American Dreamer

Sep 20, 2019

1h 32m

★ 6.1

There are no free rides.

Overview

A down on his luck driver making extra cash chauffeuring a low level drug dealer around town, finds himself in a serious financial bind and decides to kidnap the dealer's child.

Genres

Thriller

Crime

Production Companies

Storyland Pictures

Sugar Pictures LA

Old Dominion University

XYZ Films

American Dreamer Trailers

Cast

Cam

Jim Gaffigan

Mazz

Robbie Jones

Marina

Isabel Arraiza

Becca

Tammy Blanchard

Dontrell

Eric D. Hill Jr.

Andre

Curtis Lyons

Greg

Brian K. Landis

Adam

Harrison Fall

Grandmother

Cynthia Tademy

Officer Watson

Tommy Coleman

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6.6

Sweet Girl

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A man vows to bring justice to those responsible for his wife's death while protecting the only family he has left, his daughter.

6.1

By Quantum Physics: A Nightlife Venture

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An advocate of the concept ‘thoughts create reality’, Chan-woo endeavors to realize his dream of running a high-end nightclub when he finds himself caught in the center of a power game in the criminal underworld.

4.3

Fatal Fix

Mar 14, 1980

A microcosm of people lost in search of an artificial happiness, which leads them to steal and prostitute themselves for the short ecstasy of a squirt of heroin in the veins. Marco and Pina live in this world of drugs, prostitution and violence, and they must fight for their survival. One day one of their friend dies during a holdup. Marco and Pina are helpless and will do anything to escape, but fate does not want a similar world. Between bites of heroin and sidewalk they are in a deadly trance.

5.3

Discarnate

Feb 20, 2019

A neuroscientist's obsession with a drug that expands the human mind inadvertently unleashes a deadly supernatural force on his team.

0.0

Fabula

Apr 10, 2025

Small-town criminal Jos (55) has, to his great frustration, been completely sidelined. His daughter disrespects him, his wife doesn't trust him, and his friends laugh at him openly. As he scrambles to fix a drug deal that went catastrophically wrong, he desperately searches for an answer to the question: Who or what is punishing me!?

6.3

Synchronic

Oct 23, 2020

Two New Orleans paramedics' lives are ripped apart after encountering a series of horrific deaths linked to a designer drug with bizarre, otherworldly effects.

6.3

The Ruthless

Apr 8, 2019

Milan, Italy, 1967. Santo Russo, a boy of Calabrian origin, arrives north with his parents and younger brother to find better living conditions. Due to an absurd misunderstanding and his father's contempt, Santo ends up in prison, where he gets a “true education.” In 1978, he and his friends Slim and Mario embark on a 15-year criminal career, a successful and ruthless spiral of robberies, kidnappings, murders and heroin smuggling.

6.9

Ferry

May 13, 2021

Before he built a drug empire, Ferry Bouman returns to his hometown on a revenge mission that finds his loyalty tested — and a love that alters his life.

7.0

Purity Squad

Nov 3, 1945

This entry in the Crime Does Not Pay series focuses on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's effort to ensure that drugs are fully tested before they are sold to consumers. Two unscrupulous investors market the drug 'Diabulin' as a substitute for insulin after preliminary tests show good results. After a short time, however, users start dying from the drug. The FDA and the state attorney general's office then go after the drug marketers.

6.6

Jagat

Dec 17, 2015

Set in the early 1990’s, a critical period in Malaysian Indian history, the story subtly underlines the plight of the Indian Malaysians. Forsaken by the estate owners who had employed them for generations and systematically marginalized, they are forced to move to the cities and survive under harsh circumstances. Left out of the nation’s urbanization and development plans, many live in squatters and work at minimum wage jobs…

0.0

200

Jun 17, 2025

No overview available.

6.7

4 Kings II

Nov 30, 2023

After a drug dealer schemes against them in secret, two student gangs ignite a bitter feud that triggers a chain of violent consequences.

6.5

Good Girl Jane

Sep 10, 2024

Struggling to fit in in her new school and reeling from the fallout of her parent’s recent divorce, lonely LA high schooler Jane falls in with a rambunctious crowd, and becomes smitten with their charming drug supplier, Jamie.

4.8

Bleeding

Oct 6, 2024

In a world where vampire blood is harvested as a drug, two desperate teenagers on the run from a vicious dealer break into an empty house and find a sleeping girl locked inside.

5.8

Vita Segreta di Maria Capasso

Jul 18, 2019

Maria married an honest worker at a very young age, works as a part-time beautician and has three children. Her life is like many others in the working-class suburbs of Naples, where the daily struggle to make ends meet makes you get used to everything. When her husband is diagnosed with a terminal illness, Maria accepts the help of Gennaro, a rich owner of a car dealership. She lets him court her until she becomes his lover. One day he suggests that she become a business partner: he will transport a load of cocaine to Switzerland. Once she becomes a widow, her relationship with Gennaro will make her fall into a criminal vortex, which will finally allow her to experience new possibilities and fulfill old dreams. But the path chosen by Maria for her personal revenge will leave its inevitable victims in its wake, just like in a war that does not look anyone in the face.

0.0

Skeet

Sep 14, 2024

After being released from prison, Billy Skinner returns to his low-income neighbourhood feeling like a fish out of water; the area has changed dramatically, and what was once a predominantly white neighbourhood is now mostly occupied by refugee families.

0.0

That Fateful Night

Invalid Date

Dika, a drug retailer, told his close friend, Gina, about what happened the previous two nights. That night, Bang Jaka, a drug distributor to a retailer, forced Dika and his best friend Ambi to take a revolver that had been loaded with a bullet. They were told to take turns using the revolvers to pull the trigger against their own heads until one of them was shot. Dika told him that this happened because his friend, Tania, had informed Bang Jaka about their activity selling counterfeit drugs in order to increase profits.

0.0

Il delitto Varani

Mar 27, 2018

A docu-film about the events related to the murder of a Roman boy of Macedonian origins, Luca Varani, 23, which took place on the morning of 4 March 2016. Manuel Foffo, a 29-year-old university student, from a wealthy family, confesses to his father Valter the atrocious crime committed during a sex and drug-based party that lasted three days and three nights and which involved another boy named Marco Prato, thirty years old, homosexual and well known in the Roman environment of organized parties. Manuel and Marco, totally addicted to alcohol and cocaine, allegedly lured Luca Varani into Manuel's apartment on a pretext to then drug him, torture him and finally kill him cruelly with hammers and stabs. Manuel Foffo will plead guilty and will be sentenced to thirty years in prison with the abbreviated procedure, while Marco Prato, who will claim to be innocent and only subjected (for love) to Manuel's will, will commit suicide the day before the start of the trial.

8.0

LOVERDOSE

Jun 28, 2023

No overview available.