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Harry Kilmer returns to Japan after several years in order to rescue his friend George's kidnapped daughter - and ends up on the wrong side of the Yakuza, the notorious Japanese mafia...
Subgenre: | cult filmmartial arts |
Themes: | mafiamemorygangsterkidnappinglove |
Mood: | neo noirgore |
Locations: | japan |
Characters: | american abroaddetectivebrother brother relationshipfather daughter relationship |
Story: | army veteranwar buddyswindlefinger cut offold flamegang warkendopost world war twoyakuzakatana swordsevered fingerransomcrime bossbusinesskarate β¦sword fightcriminalhand to hand combatblood splattertwo word titleviolenceblood (See All) |
Two New York cops get involved in a gang war between members of the Yakuza, the Japanese Mafia. They arrest one of their killers and are ordered to escort him back to Japan. In Japan, however, he manages to escape. As they try to track him down, they get deeper and deeper into the Japanese Mafia sce β¦ne and they have to learn that they can only win by playing the game the Japanese way. (Read More)
Subgenre: | cult filmmartial arts |
Themes: | mafiagangsterlove |
Mood: | neo noirgore |
Locations: | japan |
Characters: | american abroaddetective |
Story: | finger cut offgang warkendoyakuzakatana swordsevered fingercrime bosssword fighthand to hand combatblood splattertwo word titleviolenceblood |
Blind Zatoichi makes his living by gambling and giving massages. But behind his humble facade, Zatoichi is a master swordsman, gifted with lightning-fast draw and strokes of breathtaking precision. Zatoichi wanders into a town run by sinister gangs and a powerful samurai. He's destined for violent s β¦howdowns when he stumbles on two beautiful geishas avenging their parents' murder... Duels, wit and a touch of zen! Cult anti-hero Zatoichi is back in a sword-fighting adventure written, directed and starring Takeshi Kitano. (Read More)
Subgenre: | cult filmmartial arts |
Themes: | memory |
Mood: | gore |
Locations: | japan |
Story: | finger cut offgang waryakuzakatana swordsevered fingersword fightcriminalblood splatterbloodviolence |
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 β¦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)
Subgenre: | martial arts |
Themes: | gangster |
Mood: | neo noirgore |
Characters: | father daughter relationship |
Story: | kendoyakuzakatana swordsword fighthand to hand combatblood splatterviolenceblood |
At the offices of a Japanese corporation, during a party, a woman, who's evidently a professional mistress, is found dead, apparently after some rough sex. A police detective, Web Smith is called in to investigate but before getting there, he gets a call from someone who instructs him to pick up Joh β¦n Connor, a former police Captain and expert on Japanese affairs. When they arrive there Web thinks that everything is obvious but Connor tells him that there's a lot more going on. (Read More)
Subgenre: | martial arts |
Mood: | neo noir |
Locations: | japan |
Characters: | detectivefather daughter relationship |
Story: | yakuzakatana swordbusinesshand to hand combatblood splattertwo word titleviolence |
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)
Subgenre: | cult filmmartial arts |
Themes: | mafiagangster |
Mood: | neo noirgore |
Characters: | detective |
Story: | gang warcrime bossbusinesscriminalhand to hand combatblood splatterviolenceblood |
In Bangkok, the young Kham was raised by his father in the jungle with elephants as members of their family. When his old elephant and the baby Kern are stolen by criminals, Kham finds that the animals were sent to Sidney. He travels to Australia, where he locates the baby elephant in a restaurant o β¦wned by the evil Madame Rose, the leader of an international Thai mafia. With the support of the efficient Thai sergeant Mark, who was involved in a conspiracy, Kham fights to rescue the animal from the mobsters. (Read More)
Subgenre: | cult filmmartial arts |
Themes: | mafia |
Story: | kendokatana swordsword fighthand to hand combatblood splatterbloodviolence |
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)
Subgenre: | cult film |
Themes: | mafiagangster |
Mood: | gore |
Characters: | brother brother relationshipfather daughter relationship |
Story: | gang warpost world war twocrime bosscriminalblood splattertwo word titleviolenceblood |
