Tag Archives: mafia

The Dark Knight

IMDB Rating: 9.10
291048 votes

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Right after taking out Ra's Al Ghul's plan and the mysterious disappearance of Dr. Jonathan Crane AKA Scarecrow, Batman continues his seemingly-endless effort to bring justice to Gotham's crime and corrupt with the help of Lt. James Gordon and new appointed District Attorney Harvey Dent. But this time, The Dark Knight faces a rising psychopathic criminal called The Joker, who's eerie grin makes him more dangerous than what he has yet to unleash. It becomes an agenda to both enemies that only one of them remains and are willing to break every part of what they believe in to stop the other.
Actors
Bruce Wayne/BatmanChristian Bale
Alfred PennyworthMichael Caine
The JokerHeath Ledger
Also posted in 2008, Action, Crime, Drama, High IMDB rating, Mystery, Thriller | Comments (0)

Carlito’s Way

IMDB Rating: 7.80
34866 votes

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Carlito Brigante is released from jail after serving five years of a much longer stretch. He vows to go straight and to live life as a fine, upstanding citizen. He even rekindles a romance with his ex-lover. However, Carlito's associates cannot seem to leave him in peace...his nephew involves him a pool-room gunfight, his lawyer asks him for "favours" which spiral out of control, and even an old friend (now a wheelchair bound paraplegic) tries to get him into trouble with the law. Carlito decides to make a run for Florida and the promise of a new life, but has one final dramatic escape to make from some hoods who believe (wrongly) that he was behind the murder of their boss.
Actors
Carlito 'Charlie' BriganteAl Pacino
David KleinfeldSean Penn
GailPenelope Ann Miller
Also posted in 1993, Crime, Drama, High IMDB rating, Thriller | Comments (0)

Mobsters

IMDB Rating: 5.40
2458 votes

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The story of a group of friends in turn of the century New York, from their early days as street hoods to their rise in the world of organized crime. As their crime empire expands, they have to deal with many problems, including their own differing opinions on how to run their business, the local Godfather, and the psychotic Mad Dog Coll.
Actors
Charlie 'Lucky' LucianoChristian Slater
Frank CostelloCostas Mandylor
Bugsy SiegelRichard Grieco
Also posted in 1991, Crime, Drama | Comments (0)

The Untouchables

IMDB Rating: 7.90
62716 votes

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Federal agent Elliot Ness assembles a personal team of mob fighters to bring Chicago crime boss Al Capone to justice using unconventional means during the mob wars of the 1920s. This fictionalized account of the arrest of Al Capone is heavy on style and gunfire. The end shootout combines a baby carriage and stairs with a nod to Eisenstein's _The Battleship Potemkin_.
Actors
Eliot NessKevin Costner
Jim MaloneSean Connery
Agent Oscar WallaceCharles Martin Smith
Also posted in 1987, Crime, Drama, High IMDB rating, History, Thriller | Comments (0)

Leaving Las Vegas

IMDB Rating: 7.50
25455 votes

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 Actors
Ben SandersonNicolas Cage
SeraElisabeth Shue
YuriJulian Sands
Also posted in 1995, Drama, High IMDB rating, Romance | Comments (0)

The Last Dragon

IMDB Rating: 6.10
3001 votes

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A young man searches for the "master" to obtain the final level of martial arts mastery known as the glow. Along the way he must fight an evil martial arts expert and an rescue a beautiful singer from an obsessed music promoter.
Actors
Leroy GreenTaimak
Eddie ArkadianChristopher Murney
Sho'nuff/The Shogun of HarlemJulius Carry
Also posted in 1985, Action, Comedy, Drama, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)

The Dead Pool

IMDB Rating: 5.90
7817 votes

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After Harry's arrest of a gambling kingpin results in a conviction for murder, a group of thugs shoot up Harry's car and try to kill him. Harry overpowers them and is paired with a new partner, Insp. Al Quan (Evan Kim). Within days of this assignment Harry and Al find themselves working on a mysterious death of a rock star, who was on location filming a movie directed by Peter Swan (Liam Neeson). After one of Swan's crew is killed in a Chinatown robbery that is foiled by Al & Harry, Al discovers a list of celebrities on the dead man that includes the dead rock star and one Inspector Harry Callahan. They soon discover that this is part of a strange game called the Dead Pool, and it isn't long before other people on the list turn up dead...and someone starts making attempts on Harry's life...
Actors
Insp. 'Dirty' Harry CallahanClint Eastwood
Peter SwanLiam Neeson
Insp. Al QuanEvan C. Kim
Also posted in 1988, Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller | Comments (0)

The Art of War

IMDB Rating: 5.50
9275 votes

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Shaw is an operative for the United Nations' covert dirty-tricks squad, using espionage and quasi-ethical tactics to secure peace and cooperation. When a shipping container full of dead Vietnamese refugees turns up on the docks and China's ambassador is gunned down at a dinner celebrating a new trade agreement with China and the US, Shaw is framed for the murder and must evade the FBI and Triad gangsters to find out what is really going on.
Actors
Hong Kong ReporterErin Selby
Tina ChanUni Park
AnnaBonnie Mak
Also posted in 2000, Action, Thriller | Comments (0)

The Jackal

IMDB Rating: 5.90
25332 votes

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Russian mobster Terek Murad has declared open season on the Russian militia and the FBI over the shooting of his brother in a Moscow nightclub. He hires the Jackal, a nasty assassin whom nobody has even seen, to kill the Director of the FBI. With nowhere else to turn (except a woman who used to work with the Basque separatists, who is now in the USA but whose exact whereabouts in unknown to all save Mulqueen), FBI Deputy Director Carter Preston (who was present at the Moscow shooting) and Major Valentina Koslova of the Russian milita (who pulled the trigger in that shooting) enlist the reluctant services of Declan Mulqueen, an imprisoned IRA sniper, to track the Jackal down, for Declan is the only other person who can positively identify the Jackal.
Actors
George DeckerSteve Bassett
Terek MuradDavid Hayman
Jamaican GirlSophie Okonedo
Also posted in 1997, Action, Adventure, Crime, Thriller | Comments (0)

New Jack City

IMDB Rating: 6.10
6572 votes

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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.
Actors
Nino BrownWesley Snipes
Scotty AppletonIce-T
Gee MoneyAllen Payne
Also posted in 1991, Crime, Drama, High IMDB rating, Thriller | Comments (0)
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