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Atlantic City is a place where people go to realize their dreams, the promise of the future manifested by the demolition of the old crumbling buildings to be replaced by new hotels and casinos. Someone who recently came to Atlantic City for that promise is native Moose Javian (Saskatchewan) Sally Ma …tthews, who currently works as a waitress at a hotel oyster bar, but who is training to be a black jack croupier and wants to be more cultured, such as learning French, in order to work at the casinos in Monte Carlo. Another dreamer who came to Atlantic City decades ago is Lou Pascal, who has long worked as a numbers runner and who claims to have been a cellmate and thus implied confidante of 'Bugsy Siegel' (qv). Although Lou still dresses to the standard to which he is accustomed, his dream long died as he only works penny ante stuff for Fred, most of his current income from being the kept man of widowed recluse, Grace Pinza. Grace too came to Atlantic City to fulfill her dreams - most specifically to participate in a 'Betty Grable' (qv) lookalike contest - and ended up staying, marrying a player named Cookie Pinza. Sally, Lou and Grace all live in the same soon to be demolished apartment building - Sally and Lou who are next door neighbors - although Sally knows neither of her neighbors. Lou, however, secretly spies Sally through their respective apartment windows as she goes through a daily ritual. The dreams of this collective are potentially affected - largely dashed or reawak… (Read More)
Themes: | gamblingtheftextramarital affairvoyeurismgangsterdrugsmurder |
Mood: | neo noir |
Locations: | car theftmotelbus |
Characters: | ex gangsterwaitresssister sister relationshiphusband wife relationship |
Story: | blackjack dealersexual euphemismtelephone boothtelephone callconfession to murderreference to charles laughtonreference to bugsy siegelreference to lucky lucianoreference to meyer lanskynumbers runnerdouble murderreference to casanovareference to betty grabledog walkingkept man …identifying dead bodyreference to prince charleshippytitle sung by charactercroupierreference to grace kellyreference to al caponescalewrecking ballsaying thank youhusband wife estrangementtenementatlantic city new jerseylemoncharacter says i'm sorrywoman driverreference to frank sinatrafoot massagefloristmurder by gunshotolder man younger womanpoodlepoker gamedriving at nightblackjackeuphemismdemolitionfuneral homeman punching a womanlying on bedblack manfemale stockinged feetmay december romanceloss of husbandopening a doorcamera shot of feetblack womandriving a carvisitmobsterfemale stockinged legstopless womanblack americancasinodeath of husbandmurdererscene during end creditsapologystabbed to deathcocainedrug dealerold manoperanewspaperf wordtelephonecriminalvoyeurneighborplace name in titleface slapsongsingingtitle spoken by charactertwo word title (See All) |
The unluckiest man in Vegas - a guy whose bad luck is contagious - is used by the last of the old time mob run casinos to kill high rollers' action. That is, until he falls in love with a cocktail waitress and gets "lady luck," which throws the situation into reverse. Things turn nasty when the casi …no director tries to break up the romance. (Read More)
Themes: | gamblingvoyeurismgangstermurder |
Mood: | neo noir |
Locations: | motel |
Characters: | waitresshusband wife relationship |
Story: | blackjack dealerblackjackmobstercasinococainevoyeurface slapsongsinging |
Nazi skinheads in Melbourne take out their anger on local Vietnamese, who are seen as threatening racial purity. Finally the Vietnamese have had enough and confront the skinheads in an all-out confrontation, sending the skinheads running. A woman who is prone to epileptic seizures joins the skins' m …erry band, and helps them on their run from justice, but is her affliction also a sign of impurity? (Read More)
Themes: | murder |
Locations: | bus |
Story: | telephone boothtelephone calldriving at nightlying on bedopening a doorscene during end creditsapologyf wordtelephoneface slaptwo word title |