The mega corporation Omni Consumer Products is still bent on creating their pet project, Delta City, to replace the rotting city of Detroit. Unfortunately, the inhabitants of the area have no intention of abandoning their homes simply for desires of the company. To this end, OCP have decided to forc β¦e them to leave by employing a ruthless mercenary army to attack and harass them. An underground resistance begins and in this fight, Robocop must decide where his loyalties lie. (Read More)
Subgenre: | martial arts |
Themes: | gangster |
Mood: | neo noir |
Story: | kendoyakuzakatana swordsword fighthand to hand combatblood splatterviolenceblood |
Trained since childhood to be a lethal killer, Raizo has since turned his back on the Ozunu clan that raised him and now seeks revenge for their heartless murders. Teaming up with Europol investigator Mika, Raizo steadily butchers his enemies while inching ever closer to the long-awaited bloody reun β¦ion with his former master. (Read More)
Subgenre: | martial arts |
Themes: | gangster |
Mood: | neo noirgore |
Story: | kendoyakuzacrime bosssword fighthand to hand combatblood splatterviolenceblood |
While protecting his village from rampaging boar-god/demon, a confident young warrior, Ashitaka, is stricken by a deadly curse. To save his life, he must journey to the forests of the west. Once there, he's embroiled in a fierce campaign that humans were waging on the forest. The ambitious Lady Ebos β¦hi and her loyal clan use their guns against the gods of the forest and a brave young woman, Princess Mononoke, who was raised by a wolf-god. Ashitaka sees the good in both sides and tries to stem the flood of blood. This is met be animosity by both sides as they each see him as supporting the enemy. (Read More)
Subgenre: | cult filmmartial arts |
Themes: | love |
Mood: | gore |
Locations: | japan |
Story: | kendokatana swordsword fighthand to hand combatblood splattertwo word titleviolenceblood |
Returning to Shanghai to marry his fiancee, Chen Zhen (Bruce Lee) a student of renowned martial arts teacher Huo Yuanjia, discovers his sifu has died. During the funeral, members of a local Japanese dojo show up and insult the Chinese students. The bullying continues, with Chen fighting back, but wh β¦en he discovers the truth - that his teacher was poisoned on the orders of the dojo's master - he sets off on a doomed mission of revenge. (Read More)
Subgenre: | martial arts |
Themes: | mafiagangster |
Story: | katana swordkaratesword fighthand to hand combatviolenceblood |
Corky, a lesbian ex con hired to work in an apartment as a plumber, meets neighbors Caesar, who launders money for the Mafia, and his girlfriend Violet. The two women have a love affair and decide to steal $2,000,000 that Caesar has in custody before he gives them back to Mafia boss Gino Marzone. Ca β¦esar is set up by the two scheming women as a scapegoat but things start to go wrong when he reacts in an unexpected way... (Read More)
Subgenre: | cult film |
Themes: | mafiagangsterlove |
Mood: | neo noir |
Story: | finger cut offsevered fingercrime bosscriminalblood splatterbloodviolence |
Kevin Chan (aka Jackie) is a Hong-Kong cop, who scores his first big hit by virtually single-handedly capturing and arresting a big drug- lord. Of course, the drug-lord isn't too happy about this, and frames Kevin with the murder of another cop (who happened to be on the take). Kevin has to clear hi β¦s name, whilst keeping himself from getting killed or arrested, and keeping his girlfriend from leaving him. (Read More)
Subgenre: | cult filmmartial arts |
Themes: | gangsterkidnapping |
Characters: | detective |
Story: | kendocrime bosssword fightcriminalhand to hand combatblood splattertwo word titleviolenceblood |
In modern day Japan, Wolverine is out of his depth in an unknown world as he faces his ultimate nemesis in a life-or-death battle that will leave him forever changed. Vulnerable for the first time and pushed to his physical and emotional limits, he confronts not only lethal samurai steel but also hi β¦s inner struggle against his own near-immortality, emerging more powerful than we have ever seen him before. (Read More)
Subgenre: | martial arts |
Themes: | mafiagangsterkidnapping |
Locations: | japan |
Characters: | father daughter relationship |
Story: | kendoyakuzakatana swordcrime bosssword fighthand to hand combattwo word titleviolenceblood |
U.S. Marshal deputy John Kruger is one of the toughest Marshals, his methods are to "Erase" The identities of his witnesses he is assigned to protect. Meanwhile, a woman named Lee Cullen who works for a corporation named Cyrez performed an undercover job for the FBI to unveil a top secret weapon whi β¦ch uses an electromagnetic pulse to dispatch targets. Cyrez discovered this about Lee and are now out to kill her, Kruger's job is now to protect Lee so she can testify against Cyrez. But, when Kruger was assigned to perform a job with another Marshal named Robert Deguerin, he discovers that Deguerin is behind some kind of scam that will involve the EM Gun, which will change hands to a Russian criminal if Kruger does not stop them, Kruger must not only protect Lee's life but his own. (Read More)
