DA HOOD

Young drug pushers in the projects of Brooklyn live hard dangerous lives, trapped between their drug bosses and the detectives out to stop them.

On the hottest day of the year on a street in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, everyone's hate and bigotry smolders and builds until it explodes into violence.

Follows the lives of three young males living in the Crenshaw ghetto of Los Angeles, dissecting questions of race, relationships, violence, and future prospects.

Four inner-city teenagers get caught up in the pursuit of power and happiness, which they refer to as "the juice".

Story of a promising high school basketball star and his relationships with two brothers, one a drug dealer and the other a former basketball star fallen on hard times and now employed as a security guard.

A crime lord ascends to power and becomes megalomaniacal while a maverick police detective vows to stop him.

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

It's Friday, and Craig and Smokey must come up with $200 they owe a local bully or there won't be a Saturday.

A streetwise man flees South Central Los Angeles, heading to the suburbs and his lottery-winner uncle and cousin, to avoid a neighborhood thug with a grudge who has just escaped from prison.

Working as security guards, Craig and Day-Day run into the thief who stole their Christmas presents.

The rap group NWA emerges from the mean streets of Compton in the mid-1980s and revolutionizes hip-hop culture with their music and tales about life in the hood.

Follows a young rapper in the Detroit area, struggling with every aspect of his life; he wants to make it big but his friends and foes make this odyssey of rap harder than it may seem.

A parody of several U.S. films about being in the 'Hood', for instance Boyz n the Hood (1991), South Central (1992), Menace II Society (1993), Higher Learning (1995) and Juice (1992).

People from all different walks of life, encounter racial tension, rape, responsibility, and the meaning of an education on a university campus.

Grieving hairdresser Justice goes on a road trip from South Central L.A. to Oakland on a mail truck alongside her friend and an obnoxious postal worker.

Desperation drives four inner-city women to bank robbery in Los Angeles, then they start mistrusting each other.

A Vietnam vet adjusts to life after the war while trying to support his family, but the chance of a better life may involve crime and bloodshed.

In South Central L.A., a misguided 20-year-old African-American man, a "baby boy", faces the commitments of real life.

A day in the life of a group of teens as they travel around New York City skating, drinking, smoking and deflowering virgins.

A guy makes a documentary of the rap band CB4 by following them. CB4 got popular by stealing Gusto's name, background and image. He wants them dead.

Death and violence anger a twelve-year-old drug courier, who sets his employers against each other.

Jason and Midget are two young, black teenagers living in Newark,New Jersey, the unofficial car theft capital of the world. Their favourite pastime is that of everybody in their neighbourhood: stealing cars and joyriding. The trouble starts when they steal a police car and the cops launch a violent offensive that involves beating and even shooting suspects.

Two young friends involved in organized crime and drug dealing find that their priorities differ.

Two brothers, survivors of family tragedy, take different life paths: one falls for a high-spirited waitress and dreams of success, the other follows a life of petty crime. Their lives reconnect in shattering fashion.

15 months after being stabbed 9 times by a student at work as a high school teacher in NYC, Mr. Garfield is working in LA as a substitute teacher come full-time. He refuses to be a victim anymore.