Posts Tagged ‘mafia’

Leaving Las Vegas (1995)

Sunday, November 16th, 2008
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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Mobsters (1991)

Tuesday, October 28th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Slater, Christian | Mandylor, Costas | Grieco, Richard | Schoenberg, Jeremy | Perlich, Miles | Charof, Alan | Dempsey, Patrick | Nolan, Anto | Eastman, Rodney | Romano, Andy | Rossini, Bianca | Restivo, Stevie | Gillette, Caroline | Z'Dar, Robert | Gambon, Michael
Directors: Karbelnikoff, Michael
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The story of a group of friends in turn of the century New York, from their early days as street hoods to their rise in the world of organized crime. As their crime empire expands, they have to deal with many problems, including their own differing opinions on how to run their business, the local Godfather, and the psychotic Mad Dog Coll.

Carlito’s Way (1993)

Saturday, October 11th, 2008
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.

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
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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_.

Art of War, The (2000)

Wednesday, August 27th, 2008
Genres: Action | Thriller
Countries: Canada | USA
Actors: Snipes, Wesley | Sutherland, Donald | Chaykin, Maury | Archer, Anne | Matiko, Marie | Biehn, Michael | Tagawa, Cary-Hiroyuki | Komorowska, Liliana | Hong, James | Hopkins, Paul | Chin, Glen | Yuan, Ron | Mak, Bonnie | Park, Uni | Selby, Erin
Directors: Duguay, Christian
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Shaw is an operative for the United Nations’ covert dirty-tricks squad, using espionage and quasi-ethical tactics to secure peace and cooperation. When a shipping container full of dead Vietnamese refugees turns up on the docks and China’s ambassador is gunned down at a dinner celebrating a new trade agreement with China and the US, Shaw is framed for the murder and must evade the FBI and Triad gangsters to find out what is really going on.

Jackal, The (1997)

Thursday, August 7th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Crime | Thriller
Countries: France | Germany | Japan | UK | USA
Actors: Willis, Bruce | Gere, Richard | Poitier, Sidney | Venora, Diane | May, Mathilda | J.K. Simmons | 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.

Last Dragon, The (1985)

Monday, August 4th, 2008
Genres: Action | Comedy | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Taimak | Murney, Christopher | Carry, Julius | O'Brien, Leo | Starr, Mike | Moody, Jim | Eaton, Glen | Reyes Jr., Ernie | Campbell, Roger | Mason, Jamal | Barie, B.J. | Russo, Sal | Palminteri, Chazz | Renzulli, Frank | Mathis, Torrance
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A young man searches for the “master” to obtain the final level of martial arts mastery known as the glow. Along the way he must fight an evil martial arts expert and an rescue a beautiful singer from an obsessed music promoter.

Dead Pool, The (1988)

Thursday, July 3rd, 2008
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Eastwood, Clint | Neeson, Liam | Kim, Evan C. | Hunt, David | Currie, Michael | Goodwin, Michael | Gillett, Darwin | Charnota, Anthony | Beale, Christopher P. | Vick, John Allen | Richmond, Jeff | Van Horn, Patrick | Carrey, Jim | Love, Nicholas | Heart, John X.
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After Harry’s arrest of a gambling kingpin results in a conviction for murder, a group of thugs shoot up Harry’s car and try to kill him. Harry overpowers them and is paired with a new partner, Insp. Al Quan (Evan Kim). Within days of this assignment Harry and Al find themselves working on a mysterious death of a rock star, who was on location filming a movie directed by Peter Swan (Liam Neeson). After one of Swan’s crew is killed in a Chinatown robbery that is foiled by Al & Harry, Al discovers a list of celebrities on the dead man that includes the dead rock star and one Inspector Harry Callahan. They soon discover that this is part of a strange game called the Dead Pool, and it isn’t long before other people on the list turn up dead…and someone starts making attempts on Harry’s life…

Get Shorty (1995)

Monday, June 9th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Gandolfini, James | Linda Hart | Sandoval, Miguel | Ferrero, Martin | Lindo, Delroy | Travolta, John | DeVito, Danny | Farina, Dennis | Russo, Rene | Paymer, David | Gries, Jon
Directors: Sonnenfeld, Barry
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Some guys get all the luck, whether they like it or not. Chili Palmer (John Travolta) happens to be in Hollywood collecting a gambling debt when he’s struck by lightning (not literally). Called a natural for the movie business, he’s snagged up by a producer. The rest is history.

Corky Romano (2001)

Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Crime
Countries: USA
Actors: Kattan, Chris | Shaw, Vinessa | Falk, Peter | Berg, Peter | Penn, Chris | Ward, Fred | Roundtree, Richard | Glave, Matthew | Fan, Roger | Sheridan, Dave | Massee, Michael | Pastore, Vincent | Hale, Fiona | King, Kip | Eben, Al
Directors: Pritts, Rob
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A naive, bumbling veterinarian named Corky Romano the outcast son if a Mafia boss, is recruited by his family to infiltrate the FBI and steal any and all evidence that will put his cranky father named Francis A. “Pops” Romano in jail! But he’s in way over his head when he’s made out to be a super agent. It’s a reputation must live up to as he tries to fake his way through one tough assignment after another while hunting for the elusive incriminating proof of his father’s illegal activities.