Posts Tagged ‘mafia’

Knockaround Guys (2001)

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009
Genres: Action | Comedy | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Pepper, Barry | Davoli, Andy | Green, Seth | Diesel, Vin | Malkovich, John | Nascarella, Arthur J. | Noonan, Tom | Pasco, Nicholas | Doyle, Shawn | Gage, Kevin | Hopper, Dennis | Francis, Andrew | Liddle, John | Lemche, Kris | Tiefenbach, Dov
Directors: Koppelman, Brian
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The four sons (Diesel, Green, Pepper, Davoli) of major Brooklyn mobsters have to team up to retrieve a bag of cash in a small Montana town ruled by a corrupt sheriff. Specifically, the story gets started when Matt Demaret (Pepper) goes on a job to deliver the money for his mob father (Hopper) on the advice of his uncle (Malkovich). Things don’t go as planned though…

Carlito’s Way (1993)

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Pacino, Al | Penn, Sean | Miller, Penelope Ann | Leguizamo, John | Rogers, Ingrid | Guzmán, Luis | Rebhorn, James | Siravo, Joseph | Mortensen, Viggo | Foronjy, Richard | Porcel, Jorge | Minucci, Frank | Pasdar, Adrian | Ortiz, John | Salazar, Ángel
Directors: De Palma, Brian
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Carlito Brigante is released from jail after serving five years of a much longer stretch. He vows to go straight and to live life as a fine, upstanding citizen. He even rekindles a romance with his ex-lover. However, Carlito’s associates cannot seem to leave him in peace…his nephew involves him a pool-room gunfight, his lawyer asks him for “favours” which spiral out of control, and even an old friend (now a wheelchair bound paraplegic) tries to get him into trouble with the law. Carlito decides to make a run for Florida and the promise of a new life, but has one final dramatic escape to make from some hoods who believe (wrongly) that he was behind the murder of their boss.

Jackal, The (1997)

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009
Genres: Action | Adventure | Crime | Thriller
Countries: France | Germany | Japan | UK | USA
Actors: Willis, Bruce | Gere, Richard | Poitier, Sidney | Venora, Diane | May, Mathilda | Simmons, J.K. | Lineback, Richard | Cunningham, John | Black, Jack | Harper, Tess | Phillips, Leslie | Spinella, Stephen | Okonedo, Sophie | Hayman, David | Bassett, Steve
Directors: Caton-Jones, Michael
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Russian mobster Terek Murad has declared open season on the Russian militia and the FBI over the shooting of his brother in a Moscow nightclub. He hires the Jackal, a nasty assassin whom nobody has even seen, to kill the Director of the FBI. With nowhere else to turn (except a woman who used to work with the Basque separatists, who is now in the USA but whose exact whereabouts in unknown to all save Mulqueen), FBI Deputy Director Carter Preston (who was present at the Moscow shooting) and Major Valentina Koslova of the Russian milita (who pulled the trigger in that shooting) enlist the reluctant services of Declan Mulqueen, an imprisoned IRA sniper, to track the Jackal down, for Declan is the only other person who can positively identify the Jackal.

On the Waterfront (1954)

Wednesday, June 10th, 2009
Genres: Crime | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Brando, Marlon | Malden, Karl | Cobb, Lee J. | Steiger, Rod | Henning, Pat | Erickson, Leif | Westerfield, James | Galento, Tony | Mauriello, Tami | Hamilton, John F. | Heldabrand, John | Bond, Rudy | Blackman, Don | Keegan, Arthur | Simon, Abe
Directors: Kazan, Elia
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The Waterfront Crime Commission is about to hold public hearings on union crime and underworld infiltration. As workers are turned against each other, Terry Malloy inadvertently participates in the murder of fellow longshoreman Joey Doyle. Union boss Johnny Friendly orchestrates the murder along with other illegal dockside activities, aided by Terry’s brother Charley. Terry begins to feel pangs of conscience. When Joey’s sister Edie sees more in Terry than he sees in himself and Father Barry urges him on, Terry reassesses his past and begins to regain responsibility for his actions.

Italian Job, The (1969)

Thursday, June 4th, 2009
Genres: Action | Comedy | Crime
Countries: UK
Actors: Wahlberg, Mark | Theron, Charlize | Sutherland, Donald | Statham, Jason | Green, Seth | Def, Mos | Norton, Edward | Callegarini, Fausto | Petronelli, Stefano | Scarpa, Fabio | Bonora, Cristiano | Greco, Tiberio | Shubert, Jimmy | Cubilette, Tammi | Portser, Mary
Directors: Gray, F. Gary
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Charlie has just left prison, and now wants to do a ‘big job’. The job is to steal $4m of gold arriving in Italy from China. Charlie’s job needs financing, so he goes to Mr Bridger (a Mafia-type boss) who is in prison (Charlie has to break in !). In Italy, a clever plan is used to distract the authorities, while the raiders make their get-away in three Minis. This leads to an excellent car chase sequence through Italian streets, buildings, rivers, sewers,

