Teenage girl is frustrated about her lack of singing ability in her gospel singing family. She writes a song about her problem, and soon finds where her musical talent lies.

A supremely realistic film of repression in the inter-city ghetto.

Spike Fumo is an Italian kid apsiring to be a boxer. He falls in love with a rich girl, who turns out to be the daughter of a Mafia boss. Spike is threatened to leave Bensonhurst by the mob, and then goes to a poverty-stricken Puerto Rican part of Brooklyn.

A gang of thugs devise a cruel hoax that goes horribly wrong as Melvin, a nerdy emaciated janitor at the local health club, is cast through a third story window into a vat of hazardous toxic waste.

Joey is a player, a hot-shot movie agent in New York. If a deal can be made, he'll make it. If a rising talent can be snapped up, he'll be the first in line. And when it comes to luring Hollywood in a bidding war for a script nobody's read, Joey is your man. Joey's definitely cruising in the fast lane. Bu there's one thing Joey has never taken the time to do... live. Joey's programmed life is turned topsy-turvy by a series of unexpected events which culminates in a serendipitous romance with a throughly remarkable young Jamaican woman.

An aging minor league baseball player must decide the price he's willing to pay to make his dream of making the major leagues come true.

A New York hooker tries to keep her daughter out of the clutches of the mobsters she works for.

Two brothers befriend an escaped mental patient ("the fat guy") and accompany him on his misadventures in the big city.

A White man is obsessed with a Black singer who has stage fright, during her comeback concert, she panics, got drunk and passes out in someone's car (turning out to be the man's car). The man does not realize she is in the car until he brings her to his home, at hom, the fan inspires her to sing again.