Subgenre: | martial arts |
Themes: | mafiagangsterkidnapping |
Mood: | neo noirgore |
Story: | crime bosskaratecriminalhand to hand combatblood splatterviolenceblood |
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)
Subgenre: | martial arts |
Themes: | mafiagangster |
Mood: | neo noirgore |
Story: | crime bosscriminalhand to hand combatblood splattertwo word titleviolenceblood |
After an attempted assassination on Ambassador Han, Inspector Lee and Detective Carter are back in action as they head to Paris to protect a French woman with knowledge of the Triads' secret leaders. Lee also holds secret meetings with a United Nations authority, but his personal struggles with a Ch β¦inese criminal mastermind named Kenji, which reveals that it's Lee's long-lost...brother. But their race will take them across the city, from the depths of the Paris underground to the breathtaking heights of the Eiffel Tower, as they fight to outrun the world's most deadly criminals and save the day. (Read More)
Subgenre: | martial arts |
Themes: | kidnapping |
Characters: | american abroadbrother brother relationshipfather daughter relationship |
Story: | katana swordkaratesword fightcriminalhand to hand combatblood splatterbloodviolence |
Joe is classified as a "looper", a job in which his employers use time travel to send men from the future to be killed into the past, where Joe can properly dispose of their bodies. However, to tie up loose ends and erase the evidence of his ever being a looper, Joe knows that one day his future sel β¦f will be sent back for him to kill. When this day comes, Joe's future self is prepared and escapes, and the two men struggle separately in the past trying to evade capture and attempting to fulfill their own personal agendas. (Read More)
Themes: | mafiagangster |
Mood: | neo noirgore |
Characters: | american abroad |
Story: | severed fingercrime bosscriminalblood splatterviolenceblood |
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)
Subgenre: | cult filmmartial arts |
Themes: | mafiagangster |
Story: | crime bosskaratehand to hand combatblood splatterviolenceblood |
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)
Subgenre: | martial arts |
Themes: | mafiagangster |
Mood: | neo noir |
Story: | crime bosscriminalhand to hand combatblood splattertwo word titleviolenceblood |
A poetic guitarist Eric Draven is brought back to life by a crow a year after he and his fiancee are murdered. The crow guides him through the land of the living, and leads him to his killers: knife thrower Tin-tin, drugetic Funboy, car buff T-Bird, and the unsophisticated Skank. One by one, Eric gi β¦ves these thugs a taste of their own medicine. However their leader Top-Dollar, a world-class crime lord who will dispatch his enemies with a Japanese sword and joke about it later, will soon learn the legend of the crow and the secret to the vigilante's invincibility. (Read More)
Subgenre: | cult filmmartial arts |
Mood: | neo noirgore |
Story: | kendokatana swordcrime bosssword fighthand to hand combatblood splatterbloodviolence |
The murderous Bride is back and she is still continuing her vengeance quest against her ex-boss, Bill, and taking aim at Bill's younger brother Budd and Elle Driver, the only survivors from the squad of assassins who betrayed her four years earlier. It's all leading up to the ultimate confrontation β¦with Bill, the Bride's former master and the man who ordered her execution! (Read More)
Subgenre: | cult filmmartial arts |
Themes: | love |
Mood: | neo noirgore |
Characters: | brother brother relationshipfather daughter relationship |
Story: | kendokatana swordsword fighthand to hand combatblood splatterbloodviolence |
A violent Hong Kong action film, this is the story of an assassin, Jeffrey Chow (aka Mickey Mouse) who takes one last job so he can retire and care for his girlfriend Jenny. When his employers betray him, he reluctantly joins forces with Inspector Lee (aka Dumbo), the cop who is pursuing him. Togeth β¦er, the new friends face the final confrontation of the gangsters out to kill them. (Read More)
Subgenre: | cult filmmartial arts |
Themes: | gangsterlove |
Mood: | neo noirgore |
Story: | crime bossbusinesscriminalhand to hand combatblood splatterviolenceblood |
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.
