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Angelo "Snaps" Provolone made his dying father a promise on his deathbed: he would leave the world of crime and become an honest businessman. Despite having no experience in making money in a legal fashion, Snaps sets about to keep his promise. He is faced with numerous problems: henchmen who know n β¦othing but crime, the police who are convinced he is hatching a master plan, and Oscar, who has just got his daughter pregnant. (Read More)
Themes: | dyingmafiadeath of fathergangsterweddingpregnancymoneymarriage |
Locations: | italy |
Characters: | hitmanfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | remake of french filmdouble weddingreference to cab callowayswitched luggagehidden charactermalapropismplaying against typefinancejeweltailorrole reversalaccountantmisunderstandingpromisescam β¦mobmobsterfarceitalianhenchmanbodyguardbankmistaken identitysuitcaseforeign language adaptationmansionlingerielieremakebased on playcharacter name in title (See All) |
Elise (Angelina Jolie) sits next to an American tourist, Frank (Johnny Depp), on a train going to Venice. She has chosen him as a decoy, making believe that he is her lover who is wanted by police. Not only will they need to evade the police, but also the mobster whose money her lover stole.
Themes: | gangstermoney |
Characters: | hitman |
Story: | remake of french filmtailormisunderstandingmobmobsteritalianhenchmanmistaken identityforeign language adaptation |
Louis Booker and Charlie Carbone are close friends with an association with the mob. After the duo botch a delivery of stolen TVs, the duo are given a second chance by mob leader Sal Maggio, who happens to be Charlie's stepfather. The duo are to deliver $50,000 to a contact in Australia. As simple a β¦s the job sounds, complications emerge when a kangaroo steals the money. Now Charlie and Louis must find the kangaroo and get the money back before they find themselves in a worse predicament. (Read More)
Themes: | mafiagangstermoney |
Characters: | hitman |
Story: | mobmobsterhenchmancharacter name in title |
An art-house auctioneer finds himself getting in deeper and deeper with the mob after learning that his teacher girlfriend is the daughter of a major mobster. Things get worse when a godfather decides to launder his no-talent son's gory paintings through the art house and gets the FBI into the pictu β¦re. Everything then falls apart when the son is accidentally shot. (Read More)
Themes: | mafiagangsterweddingmarriage |
Characters: | father daughter relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | mobmobsterliecharacter name in title |
John LeCarre's spy thriller is brought to the big screen. A British spy is banished to Panama after having an affair with an ambassador's mistress. Once there he makes connection with a local tailor with a criminal past and connections to all of the top political and gangster figures in Panama. The β¦tailor also has a wife, who works for the canal administrator, and a huge debt. The spy's mission is to learn what the President intends to do with the Panama Canal, but he's really in business for himself, blackmailing the tailor into spinning a fantastic tale about the canal being sold to China and former mercenaries ready to topple the current government. (Read More)
Themes: | gangstermoneymarriage |
Characters: | father daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | tailorbanksuitcaselie |
Don and Ellie were once married and have two children, Lyla and Jared. They adopt a boy from Colombia, Alejandro. Eventually they would divorce, Ellie would move away and Don would hook up with Bebe, Ellie's best friend. When Alejandro is about to get married, he informs Don and Ellie that he never β¦told his natural mother who is so traditional that they got divorced. And she is coming for the wedding so he asks them if they can pretend to still be married. Don and Ellie reluctantly agree to it and Bebe moves out who is also upset that Don doesn't want to commit. Lyla who is married is going through a rough patch in her marriage. And Jared who hasn't had much luck with women finds himself attracted to Alejandro's extremely sensual sister, Nuria. (Read More)
Themes: | weddingmarriage |
Characters: | father daughter relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | remake of french filmfarcelieremake |
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: | mafiagangstermoney |
Characters: | hitman |
Story: | mobmobsterhenchmanbodyguardcharacter name in title |
Themes: | mafiagangster |
Locations: | italy |
Characters: | hitman |
Story: | tailormobsteritalianhenchmanbodyguardsuitcasecharacter name in title |
"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: | mafiagangsterweddingmoney |
Locations: | italy |
Characters: | hitmanhusband wife relationship |
Story: | tailoraccountantmobhenchman |
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 β¦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: | gangsterpregnancymoney |
Characters: | hitmanfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
Story: | playing against typepromisehenchmanlingerieliebased on playcharacter name in title |
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 β¦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: | mafiagangsterweddingmoneymarriage |
Characters: | hitmanfather daughter relationship |
Story: | misunderstandingmobsteritalianhenchmanbodyguardmansion |
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 β¦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 speβ¦ (Read More)
Themes: | mafiadeath of fathergangstermoney |
Characters: | hitmanfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | tailormobsteritalianhenchmanbodyguardbankmansion |
