Posts Tagged ‘organized-crime’

Sudden Impact (1983)

Tuesday, July 15th, 2008
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Eastwood, Clint | Hingle, Pat | Dillman, Bradford | Drake, Paul | Thibeau, Jack | Currie, Michael | Popwell, Albert | Keyloun, Mark | Howard, Kevyn Major | Bellan, Joe | Wellman, Wendell | McCubbin, Russ | Sutton, Robert | Argenziano, Carmen | Reddick, Bill
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After destroying a case involving a crime lord, Harry Callahan is sent down to San Paulo to investigate the killing of a man found dead in a car. Jennifer (the killer of the man in the car) is murdering all the rapists who brutally raped both her and her sister 10 years ago, and she has returned to San Paulo to exact her revenge. Harry becomes inadvertently involved in Jennifer’s own troubles during his investigations, all the while not suspecting she is the killer.

Magnum Force (1973)

Tuesday, July 8th, 2008
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Eastwood, Clint | Holbrook, Hal | Mitchell, Ryan | Soul, David | Matheson, Tim | Niven, Kip | Urich, Robert | Perry, Felton | Argent, Maurice | Avery, Margaret | Devon, Richard | Giorgio, Tony | Kosslyn, Jack | March, Bob | McClurg, Bob
Directors: Post, Ted
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San Francisco Police Inspector ‘Dirty’ Harry Callahan and his new partner, Early Smith have been temporarily reassigned from Homicide to Stakeout Duty. Meanwhile, those of the city’s criminals who manage to avoid punishment by the courts are nevertheless being killed by unknown assassins. Callahan begins to investigate the murders despite the orders of his superior officer, Lieutenant Briggs. A man has to know his limitations…

New Jack City (1991)

Monday, June 23rd, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Snipes, Wesley | Ice-T | Payne, Allen | Rock, Chris | Michele, Michael | Nunn, Bill | Wong, Russell | Cobbs, Bill | Williams, Christopher | Nelson, Judd | Williams, Vanessa | Johns, Tracy Camilla | DeSando, Anthony | Ashford, Nick
Directors: Van Peebles, Mario
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In 1989, Nino Brown, a small time drug dealer, is convinced by one of his fellow thugs that the wave of the future is in the cocaine derivative, crack. Brown sees potential in crack and sets out to establish himself as chief kingpin by killing off his rivals and even going as far as to take over a whole apartment complex. Out to stop him are undercover cops Scottie Appleton and Nick Paretti. Appleton especially wants to get Nino because of the fact that he murdered Scottie’s mother as part of a gang initiaton. Also involved is Pookie, a former crackhead who wants to bring down Nino as well.

True Romance (1993)

Monday, June 23rd, 2008
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Romance | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Slater, Christian | Arquette, Patricia | Rapaport, Michael | Kilmer, Val | Pinchot, Bronson | Hopper, Dennis | Oldman, Gary | Pitt, Brad | Sizemore, Tom | Walken, Christopher | Jackson, Samuel L. | Rubinek, Saul | Gandolfini, James | Argo, Victor | Adonis, Frank
Directors: Scott, Tony
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Clarence Worley, a penniless hipster in Detroit with a love for Elvis meets a mysterious hooker paid to meet him named Alabama on his birthday in a theater at night. Falling in love, he makes it his mission to dispose of her past, namely her violent pimp, Drexl Spivey. Defeating him and unknowingly taking a vast fortune of Cocaine, the two fight to sell the white gold in Los Angeles as Drexl’s associates fight to reclaim it in a bloody romantic thriller full to the brim with style.

American Gangster (2007)

Monday, June 23rd, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Washington, Denzel | Crowe, Russell | Ejiofor, Chiwetel | Brolin, Josh | Nadal, Lymari | Levine, Ted | Smith, Roger Guenveur | Hawkes, John | RZA | Vazquez, Yul | Goodwin, Malcolm | Dee, Ruby | Santiago-Hudson, Ruben | Gugino, Carla | Fortgang, Skyler
Directors: Scott, Ridley
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Following the death of his employer and mentor, Bumpy Johnson, Frank Lucas establishes himself as the number one importer of heroin in the Harlem district of Manhattan. He does so by buying heroin directly from the source in South East Asia and he comes up with a unique way of importing the drugs into the United States. As a result, his product is superior to what is currently available on the street and his prices are lower. His alliance with the New York Mafia ensures his position. It is also the story of a dedicated and honest policeman, Richie Roberts, who heads up a joint narcotics task force with the Federal government. Based on a true story.