Subgenre: | martial arts |
Themes: | gangster |
Mood: | neo noir |
Characters: | detective |
Story: | crime bosscriminalhand to hand combatblood splatterviolenceblood |
In this modern day Romeo and Juliet, kung fu action star Jet Li plays Romeo to hip-hop singer, Aaliyah Haughton's Juliet. Li is an ex-cop investigating the murder of his brother, who had ties with the Chinese mafia in America. Aaliyah plays the daughter of the American mob boss. Neither side approve β¦s of their romance, so, obviously, kung fu action ensues, with a soundtrack by Aaliyah. (Read More)
Subgenre: | martial arts |
Themes: | mafiagangsterkidnapping |
Characters: | brother brother relationshipfather daughter relationship |
Story: | gang warhand to hand combatblood splatterviolence |
Things go wrong for a high ranking mobster when he doesn't proceed by his boss's orders.
Subgenre: | martial arts |
Themes: | mafiagangster |
Mood: | gore |
Story: | severed fingercrime bossbusinessviolenceblood |
Tang Lung arrives in Rome to help his cousins in the restaurant business. They are being pressured to sell their property to the syndicate, who will stop at nothing to get what they want. When Tang arrives he poses a new threat to the syndicate, and they are unable to defeat him. The syndicate boss β¦hires the best Japanese and European martial artists to fight Tang, but he easily finishes them off. The American martial artist Colt is hired and has a showdown with Tang in Rome's famous Colosseum. (Read More)
Subgenre: | martial arts |
Themes: | mafiagangsterkidnapping |
Story: | crime bossbusinesskaratehand to hand combatviolence |
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)
Subgenre: | cult filmmartial arts |
Themes: | mafiagangster |
Mood: | gore |
Characters: | brother brother relationship |
Story: | yakuzacrime bosscriminalblood splattertwo word titlebloodviolence |
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.
Subgenre: | martial arts |
Themes: | mafiagangster |
Locations: | japan |
Characters: | father daughter relationship |
Story: | katana swordkaratebloodviolence |
This urban nightmare chronicles several days in the life of Caine Lawson, following his high-school graduation, as he attempts to escape his violent existence in the projects of Watts, CA.
Subgenre: | cult film |
Themes: | gangsterlove |
Mood: | neo noirgore |
Characters: | detectivebrother brother relationship |
Story: | crime bosscriminalblood splatterbloodviolence |
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 β¦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: | mafiagangsterkidnapping |
Mood: | neo noir |
Characters: | brother brother relationship |
Story: | gang warcrime bosscriminalblood splattertwo word titlebloodviolence |
In the final instalment of the Godfather Trilogy, an aging Don Michael Corleone seeks to legitimize his crime family's interests and remove himself from the violent underworld but is kept back by the ambitions of the young. While he attempts to link the Corleone's finances with the Vatican, Michael β¦must deal with the machinations of a hungrier gangster seeking to upset the existing Mafioso order and a young protoge's love affair with his daughter. (Read More)
Subgenre: | cult film |
Themes: | mafiagangsterlove |
Characters: | father daughter relationship |
Story: | gang warcrime bossblood splatterviolence |
The continuing saga of the Corleone crime family tells the story of a young Vito Corleone growing up in Sicily and in 1910s New York; and follows Michael Corleone in the 1950s as he attempts to expand the family business into Las Vegas, Hollywood and Cuba.
Themes: | mafiamemorygangsterlove |
Characters: | brother brother relationship |
Story: | gang warcrime bossbusinessviolenceblood |
In an innocent heartland city, five are shot dead by an expert sniper. The police quickly identify and arrest the culprit, and build a slam-dunk case. But instead of confessing, the accused man writes the words, "Get Jack Reacher." Reacher himself sees the news report and turns up in the city. The d β¦efense is immensely relieved, but Reacher has come to bury the guy. Shocked at the accused's request, Reacher sets out to confirm for himself the absolute certainty of the man's guilt, but comes up with more than he bargained for. (Read More)
Subgenre: | martial arts |
Themes: | gangsterkidnapping |
Mood: | neo noir |
Characters: | american abroadfather daughter relationship |
Story: | severed fingercrime bosshand to hand combattwo word titleviolenceblood |
Dr. Alex Cross is on his last police duty to track down an assassin called Picasso, who's been torturing and killing rich businessmen in Detroit. Soon when the mission gets personal, Cross is pushed to the edge of his moral and psychological limits to end this once and for all.