A frustrated and clumsy bank clerk overhears the conversation of three coworkers in the toilet about a fix in a horse race, and bets a large amount. He loses the bet and owes the money to the dangerous and powerful mobster Fingers. A gangster who works for Fingers has the ability of foreseeing piece β¦s of the future; he is assigned to collect money for the boss, with his troublemaker nephew Tony, and is beaten up by a gang. The manager of pop-star Trista loses her contract to Fingers without her agreement and she is threatened by the gangster. A dedicated doctor seeks a blood donor that might have a rare blood type to save the life of his secret and unrequited passion, a beautiful epidemiologist who's married to a friend. (Read More)
Themes: | death of fathergangsterpregnancymoney |
Characters: | father daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
Story: | mobsterhenchmanbanklingerie |
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 β¦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: | mafiadeath of fathergangstermoney |
Characters: | hitmanhusband wife relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | accountantmobsterbodyguardmansion |
1920's prohibition Chicago is corrupt from the judges downward. So in going up against Al Capone, Treasury agent Eliot Ness picks just two cops to help him and his accountant colleague. One is a sharp-shooting rookie, the other a seen-it-all beat man. The four of them are ready to battle Capone and β¦his empire, but it could just be that guns are not the best way to get him. (Read More)
Themes: | mafiagangsterpregnancymarriage |
Characters: | hitman |
Story: | accountantmobstersuitcase |
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 β¦ably. The only thing that remains is that Scotty himself becomes a drug pusher. (Read More)
Themes: | mafiagangsterweddingmoney |
Characters: | hitmanhusband wife relationship |
Story: | mobsterhenchmanbodyguardmansionlingerie |
In 1848, a New York bank wants to put a railroad across Mexico, so it buys up small banks around Santa Rita, Durango, and evicts farmers on the proposed rail line who owe money. The bank's henchman is the murderous Jackson. He runs afoul of two women, Maria, the tough but uneducated daughter of a fa β¦rmer, and Sara, the European-educated daughter of the owner of one of these banks. To feed the now landless people and to seek revenge, Maria and Sara become bank robbers, veritable Robin Hoods. But Jackson and his hired guns are after them. What are the women's options? (Read More)
Themes: | death of fathermoney |
Characters: | hitmanfather daughter relationship |
Story: | henchmanbankmansion |
Max and Page are a mother and daughter con team. Max seduces wealthy men into marrying her, then Page seduces them into infidelity so Max can rake them over the divorce court coals. And then it's on to the next victim.
Themes: | weddingmoneymarriage |
Characters: | husband wife relationship |
Story: | scamfarcebankmansion |
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 β¦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: | mafiadeath of fathergangstermoney |
Characters: | hitmanfather daughter relationship |
Story: | bodyguardsuitcasemansion |
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 β¦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: | mafiagangstermoneymarriage |
Characters: | hitmanfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
Story: | mobstercharacter name in title |
The Addams step out of 'Charles Addams' (qv)' cartoons. They live with all of the trappings of the macabre (including a detached hand for a servant) and are quite wealthy. Added to this mix is a crooked accountant and his loan shark and a plot to slip in the shark's son into the family as their long β¦ lost Uncle Fester. Can the false Fester find his way into the vault before he is discovered? (Read More)
Themes: | pregnancy |
Characters: | father daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | accountantscammansioncharacter name in title |
Themes: | mafiagangsterpregnancy |
Characters: | hitmanfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
Story: | mobsterhenchmanbodyguardbankmansioncharacter name in title |
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: | mafiagangstermoney |
Characters: | father daughter relationship |
Story: | scammobstermansion |
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 β¦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: | mafiagangstermoney |
Story: | mobmobsterbodyguardremakecharacter name in title |
It's 1949 Los Angeles, and gangster Mickey Cohen has moved in, with the intention of controlling all criminal activity in the city. He has bought local judges and police, and no one is willing to cross him or testify against him. Everyone except Sergeant John O'Mara, a former World War II soldier, w β¦hose goal is to settle with his family in a peaceful Los Angeles. Police Chief William Parker decides to form a special unit whose mission is to take down Cohen, and chooses O'Mara to lead the unit. O'Mara chooses 4 cops and asks another cop and vet, Jerry Wooters to join him but Wooters is not interested. But when he witnesses the murder of a young boy by Cohen's people, he joins them, and they decide to take apart Cohen's organization. Cohen wonders if a rival is going after him, but eventually he realizes it's the cops. (Read More)
Themes: | mafiadeath of fathergangster |
Characters: | hitmanhusband wife relationship |
Story: | mobsterbodyguardmansion |
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 β¦to the FBI if Patrovita is taken down. To accomplish this, Kaminski must go undercover and join Patrovita's gang. (Read More)
Themes: | mafiagangster |
Characters: | husband wife relationship |
Story: | promisemobmobster |
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 β¦no director tries to break up the romance. (Read More)
Themes: | mafiagangstermoney |
Characters: | husband wife relationship |
Story: | scammobmobster |
A hitman who lives by the code of the samurai, works for the mafia and finds himself in their crosshairs when his recent job doesn't go according to plan. Now he must find a way to defend himself and his honor while retaining the code he lives by.