In 1963, Frances "Baby" Houseman, a sweet daddy's girl, goes with her family to a resort in upstate New York's Catskill Mountains. Baby has grown up in privileged surroundings and all expect her to go on to college, join the Peace Corps and save the world before marrying a doctor, just like her fath …er. Unexpectedly, Baby becomes infatuated with the camp's dance instructor, Johnny Castle, a man whose background is vastly different from her own. Baby lies to her father to get money to pay for an illegal abortion for Johnny's dance partner. She then fills in as Johnny's dance partner and it is as he is teaching her the dance routine that they fall in love. It all comes apart when Johnny's friend falls seriously ill after her abortion and Baby gets her father, who saves the girl's life. He then learns what Baby has been up to, who with and worse - that he funded the illegal abortion. He bans his daughter from any further association with "those people". In the first deliberately willful action of her life, Baby later sneaks out to see Johnny - ostensibly to apologize for her father's rudeness - and ends up consummating her relationship with Johnny. A jealous fellow vacationer sees Baby sneaking out of Johnny's bungalow the next morning, and in an act of retribution, tells management that he is responsible for a theft the evening before, knowing he would not furnish his real whereabouts. (Read More)
Themes: | theft |
Characters: | sister sister relationshiphusband wife relationship |
Story: | sexual euphemismolder man younger womandriving at nighteuphemismlying on bedopening a doorcamera shot of feetdriving a carvisitapologysingingtwo word title |
Finding himself in considerable debt, Chris, a Texan drug dealer, decides the only solution is to murder his mother to collect the insurance money. Getting together with his father, the ex-husband of Chris' mother, they decide to hire Joe Cooper (a contract killer) who also happens to be a police de …tective. The plan is that the money will go to Chris' sister Dottie. However due to the size of the contract fee, Chris agrees that Joe can take Dottie as a retainer until the insurance comes through. (Read More)
Themes: | gamblingextramarital affairgangsterdrugsmurder |
Mood: | neo noir |
Locations: | motel |
Characters: | waitresshusband wife relationship |
Story: | telephone callapologydrug dealerf wordtelephonevoyeurface slaptitle spoken by charactertwo word title |
This Martin Scorsese film depicts the Janus-like quality of Las Vegas--it has a glittering, glamorous face, as well as a brutal, cruel one. Ace Rothstein and Nicky Santoro, mobsters who move to Las Vegas to make their mark, live and work in this paradoxical world. Seen through their eyes, each as a …foil to the other, the details of mob involvement in the casinos of the 1970's and '80's are revealed. Ace is the smooth operator of the Tangiers casino, while Nicky is his boyhood friend and tough strongman, robbing and shaking down the locals. However, they each have a tragic flaw--Ace falls in love with a hustler, Ginger, and Nicky falls into an ever-deepening spiral of drugs and violence. (Read More)
Themes: | gamblingvoyeurismgangsterdrugsmurder |
Mood: | neo noir |
Characters: | husband wife relationship |
Story: | telephone callcasinococaineold manf wordtelephonecriminalvoyeurtitle spoken by character |
Jenna is unhappily married, squirreling away money, and hoping to win a pie-baking contest so, with the prize money, she'll have enough cash to leave her husband Earl. She finds herself pregnant, which throws her plans awry. She bakes phenomenal pies at Joe's diner, listens to old Joe's wisdom, tole …rates her sour boss Cal, is friends with Dawn and Becky (her fellow waitresses), and finds a mutual attraction with the new doctor in town. As the pregnancy advances, life with Earl seems less tolerable, a way out less clear, and the affair with the doctor complicated by his marriage. What options does a waitress have? (Read More)
Themes: | extramarital affair |
Locations: | bus |
Characters: | waitresshusband wife relationship |
Story: | telephone callfemale stockinged legsold mannewspapertelephoneface slapsongsinging |
Nick Wild (Jason Statham) is a Las Vegas bodyguard with lethal professional skills and a personal gambling problem. When a friend is beaten by a sadistic thug, Nick strikes back, only to find out the thug is the son of a powerful mob boss. Suddenly Nick is plunged into the criminal underworld, chase …d by enforcers and wanted by the mob. Having raised the stakes, Nick has one last play to change his fortunes...and this time, it's all or nothing. (Read More)
Themes: | gamblinggangstermurder |
Mood: | neo noir |
Locations: | motel |
Characters: | waitress |
Story: | blackjackmobstercasinostabbed to deathf wordcriminaltwo word title |
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: | gamblingextramarital affairgangstermurder |
Mood: | neo noir |
Characters: | husband wife relationship |
Story: | reference to meyer lanskyatlantic city new jerseyfemale stockinged feetcamera shot of feetmobsterfemale stockinged legscasinof wordtelephonecriminalsingingtwo word title |
