Tre fettere vokser opp i tøffe East Los Angeles. Men etter en bloding bandekrig splittes de og går ulike skjebner i møte. Paco blir politimann. Miklo havner i fengsel. Og Cruz blir narkotikamisbruker. Til tross for dette holder blondsbåndene dem sammen.
Den unge og lovende politimannen Jake Hoyt har ambisjoner om en plass i elitestyrken i LAs narkotikapoliti. Lederen for teamet, den erfarne og hardbarka offiseren Alonzo Harris, gir Jake en sjanse, en dag ute i feltet. Jake blir imidlertid snart tvunget til å stille spørsmål ved Harris' metoder, og politiets integritet.
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.
Mousie and Sad Girl are childhood best friends in a contemporary Los Angeles poor Hispanic neighborhood. But when Sad Girl becomes pregnant by Mousie's boyfriend, a drug dealer named Ernesto, the two become bitter enemies. While their dispute escalates towards violence, the violence of the world around them soon also impacts their lives.
Chicano gangster Micky Solis finds that his family has been slaughtered by the Chinese mob. His whole life force turns to finding the killers. A slick lawyer (Angus MacFadyen) leads Micky to a "nun" (Paz De La Huerta) who shows him who the killers are that took his family from him. Micky unleashes a war of bullets and emotions on the family until each one dies by the same sword they wielded. The only thought on Micky's mind is REVENGE: VENGANZA.
A young Chicano gang member in Los Angeles comes to realize that the gang life is not what he really wants but doesn't know how to get out.
Lefty-a hard working, light hearted man is looking to make a decent buck. But when a simple bet goes horribly wrong, Lefty is stuck between a rock and gangster who's dead set on collecting his money.
Johnny Sun is a Mexican American with a white mother and Mexican dad. He witnesses his parents murder and gets his revenge years later, leading to a hard life as a gangster in drugs and smuggling. He tries to keep his borther from the life and finds himself fending for his own life.
Violence erupts when two vicious street gangs go to war in the inner city. Duke, the gang leader of Tokers Town, is feeling the pressure from his Barrio to go to war with their rival gang 14th St. But while Duke was in jail he made a peace treaty with the leader of 14th St. only to discover they had broken it. Now with his homies getting shot and his mothers pleas to stop the violence he is at the breaking point.
A cop is assigned to investigate this so-called chupacabra that’s been seen all over town.
A man named Lucio decides to avenge the death of his sister-in-law after she is killed during a break-in. In order to complete this task, he must become part of a gang.
Two childhood friends must fight against each other after growing up to be on opposite sides of the law.
Creeper helps friend and comedian Christina P rediscover her Inner Chola.