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1) Rififi
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2001
Language
Français
Description
A story of a successful jewel robbery in which the four thieves betray each other.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Italiano
Description
Referenced in Tarantino's Kill Bill Vol. 2, Uomini Si Nasce Poliziotti Si Muore (Live like a cop, die like a man, 1976) opens with an insane motorcycle chase that was filmed in rush hour in downtown Rome with no permission from the local authorities. To top it off, this is one of the most violent and unconventional Italian style action films of its time. The credit goes to the director, Ruggero Deodato, best known for his infamous and censored film...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
A wild throwback to '70s grindhouse movies, Modus operandi is shockingly violent and even more entertaining. Director Frankie Latina took four years to direct this lovingly constructed ode to disreputable genre flicks, all of it shot in his hometown of Milwaukee. He mashes together Blaxploitation, gore, Italian giallo, Japanese gangster flicks and much more into an irresistible guilty pleasure.
Series
Criterion collection volume 38
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
日本語
Description
The number-three ranked killer in the Tokyo underworld carries out three hits, but bungles a fourth. Then both the women in his life try to kill him. The next thing he knows, he is playing a cat-and-mouse game with the very dangerous No. 1 killer...
Series
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
200-]
Language
English
Description
The hapless Roger Rabbit is framed for the murder of Marvin Acme, who was photographed "playing patticake" with Roger's wife Jessica. The mixed live and animated action takes place in Hollywood and next-door "Toontown," where humans and "Toons" co-exist.
Publisher
Image Entertainment [distributor]
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
Discouraged by his superior officers, but helped by a ganster's former girl friend, a dedicated detective lieutenant doggedly continues his investigation to obtain evidence that would convict the head gangster of a crime syndicate.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Italiano
Description
Fernando Di Leo was a prolific filmmaker who explored the political extremism and mafia corruption in Italy during the 1970's. Master of garish, intricately plotted, ultra-violent stories about pimps and petty gangsters, Di Leo has perfected the genre with an uncanny accuracy. Di Leo's films demonstrate the degradation of the working classes and how the mafia corrupted them. Though he slipped out of public consciousness after his death in 2003, his...
9) Scarface
Publisher
Universal Home Video
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
Inspired by the 1932 classic of the same title, Scarface follows the violent career of a smalltime Cuban refugee hoodlum who guns his way to the top of Miami's cocaine empire.
10) Nueve reinas
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
Español
Description
Two small-time grifters team up to pull off a big-time score involving a set of valuable counterfeit stamps known as the Nine Queens.
Dos estafadores menores se juntan para llevar a cabo un crimen de primera línea que implica una colección de valiosos sellos postales falsos, llamados las Nueve Reinas.
Publisher
Vina Distributor
Pub. Date
[200-]
Language
English
Description
Steve McQueen plays a football hero who fatefully ends up with career criminals planning a bank robbery. No single gang member trusts the other, which proves fatal when the heist goes bad! Actual St. Louis police officers play themselves in the same respective roles of the true story.
12) Tokyo drifter
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
日本語
Description
A gangster is hunted by rival mobsters and his own bosses.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
The Young Savages is set in an East Harlem mired in racial tension and gang violence. While prosecuting the three Italian teens who murdered a 15-year-old blind Puerto Rican boy from a rival gang, Assistant D.A. Hank Bell learns that there's more to this case than meets the eye.
14) Spies
Author
Publisher
Whirlwind Media
Pub. Date
2000
Language
Deutsch
Description
Spies: First "modern" spy film. A power-hungry banker with many disguises marshals his forces to steal the secrets of an important treaty. -- M: Perhaps the greatest example of German expressionism on the screen. Drama, social commentary, satire, and an anatomy of a crime are some of the elements of this dark masterpiece. Peter Lorre plays a psychopathic killer of children who successfully evades police but is eventually confronted by the code...
15) The sting
Language
English
Formats
Description
Two con men in 1930s Chicago, after a friend is killed by the mob, try to get even by attempting to pull off the ultimate 'sting.' No one is to be trusted as the twists unfold, leading up to one of the greatest double-crosses in movie history.
16) The untouchables
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
The story of the glorious, fierce, larger-than-life depiction of mob warlord Al Capone who ruled Prohibition-era Chicago ... and Eliot Ness, the law enforcer, who vowed to bring him down. A classic confrontation between good and evil, and how with the help of a cop named Malone, Ness learns how to beat the mob by shooting fast and shooting first.
17) La balance
Series
Publisher
Home Vision Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
Français
Description
When a police informant is gunned down, a determined vice cop must recruit a new stool pigeon--one that can finally take down the unassailable mob boss. The line between the cops and gangsters becomes blurred as Dédé, a charismatic pimp, is forced to 'rat out' his former boss and nemesis, the elusive Massina.
18) Blood out
Publisher
Lions Gate Films
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
When big-city detectives refuse to further investigate his kid brother's gang-related murder, small-town Sheriff Michael Spencer drops the badge and goes undercover to find his brother's killer and avenge his death.
Series
Criterion collection volume 254
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
A small-time Los Angeles night club owner falls for a lavish invitation to gamble at a private club.
20) The big heat
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
An honest police sergeant risks his life and his job when his investigations lead to the exposure of the crime syndicate that controls the city administration.
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