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- After his mistress runs over a young teen, a Wall Street hotshot sees his life unravel in the spotlight and attracts the interest of a down-and-out reporter.
- An aspiring DJ from the South Bronx and his best friend, a promoter, try to get into show business by exposing people to hip-hop music and the local culture.
- A couple with marriage problems goes to Family Court, where a judge takes them back in time to view lovers through the ages.
- A successful South Bronx drug dealer turns his back on his roots and gives money to a Wall Street broker to invest for him.
- A hard-boiled intergalactic policeman lands on Earth, where he is thirteen inches tall.
- Fueled by misguided nostalgia, ambitious young Latino man Jack Maldonado buys a small apartment building in the Bronx and moves his boisterous family into the apartments to live rent-free: his parents Carlos and Martha, sister Nadia, brother Richie and his wife Rosa, Grandmother/Abuela, and cousins Hector and Manny--all under one roof. Tension builds quickly as Jack imposes his views on everyone around him, including his fiancee Lily. The whole time, he hides the fact that his corner store is a front for selling marijuana, but he must soon deal with new unwanted competitive forces. It's only a matter of time before Jack's family and "business" lives collide in tragic fashion.
- Can a young person in the South Bronx pursue a dream that isn't tied to crime, gang-banging, prostitution, violence, and racism? Tommy is a natural leader and a gifted artist. When Allen, a white kid, moves into the neighborhood with his single mom, he's a victim of constant harassment until Tommy offers friendship. Meanwhile, a corrupt cop hits on Allen's mother and, when she rebuffs him, vows revenge. Forces beyond Tommy and Allen's control put them in the hands of the criminal justice system. A local murder, a rivalry between two young women, and the hot temper of Tommy's older brother make things even more difficult for the friendship and dreams of the young men.
- An insane preacher (Snoop Dogg) seeks retribution from the local crime syndicate (Big Pun & Fat Joe) for the death of his family and the burning of his church.
- The Puerto Rican owner of a Bronx strip joint who also heads a street gang that deals in drugs and stolen credit cards gets involved in a war with a local black gang.
- Filmmaker Alex Gibney investigates the fact that the 400 richest Americans control more wealth than the 150 million people in the bottom 50 percent of the population.
- Depicts the daily life of gangs within the context of the South Bronx. Deals primarily with two African American and Puerto Rican gangs known as the "Savage Skulls" and the "Savage Nomads".
- After a failed marriage, a Bronx woman returns to her old neighborhood to fulfill her dream of becoming a Shakespearean actor, but instead embarks on a journey of self-discovery and adventures beyond anything she could've ever imagined.
- An uplifting documentary about the life and work of jazz, hip hop priest, Fr. Stan Fortuna CFR who mixes music with message to help support the needy in the South Bronx, NY and abroad.
- Lunch Hour explores the National School Lunch Program, childhood obesity, and our addiction to unhealthy foods. It shows what schools, parents, authors, doctors, politicians, celebrities, and chefs are doing to problem solve this issue and help save the children of America.
- A documentary about a police precinct in the South Bronx.
- Lance Xavier, The World's Best Product Demonstrator in stores and infomercials takes on a new apprentice named Melvin with a very checkered work history. As Lance soon discovers, things do not go smoothly as he attempts to make Melvin into a new top Demo Guy.
- This documentary presents different perspectives around a boxing gym in the Bronx: the founder, who hoped to keep troubled boys off the streets; his protege; and two young trainees.
- Long-time lovers Eva and Dave must navigate their emotional history and untangle the tensions that trail them or risk repeating the same mistakes again.
- This is a documentary about Jason Rodriguez turning his life around after incarceration. Jason was arrested, charged and sentenced as an adult in The Bronx at the age of 16 to a maximum sentence to 8 1/3 to 25 years for Manslaughter. Jason is an only child and did not know what would be the outcome while incarcerated and after being released. Jason appeared in front of five parole hearings and was denied parole all five times. While incarcerated Jason lost both of his parents and ended up serving 16 years and 8 months on a conditional release. Arrested in 1988 and released in 2005 he did not know what would be the outcome. After 9 months after being released, Jason was asked to Audition for the motion picture Pride and Glory and was cast for his first principle role. On Parole for 8 years Jason has been in films as an actor, producer, director, motivational speaker, community activist and author. His accomplishments were mostly done while on parole which he completed successfully and continues to be a positive role model "From Prison To Hollywood: Soul Survivor."
- During a 12-Steps program, a young man's subconscious is physically projected as an animated character to aid on his path to redemption. Their journey leads them to past relationships, familial woes, and ultimately inner peace. It is on this journey that the two conflicting voices learn to understand each other and merge as one.
- Nasir's plans for revenge are upturned when he catches his bully in a disturbing situation.
- A struggling actor with a baby on the way, tries to make it in Hollywood by following the footsteps of his favorite actor, Wesley Snipes, while being filmed for the reality show, "The Next Big Thing".
- A quirky, tongue-in-cheek horror film about a sect of female Vampires who use a South Bronx comedy club as a hunting ground for their 'feed.'
- During the global financial crisis Richard Dick Stevenson is running his private detention center. His only prisoner, an afghan asylum seeker, Jusuf, becomes his best companion. A sudden government decision to cut the funding for the center breaks this unusual relationship. In their surreal world Richard's dream becomes Jusuf's nightmare
- During the 1970's, Martine Barrat, a well known French photographer and filmmaker worked with street gangs and the members' families in the South Bronx to produce this video which was shown at the Whitney Museum of American Art and other video art and independent film venues bringing to the public stories told by the otherwise unheard voices of the ghetto. This documentary won an award for best documentary from Italian television.
- A documentary which spotlights a struggling family that is half Dominican, half Puerto Rican and that resides in the tough Melrose Projects, one of the poorest public tenements in the South Bronx, New York.
- Omar is a disillusioned drug dealer living in a housing project in the Bronx. When faced with the suicide of his girlfriend his world falls apart as he looses the only thing that kept him alive. However, before he can join her he wants to make sure to leave his younger brother with something meaningful.
- The story picks up several weeks into the Zombie incident, showing the first incarnation of the Hunters, and then flashes back to the first time they actually sought-out the carnivorous bodies with the intention of exterminating them.
- A visual twist on Shakespeare's Sonnet 134 told through the eyes of a young conflicted mother who surrenders her baby to repay a debt to her infatuated and childless sister.