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Ben Sobol, Psychiatrist, has a few problems: His son spies on his patients when they open up their heart, his parents don't want to attend his upcoming wedding and his patients' problems don't challenge him at all. Paul Vitti, Godfather, has a few problems as well: Sudden anxiety attacks in public, …a certain disability to kill people and his best part ceasing service when needed. One day, Ben unfortunately crashes into one of Vitti's cars. The exchange of Ben's business card is followed by a business visit of Don Paul Vitti himself, who wants to be free of inner conflict within two weeks, before all the Mafia Dons meet. Now, Ben Sobol feels somewhat challenged, as his wedding is soon, his only patient keeps him busy by regarding Ben's duty as a 24 hour standby and the feds keep forcing him to spy on Paul Vitti. And how do you treat a patient who usually solves problems with a gun? (Read More)
Themes: | second marriage abduction rivalry surveillance mental illness guilt mafia anger deception gangster wedding prison betrayal infidelity murder …death (See All) |
Mood: | spoof satire |
Locations: | police car farm helicopter hotel swimming pool church restaurant beach bar new york city hospital |
Characters: | doctor patient relationship psychiatrist hitman jewish priest police officer singer doctor father son relationship mother son relationship police |
Period: | 1990s |
Story: | shark tank reference to sigmund freud mob summit mob hit mob boss miami florida fbi agent mafia boss canceled wedding wedding gown miami beach state police police bust reference to tony bennett fruit seller …brooklyn dodgers fake evidence ruined life hands up fender bender graph disturbed childhood jazz combo reference to mark twain freud anxiety attack year 1957 car trunk closure shoreline reference to marlon brando analyst oedipus complex new york state falling out a window vow psychotherapist counsellor harp sexual intercourse getaway father in law panic attack pillow rite stress toast cornfield whale fountain tractor impotence show ceremony contract hogtied siren meeting raid aquarium italian american stupidity bride audience shark mob florida therapist mobster patient recording applause machismo therapy cow silencer tied up pianist tank undercover fantasy sequence factory fbi attempted murder binoculars author gunshot voice over ritual assassination scantily clad female dream sequence apology prisoner diner bridge video camera new york gay slur cleavage reporter revolver lingerie tears held at gunpoint gunfight arrest watching tv computer punched in the face shotgun machine gun car accident shot to death crying party singing photograph dancing interview gun (See All) |
In South Boston, the state police force is waging war on Irish-American organized crime. Young undercover cop Billy Costigan is assigned to infiltrate the mob syndicate run by gangland chief Frank Costello. While Billy quickly gains Costello's confidence, Colin Sullivan, a hardened young criminal wh…o has infiltrated the state police as an informer for the syndicate is rising to a position of power in the Special Investigation Unit. Each man becomes deeply consumed by their double lives, gathering information about the plans and counter-plans of the operations they have penetrated. But when it becomes clear to both the mob and the police that there is a mole in their midst, Billy and Colin are suddenly in danger of being caught and exposed to the enemy - and each must race to uncover the identity of the other man in time to save themselves. But is either willing to turn on their friends and comrades they've made during their long stints undercover? (Read More)
Themes: | surveillance guilt mafia anger deception gangster prison betrayal infidelity murder death |
Locations: | police car swimming pool church restaurant beach bar hospital |
Characters: | psychiatrist hitman police officer singer police |
Story: | reference to sigmund freud mob hit mob boss fbi agent state police impotence italian american mob mobster silencer undercover fbi scantily clad female diner bridge …gay slur cleavage revolver lingerie held at gunpoint gunfight arrest watching tv computer punched in the face shotgun machine gun car accident shot to death crying singing photograph interview gun (See All) |
The mafia's Paul Vitti is back in prison and will need some serious counseling when he gets out. Naturally, he returns to his analyst Dr. Ben Sobel for help and finds that Sobel needs some serious help himself as he has inherited the family practice, as well as an excess stock of stress.
