Posts Tagged ‘hitman’

Get Carter (2000)

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009
Genres: Action | Crime | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Stallone, Sylvester | Richardson, Miranda | Cook, Rachael Leigh | Mitra, Rhona | Strong, Johnny | McGinley, John C. | Cumming, Alan | Caine, Michael | Cassini, John | Rourke, Mickey | Boone Junior, Mark | Sanford, Garwin | Scheelar, Darryl | Lowe, Crystal | Smith, Lauren Lee
Directors: Kay, Stephen T.
Download: DVD iPod 

Jack Carter, a mob enforcer living in Las Vegas, travels back to his hometown of Seattle for his brother’s funeral. During this visit, Carter realizes that the death of his brother was not accidental, but a murder. With this knowledge, Carter sets out to kill all those responsible.

Desert Saints (2000)

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009
Genres: Action | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Roam, Brent | Woods, Shawn | Bersh, Christopher | Sutherland, Kiefer | Ticotin, Rachel | Grant, Beth | Chapman, Zach | Sheridan, Jamey | Stefanson, Leslie | Walters, Melora | Quaid, Buddy | Diamond, Keith | Sage, Bill | Waksal, Aliza | Gelfant, Alan
Directors: Greenberg, Richard
Download: DVD iPod 

The nature of temptation. Banks is a hit man, the best, usually working for Latin American drug cartels. He picks up solitary women, uses them briefly for a job, then kills them. He’s in the Southwest, headed toward Mexico, when he picks up Bennie, a woman leaving an abusive marriage, going to Paradise, Arizona. The film follows three tracks: Banks’s slow recruitment of Bennie, the set-up for the hit at a swank resort in Mexico, and the FBI’s close pursuit of Banks, whom they want alive in hopes he’ll rat out his bosses. Bennie may not be who she seems, and there may be a chink in Banks’s tough-guy armor. Guns, money, and a chance at Paradise…

Traffic (2000)

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Del Toro, Benicio | Vargas, Jacob | Chavez, Andrew | Saucedo, Michael | Milian, Tomas | Yenque, Jose | Rivera, Emilio | O'Neill, Michael | Douglas, Michael | Jones, Russell G. | Hetherington, Lorene | Collins, Eric | Holden, Beau | Stader, Peter | Lew, James
Directors: Soderbergh, Steven
Download:  

A modern day look at America’s war on drugs told through four separate stories that are connected in one way or another. A conservative politician who’s just been appointed as the US drug czar learns that his daughter is a drug addict. A trophy wife struggles to save her husband’s drug business, while two DEA agents protect a witness with inside knowledge of the spouse’s business. In Mexico, a corrupt, yet dedicated cop struggles with his conscience when he learns that his new boss may not be the anti-drug official he made himself out to be.

Good, the Bad and the Ugly, The (1966)

Tuesday, July 21st, 2009
Genres: Action | Adventure | Western
Countries: Italy | Spain
Actors: Wallach, Eli | Eastwood, Clint | Van Cleef, Lee | Giuffrè, Aldo | Pistilli, Luigi | Rassimov, Rada | Petito, Enzo | Scarchilli, Claudio | Bartha, John | Lorenzon, Livio | Casale, Antonio | Scarchilli, Sandro | Stefanelli, Benito | Novi, Angelo | Casas, Antonio
Directors: Leone, Sergio
Download:   DivX iPod 

The Good is Blondie, a wandering gunman with a strong personal sense of honor. The Bad is Angel Eyes, a sadistic hitman who always hits his mark. The Ugly is Tuco, a Mexican bandit who’s always only looking out for himself. Against the backdrop of the Civil War, they search for a fortune in gold buried in a graveyard. Each knows only a portion of the gold’s exact location, so for the moment they’re dependent on each other. However, none are particularly inclined to share…

French Connection, The (1971)

Tuesday, June 30th, 2009
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Hackman, Gene | Rey, Fernando | Scheider, Roy | Lo Bianco, Tony | Bozzuffi, Marcel | Pasquale, Frédéric de | Hickman, Bill | Rebbot, Ann | Gary, Harold | Farber, Arlene | Egan, Eddie | Ernotte, André | Grosso, Sonny
Directors: Friedkin, William
Download:  DivX iPod 

William Friedkin’s gritty police drama portrays two tough New York City cops trying to intercept a huge heroin shipment coming from France. An interesting contrast is established between ‘Popeye’ Doyle, a short-tempered alcoholic bigot who is nevertheless a hard-working and dedicated police officer, and his nemesis Alain Charnier, a suave and urbane gentleman who is nevertheless a criminal and one of the largest drug suppliers of pure heroin to North America. During the surveillance and eventual bust, Friedkin provides one of the most gripping and memorable car chase sequences ever filmed.

