Blink of an Eye

Director:

Van Fischer

Writers:

Jo Marr (story), Chris Ver Wiel

Stars:

Frank John Hughes, Seidy Lopez and Lombardo Boyar

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Also Known As:

Urban Jungle See more »

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.

One Eight Seven(187)

Director:

Kevin Reynolds

Writer:

Scott Yagemann

Stars:

Samuel L. Jackson, John Heard and Kelly Rowan

One Eight Seven (also known and abbreviated as 187) is a 1997 drama / crime / thriller film, starring Samuel L. Jackson, who plays a Los Angeles teacher caught with gang trouble in an urban high school. The film was directed by Kevin Reynolds and its name comes from the California Penal Code number, called 187 (murder).

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.

El Padrino 2

Director:

Damian Chapa

Writers:

Damian Chapa, Jon Kalkin (screenplay)

Stars:

Damian Chapa, Annet Mahendru and Jeff McCredie

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

2008 (USA) See more »

Filming Locations:

Mexico

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

Director:

Damian Chapa

Writer:

Damian Chapa

Stars:

Damian Chapa, Gabriel Tang and Ricco Chapa

Country:

USA

Language:

English | Spanish

Filming Locations:

Los Angeles, California, USA

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.

 

 

Ladron (Thief)

Director:

Damian Chapa

Writers:

Damian Chapa, Carlton Holder (screenplay)

Stars:

Ricco Chapa, Stanley Griego and Sultria Demirjian

Country:

USA

Language:

English | Spanish

Release Date:

2010 (USA) See more »

Filming Locations:

Los Angeles, California, USA

 

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.

Bad Cop

Director:

Damian Chapa

Stars:

Damian Chapa, David Carradine and Johnny Cley Rivers

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

3 November 2009 (USA) See more » 

 

 

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.

Victorinos

Directors:

Ramiro Meneses, Mario Mitrotti

Writers:

Gustavo Bolívar Moreno (adaptation), Gustavo Bolívar Moreno (screenplay)

Stars:

Arap Bethke, Mauricio Ochmann and Roberto Manrique

Victorinos is a Spanish-language telenovela produced by the United States-based television network Telemundo. It debuted on June 23, 2009, replacing Sin Senos no hay Paraíso and concluded February 5, 2010

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. 

Satanás

Directed by	Andrés Baiz
Produced by	Rodrigo Guerrero
Written by	Andrés Baiz (Based on Mario Mendoza's book and inspired by true events)
Starring	Damián Alcázar Blas Jaramillo Marcela Mar
Music by	Angelo Milli
Cinematography	Mauricio Vidal
Editing by	Alberto de Toro
Release date(s)	March 4, 2007 June 1, 2007 October 10, 2007
Running time	120 minutes
Country	Colombia
Language	Spanish

Satanás (Spanish for Satan) is a 2007 Colombian film directed by Andi Baiz. It is adapted from the novel of the same title by Mario Mendoza Zambrano. It was Colombia's submission to the 80th Academy Awards for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, but was not accepted as a nominee.^[1][2]

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.

Colombiana

Directed by	Olivier Megaton
Produced by	Luc Besson Pierre-Ange Le Pogam
Screenplay by	Luc Besson Robert Mark Kamen
Starring	Zoe Saldana Michael Vartan Callum Blue Cliff Curtis Jordi Mollà Lennie James Max Martini
Cinematography	Romain Lacourbas
Editing by	Camille Delamarre
Distributed by	Tristar Pictures
Release date(s)	September 2, 2011
Country	USA France
Language	English Spanish
Budget	$40 million

Colombiana is an upcoming film starring Zoe Saldana and Michael Vartan.^[1] The film is slated for release on September 2, 2011.
Zoe Saldana plays a young woman who, after witnessing her parents’ murder as a child in Bogota, grows up to be a stone-cold assassin. She works for her uncle as a hitman by day, but her personal time is spent engaging in vigilante murders that she hopes will lead her to her ultimate target: the mobster responsible for her parents' death.

