Bush Mama (1979)

An enigmatic drifter from the South comes to visit an old acquaintance who now lives in South-Central LA.

Наблюдения за жизнью афроамериканцев в городском гетто от лица тихого, незаметного человека - Стена, который работает на бойне, чтобы прокормить семью. Он трудолюбивый и честный человек, но невозможность примириться с окружающим миром подталкивает его к краю пропасти...

A hitchhiker named Martel Gordone gets in a fight with two bikers over a prostitute, and one of the bikers is killed. Gordone is arrested and sent to prison, where he joins the prison's boxing team in an effort to secure an early parole and to establish his dominance over the prison's toughest gang.

A naive young woman moves from the South to stay with her aunt and uncle in Compton. As an outsider, she struggles at first to find her footing, but soon falls into the middle of a community of rebellious youth. She soon becomes more and more aware of the social injustices of the big city.

In 1902, an African-American family living on a sea island off the coast of South Carolina prepares to move to the North.

A man who despises his upwardly mobile lawyer brother reluctantly agrees to be best man at his wedding.

In this meditative film the everyday lives of poor Ethiopian peasants are shown using documentary as well as storytelling techniques, with its drama arising out of the timeless yet persistent issues of their lives.

The story of Dorothy and her husband T.C. He is a discharged Vietnam veteran who thought he would return home to a "hero's welcome." Instead he is falsely arrested and imprisoned for a crime he didn't commit. Her life revolves around the welfare office and a community facing poverty and unemployment. As a result of the film's events, both the main characters become radicalized and Dorothy eventually turns to violence.

Charlie Banks, chronically unemployed, struggles to find dignity and a meaning for life in poorer districts of South Central Los Angeles.

Ashes and Embers is an original screenplay by Haile Gerima, about a Vietnam veteran, who, several years after the war, is struggling to come to terms with his role in the war, and his role as a Black person in America. He survives by working odd jobs in Washington, D.C. and living with his girlfriend and her son. When criticism of his alienated behavior come from her and a father figure too often, he runs to the streets or to his grandmother's rural house in Virginia. Her criticism and his memories of the past both send him fleeing again to Los Angeles, where he is surrounded by superficial people who have forgotten how to be compassionate human beings. It is here that the advice of his friends and grandmother combine to transform him from an embittered ex-soldier to a strong and confident man.

Eddie Warmack, an African American jazz musician, is released from prison for the killing of a white gangster. Not willing to play for the mobsters who control the music industry, including clubs and recording studios, Warmack searches for his mentor and grandfather, the legendary jazz musician Poppa Harris.

Daydream Therapy is set to Nina Simone’s haunting rendition of “Pirate Jenny” and concludes with Archie Shepp’s “Things Have Got to Change.” Filmed in Burton Chace Park in Marina del Rey by activist-turned-filmmaker Bernard Nicolas as his first project at UCLA, this short film poetically envisions the fantasy life of a hotel worker whose daydreams provide an escape from workplace indignities. —Allyson Nadia Field

История восемнадцатилетней девушки, начинающей работать в порнографическом бизнесе после того, как она переезжает в Сан-Франциско.

Фильм расскажет историю пяти пар, которым предстоят все радости процесса ожидания и рождения ребенка. Главная героиня 42-летняя адептка системы похудания по Джиллиан Майклз, которая ведет собственное шоу по сбросу веса и фитнесу. По сюжету героиня выясняет, что, несмотря на возраст, она ждет ребенка.

История одной из операций спецслужб США по поимке «террориста N1» Усамы Бен Ладена.

70-е годы XX века. Золотое время «Формулы-1»: обтекаемые формы гоночных машин, брутальные на треке и ранимые в обычной жизни гонщики, сексуальные поклонницы, литры шампанского на финише для победителя… Два непримиримых соперника в истории гонок — обаятельный плейбой-англичанин Джеймс Хант и дисциплинированный перфекционист-австриец Ники Лауда — доводят себя до предела физической и психологической выносливости ради триумфа на трассе. Для них нет легких путей к победе и права на ошибку. Единственный промах гонщикам может стоить карьеры и даже жизни.

Встречая приехавшую из Петербурга мать, молодой блистательный офицер граф Вронский знакомится с женой влиятельного петербургского чиновника Анной Карениной. Огонь страсти вспыхивает мгновенно, но их любовь шокирует высшее общество. В мире, где правят предрассудки и стереотипы, ей придётся сделать поистине непростой выбор между семьёй и всепоглощающей страстью…

Амбициозная замужняя женщина - это искушение красавца миллиардера, которое ведет к предательству и навсегда изменяет ход её жизни.

Monica is 13 years old and has already created her own world, on the street, where she fights courageously to defend what little she has: her friends, her boyfriend, who sells drugs, and her dignity and pride that makes no concessions to anyone. On Christmas night, like every night, she sells roses to make a living. But life brings her a new appointment with loneliness, poverty, drugs and death.

Nami is a department store worker who agrees to stand in for a friend in a magazine photo-shoot, which turns out to be for an S&M magazine. When the photos are published, she is sacked and her lover abandons her.