A mysterious man who has multiple jobs as a garage mechanic, a Hollywood stuntman and a getaway driver seems to be trying to escape his shady past as he falls for his neighbor - whose husband is in prison and who's looking after her child alone. Meanwhile, his garage mechanic boss is trying to set u …p a race team using gangland money, which implicates our driver as he is to be used as the race team's main driver. Our hero gets more than he bargained for when he meets the man who is married to the woman he loves. (Read More)
Themes: | gangstermurder |
Mood: | neo noir |
Locations: | motel |
Characters: | waitresshusband wife relationship |
Story: | driving at nightmobsterdeath of husbandstabbed to deathf wordcriminalneighborface slaptitle spoken by character |
In Johannesburg, a small time criminal, Tsotsi, is a teenager without feelings, hardened by his tough life. After a series of violent gang hits, Tsotsi hijacks a car. However, whilst driving, Tsotsi finds that there is a baby on the back seat. He brings the baby to his house in the slum. The next si …x days bring about a change in him that couldn't be foreseen. (Read More)
Themes: | gamblingtheftgangstermurder |
Locations: | car theft |
Characters: | waitress |
Story: | death of husbandapologyold mannewspapercriminal |
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: | gangstermurder |
Mood: | neo noir |
Story: | mobsterfemale stockinged legsstabbed to deathcocainedrug dealerf wordtelephonecriminal |
Texas greenhorn Joe Buck arrives in New York for the first time. Preening himself as a real 'hustler', he finds that he is the one getting 'hustled' until he teams up with a down-and-out but resilient outcast named Ratso Rizzo. The initial 'country cousin meets city cousin' relationship deepens. In …their efforts to bilk a hostile world rebuffing them at every turn, this unlikely pair progress from partners in shady business to comrades. Each has found his first real friend. (Read More)
Themes: | gamblingtheft |
Locations: | motelbus |
Characters: | waitress |
Story: | telephone boothtelephone callwrecking balltenementpoodledemolitionsongsingingtwo word title |
Lil ('Naomi Watts' (qv)) and Roz ('Robin Wright (V)' (qv)) are two lifelong friends, having grown up together as neighbors in an idyllic beach town. As adults, their sons have developed a friendship as strong as that which binds their mothers. One summer, all four are confronted by simmering emotion …s that have been mounting between them, and each find unexpected happiness in relationships that cross the bounds of convention. (Read More)
Themes: | extramarital affairvoyeurism |
Locations: | bus |
Characters: | husband wife relationship |
Story: | telephone calldeath of husbandapologyf wordtelephonevoyeurneighborface slapsongsinging |
After five years in prison, Tony le Stephanois meets his dearest friends Jo and the Italian Mario Ferrati and they invite Tony to steal a couple of jewels from the show-window of the famous jewelry Mappin & Webb Ltd, but he declines. Tony finds his former girlfriend Mado, who became the lover of the … gangster owner of the night-club L' Age d' Or Louis Grutter, and he humiliates her, beating on her back for being unfaithful. Then he calls Jo and Mario and proposes a burglary of the safe of the jewelry. They invite the Italian specialist in safes and elegant wolf Cesar to join their team and they plot a perfect heist. They are successful in their plan, but the Don Juan Cesar makes things go wrong when he gives a valuable ring to his mistress. (Read More)
Themes: | gamblingtheftgangsterdrugsmurder |
Characters: | husband wife relationship |
Story: | telephone callpoker gamecasinodeath of husbanddrug dealernewspapercriminalface slapsongsinging |
1934. Young adults Bonnie Parker, a waitress, and Clyde Barrow, a criminal just released from prison, are immediately attracted to what the other represents for their life when they meet by chance in West Dallas, Texas. Bonnie is fascinated with Clyde's criminal past, and his matter-of-factness and …bravado in talking about it. Clyde sees in Bonnie someone sympatico to his goals in life. Although attracted to each other physically, a sexual relationship between the two has a few obstacles to happen. Regardless, they decide to join forces to embark on a life of crime, holding up whatever establishments, primarily banks, to make money and to have fun. They don't plan on hurting anyone physically or killing anyone despite wielding loaded guns. They amass a small gang of willing accomplices, including C.W. Moss, a mechanic to fix whatever cars they steal which is important especially for their getaways, and Buck Barrow, one of Clyde's older brothers. The only reluctant tag-along is Buck's nervous wife, Blanche Barrow, a preacher's daughter. The gang's life changes after the first fatal shot is fired. Following, their willingness to shoot to kill increases to protect themselves and their livelihood. Their notoriety precedes them, so much so that no matter what one's opinion is of them, most want to have some association to the Barrow gang, to help them, to be spoken in the same breath as them, or to capture and or kill them. Of the many people they encounter in their crime spree, t… (Read More)
