Movies: Derek Basco

To push the crime rate below one percent for the rest of the year, the New Founding Fathers of America test a sociological theory that vents aggression for one night in one isolated community. But when the violence of oppressors meets the rage of the...

In the South Pacific island of Makatea, career-driven magazine editor Robin Monroe is on a week-long vacation getaway with her boyfriend, Frank Martin. An emergency work assignment in neighboring Tahiti requires Robin to hire the cantankerous pilot Q...

The story of two college graduates from the Midwest who move to Los Angeles, where their love is tested for the first time....

A wily businessman plots with a sultry executive to swindle $40 million from his father. But who is conning who?...

Pete and Debbie are both about to turn 40, their kids hate each other, both of their businesses are failing, they're on the verge of losing their house, and their relationship is threatening to fall apart....

Filipino-American high school student Ben (Dante Basco) works in a comic book shop to earn money to pay his way into Cal Arts. His father, a postman, is determined that his son--who has won a pre-med scholarship to UCLA--will become a doctor. The eig...

Framed for crimes they didn't commit, two small-timers are headed up the river without a paddle. Now, the only thing that can bail them out is a case of mistaken identity. It's the hysterical prison comedy that's so funny, it's criminal!...

Bizarre back-to-back murders in an otherwise quiet Arizona desert town has rattled local Police Chief Jordan Sanders. The two dead women have no connection to each other – except they’re both named Maggie Moore. While unravelling a web of small-town ...

A noted concert pianist in her early forties, totally obsessed with her music, retreats to a small town to be alone and to write a concerto, but there falls for a talented teenage musician and becomes consumed in an affair with him....

Six medical students with unique talents pool their resources to win the World Series of Poker....

It's the end of yet another night at Hastings Supermarket, a grocery store in Buck Lake, Arizona. But just before closing, a group of masked and armed to the teeth militants invades the store and take everyone hostage...

Lilly, a hard working EMT, is only focused on her job and getting into medical school. So when wealthy slacker Jeff enters her life it throws her off course. At first, Lilly wants nothing to do with Jeff or his sense of entitlement and lack of direct...

When the Washington family wins the lottery they decide to move from the poor south to the hood, Beverly Hood! When the Washington's daughter, Pam, falls for the guy next door the new neighbors really clash....

Set in 1992, a Filipino kid working at his father’s liquor store seeks community through the arcade game Street Fighter II, but finds himself clashing with a local bully....

A little-known but lasting explosion of hip-hop culture grew out of the Filipino-American community of 1980s San Francisco. This film takes us into the beat of an aspiring mobile DJ crew in '84. Vanessa, sick of the the constraints and boring piano l...

Two goth teens face an ingredient supply issue as they prepare to resurrect the soul of Edgar Allan Poe....

Based on Emerson’s real life experience in preschool. Emmy and Ryder are best friends and love to play. However what they play is often up to debate with Ryder usually winning. That is… until Emmy makes an ultimatum....

Written by Basco and his brothers Darion Basco and Dionysio Basco and their sister Arianna Basco, the feature is set in the brothers’ hometown of Pittsburg, Calif., a working class suburb of Oakland. Starring Basco and his brothers (including Derek B...

A film about four friends of different ethnicities, beginning to take things for granted. Three of them end up in jail while one of the guys is throwing a party. While in prison, the three buddies realize what they are missing out on and make an effo...