Trinidad Silva

A lost bet that sends a nerd to the prom with the school’s most popular girl ends in an amnesiatic after party with L.A.’s biggest crime boss.

Brother and sister Enrique and Rosa flee persecution at home in Guatemala and journey north, through Mexico and on to the United States, with the dream of starting a new life. It’s a story that happens every day, but until Gregory Nava’s groundbreaking El Norte (The North), the personal travails of immigrants crossing the border to America had never been shown in the movies with such urgent humanism. A work of social realism imbued with dreamlike imagery, El Norte is a lovingly rendered, heartbreaking story of hope and survival, which critic Roger Ebert called "“a Grapes of Wrath for our time."

Gangster Emilio Mendez knows everything about the gritty streets of East Los Angeles, except how to leave them. His brutal days with the ruthless gang the Aztecas have taught him many violent lessons, and now he is struggling to leave.

San Francisco misfits decide to become safecrackers when they help an out-of-work schemer get even with a pawnbroker by robbing his safe.

The manager of a small-time UHF station inadvertently hits it big with his strange programming ideas to keep Channel 62 from going down the tubes.