A couple leaves the fabulous apartment for a fixer-upper in the 'burbs" an investment which quickly turns from a dream into a nightmare.

The Extractors are a group of highly trained pros who will break anyone out of prison for a price, but after a failed job, they must make a deal with the CIA to retain their freedom.

Two junior high school teachers battle it out for teacher of the year honors.

NSA Agent August Gibbons, fresh off the success of his last renegade recruitment, once again finds himself in need of an outsider. Gibbons and his new agent Darius Stone, now code-named "XXX," must track down a military splinter group that is conspiring to overthrow the U.S. Government.

The fledgling romance between Nick, a playboy bachelor, and Suzanne, a divorced mother of two, is threatened by a particularly harrowing New Year's Eve. When Suzanne's work keeps her in New York City for the holiday, Nick offers to bring her kids to the city from Washington D.C. The kids, who have never liked any of the men their mom has dated, are determined to turn the trip a nightmare for Nick.

Calvin, Eddie, Terri, Jimmy, Isaac, Ricky, and Dinka are open for business again at Calvin's Barbershop. Gina, a stylist at the beauty shop next door, is now trying to cut in on his business. Calvin is again struggling to keep his father's shop and traditions alive--this time against urban developers looking to replace "mom & pop" establishments with name-brand chains. The world changes, but some things never go out of style--from current events and politics to relationships and love, you can still say anything you want at the barbershop.

Featuring some of the toughest verbal sparring in hip hop history, BEEF II embraces and exposes some of the biggest feuds in the business. This has proved to be one of the most entertaining aspects of the rap game for fans, but there is genuine feeling in a lot of these words, illustrating how passionate many of the artists are. On this volume some of the top names featured are 50 Cent, Redman, Method Man, Nelly, Ice Cube, Cypress Hill, and a lot more!

A hip hop tour-de-force, this documentary delves into the lives and works of some of hottest MCs ever. Filmmaker Peter Spirer (BEEF, TUPAC SHAKUR: THUG ANGEL, DUNSMORE,) hands the mic to countless stars who have helped shape the hip hop scene. They in turn explore their roots, their inspirations, and how they achieved success in the cutthroat world of hip hop. Audiences get to know their favorite artists and watch them both on and offstage. Performers include Rakim, KRS-One, Jay-Z, Big Daddy Kane, Slick Rick, Common, Talib Kweli, Kanye West, The Clips, and Ghostface Killah, among others. Also included is little-seen archival footage of artists such as LL Cool J, Tupac, Biggie, Nas, Snoop, and the Wu Tang Clan.

Set in the fast-paced world of motorcycle racing, this action movie shows what happens to long-time biker (and non-gang member) Cary Ford (Henderson) when he is framed by a long-time rival, Henry (Schulze), the leader of a biker gang called the Hellions for the murder of Sleepy D, the brother of Trey Wallace (Cube), the leader of the Machine, the most notorious and feared biker gang in the country. Cary and his friends must make a run for it as they have both Trey and his Machine bikers and the FBI on their tails.

In 1996, gangsta rappers Ice Cube, Mack 10, and WC formed the side-project Westside Connection to lay down chunky beats and forceful rhymes in a ghetto-fabulous tribute to all things West Coast. GANGSTA NATION LIVE profiles the supergroup through interviews, behind-the-scenes footage, and live performances of tracks like "Bow Down," "Call 9-1-1," "We Be Clubbin'," "Connected for Life," and many more.

BEEF showcases a dizzying array of rappers as they compete to be the ultimate rap champion. Features appearances from 50 Cent, DMX, Mobb Deep, Common, Mack 10, Cypress Hill, Ja Rule, NWA, Ice Cube, Dr. Dre, and many more!

Chuck D, leader of Public Enemy, is one of the most powerful people in the rap game, with a series of huge selling albums, and a popular website www.rapstation.com. This guide to the heroes of hip-hop is brought to you by Chuck in conjunction with his website, and features artists including Run DMC, Rakim, Ice-T, Ice Cube, Afrika Bambaataa, and many more.

Featuring live performances from Ice Cube, MC Eight and Dub C, as well as some of the hottest booty-shaking females around, GHETTO, GUTTER AND GANGSTA is a real treat for any rap fan.

Expert Miami bounty hunter Bucum Jackson (Ice Cube) is in hot pursuit of bail-jumper and fast-talking con man Reggie Reed (Mike Epps). When their wild chase lands the pair right in the middle of a major diamond heist, Jackson and Reed are unexpectedly confronted with the opportunity of a lifetime.

