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1) Bugsy
Publisher
ColumbiaTriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel was a ruthless mobster who had it all, and then met a woman who wanted more. Their love affair was passionate, tempestuous and ultimately tragic.
Publisher
Wellsprihg Media
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
Français
Description
In this remake of Fingers, Tom, a ne'er-do-well, works with two scheming real estate men who have little or no morals. He decides to return to the piano, practicing Bachs' Toccata in E Minor for an important audition that could be a life-changing event.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Italiano
Description
Referenced in Tarantino's Kill Bill Vol. 2, Uomini Si Nasce Poliziotti Si Muore (Live like a cop, die like a man, 1976) opens with an insane motorcycle chase that was filmed in rush hour in downtown Rome with no permission from the local authorities. To top it off, this is one of the most violent and unconventional Italian style action films of its time. The credit goes to the director, Ruggero Deodato, best known for his infamous and censored film...
5) Sexy beast
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
High voltage crime thriller that crackles with chilling style and wit. A savage gangster named Don Logan is met with resistance when he tries to recruit a retired pal for "one last job". But Logan just won't take no for an answer....
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
A wild throwback to '70s grindhouse movies, Modus operandi is shockingly violent and even more entertaining. Director Frankie Latina took four years to direct this lovingly constructed ode to disreputable genre flicks, all of it shot in his hometown of Milwaukee. He mashes together Blaxploitation, gore, Italian giallo, Japanese gangster flicks and much more into an irresistible guilty pleasure.
Series
Publisher
EOne Films
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
中文
Formats
Description
Qiao is in love with Bin, a local mobster. During a fight between rival gangs, she fires a gun to protect him. Qiao gets five years in prison for this act of loyalty. Upon her release, she goes looking for Bin to pick up where they left off.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Italiano
Description
Fernando Di Leo was a prolific filmmaker who explored the political extremism and mafia corruption in Italy during the 1970's. Master of garish, intricately plotted, ultra-violent stories about pimps and petty gangsters, Di Leo has perfected the genre with an uncanny accuracy. Di Leo's films demonstrate the degradation of the working classes and how the mafia corrupted them. Though he slipped out of public consciousness after his death in 2003, his...
10) Mafia mamma
Language
English
Formats
Description
While seeing to her long estranged (and now deceased) grandfather’s affairs in Italy, Collette, a mild mannered suburban mom, unexpectedly inherits his mafia empire and finds herself stuck in the middle of a deadly mob war. Guided by the firm’s trusted consigliere (Monica Bellucci), she hilariously defies everyone’s expectations, including her own, as the new head of the family business.
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Young Anthony Soprano is growing up in one of the most tumultuous eras in Newark's history, becoming a man just as rival gangsters begin to rise and challenge the all-powerful DiMeo crime family's hold over the increasingly race-torn city. Caught up in the changing times is the uncle he idolizes, Dickie Moltisanti, who struggles to manage both his professional and personal responsibilities, and whose influence over his nephew will help make the impressionable...
12) 7 días
Publisher
Xenon Pictures
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
Español
Description
A man decides to gamble a large sum of money to raise an even bigger sum--he wants to bring the world's biggest band, U2, to Mexico to play a concert.
Un promotor de recitales hace una apuesta con el capo mafioso para recaudar dinero para llevar al súper estelar conjunto U2 a su ciudad de Monterrey, y la pierde. Ahora tiene sólo siete días para pagar su deuda, pero a medida que se acerca el plazo, debe enfrentarse a una competencia implacable...
Publisher
Ardustry Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Frank Paradiso is the heir apparent to Don Antonio Paradiso's legendary crime family. After an assassination attempt on Antonio, Frank tries to discover who is responsible and discovers betrayal where he least expects it.
15) Public enemy
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
Classic gangster film tells the story of two brothers, one an honorable war veteran, the other a high-class gangster that sold alcohol during the prohibition.
16) Snatch
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Language
English
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Description
"A diamond heist gone haywire launches gangster, bookies and a dog on a rollicking ride through the rugged world of bare-knuckle boxing in search of the missing stone"--Container.
17) Dead man's bluff
Publisher
Kino on Video
Pub. Date
2005
Language
Russian
Description
Tigger-happy sibling assassins Simon and Sergei work as errand boys for Mikhailovich, the sadistic kingpin of a provincial Russian town.
18) Each dawn I die
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
A man framed for murder and imprisoned, befriends an inmate.
19) Billy Bathgate
Publisher
Touchstone Home Video
Pub. Date
[2002?]
Language
English
Description
Two-time Academy Award winner Dustin Hoffman stars in the action-packed gangster epic detailing the rise and fall of notorious mobster Dutch Schultz as seen through the eyes of his young protege, Billy Bathgate. Billy, an ambitious streetwise kid seduced by the power, money and glamour of crime, soon begins to seriously question if his passport to the good life is going to come from the fiery Dutch and his gang!
20) Bonnie and Clyde
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c1997
Language
English
Description
A mixture of comedy and brutal violence, this film is based on the exploits of the notorious American outlaws of the 1930's, Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow.
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