The best Carl W. Crudup’s movies

New York City English professor Axel Freed outwardly seems like an upstanding citizen. But privately Freed is in the clutches of a severe gambling addiction that threatens to destroy him.

A college student is possessed by a 40's era gangster.

It was a neighborhood just like any other...until one day...seven desperate men on the edge move in...and nothing will ever be the same! A halfway house for men just out of prison opens in a safe middle class neighborhood. The occupants are a repentant child molester, a beautiful transvestite, a heroin addicted ex-high school football hero, an obsessed gangbanger, the dying house manager, a released prison lifer who will do anything to return, and a brutal killer...all caught halfway between freedom and hell! As the neighborhood's protest intensifies outside the house, the heat and tension escalates inside...until finally culminating in one last unexpected explosion of emotional torment...violence...and rage!

An African-American teenager grapples with his sexual identity on the night Barack Obama is elected President and Proposition 8 — the California voter initiative to eliminate same-sex marriage — is passed. When one of Jamie's friend group initiates the bullying of an openly gay classmate, Jamie uses his wits to try and prevent it, but when things don't go the way he predicted, he is forced to face his fears head on. Winner of the Audience Award for Best Short Film at Frameline35: The San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival, Change is a poetic and moving film which deftly examines one young man's internal identity struggles within the context of the modern movement for LGBT rights, and a high school experience fraught with peer pressure.