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Publisher
New Line Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Billy, Trevor and Andy are three friends from a wealthy suburb who have everything they've ever wanted, except respect. When they discover the "small-time hustle" and the respect it commands on the street, they soon realize the games they once played as friends now have deadly consequences and the price of success is betrayal.
5) Snatch
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2003.
Language
English
Description
A diamond heist gone haywire launches gangster, bookies and a dog on a rollicking ride through the rugged world of bare-knuckle boxing in search of the missing stone.
6) Oscar
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
Angelo Provolone promised his dying father that he would leave the world of organized crime and become a legitimate business man, but it is proving harder than he imagined.
7) Pulp fiction
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
A couple of low rent hit men, a fighter forced to throw a fight, the wife of a mobster, and two robbers all find redemption.
8) Gloria
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2003.
Language
English
Description
Ex-mob mistress goes on the lam with a young nieghbor-boy after gangland hit-men wipe out his parents.
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...
10) The hit
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Formats
Description
In London in 1973, Willie Parker betrayed his friends. Ten years later he is violently snatched from his tranquil village retreat by hit men who are surprised to find out they have a completely willing victim on their hands.
12) The chase
Publisher
Alpha Video
Pub. Date
c2003.
Language
English
Description
A "film noir" set in Miami and Cuba. A rich gangster and his bodyguard try to kill the ganster's chauffeur who manages to escape with his life and the gangster's wife.
13) Modus operandi
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.
14) Mean streets
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c1998.
Language
English
Description
A film about a cheap, small-time hood working his way up the bottom rungs of the Mafia ladder.
15) Animal kingdom
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
After his mother dies, seventeen-year-old Josh goes to live with his closest relatives who happen to be the notorious Cody gang and ends up in the middle of a murder plot, forced to choose between family loyalty and the police.
16) Bugsy Malone
Publisher
Cine Video
Pub. Date
[200?]
Language
English
Description
In this unique mobster film, all of the gangsters are children. Bugsy Malone determines to rule over New York City and battles with "Fat Sam" and "Dandy Dan." Instead of using bullets, they shoot whipped cream to bury their enemies.
17) Sexy beast
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2001.
Language
English
Description
High voltage crime thriller that crackles with chilling style and wit. A savage gangster named Don Logan is met with resistance when he tries to recruit a retired pal for "one last job". But Logan just won't take no for an answer.
18) The big heat
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
c2001.
Language
English
Description
Police sergeant Bannion is investigating the apparent suicide of a corrupt cop, then is suddenly ordered to stop--and the Big Heat is on. Driven to unravel the mystery, Bannion continues probing until an explosion meant for him, kills his wife. He resigns from the force and soon learns that behind it all is the powerful underworld led by Mike Lagana and his cold-blooded henchman, Vince Stone. When Stone's girl Debby makes a play for Bannion, Stone...
19) Woman on the run
Publisher
Alpha Video
Pub. Date
c2005.
Language
English
Description
Convincing story of a wife trying to find her husband, who is a witness to a gangland murder, before the underworld does.
20) Things change
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
c2000.
Language
English
Description
Ameche, a shoeshiner, is treated like royalty when he and his guard go to Lake Tahoe for a last fling before he is supposed to go to jail in place of a mobster kingpin.
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