A Short Film About Killing (1988)

A former cop returns to challenge a plot to escalate gang violence in the streets of Los Angeles.

Two cops–both partners and best friends–find their friendship and their lives at stake when they try to take down a ruthless drug dealer.

In a small town in post-WWII France, 16-year-old Janine tries to improve her conditions by any means necessary. Three people—Michel, a married lover; Raoul, a fellow thief; Mauricette, a photographer…

After a mobster agrees to cooperate with an FBI investigation in order to stay out of prison, he’s relocated by the authorities to a life of suburban anonymity as part…

Driven to desperation by his young and extravagant wife, alienist Dr. Emil Brandt has arranged a perfect crime; now he begs the police to lock him up before he can…

Injustice begets a criminal. Kool is an artist without prospects, a black belt in karate, and in love with LaShawna, poised and college bound. One night she witnesses a stabbing…

A neo-noir set in the New York City’s corrupt contemporary art world where the art dealer John Kaplan and the ruthless head of New York’s mafia, Michael Rubino, fight for…

Two hitmen, both good friends who work for the Triad, get a new partner, a nervous young rookie who starts off badly by blowing an assignment, but soon becomes proficient…

An eccentric, if not charming Southern professor and his crew pose as a band in order to rob a casino, all under the nose of his unsuspecting landlord – a…

A gang of hot headed brutes lead by Tony Stone and sexual sadist John Lynch execute a robbery with some inside help. A bloody shoot-out with the LAPD ensues and…

Five swindle stories, taking place in five international cities: Tokyo, Japan (“Fumiko’s Five Benefactors” by Hiromichi Horikawa); Amsterdam, The Netherlands (“A River of Diamonds” by Roman Polanski); Naples, Italy (“The…

A lonely and emotionally neglected rich kid forms an attachment to one of the men who kidnap him during a botched robbery of his father’s safe.