Tag Archives: italian american

The Wanderers

IMDB Rating: 7.30
2371 votes

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Set against the urban jungle of 1963 New York's gangland subculture, this coming of age teenage movie is set around the Italian gang the Wanderers. Slight comedy, slight High School angst and every bit entertaining with its classic 1950's Rock n' Roll soundtrack such as "Walk Like a Man", "Big Girls Don't Cry" by The Four Seasons and "My Boyfriend's Back" by The Angels. Focusing around a football game where the different gangs play with and against each other, then at its grand finale, come together in a mass of union to defend their honour and their turf. Nostalgic stuff and above all a Rock n' Roll retrospective on a grand musical era. Timeless.
Actors
RichieKen Wahl
JoeyJohn Friedrich
TurkeyAlan Rosenberg
Also posted in 1979, Action, Drama, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)

Saturday Night Fever

IMDB Rating: 6.60
16896 votes

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Tony is an uneducated Brooklyn teenager. The highlight of his week is going to the local disco, where he is the king of the dancefloor. Tony meets Stephanie at the disco and they agree to dance together in a competition. Stephanie resists Tony's attempts to romance her, as she aspires to greater things; she is moving across the river to Manhattan. Gradually, Tony also becomes disillusioned with the life he is leading and he and Stephanie decide to help one another to start afresh.
Actors
Tony ManeroJohn Travolta
StephanieKaren Lynn Gorney
Bobby C.Barry Miller
Also posted in 1977, Drama, High IMDB rating, Music, Romance | Comments (0)

Summer of Sam

IMDB Rating: 6.50
14231 votes

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Spike Lee's take on the "Son of Sam" murders in New York City during the summer of 1977 centering on the residents of an Italian-American South Bronx neighborhood who live in fear and distrust of one another.
Actors
VinnyJohn Leguizamo
RichieAdrien Brody
DionnaMira Sorvino
Also posted in 1999, Crime, Drama, High IMDB rating, Romance, Thriller | Comments (0)

True Romance

IMDB Rating: 7.80
46902 votes

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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.
Actors
Clarence WorleyChristian Slater
Alabama WhitmanPatricia Arquette
Dick RitchieMichael Rapaport
Also posted in 1993, Action, Crime, Drama, High IMDB rating, Romance, Thriller | Comments (0)

American Gangster

IMDB Rating: 8.30
28094 votes

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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.
Actors
Frank LucasDenzel Washington
Det. Richie RobertsRussell Crowe
Huey LucasChiwetel Ejiofor
Also posted in 2007, Crime, Drama, High IMDB rating | Comments (1)

Kicking & Screaming

IMDB Rating: 5.40
7573 votes

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Family man Phil Weston, a lifelong victim of his father's competitive nature, takes on the coaching duties of a kids' soccer team, and soon finds that he's also taking on his father's dysfunctional way of relating...
Actors
Phil WestonWill Ferrell
Buck WestonRobert Duvall
Mike DitkaMike Ditka
Also posted in 2005, Comedy, Family, Sport | Comments (0)

The Godfather: Part II

IMDB Rating: 9.00
141221 votes

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The continuing saga of the Corleone crime family tells the story of a young Vito Corleone growing up in Sicily and in 1910s New York; and follows Michael Corleone in the 1950s as he attempts to expand the family business into Las Vegas, Hollywood and Cuba.
Actors
Don Michael CorleoneAl Pacino
Tom HagenRobert Duvall
Kay CorleoneDiane Keaton
Also posted in 1974, Drama, High IMDB rating, Thriller | Comments (1)

We Own the Night

IMDB Rating: 7.40
4662 votes

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A New York nightclub manager tries to save his brother and father from Russian mafia hit men.
Actors
Robert 'Bobby' GreenJoaquin Phoenix
Amada JuarezEva Mendes
Capt. Joseph 'Joe' GrusinskyMark Wahlberg
Also posted in 2007, Crime, Drama, High IMDB rating, Thriller | Comments (0)

My Cousin Vinny

IMDB Rating: 7.20
18546 votes

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While heading for college, Bill and Stan are arrested in Alabama when circumstances point to them as having murdered a convenience store clerk. Unable to afford an attorney, they turn to Bill's cousin Vinny, a brash New Yorker who took six tries to pass his bar exam. Worse, until now he's only taken personal injury cases, none of which have gone to trial. Dragging along his even more abrasive fiancee Mona Lisa Vito, Vinny will have to straighten up fast, and keep out of jail himself, if he's going to win the case.
Actors
Vincent 'Vinny' GambiniJoe Pesci
William 'Billy' GambiniRalph Macchio
Mona Lisa VitoMarisa Tomei
Also posted in 1992, Comedy, Crime, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)

The Firm

IMDB Rating: 6.60
24382 votes

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Mitch McDeere is a young man with a promising future in Law. About to sit his Bar exam, he is approached by 'The Firm' and made an offer he doesn't refuse. Seduced by the money and gifts showered on him, he is totally oblivious to the more sinister side of his company. Then, two Associates are murdered. The FBI contact him, asking him for information and suddenly his life is ruined. He has a choice - work with the FBI, or stay with the Firm. Either way he will lose his life as he knows it. Mitch figures the only way out is to follow his own plan...
Actors
Mitch McDeereTom Cruise
Abby McDeereJeanne Tripplehorn
Avery TolarGene Hackman
Also posted in 1993, Drama, High IMDB rating, Thriller | Comments (0)
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