In 1976, complex political and emotional forces are set in motion when a young man returns to the race-torn Philadelphia neighborhood where he came of age during the Black Power movement.

Three Philadelphia-based gangstas -- Beans, Dame and Loco -- are on a collision course with one another for turf. Alliances are forged and broken and lifelong friendships end in violence as each crime lord schemes to get the upper...

Two sisters, plus a dead mother, a remarried father, and a hostile step-mother. The sisters, each in her way, have perfected the art of losing. The elder, Rose, is an attorney, responsible, lonely, with a closet full of shoes. The younger is Maggie, beautiful, selfish, and irresponsible. Her drunken behavior gets her tossed by her step-mother from her dad's house; worse behavior gets her tossed from Rose's apartment. Then, while searching in her father's desk for money to filch, Maggie finds an address; the past and the future open up to her and, with any luck, may open to her sister as well.

February, 1991. Tommy, a Desert Storm marine dismayed that the US isn't taking out Saddam, breaks some rules and faces hard labor. An FBI agent offers him an out: go home to his gritty, dockside home in Pennsylvania and help get the goods on an Italian heroin dealer; in return, no prison time and no arrest of Tommy's brother Vincent and cousin Joey. Loyalty to family conflicts with loyalty to the code of the street. Can Tommy sort it out, protect his brother and cousin, and stay true? Do young men die - in the sands of the Middle East and on the mean streets of the US - for no reason?

After losing her mother in an accident, a teenager and her father welcome a distant cousin into their home. Hoping to claim the family as her own, the psychopath hatches a devious plan to recreate the prom she never experienced.

The year is 2061: aliens have landed on Earth and the only song on the radio is the Monster Mash. Knowing only the best can handle this case, the pentagon contracts a secret mercenary crime fighting force called simply The Agency to discover their purpose. Blown away by the mystery, the agency calls on two legendary ex agents and ex lovers to come out of retirement, Chuck Lawson and Serena Fox. He's a cocky wise cracker with a perpetual smirk on his face and hand on his gun. She's a reserved and calculated mind always ready to call someone's BS. But they both share a dark past that drove them away from each other and the Agency. Back together again, they're teamed up with a young, doting crime-fighting couple who has since broken Chuck and Serena's long-held arrest record. At odds with each other and their new teammates, they arrive at the alien landing site and receive a message indecipherable except for one word: Tyrimpson, the name of the tech company that controls everything from phones to music. With this intriguing clue as their guide, Chuck and Serena set out for Dr. Tyrimpson, embarking on an action-packed night of kicking and face-punching, and end up in the middle of a mystery way bigger than anticipated.

On the hottest day of the year, an unknown virus spreads throughout inner-city Philadelphia. The infected victims, crazed by dehydration, begin attacking other residents of the neighborhood in gruesome ways. When the military is brought in to contain the situation, but realize they can't come up with a vaccine quickly enough, they fence off the area and let everyone die. A group of locals, stuck in the basement of their building, behind the fences, and separated from their family members, band together to try to survive.

Gena Hollins dated a drug dealer once. Then he started beating her. These days, Gena has no intention of ever being any man's trophy again-no matter how much money he has, how nice his ride is, how sweet his talk is. Instead, she lives contentedly in a poor section of Philadelphia with her beloved grandmother, Gah-Git, who raised Gena after her mom died of a drug overdose. Gena's almost done with her bachelor's degree in English, after which she hopes to pursue a writing career. Her life isn't flashy. But Gena knows firsthand flash ain't all that. Then she meets Quadir Richards while out clubbing with her wild-child, Sahirah. He's a drug dealer. He's rolling in money. His ride is sweet and so's his talk..

After visiting one of Philadelphia's last old-fashioned bookstores, handsome Aiden Harris has a fluke traffic accident, landing him in hospital with major amnesia. The bookstore's eager beaver employee Darcy Archer feels guilty, visiting him, minding his dog, trying to help identify him and his mystery life. They soon bond over books, dogs and more, but a ring in his apartment suggests he has a fiancee in another state, yet nothing is quite what it seemed. Meanwhile the store owner is retiring and wants a successor, or else he'll sell to a soulless chain.

In this drama inspired by the real-life Fletcher Street Stables, 15-year-old Cole is taken to live with his estranged father Harp in North Philadelphia. There he discovers the city's vibrant urban cowboy subculture, which has existed for more than 100 years providing a safe haven for the neighborhood despite the surrounding poverty, violence, and encroachment of gentrification.

An aged philanthropist reunites with the pregnant daughter of his close friends who tragically died in an accident that he feels responsible for causing. His inner demons have driven him to abuse drugs which causes the reunion to become strained between the daughter and her husband. His story is told through flashbacks to the day of the tragic accident.