Themes: | mafiagangster |
Characters: | hitmanfather daughter relationship |
Story: | mistaken identitymansion |
When a Yakuza boss named Anjo disappears with 300 million yen, his chief henchman, a sadomasochistic man named Kakihara, and the rest of his mob goons go looking for him. After capturing and torturing a rival Yakuza member looking for answers, they soon realize they have the wrong man and begin look β¦ing for the man named Jijii who tipped them off in the first place. Soon enough Kakihara and his men encounter Ichi, a psychotic, sexually-repressed young man with amazing martial arts abilities and blades that come out of his shoes. One by one Ichi takes out members of the Yakuza and all the while Kakihara intensifies his pursuit of Ichi and Ichi's controller Jijii. What will happen as the final showdown happens between the tortured and ultra-violent Ichi and the pain-craving Kakihara? (Read More)
Themes: | mafiadeath of fathergangster |
Characters: | hitman |
Story: | mobmobsterhenchmancharacter name in title |
Montreal, Canada. A down-on-his luck dentist, "Oz" Oseransky ('Matthew Perry (I)' (qv)), discovers that his new neighbor is Jimmy "The Tulip" Tudeski ('Bruce Willis' (qv)), former mob contract killer turned police informant upon whom the Hungarian mob has put on price on. Egged on my his loathsome w β¦ife Sophie ('Rosanna Arquette' (qv)), Oz sets off to Chicago to let the mob know where The Tulip is, and hopefully claim part of the reward. (Read More)
Themes: | mafiamoney |
Characters: | hitman |
Story: | mobmobsterbank |
A boy named George Jung grows up in a struggling family in the 1950's. His mother nags at her husband as he is trying to make a living for the family. It is finally revealed that George's father cannot make a living and the family goes bankrupt. George does not want the same thing to happen to him, β¦and his friend Tuna, in the 1960's, suggests that he deal marijuana. He is a big hit in California in the 1960's, yet he goes to jail, where he finds out about the wonders of cocaine. As a result, when released, he gets rich by bringing cocaine to America. However, he soon pays the price. (Read More)
Themes: | weddingpregnancymoneymarriage |
Characters: | father daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | promisebanksuitcasemansion |
Batman, the costumed crime-fighter who prowls the night skies in Gotham City, soon finds there's another vigilante in town knocking off prominent mob figures. Despite the scythe-like blade for a hand, a mechanical voice and the cloud of smoke that follows the figure wherever it goes, the police and β¦outraged officials mistake the homicidal crusader for Batman himself and demand that the city's longtime hero be brought to justice. Meanwhile, Andrea Beaumont returns to town. She is the lost love of Bruce Wayne, the billionaire playboy who is Batman's alter ego, and was an integral part of Wayne's decision ten years earlier to don the cape and cowl. Now, she is back in his life and is no less a disruption than the return of his old archenemy, The Joker, who has a stake in seeing the annihilation of this new vigilante, whoever it proves to be. (Read More)
Themes: | mafiadeath of fathergangster |
Characters: | hitmanfather daughter relationship |
Story: | mobmobsterhenchmanbodyguardmansioncharacter name in title |