Themes: | theftgangstermurder |
Locations: | car theftmotel |
Characters: | waitresshusband wife relationship |
Story: | telephone callloss of husbandblack americandeath of husbandnewspapercriminalface slapsongsingingtitle spoken by character |
Muriel finds life in Porpoise Spit, Australia dull and spends her days alone in her room listening to Abba music and dreaming of her wedding day. Slight problem, Muriel has never had a date. Then she steals some money to go on a tropical vacation, meets a wacky friend, changes her name to Mariel, an …d turns her world upside down. (Read More)
Themes: | gamblingtheftextramarital affair |
Locations: | motel |
Characters: | sister sister relationshiphusband wife relationship |
Story: | telephone callreference to prince charleslying on bedopening a doorf wordtelephonesinging |
Vincent is an old Vietnam vet whose stubbornly hedonistic ways have left him without money or a future. Things change when his new next-door neighbor's son, Oliver, needs a babysitter and Vince is willing enough for a fee. From that self-serving act, an unexpected friendship forms as Vincent and Oli …ver find so much of each other's needs through each other. As Vincent mentors Oliver in street survival and other worldly ways, Oliver begins to see more in the old man than just his foibles. When life takes a turn for the worse for Vincent, both them find the best in each other than no one around them suspects. (Read More)
Themes: | gamblingtheftvoyeurism |
Locations: | bus |
Characters: | husband wife relationship |
Story: | telephone callapologyold mannewspaperf wordtelephonevoyeurneighborface slaptitle spoken by charactertwo word title |
John has lost all his money. He sits outside a diner in the desert when Sydney happens along, buys him coffee, then takes him to Reno and shows him how to get a free room without losing much money. Under Sydney's fatherly tutelage, John becomes a successful small-time professional gambler, and all i …s well, until he falls for Clementine, a cocktail waitress and sometimes hooker. (Read More)
Themes: | gamblingmurder |
Mood: | neo noir |
Locations: | motel |
Characters: | waitresshusband wife relationship |
Story: | atlantic city new jerseycasinoface slaptitle spoken by charactertwo word title |
Ellie Andrews has just tied the knot with society aviator King Westley when she is whisked away to her father's yacht and out of King's clutches. Ellie jumps ship and eventually winds up on a bus headed back to her husband. Reluctantly she must accept the help of out-of- work reporter Peter Warne. A …ctually, Warne doesn't give her any choice: either she sticks with him until he gets her back to her husband, or he'll blow the whistle on Ellie to her father. Either way, Peter gets what (he thinks!) he wants .... a really juicy newspaper story. (Read More)
Themes: | theft |
Locations: | car theftmotelbus |
Characters: | husband wife relationship |
Story: | telephone callapologynewspaperface slapsongsinging |
Violet Weston ('Meryl Streep' (qv)) has cancer and a propensity for pills and alcohol. She's a difficult woman to deal with and her husband has finally had enough. Violet's family gathers including middle daughter Ivy, youngest daughter Karen (with her new fiance), eldest daughter Barbara (with her …separated husband and teenage daughter), and her sister Mattie Fae (with her husband and son in tow). A family tragedy causes tensions to run high and secrets to come out. The Weston women will be forced to examine themselves and their lives whether they want to or not. Welcome to Osage County, Oklahoma in the sweltering heat of August. (Read More)
Themes: | extramarital affairdrugs |
Locations: | motelbus |
Characters: | sister sister relationshiphusband wife relationship |
Story: | telephone calldeath of husbandapologyf wordtelephoneplace name in titleface slapsongsinging |
Having escaped her abusive ex-husband Goss, recently released from state prison, Agnes, a lonely waitress with a tragic past moves into a sleazy, rundown motel. Her lesbian co-worker R.C. introduces her to Peter, a peculiar, paranoiac drifter and they begin a tentative romance. However, things aren' …t always as they appear and Agnes is about to experience a claustrophobic nightmare reality as the bugs begin to arrive... (Read More)
