Tag Archives: organized crime

Tango & Cash

IMDB Rating: 5.40
9008 votes

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Ray Tango is a Los Angeles narcotics cop who dresses in fancy suits, wears wire-rim glasses, and talks to his stockbroker more than he talks to his mother. Gabriel Cash is a Los Angeles narcotics cop who has long, disheveled hair, and dresses in worn-out sweatshirts. Even though they are rivals, Tango and Cash are the two best narcs in LA, which infuriates drug kingpin Yves Perret. Perret wants Tango and Cash out of the way, so Perret frames them for the murder of an undercover FBI agent. Perret's plan is to have Tango and Cash killed in prison in order to avoid risking all-out war with the LAPD. But Tango and Cash accept a plea bargain that will give them 18 months in a minimum-security prison, then Perret arranges for their destination to be diverted to a maximum-security prison where Perret's minions proceed to torture Tango and Cash. Tango and Cash are forced to work together in a spectacular escape from the prison. After the escape, Tango and Cash set out to prove their innocence, and Cash has a romance with Tango's sister Catherine "kiki" Tango.
Actors
Raymond 'Ray' TangoSylvester Stallone
Gabriel 'Gabe' CashKurt Russell
Katherine 'Kiki' TangoTeri Hatcher
Also posted in 1989, Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller | Comments (0)

Midnight Run

IMDB Rating: 7.40
10507 votes

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Jack Walsh is a former cop from Chicago, who was framed by criminal he was investigating and about to arrest. He is now a bounty hunter based in Los Angeles. His boss wants him to find, Jonathan "The Duke" Mardukas, an accountant, who was working for Las Vegas mobster, who stole millions of dollars from him and gave it away. His boss was the one who bailed him out, and now unless he can get him back in L.A. in the next 5 days, he will forfeit the bond and be placed out of business. So he sends Jack to get him, which is Midnight Run or easy job in the bail bond business. Except for the fact that the man The Duke stole the money from, wants to get him, and he is also the same man who framed Jack. And also the FBI wants to get Mardukas so that they can use him to get his boss, so they warn Walsh not to get in their way. But Walsh nevertheless finds The Duke and is about bring him back but when Mardukas claims that he has difficulty with flying the airline throws them out of the plane, so they have to go back on the road. When Walsh's boss, learns that he didn't arrive when he was suppose to, he sends another bounty hunter, Marvin, who is Jack's greatest adversary, to get Mardukas. And when Marvin cancels Walsh's card, they don't have enough funds to make it all the way, so they have to scrape everything they have. And it doesn't help that Mardukas is doing everything he can to escape, cause he says that his former boss can get him even in jail.
Actors
Jack WalshRobert De Niro
Jonathan MardukasCharles Grodin
FBI Agent Alonzo MoselyYaphet Kotto
Also posted in 1988, Action, Adventure, Comedy, High IMDB rating, Thriller | Comments (0)

No Mercy

IMDB Rating: 5.30
1568 votes

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Maverick Chicago cop Eddie Jillette poses as a hit man to meet with someone in from New Orleans looking to have a job done. The result is that both the guy and Jillette's partner wind up very dead, while a stunning blonde in on the setup disappears. He heads south to settle the score and soon finds himself being hunted, with the girl in tow and the local police anything but happy. New Orleans may never be the same again.
Actors
Eddie JilletteRichard Gere
Michel DuvalKim Basinger
LosadoJeroen Krabbé
Also posted in 1986, Action, Crime, Thriller | Comments (0)

Scarface

IMDB Rating: 8.00
38403 votes

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When Castro opened the port at Mariel Harbor, thousands of Cubans fled to the United States. One is a young tough named Antonio (Tony) Montana, who, with his friend Manny Ray, starts in with Miami's cocaine trade. He survives attack by chainsaw after a deal goes bad, and several other attempts by other dealers to eliminate him. Eventually the grandiose Montana becomes head of a cocaine cartel. But his enemies start coming after him, and his paranoia threatens to drive Montana's empire into the ground...
Actors
Tony MontanaAl Pacino
Manny RiberaSteven Bauer
ElviraMichelle Pfeiffer
Also posted in 1983, Action, Crime, Drama, High IMDB rating, Thriller | Comments (0)

Once Upon a Time in America

IMDB Rating: 8.20
23571 votes

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Epic, episodic, tale of the lives of a small group of New York City Jewish gangsters spanning over 40 years. Told mostly in flashbacks and flash-forwards, the movie centers on small-time hood David 'Noodles' Aaronson (Robert De Nero) and his lifelong partners in crime; Max (James Woods), Cockeye (William Forsythe) and Patsy (James Hayden) and their friends from growing up in the rough Jewish neighborhood of New York's Lower East Side in the 1920s, to the last years of Prohibition in the early 1930s, and then to the late 1960s where an elderly Noodles returns to New York after many years in hiding to look into the past.
Actors
David 'Noodles' AaronsonRobert De Niro
Maximilian 'Max' BercoviczJames Woods
Deborah GellyElizabeth McGovern
Also posted in 1984, Crime, Drama, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)

