Posts Tagged ‘organized-crime’

Untouchables, The (1987)

Friday, September 26th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | History | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Costner, Kevin | Connery, Sean | Smith, Charles Martin | Garcia, Andy | De Niro, Robert | Bradford, Richard | Kehoe, Jack | Sullivan, Brad | Drago, Billy | Clarkson, Patricia | D'Ambrosio, Vito | Goldstein, Steven | Aylward, Peter | Harvey, Don | Swan, Robert
Directors: De Palma, Brian
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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_.

007 GoldenEye (1995)

Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Thriller
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Brosnan, Pierce | Bean, Sean | Scorupco, Izabella | Janssen, Famke | Baker, Joe Don | Dench, Judi | John, Gottfried | Coltrane, Robbie | Cumming, Alan | Karyo, Tchéky | Llewelyn, Desmond | Bond, Samantha | Kitchen, Michael | Gordon, Serena | Kunz, Simon
Directors: Campbell, Martin
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James Bond has a mission to recover the ‘Goldeneye’ access key. A Russian computer programmer called Natalya Siminova survives a murder spree by Xenia Onatopp and General Ourumov. Bond must work with Natalya to find this key and uncovers a sinister secret. His fellow agent, Alec Trevelyan who was believed to have been shot and killed 9 years ago re-surfaces. Bond soon realizes that Trevelyan is behind everything. Bond must now battle his former friend, in order to stop him from destroying London with the Goldeneye satellite.

Marked for Death (1990)

Thursday, August 28th, 2008
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Seagal, Steven | Wallace, Basil | David, Keith | Wright, Tom | Pacula, Joanna | Gracen, Elizabeth | Ford, Bette | Harris, Danielle | Israel, Al | Snyder, Arlen Dean | Romero Evans, Victor | Michael, Ralph | Anderson-Gunter, Jeffrey | DiBenedetto, Tony | Dunn, Kevin
Directors: Dwight H. Little
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Chicago DEA agent John Hatcher has just returned from Colombia, where his partner was killed in the line of duty by a drug dealer who has since been taken down. As a result of his partner’s death, John has decided to retire, but his retirement may not be permanent. On the next day, after reuniting with his sister Melissa and Melissa’s daughter Tracy, John gets into a shootout against a Jamaican drug kingpin known as Screwface, taking down some of Screwface’s men. John brings himself out of retirement when Screwface retaliates by attempting to kill Melissa and Tracy. After the shooting, John is reunited with two old friends - a local high school football coach named Max, and a Jamaican Chicago cop named Charles. John and Max set out to hunt Screwface down, only to discover that Screwface has gone back to Jamaica. John and Max take Charles with them to Jamaica for an all out war against Screwface and his drug empire.

007 Thunderball (1965)

Wednesday, August 6th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Thriller
Countries: UK
Actors: Connery, Sean | Celi, Adolfo | Van Nutter, Rik | Doleman, Guy | Lee, Bernard | Llewelyn, Desmond | Culver, Roland | Cameron, Earl | Stassino, Paul | Locke, Philip | Pravda, George | Brennan, Michael | Sachs, Leonard | Underdown, Edward | Beckwith, Reginald
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When two colleagues of James Bond are murdered, James follows the widow of a double agent who has been killed - and a confrontation ensues. The double agent is part of SPECTRE, and the organization’s meeting in a secret lair in Paris regrets the agent’s passing as it deals with new criminal business. Emilio Largo, a ruthless and flamboyant one-eyed enforcer, has hatched a scheme against the North Atlantic Treaty powers that begins at a rehabilitation clinic near an RAF airbase. Scheduled to pilot an RAF Vulcan strategic bomber on a normal “fail-safe” flight is Francois Derval, who is having a passionate affair with the magnificently endowed beauty Fiona Volpe - an affair that SPECTRE exploits. Soon, the Vulcan and its warload of two nuclear bombs has been hijacked, the bombs seized by Largo, for use in SPECTRE’s most audacious extortion scheme yet. James Bond, however, finds a key clue in the sister of Francois Derval, Dominique “Domino” Derval, a beautiful young woman who is a passionate scuba-diver living in Nassau. When James investigates Domino, he comes into contact with a SPECTRE operation on the island, and he gets help from HMSS’ man in Nassau, Pinder, and in old CIA chum Felix Leiter. But when James and Felix find out what SPECTRE is up to, it may be to late to save a major US coastal city from nuclear annihilation.