Themes: | mental illness mafia prison |
Locations: | restaurant new york city |
Characters: | doctor patient relationship psychiatrist jewish |
Story: | reference to sigmund freud mob hit fbi agent mafia boss disturbed childhood analyst stress italian american therapy silencer fantasy sequence fbi scantily clad female dream sequence new york …cleavage lingerie watching tv car accident (See All) |
This true story follows FBI agent Joe Pistone as he infiltrates the mafia of New York. Befriending Lefty Ruggiero, Pistone (under the name Donnie Brasco) is able to embed himself in a mafia faction led by Sonny Black. Ruggiero and Pistone become tight as the group goes about collecting money for 'th…e bosses'. Eventually, the group become big-time when Black himself becomes a boss; all the while, Pistone collects evidence. However, the trials and tribulations of the undercover work become more than Pistone can bear. His marriage falls apart, and to top it off, the mafia suspect a mole in the organization. The real dilemma is afforded to Pistone, who knows if he walks away from the mafia, Ruggiero will be the one punished. (Read More)
Themes: | surveillance mafia gangster betrayal death murder |
Locations: | hotel swimming pool restaurant beach bar new york city hospital |
Characters: | hitman police officer singer mother son relationship father son relationship police |
Story: | miami florida fbi agent police bust siren italian american mobster undercover fbi held at gunpoint watching tv punched in the face shotgun shot to death singing photograph …dancing (See All) |
Based on a true story of James "Whitey" Bulger, an Irish Mob godfather and FBI informant who had a "secret trading" deal with his brother, William "Billy" Bulger, a state senator and a Boston public figure, and John Connolly, an FBI agent. They planned to take down the Italian mob and mafia in Bosto…n, which went awry and things turned massively violent. When the credence for each other began fading out, drug dealing, murders, and extortion started to rise, and forced the FBI's Boston office to confirm that Whitey Bulger was one of the most notorious criminals in US history and also one of the FBI's Ten Most Wanted List criminals. (Read More)
Themes: | mafia deception gangster betrayal death murder |
Locations: | hotel church restaurant beach bar hospital |
Characters: | hitman police officer mother son relationship father son relationship |
Story: | mob hit mob boss miami florida fbi agent italian american mob mobster machismo fbi bridge gay slur reporter revolver held at gunpoint arrest …punched in the face shot to death photograph (See All) |
After completing a lengthy prison sentence, one-time drug kingpin Frank White returns to New York intent on reestablishing his empire and making things as they were before he left. Others of course have taken over the business during his absence but that clearly isn't going to stop White. While he i…s gunning down the opposition, he decides he's going to give away the money he'll make to modernize the hospital in his old neighborhood. Drug dealers aren't the only thing he has to worry about however: a group of rogue cops decide they are going to take him down. (Read More)
Themes: | mafia deception gangster wedding prison murder death |
Locations: | police car hotel restaurant bar new york city hospital |
Characters: | hitman singer police |
Period: | 1990s |
Story: | mob hit mob boss mafia boss italian american machismo undercover bridge new york revolver lingerie gunfight arrest watching tv computer shotgun …machine gun car accident party singing dancing (See All) |
The gangster Nino has a gang who call themselves Cash Money Brothers. They get into the crack business and not before long they make a million dollars every week. A cop, Scotty, is after them. He tries to get into the gang by letting an ex-drug addict infiltrate the gang, but the attempt fails miser…ably. The only thing that remains is that Scotty himself becomes a drug pusher. (Read More)
Themes: | surveillance mafia anger deception gangster wedding betrayal infidelity death murder |
Locations: | swimming pool restaurant beach bar new york city |
Characters: | hitman priest police officer singer police |
Period: | 1990s |
Story: | mob hit mob boss mafia boss aquarium italian american mobster machismo undercover gay slur revolver lingerie held at gunpoint gunfight arrest punched in the face …shotgun machine gun shot to death party dancing gun (See All) |
The mysterious murder of a US senator bearing the distinctive trademark of the legendary Soviet assassin 'Cassius', forces retired CIA operative, Paul Shepherson to team with rookie FBI agent, Ben Geary to solve the crime. Having spent his career chasing Cassius, Shepherdson is convinced his nemesi…s is long dead, but is pushed to take on the case by his former supervisor, Tom Highland. Geary, who wrote his Master's thesis on Shepherdson's pursuit of the Soviet killer, is certain that Cassius has resurfaced. (Read More)
Themes: | surveillance anger deception prison betrayal death murder |
Locations: | police car bar hospital |
Characters: | doctor |
Story: | fbi agent silencer undercover factory fbi attempted murder assassination prisoner revolver held at gunpoint gunfight car accident shot to death photograph |
Boston, 1926. The '20s are roaring. Liquor is flowing, bullets are flying, and one man sets out to make his mark on the world. Prohibition has given rise to an endless network of underground distilleries, speakeasies, gangsters, and corrupt cops. Joe Coughlin, the youngest son of a prominent Boston …police captain, has long since turned his back on his strict and proper upbringing. Now having graduated from a childhood of petty theft to a career in the pay of the city's most fearsome mobsters, Joe enjoys the spoils, thrills, and notoriety of being an outlaw. But life on the dark side carries a heavy price. In a time when ruthless men of ambition, armed with cash, illegal booze, and guns, battle for control, no one-neither family nor friend, enemy nor lover-can be trusted. Beyond money and power, even the threat of prison, one fate seems most likely for men like Joe: an early death. But until that day, he and his friends are determined to live life to the hilt. Joe embarks on a dizzying journey up the ladder of organized crime that takes him from the flash of Jazz Age Boston to the sensual shimmer of Tampa's Latin Quarter to the sizzling streets of Cuba. Live by Night is a riveting epic layered with a diverse cast of loyal friends and callous enemies, tough rumrunners and sultry femmes fatales, Bible-quoting evangelists and cruel Klansmen, all battling for survival and their piece of the American dream. At once a sweeping love story and a compelling saga of revenge, it is a spe… (Read More)
