las apuestas, es el eficaz director de un importante casino que pertenece a un grupo de mafiosos. Su misión es controlar el funcionamiento del negocio y garantizar que la corriente de dinero que va a parar a manos de sus jefes siga fluyendo. Las Vegas es un lugar ideal para millonarios y políticos, pero es también lugar de paso de tahúres, prestamistas, traficantes de drogas y matones. Un día el violento Nicky Santoro, al que sus jefes han encargado que cuide de Sam, llega a Las Vegas con la intención de quedarse.

Joshua, un asesino profesional, vuelve a su ciudad natal por cuestiones de trabajo. El retorno a la población de inmigrantes rusos donde pasó su juventud despierta en él recuerdos dolorosos y confusos.

Ruby Dennis is an middle-aged man with an unfulfilled ambition as a singer. As he begins to pursue that ambition, his family falls apart.