The last hours of the life of Sandro do Nascimento, 22 years old, "the Bus 174 hijacker", were followed by millions of people through TV worldwide. His burial was accompanied by only one person - his adoptive mother.
Enticed by the documentary Bus 174 by José Padilha, director Bruno Barreto built a fictional account to tell the story of meeting a teenage orphan and a woman obsessed by the memory of her son. The meeting of two people adrift, which ended with the death of a young teacher and Sandro, leaving orphaned again that mother of her son.
set in 1997, in Rio de Janeiro, The Elite Squad follows the lives and exploits of a BOPE captain named Nascimento and his two potential heirs-in-command, Neto Gouveia and André Matias, rising from the ranks of general PMERJ (the state military police) to BOPE (later it is revealed that Nascimento wants to leave the force because his wife is pregnant with his first child).
While Neto Gouveia is a quick-tempered, tougher man, André Matias refuses to compromise his ideals of peace and equality. The latter is also a student of Law at a university in Rio, where his upper class friends are unaware of his job as a policeman, and are clearly shown as "spoiled" kids that tend to see the police as a repressive unit.
Preceding the visit of Pope John Paul II to Rio, the plot unfolds and we are introduced to the day-to-day drug busting operations inside Rio's favelas, ruled by well-armed and powerful drug lords, led by the Brazilian elite unit, BOPE, and the corruption that affects part of the PMERJ.
he film shows in parallel two periods in the life of Raimundo Nonato (João Miguel): one showing his successful career as cook, the other as prisoner in a cell with about ten other prisoners. Gradually the film makes clear that the prison period is later.
His period as cook starts with a situation where he arrives by bus in a big city, without a place to sleep and without even money for food. He eats chicken snacks in a cafetaria, and has to wash the dishes to pay for it. He gets a job without getting wages, just food and lodging, even though the snacks he cooks are so good that it attracts more customers. He has free sex with prostitute Íria obsessed with eating, in exchange for food. He is very jealous. In a bar where Íria works as an erotic dancer, after drinking alcohol without being accustomed to that, he starts a fight with a customer, and is thrown out. Íria takes care of him. Nonato gets a better job in an Italian restaurant, where he learns more of cooking from his boss Giovanni. One day he discovers that Giovanni has sex with Íria. He is very upset, first drinks a bottle of wine, then kills both. He cuts off a slice of Íria's behind, and cooks it for his meal.
In the prison cell there is a power hierarchy with Bujiú (Babu Santana) at the top. The food is poor, and Nonato is assigned to cook better food. The inmates are usually quite satisfied with it, and Nonato rises in the hierarchy. However, Bujiú rejects Gorgonzola, raw meat, and cooked ants. Ingredients are usually bought through guards; the ants were collected from the cell. Top-criminal Etcetera (Paulo Miklos) arrives, who is highly esteemed among the inmates, and Bujiú decides that a great meal should be cooked to please him. The main prison kitchen is arranged for the preparation; this is expensive, but according to Bujiú a good investment. Nonato poisons Bujiú and becomes the leader of the cell (Etcetera has his own cell).
Stark, perverse story of murder, kidnapping, and police corruption in Mexican border town
Mexican Narcotics officer Ramon Miguel 'Mike' Vargas has to interrupt his honeymoon on the Mexican-US border when an American building contractor is killed after someone places a bomb in his car. He's killed on the US side of the border but it's clear that the bomb was planted on the Mexican side. As a result, Vargas delays his return to Mexico City where he has been mounting a case against the Grandi family crime and narcotics syndicate. Police Captain Hank Quinlan is in charge on the US side and he soon has a suspect, a Mexican named Manolo Sanchez. Vargas is soon onto Quinlan and his Sergeant, Pete Menzies, when he catches them planting evidence to convict Sanchez. With his new American wife, Susie, safely tucked away in a hotel on the US side of the border - or so he thinks - he starts to review Quinlan's earlier cases. While concentrating on the corrupt policeman however, the Grandis have their own plans for Vargas and they start with his wife Susie.