Themes: | drugsmurder |
Locations: | motel |
Characters: | waitress |
Story: | stabbed to deathcocainetelephoneface slaptitle spoken by character |
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: | gamblinggangsterdrugsmurder |
Mood: | neo noir |
Story: | telephone callpoker gamedeath of husbandcocainedrug dealerf wordplace name in titlesongsingingtitle spoken by character |
Follows a pair of married couples, Alfie (Hopkins) and Helena (Jones), and their daughter Sally (Watts) and husband Roy (Brolin), as their passions, ambitions, and anxieties lead them into trouble and out of their minds. After Alfie leaves Helena to pursue his lost youth and a free-spirited call gir …l named Charmaine (Punch), Helena abandons rationality and surrenders her life to the loopy advice of a charlatan fortune teller. Unhappy in her marriage, Sally develops a crush on her handsome art gallery owner boss, Greg (Banderas), while Roy, a novelist nervously awaiting the response to his latest manuscript, becomes moonstruck over Dia (Pinto), a mystery woman who catches his gaze through a nearby window. (Read More)
Themes: | gamblingextramarital affairvoyeurism |
Story: | telephone callkept manpoker gamecasinooperavoyeurneighbortitle spoken by character |
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: | extramarital affairvoyeurismmurder |
Locations: | bus |
Characters: | waitresshusband wife relationship |
Story: | telephone callcamera shot of feetdriving a carmurdererapologynewspapertelephonevoyeurface slap |
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: | gangsterdrugsmurder |
Locations: | motel |
Characters: | husband wife relationship |
Story: | telephone callloss of husbandstabbed to deathcocainedrug dealerf wordtelephonecriminalface slaptitle spoken by character |
Themes: | voyeurism |
Locations: | motel |
Characters: | husband wife relationship |
Story: | telephone callreference to grace kellyapologycocainef wordtelephoneface slapsongsingingtitle spoken by character |
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: | extramarital affairdrugsmurder |
Locations: | car theftmotel |
Characters: | sister sister relationshiphusband wife relationship |
Story: | telephone callloss of husbanddeath of husbandcocainevoyeurface slapsingingtwo word title |
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: | extramarital affairgangsterdrugsmurder |
Story: | telephone calldouble murderloss of husbandcasinodrug dealercriminaltitle spoken by charactertwo word title |
While looking for an apartment, Jeanne, a beautiful young Parisienne, encounters Paul, a mysterious American expatriate mourning his wife's recent suicide. Instantly drawn to each other, they have a stormy, passionate affair, in which they do not reveal their names to each other. Their relationship …deeply affects their lives, as Paul struggles with his wife's death and Jeanne prepares to marry her fiance, Tom, a film director making a cinema-verite documentary about her. (Read More)
Themes: | extramarital affairvoyeurismmurder |
Story: | telephone boothtelephone callmurder by gunshotf wordtelephonevoyeurplace name in title |
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: | gamblinggangstermurder |
Mood: | neo noir |
Characters: | husband wife relationship |
Story: | husband wife estrangementmobstermurderercocainedrug dealernewspaperf wordcriminaltwo word title |
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: | theftdrugsmurder |
Mood: | neo noir |
Locations: | car theftmotel |
Characters: | waitresshusband wife relationship |
Story: | telephone calldeath of husbandopera |
Brazil, 1960s, City of God. The Tender Trio robs motels and gas trucks. Younger kids watch and learn well...too well. 1970s: Li'l Ze has prospered very well and owns the city. He causes violence and fear as he wipes out rival gangs without mercy. His best friend Bene is the only one to keep him on t …he good side of sanity. Rocket has watched these two gain power for years, and he wants no part of it. Yet he keeps getting swept up in the madness. All he wants to do is take pictures. 1980s: Things are out of control between the last two remaining gangs...will it ever end? Welcome to the City of God. (Read More)
Themes: | theftextramarital affairgangstermurder |
Mood: | neo noir |
Locations: | motelbus |
Story: | telephone callscene during end creditscocainedrug dealernewspapercriminalface slaptitle spoken by character |
Some guys get all the luck, whether they like it or not. Chili Palmer happens to be in Hollywood collecting a gambling debt when he's struck by lightning (not literally). Called a natural for the movie business, he's snagged up by a producer. The rest is history.
