"If you run you're dead...if you stay, you're dead again. Period." Two boys growing up in a violent neighborhood of Rio de Janeiro take different paths: one becomes a photographer, the other a drug dealer.

"No one would take on his case... until one man was willing to take on the system." When a man with AIDS is fired by a conservative law firm because of his condition, he hires a homophobic small time lawyer as the only willing advocate for a wrongful dismissal suit.

"They were seven - And they fought like seven hundred!" An oppressed Mexican peasant village assembles seven gunfighters to help defend their homes.