Posts Tagged ‘crime-boss’

Crow, The (1994)

Sunday, February 10th, 2008
Genres: Action | Crime | Fantasy | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Lee, Brandon | Davis, Rochelle | Hudson, Ernie | Wincott, Michael | Bai, Ling | Shinas, Sofia | Levine, Anna | Kelly, David Patrick | David, Angel | Mason, Laurence | Massee, Michael | Todd, Tony | Polito, Jon | Raymond, Bill | Rodríguez, Marco
Directors: Proyas, Alex
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A poetic guitarist Eric Draven is brought back to life by a crow a year after he and his fiancée are murdered. The crow guides him through the land of the living, and leads him to his killers: knife thrower Tin-tin, drugetic Funboy, car buff T-Bird, and the unsophisticated Skank. One by one, Eric gives these thugs a taste of their own medicine. However their leader Top-Dollar, a world-class crime lord who will dispatch his enemies with a Japanese sword and joke about it later, will soon learn the legend of the crow and the secret to the vigilante’s invincibility.

After the Sunset (2004)

Sunday, October 21st, 2007
Genres: Action | Comedy | Crime
Countries: USA
Actors: Brosnan, Pierce | Hayek, Salma | Harrelson, Woody | Cheadle, Don | Harris, Naomie | Penn, Chris | Williamson, Mykelti | Garity, Troy | Babatundé, Obba | Hornsby, Russell | Linn, Rex | Curtis-Brown, Robert | Moses, Mark | Bowen, Michael | Ledard, Tony
Directors: Ratner, Brett
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After a successful last score, a master thief retires to an island paradise. His lifelong nemesis, a crafty FBI agent, washes ashore to ensure he’s making good on his promise. The pair soon enters into a new game of cat-and-mouse.

Kiss of the Dragon (2001)

Monday, October 1st, 2007
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: France | USA
Actors: Li, Jet | Fonda, Bridget | Karyo, Tchéky | Young, Ric | Ryan, Max | Kwouk, Burt | Laurence, Ashley | Raffaelli, Cyril | Azoulay, Didier | Forgeham, John | Barrett, Paul | Prince, Colin | Glo, Vincent | Wong, Vincent | Kentaro
Directors: Nahon, Chris
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Liu Jian, a police officer from China, comes to Paris to help the vice squad apprehend a Chinese drug lord and his unknown French connection. The French connection is Richard, the head of the vice squad, who intends to kill the drug lord then frame Jian. Jian ducks a bullet and escapes with a tape of what really happened. By chance, Jian turns to Jessica - a US farm girl who is one of Richard’s hookers - for help. She has her own problems, including the fact that Richard has her daughter locked in an orphanage to keep Jessica on the streets and silent about his activities. Can Jian protect Jessica, rescue her daughter, and give Richard the kiss of the dragon?

Gone in Sixty Seconds (2000)

Tuesday, May 8th, 2007
Genres: Action | Crime | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Fisher, Frances | Cage, Nicolas | Ribisi, Giovanni | Jolie, Angelina | Cross, T.J. | Scott, William Lee | Caan, Scott | Duval, James | Patton, Will | Lindo, Delroy | Olyphant, Timothy | McBride, Chi | Duvall, Robert | Eccleston, Christopher | Jones, Vinnie | Zabriskie, Grace
Directors: Sena, Dominic
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Car theft in Long Beach went down 47% when Randall “Memphis” Raines walked away from the life. He gets dragged back into it by assuming the job his brother Kip screwed up for stolen-car broker Raymond Calitri: steal 50 exotic cars and have them on a container ship by 8 AM Friday morning, and he got this news on a Monday. With Calitri threatening to kill him and Kip, and the police GRAB unit breathing down his neck, Memphis reassembles his old crew and attempts to pull off the logistically impossible.

Batman Begins (2005)

Friday, May 4th, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Crime | Fantasy | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Bale, Christian | Caine, Michael | Neeson, Liam | Holmes, Katie | Oldman, Gary | Murphy, Cillian | Wilkinson, Tom | Hauer, Rutger | Watanabe, Ken | Boone Junior, Mark | Roache, Linus | Freeman, Morgan | Holden, Larry | Murphy, Gerard | McFarlane, Colin
Directors: Nolan, Christopher
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In tone with the early “Batman: Year One” style comics. As a boy a young Bruce Wayne watched in horror as his millionaire parents were slain in front of his eyes, a trauma which led him to become obsessed with revenge but his chance is cruelly taken away from him by fate. After disappearing to the East where he seeks counsel with the dangerous but honorable ninja cult leader known as Ra’s Al-Ghul, he returns to his now decaying Gotham City overrun by organized crime and dangerous individuals manipulating the system whilst the company he inherited is slowly being pulled out from under him. The discovery of a cave under his mansion, and a prototype armored suit leads him to take on a new persona, one which will strike fear into the hearts of men who do wrong - he becomes, Batman. In the new guise, and with the help of rising cop Jim Gordon, Batman sets out to take down the various nefarious schemes in motion by individuals such as mafia don Falcone, the twisted doctor/drug dealer Jonathan ‘The Scarecrow’ Crane, and a mysterious third party that is quite familiar with Wayne and waiting to strike when the time is right.

