Andrea Berloff

September 11, 2001 was an unusually warm day in New York. Will Jimeno, an officer with the Port Authority Police Department, was tempted to take a personal day to enjoy his hobby of bow hunting, but ultimately decided that he would go to work. Sergeant John McLoughlin, a respected veteran of the PAPD, had been up for hours -- a requirement of his daily, 1½-hour trek to the city. They and their colleagues made their way to midtown Manhattan, just like they did any other day. Only this wasn't any other day. (Paramount)

The group N.W.A. emerges from the streets of Compton, California in the mid-1980s and revolutionizes hip hop culture with their music and tales about life in the hood. (imdb)

An ex-con reunites with his estranged wayward 16-year old daughter to protect her from drug dealers who are trying to kill her. (imdb)

A cop with a connection to the criminal underworld scours a nightclub in search of his kidnapped son. (imdb)

The wives of New York gangsters in Hell's Kitchen in the 1970s continue to operate their husbands' rackets after they're locked up in prison.

While fleeing from dangerous assailants, an assassin comes out of hiding to protect her daughter she left earlier in life.