007 From Russia with Love (1963)

Wednesday, August 6th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Thriller
Countries: UK
Actors: Connery, Sean | Bianchi, Daniela | Armendáriz, Pedro | Lenya, Lotte | Shaw, Robert | Lee, Bernard | Gayson, Eunice | Gotell, Walter | De Wolff, Francis | Pastell, George | Regin, Nadja | Maxwell, Lois | Gur, Aliza | Beswick, Martine | Sheybal, Vladek
Directors: Young, Terence
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James Bond 007 is on the search for a Russian decoding machine, known as Lektor. Bond needs to find this machine, before the evil SPECTRE organization discovers it first. Whilst being romantically linked with Russian girl, Tatiana Romanova, Bond sneaks his way around Istanbul, whilst each SPECTRE agent tries to pick him off, including the over powering Donald ‘Red’ Grant and ex-KGB agent Rosa Klebb who knows all the tricks in the books and even possesses an incredible poison tipped shoe!

Last Dragon, The (1985)

Monday, August 4th, 2008
Genres: Action | Comedy | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Taimak | Murney, Christopher | Carry, Julius | O'Brien, Leo | Starr, Mike | Moody, Jim | Eaton, Glen | Reyes Jr., Ernie | Campbell, Roger | Mason, Jamal | Barie, B.J. | Russo, Sal | Palminteri, Chazz | Renzulli, Frank | Mathis, Torrance
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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.

Sudden Impact (1983)

Tuesday, July 15th, 2008
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Eastwood, Clint | Hingle, Pat | Dillman, Bradford | Drake, Paul | Thibeau, Jack | Currie, Michael | Popwell, Albert | Keyloun, Mark | Howard, Kevyn Major | Bellan, Joe | Wellman, Wendell | McCubbin, Russ | Sutton, Robert | Argenziano, Carmen | Reddick, Bill
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After destroying a case involving a crime lord, Harry Callahan is sent down to San Paulo to investigate the killing of a man found dead in a car. Jennifer (the killer of the man in the car) is murdering all the rapists who brutally raped both her and her sister 10 years ago, and she has returned to San Paulo to exact her revenge. Harry becomes inadvertently involved in Jennifer’s own troubles during his investigations, all the while not suspecting she is the killer.

Magnum Force (1973)

Tuesday, July 8th, 2008
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Eastwood, Clint | Holbrook, Hal | Mitchell, Ryan | Soul, David | Matheson, Tim | Niven, Kip | Urich, Robert | Perry, Felton | Argent, Maurice | Avery, Margaret | Devon, Richard | Giorgio, Tony | Kosslyn, Jack | March, Bob | McClurg, Bob
Directors: Post, Ted
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San Francisco Police Inspector ‘Dirty’ Harry Callahan and his new partner, Early Smith have been temporarily reassigned from Homicide to Stakeout Duty. Meanwhile, those of the city’s criminals who manage to avoid punishment by the courts are nevertheless being killed by unknown assassins. Callahan begins to investigate the murders despite the orders of his superior officer, Lieutenant Briggs. A man has to know his limitations…

New Jack City (1991)

Thursday, May 29th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Snipes, Wesley | Ice-T | Payne, Allen | Rock, Chris | Michele, Michael | Nunn, Bill | Wong, Russell | Cobbs, Bill | Williams, Christopher | Nelson, Judd | Williams, Vanessa | Johns, Tracy Camilla | DeSando, Anthony | Ashford, Nick
Directors: Van Peebles, Mario
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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.

True Romance (1993)

Monday, May 26th, 2008
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Romance | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Slater, Christian | Arquette, Patricia | Rapaport, Michael | Kilmer, Val | Pinchot, Bronson | Hopper, Dennis | Oldman, Gary | Pitt, Brad | Sizemore, Tom | Walken, Christopher | Jackson, Samuel L. | Rubinek, Saul | Gandolfini, James | Argo, Victor | Adonis, Frank
Directors: Scott, Tony
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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.