Shark Tale (2004)

Friday, May 4th, 2007
Genres: Animation | Comedy | Family
Countries: USA
Actors: Smith, Will | De Niro, Robert | Zellweger, Renée | Black, Jack | Jolie, Angelina | Scorsese, Martin | Marley, Ziggy | Doug, Doug E. | Imperioli, Michael | Pastore, Vincent | Falk, Peter | Couric, Katie | Soren, David | Smith, David P. | Thompson, Bobb'e J.
Directors: Jenson, Vicky | Bergeron, Bibo | Letterman, Rob
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The sea underworld is shaken up when the son of the shark mob boss is found dead and a young fish named Oscar is found at the scene. Being a bottom feeder, Oscar takes advantage of the situation and makes himself look like he killed the finned mobster. Oscar soon comes to realize that his claim may have serious consequences.

Godfather, The (1972)

Tuesday, April 3rd, 2007
Genres: Crime | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Brando, Marlon | Pacino, Al | Caan, James | Castellano, Richard S. | Duvall, Robert | Hayden, Sterling | Conte, Richard | Lettieri, Al | Keaton, Diane | Vigoda, Abe | Shire, Talia | Russo, Gianni | Marley, John | Bond, Rudy
Directors: Coppola, Francis Ford
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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.

Collateral (2004)

Wednesday, March 21st, 2007
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Cruise, Tom | Foxx, Jamie | Pinkett Smith, Jada | Ruffalo, Mark | Berg, Peter | McGill, Bruce | Hall, Irma P. | Henley, Barry Shabaka | Jones, Richard T. | Scott, Klea | Elfman, Bodhi | Mazar, Debi | Bardem, Javier | Rivera, Emilio | McBride, Jamie
Directors: Mann, Michael
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Max has lived a mundane life as a cab driver for twelve years. The faces have come and gone from his rear-view mirror: people and places he’s long since forgotten—until tonight. Vincent is a contract killer. When an off-shore narco-trafficking cartel learns that they’re about to be indicted by a federal grand jury, they mount an operation to identify and kill the key witness, and the last stage is tonight. It is on this very night that Vincent has arrived—and five bodies are supposed to fall. Circumstances cause Vincent to hijack Max’ taxicab, and Max becomes collateral—an expendable person who’s in the wrong place at the wrong time. Through the night, Vincent forces Max to drive him to each assigned destination. And as the L.A.P.D. and F.B.I. race to intercept them, Max and Vincent’s survival become dependent on each other, in ways neither would have imagined.

Dick Tracy (1990)

Tuesday, February 20th, 2007
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Korsmo, Charlie | O'Donnell, Michael Donovan | Wilkey, Jim | Eldred, Stig | Summers, Neil | Hicks, Chuck | Meyers, Lawrence Steven | Forsythe, William | O'Ross, Ed | Headly, Glenne | Cariaga, Marvelee | Gallup, Michael | Cassel, Seymour | Keane, James
Directors: Beatty, Warren
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All Tess Trueheart wants is to settle down to a quiet life with her boyfriend, detective Dick Tracy. But there’s something pretty rotten going on in town, with someone pretty rotten behind it, and Tracy has his hands full with the likes of villain Big Boy Caprice and with the almost irresistable Breathless Mahoney.

Wonderland (2003)

Tuesday, February 20th, 2007
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: Canada | USA
Actors: Kilmer, Val | Bosworth, Kate | Kudrow, Lisa | Lucas, Josh | Nelson, Tim Blake | McDermott, Dylan | Applegate, Christina | Bogosian, Eric | Fisher, Carrie | G, Franky | Gainey, M.C. | Garofalo, Janeane | Levine, Ted | Love, Faizon | Gregson Wagner, Natasha
Directors: Cox, James
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John Holmes (Val Kilmer) was a legend of the porn industry and revered in circles as a stud. But in 1981, years after his successful career and star fading, Holmes was a desperate man with his own internal demons to live up to. He’s estranged from his wife (Lisa Kudrow), holding onto a relationship with his teenage mistress (Kate Bosworth), and living as a junkie in search of his next fix. But one fateful night left four people dead and John as a key suspect in one of the most grisly murders in Los Angeles. Was he partly responsible for what happened at Wonderland Avenue?