Subgenre: | martial arts |
Themes: | kidnapping |
Characters: | detectivefather daughter relationship |
Story: | finger cut offsevered fingercrime bosshand to hand combattwo word titleviolenceblood |
Orin Boyd (Seagal) is a Detroit cop who doesn't follow rules. After he saved the Vice President by violating every order he received he is transferred to one of the worst precincts in the city. There he quickly encounters some corrupt cops selling heroin to drug dealers. The problem is, it's very di β¦fficult to tell who is the bad guy and who you can trust. (Read More)
Subgenre: | martial arts |
Themes: | kidnapping |
Mood: | neo noirgore |
Characters: | detectivebrother brother relationship |
Story: | karatesword fightcriminalhand to hand combatblood splatterviolenceblood |
Martin Riggs finally meets his match in the form of Lorna Cole, a beautiful but tough policewoman. Together with Roger Murtaugh, his partner, the three attempt to expose a crooked former policeman and his huge arms racket. The crooked cop (Jack Travis) thwarts them at every turn, mainly by killing a β¦nyone who is about to talk, but Murtaugh has personal problems of his own as his family are brought into the equation. (Read More)
Subgenre: | cult filmmartial arts |
Themes: | mafiagangster |
Mood: | neo noir |
Story: | karatehand to hand combatblood splatterbloodviolence |
Chan Wing Yan, a young police officer, has been sent undercover as a mole in the local mafia. Lau Kin Ming, a young mafia member, infiltrates the police force. Years later, their older counterparts, Chen Wing Yan and Inspector Lau Kin Ming, respectively, race against time to expose the mole within t β¦heir midst. (Read More)
Themes: | mafiagangster |
Story: | crime bosscriminalblood splatterviolenceblood |
A Journeyman ninja by name of Jubei stumbles upon a plague, an evil clan of demons, a national crisis, and a beautiful ninja girl.
Subgenre: | cult filmmartial arts |
Themes: | love |
Mood: | neo noirgore |
Locations: | japan |
Story: | finger cut offkatana swordsevered fingersword fightblood splatterviolenceblood |
Keong comes from Hong Kong to visit New York for his uncle's wedding. His uncle runs a market in the Bronx and Keong offers to help out while Uncle is on his honeymoon. During his stay in the Bronx, Keong befriends a neighbor kid and beats up some neighborhood thugs who cause problems at the market. β¦ Meanwhile, one of those petty thugs in the local gang stumbles into a criminal situation way over his head. Blinded by greed, his involvement draws his gang, the kid, Keong, and the whole neighborhood into a deadly crossfire. When the lazy cops fail to successfully resolve matters, Keong takes things into his own hands. Needless to say, much spectacular kung-fu and outrageous action sequences follow.... (Read More)
Subgenre: | martial arts |
Themes: | mafiagangsterkidnapping |
Story: | gang warcrime bosscriminalhand to hand combatblood splatterviolenceblood |
Jean Claude Van Damme plays a dual role as Alex and Chad, twins separated at the death of their parents. Chad is raised by a family retainer in Paris, Alex becomes a petty crook in Hong Kong. Seeing a picture of Alex, Chad rejoins him and convinces him that his rival in Hong Kong is also the man who β¦ killed their parents. Alex is suspicious of Chad, especially when it comes to his girlfriend. (Read More)
Subgenre: | cult filmmartial arts |
Themes: | gangsterkidnapping |
Mood: | gore |
Characters: | brother brother relationship |
Story: | crime bosskaratehand to hand combatblood splattertwo word titlebloodviolence |
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)
Subgenre: | cult filmmartial arts |
Themes: | mafiagangsterkidnapping |
Characters: | american abroaddetectivefather daughter relationship |
Story: | gang warcrime bosskaratehand to hand combatviolence |
After witnessing the brutal murders of a convenience store owner and his son, firefighter Jeremy Coleman barely escapes with his life. As he is forced to testify against the crime lord, Hagan, he is placed in the witness protection program under the watch of the U.S. Marshals. When his new identity β¦becomes compromised Jeremy is forced to take an unexpected course of action in order to get his life back and save the lives of those he loves. (Read More)