Calvin (Ice Cube), who inherited a struggling barber shop on the south side of Chicago from his father, views the shop as nothing but a burden and a waste of his time. After selling the shop to a local loan shark, Calvin slowly begins to see his father's vision and legacy and struggles with the notion that he just sold it out. The shop is filled with an eclectic cast of characters that share their stories, jokes, trials and tribulations. Eddie (Cedric the Entertainer) is an old barber with strong opinions and no customers. Jimmy (Sean Patrick Thomas) is a highly educated barber with a superiority complex who can't stand Isaac (Troy Garity), the new white barber who just wants a shot at cutting some hair. Ricky is an ex-con with two strikes against him and is desperately trying to stay straight. Terri (Eve) is a hard-edged woman who can't seem to leave her two-timing boyfriend. Then there's Dinka, a fellow barber who is madly in love with Terri but doesn't get the time of day.

The third installment in the successful Friday series, Friday After Next takes place during the Christmas season back in the old neighborhood where it all began. Although cousins Craig (Ice Cube) and Day-Day (Mike Epps) have left behind the security of living with their parents, the rundown apartment they now share is filled with all the accoutrements and spirit of the holiday season. Everything is idyllic…until a ghetto Santa Claus breaks in and steals their Christmas presents and anything else he can stuff into his sack, including the rent money hidden in their stereo speakers. Faced with the harsh reality of a Christmas without presents and the threat of eviction if rent is not paid by day's end, their only hope of scoring some quick cash leads them to the local strip mall where they land jobs as unarmed security guards. In the process, Craig and Day-Day learn some comic lessons about the true meaning of the holiday season.

Rap pioneers N.W.A may have recorded some of the most aggressive form of rap music but their legacy lives on having paved the way for what became known as 'Gangsta Rap". Featuring Dr. Dre, Ice Cube, Eazy-E, and MC Ren, this video collection features the groups top hits, including the anthem 'Straight Outta Compton."

Check out some of the most notorious figures in West Coast rap in this look into their lives. Including some previously unseen footage, this offers a revealing look into the lives of stars like Snoop Dogg, Tupac, Dr. Dre and many others. Charting the progress of the West Coast scene from it's inception up to it's infiltration of white, suburban middle-America, this documentary gives you the lowdown on the dominant sound of hip-hop music in America.

Set in the year 2025, humans have moved to Mars. They have organized a division of labor and they are mining the planet for natural resources. However, when one mining team digs up a long-buried pod full of aliens, and the bodies of the human workers are instantly inhabited by the strange beings, a war ignites. What first seems to be a battle against crime for justice suddenly turns into a human battle for survival against the haunting alien force.

Set two years after the events in FRIDAY, NEXT FRIDAY follows a day in the life of protagonist Craig (Ice Cube), who must flee Los Angeles after neighborhood bully Debo breaks out of prison, vowing to beat him to a pulp. Craig escapes to his uncle Elroy's house in Rancho Cucamonga, only to discover that life in the suburbs is even more screwed up than in the ghetto. His uncle is into S&M; his aunt is a nymphomaniac; the neighbors are a bunch of gangsters; and his cousin is chased by a former girlfriend and a thuggish woman named Baby D. The fourth film produced by Ice Cube, NEXT FRIDAY is, like its predecessor, a buddy film pairing straight man Ice Cube with fresh comedic talent Mike Epps. Helmed by first-time director Steve Carr, who is known for making stylish videos for top rap acts, the film sends up raunchy life in suburbia from an African American perspective. The soundtrack is liberally sprinkled with thumping hip-hop tracks, including "Chin Check," the first new song from the rap group NWA in many years.

Rappers Fat Joe and Mack-10 star in this violent gang saga as Lonzo and DJ, two thugs who almost kill each other until they share their interest in hip-hop music. To finance new recording studio equipment, the duo turn to cross-country cocaine dealing, and the body count soars in both LA and New Orleans. Supporting actor Big Pun died of a heart attack before the film's release. Ice Cube, prominent on the cassette box, has a two-scene cameo. For more rappers-turned-actors movie, see Run-DMC and the Beastie Boys in TOUGHER THAN LEATHER.

The Gulf War is over, and three soldiers want to go home rich. Major Archie Gates retires in two weeks. Sergeant Troy Barlow is a new father. Chief Elgin is on a four-month paid vacation from Detroit. Saddam Hussein stole a great deal of gold from Kuwait, and these soldiers have no problem with stealing it from him. But on their way to collect their booty, they bear witness to the the disturbing results of the war effort. President Bush has encouraged Iraqi citizens to fight back against Saddam and pledged to support them, but when they rise up, they get NO American support, and they're getting slaughtered. As the soldiers realize the true situation in Iraq, they're confronted with their own humanity, and they're forced to rethink who they are and what they're doing.

Two broke scam artists discover a truckload of cellular phones and begin selling them out of the back of their van. Trouble arises when the phones begin to malfunction, forcing them to deal with irate customers, as well as the FBI, who are trying to track them down.

Ice Cube makes his directorial debut with this comedy about the inhabitants and employees of a steamy Los Angeles strip club. Surprisingly moralistic, this sexy drama surrounds a woman who attempts to make the money, while not allowing the money to make her. Bernie Mac shines as the proprietor of the nightclub.