Themes: | mafia anger deception gangster prison betrayal death murder |
Locations: | police car hotel church restaurant beach bar hospital |
Characters: | hitman police officer father son relationship police |
Story: | mob hit mob boss miami florida mafia boss getaway italian american florida mobster silencer factory attempted murder voice over assassination prisoner diner …bridge revolver held at gunpoint gunfight arrest punched in the face shotgun machine gun car accident shot to death party photograph dancing (See All) |
In TRIPLE 9, a crew of dirty cops are blackmailed by the Russian mob to execute a virtually impossible heist. The only way to pull it off is to manufacture a 999, police code for "officer down". Their plan is turned upside down when the unsuspecting rookie they set up to die foils the attack, trigge…ring a breakneck, action-packed finale filled with double-crosses, greed and revenge. (Read More)
Themes: | surveillance anger deception gangster prison betrayal murder death |
Locations: | police car helicopter restaurant bar hospital |
Characters: | hitman jewish police officer mother son relationship father son relationship police |
Story: | mob boss mafia boss getaway mob mobster machismo fbi attempted murder prisoner revolver held at gunpoint gunfight arrest computer punched in the face …shotgun machine gun car accident shot to death party photograph (See All) |
Christian Wolff is a math savant with more affinity for numbers than people. Behind the cover of a small-town CPA office, he works as a freelance accountant for some of the world's most dangerous criminal organizations. With the Treasury Department's Crime Enforcement Division, run by Ray King, star…ting to close in, Christian takes on a legitimate client: a state-of-the-art robotics company where an accounting clerk has discovered a discrepancy involving millions of dollars. But as Christian uncooks the books and gets closer to the truth, it is the body count that starts to rise. (Read More)
Themes: | surveillance mafia anger deception gangster prison betrayal murder death |
Locations: | farm hotel restaurant bar new york city |
Characters: | psychiatrist hitman father son relationship mother son relationship |
Story: | mob boss fbi agent mafia boss analyst mobster silencer fbi attempted murder gunshot assassination prisoner bridge held at gunpoint gunfight arrest …computer punched in the face shotgun machine gun shot to death photograph gun (See All) |
In Melbourne, the Chinese Chef Jackie has a successful show on television. The drug lord Giancarlo and his gang are dealing cocaine with The Demons gang, but they fight against each other. During the shooting, the snoopy reporter Diana and her partner are accidentally exposed and they flee with a VH…S tape with the footage of the negotiation. On the street, she stumbles with Jackie and he helps her fighting against the gangsters. When they are escaping in his car, her tape accidentally mixes with other videotapes that Jackie has in a box on the backseat of his car. Jackie goes to his apartment and meets his girlfriend Miki while his nephews "borrow" the tape to watch. Meanwhile Giancarlo's gangsters are looking for the tape and abduct Miki. Jackie's friend Romeo, who is a police detective, chases the gangsters with other policemen while Jackie teams up with Diana and his friend Lakisha to release Miki from Giancarlo. (Read More)
Themes: | surveillance mafia deception gangster wedding betrayal death murder |
Locations: | police car swimming pool restaurant beach hospital |
Characters: | hitman police officer father son relationship police |
Period: | 1990s |
Story: | mob boss mafia boss fountain show audience mobster silencer tied up attempted murder bridge reporter revolver held at gunpoint gunfight arrest …watching tv punched in the face machine gun car accident shot to death (See All) |
Courtroom thriller about a slick, hotshot lawyer who takes the seemingly unwinnable case of a young altar boy accused of murdering an eminent catholic priest.
Themes: | mental illness anger deception murder |
Locations: | police car helicopter church bar |
Characters: | psychiatrist priest police officer |
Period: | 1990s |
Story: | mob boss siren audience applause video camera reporter revolver watching tv computer punched in the face singing photograph interview |
Angela Bennett's a software engineer type who works from home and has few friends outside of cyberspace. Taking her first vacation in years, she becomes embroiled in a web of computer espionage.
Themes: | anger deception prison murder |
Locations: | police car hotel beach hospital |
Characters: | psychiatrist hitman police officer doctor police |
Period: | 1990s |
Story: | siren silencer pianist fbi attempted murder reporter revolver tears arrest watching tv computer shot to death photograph |
Martin Blank is a freelance hitman who starts to develop a conscience, which causes him to muff a couple of routine assignments. On the advice of his secretary and his psychiatrist, he attends his 10th year High School reunion in Grosse Pointe, Michigan (a Detroit suburb where he's also contracted t…o kill someone). Hot on his tail are a couple of over-enthusiastic federal agents, another assassin who wants to kill him, and Grocer, an assassin who wants him to join an "Assassin's Union." (Read More)
Themes: | abduction mafia deception gangster betrayal infidelity murder death |
Mood: | satire |
Locations: | police car church bar |
Characters: | psychiatrist hitman mother son relationship police |
Period: | 1990s |
Story: | therapist therapy silencer undercover assassination diner bridge revolver held at gunpoint gunfight watching tv computer punched in the face machine gun shot to death …party dancing (See All) |
"Gomorra" is a contemporary Neapolitan mob drama that exposes Italy's criminal underbelly by telling five stories of individuals who think they can make their own compact with Camorra, the area's Mafia.
