the dream, curdled

The house, the family, the business that's really yours — and the moment the film shows you what it cost. Not films about poverty or failure, but films where the dream was reached and turned out to be the trap: a family business that is also a murder machine, a detective who follows the money until it dissolves the case, a porn empire that apes the shape of the American family it can never quite become.

Films here also carry Moral Ambiguity, Class Warfare, Organized Crime, Immigrant Experience, Revenge & Justice.