Based on the true life experiences of poet Jimmy Santiago Baca, the film focuses on half-brothers Paco and Cruz, and their bi-racial cousin Miklo. It opens in 1972, as the three are members of an East L.A. gang known as the "Vatos Locos", and the story focuses on how a violent crime and the influence of narcotics alter their lives. Miklo is incarcerated and sent to San Quentin, where he makes a "home" for himself. Cruz becomes an exceptional artist, but a heroin addiction overcomes him with tragic results. Paco becomes a cop and an enemy to his "carnal", Miklo.

The brief life of Jean Michel Basquiat, a world renowned New York street artist struggling with fame...

Scout Finch, 6, and her older brother Jem live in sleepy Maycomb, Alabama, spending much of their ti...

Tom Joad returns to his home after a jail sentence to find his family kicked out of their farm due t...

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

A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the U.S.-Vietnam War has on his fellow rec...

Heroin addict Mark Renton stumbles through bad ideas and sobriety attempts with his unreliable frien...

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

A traveling theatre troupe tours the Greek countryside from 1939 to the early 1950s, staging “Golfo ...

Geeky teenager David and his popular twin sister, Jennifer, get sucked into the black-and-white worl...

Two young high school boys spike the punch at a Halloween party, mischievously let the air out of ca...

A new principal comes to the underdeveloped village school that is affected by lazy teachers and dru...

An aspiring designer from the slums of Chicago puts herself through fashion school in the hopes of b...

When the mastermind behind New York's infamous Studio 54 disco plucks young Shane from the sea of fa...

Co-directed by Blackwood and Julien, the first full-length feature film by Sankofa Film and Video of...

The fast career of a young Neapolitan among contraband, gambling dens, bribes and illegality. He wil...

Three troubled young girls will do anything to escape their stifling lives - even if it means turnin...

In 19th-century Louisiana's Cajun country, Belizaire is the informal spokesman for his citizens, who...

Jim is the drummer for the great black musician Billy Swann. With him, he plays in a club called San...

An undercover cop in a not-too-distant future becomes involved with a dangerous new drug and begins ...