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- During the 1980s, a failed stand-up comedian is driven insane and turns to a life of crime and chaos in Gotham City while becoming an infamous psychopathic crime figure.
- In Washington Heights, a sympathetic New York bodega owner saves every penny every day as he imagines and sings about a better life.
- In New York City 1981, an ambitious immigrant fights to protect his business and family during the most dangerous year in the city's history.
- Two corporate executive assistants hatch a plan to match-make their two bosses.
- In New York City's Harlem circa 1987, an overweight, abused, illiterate teen who is pregnant with her second child is invited to enroll in an alternative school in hopes that she can re-route her life in a better direction.
- Spike Lee's take on the "Son of Sam" murders in New York City during the summer of 1977 centering on the residents of an Italian-American Northeast Bronx neighborhood who live in fear and distrust of one another.
- A CIA agent goes on the run after a defector accuses her of being a Russian spy.
- A Witness Protection specialist becomes suspicious of his co-workers when dealing with a case involving high-tech weapons.
- A college student on suspension is coaxed into babysitting the kids next door, though he is fully unprepared for the wild night ahead of him.
- A middle-aged butcher and a school teacher who have given up on the idea of love meet at a dance and fall for each other.
- A troubled husband and executive adopts a beaver hand-puppet as his sole means of communication.
- When a young boy's family is killed by the mob, their tough neighbor Gloria becomes his reluctant guardian. In possession of a book that the gangsters want, the pair go on the run in New York.
- A New York City narcotics detective reluctantly agrees to cooperate with a special commission investigating police corruption, and soon realises he's in over his head, and nobody can be trusted.
- Warren has an extra room in his apartment (and is five months behind on the rent) after his lover moves out, so a friend places an ad on his behalf for a GWM roommate. Frankie, a pizza baker (and aspiring actor), decides to move out of his family's flat in The Bronx when he comes home one evening and walks in on his brother making love to Frankie's girlfriend. Frankie checks ads for roommates in "the city" (i.e., Manhattan), notices Warren's ad and decides to answer it, reasoning that GWM stands for "Guy With Money."
- A woman from a "cursed" family is released from a mental facility, and soon dismembered corpses start turning up.
- New Media Comedy presents the most unusual love story of all time. Gail is human. Her new boyfriend is not. Can a woman and a ventriloquist's dummy find true love in NYC? Check out Amanda Nicholas and her co-star "Jack" as they give you a taste of the RomCom as you've never seen it before!
- Lost in the paranoia of a sinister city, Uma senses she is being haunted by a presence, pulling her deeper into a world of nightmares.
- A troubled girl involved in a female gang called The Croniks, commits a crime and is sent to a "Scared Straight" program to meet the reformed leader who created it 25 years ago.
- A detective chases down rogue cops. In order to figure out who they are, the detective proves that his Sergeant is framing murders on two motorcycle riders.
- Bx3M: Sometimes love is the endgame. Maria, Mona and Michael are beginning their senior year at James Monroe High School in the Bronx when reality hits them like a ton of books to the head. Three interlacing narratives tell one story about finding love and losing it, about making hard choices that can even lead to death. Graduation is a no-brainer for Maria who is top in her class. Her best friend Mona wants to go to Cooper Union and that spells trouble for the aspiring photographer. Michael, Maria's boyfriend, is flunking out. No matter, Michael is on a mission yet unknown to him -- call it destiny or revenge. Like many teenagers, they are making choices that will shape their lives. Maria loves Michael more than anything in the world but that love is blind. Her father knows it. Maria will have to see for herself. Mona needs to choose between Seneca, a Monroe track star, and Sam, a Cooper Union art student. Her crisis is a well-kept secret till her mother finds out Sam is a girl. Michael sees the future through the bars of the past. As a child he watched his mother die at the hands of drug dealers and his father never did anything about it. Michael refuses to be like him. When his best friend is killed by the local drug dealer, Michael goes after him. Genuine experiences inform the lives of the three teens. Portraying the lives of inner city girls like Maria and Mona sets this urban drama apart. These portraits of Latina adolescents are memorably different, yet their struggle is universal. Michael's story, too, draws on the conventions used to represent ghetto life but with unpredictable twists and turns.