Sting, The (1973)

Wednesday, May 13th, 2009
Genres: Comedy | Crime
Countries: USA
Actors: Newman, Paul | Redford, Robert | Shaw, Robert | Durning, Charles | Walston, Ray | Brennan, Eileen | Gould, Harold | Heffernan, John | Elcar, Dana | Kehoe, Jack | Arliss, Dimitra | Jones, Robert Earl | Sloyan, James | Dierkop, Charles | Paul, Lee
Directors: Hill, George Roy
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Johnny Hooker is a young con-man who is being taught by Luther. One day they pull one of their con jobs and net themselves a huge roll. What they don’t know is that the man they conned is the courier for a numbers runner. And it turns out that the boss, Doyle Lonigan, considers it an attack on him and orders all the people involved terminated. Hooker is shaken down by a crooked cop, Snyder, who threatens to turn him over to Lonigan unless he pays him off. Hooker pays him, he then tries to warn Luther but is too late. He then goes to see Henry Gondorf, a friend of Luther’s and a one time great con-man, who has had a bit of bad luck. After hearing what happened to Luther and seeing how hungry Hooker is for payback, he assembles a gang and decides to con Lonigan. While everything seems to be going ok, there is just the problem of the hit on Hooker and Snyder, whom Hooker paid off with counterfeit money.

Judgment Night (1993)

Monday, April 27th, 2009
Genres: Action | Crime | Thriller
Countries: Japan | USA
Actors: Estevez, Emilio | Gooding Jr., Cuba | Leary, Denis | Dorff, Stephen | Piven, Jeremy | Greene, Peter | Schrody, Erik | Wiseman, Michael | DeLorenzo, Michael | Webb, Relioues | Zahrn, Will | Williams, Eugene | Harnos, Christine | Görg, Galyn | Alvarado, Angela
Directors: Hopkins, Stephen
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Four pals are on their way to a boxing match, but gets stuck in heavy traffic. To get to the boxing match in time they take the first exit they find to find another way to the venue. As they are driving around lost in gang-land they get stuck and witness a brutal murder. The killer wants no witnesses and tries to kill them too. The four pals get away the first time, but the killer is soon back on their tail again while they are trying to find help in the middle of nowhere.

Client, The (1994)

Thursday, April 23rd, 2009
Genres: Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Sarandon, Susan | Jones, Tommy Lee | Parker, Mary-Louise | LaPaglia, Anthony | Walsh, J.T. | Edwards, Anthony | Renfro, Brad | Patton, Will | Whitford, Bradley | Heald, Anthony | Coates, Kim | Scott, Kimberly | Speck, David | Macy, William H. | Davis, Ossie
Directors: Schumacher, Joel
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A street-wise kid, Mark Sway, sees the suicide of Jerome Clifford, a prominent Louisiana lawyer, whose current client is Barry ‘The Blade’ Muldano, a Mafia hit-man. Before Jerome shoots himself, he tells Mark where the body of Senator Boyd Boyette is buried. Mark escapes, and Clifford shoots himself. Mark is found at the scene, and both the FBI and the Mafia quickly realize that Mark probably knows more than he says. Mark decides he needs a lawyer, and goes looking for one. He finds Reggie Love, who also becomes convinced that Mark knows more than he says, but Mark isn’t talking…

Leaving Las Vegas (1995)

Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: France | UK | USA
Actors: Cage, Nicolas | Shue, Elisabeth | Sands, Julian | Lewis, Richard | Weber, Steven | Adams, Kim | Procter, Emily | Regen, Stuart | Golino, Valeria | Beckel, Graham | Henderson, Al | Bhatia, Shashi | Lowell, Carey | Lange, Anne | Kopache, Thomas
Directors: Figgis, Mike
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Ben Sanderson, an alcoholic Hollywood screenwriter who lost everything because of his drinking, arrives in Las Vegas to drink himself to death. There, he meets and forms an uneasy friendship and non-interference pact with prostitute Sera.

Romeo Is Bleeding (1993)

Monday, April 13th, 2009
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Oldman, Gary | Wood, Wallace | Lewis, Juliette | Proval, David | Patton, Will | Canfield, Gene | Joshua, Larry | Wincott, Michael | Olin, Lena | Duff-Griffin, William | Cromwell, James | Butler, Paul | Sciorra, Annabella | Sirico, Tony | Bastel, Victoria
Directors: Medak, Peter
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A corrupt New York police officer’s double life as a witness protection guard, and as a mafia informant, begins to catch up with him when he’s bribed to kill a deadly female Russian assassin in custody while keeping his lifestyle a secret from both his wife and teenage mistress.