6 Films about Gangs

The uplifting story of a young colored kid saved from the mean streets of Cape Town by an old trapeze great, and indoctrinated into the gravity-defying world of trapeze flying, but the flybar between success and failure swings in the balance as his past and present collide to dramatic effect

A young girl and her little brother leave their rural homestead for the city when they are orphaned, and meet up with a gang of street kids. Hoping to fulfill their mother's dream, in the end they find their own.

A new kind of gangster comedy about four childhood buddies whose screwed-up crimes turn out to have redeeming value

Jeremy Oden returns to Thailand to meet with a private detective from Singapore to search for his kidnapped fiance

When juvenile delinquent Eddie discovers his natural gift for writing, he is able to view the world and himself in a new light

"... a potent portrait of bootstraps idealism in an embattled community... deserves to be seen." -Dennis Harvey, VARIETY