Themes: | gamblinggangstermurder |
Mood: | neo noir |
Locations: | motel |
Story: | man punching a womanmobsterf wordtitle spoken by charactertwo word title |
Jules Winnfield ('Samuel L. Jackson' (qv)) and Vincent Vega ('John Travolta (I)' (qv)) are two hit men who are out to retrieve a suitcase stolen from their employer, mob boss Marsellus Wallace ('Ving Rhames' (qv)). Wallace has also asked Vincent to take his wife Mia ('Uma Thurman' (qv)) out a few da …ys later when Wallace himself will be out of town. Butch Coolidge ('Bruce Willis' (qv)) is an aging boxer who is paid by Wallace to lose his fight. The lives of these seemingly unrelated people are woven together comprising of a series of funny, bizarre and uncalled-for incidents. (Read More)
Themes: | voyeurismgangsterdrugsmurder |
Mood: | neo noir |
Locations: | motel |
Characters: | husband wife relationship |
Story: | telephone callfoot massagemurder by gunshotcocainedrug dealerf wordvoyeursingingtwo word title |
Forever alone in a crowd, failed comedian Arthur Fleck seeks connection as he walks the streets of Gotham City. Arthur wears two masks -- the one he paints for his day job as a clown, and the guise he projects in a futile attempt to feel like he's part of the world around him. Isolated, bullied and …disregarded by society, Fleck begins a slow descent into madness as he transforms into the criminal mastermind known as the Joker. (Read More)
Themes: | gangstermurder |
Mood: | neo noir |
Locations: | bus |
Story: | telephone callopening a doorblack womanmurdererstabbed to deathnewspaperf wordtelephonecriminalneighborsingingtitle spoken by character |
Jeff Bailey, small-town gas pumper, has his mysterious past catch up with him one day when he's ordered to meet with gambler Whit Sterling. En route to the meeting, he tells girlfriend Ann his story. Flashback: Once, Jeff was a private eye hired by Sterling to find his mistress Kathie who shot Whit …and absconded with $40,000. He traces her to Acapulco...where the delectable Kathie makes Jeff forget all about Sterling... Back in the present, Whit's new job for Jeff is clearly a trap, but Jeff's precautions only leave him more tightly enmeshed... (Read More)
Themes: | gamblingtheftgangstermurder |
Story: | black manblack womandriving a carcasinonewspaperface slap |
The true story of London's most notorious gangsters, twins Reggie and Ronnie Kray. As the brothers rise through the criminal underworld, Ronnie advances the family business with violence and intimidation while Reggie struggles to go legitimate for local girl Frances Shea. In and out of prison, Ronni …e's unpredictable tendencies and the slow disintegration of Reggie's marriage threaten to bring the brothers' empire tumbling to the ground. (Read More)
Themes: | gamblingtheftgangstermurder |
Characters: | husband wife relationship |
Story: | reference to meyer lanskylemonmobstercasinoapologystabbed to deathnewspaperf wordcriminalface slapsongsinging |
This is a story about Mike, a guy who left his girl in New York when he came to LA to be a star. It's been six months since his girlfriend left him and he's not doing so good. So, his pal and some other friends try and get him back in the social scene and forget about his 6 year relationship.
Themes: | gambling |
Mood: | neo noir |
Characters: | waitress |
Story: | telephone callreference to frank sinatrablackjackcasinof wordtelephonesongsinging |
Themes: | gangsterdrugsmurder |
Mood: | neo noir |
Locations: | motel |
Story: | telephone callcocainedrug dealerf wordtelephonecriminalface slaptwo word title |
An elderly couple journey to Tokyo to visit their children and are confronted by indifference, ingratitude and selfishness. When the parents are packed off to a resort by their busy, impatient children, the film deepens into an unbearably moving meditation on mortality.
Locations: | bus |
Characters: | waitresssister sister relationshiphusband wife relationship |
Story: | telephone callvisitdeath of husbandapologyold manplace name in titlesongsinging |
Three amateurs stickup a Mob protected card game, causing the local criminal economy to collapse. Brad Pitt plays the hitman hired to track them down and restore order.
