Dos chicas adolescentes de clase acomodada abandonan la seguridad de sus hogares en las afueras de la ciudad para explorar el peligroso ambiente de Los Ángeles Este, un barrio conflictivo donde aprenden que hasta las acciones más inocentes pueden tener consecuencias...
Tras diez años la barbería de Calvin ha cambiado, la llegada de mujeres le ha dado un nuevo aire. Pero ese ambiente de camaradería y diversión no dura para siempre y Calvin, Eddie y el resto de la pandilla deben trabajar juntos para salvar su tienda y el vecindario de una pandilla que deambula por las calles.
Calvin ha heredado el negocio de su padre, y lo considera una carga y una absoluta perdida de tiempo. Tras vender la tienda a un usurero, Calvin comienza a valorar el legado de su padre y se da cuenta de que ha cometido el mayor error de su vida. La Barbería envuelve a un grupo de personajes eclécticos y divertidos que comparten sus historias, chistes y aflicciones. Encontramos a Eddie, un viejo barbero con una fuerte personalidad y ningún cliente. Jimmy, con un alto nivel de educación y un gran complejo de superioridad que no le permite soportar a Isaac, el nuevo barbero de raza blanca cuya única obsesión es que le den la oportunidad de cortar el pelo a alguien. Ricky es un ex-convicto con dos condenas a su espalda que intenta desesperadamente rehacer su vida de forma correcta. Terry es una mujer que a pesar de sus esfuerzos es incapaz de abandonar a su novio infiel.
Calvin (Ice Cube) ha estado a punto de perder su negocio, una barbería que ha pasado por varias generaciones de su familia, debido a las deudas compiladas; sin embargo, un golpe de suerte ha paliado sus vicisitudes económicas y afortunadamente podrá mantener su barbería abierta por más tiempo. No obstante, la fatalidad parece estar de lado del empresario y, a pesar de haber vencido el riesgo mencionado, una nueva amenaza atenta contra su negocio. La zona donde está ubicada la barbería va a ser regenerada y se van a abrir numerosas franquicias de bares, peluquerías y demás clubes de ocio, con lo que los negocios familiares del lugar corren peligro. A Calvin solo le queda ahora confiar en sus clientes y en el afecto que estos prodigan a su barbería, donde el corte de pelo se convierte en un servicio más, pues en realidad los asiduos a su negocio encuentran aquí un espacio donde desahogar sus penas y alegrías.
Every school day, African-American teenagers William Gates and Arthur Agee travel 90 minutes each way from inner-city Chicago to St. Joseph High School in Westchester, Illinois, a predominately white suburban school well-known for the excellence of its basketball program. Gates and Agee dream of NBA stardom, and with the support of their close-knit families, they battle the social and physical obstacles that stand in their way. This acclaimed documentary was shot over the course of five years.
With a spate of violence that rocks the inner city, L.A.P.D. and ex-Marine John Kross investigates its cause: a new drug called Chaos. With help from his partner Carpenter, they delve into the mystery, only to discover a link between the drug and a terrifying supernatural power unleashed during the gulf war, witnessed by Kross twelve years ago. Now, Kross must race against time to stop the destruction, battle his own demons and come to grips with his destiny as he discovers that his reality has been mapped by a power much greater than himself.
Todos los ladronzuelos del marginal barrio de Colinwood, en Cleveland, sueñan con el crimen perfecto; lo que en su jerga llaman un "Bellini": un golpe que implica un sustancioso botín, pero que es tan fácil que el más tonto podría llevarlo a cabo. Según Cosimo, el "cerebro" de la operación, sólo es preciso contar con un cabeza de turco, alguien que necesite tanto los 5.000 dólares que está dispuesto a ofrecer, que no dude en pasar en la cárcel el tiempo que debería pasar él.
In the slums, teenager Frankie Warren hangs out with a rowdy gang who one day knock him out in a fight. In court, the boys refuse to reveal who struck the knockout blow, and all are subsequently sentenced to a reformatory, cruelly run by two corrupt guards. New deputy commissioner Mark Braden arrives determined to change things, but despite the help of Frankie's sister, Mark's reform plans -- and Frankie's future -- may be sabotaged from within.
Maggie Cole is a research scientist who, after the sudden death of her husband, takes a position as an on-call doctor in an inner-city clinic. There, she must fight a battle on two fronts: against the medical conditions endangering her patients and against sexism toward a female doctor.
After decades of terror, two deadly street gangs reach a delicate truce and young MJ (Silkk the Shocker) sees a way out of the hood once and for all. Only Corrupt (Ice-T) stands in MJ's way, resulting into a violent and brutal roller coaster ride of action!
Documental que se centra en los encuentros en una vía férrea que cruza de norte a sur por París y sus alrededores: una señora de la limpieza, un comerciante de chatarra, un escritor, una enfermera, un cazador y la propia cineasta.
Various stories of how crack cocaine has infiltrated the inner-city streets. Based on Buddy Giovinazzo's novel "Life is Hot in Cracktown".
Report on vandalism
A homeless ex-boxer and an inner-city kid's unlikely bond, helps them face their future, while fighting the tragedy from their past!
A documentary on young black children living in Toronto public housing.
On a gang-controlled dead end street, Sheree Farmer is raising her six children alone. With the help of Mary Abernathy, a former fashion industry executive turned community activist, Sheree struggles to buy her first home and escape her violent and drug-infested Newark neighborhood. In HOME, director Jeffrey Togman follows these two exceptional women in an intimate story that speaks to the future of America's cities.
Vietnam veteran Archibald Wright is a house painter hired to work on a Beverly Hills mansion where he becomes involved in the life of the resident family. The owner Elaine left her husband J.P. while he was serving in Vietnam, causing him to become an alcoholic hobo living in downtown Los Angeles. Archibald tries to help their daughter Tory to continue her relationship with her father, even though Elaine is strongly against it.
On the hottest day of the year, an unknown virus spreads throughout inner-city Philadelphia. The infected victims, crazed by dehydration, begin attacking other residents of the neighborhood in gruesome ways. When the military is brought in to contain the situation, but realize they can't come up with a vaccine quickly enough, they fence off the area and let everyone die. A group of locals, stuck in the basement of their building, behind the fences, and separated from their family members, band together to try to survive.
A group of ghetto kids try to find out who killed a popular police officer.
In a bid to extend his adolescence, Gordon convinces his reluctant fiancée to allow his best-friend Jez and himself to live in the house they have just bought in a bachelor pad situation for the year before they get married.