Dealer
Uma série de histórias interligadas dão um panorama sobre o alto escalão do tráfico de drogas, envolvendo um policial mexicano preso numa teia de corrupção, uma dupla de agentes do DEA (departamento antidrogas), infiltrada no perigoso mundo dos negociantes de San Diego, um barão da droga que após ser preso, explica como sua mulher tomou seu negócio ilegal e ainda um juiz da Suprema Corte de Justiça de Ohio, conhecido pela sua posição anti-drogas, que precisa lidar com sua filha viciada.
Shep Fegel
An ex-con moves to L.A. to find work and creates a disturbance by fighting for a position. More importantly he touches the lives of many of his neighbors including an older man dying of cancer, a young married couple whose husband is too proud to accept a lesser position which causes strife with his wife, and a young boy on the verge of getting in trouble with street gangs.
Mondo
The desert can be a lonely place for the people who live there or for those who are traveling through. It is also the teller of different stories including the story of a traveling salesman whose only commodity is death and the story of a young man who finds that the death that he wishes for is difficult to find. Others are just traveling through, on their way to another place when they stop to eat at Red's Desert Oasis. The food may not be great, and the waitress may be surly, but those who stopped at Red's will find that they are involved in the showdown of their life.
Weathers
A former cop in Texas comes into action when a gang threatens his family.
Pfc. Joe Brooks
Five young marines on a suicide mission in Vietnam, struggle for survival in a jungle minefield. The mean streets of home did not prepare them for this.
Craig
From Publishers Weekly The devastating story of brothers Lafayette and Pharoah Rivers, children of the Chicago ghetto, is powerfully told here by Kotlowitz, a Wall Street Journal reporter who first met the boys in 1985 when they were 10 and seven, respectively. Their family includes a mother, a frequently absent father, an older brother and younger triplets. We witness the horrors of growing up in an ill-maintained housing project tyrannized by drug gangs and where murders and shootings frequently occur.
Sharif
Jovem órfão de bairro negro de Los Angeles vive entre a comodidade de permanecer numa vida de crime e a possibilidade de construir uma nova vida longe daquela comunidade.
Alphonso
An independent filmmaker has left his profession and keeps it a secret. Years later, his niece finds his old films in a locked trunk and discovers his strong principles when it came to supporting his actors and his art overall.
Sweet
Um alienígena predador, invisível e equipado com armas poderosas, desembarca em Los Angeles, devastada pelo conflito de gangues de traficantes rivais, para iniciar seu festival de matança, deixando um rastro de corpos mutilados em seu caminho.
Child Caroler
Sandra Bernhard stars in a studio version of her off-Broadway show, blending re-enactments of the original show's pieces with concept vignettes and 'testimonials' to underscore the relationship between a performer and an audience.
