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1) Pulp fiction
Series
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
Clever, dark film that tells 4 separate stories that are gradually brought together. Involved are two low-rent hit men, their boss and his sexy wife, a prizefighter and a pair of desperate robbers.
6) Gran Torino
Language
English
Formats
Description
Walt Kowalski is a widower who holds onto his prejudices despite the changes in his Michigan neighborhood and the world around him. Walt is a grumpy, tough-minded, unhappy old man, who can't get along with either his kids or his neighbors. He is a Korean War veteran whose prize possession is a 1972 Gran Torino he keeps in mint condition. When his neighbor, Thao, a young Hmong teenager, becomes pressured by his gang member cousin to steal Walt's Gran...
7) The departed
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
In South Boston, the state police force are waging a war on Irish-American organized crime. Undercover cop Billy Costigan is assigned to infiltrate the mob syndicate, which is run by gangland chief Frank Costello. Billy quickly gains Costello's confidence. Colin Sullivan is a hardened young criminal who has infiltrated the police department as an informer for the syndicate. Colin is rising to a position of power within the Special Investigation Unit....
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the final installment of the epic Corleone trilogy, Al Pacino reprises his role as the powerful family leader Michael Corleone. Now in his sixties, Michael is consumed with guilt for his past deeds while he plans for the family's re-emergence as a completely legitimate corporation.
9) Scarface
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Inspired by the 1932 classic of the same title, Scarface follows the violent career of a smalltime Cuban refugee hoodlum who guns his way to the top of Miami's cocaine empire.
10) BitterSweet
Publisher
Pioneer
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
Sam is a bright, young college student with a promising future when she suddenly finds herself in the middle of her boyfriend, Jed's, half-million dollar robbery.
11) Scarface
Series
Language
English
Description
"An exciting story of organized crime's brutal control over Chicago during the prohibition era. This compelling tale of ambition, betrayal and revenge is a groundbreaking masterpiece that influenced all gangster films to follow."--Container.
12) The Godfather
Series
Language
English
Description
"Don" Vito Corleone is the head of a New York mafia 'family.' His beloved son Michael has just come home from the war, but does not intend to become part of his father's business. Not given a choice, the business of the family is just like the head of the family, kind and benevolent to those who give respect, but gives in to ruthless violence whenever anything stands against the good of the family. An up and coming rival of the Corleone family wants...
14) Mean streets
Language
English
Formats
Description
Set in Little America, the film centers on Charlie, a small-time hood who lacks the ruthlessness to make it in his uncle's syndicate. Charlie feels responsible for his girlfriend's cousin, Johnny Boy, but things get out of hand when Charlie intervenes in a quarrel over debts.
15) Analyze this
Language
English
Description
"Mob boss Paul Vitti's going a little wacky. His shrink is afraid of getting whacked. Vitti is a troubled crime-family racketeer and Ben Sobel is his psychiatrist with just a few days to turn Vitti in a happy, well-adjusted gangster. In the second film, Vitti is released from prison into the custody of his therapist, Ben Sobel." --
16) Die hard
Language
English
Formats
Description
Die hard: New York City detective John McClane is in Los Angeles to spend the holidays with his estranged wife Holly. While McClane waits for Holly's office party to end, terrorists take control of the building. As their sinister leader, Hans Gruber, and his savage henchman round up hostages, McClane gets ready to blast a few rounds of his own and launch a one-man war.
Die hard 2: John McClane is off-duty on Christmas Eve in the nation's capital...
17) Black mass
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
In 1970s South Boston, FBI Agent John Connolly (Joel Edgerton) persuades Irish mobster James "Whitey" Bulger (Johnny Depp) to collaborate with the FBI and eliminate a common enemy: the Italian mob. The drama tells the true story of this unholy alliance, which spiraled out of control, allowing Whitey to evade law enforcement, consolidate power, and become one of the most ruthless and powerful gangsters in Boston history.
19) In till you die
Publisher
Peacock Flims
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
Tired of meager gig funds, guitarist Jonesy seeks bucks by helping rob a nightclub linked to a bully who generously practices his strong-arming tactics. This accounts for Jonesy's teaming with Cowboy, who is a very unstable Englishman.
20) The sting
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Robert Redford and Paul Newman star as two con men in the 1930s, out to avenge the death of a mutual friend. They seek revenge on crime lord Robert Shaw with a 'sting' that is one of the greatest double-crosses in movie history.
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