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Jake Gyllenhaal and Michael Pena play young Los Angeles police officers Taylor and Zavala who patrol the city's meanest streets of south central Los Angeles. Giving the story a gripping, first-person immediacy, the action unfolds through footage from the handheld HD cameras of the police officers, gang members, surveillance cameras, and citizens caught in the line of fire to create a riveting portrait of the city's most dangerous corners, the cops who risk their lives there every day, and the price they and their families are forced to pay.

R Drama Crime

  • 4.4 / 5

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A 9-year old Mexican boy journeys to the U.S. to find his migrant mother in Los Angeles after the grandmother who is taking care of him dies.

PG-13 Drama 1 hr, 49 mins

  • 4.7 / 5

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Lifelong friends embark on separate paths for their first year of college and the summer beyond, but remain in touch by sharing their experiences with each other as they always have--with honesty and humor. Discovering their individual strengths, fears, talents and capacity for love through the choices they make, they come to value more than ever the bond they share and the immeasurable power of their friendship.

PG-13 Drama Adventure

  • 3.8 / 5

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Ana, a first generation Mexican American teenager living in East Los Angeles, has just graduated from high school. Because she is a talented writer, a caring teacher urges her to apply to college. Ana secretly is excited about the possibility, but her overbearing and hypercritical mother Carmen insists that it is time for her to help provide for the family by working in her sister's sewing factory. When a crisis arises at the factory, it seems as if Ana's fate is unhappily sealed, but her indomitable will to reach beyond a sweatshop life eventually leads her to burst, defiant and resplendent, through every restriction on her life.

PG-13 Drama Comedy

  • 1 / 5

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A post-Iraq War drama about a young soldier who has trouble re-adjusting when he returns to his small hometown. He leaves his wife, mother and sister to travel the country in search of redemption.

R Drama War 1 hr, 32 mins

  • 2.6 / 5

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Chávez chronicles the birth of a modern American movement led by famed civil rights leaderand labor organizer, Cesar Chavez. Torn between his duties as a husband and father and his commitment to bringing dignity and justice to others, Chavez embraced non-violence as he battled greed and prejudice in his struggle for the rights of farm workers. His triumphant journey is a remarkable testament to the power of one individual's ability to change the system.

PG-13 Drama Biography

  • 4.1 / 5

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The bilingual thriller is from writer-director Antonio Negret and focuses on the final 90 minutes in the life of a kidnapped Colombian. His family, a ransom delivery man, and a special ops team attempt to save him.

Drama Thriller

  • 4 / 5

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A strong-willed teenaged daughter of first-generation Mexican immigrants must help hold her family together after a tragic accident.

Drama Adaptation

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Two members of a group of friends struggles to stay united as a couple named Mark and Silvia (Ryan Piers Williams, America Ferrera) separate.

Drama

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