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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.
- Black and white basketball hustlers join forces to double their chances of winning money on the street courts and in a basketball tournament.
- A fearless Secret Service agent will stop at nothing to bring down the counterfeiter who killed his partner.
- 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.
- A young street hustler attempts to escape the rigors and temptations of the ghetto in a quest for a better life.
- An experienced cop and his rookie partner patrol the streets of East Los Angeles while trying to keep the gang violence under control.
- A remake of the 1992 film about a pair of basketball hustlers who team up to earn extra cash.
- A robbery homicide investigation triggers a series of events that will cause a corrupt LAPD officer to question his tactics.
- Desperation drives four inner-city women to bank robbery in Los Angeles, then they start mistrusting each other.
- An 18th-century African prince, turned into a vampire by Dracula, finds himself in modern-day Los Angeles.
- 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.
- 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 presenting Aretha Franklin with choir at the New Bethel Baptist Church in Watts, Los Angeles in January 1972.
- Drama centers on Lt. Sam Cole and his team of cops in the elite robbery/homicide division of the Los Angeles Police Department.
- Sonny and Cher spoof many Hollywood classic movie scenes.
- An account of man's development through his scientific and technological achievements.
- 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.
- 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.
- Young black man teams up with a Chinese kung-fu expert to fight a drug ring.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- A dramatic look into the life of a family in Watts.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- SAMURAI JOHNNY FRANKENSTEIN is a modern Film-Noir, Martial Art based, Action-Adventure, vividly filmed in Hollywood, California.
- A tale of frictional teenage love, set in Watts, California, follows the lives of two teenagers who break up and make up every day.
- 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.
- 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.
- "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 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.
- A young man living in the inner city, runs into conflicts with his mother when he decides to pursue a college education instead of accepting an offer for a full-time job.
- 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.
- What's Good in Your Hood features Latinos who are changing the food game and transforming their communities along the way.
- A documentary about a middle-aged man who used to be a Crip gang member in South Central, Los Angeles.