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- While navigating their careers in Los Angeles, a pianist and an actress fall in love while attempting to reconcile their aspirations for the future.
- A rookie cop spends his first day as a Los Angeles narcotics officer with a rogue detective who isn't what he appears to be.
- A fearless Secret Service agent will stop at nothing to bring down the counterfeiter who killed his partner.
- A young street hustler attempts to escape the rigors and temptations of the ghetto in a quest for a better life.
- Black and white basketball hustlers join forces to double their chances of winning money on the street courts and in a basketball tournament.
- A remake of the 1992 film about a pair of basketball hustlers who team up to earn extra cash.
- A Highway Patrol Officer, two criminals and a station secretary defend a defunct Los Angeles precinct office against a siege by a bloodthirsty street gang.
- Desperation drives four inner-city women to bank robbery in Los Angeles, then they start mistrusting each other.
- An experienced cop and his rookie partner patrol the streets of East Los Angeles while trying to keep the gang violence under control.
- A robbery homicide investigation triggers a series of events that will cause a corrupt LAPD officer to question his tactics.
- An 18th-century African prince, turned into a vampire by Dracula, finds himself in modern-day Los Angeles.
- This film-noir piece, told in semi-documentary style, follows police on the hunt for a resourceful criminal who shoots and kills a cop.
- An ex-cop discovers that his brother's recent death is intertwined with both the Los Angeles underworld and the city's porno movie scene.
- During the 1970s, U.S. Special Agent Cleopatra Jones proves to be an invaluable asset to the local police forces in the war on drugs.
- When a wheelchair-bound wife dies from an apparent accident, her husband and his adult stepdaughter turn out to be lovers, who conspired to murder her. However, tensions surface when complications arise regarding her inheritance, and soon the husband and stepdaughter are distrusting and plotting against each other. Who is really behind everything?
- The crew is running out of money to finish their film.
- A documentary of the decline of America. It features footage (most exclusive to this film) from race riots to serial killers and much, much more.
- A documentary presenting Aretha Franklin with choir at the New Bethel Baptist Church in Watts, Los Angeles in January 1972.
- Upon moving into a bigoted neighborhood, the scientist father of a persecuted black family gives a superpower elixir to a tough bodyguard, who thus becomes a superpowered crimefighter.
- When a black scientist develops a formula to regenerate dying liver cells and tests it on himself, it accidentally turns him into an albino monster with a lust for murdering prostitutes, pimps and drug dealers.
- Frankie Parker, a womanizing DJ in LA, meets new girl in town, Melinda, falling hard for her. When she's murdered in his apartment, he is framed for it - an ex-girlfriend and a karate class to help find her killer and clear his name.
- Sonny and Cher spoof many Hollywood classic movie scenes.
- An account of man's development through his scientific and technological achievements.
- Drama centers on Lt. Sam Cole and his team of cops in the elite robbery/homicide division of the Los Angeles Police Department.
- After being released, a wrongfully imprisoned black man exacts vengeance on those who've crossed him via the power of his newly sentient penis, which may or may not be the result of an experiment gone wrong.
- A 21-year-old reformed gangster's devotion to his family and his future is put to the test when he is released from prison and returns to his old stomping grounds in Watts, Los Angeles.
- A young man and his girlfriend unwittingly come into possession of a bag containing one million dollars belonging to a drug-smuggling ring. The mobsters try to catch the couple and retrieve their money.
- Documentary covering a Stax Records-sponsored all-day concert at the 1972 Watts Summer Festival with performances by Stax Records artists such as Isaac Hayes, Rufus Thomas, The Staples Singers, and more.
- Shepherd is the detective hired by an aristocratic Italian to locate a relative and thereby solve an ancient inheritance problem. As she sinks into the case, however, she finds out that there is much more to the case.
- A dramatic look into the life of a family in Watts.
- Housewife Martha wonders why her husband, George spends so much time at parties, then is all "sexed out" for days afterwards. She discovers that he's been going to swingers' orgies, and in an attempt to salvage her marriage, persuades him to take her with him to a party.. At first she doesn't care for it, but little by little she begins to get into it.
- Sandra Bernhard stars in a studio version of her off-Broadway show, blending re-enactments of the original show's pieces with concept vignettes and 'testimonials' to underscore the relationship between a performer and an audience.
- Young black man teams up with a Chinese kung-fu expert to fight a drug ring.
- The story of Simon Rodia, the real-life artist who spent 30 years constructing Los Angeles' Watts Towers, a monument to Christopher Columbus, and his fictional relationship with Daniel, a young boy.
- A white ex-GI goes to a Black ghetto to deliver a letter from his buddy, a Black soldier who died in Vietnam, but when he gets there he encounter hostility and trouble from all sides.
- A man who has struggled personally has conflicts with his upwardly mobile lawyer brother and well to-do fiancee and is reluctantly to be the best man at their wedding.
- Badly scarred in a childhood accident, Violet boards a bus in North Carolina on a pilgrimage to Oklahoma to visit a TV preacher, the one that heals. On the bus, she meets two soldiers on their way to Fort Smith.
- With commentary from soldiers on both sides of the conflict, filmmaker Kevin Booth's incisive documentary wades into the murky waters of the American war on drugs, the longest and costliest war in U.S. history.
- SAMURAI JOHNNY FRANKENSTEIN is a modern Film-Noir, Martial Art based, Action-Adventure, vividly filmed in Hollywood, California.
- After suffering with the dire consequences of being in the closet, a group of lesbian friends forge a pact to deal with the dire consequences of coming out.
- A music video for the 1990 song "We're All in the Same Gang" by a group of prominent West Coast Hip-Hop and R&B recording artists, collectively known as The West Coast Rap All-Stars. In the music video, each members brings awareness to the widespread gang-related crimes and murders prevalent in Los Angeles, California and along the West Coast of America.
- Looking for acceptance, an awkward African American teenager finds himself in the spotlight when he's questioned by homicide detectives about a murder in his neighborhood.
- In early 1990s Los Angeles, a young introvert African-American child from a fragmented family yearns to bring his parents together. Setting out to find his estranged mother, he comes to discover the ugly truth of racial intolerance and the inherent dangers of naivety.
- Delve into the lives of four former gang members, drug dealers and ex convicts who share a narrative of pain, shame and the consequences of machismo. Although their stories may seem hopeless they are witness of a changing power not of this world.
- "I Build the Tower" is the true story of the life and work of Sam Rodia, the Italian immigrant who built the world-famous Watts Towers on a residential lot in South Central Los Angeles. These mosaic-covered spires of reinforced cement rising to almost one hundred feet were once scheduled for demolition by the City Building Department. The towers survived to become a symbol of the community in which they stand and they are now recognized throughout the world as a unique embodiment of the structural principles found in nature.
- A tale of frictional teenage love, set in Watts, California, follows the lives of two teenagers who break up and make up every day.
- What's Good in Your Hood features Latinos who are changing the food game and transforming their communities along the way.