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1) The departed
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Formats
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....
3) The Irishman
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Left behind by the world, former hit man and union truck driver Frank Sheeran looks back from a nursing home on his life's journey through the ranks of organized crime: from his involvement with Philadelphia mob boss Russell Bufalino to his association with Teamsters union head Jimmy Hoffa to the rift that forced him to choose between the two.
6) Nirvana
Author
Language
Portuguese
Description
Ian Velloza (Vila Faia) is Vega, a small-time wiseguy who gets kicked out of his gang just when he expects to move up. Out for revenge, Vega teams up with a bunch of delinquent small-time criminals to pay back the leader of the gang, Barbas. Vega's plan is to beat Barbas's gang to the scene of a planned robbery and get the money first. What Vega doesn't realize is that Barbas has many enemies, all of whom had the same idea. Now Vega and his ragtag...
Author
Language
Italiano
Description
Based on the true story of Rita Atria and Judge Paolo Borsellino, The Sicilian Girl is the dramatic retelling of Atria's Story: how a 17 year-old Sicilian whose father and brother were both Mafia Members (and victims) breaks the vow of silence that enshrouds that world, and gives evidence to famed anti-Mafia judge Borselllino.
Author
Language
English
Description
A son wants to be just like his father, but most of all would like to earn himself a place in the family business--a national crime syndicate. Together with his half-brother, he forms a gang of his own to gain his dad's respect. However, efforts backfire as the father fears that he is losing control of his organization and his sons. Based on a true story of Bruce Johnston Sr. and Jr. in Brandywine River Valley, Pennsylvania.
9) True Romance
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
1997, c1993
Language
English
Description
Newlyweds acquire a suitcase full of illegal goods and are pursued by gangsters and the law.
10) Exit to Hell
Author
Language
English
Description
Horror Legend Kane Hodder (Friday the 13th, Hatchet) is Sheriff Slade Sickle who's particular brand of justice cuts quickly and deeply when a bloodthirsty gang on the run arrives in his town. Before day's end, this dusty town will run blood red.'
Author
Language
English
Description
Joey Coyle, an unemployed longshoreman, stumbled upon $1.2 million in unmarked, untraceable currancy that had fallen off an armored truck and wanted to keep it. He turns to his girlfriend, Monica, to help him launder the loot. but keeping a million-dollar secret is harder than it looks, especially when Joey begins upgrading his social standing with extravagant gestures -- such as picking up enormous bar tabs for his friends. As an investigating...
12) Playing God
Author
Language
English
Description
Stripped of his medical license after performing an operation while high on amphetamines, Los Angeles surgeon Dr. Eugene Sands abandons his career, and finds himself crossing paths with a ruthless criminal, Raymond Blossom. Raymond hires Eugene as his "gun-shot doctor", to treat associates who cannot risk visiting a hospital. Lured deeper and deeper into the dangerous underworld and growing too close to Raymond's seductive girlfriend Claire, Eugene...
Author
Language
English
Description
Set in South Philadelphia, A Rose on Ninth Street, deals with police corruption, crime, loyalty, drugs, romance, love, forgiveness, and redemption. Bob O'Conner is faced with the biggest decision of his life when he falls in love with the beautiful daughter of his boss's enemy. While Bob's father struggles with alcoholism, and his mother is dying from cancer, Bob's crime boss sets out to kill him, and his world is crumbling around him.
Series
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Archaeologist and explorer extrodinaire Lara Croft journeys to a temple, in Greece, sunken underwater that leads to a sphere that contains the mythical Pandora's Box, only to have it stolen from her by Chen Lo, the leader of a Chinese crime syndicate, who's in league with a villain named Reiss who wants to use the Box as a doomsday weapon. Facing her greatest challenges yet, the intrepid tomb raider pursues Lo, in order to get her hands back on Pandora's...
15) Isle Of Dogs
Author
Language
English
Description
In this gritty crime thriller, a brutal London gangland boss discovers his new trophy-wife is having an affair, hunts down her lover, issues a grim ultimatum...and a deadly game begins.
16) Dirty Shield
Author
Language
English
Description
Detective Ricardo Colletti's personal life is turned upside down when his wife is raped by members of a notorious street gang. When two of the gang members are found dead, Internal Affairs Bureau makes a bold move to catch their suspect.
17) Apple Pie
Author
Language
English
Description
A gangster relates the story of how he started his life of crime, beginning when as a child he faked his own kidnapping in order to get money from his parents for the "ransom". However, it turns out that the "gangster" may not be exactly what he seems.
18) Salvo
Author
Language
Italiano
Description
After murdering a man, Salvo, a ruthless Sicilian hit man, discovers the man's sister, a young blind girl, witnessed the whole thing. Haunted by their brief exchange, the two will attempt to navigate their dangerous next steps side by side.
19) Hollywood & Wine
Author
Language
English
Description
An aspiring actress impersonates her celebrity look-alike nemesis in order to save her boyfriend from a trigger-happy mobster. It's the performance of her life…with his on the line.
20) Keyhole
Author
Language
English
Description
In a house haunted with memories, gangster and father Ulysses Pick (Jason Patric), arriving home after a long absence, must journey through the house, room by room, to reach his wife Hyacinth (Isabella Rossellini) in her bedroom upstairs.
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