Movies: Christine Avila

Based on the true life experiences of poet Jimmy Santiago Baca, the film focuses on half-brothers Paco and Cruz, and their bi-racial cousin Miklo. It opens in 1972, as the three are members of an East L.A. gang known as the "Vatos Locos", and the sto...

Test pilot Tuck Pendleton volunteers to test a special vessel for a miniaturization experiment. Accidentally injected into a neurotic hypochondriac, Jack Putter, Tuck must convince Jack to find his ex-girlfriend, Lydia Maxwell, to help him extract Tu...

Raymond Avila is an ex-gang member trying to build a future. His kid brother Chuco is a sullen low-rider still caught up in the life. Despite their differences, their family bond is strong. But that bond is violently tested when rivals challenge Chuc...

A naked teenage boy covered in blood appears at a remote sheriff's station one year after the brutal unsolved murder of a local girl. Now Sheriff Jack Shepherd, guilt ridden over the girl's murder, must confront his own demons as he desperately searc...

Forced by his son's birthday wish, fast-talking attorney and habitual liar Fletcher Reede must tell the truth for the next 24 hours....

The odyssey of an American handgun and the dramatic way it reshapes the lives of its various owners....

A powerful, intimate portrait of three women living in the same house during different eras who all face unplanned pregnancies. The vignettes follow a recently widowed nurse struggling to take control of her life in the early 50s, a mother of four ba...

Two girlfriends pick up a traumatized woman near the scene of an accident. But something isn't right about their passenger and soon the good Samaritans are trapped in a nightmare ride they'll never forget....

Zu, a free spirit estranged from her family, suddenly finds herself the sole guardian of her half-sister, Music, a teenager on the autism spectrum whose whole world order has been beautifully crafted by her late grandmother. The film soon challenges ...

Fact-based story of Mike Mills, a teen with muscular dystrophy, who is placed in a state nursing home by his destitute single mother. There he must contend with being the only young person in the clinic and with an abusive head nurse....

A 15-year-old girl must choose between continuing her pregnancy and undergoing treatment for her fast-growing cancer....

A family begins to fall apart when their eldest daughter is diagnosed with schizophrenia....

A giant mutated alligator runs riot in a small town after the sewer system washes it into a lake....

A Marvel employee's workday is spent attempting to grant a terminally ill child's wish to see an unreleased Captain America film, leading to dark comedy and commentary on corporate control over art....

A young girl receives the gift of her Cherokee heritage from her great-grandmother while spending the summer on the reservation....

As they enter their third year of medical school, a group of young students must prepare to decide what they intend to specialize in. Somehow, they must impress the Chief of Surgery while learning how to survive the life-and-death area of medicine an...

American television film about the life of Emily Butterfield, a baby girl who was born prematurely and died 53 days after her birth....

A young man begins to suspect that his mother may have murdered his father....

A good looking, but shy man with a tragically small penis takes a fringe herbal remedy that makes him grow and grow and grow....