Posts Tagged ‘witness-protection’

Godfather: Part II, The (1974)

Thursday, April 24th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Pacino, Al | Duvall, Robert | Keaton, Diane | De Niro, Robert | Cazale, John | Shire, Talia | Strasberg, Lee | Gazzo, Michael V. | Spradlin, G.D. | Bright, Richard | Moschin, Gastone | Rosqui, Tom | Kirby, Bruno | Sivero, Frank | De Sapio, Francesca
Directors: Coppola, Francis Ford
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The continuing saga of the Corleone crime family tells the story of a young Vito Corleone growing up in Sicily and in 1910s New York; and follows Michael Corleone in the 1950s as he attempts to expand the family business into Las Vegas, Hollywood and Cuba.

Smokin’ Aces (2007)

Sunday, August 26th, 2007
Genres: Action | Crime | Thriller
Countries: France | UK | USA
Actors: Affleck, Ben | Cumer, Zach | Bateman, Jason | Common | Ruskin, Joseph | Garcia, Andy | Rocco, Alex | Newton, Wayne | Keys, Alicia | Liotta, Ray | Piven, Jeremy | Berg, Peter | Reynolds, Ryan | Henderson, Martin | Holley, Christopher Michael
Directors: Carnahan, Joe
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An FBI agent (Reynolds) hunts for a Las Vegas stand up comedian (Piven) who has decided to squeal on the mob but, before he heads off for protective custody, decides to go to the casinos at Lake Tahoe for one last good time, drawing a crowd of assassins (including Affleck and Keys).

Federal Protection (2002)

Sunday, May 6th, 2007
Genres: Action | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Assante, Armand | Featherstone, Angela | Meyer, Dina | Lipper, David | Chiesurin, Frank | Calabretta, Tony | Camacho, Mark | Park, Steve | Chuipka, Chip | Blanco, Danny | Roy, Maxim | Zinoviev, Anatoly | Filipowich, Michael | Alacchi, Carl | Bertrand, Maria
Directors: Hickox, Anthony
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“Chop Chop” Frankie Carbone (Armand Assante) has made a career out of stealing cars for the mob in Chicago. An attempted assassination by a mob boss goes badly and Frankie retaliates, only to wind up in the hands of the Feds. Frankie agrees to testify against the mobsters and his life is suddenly worthless - unless he submits to going into federal protection. The FBI gives him a new name - Howard Akers - and relocates him to a sleepy middle-class suburb in Little Rock, AR. Howard catches the attention of his lovely neighbor, Leigh (Angela Featherstone), a bored fund-raiser for a non-profit zoo whose husband, Dennis (David Lipper), is having an affair - and she knows it, but she doesn’t know it’s with her hot-blooded sister, Bootsie (Dina Meyer). Leigh becomes friends with the enigmatic Howard, but Dennis and Bootsie see an opportunity to earn the million-dollar bounty the mob has put on his head by turning him in to the mob.

Shaft (2000)

Sunday, May 6th, 2007
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Jackson, Samuel L. | Williams, Vanessa L. | Wright, Jeffrey | Bale, Christian | Rhymes, Busta | Hedaya, Dan | Collette, Toni | Roundtree, Richard | Santiago-Hudson, Ruben | Sommer, Josef | Thigpen, Lynne | Bosco, Philip | Hingle, Pat | Tergesen, Lee | von Bargen, Daniel
Directors: Singleton, John
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Cool and deadly NYPD detective John Shaft arrests Walter Wade, Jr. in a racially-motivated slaying. The eye witness disappears, Wade jumps bail for Switzerland, and Shaft is livid. Two years later, Wade returns to face trial, confident his father’s money and influence (and racial politics) guarantee an innocent verdict. Shaft looks hard for the witness, so Wade wants someone to kill her. He turns to a ghetto drug king, Peoples Hernandez, who’s willing to kill for money, use Wade as a route to rich drug customers, and shaft Shaft. Can Shaft find the witness, convince her to testify, and shepherd her through the hail of bullets that Peoples is sure to let fly?

Goodfellas (1990)

Sunday, May 6th, 2007
Genres: Biography | Crime | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: De Niro, Robert | Liotta, Ray | Pesci, Joe | Bracco, Lorraine | Sorvino, Paul | Low, Chuck | DiLeo, Frank | Sivero, Frank | Darrow, Tony | Starr, Mike | Vincent, Frank | Adonis, Frank | Scorsese, Catherine | Mastrogiacomo, Gina | Shepherd, Suzanne
Directors: Scorsese, Martin
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This film views the mob lives of three pivotal figures in the 1960’s and 70’s New York. Ray Liotta plays Henry Hill, a local boy turned gangster in a neighborhood full of the roughest and toughest. Joe Pesci plays Tommy Devito, a pure bred gangster, who turns out to be Henry’s best friend. Robert De Niro plays Jimmy Conway, the man who puts the two of them together, and runs some of the biggest hijacks and burglaries the town has ever seen. After an extended jail sentence, Henry must sneak around the back of the local mob boss, Paulie Cicero, played by Paul Sorvino, to live the life of luxury he has always dreamed of. In the end, the friends end up in a hell of a jam, and must do anything they can to save each other, and stay alive.

