Tag Archives: gang

Bound by Honor (aka “Blood in, blood out”)

IMDB Rating: 7.60
5774 votes

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Based on the true life experiences of poet Jimmy Santiago Baca, the film focuses on half-brothers Paco and Cruz, and their bi-racial cousin Miklo. It opens in 1972, as the three are members of an East L.A. gang known as the "Vatos Locos", and the story focuses on how a violent crime and the influence of narcotics alter their lives. Miklo is incarcerated and sent to San Quentin, where he makes a "home" for himself. Cruz becomes an exceptional artist, but a heroin addiction overcomes him with tragic results. Paco becomes a cop and an enemy to his "carnal", Miklo.
Actors
MikloDamian Chapa
CruzJesse Borrego
PacoBenjamin Bratt
Also posted in 1993, Action, Crime, Drama, High IMDB rating, Thriller | Comments (0)

Havoc

IMDB Rating: 5.30
4087 votes

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In Los Angeles, Allison Lang is a bored girl from an upper class dysfunctional family that acts and dresses like a slut. Her wealthy boyfriend and friends are totally influenced by the hip-hop culture, behaving like rappers, dressing and imitating their lifestyle. When they decide to drive to East L.A. for fun, they meet a Latin gang of drug-dealers and Allison and her best friend Emily become fascinated with their "gangsta" lifestyle. Later they return to the ghetto to visit and excite Hector and his friends, expecting to join their 16th Street gang. When the guys propose them to have sex as a form of initiation, they change their mind, leading to a tragic consequence.
Actors
Allison LangAnne Hathaway
EmilyBijou Phillips
AmandaShiri Appleby
Also posted in 2005, Crime, Drama, Romance | Comments (0)

Alpha Dog

IMDB Rating: 6.80
16297 votes

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In 1999, in Claremont, California, the violent Jake Mazursky owes US$ 1,200.00 to the coward drug dealer Johnny Truelove, who is son of the powerful criminal Sonny Truelove. They fight and start a personal war, with Jake breaking into the house of Johnny with his friends, stealing the TV and leaving excrement in the living room. Johnny kidnaps Jake's fifteen year old brother Zach Mazurka, who has just had an argument with his parents, and brings him to the upper class house of his friend Frankie Ballenbacher. Along a couple of days, Zach meets the friends of Frankie, goes to parties, drinks boozes, smokes pot and has sex with other teenagers. When Johnny realizes that kidnapping means life sentence, he asks the servile scum Elvis Schmidt to kill the boy.
Actors
Party GirlLaura Nativo
Dance Bitch GirlRegina Rice
Neighborhood Girl on CouchNicole Dubos
Also posted in 2006, Crime, Drama, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)

Lords of Dogtown

IMDB Rating: 6.60
6403 votes

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A fictionalized take on the group of brilliant young skateboarders raised in the mean streets of Dogtown in Santa Monica, California. The Z-Boys, as they come to be known, perfect their craft in the empty swimming pools of unsuspecting suburban homeowners, pioneering a thrilling new sport and eventually moving into legend.
Actors
StacyJohn Robinson
JayEmile Hirsch
PhilaineRebecca De Mornay
Also posted in 2005, Action, Biography, Drama, High IMDB rating, Sport | Comments (0)

Kung fu

IMDB Rating: 7.80
22959 votes

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Set in Canton, China in the 1940s, the story revolves around a hapless wannabe gangster who aspires to become a member of the notorious "Axe Gang." Other characters include an obnoxious landlady and her apparently frail husband who exhibit extraordinary powers in defending their turf.
Actors
SingStephen Chow
Crocodile Gang BossXiaogang Feng
LandlordWah Yuen
Also posted in 2004, Action, Comedy, Crime, Fantasy, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)

City of God

IMDB Rating: 8.80
37754 votes

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Cidade de Deus (City of God) is a housing project built in the 1960's that—in the early 80's—became one of the most dangerous places in Rio de Janeiro. The tale tells the stories of many characters whose lives sometimes intersect. However, all is seen through the eyes of a singular narrator: Busca-Pé, a poor black youth too frail and scared to become an outlaw but also to smart to be content with underpaid, menial jobs. He grows up in a very violent environment. The odds are all against him. But Busca-Pé soon discovers that he can see reality differently than others. His redemption is that he's been given an artist's point of view as a keen-eyed photographer. As Busca-Pé is not the real protagonist of the film—only the narrator—he is not the one who makes the decisions that will determine the sequence of events. Nevertheless, not only his life is attached to what happens in the story, but it is also through Busca-Pé's perspective of life that one can understand the complicated layers and humanity of a world, apparently condemned to endless violence.
Actors
Buscapé - RocketAlexandre Rodrigues
Zé Pequeno - Li'l ZéLeandro Firmino
Bené - BennyPhellipe Haagensen
Also posted in 2002, Crime, Drama, High IMDB rating, Thriller | Comments (0)

Training Day

IMDB Rating: 7.40
38152 votes

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In a city where streets are overrun by drug dealers, those who have sworn to uphold the law are breaking them to clean up the streets. Denzel Washington plays L.A.P.D detective Alonzo Harris, a veteran narcotics officer whose methods of enforcing the law are questionable, if not corrupt. 'Training Day' follows Harris as he trains rookie Jake Hoyt (Ethan Hawk) over a period 24 hours. Ethical dilemmas arise for Hoyt as well as the audience as questions present themselves as to whether or not Harris' methodology for ridding the streets of South Central Los Angeles of drugs is right or wrong.
Actors
Detective Alonzo HarrisDenzel Washington
Jake HoytEthan Hawke
RogerScott Glenn
Also posted in 2001, Crime, Drama, High IMDB rating, Thriller | Comments (10)

Brother

IMDB Rating: 7.10
6787 votes

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A Japanese Yakuza gangster is exiled to the United States. Takeshi settles in Los Angeles where his younger, half brother lives and finds that although the turf is new, the rules are still the same as they try to take over the local drug trade.
Actors
Aniki YamamotoTakeshi Kitano
DennyOmar Epps
KenKuroudo Maki
Also posted in 2000, Crime, Drama, High IMDB rating, Thriller | Comments (0)

Romeo Must Die

IMDB Rating: 5.70
14872 votes

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In this modern day Romeo and Juliet, kung fu action star Jet Li plays Romeo to hip-hop singer, Aaliyah Haughton's Juliet. Li is an ex-cop investigating the murder of his brother, who had ties with the Chinese mafia in America. Aaliyah plays the daughter of the American mob boss. Neither side approves of their romance, so, obviously, kung fu action ensues, with a soundtrack by Aaliyah.
Actors
Han SingJet Li
Trish O'DayAaliyah
MacIsaiah Washington
Also posted in 2000, Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller | Comments (12)

The Corruptor

IMDB Rating: 5.60
4840 votes

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A New York police officer (Wahlberg) goes undercover in a dangerous crime scene to investigate abductions and drug-trafficking operations. He obtains backup with the help of another brave Hong Kong police officer (Yun-Fat) who works for the NYPD. They partner up together to stop the operation before the city goes down. The criminal orginization is called the "Fukanese Dragons" who are likely terrorists and illegal immigrants who are about to tear up Chinatown in New York City.
Actors
Nick ChenYun-Fat Chow
Danny WallaceMark Wahlberg
Henry LeeRic Young
Also posted in 1999, Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller | Comments (0)
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