Taylor Hackford on ohjannut tämän vahvan ja eeppisen tarinan sukua toisilleen olevista pojista, jotka kasvavat aikuisiksi veljeksinä itäisen Los Angelesin väkivaltaisessa jengikulttuurissa. Heidän yhteytensä katkeaa järkyttävissä olosuhteissa, ja kohtalo kuljettaa heistä jokaisen omalle tielleen: Pacon armeijaan ja huumepoliisiksi, Miklon San Quentinin vankilan julmiin jengeihin ja Cruzin huumeidenkäyttäjäksi. Mutta verisiteet ja kunnia punovat heidän elämänsä yhteen kunkin taistellessa omalla tavallaan vallasta ja kunnioituksesta.
Poliisin eliittiryhmää johtava komisario Chan Kwok-Wing potee syyllisyyttä pulloon tarttuneena, nuorisojengin surmattua hänen johtamansa ryhmän. Nyt joutuu elämänsä haasteen eteen, kun röyhkeä rikollisjoukko alkaa tappaa tarkoituksella poliiseja. Chan päämääräksi tulee soluttautua vihollisen joukkoihin ja kostaa. Avukseen hän saa nuoren poliisin, jossa tuntuu olevan jotain kummallista.
A boy experiences first love, friendships and injustices growing up in 1960s Taiwan.
African-American Philadelphia police detective Virgil Tibbs is arrested on suspicion of murder by Bill Gillespie, the racist police chief of tiny Sparta, Mississippi. After Tibbs proves not only his own innocence but that of another man, he joins forces with Gillespie to track down the real killer. Their investigation takes them through every social level of the town, with Tibbs making enemies as well as unlikely friends as he hunts for the truth.
Island of La Réunion, in the beginning of the 20th century. Five teenagers commit a savage crime. As punishment, a Dutch captain takes them to a supernatural island with luxuriant vegetation and bewitching powers.
The story of a donkey Balthazar as he is passed from owner to owner, some kind and some cruel but all with motivations beyond his understanding. Balthazar, whose life parallels that of his first keeper, Marie, is truly a beast of burden, suffering the sins of humankind. But despite his powerlessness, he accepts his fate nobly.
The school year is over and for a diverse group of carefree kids, soccer is king! These kids believe that they are the local gold team and there is nothing they like more than improving their game. "If you want to be cool, you should be wild." However, the relentless rain turns their field into a swamp, so they have to take an unexpected break. And when the sun finally comes, a gang of older, bigger and dumber boys has just taken over the field. They won't give it back unless they lose a match against the kids.
Poliisikaan ei uskalla tulla tähän kouluun. Tämä koulu on pääteasema niille oppilaille, jotka on potkittu pois muista kouluista. Pahimmat oppilaat ovat muodostaneet mafian ja hallitsevat muita kovin ottein. Rikollisuus kukoistaa: tuhopoltto, tappo, kidutus... opettajien suojana on kovaotteinen turvallisuusmies. Kouluun palkataan uusi rehtori, Rick Latimer. Hänet on erotettu edellisestä koulusta. Rick on päättänyt murskata oppilaiden muodostaman mafian sen omilla keinoilla. Yhteentörmäys on väistämätön...
A drama about a Maori family living in Auckland, New Zealand. Lee Tamahori tells the story of Beth Heke’s strong will to keep her family together during times of unemployment and abuse from her violent and alcoholic husband.
An autobiographical film based on Taiwanese director Hou Hsiao-hsien's memories of his youth growing up in Taiwan after emigrating from mainland China.
Rio de Janeiron slummeissa isättöminä kasvaneet 18-vuotiaat kaverukset Acerola ja Laranjinha päättävät selvittää isiensä kohtalon. Etsintä panee ystävyyden kovalle koetukselle, ja menneisyyden haamut kurottavat nykypäivään keskellä slummien huumejengien välistä sotaa.
In Osaka's slum, youths without futures engage in pilfering, assault and robbery, prostitution, and the buying and selling of identity cards and of blood. Alliances constantly shift. Tatsu and Takeshi, friends since boyhood, reluctantly join Shin's gang. Shin's an upstart and moves his gang often to avoid the local kingpin. Hanoko is a young woman with ambitions: first she's in the blood business with her father, then she joins forces with Shin. She soon breaks off that partnership, even though she's taken the sensitive Takeshi under her wing. Double crosses multiply. Those with the closest bonds become each others' murderers.
An American tourist, a youth gang leader, and his troubled sister find themselves trapped in a top secret government facility experimenting on children.
As a mysterious planetary alignment sets the sky on fire, two brothers are reunited with a childhood friend.
An upbeat, action-filled drama that depicts the lives of two obnoxious high school students, Koji and Toru, who are caught in exciting and dangerous adventures involving their fellow students. Based on the best selling comic series, “Be-Bop High School” has gained popularity among the young audience, and become an icon of Japan’s pop culture in the 1980’s.
Members of a teenage gang are sent to the State Reformatory, presided over by the callous Thompson. Soon Patsy Gargan, a former gangster appointed Deputy Commissioner, arrives and takes over the administration to run the place on radical principles. Thompson needs a quick way to discredit him.
Teenage gang member Cal, hides his sexuality from his fellow gang members despite their often violent dislike of anyone that isn't the same as them, be they unsuspecting shoppers, foreign students, gays, etc. When his world collides with Olivier, a student he rescues from a pointless beating, he encounters a lifestyle that presents as many new experiences as it does obstacles.
In a typical English working-class town, the juveniles have nothing more to do than hang around in gangs. One day, Alan Darcy, a highly motivated man with the same kind of youth experience, starts trying to get the young people off the street and into doing something they can believe in: Boxing. Darcy opens a boxing club, aiming to bring the rival gangs together.
Various stories of how crack cocaine has infiltrated the inner-city streets. Based on Buddy Giovinazzo's novel "Life is Hot in Cracktown".