The story opens with Bica, a solvent abusing waif, trying in vain to evade the Romanian police with her infant brother in tow. Separated from her sibling she is taken to Germany, concealed in the trunk of a car. There she is trained as a thief, picking the pockets of strangers to fill those of her patron. One of her victims is the separated father of Milka, a brat with razor sharp tongue. From this unlikely start a friendship forms and Bica gets a glimpse into a world of material security, if not emotional closeness...

For Jimmy Smith, Jr., life is a daily fight just to keep hope alive. Feeding his dreams in Detroit's...

After moving to a new town, troublemaking teen Jim Stark is supposed to have a clean slate, although...

In 1960s Tulsa, class divisions ignite a violent rivalry between the working-class Greasers and the ...

Absent-minded street thug Rusty James struggles to live up to his legendary older brother's reputati...

The streets of the Bronx are owned by '60s youth gangs where the joy and pain of adolescence is live...

When 9-year-old orphan Oliver Twist dares to ask his cruel taskmaster, Mr. Bumble, for a second serv...

In the middle of the Los Angeles ghetto, drugs, robberies and shootings dominate everyday life. Duri...

Three stories (Love, Heart, The Hoop) set in the urban, alienated world of a big city. It tells how ...

Oppressed by her family setting, dead-end school prospects and the boys law in the neighborhood, Mar...

Death and violence anger twelve year old drug courier Fresh, who sets his rival employers against ea...

A raw urban drama about two friends raised on the dangerous streets of Kingston, Jamaica. Biggs and ...

In the poverty-stricken favelas of Rio de Janeiro in the 1970s, two young men choose different paths...

A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan over thirty yea...

Set in 1929, a political boss and his advisor have a parting of the ways when they both fall for the...

Four Harlem friends -- Bishop, Q, Steel and Raheem -- dabble in petty crime, but they decide to go b...

The disturbed young loner Paul is looking for his place in life in the urban 80s metropolis Night Ci...

A young street hustler attempts to escape the rigors and temptations of the ghetto in a quest for a ...

A gangster, Nino, is in the Cash Money Brothers, making a million dollars every week selling crack. ...

An inside look at Italy's modern-day crime families, the Camorra in Naples and Caserta. Based on a b...

Two gangbangers turned cops try and cover up a scandal within the LAPD.