A Piece of the Action
How does retired cop Joshua Burke (James Earl Jones) get two career criminals, Manny Durrell (Sidney Poitier) and Dave Anderson (Bill Cosby), to follow the straight and narrow? Con them into helping juvenile delinquents turn over a new leaf. But how? Burke has never been able to nail the duo, but he uses what he knows of their seedy past to blackmail them into volunteering.
33 Photos from the Ghetto
The film traces two families, one of which is Jewish, who preserved the images for decades but hadn’t brought them to light. 80 years after their creation, the son of the photographer finds the forgotten negatives and launches an investigation. With a team of researchers, archivists, and animators who use near-forensic precision to reconstruct locations and contexts, they trace the circumstances of those tragic days and the lives captured in each frame.
Brotherhood
First there was Kidulthood then Adulthood now comes Noel Clarkes last installment brotherhood With Sam facing up to the new world he realizes it also comes with new problems and new challenges that he must face that he knows will require old friends to help him survive new dangers.
Breakin'
A struggling young dancer joins forces with two breakdancers and together they become a street sensation.
Uptown Saturday Night
Two blue-collar buddies search the underworld for a winning lottery ticket lost in a nightclub holdup.
Dark Blue
Set during the Rodney King riots, a robbery homicide investigation triggers a series of events that will cause a corrupt LAPD officer to question his tactics.
Yamakasi
Yamakasi - Les samouraïs des temps modernes is a 2001 French movie written by Luc Besson. It demonstrates the skills of the Yamakasi, a group of traceurs who battle against injustice in the Paris ghetto. They use parkour to steal from the rich in order to pay off medical bills for a kid injured copying their techniques.
Kidulthood
A day in the life of a group of troubled 15-year-olds growing up in west London.
Youngblood
An angry Vietnam veteran leads a Los Angeles street gang in a war on drug dealers.
Dreams Don't Die
Two young kids in love, one young graffiti artist and the other a foster-child, find trouble on the mean streets on the other side of the river in New York City. Officer Charles Banks finds young Danny tagging subway cars and then catches Teiresa selling drugs for another mislead teen, Kirk. The officer, instead of turning both of them in, gives both teens a chance to make more of their lives together. Changing their ways turns out to be more challenging than first thought.
Rize
A documentary film that highlights two street derived dance styles, Clowning and Krumping, that came out of the low income neighborhoods of L.A.. Director David LaChapelle interviews each dance crew about how their unique dances evolved. A new and positive activity away from the drugs, guns, and gangs that ruled their neighborhood. A raw film about a growing sub-culture movements in America.
Shaft
Cool Black private eye John Shaft is hired by a crime lord to find and retrieve his kidnapped daughter.
Hoop Dreams
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.
Street Kings
Tom Ludlow is a disillusioned L.A. Police Officer, rarely playing by the rules and haunted by the death of his wife. When evidence implicates him in the execution of a fellow officer, he is forced to go up against the cop culture he's been a part of his entire career, ultimately leading him to question the loyalties of everyone around him.
Dernier Soleil
Somewhere in the north-east of France, Eric, a penniless man who lives in his car, rejects his son Esteban, 10 years old, autistic and living under the care of his uncle. Because of another carelessness of his father, Esteban is kidnapped by two gangsters. Eric, devastated, is determined to do what's necessary in order to raise the ransom. He plunges into the city's ghetto in hopes of saving his son.
Vampiyaz
A hip-hop, ex-con returns to his former neighborhood and must team up with a group of vampire hunter-killers to rid the area of vampires whom have taken over the area.
Notorious
"Notorious" is the story of Christopher Wallace. Through raw talent and sheer determination, Wallace transforms himself from Brooklyn street hustler (once selling crack to pregnant women) to one of the greatest rappers of all time: The Notorious B.I.G. Follow his meteoric rise to fame and his refusal to succumb to expectations - redefining our notion of "The American Dream."
Street Flow
Noumouké, from the suburb of Paris, is about to decide which brother's foot steps to follow - the lawyer student Soulaymaan or the gangster Demba.
District B13
Set in the ghettos of Paris in 2010, an undercover cop and ex-thug try to infiltrate a gang in order to defuse a neutron bomb.
Girlhood
Oppressed by her family setting, dead-end school prospects and the boys law in the neighborhood, Marieme starts a new life after meeting a group of three free-spirited girls. She changes her name, her dress code, and quits school to be accepted in the gang, hoping that this will be a way to freedom.
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Sidney Poitier
Director
Frances Foster
as
Bea Quitman
Bill Cosby
as
Dave Anderson
Kurt Grayson
as
Dirk
Jason Evers
as
Ty Shorter
Noel Clarke
Director
Adjoa Andoh
as
Agnes Peel
Marcus Langford
as
Armed police
David Ajala
as
Detective Desmond 'BUDS' Lynch
Kenny Knight
as
Gym Guys
Joel Silberg
Director
Lela Rochon
as
Extra in First Scene
Ice-T
as
Rap Talker
Jean-Claude Van Damme
as
Spectator in First Dance Sequence
Ketty Lester
as
Irma Franklin
Bill Cosby
as
Wardell Franklin
Scott Speedman
as
Bobby Keough
Brendan Gleeson
as
Jack Van Meter
Jonathan Banks
as
James Barcomb
Nigel Gibbs
as
Pastor Dennis
Camille Cottin
as
Jaime Winstone
as
Becky
Nicholas Hoult
as
Blake
Rafe Spall
as
Lenny
Lionel Mark Smith
as
Chaka
Ann Weldon
as
Mrs. Gordon
David Pendleton
as
Reggie
Renn Woods
as
Sybil
Roger Young
Director
Paul Winfield
as
Charlie Banks
George Coe
as
Sherman
David LaChapelle
Director
Kevin Scott Richardson
as
Music producer
Isaac Hayes
as
Bartender
Tony King
as
Davies
Eddie Barth
as
Tony
Charles Cioffi
as
Vic Androzzi
Chris Webber
as
Himself
Spike Lee
as
Himself - Film Director
David Ayer
Director
Keanu Reeves
as
Detective Tom Ludlow
Patrick Gallagher
as
LAPD Captain
Jay Mohr
as
Sgt. Mike Clady
Will Blagrove
as
Doorman
Marc John Jefferies
as
Cease
Anthony Mackie
as
Tupac Shakur
Angela Bassett
as
Voletta Wallace
Mathieu Kassovitz
as
Dominique
Dali Benssalah
as
Samir
Affif Ben Badra
as
K2 boy
François Chattot
as
Krüger
David Belle
as
Leïto
Damien Chapelle
as
Cédric
Cyril Mendy
as
Djibril
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