Six men must complete various tasks before moving up the ladder in the crime world. Each more dangerous than the last.
Johnny is a poker-faced, old world outlaw whose only driving force is money. A professional killer and master of escape, Johnny is soon offered the big cash score that has constantly eluded him. The Catch? He and five other criminals must complete various jobs from an anonymous employer before they get the chance at some serious money. Johnny, who is a gun for hire, soon teams up with the five criminals on different jobs knowing in advance that they are all enemies. Johnny's life is quickly put in danger when two of the criminals find out that he is working for their rival. The result of this leads to numerous set-ups, double crosses and deadly confrontations, where only one fortunate soul will be left standing. Greatness, wealth and power beyond their wildest dreams await these undesirables. The only thing they have to do now... is stay alive long enough to claim it.
It is an excellent movie, well crafted, with great music and outstanding performances. It tells the story of a young man looking for a better life in the cosmopolitan city of Caracas, Venezuela. He found enormous difficulties in coping with the raw realities of a crime-ridden city and his personal ambitions and goals as a hard working, rural man. He made a good friendship with a crook "city man" in whom he trusted and learned the "ins and outs" of Caracas.
Robert Rath (Stallone) is a paid assassin who wants nothing more than to get out of 'the business', haunted by the memory of murdering his own mentor Nicolai years ago. Rath is a quiet, morose professional who is on an assignment to kill someone when someone else gets to the 'mark' (the target) before he does. That person turns out to be Miguel Bain (Banderas), a fellow assassin and a competitive psychopath. Rath then has the trouble of trying to figure out who sent Bain, the contractor offers him one last job that could financially allow him to retire - killing the four Dutch buyers and the computer hacker named Electra (Moore) and retrieve a disk that contains sensitive information. Electra has set up cameras in all the rooms of the apartment block where she lives and watches them like watching television.
The problem is that Bain is assigned to kill Electra as well. Bain kills the four Dutch buyers which turn out to be Interpol agents and Rath comes to kill Electra but for the first time has a change of heart. His pay for the job is given to him in a briefcase in exchange for the disk. The briefcase actually contains a bomb placed by his own contractor in an attempt to kill him. Luckily Electra had swapped the disk, not sure if Rath was coming back or not. Then the contractor hires Bain to terminate him. Now having become a target along with Electra he must try and extract enough money out of his contractor so he can disappear for good, while avoiding the bloodthirsty Bain. Rath's contractor turns out to be none other than Nicolai himself. He hired both Rath and Bain to track down Electra and the disk.
The life of a boy in the streets of Sao Paulo, involved with little crimes, prostitution, etc
Pixote, a 10-year-old runaway boy, is arrested on the streets of Sao Paulo during a police round-up homeless people. Pixote endures torture, degradation and corruption at a local youth detention center where two of the runaways are murdered by policemen who frame Lilica, a 17-year-old transvesite hustler. Pixote helps Lilica and three other boys escape where they make their living by the life of crime which only escalates to more violence and death.
fter a police round up of street children Pixote is sent to a juvenile reformatory (FEBEM). The prison is a hellish school where Pixote uses glue sniffing as a means of emotional escape from the constant threats of abuse and rape.
It soon becomes clear that the young criminals are only pawns in the criminal, sadistic games of the prison guards and their commander.
When a boy dies of physical abuse by the guards, they frame the lover of the transgendered effeminate boy known as Lilica (Jorge Julião), for the murder. This lover then conveniently also dies, with some help from the guards.
Soon after, Pixote, Lilica and her new lover Dito (Gilberto Moura) find an opportunity to flee from the prison. First they stay at the apartment of Cristal (Tony Tornado), a former lover of Lilica, but when tensions arise they go to Rio for a cocaine drug deal; there, however, they get duped by a showgirl.