Marathon Man (1976)

Tuesday, June 9th, 2009
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Hoffman, Dustin | Olivier, Laurence | Scheider, Roy | Devane, William | Keller, Marthe | Weaver, Fritz | Bright, Richard | Lawrence, Marc | Joseph, Allen | Goya, Tito | Dova, Ben | Gilbert, Lou | Marin, Jacques | Woo, James Wing | Deslauriers, Nicole
Directors: Schlesinger, John
Download: DivX iPod 

Babe’s brother appears out of the blue. He does this from time to time because his family never knows where he is, working as a government spy. One of his charges is a nazi war criminal who he has just told is no longer welcome in the United States. The doctor has a fortune hidden in a safety deposit box and is convinced that Babe knows whether or not it is safe to go to pick it up and will stop at nothing to find out.

Journal of a Contract Killer (2008)

Wednesday, May 6th, 2009
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: UK
Actors: Powell, Justine | Leese, Adam | Canuso, Jake | Gambino, Marco | Bleasdale, Heather | Damiano, Isabella | Damiano, Michele | Sheehan, Bill | Janson, David | Williams, Lianne Marie Harding | Autorino, Michele
Directors: Tony Maylam
Download: DivX iPod 

Stephanie Komack was a high-class hooker and assassin for the Italian Mob. Now working in London as a waitress, and a single mother to her seven year old daughter, the Mob track Stephanie down and persuade her to do one last job. The hit goes wrong and Stephanie soon realises the stark reality of her failure. They snatch her daughter as punishment, but didn’t figure on Stephanie’s capacity for revenge! Inspired by true events, JOURNAL OF A CONTRACT KILLER is the gripping story of a woman driven to turn on her paymasters with devastating consequences.

Narrow Margin, The (1952)

Wednesday, December 31st, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Film-Noir
Countries: USA
Actors: McGraw, Charles | Windsor, Marie | White, Jacqueline | Gebert, Gordon | Leonard, Queenie | Clarke, David | Virgo, Peter | Beddoe, Don | Maxey, Paul | Harvey, Harry | Brocco, Peter | Browning, Ivan | Chandler, George | Conaty, James
Directors: Fleischer, Richard
Download: DivX iPod 

When a mobsters wife decides to testify against his evil deeds she goes undercover to avoid being killed. Now that he’s coming to trial she has to be escourted across country via train in order to testify. Cop Walter Brown and his partner are assigned the task, but the mob are on their trail.

Charley Varrick (1973)

Monday, December 15th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Matthau, Walter | Baker, Joe Don | Farr, Felicia | Robinson, Andrew | North, Sheree | Fell, Norman | Fong, Benson | Parfrey, Woodrow | Schallert, William | Scott, Jacqueline | Bennett, Marjorie | Diaz, Rudy | Chester, Colby | Briggs, Charlie | Garcia, Priscilla
Directors: Siegel, Don
Download: DivX iPod 

Charley Varrick and his friends rob a small town bank. Expecting a small sum to divide amongst themselves, they are surprised to discover a very LARGE amount of money. Quickly figuring out that the money belongs to the MOB, they must now come up with a plan to throw the MOB off their trail.

Untouchables, The (1987)

Friday, September 26th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | History | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Costner, Kevin | Connery, Sean | Smith, Charles Martin | Garcia, Andy | De Niro, Robert | Bradford, Richard | Kehoe, Jack | Sullivan, Brad | Drago, Billy | Clarkson, Patricia | D'Ambrosio, Vito | Goldstein, Steven | Aylward, Peter | Harvey, Don | Swan, Robert
Directors: De Palma, Brian
Download:  DivX iPod 

Federal agent Elliot Ness assembles a personal team of mob fighters to bring Chicago crime boss Al Capone to justice using unconventional means during the mob wars of the 1920s. This fictionalized account of the arrest of Al Capone is heavy on style and gunfire. The end shootout combines a baby carriage and stairs with a nod to Eisenstein’s _The Battleship Potemkin_.