The RIDE ALONG 2 sequel picks up about a year after our heroes' last adventure. Plans for a quick trip to Miami go bad. With the wedding upcoming, James reluctantly takes Ben with him to Miami to follow up on a lead connected to a drug ring case he's been trying to crack. In Miami, they meet Maya, a β¦ no-BS homicide detective who lets them know Miami is her turf. They also encounter AJ, a shady cocky computer hacker who reveals evidence that implicates a well-respected local businessman, the wealthy Antonio Pope. Pope harbors a vicious streak and rules South Florida's drug trade. If Ben and James can convince the authorities that Pope is a brutal crime boss they'll stop his spree. If they fail, well there may not be a wedding after all. (Read More)
Themes: | gangsterweddingmarriage |
Characters: | hitmanfamily relationships |
Story: | henchmanbodyguardmansion |
The trademark of The Phantom, a renowned jewel thief, is a glove left at the scene of the crime. Inspector Clouseau, an expert on The Phantom's exploits, feels sure that he knows where The Phantom will strike next and leaves Paris for Switzerland, where the famous Lugashi jewel 'The Pink Panther' is β¦ going to be. However, he does not know who The Phantom really is, or for that matter who anyone else really is... (Read More)
Locations: | italy |
Story: | jewelfarcebodyguardmistaken identity |
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 β¦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: | mafiagangster |
Characters: | hitmanfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | mobmobsterfarce |
Jordan Belfort is a Long Island penny stockbroker who served 22 months in prison for defrauding investors in a massive 1990s securities scam that involved widespread corruption on Wall Street and in the corporate banking world, including shoe designer Steve Madden.
Themes: | weddingpregnancymoneymarriage |
Locations: | italy |
Characters: | husband wife relationship |
Story: | financetailorpromisescammansionlingerielie |
Bounty hunter Jack Walsh ('Robert De Niro' (qv)) is sent to find and return bail jumper and former Mafia accountant, Jonathan "The Duke" Mardukas ('Charles Grodin' (qv)). The FBI has had no success in locating The Duke, so when Jack finds him in next to no time, they are a little embarrassed. In ord β¦er to collect his $100,000 fee, Jack must take The Duke from New York to Los Angeles. However, the Mafia and the FBI have other ideas, as does Marvin Dorfler ('John Ashton (I)' (qv)), a rival bounty hunter. On their long cross-country trip to LA, the two get to know each other and they build up a strange friendship. (Read More)
Themes: | mafiamoney |
Characters: | hitman |
Story: | accountantmob |
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, β¦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: | mafiagangsterwedding |
Characters: | hitman |
Story: | mobmobsterlingerie |
When two Chicago musicians, Joe and Jerry, witness the the St. Valentine's Day massacre, they want to get out of town and get away from the gangster responsible, Spats Colombo. They're desperate to get a gig out of town but the only job they know of is in an all-girl band heading to Florida. They sh β¦ow up at the train station as Josephine and Daphne, the replacement saxophone and bass players. They certainly enjoy being around the girls, especially Sugar Kane Kowalczyk who sings and plays the ukulele. Joe in particular sets out to woo her while Jerry/Daphne is wooed by a millionaire, Osgood Fielding III. Mayhem ensues as the two men try to keep their true identities hidden and Spats Colombo and his crew show up for a meeting with several other crime lords. (Read More)
Themes: | dyinggangster |
Story: | role reversalfarcehenchmansuitcaselieremake |
Things go wrong for a high ranking mobster when he doesn't proceed by his boss's orders.