The King of Marvin Gardens

IMDB Rating: 6.30
628 votes

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'It's Monopoly out there'. Jason Staebler, The King of Marvin Gardens, has gone directly to jail, lives on the Boardwalk and fronts for the local mob in Atlantic City. He is also a dreamer who asks his brother, David, a radio personality from Philadelphia to help him build a paradise on a Pacific Island - asking him to believe in yet another of his dreams, yet another of his get-rich-quick schemes. But luck is against them both and the game ends badly - real life reduced to radio drama.
Actors
David StaeblerJack Nicholson
Jason StaeblerBruce Dern
SallyEllen Burstyn
Also posted in 1972, Crime, Drama, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)

The Godfather

IMDB Rating: 9.10
148964 votes

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The story begins as "Don" Vito Corleone, the head of a New York Mafia "family", oversees his daughter's wedding. His beloved son Michael has just come home from the war, but does not intend to become part of his father's business. Through Michael's life the nature of the family business becomes clear. The business of the family is just like the head of the family, kind and benevolent to those who give respect, but given to ruthless violence whenever anything stands against the good of the family. Don Vito lives his life in the way of the old country, but times are changing and some don't want to follow the old ways and look out for community and "family". An up and coming rival of the Corleone family wants to start selling drugs in New York, and needs the Don's influence to further his plan. The clash of the Don's fading old world values and the new ways will demand a terrible price, especially from Michael, all for the sake of the family.
Actors
Don Vito CorleoneMarlon Brando
Michael CorleoneAl Pacino
Santino 'Sonny' CorleoneJames Caan
Also posted in 1972, Crime, Drama, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)

007 On Her Majesty’s Secret Service

IMDB Rating: 6.80
8464 votes

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The most emotional adventure of his career begins for James Bond on a deserted beach where a young woman tries to drown herself. He rescues the girl and for his trouble is attacked by two toughs - the girl's bodyguards. It soon becomes much bigger for 007 - the girl is Teresa Draco, daughter of crime boss Marc Ange Draco, who wants James to marry his wayward daughter, and in return he can provide 007 with information on an even more dangerous criminal leader - Ernst Stavro Bloefeld of SPECTRE. But both James and Teresa find more than they ever bargained for when their paths collide in a vicious pursuit in the snow-capped mountains of Switzerland, an enormous avalanche, and a smuggling ring for germ warfare against the West by Blofeld, who proves most difficult to kill and who exacts a revenge that James can never forget - or forgive.
Actors
Commander James Bond, Agent 007George Lazenby
Contessa Teresa 'Tracy' Di VicenzoDiana Rigg
Ernst Stavro BlofeldTelly Savalas
Also posted in 1969, Action, Adventure, High IMDB rating, Romance, Thriller | Comments (0)

007 Diamonds Are Forever

IMDB Rating: 6.60
10216 votes

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When Bond investigates mysterious activities in the world diamond market, he discovers that the evil Ernst Blofeld (Charles Gray) is stockpiling the precious gems to use in a deadly laser satellite capable of destroying massive targets on land, sea and air. Bond, with the help of beautiful smuggler Tiffany Case (Jill St. John), sets out to stop the madman, but first he must grapple with a host of enemies. He confronts offbeat assassins Mr. Wint and Mr. Kidd, as well as Bambi and Thumper--two scantily-clad beauties who are more than a match for Bond in hand-to-hand combat! Finally, there's the reclusive billionaire Willard Whyte (Jimmy Dean), who may just hold a vital clue to Blofeld's whereabouts.
Actors
James BondSean Connery
Tiffany CaseJill St. John
Ernst Stavro BlofeldCharles Gray
Also posted in 1971, Action, Adventure, High IMDB rating, Sci-Fi, Thriller | Comments (0)

007 Goldfinger

IMDB Rating: 7.80
22340 votes

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The powerful tycoon Auric Goldfinger (Gert Frobe) has initiated "Operation Grand Slam," a cataclysmic scheme to raid Fort Knox and obliterate the world economy. James Bond, armed with his specially equipped Aston Martin (its accessory package includes built-in machine guns, a smoke screen and an ejector seat), must stop the plan by overcoming several outrageous adversaries. First there's Oddjob (Harold Sakata), the mute servant who kills at the toss of a lethal hat; next, the beautiful Jill Masterson (Shirley Eaton), who gives new meaning to the phrase "golden girl"; and finally, sexy pilot Pussy Galore (Honor Blackman), whose romantic feelings for Bond complicate her involvement in Goldfinger's high-flying scheme.
Actors
James BondSean Connery
Pussy GaloreHonor Blackman
Auric GoldfingerGert Fröbe
Also posted in 1964, Action, Adventure, High IMDB rating, Thriller | Comments (0)
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