After some time bumming around the city, Pixote and his friends go to a club for another drug deal. While there, Pixote finds the showgirl that took their drugs and stabs her.
They become pimps for the prostitute Sueli who is definitely past her prime and is possibly ill from a botched abortion. The group conspires to rob her johns, but when Lilica's lover Dito falls for Sueli, Lillica leaves. The robbery scheme fails when an American john fights back (because he apparently does not understand Portuguese) so they have to shoot him. In the ensuing fight, Pixote accidentally shoots and kills Dito as well.
Pixote tries to gain comfort from Sueli, treating her as a mother figure, but she rejects him. He leaves and is seen walking down a railway line, gun in hand, away from the camera, his figure disappearing in the distance, out of the film's view.
Brazilian drug dealers in the lower east side of Manhattan start a war with a rival gang of Latino drug dealers. Their soldiers are Latino kids all under 17 because, as Rita La Punta says, "They can kill and not go to jail." The war escalates to include their German heroin supplier, his sexy English girl friend, a Puerto Rican ex-cop, and the Japanese police captain.
Rey is a small time drug dealer waiting for a chance to make it in a big way. He is in love with a prostitute, together they share their ups and downs expecting to one day get out of their miserable lives. They continue to struggle until one day they come across an opportunity of a lifetime.
Two street gangs, one white and one Chicano, are on a course for a major clash until a friendly police officer suggests that they have a sit-down dinner together.
Wilson De Leon, Jr. (Rick Gonzalez) is an exceptional college student with an adoring girlfriend, doting mother and a future full of promise. He has never wanted for anything, and he has never been forced to stand his ground. But when ghosts from his mother's past come back to haunt his present, he must defend his family...and quickly turn into the strong man his father prayed he'd become. Nothing could stop Wilson's mother, Millie (Wanda De Jesus), from protecting her two boys. Forced to flee her home after gangsters killed her husband, she made an oath to give her children only the best. But all that changes when an enemy from the past catches up with them. It's finally time to take action--and now, they're done running. Weapons at the ready, Wilson, Jr. and Millie prepare for a final showdown with the murderer who robbed him of a father and her of a husband. Now, in a battle fueled by family ties and blood feuds, it will become very clear what happens when anyone tries to come between this son and his mother.
is the story of Catalina, a young girl born in a small village with few opportunities. Ready to do whatever she has to in order to escape from the mediocrity and poorness of her village, it doesn’t matter that she might lose her life and her integrity.
Based on the best-seller novel by Gustavo Bolívar Moreno, "Sin Tetas no hay Paraíso" tells the story of how drug dealers affected psychologically and morally a whole generation of young people. In Pereira, Colombia, Catalina associates the prosperity of her teenage girlfriends with their breast size. So she talks with her best friend, Yésica, a teenage pimp, for her to introduce her to the drug lords of the zone. Catalina had a very small breast size, so she had to have an operation to enlarge her breast, and that way, become a drug-lord's wife. She thought her breast would take her to paradise, but it became in her own and personal hell.
Tommy is a 28-year-old man who escaped his hellish childhood by murdering his abusive father. After a prison stint, Tommy's work release program gives him a shot at a new life when he is placed as a cook at St. Michael's School in L.A, There he meets Guillermo, a neighborhood kid who is committed to keeping him out of trouble, and Sophia, a schoolteacher who educates him in a subject he knows nothing about--love.
High school teacher Trevor Garfield is stabbed by bad-boy student. Fifteen months later, he moves to Los-Angeles to the unruly, predominantly Latino school. He has to tame wolf-like students.
Kilo Vasquez’ (Damian Chapa) life as the kingpin of the drug dealing world is cut short after being caught by the F.B.I. Now his worst enemy, Jesse Mendoza (Enrique Castillo) controls the business.
