Vita segreta di Maria Capasso (2019)

From the youth directed novel of the same name by Greogor Tressnow comes a film by Detlev Buck that is a realistic portrait of life in the section of Berlin called Neukölln. It’s about power and weakness, delinquents and victims, and the difficulties a 15-year-old faces in a poor and criminal environment.

Maria, uma colombiana de 17 anos, descobre que está grávida e precisa encontrar um novo trabalho com urgência. Ela se envolve com o sedutor Franklin, que lhe oferece um perigoso trabalho transportando drogas.

Planejando se aposentar e começar uma nova vida, sr. X, um traficante bem sucedido de West End, recebe um pedido de um último favor: negociar a venda de um milhão de pílulas de ecstasy. Infelizmente para o sr. X., as pílulas foram roubadas de um grande traficante sérvio que irá cortar sua cabeça se ele vendê-las. E com um czar do crime de Londres prometendo aposentá-lo permanentemente se ele não vender, sr. X tem toda razão de estar preocupado com o seu futuro. Não há nada pelo qual valha a pena perder a cabeça.

Christine is a pasty-faced teen in a windbreaker and ill-fitting striped shirt who walks endlessly from one friend's house to another, delivering heroin while their parents are absent.

Após uma viagem à Tailândia, um principiante correio de droga dá por ele sob custódia policial, com o estômago cheio de narcóticos.

Set in Tangier, Traitors tells the story of Maika, a calm, conservative girl by day and a leader of an all-girl punk group by night.

Marselha, França. Um assassino profissional, Pierre Nicoli, mata um detetive francês. Paralelamente em Nova York, Jimmy “Popeye” Doyle, um detetive da polícia, e Buddy “Cloudy” Russo, seu parceiro, investigam discretamente Salvatore “Sal” Boca, um pequeno comerciante, que está tendo gastos muito acima da sua renda. Cada vez existem mais indícios que grande parte da renda de Sal é ganha ilegalmente e, no processo, é ajudado pela esposa, Angie Boca.

Cheech e Chong se conheceram e logo são presos e eventualmente deportados para o México. Para conseguirem regressar aos Estados Unidos, a dupla recebe inadvertidamente uma van feita de maconha, que ao longo do trajeto deixa todos os que seguem chapados e acabam parando em um festival de rock.

Desiludido pelas dificuldades da vida, Michael, um garoto negro de 12 anos, inteligente, apelidado de Fresh, trafica drogas, por intermédio do traficante Esteban, para sobreviver e ajudar a família. Lutando da única maneira que sabe fazer, Fresh desafia as desigualdades indo adiante em crimes locais e num perigoso jogo de sobrevivência! Esporadicamente Fresh se encontra com o pai Sam, que se tornou mendigo. Sam ensina o filho a jogar xadrez e mais, a encarar a vida como um tabuleiro, no qual as peças devem ser movimentadas após muito raciocínio. Ao longo da história, Fresh, que não usa drogas, tenta salvar sua irmã Nichole, dependente química que namora um traficante poderoso. Como num jogo, ele esquematiza seu golpe de mestre e com um xeque mate consegue se vingar.

Marine Boy is the story of a former national swimmer who finds himself in debt, and out of desperation is employed as a mule by a gangster boss, smuggling drugs by sea.

Afghan Heroin: The Lost War is a documentary which investigates how the war on terror in Afghanistan has unleashed heroin into the mainstream. Heroin is one of the most addictive drugs on Earth. Some 90 per cent of the drug is grown in Afghanistan and this hard hitting documentary investigates how the War on Terror has inadvertently unleashed a massive supply of the deadly drug. After the Western coalition troops started their hunt for terrorist Osama Bin Laden and his Taliban allies in late 2001, the country torn apart from decades of war once more became the world’s opium growing capital. Many impoverished farmers had no choice but to grow the opium poppy to feed their families. The documentary delve into the devastating effects of addiction that includes shocking scenes of a young Norwegian couple hustling, scoring and shooting up several times a day in order to appease the monster inside them.

Quando a inocente jovem Lucy (Scarlett Johansson) aceita transportar drogas dentro do seu estômago, ela não conhece muito bem os riscos que corre. Por acaso, ela acaba absorvendo as drogas, e um efeito inesperado acontece: Lucy ganha poderes sobre-humanos, incluindo a telecinesia, a ausência de dor e a capacidade de adquirir conhecimento instantaneamente.

O primeiro show de rock beneficente quando grandes músicos se apresentaram para arrecadar fundos de ajuda humanitária para os refugiados de Bangladesh na guerra de 1971.

Escaping gangsters trying to kill her because of being witness to a crime, Gloria (Victoria Abril), a young woman of lower class, comes back to Madrid, Spain and to her family. There she tries to find work and earn some money.

I am Ancizar Lopez, Colombian. But I ain't no drug dealer. I am a cocaine exporter, which ain't the same thing. My heart belongs to two women who were my glory and today, are my downfall.

A naive Canadian barber who knows US popular culture inside and out meets a flamboyant roadie who needs someone to drive her and her "brother's" corpse from Thunder Bay, Ontario to New Orleans. Chaos ensues after the barber agrees to drive her, the corpse, and the drugs stashed within all the way.

Anne Hamilton-Byrne was beautiful, charismatic and delusional. She was also incredibly dangerous. Convinced she was the reincarnation of Jesus Christ, Hamilton-Byrne headed an apocalyptic sect called The Family, which was prominent in Melbourne from the 1960s through to the 1990s. With her husband Bill, she acquired numerous children – some through adoption scams, some born to cult members – and raised them as her own. Isolated from the outside world, the children were dressed in matching outfits, had identical dyed blonde hair, and were allegedly beaten, starved and injected with LSD. Taught that Hamilton-Byrne was both their mother and the messiah, the children were eventually rescued during a police raid in 1987, but their trauma had only just begun.

This entry in the Crime Does Not Pay series focuses on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's effort to ensure that drugs are fully tested before they are sold to consumers. Two unscrupulous investors market the drug 'Diabulin' as a substitute for insulin after preliminary tests show good results. After a short time, however, users start dying from the drug. The FDA and the state attorney general's office then go after the drug marketers.

A story about the relationship between the slum dwellers in Chennai and how certain anti-social elements create unrest in their lives.

A teenage girl gets involved in the process of delivering a pack of cocaine to its client, and gets stuck in a weird cycle of occurrences.