- This urban drama is based on a shocking true story. An undercover cop puts his life on the line to fight corruption in his department, while trying to take down the biggest Drug Kingpin of New York City. No one can be trusted as the body count rises.
- The film follows the head coach, Prairie Rugilo, and one of her students, DeAna, as they prepare for several fights, cope with setbacks and opposition that comes with training to get into the ring.
- Six New Yorkers experience the joys and trials of life in the big apple.
- Two brothers living in South Bronx find there brotherly loyalties tested when Joey wants to leave the street life behind and finish college while Junior turns to these very streets to stay alive. Will these brothers ever get out of the South Bronx ?
- NYPD cop Ruda is a cop during the day and a religious Santerio (High Ranking Priest) of "Black Magic" by night. A curse is placed on the NYPD by the mother of a boy shot by cops. Now the NYPD needs Ruda to help break the curse.
- Facing eviction in less than 24 hours, a struggling veteran and his girlfriend need a miracle, but with the clock ticking and their backs against the wall, they recklessly decide to take matters into their own hands.
- Michael "C2M" Mali expresses his poetic opinion about how this country has taken a wrong turn and what it'll take to redeem itself.
- As a filmmaker wanders his city capturing footage, he finds a series of riddles that lead him through the bizarre recruitment process of an all-powerful corporation. Also, a hole in his wall seems to have become sentient.
- High school dropout and aspiring musician, Mike, spends his days hanging out with his friends and confronting the members of the church next door. Most members have learned to keep their distance, but Sister Thomas is determined to open Mike's mind to GOD and religion. Connecting through a love for music she convinces Mike to pick up the Bible and start reading. He quickly learns that the Bible truly is a book of songs and slowly starts to believe in himself again. With the help of Sister Thomas, Mike stands up to his friends and begins to choose a more righteous path.
- Lola is a rugged, Hispanic lesbian with a keen passion for boxing. She must break through countless obstacles of sexism, along with cultural and social pressures, as she fights to pursue her dreams. Lola is caught in an epic battle to fully embrace her identity and live her truth.
- A cult-like rehabilitation center abuses, brainwashes and imprisons vulnerable teens.
- Alice Brady writes her brother Will that she is going to visit him. The letter is lost. Will writes his friend Jack Wilson to come over. Alice arrives while Will is away from the house and goes to her room to sleep. Jack, who has looked upon the wine when it was much too red, comes to the house and tries to get into Alice's room. She chases him out and Will comes home to find his friend shivering in the hallway. Jack explains that some woman threw him out of the room. Not knowing of Alice's presence, Will is very much wrought up. He knocks on the door of her room. Alice, thinking the inebriate, Jack, has returned, opens the door and throws a pitcher of water all over Will. Confusion reigns, until matters are straightened out by proper introductions and regrets.
- A glimpse into the maestro's life and musical journey, "CACHAO: Uno Mas" pays tribute to one of the greatest Afro-Cuban musicians of all time, Israel López 'Cachao'.
- Music video for Jennifer Lopez`s Hold You Down, featuring Fat Joe.
- A music video for the 1987 song "GOING WAY BACK" by the American Hip-Hop recording artist Just-Ice featuring KRS-One, a single released from the album "Kool and Deadly".