Subgenre: | martial arts |
Themes: | gangsterkidnapping |
Characters: | detective |
Story: | severed fingercrime bosscriminalhand to hand combatblood splatterbloodviolence |
In London, the Russian pregnant teenager Tatiana arrives bleeding in a hospital, and the doctors save her baby only. The Russian descendant midwife Anna Khitrova finds Tatiana's diary written in Russian language in her belongings and decided to find her family to deliver the baby, she brings the dia β¦ry home and ask her uncle Stepan to translate the document. Stepan refuses, but Anna finds a card of a restaurant owned by the Russian Semyon inside the diary and she visits the old man trying to find a lead to contact Tatiana's family. When she mentions the existence of the diary, Semyon immediately offers to translate the document. However, Stepan translates part of the diary and Anna discovers that Semyon and his sick son Kirill had raped Tatiana when she was fourteen years old and forced her to work as prostitute in a brothel of their own. Further, Semyon is the dangerous boss of the Russian mafia "Vory v Zakone", jeopardizing the safety of Anna and her family. Meanwhile, Semyon's driver Nikolai Luzhin gets close to Kirill and Semyon, climbing positions in the criminal organization, but he helps Anna, her family and the baby. (Read More)
Themes: | mafiakidnapping |
Mood: | neo noirgore |
Story: | finger cut offsevered fingercrime bosscriminalblood splattertwo word titleviolenceblood |
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 β¦g to kill him and get his guitar case. (Read More)
Subgenre: | cult film |
Themes: | gangsterkidnappinglove |
Mood: | neo noirgore |
Story: | gang warcrime bosscriminalblood splattertwo word titleviolenceblood |
LAPD lieutenant Mike Harrigan ('Danny Glover' (qv)) and his cocky detective partner Jerry Lambert ('Bill Paxton' (qv)) soon realize that what seemed a bloody feud between voodoo high priest King Willie's ('Calvin Lockhart' (qv)) Jamaican gangs and Ramon Vega's ('Corey Rand' (qv)) Colombian drug gang β¦ is actually the work of a scary third party. Peter Keyes's ('Gary Busey' (qv)) federal team shields the crime scene even for the LAPD, but after forensics proves it must be an alien, who keeps making victims, the chase brings them all together. (Read More)
Subgenre: | cult filmmartial arts |
Themes: | gangster |
Mood: | neo noirgore |
Characters: | detective |
Story: | gang warhand to hand combatblood splattertwo word titleviolenceblood |
Subgenre: | martial arts |
Themes: | mafiagangster |
Mood: | neo noirgore |
Characters: | american abroad |
Story: | crime bosshand to hand combatblood splatterbloodviolence |
In a futuristic world, a strict regime has eliminated war by suppressing emotions: books, art and music are strictly forbidden and feeling is a crime punishable by death. Cleric John Preston (Bale) is a top ranking government agent responsible for destroying those who resist the rules. When he misse β¦s a dose of Prozium, a mind-altering drug that hinders emotion, Preston, who has been trained to enforce the strict laws of the new regime, suddenly becomes the only person capable of overthrowing it. (Read More)
Subgenre: | cult filmmartial arts |
Themes: | memorylove |
Mood: | neo noir |
Characters: | father daughter relationship |
Story: | katana swordkaratesword fighthand to hand combatblood splatterviolenceblood |
Mobsters are smuggling guns into Hong Kong. The police orchestrate a raid at a teahouse where an ace detective loses his partner. Meanwhile, the two main gun smugglers are having a war over territory, and a young new gun is enlisted to wipe out informants and overcome barriers to growth. The detecti β¦ve, acting from inside sources, gets closer to the ring leaders and eventually must work with the inside man directly. (Read More)
Subgenre: | cult filmmartial arts |
Themes: | mafiagangster |
Mood: | gore |
Characters: | detective |
Story: | gang warcrime bossblood splatterviolenceblood |