Raymond Cruz
A young burnout discovers his estranged father is dead, leaving him the responsibility of managing an apartment complex. With hopes of cutting ties, he’s forced to grow up, learning about the dad he never knew through the eclectic tenants.
After getting hired to probe a suspicious death in the small town of Wander, a mentally unstable private investigator becomes convinced the case is linked to the same ‘conspiracy cover up’ that caused the death of his daughter.
AfterabotchedmissioninCuba,professionalmercenaryShaleandhiscrewJoeySix,Hollan,Rem,andWellmanheadhometoMiami,Florida,whereShaleisreunitedwithhisfianceJaneHetzko,whoisahistoryteacheratColumbusHighSchoolinMiami.SomeofJane’sstudentshappentobemembersofastreetgangknownastheKingsofDestruction(KOD),ledbyJuanLacas,whohasbeenterrorizingJane.AfterJane’skneecapisbrokenbyabigseminolenamedBull,shetellsShalethatshebelievesLacasorderedtheattack,soShalegoesundercoverasJane’ssubstitute,andinitially,JanehasnoideathatShaleisdoingthis.Attheschool,ShalemeetsprincipalClaudeRolle,librarianHannahDillon,andenglishanddramateacherDarrellSherman.ItturnsoutthatLacasisoneofJane’sstudents.AsShaleinvestigatestheattackonJane,hediscoversthatdrugsarebeingcirculatedintotheschool.ShaleeveninvestigateslocaldrugkingpinJohnnyGlades,whomayormaynothavesomeone…WrittenbyToddBaldridge
The story takes place in LA, in the house of four housemates, three women, MJ, Frankie and Amanda, and an homosexual, Banks. MJ is the kind of girl to whom money means everything and to whom others mean almost nothing. Frankie is a social worker and Amanda, a painter. Banks is an unfortunate actor. The problem is that Frankie is deeply in love with Taylor, and he loves her back, but he’s sleeping with MJ, for sex. MJ will become more and more jealous of Frankie as days flow…
A gang of bank-robbing misfits heads to Mexico with the blueprints for the perfect million-dollar heist, but when one of the crooks wanders into the wrong bar… and crosses the wrong vampire… the thieving cohorts develop a thirst for blood!
Modesty, raised by a casino owner after being abandoned by her parents, has become skilled in the ways of fighting and now acts as the casino owner’s bodyguard. When she’s unable to prevent the owner’s murder at the hands of an old foe, Modesty is hell-bent on seeking revenge. — An adaptation of the Modesty Blaise novels and comic strip by Peter O’Donnell.
Deputy Police Chief Brenda Jean Johnson transfers from Atlanta to LA to head up a special unit of the LAPD that handles sensitive, high-profile murder cases. Johnson’s quirky personality and hard-nosed approach often rubs her colleagues the wrong way, but her reputation as one of the world’s best interrogator eventually wins over even her toughest critics.
Major Crimes explores how the American justice system approaches the art of the deals as law enforcement officers and prosecutors work together to score a conviction. Los Angeles Police Captain Sharon Raydor heads up a special squad within the LAPD that deals with high-profile or particularly sensitive crimes.
A single mother becomes Ariel Castro’s first kidnapping victim, and finds herself trapped in his home with two other women for 11 years.
The elegant Anne Hathaway takes off her Princess Diaries crown to play a wealthy Los Angeles teen who, along with her superficial friends, wants to break out of suburbia and experience Southern California’s “gangsta” lifestyle. But problems arise when the preppies get in over their heads and provoke the wrath of a violent Latino gang. Suddenly, their role-playing seems a little too real.
Firefighter Gordon Brewer is plunged into the complex and dangerous world of international terrorism after he loses his wife and child in a bombing credited to Claudio ‘The Wolf’ Perrini.
Two hundred years after Lt. Ripley died, a group of scientists clone her, hoping to breed the ultimate weapon. But the new Ripley is full of surprises … as are the new aliens. Ripley must team with a band of smugglers to keep the creatures from reaching Earth.
After he did some jobs for CIA, ex-marine John Shale is visiting his high school love Jane. She’s now a teacher in Columbus High School in Miami. Soon after his arriving Jane has her knee cap broken while jogging. After that, John decides to go undercover as her substitute in high school. Very soon he finds out that gang named Kings of Destruction is terrorizing the school.
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 story focuses on how a violent crime and the influence of narcotics alter their lives. Miklo is incarcerated and sent to San Quentin, where he makes a “home” for himself. Cruz becomes an exceptional artist, but a heroin addiction overcomes him with tragic results. Paco becomes a cop and an enemy to his “carnal”, Miklo.
This action-packed thriller takes place on the soon-to-be-decommissioned USS Missouri. Disgruntled ex-CIA operative Strannix, his assistant Krill and their group of terrorists seize the battleship with nuclear blackmail in mind. They’ve planned for every contingency but ignore the ship’s cook, former Navy SEAL Casey Ryback — an error that could be fatal.
In 1949 composer Roman Strauss is executed for the vicious murder of his wife Margaret with a pair of scissors. In 1990s Los Angeles a mute amnesiac woman shows up at an orphanage and private eye Mike Church is called in to investigate. Under hypnosis both the woman and Church seem to have a strange link back to the Strauss murder.