Movies: Urban

A story about a young man who has an argument with his friend so chooses to take a walk to clear his deteriorating mind....

A musical documentary accompaniment to the 1994 benefit compilation album concerning AIDS in the African-American community....

All Billy Castro knows is the gang lifestyle. Along with his childhood buddy, Tyrone he rises to the ultimare gang level of drug kingpin. But this underworld where death is commonplace, Billy dreams of the day he and his girlfriend can live a normal ...

After breaking out from jail and being rescued by an enigmatic driver, Maria begins a journey through Mexico City's nocturnal life...

At an LA house party, an aspiring musician pursues her crush through a crowd of hopeful dreamers chasing empty promises....

A share auto-driver gets entangled in a plot where 3 criminals want him dead....

Six poems written by six young prisoners animated to tell their stories, thoughts, fears and hopes....

Three NYC stories at a climax. Stories about breaking up, losing, leaving, giving away... the things or people you love, you live with, you depend on, which formed your past... The stories are about how difficult this is, how terrifying and how frigh...

Miles and Regina move in as roommates, just to move in on each other....

A tough-as-nails burglary crew from the streets, a Cuban cartel, heavy into voodoo, ruthless Albanian gangsters, and a blood diamond deal that erupts into all out violence. This throws the criminal underworld into chaos. Double-crosses and brazen gan...

One billion people on our planet—one in six—live in shantytowns, slums or squats. Slums: Cities of Tomorrow challenges conventional thinking to propose that slums are in fact the solution, not the problem, to urban overcrowding caused by the massive ...

Aetherrise (lt. Aukštynpakylėjimas) is a feature film — a experimental psychological surrealistic drama. Mija exists between silent conversations and inner stillness. Things take an unexpected change as her distant friendship with Ieva shifts. Reali...

Start Options Exit follows the exploits of twenty-somethings Neville Carlisle and Yolis Jenkem, street punks who have come to a freeing conclusion; If you forget stupid little things like reputation, the law, friendship and the suffering of others......

THE GAME IS DEAD follows the gripping story of Smooth, who mangages to ris to the top of his brotherhood, dealing in everything from drugs to prostitutes to the "protection" of local businesses. Being intellectually gifted, Smooth is able to move fro...

Papa, a bullied young boy whose only refuge is a book about space, runs away after being involved in the accident of one of his harassers. His escape to the outskirts of Paris awakens his imagination, somewhere between concrete blocks and starry skie...

A low-budget film about a father who's proffession is unknown to his 3 daughters. He is a don in the BMF (Black Mafia Family) in New York. But his family is about to find out, as some lowgrade criminals want to take his spot at the top....

Adrift in the cold streets, drug dealer Cristo is forced to come to terms with his past, present, and future....

What happens when a world that relies on traffic and the logistics that allow it comes to a standstill? What happens when sickness and even death are taken from us?...

Tarquin's life has spiraled out of control, a well bred public school educated man. Having nothing going for him except his own guilt, regret and destitution; he is his own enemy. The traumas and hardships he's endured have led him to a life of drugs...

“Beneath the Concrete, The Forest” is a short experimental documentary that takes us inside an ongoing struggle inside the city of Atlanta, GA between two sides to determine the future of Weelaunee, the biggest contiguous urban forest in the country...