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Angel celebrates the birth of his daughter by taking his first hit of crack cocaine. With the hesitant support of his wife, Monika, he joins a friend of his to deal drugs for a short time--enough time to get out of debt and buy some nice things for the family. Three years later, Angel is still dealing, and has not saved any money, instead spending it on crack. His addiction grows, straining his friendship and his family life, and he gradually loses control.

Virgil Bliss is a man obsessed with living a normal life, finding a good job, marrying a decent woman, and building a family of his own. But as a recently paroled career thief with a hair-trigger temper and the social skills of a child, he faces distinct challenges. At the halfway house where he gets his first taste of freedom in over a decade, Virgil meets Manny Alvarez, a fiery miscreant who takes the emotionally naive Virgil under his wing and initiates him in the ways of the world. It's Manny who introduces Virgil to Ruby, an opportunistic junkie with whom Virgil falls instantly in love. As Virgil and Ruby learn to trust each other, they share their concerns: Ruby plans to win back custody of her four-year-old son and Virgil confesses the horrible and senseless crime that landed him in prison. After his release from the halfway house, Virgil finds work as a janitor and moves in with Ruby. But their attempts to adjust as a family come undone with the arrival of the psychotic Manny.

A troubled young woman fights for custody of her six year-old daughter.

Over one night in New York City, lives of disparate strangers intersect by fate and circumstance.

Based on Buchner's classic 'Woyzeck', this modern interpretation sees Frank Woyzeck slowly lose his grip on reality at the hands of a pill wielding doctor and an unfaithful wife; as he slips we follow him along the path to his own destruction.

Young people from across the UK celebrate inspirational and history-making figures from the past 200 years.

The film involves a story all too familiar with the inner city youth these days. Two brothers, Tracy aka "Tre", and Troy become fed up with living in poverty in the murder capitol of Philadelphia with already over 217 homicides as of July 2007. With their father deceased and their mother in drug treatment, they decided to take matters into their own hands just to get by. Once they were introduced to a new hustle, they definitely found something "special" and quick in gun sells to get ahead, but for how long and at what cost?