Two gangsters threaten the owner of an upscale restaurant after his son can't pay a gambling debt.
Jack, a hapless, law student needs to pay his tuition. His best friend Gino, recruits a cunning Irish gangster to lend.
Violent look at East Harlem Italian mafia opens with the kidnaping, torture, and killing of a rival gang member and moves forward along a brutal course in its examination of two gang members as they get involved in a messed up drug deal.
"Everybody wants to be an actor or a gangster. " That's life according to mafia hustler Tony Donitello. For he and his brother Vinnie, being raised in Bensonhurst Brooklyn around the local loan sharks, bookies and hitmen, they grew up learning three things; You know NOTHING, you hear NOTHING, you say NOTHING! After connecting with erratic underboss, "Crazy Sal" Cortino, what Tony so desires to play in the movies, he is destined to become in real life. The roads of Brooklyn are merging into one and his choices are no longer his own. As Tony guides us through this provocative journey of Friendship, Loyalty, and Retribution, he reveals to us the difference between Power and Powerlessness.
An immature, newly unemployed comic must navigate the murky waters of adulthood after her fling with a graduate student results in an unplanned pregnancy.
An elderly restaurant owner runs into trouble because of a gambling debt.
Spike Lee's take on the "Son of Sam" murders in New York City during the summer of 1977 centering on the residents of an Italian-American Northeast Bronx neighborhood who live in fear and distrust of one another.
When a girl finds out she is being evicted from her Brooklyn apartment, she elicits the help of some gangsters. A dark comedy and true story starring Sarah Stiles.
No one is safe in this action filled suspense. Who can you trust, when you don't even recognize yourself anymore?
As two actors prepare for a live performance in downtown New York, they face the uncertainties of each other’s skills, unclear loyalties, and possible hidden identities. All this, while in the shadows lurks a serial-killer of Off-Off Broadway actors.
Loosely based on a true story. Disrespected and threatened by a rising star in the New York City mob, Black Mike, an old school mobster goes to his dark side.