Themes: | mafia deception gangster wedding betrayal murder death |
Locations: | beach new york city hospital |
Characters: | hitman singer mother son relationship father son relationship police |
Story: | miami florida mafia boss contract mob applause machismo factory held at gunpoint arrest watching tv computer shotgun machine gun shot to death singing …dancing gun (See All) |
A fictional film set in the alluring world of one of the most stunning scandals to rock our nation, American Hustle tells the story of brilliant con man Irving Rosenfeld ('Christian Bale' (qv)), who along with his equally cunning and seductive British partner Sydney Prosser ('Amy Adams (III)' (qv)) …is forced to work for a wild FBI agent Richie DiMaso ('Bradley Cooper (I)' (qv)). DiMaso pushes them into a world of Jersey powerbrokers and mafia that's as dangerous as it is enchanting. 'Jeremy Renner' (qv) is Carmine Polito, the passionate, volatile, New Jersey political operator caught between the con-artists and Feds. Irving's unpredictable wife Rosalyn ('Jennifer Lawrence (III)' (qv)) could be the one to pull the thread that brings the entire world crashing down. (Read More)
Themes: | surveillance mafia anger deception gangster betrayal infidelity murder |
Locations: | hotel restaurant bar new york city |
Characters: | mother son relationship father son relationship |
Story: | mob boss fbi agent mafia boss italian american mobster undercover fbi scantily clad female diner cleavage lingerie held at gunpoint arrest punched in the face shot to death …party singing dancing (See All) |
Professional Brooklyn hitman Jimmy Conlon is more commonly known as THE GRAVEDIGGER. Jimmy was a mob hit-man, who was best friends with his boss Sean Maguire. But when Jimmy's son, Michael, is marked for death by the mob, Jimmy must go up against Sean to protect Michael at all costs. Together, he an…d Michael must avoid corrupt cops, contract killers and the mob to survive the night. (Read More)
Themes: | gangster murder death |
Locations: | helicopter restaurant bar new york city hospital |
Characters: | hitman police officer father son relationship police |
Story: | mob hit mob boss mafia boss contract mob machismo attempted murder diner revolver held at gunpoint arrest punched in the face shot to death photograph |
A mafia boss and his family are relocated to a sleepy town in France under the witness protection program after snitching on the mob. Despite the best efforts of CIA Agent Stansfield ('Tommy Lee Jones' (qv)) to keep them in line, Fred Manzoni ('Robert De Niro' (qv)), his wife Maggie ('Michelle Pfeif…fer' (qv)) and their children Belle ('Dianna Agron' (qv)) and Warren ('John D'Leo' (qv)) can't help but revert to old habits and blow their cover by handling their problems the "family" way, enabling their former mafia cronies to track them down. Chaos ensues as old scores are settled in the unlikeliest of settings. (Read More)
Themes: | mafia gangster prison murder death |
Locations: | beach hospital |
Characters: | hitman mother son relationship father son relationship |
Story: | mob hit mob boss fbi agent mafia boss italian american mob mobster silencer fantasy sequence fbi binoculars prisoner held at gunpoint gunfight punched in the face …shotgun machine gun shot to death (See All) |
Two petty if violent criminals kidnap a girl being paid $1m to be a surrogate mother. As the baby is for a gangster the pair's demand for money sees several henchmen and assorted other ruthless characters head after them to Mexico. Bullets rather than talking are always going to settle this one.
Themes: | anger deception gangster betrayal infidelity murder death |
Locations: | police car hotel bar |
Characters: | police officer doctor father son relationship |
Story: | siren attempted murder binoculars gunshot diner gay slur revolver tears held at gunpoint gunfight arrest punched in the face shotgun machine gun shot to death …crying interview gun (See All) |
Charlie is a Rhode Island state trooper with a multiple personalities. He is otherwise mild-mannered and non confrontational until somebody or something pushes him a little too far. That's when his maniacal alter-ego, Hank, takes over. Charlie is assigned on a routine mission to return alleged fugit…ive Irene back to upstate New York, but they wind up on the run from corrupt police officers. And their escape would be a lot simpler on everybody involved if Hank didn't keep stepping in at the most inopportune times.... (Read More)
Themes: | wedding |
Locations: | police car helicopter church hospital |
Characters: | psychiatrist police officer father son relationship police |
Story: | fbi agent wedding gown fountain siren stupidity bride cow gunshot diner video camera reporter held at gunpoint watching tv computer photograph …gun (See All) |
Mark Sway is an 11 year old boy who lives with his mother and brother in a trailer. One day he and his brother are hanging out when a car pulls over beside them. The driver then sticks a hose in his exhaust and puts the other end into the car. Mark pulls it out. But the man sees him and grabs him an…d takes inside the car. The man talks to Mark then later shoots himself. The shock sends Mark's brother into a catatonic state. The police question him and slips out some stuff that makes them think he's saying more than he knows. Roy Foltrigg, a prosecutor with political ambitions tells Mark he wants to talk to him tomorrow. Mark feeling that he needs a lawyer, sees Reggie Love. Mark tells her about the man who killed himself. Reggie tells him he's a mob lawyer. And one of his clients is a member of a mob family who is suspected of killing a Senator who was trying to take down his family. But because the Senator's body is missing, they can't prosecute him. Reggie thinks Foltrigg thinks the lawyer told Mark where the body is which is why he wants to speak to him. Mark goes to meet Roy and when he threatens him, Mark steps out then Reggie comes in with a recording of his conversation with Mark telling him that made several violations. In the meantime, the mobster is told by the head of the family to take care of Mark. So he threatens Mark. Mark doesn't know what to do and learns that Reggie has some secrets of her own and is uncertain if he can trust her. (Read More)
Themes: | surveillance mafia deception gangster prison death murder |
Locations: | police car helicopter restaurant bar hospital |
Characters: | hitman police officer doctor mother son relationship police |
Period: | 1990s |
Story: | mob boss fbi agent mafia boss state police mob mobster recording silencer fbi attempted murder diner bridge revolver held at gunpoint arrest …watching tv photograph gun (See All) |
Mark Kaminski is kicked out of the FBI for his rough treatment of a suspect. He winds up as the sheriff of a small town in North Carolina. FBI Chief Harry Shannon, whose son has been killed by a mobster named Luigi Patrovita, enlists Kaminski in a personal vendetta with a promise of reinstatement in…to the FBI if Patrovita is taken down. To accomplish this, Kaminski must go undercover and join Patrovita's gang. (Read More)
Themes: | mafia gangster murder |
Locations: | helicopter restaurant bar |
Characters: | police |
Story: | mob boss mafia boss mob mobster machismo silencer undercover fbi revolver gunfight shotgun machine gun |
Joong-ho is a dirty detective turned pimp in financial trouble as several of his girls have recently disappeared without clearing their debts. While trying to track them down, he finds a clue that the vanished girls were all called up by a same client whom one of his girls is meeting with right now.
