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When a store owner catches him painting graffiti on the store's wall, Zee must choose between making a statement and making art.
Cuando el propietario de una tiendo sorprende a Zee pintarrajeando las paredes de la tienda, Zee está indeciso entre crear un mensaje y crear una obra de arte.
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Rogelio se debate entre su familia en el hogar y su pandilla en la calle. Su tío intenta ayudarle a seguir el camino correcto siguiendo sus sueños de ser luchador, pero por otro lado decide continuar con su pandilla consumiendo drogas, asaltando casas y atacando a quien se le pusiera enfrente.
Rogelio is torn between his family at home and his gang life. He is conflicted between the advice from his uncle who is trying to get him to follow his dreams...
4) El Mariachi
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All he wants is to be a mariachi, like his father, his grandfather and his great grandfather before him. But the town he thinks will bring him luck brings only a curse--of deadly mistaken identity. Forced to trade his guitar for a gun, the mariachi is playing for his life.
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Sarita goes out dancing one night at the insistence of her free-spirited sister, Bea. Uncharacteristically, Sarita dances the night away, heading home alone when the party drags on too late. The next morning, after calling friends and neighbors, Sarita begins to panic when she realizes that Bea never made it home. The police are indifferent and unhelpful, but Sarita suspects that Bea's disappearance has something to do with Andrés, her sister's dangerous...
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"Es Nochebuena en Harlem, pero Lolly Rachpaul de doce años y su madre no celebrarán esta noche. Todavía se están recuperando de la muerte del hermano mayor a causa de un tiroteo relacionado a una pandilla hace unos meses atrás. Luego la amiga de la madre de Lolly le trae un regalo que lo cambiará todo: dos bolsas enormes llenas de Legos. A Lolly siempre le ha encantado armar Legos y se enorgullece en seguir estrictamente las instrucciones de...
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Milio & Chabe are two siblings that grew up in poverty exploitation and abuse. Their godfather, Don Tono, dies at the hands of Milio after offending their family honor. Still a young man, Milio is incarcerated for the crime. In jail he discovers the violent ways of a group called 'Los Maras', who take him as part of their 'family' where soon he will become a leader of the gang.
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In "El mariachi", a would-be musician is mistaken for a criminal and must fight for his life. "Desperado" tells the story of a guitar player out for vengeance against the men who murdered his girlfriend. In "Bedhead", a young girl must use telekinetic powers to battle her brother.
11) Victorio
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The raw story of the marginalization and discrimination faced in the dark world of Mexico's violent gangs. Drugs, prostitution, violence and disease permeate this seedy underworld. A stark look at this inhumane world that no person could imagine even in their most sinister nightmares.
12) Rebeldes
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Three brothers struggle to stay together after their parents' death, as they search for an identity among the conflicting values of their adolescent society in which they find themselves "outsiders."
13) El odio que das
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"Starr es una chica de dieciséis años que vive entre dos mundos: el barrio pobre de gente negra donde nació, y su escuela situada en un elegante barrio residencial blanco. El difícil equilibrio entre ambos se hace añicos cuando ella es testigo de la muerte a tiros de su mejor amigo, Khalil, a manos de un policía. A partir de ese momento, todo lo que Starr diga acerca de la aterradora noche que cambió su vida podrá ser usado de excusa por unos...
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In Chicago, a day of reckoning approaches for Rory, a rising Irish-Mexican street lieutenant for the Olmec street gang when his trusted life-long friend Eloy comes home from prison. Tensions rise as Eloy dives right back into the chaotic crucible of violence and retribution that engulfs their neighborhood, putting both their friendship and loyalty to each other to the test.
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Interpol's Office of Special Investigations sends Santo to Ecuador to investigate the abducting of Pedro Miller, a former counterfeiter. The OSI believes that Miller is being forced into working for a forging gang. El Santo tracks down the gang that is forcing Miller to collaborate. Of course, there is much wrestling involved.
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"La banda" es el primer estudio documentado sobre la génesis y la historia de las pandillas juveniles. Originalmente publicado en 1927, la obra magna de Frederic M. Thrasher ofrece un análisis profundo y cuidadoso de 1.313 bandas de Chicago en la segunda década del siglo xx, poco antes de la Gran Depresión. Con una prosa rica y atenta a los detalles, Thrasher se fija en la manera como la geografía urbana conforma a las bandas, y plantea la tesis...
19) Siete en la mira
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A crime thriller of irrational violence, hate and revenge.
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Angelo is a new resident to the project, where his cousin is the drug lord of one of the sides. He falls in love with Cristal, the sister of the opposing drug lord enemy of his cousin. With lack of support from both sides, they meet secretly and their love grows deeper. The gangs are plotting one last war, a fight that will finally determine who controls the drug territories. Can a love of this magnitude overcome this environment?
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