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...
In the middle of the Los Angeles ghetto, drugs, robberies and shootings dominate everyday life. Duri...
In the poverty-stricken favelas of Rio de Janeiro in the 1970s, two young men choose different paths...
For Jimmy Smith, Jr., life is a daily fight just to keep hope alive. Feeding his dreams in Detroit's...
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...
After moving to a new town, troublemaking teen Jim Stark is supposed to have a clean slate, although...
When two poor Greasers, Johnny and Ponyboy, are assaulted by a vicious gang, the Socs, and Johnny ki...
Rusty James, an absent-minded street thug, struggles to live up to his legendary older brother's rep...
The streets of the Bronx are owned by '60s youth gangs where the joy and pain of adolescence is live...
Oliver Twist the modern filmed version of Charles Dickens bestseller, a Roman Polanski adaptation. T...
Gabriel, Bobby and Costa are old friends from Altona, a multicultural hood in Hamburg. Just out of p...
From the youth directed novel of the same name by Greogor Tressnow comes a film by Detlev Buck that ...
Yamakasi - Les samouraïs des temps modernes is a 2001 French movie written by Luc Besson. It demonst...
In the slums of the upper West Side of Manhattan, tensions are high as a gang of Polish-Americans co...
A gangster, Nino, is in the Cash Money Brothers, making a million dollars every week selling crack. ...
When rebellious street dancer Andie lands at the elite Maryland School of the Arts, she finds hersel...
Two gangbangers turned cops try and cover up a scandal within the LAPD.
An inside look at Italy's modern-day crime families, the Camorra in Naples and Caserta. Based on a b...
Best buddies Acerola and Laranjinha, about to turn 18, discover things about their missing fathers' ...
Based on the true life experiences of poet Jimmy Santiago Baca, the film focuses on half-brothers Pa...