We Own the Night (2007)

Monday, June 23rd, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Phoenix, Joaquin | Mendes, Eva | Wahlberg, Mark | Duvall, Robert | Veadov, Alex | Colon, Dominic | Hoch, Danny | Taktarov, Oleg | Moshonov, Moni | Corone, Antoni | Walker, Craig | Musante, Tony | D'Onofrio, Joe | Solovey, Yelena | Kiley, Maggie
Directors: Gray, James
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A New York nightclub manager tries to save his brother and father from Russian mafia hit men.

Cooler, The (2003)

Monday, June 23rd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Macy, William H. | Baldwin, Alec | Bello, Maria | Hatosy, Shawn | Livingston, Ron | Sorvino, Paul | Warren, Estella | Nascarella, Arthur J. | Fatone, Joey | Gainey, M.C. | Greene, Ellen | Scribner, Don | Longo, Tony | Israel, Richard | Landfield, Timothy
Directors: Kramer, Wayne
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The Cooler is Bernie Lootz, and THE COOLER is a love story about the changing fortunes of this down-at-heels loser who has made a career out of spreading his virulent bad luck on the floor of Las Vegas’ aging Shangri-La casino. When Bernie falls for a gorgeous cocktail waitress his bad luck is thrown into reverse.

Illegal Tender (2007)

Monday, June 23rd, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Del Rio, Michael Philip | Molina, Samuel | Sepulveda, Rick | Perez, Manny | Benny, D.C. | Mercado, Mercedes | Perez, Carmen | Henao, Zulay | Pimentel, Jessica | Zambrana, Angelic | Carmen, Julie | Escobar, Ronald | Perez, Gary | Gonzalez, Rick | Ramirez, Dania
Directors: Reyes, Franc.
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After the gangsters who killed his father come to settle a score, a teenage boy and his mother turn the tables on the killers - one Latino family’s quest for honor and revenge as the hunted become the hunters. Wilson DeLeon, Jr. is an exceptional college student with an adoring girlfriend, doting mother and a future full of promise. He has never wanted for anything, and he has never been forced to stand his ground. But when ghosts from his mother’s past come back to haunt his present, he must defend his family … and quickly turn into the strong man his father prayed he’d become. Nothing could stop Wilson’s mother, Millie, from protecting her two boys. Forced to flee her home after gangsters killed her husband, she made an oath to give her children only the best. But all that changes when an enemy from the past catches up with them. It’s finally time to take action - and now, they’re done running. Weapons at the ready, Wilson, Jr. and Millie prepare for a final showdown with the murderer who robbed him of a father and her of a husband. Now, in a battle fueled by family ties and blood feuds, it will become very clear what happens when anyone tries to come between this son and his mother.

War (2007)

Monday, June 23rd, 2008
Genres: Action | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Li, Jet | Statham, Jason | Lone, John | Aoki, Devon | Guzmán, Luis | Rubinek, Saul | Ishibashi, Ryo | Kang, Sung | St. Patrick, Mathew | Velazquez, Nadine | Roth, Andrea | Choi, Kenneth | Cheng, Mark | Kosugi, Kane | Montano, Kennedy
Directors: Atwell, Philip G.
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After his partner Tom Wynne (Terry Chen) and family are killed apparently by the infamous and elusive assassin Rogue (Jet Li), FBI agent Jack Crawford (Jason Statham) becomes obsessed with revenge as his world unravels into a vortex of guilt and betrayal. Rogue eventually resurfaces to settle a score of his own, setting off a bloody crime war between Asian mob rivals Chang (John Lone) of the Triad’s and Yakuza boss Shiro (Ryo Ishibashi). When Jack and Rogue finally come face to face, the ultimate truth of their pasts will be revealed.

Shoot ‘Em Up (2007)

Monday, June 23rd, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Comedy | Crime | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Owen, Clive | Giamatti, Paul | Bellucci, Monica | McHattie, Stephen | Bryk, Greg | Pilon, Daniel | Mende-Gibson, Sidney | Mende-Gibson, Lucas | Yellowlees, Kaylyn | Pringle, Ramona | Richings, Julian | Munch, Tony | McCord, Scott | Pickett, Wiley M. | Hart, Stephen R.
Directors: Davis, Michael
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Late at night, in an unnamed U.S. city, a solitary man sits at a bus stop. A pregnant woman runs by, pursued by a man with a gun. With reluctance, the man at the bus stop rescues her and assists with the baby’s delivery, while additional pursuers fire at them, including the gang’s particularly nasty leader, an intuitive man named Hertz. Our hero, known only as Smith, determines to save the child and find out why Hertz wants the baby dead. At a local bordello, he tries to employ a lactating hooker to watch the child, but things quickly escalate, and this makeshift family is soon on the run. Heavy metal music calms the baby. Why? A laboratory, a gun factory, and a presidential campaign all figure in Smith’s search for the child’s ultimate safety.