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Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
When Triad leader Hung's wife gives birth to a baby boy, Hung considers leaving the world of the gangsters. Despite the fact that he is not sure of his decision, word gets out fast and now, a brutal war begins in the world of "jiang-hu". Two hoodlums, Wing and Turbo, set to make a name for themselves, are ordered to kill Hung. Meanwhile, an internal conflict begins between Hung and his #1 man, Left-Hand. Despite this conflict, the two have nothing...
Publisher
Dark Sky Films
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Low-level criminal John dreams of getting together enough money to move out of his dead-end town of Thames, New Zealand, and start his own gang. So when his boss, Shelton has him rip off a triad cash drop at a local Chinese antique store, John decides to double-cross his boss and take the loot for himself, along with a mysterious Chinese amulet.
4) Point blank
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
Français
Description
Samuel, a happily married nurse working in a Paris hospital. When his very pregnant wife is kidnapped before his helpless eyes, everything falls apart. After being knocked unconscious, his cell phone rings: he has three hours to get a man under police surveillance, out of the hospital. Samuel quickly finds himself pitted against rival gangsters and trigger-happy police in a deadly race to save the lives of his wife and unborn child.
5) Ball of fire
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Realizing they have to hear how real people talk, a group of lexicographers end up helping a beautiful singer get away from the mob.
Publisher
Columbia Pictures
Pub. Date
2012
Language
Indonesian
Description
A SWAT team arrives at a rundown apartment block with a mission to remove its owner, a notorious drug lord named Tama. The building has never been raided before, never been touched by police. Seen as a no-go zone, it has since become a sanctuary to killers, gangs, rapists, and thieves seeking accommodation in the one place they know they cannot be touched. Making their move in the break of dawn, the SWAT team works its way up the building under cover...
8) Black Out
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Nederlands
Description
If Guy Ritchie made THE HANGOVER in Amsterdam, it might look something like Black Out, an audacious crime thriller laced with colorful lowlifes, tough femmes fatales, corrupt cops, and outbursts of extreme violence. On the day before his wedding, retired criminal Jos wakes up next to a murdered man with no recollection of what happened the night before. He soon discovers that a group of gangsters have pinned him as the lone suspect in the theft of...
9) Dragnet girl
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
日本語
Description
A no-nonsense gangster's moll is troubled by the growing attraction between her man and a virtuous woman.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Français
Description
Now back in France, Mesrine is finally in police custody and facing justice for his crimes. After escaping a courtroom and kidnapping the judge at gunpoint, Mesrine is declared Public Enemy Number 1 and is eventually condemned to a maximum-security prison where he writes his memoirs, establishing himself as a household name and the anti-hero across France. Mesrine stages another daring escape and disappears into the lawless underworld, taunting the...
11) Performance
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Follow a gangster with a talent for violence and intimidation, on the run and looking for a place to hide. He ends up hiding out with a reclusive rock superstar. It all leads up to a shocking final performance for the rock star.
12) John Wick
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
When sadistic young thugs senselessly attack a brilliantly lethal ex-assassin, they have no idea that they've just awakened the boogeyman. With New York City as his bullet-riddled playground, Wick embarks on a merciless rampage, hunting down his adversaries with the skill and ruthlessness that made him an underworld legend.
13) Scorsese shorts
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
This compilation of five early short films by Martin Scorsese offers a fascinating window onto his artistic development. Spanning the years from Scorsese2s time at NYU in the mid-1960s to the late 270s. The collection includes Italian American; American Boy; The Big Shave; What2s a Nice Girl Like You Doing in a Place Like This?; and It2s Not Just You, Murray!
14) Pierrot le fou
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
Français
Description
Dissatisfied in marriage and life, Ferdinand takes to the road with the babysitter, his ex-lover Marianne Renoir, and leaves the bourgeois world behind. Yet this is no normal road trip: the tenth feature in six years by Jean-Luc Godard is a stylish mash-up of anti-consumerist satire, au courant politics, and comic-book aesthetics, as well as a violent tale of a romantic couple. This is a high point of the French New Wave, and was Godard's last frolic...
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
In 1956, Frank Tashlin brought the talent for zany visual gags and absurdist pop-culture satire that he'd honed as a master of animation to the task of capturing, in glorious DeLuxe Color, a brand-new craze: rock and roll. This blissfully bonkers jukebox musical tells the story of a mobster's bombshell girlfriend the one and only Jayne Mansfield, in a showstopping first major film role and the washed-up talent agent who seeks to revive his career...
16) Ip Man 3
Pub. Date
2016
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
When a band of brutal gangsters led by a crooked property developer make a play to take over the city, Master Ip is forced to take a stand.
Publisher
New Line Home Video
Pub. Date
[1996]
Language
English
Description
Keung, a Hong Kong cop, comes to New York to see his uncle get married. The uncle has recently sold his store to Elaine, who wants to sell it after she refuses to pay protection money to a biker gang. When Keung finds out about her situation, he does all he can to protect her. Meanwhile, a crippled Chinese boy is surprised to discover that someone has stashed stolen diamonds in his wheelchair. He and Keung become friends and work on solving this case....
18) Key Largo
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2005, 1948.
Language
English
Description
While a violent hurricane rages outside a remote hotel in the Florida Keys, a notorious racketeer holds the disabled proprietor, his widowed daughter-in-law, and Frank McCloud, a disillusioned World War II veteran, hostage.
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Prohibition's ban on booze is over and bootlegger Remy Marco must make some changes and go legit. He finds that his ties to his former colleagues are holding him back. Furthermore, his daughter has fallen in love with a cop, and he can't get over his distrust of the police.
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