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.

Um assassino profissional de Nova York segue as regras dos samurais orientais e respeita apenas o seu próprio código de ética. Mas quando o seu chefe mafioso não cumpre com o acordo mantido entre eles, o matador deve lutar para salvar a sua vida.

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?

An egocentric bum transforms the lives of a shy New Jersey garbageman and his sister.

Guy Luthan é um médico inglês que, trabalhando em um hospital de Nova York, começa a fazer perguntas quando repara que o corpo de um homem que morreu na emergência desapareceu. Na verdade não há nem registros de sua entrada. Ao tentar descobrir a verdade, o médico encontra pistas que têm relação com um eminente cirurgião, mas logo se vê em perigo, pois algumas pessoas não querem que os segredos do hospital venham à tona.

Um diretor de cassino com um passado comprometedor. Uma prostituta de alta classe, que dominava a todos, menos ao seu cafetão. E um gângster, que tomava conta do diretor do cassino e passa gradativamente, a seguir os passos dela, criando um painel de Las Vegas dos anos 70, quando a Máfia controlava o jogo, até o gradual surgimento das grandes corporações, que ficaram no lugar das quadrilhas e transformaram a cidade em uma Disneylandia.

Joshua Shapira é contratado para matar um homem em Little Odessa, região onde cresceu. Porém, ele precisa permanecer incógnito, pois o chefão da máfia russa está atrás dele. Rumores sobre o seu retorno se espalham e seu irmão caçula vai procurá-lo.

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.