Teddy Wilson

A filthy rich businessman bets a corporate rival that he can live on the streets of L.A. without the comforts of home or money, which proves to be tougher than he thought. (imdb)

Based on the true life experiences of poet Jimmy Santiago Baca, the film focuses on half-brothers Paco and Cruz, and their bi-racial cousin Miklo. It opens in 1972, as the three are members of an East L.A. gang known as the "Vatos Locos", and the story focuses on how a violent crime and the influence of narcotics alter their lives. Miklo is incarcerated and sent to San Quentin, where he makes a "home" for himself.(imdb)

In order to track down bail jumpers, Ralph 'Papa' Thorson goes on a series of routine and not-so-routine searches. Sometimes he takes down his quarry easily. At other times, he's forced to extreme measures which result in the injury or death of a lawbreaker. And then again, there are other moments when his own life is on the line. It's all enough to make Thorson question what he has done with his life. (imdb)

Private detective investigated a series of murders connected with a drug ring in Venice, California. (imdb)

A yuppie moves into a new house only to find he's being harassed by its former squatter.

A destitute young horse jocky and gambler resorts to debt-collecting for a racketeer. (TCM)

An intimate look at life in the ghetto: Johnny Williams is a house painter who moonlights as a poet, struggling to financially and emotionally support his cancer-ridden wife Mattie. But times are tough and the poverty-troubled streets are even tougher, and it takes every ounce of Johnny's love and courage for the couple to make it through their strife, finding redemption in the River Niger.

Once a beautiful screen idol, Alexandra Del Lago has fled Hollywood for fear that her beauty and fame has faded. Alexandra falls into the arms of Chance, a shiftless would-be actor, who sees her wealth and position as his last shot at making it in Hollywood. (amazon.com)

Clifton likes being a barber in Washington DC where he works in the business started by his father. He also enjoys being single but his widowed Mama Eloise has other ideas and wants him settled like his sister Tracy and her conservative husband Leonard.

A detached black mother looses her job and though the ability to pay back her credit. She recalls her billiard skills and begins to play for money. Will she be cool enough to be a pro in such a game? Things get worse when she falls in love with an opponent.

After hours at a nightclub, the hired help have a jam session, which proves to be just what a couple of belated customers wanted to hear. (imdb)