A big-budget B-movie thrill ride, ANACONDA stars Jon Voight as Sarone, a hardened, crusty river man riding the Amazon who is rescued by a film crew when the propeller on his boat malfunctions. The crew, led by director Terri Flores (Jennifer Lopez), hopes to make a documentary about the Amazon tribe known as The People of the Mist. She is joined by her cinematographer (Ice Cube) and a scientist (Eric Stoltz), among others. Unfortunately for all of them, a monstrous, 40-foot anaconda--which habitually swallows its prey whole--is on the rampage. The snake, which is a marvel of effects technology achieved through a seamless combination of animatronics and computer animation, helped make this one of the box office success stories of 1997.

After 14 years in exile from his South African homeland, a former black freedom fighter returns to attend his father's funeral, only to find that drugs have taken over a large segment of his community--including his brother, whose indebtedness to an iron-fisted drug lord threatens his very life.

Thoroughly charming and totally hilarious day-in-the-life comedy in which co-writer Ice Cube plays the stoic Craig opposite Chris Tucker's Smokey, a brilliantly rendered hyperactive marijuana enthusiast. The two twentysomethings, Craig recently wrongly fired and Smokey terminally slacking and scamming, barely make it through one highly eventful day. Eloquent commentary on themes like community, family, friendship, and violence is seamlessly blended with lighter treatments of young romance, bathroom emergencies, nosy neighbors and much more. Casually impeccable performances by the entire cast make this film a standout.

With THE GLASS SHIELD, acclaimed director Charles Burnett (KILLER OF SHEEP, TO SLEEP WITH ANGER) tackles the problematic issue of racism within the police force. J.J. Johnson (Michael Boatman) has wanted to be a cop ever since he was a kid. And now that he's just been promoted to the position of deputy in the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Office, he's going to learn what being a police officer is really all about. As the first black deputy in Edgemar’s all-white Sheriff's station, he must learn to adapt if his new assignment is going to work out. Befriending the station’s only other minority, the Jewish, female Deborah Fields (Lori Petty), J.J. soon realizes it's impossible to "get along" or be one of the "good guys" when police brutality, political corruption and rampant racism reign supreme. After discovering that a man he has helped to indict (played with ferocious intensity by Ice Cube) is, in fact, the victim of a monumental cover up, J.J. risks his future by butting heads with the powers that be. Shelved after conflict erupted between Burnett and the film’s distributor, Miramax, THE GLASS SHIELD remains a provocative, tense thriller that addresses its sensitive subject matter with grace and intelligence.

The third installment in John Singleton's trilogy about South Central Los Angeles, HIGHER LEARNING examines mid-1990s university politics from racial, sexual, and economic standpoints. At fictional Columbus University (where a statue of the explorer stands witness to the dominant culture's supremacy), three freshman arrive to find a campus ready to explode. Malik (Omar Epps) wavers among the influences of revolution-preaching super-senior Fudge (Ice Cube), no-excuses Professor Phipps (Laurence Fishburne), and his motivated girlfriend Deja (Tyra Banks). Kristen (Kristy Swanson), another neophyte, is thrown into sexual confusion when she meets a charismatic lesbian, while the socially inept Remy (Michael Rapaport) can only fit in with the local skinheads. The storylines cross and complicate as each character tries to discover what's right, but the potential for violence grows with every wrong choice they make. Singleton recruited an emsemble of considerable talent to flesh out the complex plot, which allows him to deal efficiently with a breadth of concerns without preaching.

Two Arkansas fire fighters find a map that leads to hidden gold stashed in an abandoned East St. Louis tenement. But while searching for the loot, the two accidentally witness a drug-related murder. Suddenly they find themselves trapped in an urban nightmare, hunted by a vicious gang of streetwise killers that take no prisoners.

John Singleton emerged from USC film school with his passionate script already written, and at age 23 he made the film that spawned a score of ghetto dramas. From the opening shot--a sign reading "Stop"--to the final message of "Increase the Peace," Singleton's desire to galvanize his audience is clear. The violence destroying South Central Los Angeles is seen through the eyes of Tre Styles (Cuba Gooding Jr.), whose intelligence and common sense would be wasted in the 'hood if not for his father, Furious (Laurence Fishburne), who imparts discipline and responsibility to his son. Tre's friends aren't so lucky, though, especially Doughboy (Ice Cube), who has been in and out of institutions since childhood and now sits on his porch with a forty in his hand and a pistol in his waistband. Singleton is ambitious enough to tackle a host of problems, from African American business practices to the bias of the SAT test, but the real power of the film lies in the performances of its principals. Cuba Gooding, in his first role, doesn't let Tre come off like a goody two-shoes, while Ice Cube gives a tragic nobility to a young man who knows he's doomed.