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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...
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.
3) Black mass
Language
English
Formats
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.
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...
Language
English
Formats
Description
Angela De Marco (Michelle Pfeiffer) is stuck in a marriage to a philanderer who also just happens to be a mobster, but she gets a new lease on life when he's iced by a ruthless kingpin (Dean Stockwell) who's always had a thing for Angela. Kissing the mafia arrivederci, Angela finds a new job in a beauty salon, but Stockwell is hot on her trail, determined to make her his mob mistress. Now, Angela must choose between helping the FBI or spending the...
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Language
English
Formats
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...
7) Mafia Mamma
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Language
English
Description
An American mom inherits her grandfather's mafia empire in Italy. Guided by the firm's consigliere, she hilariously defies everyone's expectations as the new head of the family business.
Language
English
Description
Michael Sullivan works as an enforcer for his adopted father, Irish gangster John Rooney. When Sullivan's son, Mike Jr., witnesses one of his father's killings on Rooney's behalf, the gangster decides that his ward and his family are liabilities that must be removed. Sullivan tries to safeguard his son and get even with the man who betrayed him, while his son focuses on bonding with his emotionally distant father.
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Martin Scorsese's contribution to the Century of Cinema series is a fascinating exploration of some of the landmarks of American cinema, as well as some of its lesser known byways. Under chapter headings such as The Director's Dilemma or The Director as Iconoclast, Scorsese analyses the work of filmmakers as diverse as DW Griffith, FW Murnau, Sam Fuller and John Cassavetes. This is no academic history, but a declaration of passion for cinema from...
10) Atlantic City
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this **Oscar**-nominated romantic thriller, Atlantic City has been revitalized with the legalization of gambling. But the new industry also brings unsettling changes for its citizens. One of these citizens is Lou (Burt Lancaster), a longtime mob flunkey and bodyguard/boyfriend to aging beauty queen Grace (Kate Reid). Lou's romantic interests begin to waver when he meets Sally (Susan Sarandon), a young casino croupier, after she unwillingly gets...
11) London Boulevard
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
An ex-con hired to look after a reclusive young actress finds himself falling in love, which puts him in direct confrontation with one of London's most vicious gangsters.
12) GoodFellas
Language
English
Description
A young man grows up in the mob and works hard to advance himself through the ranks and enjoys the life of the rich and violent. Adapted from the book by Nicholas Pileggi.
13) Bonnie and Clyde
Language
English
Formats
Description
During the Depression, a young outlaw couple and their gang tear through the midwestern plains on a murder and robbing spree gaining unprecedented fame.
14) Goodfellas
Language
English
Formats
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...
15) Eastern promises
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
[Widescreen edition].
Language
English
Description
Russian-born Nikolai Luzhin is a driver for one of London's most notorious organized crime families of Eastern European origin. The family itself is part of the Vory V Zakone criminal brotherhood. Semyon heads the syndicate and is the proprietor of a plush Trans-Siberian restaurant. But his friendliness at the restaurant masks a cold and brutal core. Fortunes are tested by Semyon's volatile son and enforcer, Kirill. But Nikolai's carefully maintained...
16) Scarface
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.
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
Encore anniversary edition.
Language
English
Description
Francis Ford Coppola's lavish, 1930s-era epic comes to a vivid new life in this newly remastered and restored version featuring never-before-seen scenes and musical sequences. The Cotton Club was a famous night club in Harlem. The story follows the people who visited the club, those who ran it and is peppered with the Jazz music that made it so famous.
19) Get Carter
Series
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.
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