Posts Tagged ‘organized-crime’

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.

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
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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.

Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998)

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009
Genres: Comedy | Crime | Thriller
Countries: UK
Actors: Flemyng, Jason | Fletcher, Dexter | Moran, Nick | Statham, Jason | Mackintosh, Steven | Rowe, Nicholas | Marcq, Nick | Forbes, Charlie | Jones, Vinnie | McLean, Lenny | McNicholl, Peter | Moriarty, P.H. | Harper, Frank | Sweeney, Steve | Leaver, Huggy
Directors: Ritchie, Guy
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Four Jack-the-lads find themselves heavily - seriously heavily - in debt to an East End hard man and his enforcers after a crooked card game. Overhearing their neighbours in the next flat plotting to hold up a group of out-of-their-depth drug growers, our heros decide to stitch up the robbers in turn. In a way the confusion really starts when a pair of antique double-barrelled shotguns go missing in a completely different scam.

No Mercy (1986)

Friday, July 24th, 2009
Genres: Action | Crime | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Gere, Richard | Basinger, Kim | Krabbé, Jeroen | Dzundza, George | Basaraba, Gary | Atherton, William | Kinney, Terry | McGill, Bruce | Sharkey, Ray | Geraghty, Marita | Mitchell, Aleta | Gratton, Fred | Dionisio | Brown, Ray | Chan, Kim
Directors: Pearce, Richard
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Maverick Chicago cop Eddie Jillette poses as a hit man to meet with someone in from New Orleans looking to have a job done. The result is that both the guy and Jillette’s partner wind up very dead, while a stunning blonde in on the setup disappears. He heads south to settle the score and soon finds himself being hunted, with the girl in tow and the local police anything but happy. New Orleans may never be the same again.

Blank Check (1994)

Monday, June 29th, 2009
Genres: Comedy | Family
Countries: USA
Actors: Bonsall, Brian | Duffy, Karen | Rebhorn, James | Atkinson, Jayne | Faustino, Michael | Demetral, Chris | Ferrer, Miguel | Lerner, Michael | Loc, Tone | Ducommun, Rick | Zuckerman, Alex | Morris, Alex | Allen, Debbie | Polk, Michael | Leonard, Lu
Directors: Wainwright, Rupert
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Preston Waters is a 12 year old boy who is sick of his parents always teaching him the value of money. Little does he know, he is about to learn it. When a smart crook, Carl Quigley, nearly kills Preston by running over his bike, he mistakenly fills out a blank cheque, which Preston prints out for $1 Million. Preston convinces the bank manager to cash the cheque, and when Quigley’s employee returns to collect the money for Quigley and finds that the bank manager has given it to a kid, Quigley sets out to track the kid down and get his money. Preston creates the pseudonym of ‘Macintosh’ to handle his finance, and the police get suspicious. Preston begins his spending, but later becomes aware that he must avoid Quigley who is on his back, and the police seperately attempt to work out the mystery behind ‘Macintosh’. Will Preston be convinced that money is’nt everything.

French Connection II (1975)

Thursday, June 11th, 2009
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Hackman, Gene | Rey, Fernando | Fresson, Bernard | Léotard, Philippe | Lauter, Ed | Millot, Charles | Castaldi, Jean-Pierre | Nesbitt, Cathleen | Llorens, Samantha | Penvern, André | Prat, Reine | Delfosse, Raoul | Luong, Ham-Chau | Dynam, Jacques | Kateb, Malek
Directors: Frankenheimer, John
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New York narcotics detective Popeye Doyle follows the trail of the French connection smuggling ring to France where he teams up with the gendarmes to hunt down the ringleader.

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.

Bullitt (1968)

Tuesday, June 9th, 2009
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: McQueen, Steve | Vaughn, Robert | Bisset, Jacqueline | Gordon, Don | Duvall, Robert | Oakland, Simon | Fell, Norman | Brown, Georg Stanford | Tarr, Justin | Reindel, Carl | Orlandi, Felice | Tayback, Vic | Lipton, Robert | Peck, Ed | Renella, Pat
Directors: Yates, Peter
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Johnny Ross works for Chicago mobster Peter Ross, his brother. In April 1968 Johnny Ross escapes two attempts on his life and flees to San Francisco, where he is placed in protective custody by politician Walter Chalmers, who hopes to use Ross to further his own national aspirations. To protect Ross, Chalmers asks the SFPD to assign Detective Lieutenant Frank Bullitt and his partners, Sergeants Don Delgetti and Carl Stanton, to guard him at a flophouse near an overhead freeway. It looks like a simple assignment, but at 1 AM the next day it all goes awry in a blast of a shotgun, leaving Stanton and Ross fighting for life at San Francisco General. Bullitt gets what information he can, but breathing down his neck is the angered Chalmers who vows to ruin Bullitt’s career should Ross die. Bullitt gets a break when the gunman appears at the hospital to finish off Ross, and Bullitt gets a good look at him; now Bullitt must smoke out the gunman and his backup man before Chalmers carries out his threat, leading to a high-speed pursuit, a fiery crash at a gas station, and a fingerprint check that leads to a stunning discovery about Ross, and about a couple staying at a swanky hotel in San Mateo.

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.