In a contemporary New York City, members of a dysfunctional family of vampires are trying to come to terms with each other, in the wake of their father's death. Meanwhile, they are being hunted by Dr. Van Helsing and his hapless nephew. As in all good vampire movies, forces of love are pitted against forces of destruction.
Biopic retraçant la vie de Malcolm X, leader du mouvement noir américain Nation of Islam : de son enfance difficile, à sa jeunesse délinquante, à son séjour en prison où il apprend à cultiver la fierté de sa race, à sa rencontre avec l'islam, à son pèlerinage à la Mecque jusqu’à son assassinat le 21 février 1965, à New-York en plein meeting.
"Piñero" tells the story of the explosive life of a Latino icon, the gay poet-playwright-actor Miguel Piñero, whose urban poetry is recognized as a pre-cursor to rap and hip-hop. After doing time in hard-core Sing-Sing for petty thefts and drug dealing, Piñero's prison experiences developed into the 1974 Tony-nominated play Short Eyes. The resulting notoriety and fame was too much for the Latino bad-boy genius who retreated to the darker corners of New York City.
New York, été 1977. Alors que la ville connait une canicule historique, un tueur en série, The Son of Sam, frappe dans le quartier italo-américain de South Bronx. Les rumeurs et soupçons enflent, la presse entretient la paranoïa ambiante : New York suffoque.