By Any Means

Noble Intentions

January 2023 •English

A teenage boy reluctantly turns to the streets to earn $6,000 a month for his mother's cancer medicine and quickly discovers that street money does not come easy. When an old family friend makes him a syndicate boss, jealousy and greed immediately turn his friends against him. With pressure mounting from all sides, he must choose between saving his mother’s life and saving his own.

After the Fall

February 2014 •English

Bill Scanlin loses his job and embarks on a life of crime. As Bill stays ahead of the law, he discovers that sometimes the only thing worse than getting caught is getting away with it.

At Close Range

April 1986 •English

Brad Whitewood Jr. lives in rural Pennsylvania and has few prospects. Against his mother's wishes, he seeks out his estranged father, the head of a gang of thieves in a nearby town. Though his new girlfriend supports his criminal ambitions, Brad Jr. soon learns that his father is a dangerous man. Inspired by the real events that led to the end of the Johnston Gang, who operated in the northeastern United States in the 1970s.

Ladies They Talk About

February 1933 •English

A moll, imprisoned after participating in a bank robbery, helps with a breakout plot.

Ryuji

October 1983 •Japanese

Ryuji tries quitting the yakuza to actively support his wife and daughter; as he's used to easy money, it's a difficult transition.

100 Streets

November 2016 •English

Three extraordinary stories covering infidelity, adoption, and a drug dealer turned actor intertwine as characters meet in the streets of London.

If You Saw His Heart

November 2017 •French

Cast out of his insular community, a damaged and down on his luck man teeters between a life of crime and the path to redemption.

Big Bad Mama II

October 1987 •English

Wilma McClatchie and her daughters return to a life of crime and vow vengeance against the evil land baron who foreclosed on their home.

The Myth of the American Sleepover

July 2011 •English

Four young people navigate the suburban wonderland of metro-Detroit looking for love and adventure on the last weekend of summer.

Midnight Mary

June 1933 •English

While on trial for her life, a young woman recalls her tough upbringing and her involvement with the men who brought her to this current state of affairs.

Prince of Detroit

June 2023 •English

WHEN HIS PARENTS ARE BETRAYED AND CONSPIRED AGAINST, THEY’RE LEFT WITH NOTHING. A YOUNG TONY MUST DO AWAY WITH HIS ENTITLEMENT, THEN USE BOTH HIS PARENTS’ TEACHINGS AND EXPERIENCES TO REGAIN THEIR FORTUNE AND RESTORE HIS POSITION AS THE PRINCE OF DETROIT.

Thirsty for Likes

March 2024 •English

From the outside, Diamond and Harmony are living the high life as influencers. What no one knows is what they’ve had to endure behind closed doors.

Dirty Laundry

August 2024 •English

A day in the life of the boss' right hand man (Daniel Kors) drifting through life one job at a time.

Net Worth

January 1995 •English

The story of the NHL's early years, focusing on the battle between the players, led by Hall of Famer Ted Lindsay, and the owners, over issues of benefits, pensions and the like.

Thug Life in D.C.

October 1998 •English

Aundrey Burno, a black youth looking down the wrong end of a murder charge -- for which a conviction could result in a lifetime in prison -- appears to be the epitome of an unrepentant thug. Speaking to viewers, he claims to have done whatever was necessary to survive on the mean streets, to earn the respect of his criminal peers. But as his case progresses and his younger brother, Kevin, faces the same choices he did -- to become a thug or not -- a very different Aundrey reveals himself.

A Thrill for Thelma

November 1935 •English

In this MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short, a young woman, wanting a life of luxury, takes the "easy" way, and winds up in jail.

Faça A Máfia Grande Novamente

November 2024 •Portuguese

Bad Boys

April 2014 •English

The Detroit Pistons of the late 1980s and early '90s seemed willing to do anything to win. That characteristic made them loved — and hated. It earned them the title: Bad Boys.

Operation Teak

Invalid date •English

On the 10th anniversary of his band Rall Tide’s debut album, artist Peter Kotas takes you on a flowering multimedia tour of Detroit musicians trying to survive in a world where you can’t even enjoy a baseball game without supporting The Bay of Pigs. Along the way he shows you how the band’s abrupt break-up led to his career as a political journalist peeking behind the curtains of Kansas to find diplomatic wizard Mike Pompeo, Trump’s CIA Director and Secretary of State, wears no clothes. Iowa Writer’s Workshop hero Kurt Vonnegut (or some entity that knows all about his life) hosts this documentary as the ideal human from his 1985 novel Galapagos: a penguin with flippers unable to pull triggers or press buttons to bomb and kill people.

Gradually, Then Suddenly: The Bankruptcy of Detroit

April 2022 •English

Once heralded as the spirit of American manufacturing, music, and democracy, Detroit kicked its fiscal can down the road for decades plummeting into insolvency, culminating in the largest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history. GRADUALLY, THEN SUDDENLY is the inside story of how a state-appointed Emergency Manager and the people of this iconic American city- confronting financial ruin-followed a treacherous path towards a new beginning.