Themes: | guilt anger murder death |
Locations: | police car hotel church hospital |
Characters: | police officer |
Story: | impotence hogtied siren meeting aquarium tied up prisoner video camera reporter tears arrest watching tv punched in the face car accident crying …photograph (See All) |
Tony Montana manages to leave Cuba during the Mariel exodus of 1980. He finds himself in a Florida refugee camp but his friend Manny has a way out for them: undertake a contract killing and arrangements will be made to get a green card. He's soon working for drug dealer Frank Lopez and shows his met…tle when a deal with Colombian drug dealers goes bad. He also brings a new level of violence to Miami. Tony is protective of his younger sister but his mother knows what he does for a living and disowns him. Tony is impatient and wants it all however, including Frank's empire and his mistress Elvira Hancock. Once at the top however, Tony's outrageous actions make him a target and everything comes crumbling down. (Read More)
Themes: | mafia anger gangster wedding betrayal murder death |
Locations: | helicopter hotel swimming pool restaurant new york city |
Characters: | mother son relationship police |
Story: | mob hit miami florida miami beach contract florida machismo silencer undercover attempted murder gay slur cleavage revolver gunfight arrest watching tv …shotgun machine gun shot to death crying dancing gun (See All) |
Sometime in the 1970's, police officers from New York City wanted a safe haven to live, away from the dangers of the streets of New York City, this is when they established a "Cop Land" in the small New Jersey town of Garrison. Freddy Heflin who was always admired by the New York cops wanted to beco…me one, but because he was deaf in one ear this prevents him from achieving his goal, but has become sheriff of Garrison. Recently there have been a dark omen surrounding the NYPD, and Freddy is now investigating on this case, then Internal Affairs officer Mo Tilden is also on the case and asks Freddy for help, but Freddy could not. Now Freddy suspects that a New York City cop named Ray Donlan might be one of the many cops who is corrupted by the mob and other criminals. Now, Freddy must find a cop who is nicknamed "Superboy" who can testify against Donlan and protect him, before Donlan finds Superboy and kills him. (Read More)
Themes: | mafia gangster infidelity death murder |
Locations: | police car swimming pool bar new york city |
Characters: | priest police officer police |
Period: | 1990s |
Story: | mob boss mafia boss counsellor italian american mob machismo attempted murder diner bridge gay slur revolver held at gunpoint gunfight arrest punched in the face …shotgun car accident shot to death party photograph interview gun (See All) |
When his partner is killed by the mysterious and possibly nonexistent Jaguar Shark, Steve Zissou and his Team Zissou crew set off for an expedition to hunt down the creature. Along with his estranged wife, a beautiful journalist and a co-pilot who could possibly be Zissou's son, the crew set off for… one wild expedition. (Read More)
Themes: | rivalry infidelity death murder |
Locations: | helicopter hotel swimming pool beach |
Characters: | singer father son relationship |
Story: | hogtied audience shark applause tied up video camera gay slur reporter revolver held at gunpoint gunfight watching tv computer punched in the face machine gun …crying singing photograph interview (See All) |
The true story of Danny Greene, an impoverished but charismatic young Irish-American who rises to power as president of the longshoreman's local union and is charged with corruption but evades serious jail time by becoming an FBI informant. With fearless nerve he joins forces with a Mafia gangster t…o rise to power in Cleveland's underworld, gaining the reputation of a Robin Hood-like figure with nine lives as he escapes countless assassination attempts. (Read More)
Themes: | mafia deception gangster prison betrayal murder death |
Locations: | restaurant bar new york city |
Characters: | hitman police |
Story: | mob hit mob boss mafia boss italian american machismo fbi assassination prisoner revolver arrest shotgun |
On New Year's Eve, inside a police station that's about to be closed for good, officer Jake Roenick must cobble together a force made up cops and criminals to save themselves from a mob looking to kill mobster Marion Bishop.