- Pearl has an awful temper. So has her hubby. Hubby invites some friends to the house. They play poker, leaving Pearl to her own amusements. At 12:30 they are still at it, and Pearl in an outburst breaks up the game, just when Hubby is about to regain his losses. Hubby thinks to frighten Pearl out of her temper by writing that he will shoot himself. Pearl also writes a suicidal note, saying she will drown herself in the bathtub. Hubby goes out but returns only "half shot." Meanwhile the cook has taken a bath and Pearl is unable to carry out her threat. Hubby finds Pearl's note and rushes to the bath room, expecting to find Pearl's dead body. He opens the door very hurriedly and throws the cook into the tub, giving her another bath. The cook throws Hubby into the tub, clothes and all. Pearl enters at this moment and they explain that their suicide notes were mere jests to cure each other's tempers.
- A tale of recovery and redemption that paints a portrait of life after heroin addiction in the Bronx.
- Michael and Joyce Wilkins, A Pastorial couple's faith is put to the test when they're faced with a life changing decision.
- Irene Latham, daughter of the cashier of the Newton Bank, is loved by Bob Emery, the receiving teller, and Ralph Benson, the paying teller. Irene favors Bob and they are engaged to be married. Maddened by jealous rage, Ralph's main thought is to ruin his successful rival. Bob receives a letter from an old friend, offering him half interest in a mine if he will invest $1,500. Having seen this letter, Ralph takes a package of the bank's money, places half of it on the sidewalk and conceals himself behind a ledge. He sees Bob pick it up. "Spike" Lacey, a burglar, steals Ralph's coat. In the pocket of which he has seen Ralph place the money. "Spike" is accidentally shot, falls in a cave, and dies. Part of the money is found in Bob's trunk and he is arrested and sentenced to seven years in the penitentiary. Time passes. Irene becomes the wife of Ralph Benson. Bob escapes from prison. Driven by hunger, he makes his way into the home of the Bensons. With a drapery he binds the arms of the woman in the chair, not knowing it is his former sweetheart, Irene. In her struggles to free herself Irene upsets the lamp. When Bob realizes the house is on fire, he dashes through the flames and carries the woman to safety. Bob and Irene recognize each other. Just then her husband and father arrive and Bob flees. Jenkins, the bank watchman, goes hunting and wanders into the cave, where he finds the skeleton of "Spike." In the pocket of Benson's coat he finds the stolen money with the Newton Bank wrapper still about it, Ralph confesses his guilt, is arrested and shoots himself with "Spike's" revolver. Bob is pardoned and marries Irene.
- A short film about love, life, failure, and the king of rock 'n' roll.
- "The Lunar Pack" is a horror anthology with Mistress Misty (Debbie Rochon), who presents three tales of the full moon as she follows the stories of different werewolves and how they handle their curse, gift or simple way of life.
- Pearl is stopping at the only hotel in a western town. Jack and Joe meet her and she flirts with first one and then the other. Each tries to hide the fact of his flirtation from the other. Accidentally they both call on Pearl at the same time, only to find her very much taken up with Chester, a city drummer. Jack and Joe throw Chester out of the hotel, and then leave Pearl, vowing never to see her again, but each tries to steal a march on the other, and visits her again, but she will have none of them, having again taken up with the smart city drummer.
- Based on true events, Hold Me Down depicts a day in the life of a 19-year-old single mother in the Bronx who works as a stripper at an illegal nightclub to support her child.
- Mrs. Owing is fond of dress, but she cannot pay her bills. The dressmakers, calling to collect from her annoy Mr. Owing at his office. Determining to teach his wife a lesson, Mr. Owing disguises himself as a constable and hires two toughs to impersonate bailiffs. Meanwhile a boy has delivered Mr. Owing's new dress suit to his house. Mr. Owing enters with his fake bailiffs, scares his wife, takes away her clothes, and exits, laughing. Later, wifey penitent promises to be less extravagant, and hubby forgives her. Then he learns that he has given away not only her dresses, but his own dress suit. The joke is on him.
- Thirty Bronx-based photographers documenting eighty other visual artists - forging connections, creating awareness and celebrating the creative cauldron that is The Bronx.
- For generations, Andy's family has had the gift of talking and communicating with ones who have passed over. A non-believer, Andy finds himself in a mystery, and only the dead can help.