American Lowrider (2013)

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.

念願のロス市警麻薬捜査課勤務となった新人刑事ジェイク。伝説のベテラン刑事アロンゾのパートナーとなって意気揚々と現場に趣くが、信じられない現実が待ち受けていて……。デンゼル・ワシントンがアカデミー主演男優賞を受賞したサスペンス・アクション。

Mousie and Sad Girl are childhood best friends in a contemporary Los Angeles poor Hispanic neighborhood. But when Sad Girl becomes pregnant by Mousie's boyfriend, a drug dealer named Ernesto, the two become bitter enemies. While their dispute escalates towards violence, the violence of the world around them soon also impacts their lives.

A streetwise man flees South Central Los Angeles, heading to the suburbs and his lottery-winner uncle and cousin, to avoid a neighborhood thug with a grudge who has just escaped from prison.

A confident young cop is shown the ropes by a veteran partner in the dangerous gang-controlled barrios of Los Angeles, where the gang culture is enforced by the colors the members wear.

During his 18 years in Folsom Prison, street-gang leader Santana rules over all the drug-and-murder activities behind bars. Upon his release, Santana goes back to his old neighborhood, intending to lead a peaceful, crime-free life. But his old gang buddies force him back into his old habits.

夏夜のニューヨーク。何組ものギャングチームがブロンクスの公園に集結。ギャングの実力者でギャングチーム「リフス」のリーダーでもあるサイラスの召集を受け、集会が行なわれた。ブルックリン・コニーアイランドを縄張りとする「ウォリアーズ」のメンバーも、その集会に参加したが、サイラスが演説中に銃殺されてしまう。「ローグス」のリーダーであるルーサーが、サイラスの死体のそばにいた「ウォリアーズ」が犯人であると叫び濡れ衣を着せる。「リフス」は「ウォリアーズ」のメンバーに復讐するため、他のギャングチームにも指示をして、集会場所であるブロンクスから地元のコニー・アイランドへ帰ろうとする「ウォリアーズ」を狙う。

Los Angeles teenager Ritchie Valens becomes an overnight rock 'n' roll success in 1958, thanks to a love ballad called "Donna" that he wrote for his girlfriend. But as his star rises, Valens has conflicts with his jealous brother, Bob, and becomes haunted by a recurring nightmare of a plane crash just as he begins his first national tour alongside Buddy Holly.

The story of America's most famous mobsters and their rise to power. Examine Al Capone's ascension through the eyes of his second in command, “Machine Gun” Jack McGurn.

マイケル・ダグラス主演、不条理なユーモアとアイロニーが劇中の至るところに散りばめられたサスペンス。厳格で生真面目な男・D-フェンスは、ある日渋滞に巻き込まれると、突如として車を乗り捨て黙々と歩き始める。

A young street artist in East Los Angeles is caught between his father's obsession with lowrider car culture, his ex-felon brother and his need for self-expression.

幼いマリーのもと、おじいちゃんがオウムのひな、ポーリーを連れてきた。ポーリーは人間の言葉を理解し、人間の言葉をしゃべる不思議なオウム。思うように言葉を話せない飼い主マリーのことを想ったポーリーは、彼女の言葉の先生になる。しかし、ポーリーとしか遊ばない娘を心配した両親は、ポーリーをカゴに入れて遠くへ連れていってしまった・・・。ポーリーは愛しいマリーのもとへ帰るため、旅へ出る決意をした。だが、そこにはいくつもの試練が待ちうけていた・・・。

A wealthy Los Angeles teen and her superficial friends wants to break out of suburbia and experience Southern California's "gangsta" lifestyle. But problems arise when the preppies get in over their heads and provoke the wrath of a violent Latino gang. Suddenly, their role-playing seems a little too real.

Jaime Escalante is a mathematics teacher in a school in a hispanic neighbourhood. Convinced that his students have potential, he adopts unconventional teaching methods to try and turn gang members and no-hopers into some of the country's top algebra and calculus students.

A focus on life in a gang, Boulevard Nights portrays the dangers of street violence. Richard Yniguez plays a young Chicano who tries to get out of the gang, but he keeps finding himself drawn back into it.

Cheech and Chong house sit for a marijuana grower and rip off the crop. Stalked by keystone-style cops, Los Guys have a series of encounters with L.A. area characters even weirder than themselves

A disaffected Texas teen spends his 16th birthday getting high, hanging out and having casual sex.

Fast-talking Latino con artist Pestario "Pest" Vargas is the target of Scottish mobsters to whom he owes a considerable debt. Willing to do anything to raise money and avoid severe injury or death, Vargas agrees to a very unusual job -- he will be transported to a remote island and hunted by Gustav Shank, a racist German executive. If he can survive a full day and night, Vargas gets $50,000 and will be set free. Is he wily enough to elude Shank?

With the help of their high school's newest teacher, four Hispanic students form a robotics club. Although they have no experience, the youths set their sights on a national robotics contest. With $800 and parts scavenged from old cars, they build a robot and compete against reigning champion MIT. Along the way, the students learn not only how to build a robot but something far more important: how to forge bonds that will last a lifetime.

Gripping, heartbreaking, and ultimately hopeful, Waiting for Superman is an impassioned indictment of the American school system from An Inconvenient Truth director Davis Guggenheim.