A mute alien with the appearance of a black human is chased by outer-space bounty hunters through the streets of Harlem.

A museum worker pretends to be an artist in order to impress women. When an attractive assistant director of a SoHo art gallery overhears him, she offers to exhibit his work. He plays along, which leads to a series of complications following his newfound double life. He starts falling in love with the assistant director, but her art critic fiancé grows suspicious.

Four Harlem friends -- Bishop, Q, Steel and Raheem -- dabble in petty crime, but they decide to go big by knocking off a convenience store. Bishop, the magnetic leader of the group, has the gun. But Q has different aspirations. He wants to be a DJ and happens to have a gig the night of the robbery. Unfortunately for him, Bishop isn't willing to take no for answer in a game where everything's for keeps.

The leader of an organized criminal enterprise and four professional arm robbers pull off a successful score of seven million dollars. Along the way the money is stolen by one of the robbers, the rest of the crew wants their cut and the leader is on a killing rampage to find out who stole the stolen money.

An ambitious girl named Fay Mulberry desperately longs to get out of the drug-infested and violence-ridden New York neighborhood in which she lives. Bright and gifted with promise for a successful future, Fay finds her college hopes dashed when she starts to spend time with a charming drug dealer and is soon faced with a catastrophic turn of events that could forever impede her attempts at success.

A drama that looks back on the Harlem Renaissance from the perspective of an elderly, black writer who meets a gay teenager in a New York homeless shelter.

Priest returns to New York from Paris to find his friend's murderer. With a couple of new allies, he attempts to bring the killers to justice while trying not to get into criminal activity like he did years ago.

Ed Lover and Doctor Dre are two inept barbers. Deciding that maybe they ought to find another line of work, they join the police. A big mistake, as far as their duty sergeant, Sgt Cooper is concerned, who proceeds to harass them at every turn. Despite this, they discover a major crime, and proceed to solve it in their own unusual fashion.