Hardy "Hardly" Reed is a lost 23-year-old who spends his days smoking weed and working a dead-end job in the evening, where he plays a ghost at the Haunted Frontier theme park. That works for him, until he's at a municipal building and sees a boy and a girl sitting on a bench outside an office. They appear to be about six or seven years old, and Hardly isn't too stoned to recognize that they both have cigarette burns on their bodies. Although he tries...

A global investigative correspondent for the New York Times describes the true story of how a mother living in the once-quiet Mexican village of San Fernando became a vigilante against the Zeta cartel that murdered her daughter.

"As the tennis circuit's drug dealer, Tim's life is a party. He keeps company with famous athletes and avoids the grimy side of the cocaine trade. His only goals are to slide between the real criminals and sock away a little money to impress his estranged wife. Loose talk brings him to the attention of the 'Alexander the Great of Cocaine,' a cartel boss who sees Tim as the perfect mule. The party is over."

"'My job is to go to places where people die. I pack my bags, talk to the survivors, write my stories, then go home to wait for the next catastrophe. I don't wait very long.' Journalist Patricia Evangelista came of age in the aftermath of a street revolution that forged a new future for the Philippines. Three decades later, in the face of mounting inequality, the nation discovered the fragility of its democratic institutions under the regime of strongman...

American gangster: A New York City cop seeks to bring down Harlem drug lord Frank Lucas. Carlito's way: A Puerto Rican former convict tires to go straight despite the pressure of drugs and violence around him. Casino: Two best friends, a mafia enforcer and a casino executive, compete against each other over a gambling empire and a fast living socialite. Public enemies: FBI agent Melvin Purvis tries to take down John Dillinger, Baby Face nelson...