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1) Mean streets
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
A film about a cheap, small-time hood working his way up the bottom rungs of the Mafia ladder.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment [distributor]
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
Leo (Albert Finney) is the benevolent Irish gangster and political boss who rules an Eastern city with the help of Anti-hero Tom (Gabriel Byrne), he is the trusted lieutenant and counsellor. But their control of the town is challenged by an overreaching Italian under boss and his ruthless henchman Eddie Dane (J.E. Freeman). While Tom tries to keep the peace, he has a falling out with Leo over a woman and he finds himself caught in the jaws of a gangland...
3) The general
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
For twenty years Gangster Martin Cahill eluded capture by the police. Thumbing his nose at authority, Cahill wound up stealing over $60 million until the IRA decided to put him out of business once and for all.
4) Get Carter
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2000, c1971
Language
English
Description
A small-time gangster journeys to Newcastle to investigate and avenge his brother's killing. Once there he finds himself drawn into the local underworld where he encounters the full spectrum of violence and corruption.
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!
7) Snatch
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
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.
8) Blood out
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
After his brother's murder at the hands of a gang, a small town sheriff becomes frustrated with the police investigation and decides to go undercover to avenge his brother's death.
9) The sting
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
Set in 1930's Chicago, this story deals with two con men who seek revenge on a big-time gangster who was responsible for the murder of their friend.
10) Dick Tracy
Publisher
Touchstone Home Video
Pub. Date
[2002?]
Language
English
Description
G-man Dick Tracy battles top crime figure The Lame One in San Francisco.
11) Public enemy
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2005
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.
12) Goodfellas
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Language
English
Description
Details the rise and fall of Henry Hill, a Brooklyn kid who grows up idolizing the "wise guys" from his neighborhood. He begins hanging around the mobsters and doing odd jobs until he gains the notice of local chieftain Paulie Cicero. In his teens, Hill distinguishes himself as a "stand-up guy" by choosing jail time over ratting on his accomplices. From that moment on, he is a part of the family. Along with his partner Tommy, he rises through the...
13) The big sleep
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
L.A. private eye Philip Marlowe takes on a blackmail case and follows a trail peopled with murderers, pornographers, nightclub rogues and the spoiled rich.
Series
Criterion collection volume 306
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
Français
Description
Jef Costello is a fedora- and trenchcoat-wearing contract killer with samurai instincts. When Jef assassinates a nightclub owner, he finds himself confronted by a series of witnesses, who drop his perfect world into the hands of a persistent police investigator and Jef's shadowy employer, both of whom are determined to put an end to the career criminal.
16) Once in the life
Publisher
Trimark Home Video
Pub. Date
[2001], c2000
Language
English
Description
Two brothers, separated for years with only a father in common, retreat to an abandoned New York building in the aftermath of a drug heist gone wrong. When one of them summons his former partner to help a three-way confrontation results, testing the bonds of loyalty, brotherhood and love.
17) The Godfather
Series
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
The Corleone Family nearly falls from power in America but rises to observe the passage of rites from father to son. There is a balance between family life and the ugly business of crime in which they are engaged.
18) Scarface
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Videos
Pub. Date
c2003
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.
19) Dillinger
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
p2005, c1945
Language
English
Description
Traces Dilinger's violent career from his early days through his rise to the top of the FBI most-wanted list, and concludes with the well-known "lady in red" betrayal that left Dilinger a bullet-riddled corpse on a dark Chicago street.
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