My Blue Heaven (1990)

Saturday, May 5th, 2007
Genres: Comedy
Countries: USA
Actors: Martin, Steve | Moranis, Rick | Cusack, Joan | Mayron, Melanie | Irwin, Bill | Kane, Carol | Hickey, William | Rush, Deborah | Stern, Daniel | Bradford, Jesse | Carrier, Corey | Jaffe, Seth | Miranda, Robert | Lauter, Ed | Bovasso, Julie
Directors: Ross, Herbert
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FBI agent Barney Coopersmith is assigned to protect former Mafia figure turned informant Vincent Antonelli. In the witness protection program one is supposed to keep a low profile, but that is something that Antonelli has trouble doing. Coopersmith certainly has his hands full keeping Antonelli away from the Mafia hitmen who want to stop him testifying, not to mention the nightclubs…

Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle (2003)

Saturday, May 5th, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Comedy | Crime
Countries: USA
Actors: Diaz, Cameron | Barrymore, Drew | Liu, Lucy | Mac, Bernie | Glover, Crispin | Theroux, Justin | Patrick, Robert | Moore, Demi | Santoro, Rodrigo | LaBeouf, Shia | LeBlanc, Matt | Wilson, Luke | Cleese, John | DuBois, Ja'net | Yuen, Cheung-Yan
Directors: McG
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Natalie, Dylan, and Alex, three glamorous, tough-as-nails, investigative agents - who work for the Charles Townsend Detective Agency - are sent undercover to retrieve two missing jewelry bands. These are no ordinary wedding rings. They contain valuable information that reveals the new identities of every person in the FBI’s Witness Protection Program. After five of the program’s participants turn up dead, only the Angels can stop the perpetrator, using their expertise as masters of disguise, espionage and martial arts.

Donnie Brasco (1997)

Thursday, March 15th, 2007
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Pacino, Al | Depp, Johnny | Madsen, Michael | Kirby, Bruno | Russo, James | Heche, Anne | Ivanek, Zeljko | Becker, Gerry | Miano, Robert | Tarantina, Brian | Sisto, Rocco | Grenier, Zach | MacPherson, Walt | Farer, Ronnie | Serpico, Terry
Directors: Newell, Mike
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This true story follows FBI agent Joe Pistone as he infiltrates the mafia of New York. Befriending Lefty Ruggiero, Pistone (under the name Donnie Brasco) is able to embed himself in a mafia faction lead by Sonny Black. Ruggiero and Pistone become tight as the group goes about collecting money for ‘the bosses’. Eventually, the group become big time when Black himself becomes a boss, all the while Pistone collects evidence. However, the trials and tribulations of the undercover work become more than Pistone can bear. His marriage falls apart and to top it off, the mafia suspect a mole in the organization. The real dilemma is afforded to Pistone, who knows if he walks away from the mafia, Ruggiero will be the one punished.

Bird on a Wire (1990)

Tuesday, February 20th, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Comedy | Crime | Romance | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Gibson, Mel | Hawn, Goldie | Carradine, David | Duke, Bill | Tobolowsky, Stephen | Severance, Joan | Caesar, Harry | Corey, Jeff | Bruhanski, Alex | Pyper-Ferguson, John | Kusatsu, Clyde | Davies, Jackson | Patterson, Florence | Healy, Tim | Tritter, Wes
Directors: Badham, John
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Rick has been given a new identity by the FBI for helping convict a drug dealing FBI agent. Fifteen years later his former fiance recognises him. Rick’s FBI ‘minder’ has been replaced by a corrupt agent who helps the drug dealing FBI agent and his accomplice locate him. There are many subsequent chase scenes as Rick and girlfriend revisit his former haunts.

Interpreter, The (2005)

Monday, February 12th, 2007
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: France | UK | USA
Actors: Kidman, Nicole | Penn, Sean | Keener, Catherine | Christensen, Jesper | Attal, Yvan | Cameron, Earl | Harris, George | Wright, Michael | Kusatsu, Clyde | Keenleyside, Eric | Speer, Hugo | Jobrani, Maz | Gatewood, Yusuf | Cook, Curtiss | Utley, Byron
Directors: Pollack, Sydney
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Escalating events begin when U.N. interpreter Silvia Broome alleges that she has overheard a death threat against an African head of state, spoken in a rare dialect few people other than Silvia can understand. With the words “The Teacher will never leave this room alive,” in an instant, Silvia’s life is turned upside down as she becomes a hunted target of the killers. Placed under the protection of federal agent Tobin Keller, Silvia’s world only grows more nightmarish. As Keller digs deeper into his eyewitnesses’ past and her secretive world of global connections, the more suspicious he becomes that she herself might be involved in the conspiracy. With every step of the way, he finds more reasons to mistrust her. Is Sylvia a victim? A suspect? Or something else entirely? And can Tobin, coping with his own personal heartache, keep her safe? Though they must depend on one another, Silvia and Tobin couldn’t be more different. Silvia’s strengths are words, diplomacy and the subtleties of meaning, while Tobin is all about instinct, action and reading into the most primal human behaviors. Now, as the danger of a major assassination on U.S. soil grows and Silvia’s life hangs in the balance, Silvia and Tobin play out a gripping dance of evasion and revelation that keeps them both guessing as they race to stop a terrifying international crisis before it’s too late.