Themes: | gamblinggangsterdrugsmurder |
Story: | poker gamemobsterdrug dealerf wordcriminal |
A serial killer in the San Francisco Bay Area taunts police with his letters and cryptic messages. We follow the investigators and reporters in this lightly fictionalized account of the true 1970's case as they search for the murderer, becoming obsessed with the case. Based on Robert Graysmith's boo …k, the movie's focus is the lives and careers of the detectives and newspaper people. (Read More)
Themes: | theftmurder |
Mood: | neo noir |
Characters: | sister sister relationshiphusband wife relationship |
Story: | telephone calldouble murderfemale stockinged feetfemale stockinged legsmurdererstabbed to deathnewspapertitle spoken by character |
"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: | gamblingtheftgangsterdrugsmurder |
Characters: | husband wife relationship |
Story: | cocainedrug dealerold mancriminalsongsinging |
As children, Lorenzo Carcaterra - Shakes to his friends - Michael Sullivan, Tommy Marcano, and John Reilly were inseparable. They grew up in Hell's Kitchen, a far from perfect neighborhood, one filled as Shakes says with scams and shake downs, but one where the rules were known by its residents. The … one adult who they admired was Father Bobby Carelli, who understood them as kids more than most adults and more than he himself would like to admit. In 1967, their lives would change forever when a typical teenage prank went wrong which led to the four of them being sentenced to various terms at Wilkinson Home for Boys, a reformatory. There, they were physically, emotionally and sexually abused primarily by Sean Nokes, the head guard of their cell block, and fellow guards Ralph Ferguson, Henry Addison, and Adam Styler, although there were other caring figures of authority at the home including other guards. Their time at the home affected the four, not all who were able to emerge from the experience to regroup their lives. In their want to forget about the experience, they made a vow not to talk about it either between themselves or with others. Fast forward thirteen years, with Tommy and Johnny being career criminals, Michael an assistant district attorney and Shakes a newspaper writer, their friendship on the surface more loose than it was when they were children. When Tommy and John spot Nokes, it leads to Shakes and Michael banding together to exact revenge not only on Nokes b… (Read More)
Themes: | theftextramarital affairgangstermurder |
Mood: | neo noir |
Locations: | bus |
Characters: | husband wife relationship |
Story: | telephone callreference to lucky lucianoblack americancocainedrug dealernewspapercriminalsongsingingtitle spoken by character |
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: | gangsterdrugsmurder |
Mood: | neo noir |
Characters: | husband wife relationship |
Story: | telephone callmobstercocainedrug dealerold manf wordtelephonecriminaltitle spoken by character |
Vincent Downs is a cop in Las Vegas, who's partnered with a crooked cop. His partner asks him to steal some drugs, which they do. But what they don't know is that the drugs belong to a crime family, the Novaks who goes after anyone who crosses them. And Rob Novak the man who was handling the drug sa …le sets his sights on the man who sold him the drugs, casino boss Rubino. Rubino discovers Downs was the one who stole the drugs so he has Downs' son abducted and tells Downs to bring the drugs to his casino. Jennifer Bryant, an idealistic cop who wants to take down every criminal including the Novaks. Recently one her busts went bust and she did everything by the book. She thinks all the men are patronizing her. When she meets Downs she gets a vibe off of him and follows him. Downs brings the drugs to the casino and hides the drugs. Downs meets with Rubino and asks for his drugs. Downs wants his son first before he gives him the drugs. Rubino shows him his son and goes to get the drugs but Bryant finds the drugs and takes them. When Downs learns what she did he scrambles to find a way to save his son. And Novak needs the drugs desperately and goes after everyone especially Downs who is latter asisted by his wife and son to defeat these foes. (Read More)
Themes: | gangsterdrugsmurder |
Mood: | neo noir |
Story: | husband wife estrangementmobstercasinostabbed to deathcocainedrug dealerf wordcriminal |
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: | gamblinggangstermurder |
Story: | telephone boothstabbed to deathdrug dealerf wordcriminalface slap |
During the psychedelic 60s and 70s Larry "Doc" Sportello is surprised by his former girlfriend and her plot for her billionaire boyfriend, his wife, and her boyfriend. A plan for kidnapping gets shaken up by the oddball characters entangled in this groovy kidnapping romp based upon the novel by Thom …as Pynchon. (Read More)
Themes: | theftextramarital affairdrugsmurder |
Mood: | neo noir |
Characters: | waitresshusband wife relationship |
Story: | telephone callblack americancasinodrug dealernewspaperf wordtelephoneface slapsingingtitle spoken by charactertwo word title |
Hitman Jef Costello is a perfectionist who always carefully plans his murders and who never gets caught. One night however, after killing a night-club owner, he's seen by witnesses. His efforts to provide himself with an alibi fail and more and more he gets driven into a corner.
Themes: | gamblingtheftgangstermurder |
Mood: | neo noir |
Locations: | car theft |
Story: | telephone callmurder by gunshotvisitmurderercriminal |