Acquitted for killing

Original title: Absuelto para matarDirector:   Rodolfo de Anda
 Star : Rossana San Juan
Roberto Ballesteros
Country: Mexico
The promising life of Alfredo changes to the being accused of a crime radically that did not commit. Its only alternative to recover the freedom is to find the true culprit.

The revenge of El michoacano

Original title: La venganza del michoacano
Director: Francisco Pérez Nieto
Star: Eleazar García Jr.
Roberto Ballesteros
Country: Mexico

Jesus Salvatierra, “El Michoacano”, is an innocent man who was jailed because of a treason. Nine years later it has returned to take revenge itself of those who to him as much damage, its wife and her declared enemy did, Delfino Monte.

The number of death

Original Title: Número de la muerte
Director: Francisco Pérez-Nieto
Star:
Roberto Ballesteros
Luis Gatica
Hugo Stieglitz
Country: Mexico
A game of dices decides the destiny of the victims of Victor, a hitman who by his cleverness has deceived to the police headed by the agent Rivera. The luck, you intrigue and the love key points are to determine the number of the death.

Gente Comun

Director:

Ignacio Rinza

Writer:

Jose Carlos Gutierrez

Stars:

Alexa Benedetti, Alan Ciangherotti and Fernando Ciangherotti

 

A Mexico that approaches the subject of crimen where personages like “El papi”(the daddy), “El mesías”(The messiah) , “El Triste"(the sad one), “the De la Rosa brothers”, etc., withdraw by the dominion and the world power corrupt and bloodthirsty in where it only survives more hard.

Mexican drug kingpin Papi (Luis Felipe Tovar) enters a turf war against a team of American mafia intruders led by mesías ;as (Fernando Ciangherotti). But while the battle rages, the Korean mob sees an opportunity to seize power while its enemies fight each other. Ignacio Rinza directs this darkly ironic, Tarantino-esque thriller, where the action escalates into a three-way race for control of the lucrative drug trade.

White Empire

 Original title: Imperio Blanco

Director:

Miguel Ángel Rodríguez

Stars:

Humberto Elizondo, Paola Gaer and Manuel Ojeda

Fernando Ríos, a ruthless man dedicated to the dirty businesses of the drug, kills to cold blood to a foreigner and the woman of this one. The daughter, who is witness of everything, will look for to enter itself to the world of the Mafia to take revenge the death of her parents.

Road Dogz

Director:

Alfredo Ramos

Writer:

Alfredo Ramos

Stars:

Clifton Collins Jr., Greg Serano and Jacob Vargas

 

Some friends are closer than brothers.

 

La vida Loca

Director:  Christian Poveda

Documentary on the gangs in El Salvador

 His director Christian Poveda was assassinated by gang members after which documentary one was published this.

 

 

You must kill

 Original title:   Si Mataras

Director:

Christian González

Writer:

Christian González

Stars:

Alejandro Cuétara, Jesús Salcedo and Carlos Samperio

Mexican landlord (Salomón) has been framed by members of his own gang, his fiancée (Ana) has been brutally murdered and no one is telling the truth. Salomón has to choose who is with him or against.

Widow of the Mob

Director:

Sergio Osorio

Writers:

Nubia Barreto, Gilma Peña

Stars:

Carolina Gómez, Abel Rodríguez and Patrick Delmas

 

La Viuda de la Mafia," or ''Widow of the Mob," Diana Montes thinks she's going on a rustic second honeymoon, but her family is pursued into the jungle by authorities, who kill her husband in a dramatic shoot-out.
Initially convinced he was an innocent victim, the glamorous mother of two, with the help of an amorous detective, gradually comes to realize that her husband was using his respectable aviation and construction business as a front to transport drugs and launder money.
Since its debut last fall, the nightly soap has taken Colombian prime-time audiences by storm. Its producers recently sold Miami-based Univision the rights to broadcast the program to Spanish-speaking audiences across the United States.

A red bear

 Original Title:  Un oso rojo

Director:

Adrián Caetano

Writers:

Adrián Caetano, Romina Lanfranchini (story), and 1 more credit »

Stars:

Julio Chávez, Soledad Villamil and Luis Machín

Oso (Bear) has never gotten over the separation from his wife and daughter after having been convicted for armed robbery and homicide and sent to prison. Now he is out, to finally get his cut of the money and reunite with his family, or at least avenge the damage done.