Themes: | mafiagangster |
Characters: | hitman |
Story: | mobmobster |
Dave Lizewski is an unnoticed high school student and comic book fan with a few friends and who lives alone with his father. His life is not very difficult and his personal trials not that overwhelming. However, one day he makes the simple decision to become a super-hero even though he has no powers β¦ or training. (Read More)
Themes: | mafiadeath of fathergangster |
Characters: | father daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
Story: | mobsterhenchmanbodyguardmistaken identitycharacter name in 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 β¦e successor being finally chosen. (Read More)
Themes: | mafiagangsterweddingmarriage |
Locations: | italy |
Characters: | hitmanfather daughter relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | mansion |
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 β¦ring a breakneck, action-packed finale filled with double-crosses, greed and revenge. (Read More)
Themes: | gangstermoney |
Characters: | hitmanhusband wife relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | mobmobsterhenchmanbodyguardbank |
Young lovers Hero and Claudio are to be married in one week. To pass the time, they conspire with Don Pedro to set a "lover's trap" for Benedick, an arrogant confirmed bachelor, and Beatrice, his favorite sparring partner. Meanwhile, the evil Don Jon conspires to break up the wedding by accusing Her β¦o of infidelity. In the end, though, it all turns out to be "much ado about nothing." (Read More)
Themes: | weddingmarriage |
Characters: | husband wife relationship |
Story: | misunderstandingmistaken identityliebased on play |
Streetwise mobster-turned-movie producer Chili Palmer is back, but this time Chili has abandoned the fickle movie industry and veered into the music business, tangling with Russian mobsters and gangsta rappers and taking a talented, feisty young singer named Linda Moon under his wing. From the recor β¦ding studio to an Aerosmith concert to the MTV Music Awards, he manipulates events to watch them play out the Chili way, using his signature blend of wiseguy skills and negotiation tactics. It's a dangerous business, and everyone's looking for their next big hit. (Read More)
Themes: | gangster |
Characters: | hitmanfather daughter relationship |
Story: | mobsterbodyguard |
It's a world where everyone tells the truth - and just about anything they're thinking. Mark Bellison is a screenwriter, about to be fired. He's short and chunky with a flat nose - a genetic setup that means he won't get to first base with Anna, the woman he loves. At a bank, on the spur of the mome β¦nt he blurts out a fib, with eye-popping results. Then, when his mother's on her deathbed, frightened of the eternal void awaiting her, Mark invents fiction. The hospital staff overhear his description of Heaven, believe every word, and tell others. Soon Mark is a prophet, his first inventive screenplay makes him rich, and he's basically a good guy. But will that be enough for Anna? (Read More)
Themes: | dyingweddingpregnancymoneymarriage |
Story: | bankmansionlie |
Johnny Hooker, a small time grifter, unknowingly steals from Doyle Lonnegan, a big time crime boss, when he pulls a standard street con. Lonnegan demands satisfaction for the insult. After his partner, Luther, is killed, Hooker flees, and seeks the help of Henry Gondorff, one of Luther's contacts, w β¦ho is a master of the long con. Hooker wants to use Gondorff's expertise to take Lonnegan for an enormous sum of money to even the score, since he admits he "doesn't know enough about killing to kill him." They devise a complicated scheme and amass a talented group of other con artists who want their share of the reparations. The stakes are high in this game, and our heroes must not only deal with Lonnegan's murderous tendencies, but also other side players who want a piece of the action. To win, Hooker and Gondorff will need all their skills...and a fair amount of confidence. (Read More)
Themes: | mafiagangstermoney |
Story: | tailorbodyguardbank |
Michael and Jenna, having been a couple for three years, want to get married and start a family. These plans seem to be well on their way when Jenna announces that she's pregnant. But Michael is worried that his life and his youth will be over for good. At a wedding of a friend, he meets a free-spir β¦ited college co-ed, Kim, who opens his eyes and leads him on a dangerous path away from Jenna. Meanwhile, none of the relationships of the people surrounding Michael and Jenna are happy and stable. Michael's friend Izzy is unwilling to let go of his childhood sweetheart Arianna; Kenny is a handsome stud who fears commitment to his latest conquest Danielle; and Chris is a co-worker who is dominated by his neurotic and overbearing wife over raising their newborn son. Even Jenna's parents, Stephen and Anna, are experiencing problems in their long-suffering marriage. (Read More)
Themes: | dyingdeath of fatherweddingpregnancymarriage |
Characters: | father daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | remake |
At his daughter's wedding, time-management specialist Frank Allen corners the reluctant groom and tells him a long story: about the night his wife chose him, and then, about eight years later, when a missed ferry, a corporate groupie, a panicked expectant mother, and a medical test brought Frank's m β¦arriage to a crisis. In the midst of the crisis were Frank, his wife Susan, their daughter Jesse, and Frank's best friend, the feckless Buddy. Things come to a head at a lake when Frank, armed with a shotgun, decides to cross something permanently from one of his time-management lists. Is there ever room for whim and chaos? (Read More)
Themes: | weddingpregnancymarriage |
Characters: | father daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | misunderstandinglie |
Samuels life is perfect. That is, until he finds out his girlfriend is pregnant. Now he must face the issues that come with being an expecting father, in a most entertaining way.
Themes: | pregnancymarriage |
Story: | remake of french filmfarceforeign language adaptationremake |