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In Alambrista!, a farmworker sneaks across the border from Mexico into California in an effort to make money to send to his family back home. It is a story that happens every day, told here in an uncompromising, groundbreaking work of realism from American independent filmmaker Robert M. Young (Dominick and Eugene). Vivid and spare where other films about illegal immigration might sentimentalize, Young's take on the subject is equal parts intimate character study and gripping road movie, a political work that never loses sight of the complex man at its center. Alambrista!, winner of the Cannes Film Festival s inaugural Camera d'Or in 1978, remains one of the best films ever made on this perennially relevant topic.

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Forced to run from the Texas Rangers after a heated misunderstanding leads to the death of a lawman, Mexican American farmer Gregorio Cortez sets off in desperate flight, evading a massive manhunt on horseback for days. Producer-star Edward James Olmos, seeking to shed new light on a historical incident that had been enshrined in a corrido (folk song), enlisted director Robert M. Young, a longtime practitioner of socially engaged realism, to helm this trailblazing independent film, a landmark of Chicano cinema. Shifting its perspective between the pursuers and the pursued, The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez is a thrilling chase film and a nuanced procedural that peels away the layers of prejudice and myth surrounding Cortez, uncovering the true story of an ordinary man persecuted by the law and transfigured by legend. BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES • New 2K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack • New interview with actor and producer Edward James Olmos • New interview with Chon A. Noriega, author of Shot in America: Television, the State, and the Rise of Chicano Cinema • Cast-and-crew panel from 2016 including Olmos; director Robert M. Young; producer Moctesuma Esparza; cinematographer Reynaldo Villalobos; and actors Bruce McGill, Tom Bower, Rosana DeSoto, and Pepe Serna • PLUS: An essay by film scholar Charles Ramírez Berg

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Academy Award® nominee Edward James Olmos (1988, Best Actor, Stand and Deliver) and Maria Conchita Alonso (Colors) star in this emotional drama about a couple trying to make their business work and the mysterious drifter who comes into their lives and changes them completely. Nick (Arie Verveen, The Thin Red Line) appears in Joe (Olmos) and Betty’s (Alonso) Jersey City fish store while running away from the cops. The couple takes Nick in, and he inspires Joe and ignites passions in Betty. Neither Nick nor Betty want to hurt Joe, but their sexual attraction may be too strong to deny. When Joe and Betty’s son, Danny (Steven Schub, The Thirteenth Floor), returns home after failing as a stand-up comedian, he sees what is going on and wants Nick out. CAUGHT is a gripping drama filled with powerful performances. Top About this item Similar From the Brand Reviews Caught [Blu-ray]

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Rich Kids, a romantic and heartwarming tale of young love set in New York, stars Trini Alvarado (Times Square) and Jeremy Levy (TV s Holocaust). Despite their upwardly mobile backgrounds, Franny (Alvarado) and Jamie (Levy) find themselves navigating universal issues including family discord, divorce and romance in the Big Apple. Directed by Robert M. Young (Extremities) from a screenplay by Judith Ross, with Robert Altman serving as executive producer, Rich Kids is a showcase of 80's Manhattan that co-stars John Lithgow (Terms of Endearment), Olympia Dukakis (Moonstruck), David Selby (The Social Network), Paul Dooley (Breaking Away), Terry Kiser (Weekend at Bernie s) and Irene Worth (Eyewitness).