Oso (Julio Chávez) is sent to prison for a robbery and a murder. After seven years, he is released from prison, and in a flashback, the robbery is seen that led to his arrest. His daughter, Alicia (Agostina Lage), was a year old on the day of the robbery. As a consequence, Alicia never got a chance to get to know her father.

Oso returns to his hometown, a depressed suburb of Buenos Aires, fully aware that his wife, Natalia (Soledad Villamil), is living with another man, Sergio (Luis Machín). Oso is determined to establish a relationship with Alicia, and to collect money owed him by a sleazy crime boss known as El turco ( The Turk) (René Lavand). In the meantime, El Turco wants Oso to be the getaway driver on one last big job. For her part, Alicia seems fascinated with her father and makes him promise never to go away again.

The Saga: Family Business

la saga negocio de familia

Directors:

Dago García, Juan Carlos Villamizar

Writers:

Dago García, Paola Arias (script), and 3 more credits »

Stars:

Maribel Abello, Viviana Andrade and Adriana Arango 

Official Sites:

Caracol Television [Colombia] | Add/edit official sites  »

Country:

Colombia

Language:

Spanish

Release Date:

2005 (Venezuela) See more »

It begun in the middle 30's in a town nearby Bogotá, Colombia. Tomás Manrique, his wife Josefina and his little son Pedro, had to take a train and leave that town as soon as a war conflict started in the area. When they arrived to Bogota, a man called Pascual became their friend, and got a hotel for them to stay. When Tomás and Pascual got closer friends, Pascual robbed them. But when Tomás found it out, and went to reclaim his money, Pascual introduce him into a easy-life world, into dirty businesses and crime. In that exactly moment, Tomás damned the whole 5 next generations of the Manrique family. He damned them to suffer and made their lives a hell. Ten years later, Pedro met Marlene, a nurse, and fell in love with her. Pascual was having money troubles with Tomás, suspecting that him was taking advantages of their businesses and "gaining" more money than him, so he killed him. Pedro found this out

This is the story of the Manrique, a provincial family that moved to Bogotá after one of its patriarchs decided to try his luck in the city. He ended up founding a criminal organization by accident and decided to strengthen it. Then, he tried to reintegrate into society but tragically succumbed after having created an illegal world.
The decade of the 30s brought a radical, violent, and armed political conflict to the country. Tomás Manrique had to flee his home town with his wife Josefina and his son Pedrito. During the night, an armed group unexpectedly barged in a party killing every male they found to be in the opposite political party. When this war that he had decided not to be a part of had begun, he moved to the capital with his family where he accepted a job in a factory that manufactured screws.
One afternoon, a group of thieves entered the factory. Tomás ended up being the hero accidentally when he immobilized the criminals, winning the respect and trust from his boss Facundo, who allowed Tomás, dandy by nature, to enter and desire his wealthy lifestyle, full of luxury and commodity. But Tomás knows that collecting such a fortune means many years of hard work, and he was not willing to wait so long. He decided to rob his boss's house with the complicity of Pascual, a thief and new friend. In order to get the guns for this, they made a deal with a mobster who, in return, asked for part of the loot and took Pedro, Tomás's son, as a guarantee. Tomás accepted the deal, but things got complicated, and he ended up killing his boss and also later killing the mobster who lend them the guns, and therefore not sharing any of the loot. He rescued his son and got home with a feeling of having done the right thing.
This marked the beginning of a world of crime in the life of Tomás, and little by little, the Manrique rose to the point of a stable income and wellbeing through legal and illegal businesses. Tomás's dream of becoming a well established, honest businessman and gentleman never came true, and he slowly resigned himself to work in the underworld.
10 years later Pedro became 20. Pedro fell in love with the daughter of the man who killed the men of his village. Pedro played the man in poker with help from Pasqual he got all of the man's money. His daughter hated Pedro when she found out that her dad lost the money she made a deal. The deal was if she could beat him she would get the money back for her dad. If she lost she would have sex with him. He almost lost but, won he told her he was better than that.