

The life story of Hector Lavoe, who started the salsa movement in 1975 and brought it to the United States.

In the late 1960s, Carlito Brigante (Hernandez) emerges as the heroin czar of Harlem.

A New York drug dealer is kidnapped, and his wife must try to come up with the money and drugs to free him from his abductors before Christmas.

Miguel Pinero's creative and turbulent life was cut short at age 40: a Tony Award nominee who did time at Sing-Sing, a volatile urban poet whose work is recognized as a precursor to rap and hip-hop, and a writer of hit TV shows.