Desmond Nakano Movies

During his 18 years in Folsom Prison, street-gang leader Santana rules over all the drug-and-murder activities behind bars. Upon his release, Santana...

A gallery of characters in Brooklyn in the 1950s are crushed by their surroundings and selves: a union strike leader discovers he is gay; a...

An FBI free-lancer stashes a stolen Las Vegas-crime tape in a high-tech car stolen by someone else.

A focus on life in a gang, Boulevard Nights portrays the dangers of street violence. Richard Yniguez plays a young Chicano who tries to get out of...

The story takes place in alternative America where the blacks are members of social elite, and whites are inhabitants of inner city ghettos. Louis...

A disco owner lures a New York breakdancer away from his rapping and dancing friends.

American Pastime tells a poignant story set against the Japanese-American internment camps during World War II. Rounded up and uprooted from their...

An aspiring songwriter from a small steel town, Betty Mabry Davis arrived on the scene to break boundaries for women with her daring personality,...

Ekchart Schmidt examines the machinery behind the dream factory; the Hollywood myth is unmasked. How does the studio industry work? What role does...

Schmidt follows the 27 miles of the “street of life” to Pacific Palisades, where the boulevard ends at the ocean. While interviews with...