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Author
Publisher
Theatre Communications Group
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Following the recently rehabilitated drug dealer Jackie, trying to improve his life after being paroled, The Motherfucker with the Hat (Guirgis's first on Broadway) examines the fragile line between ignited passions and the struggle to remain clean in the underbelly of New York City. With expressive dialogue and a captivating story, Guirgis's widely-acclaimed play delves into the challenges of pride, self-transformation, and the intricacies of love...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Thai
Description
When Som and Bank meet for the first time in the sprawling metropolis of Bangkok, they are strangers. Bank doesn't know that Som is a hooker, and Som doesn't know Bank is a drug dealer. Soon they become partners, and the drug deals they make bring them a kind of wealth they have never known. With a taste for the highlife, they plan a deal that will make them rich beyond their wildest imagination. But they soon find the price they pay, may be way...
4) The giants
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
Français
Description
Teenage brothers Seth and Zak are spending the summer in their deceased grandfather's house, waiting in vain for their mother, who is perpetually busy and nowhere to be found. Running low on cash, they decide to rent out the house to a rather unnerving local drug dealer, who was rumored to have killed someone simply with a 'death stare'.
5) On the job
Pub. Date
2014
Language
Filipino
Description
When a prominent drug dealer is murdered, Sergeant Acosta (Joey Marquez) and Federal agent Francis (Piolo Pascual) lead the investigation, but the trail goes immediately cold. What they discover is a conspiracy of massive scale. The killers (Joel Torre and Gerald Anderson) are inmates, temporarily released from jail as assassins before returning to incarceration.
6) Fresh
Publisher
Miramax
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Trapped in a dangerous life on the streets, Fresh defies the odds by staying one move ahead of the local criminals.
7) Archenemy
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
A man claiming to be a hero from another dimension who fell through time and space and lost his powers and a local teenager fight a ruthless crime boss.
8) Dope
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
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Description
Malcolm is carefully surviving life in a tough neighborhood in Los Angeles while juggling college applications, academic interviews, and the SAT. A chance invitation to an underground party leads him into an adventure that could allow him to go from being a geek, to being dope, to ultimately being himself.
9) Blood father
Publisher
LG Premiere
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
When his estranged teenage daughter is targeted by a drug cartel, ex-convict John Link must call upon connections from his criminal past to save his daughter's future.
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Joshua, a hard-nosed collector for a ruthless mob boss, lives in a world filled with brutal violence and beautiful women. But when he finds himself in the middle of a power struggle with the most dominant drug lord in the business, Joshua knows that one false move could cause everything to come crashing down. Life becomes the ultimate battle when revenge is all there is to live for.
11) Winter's bone
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
©2010
Language
English
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Description
Seventeen-year-old Ree Dolly sets out to track down her father who put their house up for his bail bond and then disappeared. If she fails to find him, she and her family will be turned out into the Ozark woods. Challenging her outlaw kin's code of silence and risking her life, Ree hacks through the lies, evasions, and threats offered up by her relatives and begins to piece together the truth.
12) VFW
Publisher
RLJ Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
A typical night for a group of war veterans at the local VFW turns into an all-out battle for survival when a teenage girl runs into the bar with a bag of stolen drugs. Suddenly under attack from a gang of punk mutants looking to get back what's theirs, at any cost, the vets use every weapon they can put together to protect the girl and their VFW in the biggest fight of their lives.
13) Nobody
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Hutch Mansell is an underestimated and overlooked dad and husband, taking life's indignities on the chin and never pushing back. A nobody. When two thieves break into his suburban home one night, Hutch declines to defend himself or his family, hoping to prevent serious violence. His teenage son, Blake, is disappointed in him and his wife, Becca, seems to pull only further away. The aftermath of the incident strikes a match to Hutch's long-simmering...
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
Français
Description
From two-time Palme d'Or winners Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne comes the story of seventeen-year-old Lokita and twelve-year-old Tori, two immigrants to Belgium from Cameroon and Benin, respectively whose siblinglike bond is the only resource they can depend on in their struggle for survival on the margins of European society. The pair work as performers in a cheap trattoria, dealing drugs on the side, while balancing the demands of an indifferent bureaucracy....
15) Coffy
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
A beautiful woman feigns drug addiction to discover and destroy the evil dealers responsible for her sister's death.
16) Sollers Point
Publisher
Oscilloscope Laboratories
Language
English
Formats
Description
Keith, a small-time drug dealer under house arrest at the home of his father in Baltimore, re-enters a community scarred by unemployment, neglect and deeply entrenched segregation. Nominated for Best Film at the **San Sebastian International Film Festival.** "*Matthew Porterfield's achievement in this characteristically moody, downbeat essay is to hang back from expected narrative payoffs, while offering the appeal of a character study rooted in a...
17) Super fly
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Priest is a cocaine dealer who is just smart enough to know that there's no real future in dealing coke, and makes a proposal to his partner Eddie that would leave them with a million dollar profit each. But Scatter, the dealer who set Priest up in the cocaine trade, is both unwilling and unable to sell them that much product. As Priest looks for a new source for his big score, one of his underlings, Fat Freddie, is picked up by the police. Freddie...
18) Belly
Publisher
Artisan Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Two friends begin robbing clubs to make some quick cash. For one of them, the payoffs are not big enough and he begins selling drugs. Soon, friendships and relationships are put to the test by jealousy, greed, paranoia and betrayal.
19) Spring breakers
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Four frustrated college girlfriends plot to fund their best spring break ever by burglarizing a fast-food shack. But that's only the beginning: during a night of partying, the girls get arrested. Hung over and clad only in bikinis, the girls appear before a judge and get bailed out unexpectedly by Alien, an infamous local dealer who takes them on the wildest spring-break trip in history.
20) Clockers
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
Description
Two brothers grow up together in the same Brooklyn housing projects, but they are as opposite as good and evil. Victor Dunham has a family, works two jobs and leads a respectable life. His 19-year-old brother, Strike, hangs out with his friends on a bench and sells crack cocaine. Strike agrees to kill a rival dealer as a favor to Rodney, the neighborhood drug kingpin, but when the man is murdered, it is Victor who confesses. Detective Rocco Kleine...
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