Themes: | deception gangster prison murder death |
Locations: | helicopter church |
Characters: | psychiatrist police officer police |
Story: | italian american mob mobster machismo silencer undercover attempted murder prisoner held at gunpoint gunfight shotgun machine gun car accident shot to death |
Two Irish brothers accidentally kill mafia thugs. They turn themselves in and are released as heroes. They then see it as a calling by God and start knocking off mafia gang members one by one. Willem Dafoe plays the detective trying to figure out the killings, but the closer he comes to catching the… Irish brothers, the more he thinks the brothers are doing the right thing. (Read More)
Themes: | mafia prison betrayal murder death |
Locations: | hotel church restaurant bar hospital |
Characters: | hitman priest police |
Period: | 1990s |
Story: | fbi agent mafia boss italian american recording machismo silencer fbi bridge gay slur reporter held at gunpoint gunfight watching tv computer punched in the face …shot to death dancing interview gun (See All) |
Erin Grant loses care and custody of her daughter when she's divorced from her husband Darrell, a small-time thief. Struggling for money, she is a dancer at a nightclub, where one night Congressman Dilbeck (in disguise) attacks another member of the audience. A spectator, who recognizes Dilbeck and …is fond of Erin, offers to get back her daughter by blackmailing Dilbeck. Things do not work out as planned, though. (Read More)
Themes: | mafia deception gangster murder death |
Mood: | satire |
Locations: | hotel beach hospital |
Characters: | police officer |
Period: | 1990s |
Story: | mob boss miami florida mafia boss aquarium italian american audience florida factory binoculars revolver held at gunpoint arrest photograph dancing gun |
New Rochelle, the 1960s. High schooler Frank Abagnale Jr. idolizes his father, who's in trouble with the IRS. When his parents separate, Frank runs away to Manhattan with $25 in his checking account, vowing to regain dad's losses and get his parents back together. Just a few years later, the FBI tra…cks him down in France; he's extradited, tried, and jailed for passing more than $4,000,000 in bad checks. Along the way, he's posed as a Pan Am pilot, a pediatrician, and an attorney. And, from nearly the beginning of this life of crime, he's been pursued by a dour FBI agent, Carl Hanratty. What starts as cat and mouse becomes something akin to father and son. (Read More)
Themes: | surveillance deception prison betrayal infidelity |
Locations: | police car hotel swimming pool church restaurant bar new york city hospital |
Characters: | police officer singer doctor father son relationship mother son relationship police |
Story: | miami florida fbi agent italian american florida fbi binoculars prisoner diner revolver held at gunpoint arrest party singing photograph dancing |
Charlie's got a 'Job' to do. Having just left prison, he finds one of his friends has attempted a high risk job in Italy right under the nose of the Mafia. Charlie's friend doesn't get very far so Charlie takes over the 'Job'. Using three Mini Coopers, a couple of Jaguars and a bus, he hopes to brin…g Torino to a standstill, steal the Gold and escape. (Read More)
Themes: | surveillance mafia deception gangster wedding prison murder |
Locations: | hotel |
Characters: | police |
Story: | mob boss mafia boss getaway tank factory prisoner bridge gay slur held at gunpoint arrest computer shotgun car accident |
Henry Hill might be a small time gangster, who may have taken part in a robbery with Jimmy Conway and Tommy De Vito, two other gangsters who might have set their sights a bit higher. His two partners could kill off everyone else involved in the robbery, and slowly start to think about climbing up th…rough the hierarchy of the Mob. Henry, however, might be badly affected by his partners' success, but will he consider stooping low enough to bring about the downfall of Jimmy and Tommy? (Read More)
Themes: | mafia anger deception gangster wedding prison betrayal infidelity murder |
Locations: | helicopter restaurant bar new york city hospital |
Characters: | hitman jewish mother son relationship father son relationship |
Story: | mob hit italian american mob machismo scantily clad female diner cleavage revolver arrest crying |
June has a garage in Boston. At an airport heading home, a man bumps into her a few times and tries to keep her off the plane. He's under FBI surveillance; they wonder if he and she are working together, so they let both on a flight full of armed men wanting to arrest the stranger. He's Roy, he shoo…ts his way out of trouble and tells her she's in danger. She's home the next day, miraculously, when agents pick her up; Roy saves her again, and a transcontinental chase ensues with Roy convincing her that he's the good guy, protecting an energy source that a rogue agent wants to sell on the black market. Can she trust Roy, and will trust matter when the bullets start flying? (Read More)
Themes: | surveillance deception wedding murder death |
Locations: | police car helicopter hotel restaurant beach bar new york city hospital |
Story: | fbi agent cornfield silencer undercover fbi diner bridge revolver held at gunpoint gunfight arrest computer punched in the face shotgun machine gun …car accident shot to death photograph (See All) |
This is the story of the last few years of the notorious bank robber John Dillinger. He loved what he did and could imagine little else that would make him happier. Living openly in 1930s Chicago, he had the run of the city with little fear of reprisals from the authorities. It's there that he meets… Billie Frechette with whom he falls deeply in love. In parallel we meet Melvin Purvis, the FBI agent who would eventually track Dillinger down. The FBI was is in its early days and Director J. Edgar Hoover was keen to promote the clean cut image that so dominated the organization through his lifetime. Purvis realizes that if he is going to get Dillinger, he will have to use street tactics and imports appropriate men with police training. Dillinger is eventually betrayed by an acquaintance who tells the authorities just where to find him on a given night. (Read More)
Themes: | surveillance deception gangster prison betrayal murder death |
Locations: | police car farm hotel restaurant bar hospital |
Characters: | police officer singer doctor police |
Story: | fbi agent italian american fbi binoculars tears held at gunpoint gunfight arrest punched in the face shotgun machine gun car accident shot to death crying singing …photograph dancing gun (See All) |
Epic tale of a group of Jewish gangsters in New York, from childhood, through their glory years during prohibition, and their meeting again 35 years later.