After a sudden kidnapping Kilo ceases the opportunity get his empire back. Unleashing a brutal war between cartels, Kilo and Jesse will do all in their power to overthrow the other and take control of the border. When two drug lords collide, there is only one outcome.
Vatos Locos (in English, Crazy Dudes) is a widely used name for a street gang. Gangs using this name are active in several American states.[1][2]
The film Blood in, Blood out (1993) about the life of poet Jimmy Santiago Baca in 1972, was based on the experiences of gang members of Vatos Locos.[3]
"Vatos Locos" is also the title of Damian's Chapa's new movie, which is schedule to be released on 5/5/2011. The film stars Damian Chapa who was also "Miklo" in the film "Blood In Blood Out". The movie is produced by Damian Chapa's production company Amadeus Pictures. The film is not an extension nor a sequel to the cult hit "Blood In Blood Out". The title and actor Damian Chapa are the only similarities between the two.
A Russian mobster teaches three Latino teens the tricks of the criminal trade in this gritty urban crime drama. Jesse (Ricco Chapa) is convinced that he and his two best friends will be living high on the hog after completing one last job. But his best friend Rio is convinced that their gangster mentor is leading the teens down the path of ruin. Unfortunately for everyone involved, Rio is right, and the three desperate teens are soon fighting for their lives.
A cop Angel Almaraz saves the life of a local crime boss who, in return, offers him a job as part of his security. Almaraz accepts but soon has doubts.
The telenovela is a remake of the 1991 RTI Colombia weekly series Cuando Quiero Llorar No Lloro (best known in Colombia as Los Victorinos), which in turn is based in the homonymous 1970 novel by Venezuelan writer Miguel Otero Silva. Interestingly, Ramiro Meneses, who is currently directing the Telemundo telenovela, starred as one of the Victorinos in the 1991 RTI series.
The serial ran from Monday to Friday to run for over 26 weeks. As with most of its other soap operas, the network broadcasts English subtitles as closed captions on CC3. Ironically, this show was replaced by the original serial of the show, it had replaced. (Victorinos replaced Sin Senos no hay Paraíso and Victorinos was replaced by Sin Tetas No Hay Paraíso, which was the original version of 'Sin Senos" on Telemundo). This telenovela was sold to 12
Based on the novel "Cuando quiero llorar no lloro" of Miguel Otero Silva. Three men born in the same city, on the same date, at the same time and with the same name and with a curse that condemns them to die when they are founded.
Victorino Mora, lower class, son product of a rape, a man who chose to be thug for hire. Rebel and religious of great attachment to his mother. In the end he is killed by Victorino Gallardo.
Victorino Manjarrés, middle class, is a son wanted in a great spirit of integrity and justice. His childhood was marked by an obsessive father with the militia and it has been raised to make it a general of the nation. But for lack of financial means to carry out that race, ends of police. His greatest obsession; capture the Gallardo and Mora.
Victorino Gallardo, of high class, is an unexpected, Machiavellian and ambitious son, a man that his fortune on gambling and women decided to engage in the path of drug trafficking to the waste. He is killed by Victorino Manjarrés.
Victorino Pérez, the false Victorino, orphan who at birth was called Victorino but in the civil register is called Victor. It is adopted by a family of homosexuals and even though it has nothing to do in the omen is determinant in the same. Killed by Victorino Gallardo.
The story is framed in a context of urban solitude in the modern world and sheds some light on the events that surrounded a spree killing that took place in Bogotá, Colombia, in 1986. Satanás, the film, explores the final stages in the life of the killer Campo Elías Delgado.
Three parallel stories that occur in the eve of the infamous Pozzetto Massacre, involving a femme-fatal that cons on rich men, a priest who's in love with his housekeeper and a tired-of-life veteran of war who has become a teacher and desires one of his female students. Three characters looking for love, redemption and second chances in a world reigned by their own fears, temptations, passions and pains, which will end up in a trigger effect of tragic events.
