Chop Shop

"Chop Shop" (2008) is Ramin Bahrani's New York drama you can watch online on iFILM. Alejandro is twelve, no parents, no fixed address. He works out of an auto-body shop in a sprawling Queens junkyard — running parts, washing cars, sleeping in a back room above the repair bays.

When his teenage sister Isamar turns up, Ale decides they are going to build something real: a room of their own, enough saved up, a way out. Bahrani filmed entirely on location at Willets Point with a cast of mostly non-actors, and the result sits closer to observed reality than to conventional drama. Stream "Chop Shop" online on iFILM.