Themes: | guilt mafia gangster betrayal murder death |
Locations: | hotel restaurant beach new york city hospital |
Characters: | jewish police |
Story: | mob hit miami florida mafia boss meeting italian american scantily clad female new york cleavage reporter dancing gun |
Deloris Wilson, a black woman who has chosen the stage name Deloris Van Cartier, is a Reno lounge singer, she the lead in a girl trio in which she also chooses and arranges the music and choreographs the shows. She is a wisecracking, showy woman who has always loved music. She, however, only has her… current job being hired by her married lover, Vince LaRocca, to sing in his casino's lounge. She learns of Vince's true business as a gangster when she walks in on him killing one of his employees who wronged him. As a witness to the murder, Deloris goes on the run to the police, Lt. Eddie Souther who has long been running an operation to get enough evidence to put Vince behind bars, this murder which could be the proverbial nail in Vince's coffin. However, Vince has put a contract out on Deloris' life to prevent her from testifying against him. As such, Eddie has to hide her until the trial, which will be at least two months. Where Eddie chooses is St. Katherine's, a poor Catholic parish and convent in a tough neighborhood in San Francisco. The convent's Mother Superior reluctantly takes Deloris in, that reluctance as Deloris is not anywhere near being close to looking or acting like a typical nun. Furthermore, the Mother Superior does not tell any of the sisters Deloris' true identity or the real reason for her being at St. Katherine's. With the Mother Superior cloistering the sisters behind the convent walls to pray for the salvation mostly of down and out of the neighborhood w… (Read More)
Themes: | abduction gangster murder death |
Locations: | police car helicopter church bar |
Characters: | hitman priest singer police |
Story: | contract siren italian american audience mob mobster applause silencer tied up pianist gunshot reporter held at gunpoint arrest watching tv …punched in the face shot to death singing photograph dancing (See All) |
Themes: | mafia deception gangster betrayal murder death |
Locations: | hotel restaurant bar new york city |
Characters: | hitman police officer |
Story: | mob boss mafia boss mobster machismo silencer attempted murder assassination held at gunpoint gunfight punched in the face shotgun machine gun car accident shot to death party …photograph gun (See All) |
For the last 8 years the brothers have been living with their father on a sheep farm deep in isolated Ireland. One day their uncle tells them that they have been framed for the murder of a Bostonian Catholic priest. The boys must return to Boston to not only clear their names but find the men who fr…amed them. (Read More)
Themes: | mafia prison betrayal murder |
Locations: | farm church bar new york city |
Characters: | priest father son relationship police |
Story: | fbi agent silencer fantasy sequence dream sequence prisoner gay slur revolver held at gunpoint gunfight arrest shotgun machine gun shot to death gun |
William Friedkin's gritty police drama portrays two tough New York City cops trying to intercept a huge heroin shipment coming from France. An interesting contrast is established between 'Popeye' Doyle, a short-tempered alcoholic bigot who is nevertheless a hard-working and dedicated police officer,… and his nemesis Alain Charnier, a suave and urbane gentleman who is nevertheless a criminal and one of the largest drug suppliers of pure heroin to North America. During the surveillance and eventual bust, Friedkin provides one of the most gripping and memorable car chase sequences ever filmed. (Read More)
Themes: | surveillance mafia anger gangster murder |
Locations: | hotel restaurant bar new york city |
Characters: | hitman police officer police |
Story: | mob boss fbi agent mafia boss italian american undercover fbi revolver gunfight arrest punched in the face shotgun car accident |
Sarah Ashburn, an FBI agent, is extremely ambitious and has her eye on a promotion, but she doesn't get along with her co-workers. She is sent to Boston to uncover the identity of an elusive drug lord, Mr. Larkin, by tracking down his proxy, Rojas, and is told that she'll have a good shot at the pro…motion if she finds Larkin. When she arrives in Boston, she learns that Larkin has been eliminating his competition and taking over their operations. She learns that Rojas is in Boston PD custody and goes to see him to ask him what he knows about Larkin, but is warned that the cop who arrested Rojas, Shannon Mullins, is very territorial, and she is not exactly sociable. When the two meet they don't get along. When Mullins learns why Ashburn is in Boston, she decides to find Larkin herself. Ashburn is told by her boss to work with Mullins, but it won't be easy because Ashburn does things by the book while Mullins does things her way. (Read More)
Themes: | surveillance gangster prison murder death |
Locations: | police car bar new york city hospital |
Characters: | police officer doctor mother son relationship father son relationship police |
Story: | fbi agent undercover factory fbi attempted murder prisoner diner cleavage revolver held at gunpoint gunfight arrest watching tv shotgun machine gun …car accident shot to death party photograph dancing (See All) |
A Kansas City waitress with dreams of becoming a nurse becomes delusional after seeing her no-good car salesman husband murdered. Becoming delusional from shock, she becomes convinced that she is the former fiancee of her soap opera idol. What she also believes is that the soap opera is real and goe…s to LA to find the hospital where he works as a cardiologist. Meanwhile, her husband's murderers are searching for the drugs stolen by her husband and, as luck would have it, they are stored in the trunk of the car she drove off in. Freeman, an aging hit man planning his retirement after this job, also becomes delusional about the woman he is tracking. (Read More)
Themes: | infidelity murder death |
Mood: | satire |
Locations: | police car swimming pool restaurant bar hospital |
Characters: | hitman doctor father son relationship police |
Story: | aquarium stupidity patient recording therapy silencer gunshot diner gay slur reporter tears held at gunpoint watching tv computer punched in the face …car accident shot to death crying gun (See All) |
When the aging head of a famous crime family decides to transfer his position to one of his subalterns, a series of unfortunate events start happening to the family, and a war begins between all the well-known families leading to insolence, deportation, murder and revenge, and ends with the favorabl…e successor being finally chosen. (Read More)
Themes: | mafia gangster wedding betrayal death murder |
Locations: | hotel church restaurant bar new york city hospital |
Characters: | hitman singer father son relationship police |
Story: | mob summit mob hit mob boss cornfield italian american fbi assassination revolver machine gun shot to death |
This is the story of three well-meaning but flawed people: Paul Rivers, an ailing mathematician lovelessly married to an English emigre; Christina Peck, an upper-middle-class suburban housewife, happily married homemaker with two young daughters, with hiding a secret past; and Jack Jordan, an ex-con…vict who has found in his Christian faith the strength to live a law-abiding life and raise a family. They will be brought together by a terrible accident that will change their lives. By the final frame, none of them will be the same as they will have learnt harsh truths about love, faith, courage, desire and guilt, and how chance can change our worlds irretrievably, forever. (Read More)
Themes: | guilt anger prison betrayal infidelity death murder |
Locations: | police car swimming pool church restaurant bar hospital |
Characters: | doctor mother son relationship father son relationship police |
Story: | siren patient therapy attempted murder gunshot prisoner diner cleavage revolver tears watching tv computer car accident crying party …singing photograph gun (See All) |
Mob boss Primo Sparazza has taken out a hefty contract on Buddy "Aces" Israel, a sleazy magician who has agreed to turn state's evidence against the Vegas mob. The FBI, sensing a chance to use this small-time con to bring down big-target Sparazza, places Aces into protective custody-under the superv…ision of two agents dispatched to Aces' Lake Tahoe hideout. When the word of the price on Aces' head spreads into the community of ex-cons and cons-to-be, it entices bounty hunters, thugs-for-hire, deadly vixens and double-crossing mobsters to join in the hunt. With all eyes on Tahoe, this rogues' gallery collides in a comic race to hit the jackpot and rub out Aces. (Read More)
Themes: | surveillance mafia betrayal murder |
Locations: | helicopter hotel hospital |
Characters: | hitman father son relationship police |
Story: | mob hit mob boss fbi agent contract mob machismo undercover fbi diner gay slur shot to death |
When a prisoner transport plane crashes, one prisoner, Mark Sheridan, skillfully escapes and saves lives at the same time. Deputy Sam Gerard and his team of U.S. Marshals pursue relentlessly, but Gerard begins to suspect that there is more to the exceptional fugitive than what he has been told. Mean…while, Sheridan struggles to avoid capture while seeking answers of his own. Until the final scene, both Gerard and Sheridan are in jeopardy of the unknown. (Read More)
Themes: | surveillance prison murder |
Locations: | police car helicopter bar new york city hospital |
Characters: | hitman police |
Story: | siren binoculars gunshot prisoner diner video camera reporter revolver held at gunpoint gunfight watching tv punched in the face shotgun machine gun car accident …shot to death photograph (See All) |
El Mariachi just wants to play his guitar and carry on the family tradition. Unfortunately, the town he tries to find work in has another visitor...a killer who carries his guns in a guitar case. The drug lord and his henchmen mistake El Mariachi for the killer, Azul, and chase him around town tryin…g to kill him and get his guitar case. (Read More)
Themes: | anger deception gangster prison betrayal murder death |
Locations: | hotel swimming pool bar |
Characters: | hitman singer |
Period: | 1990s |
Story: | machismo silencer attempted murder scantily clad female dream sequence prisoner cleavage revolver held at gunpoint gunfight punched in the face shotgun machine gun car accident shot to death …singing gun (See All) |
The pediatrician Alexandre Beck misses his beloved wife Margot Beck, who was brutally murdered eight years ago when he was the prime suspect. When two bodies are found near where the corpse of Margot was dumped, the police reopen the case and Alex becomes suspect again. The mystery increases when Al…ex receives an e-mail showing Margot older and alive. (Read More)
Themes: | surveillance guilt wedding infidelity murder death |
Locations: | police car restaurant bar hospital |
Characters: | police officer doctor father son relationship mother son relationship police |
Story: | applause tied up binoculars assassination scantily clad female apology video camera gay slur cleavage revolver tears arrest watching tv computer punched in the face …shotgun car accident shot to death crying photograph gun (See All) |
After his partner Tom Lone and family are killed apparently by the infamous and elusive assassin Rogue, FBI agent John Crawford becomes obsessed with revenge as his world unravels into a vortex of guilt and betrayal. Rogue eventually resurfaces to settle a score of his own, setting off a bloody crim…e war between Asian mob rivals Chang of the Triad's and Yakuza boss Shiro. When Jack and Rogue finally come face to face, the ultimate truth of their pasts will be revealed. (Read More)
Themes: | guilt deception gangster betrayal death |
Locations: | restaurant |
Characters: | hitman |
Story: | mob hit fbi agent mob machismo fbi assassination gunfight shotgun machine gun car accident shot to death |