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1) Lord of war
Publisher
Lions Gate Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Description
Chronicles the rise and fall of Yuri Orlov, from his early days in the early 1980s in Little Odessa to selling guns to mobsters in his local neighbourhood, and through to his ascension through the decade of excess and indulgence into the early 90s. He forms a business partnership with an African warlord and his psychotic son. His relationship with his younger brother is somewhat volatile, he is married to a famous model, and he is relentlessly pursued...
2) Dogville
Publisher
Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
1 DVD (177 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Grace arrives in the isolated town of Dogville, on the run from gangsters. The townspeople agree to hide her. However, when outsiders start looking for the fugitive, the locals make demands of Grace in exchange for the risk of harboring her. But Grace has a secret and its a dangerous one. Dogville may regret it ever decided to bare its teeth.
4) The hit
Series
Criterion collection volume 469
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (98 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In London in 1973, Willie Parker informed on his gangster colleagues. Ten years later he is violently snatched from his Spanish tranquil village retreat by hit men who are surprised to find out they have a completely willing victim on their hands.
Publisher
Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (90 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Dexter Riley, a handsome but bumbling Medfield College student, accidentally becomes The Computer Who Knew Too Much when he is transformed into a genius after an electrifying computer mishap. Dexter now poses a threat to a local gangster's dangerous gambling operation as the new intellect becomes a pawn in the tug-of-war between the greedy college deans and the underworld.
Series
Criterion collection volume 421
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2020]
Formats
Description
A man runs off with the babysitter and finds himself involved in a gunrunning scheme.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2013
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 110 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Marty is a struggling screenwriter who wants nothing more than to finish his script. Instead, he becomes entangled with the Los Angeles gangster underworld when his odd, but well-meaning friends kidnap a volatile gangster's shih tzu. The ordeal gives Marty all the inspiration he needs; now, he must live long enough to finish his story.
8) John Wick
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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.
Publisher
Image Entertainment [distributor]
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (88 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Discouraged by his superior officers, but helped by a gangster's former girl friend, a dedicated detective lieutenant doggedly continues his investigation to obtain evidence that would convict the head gangster of a crime syndicate.
10) The big combo
Publisher
Alpha Video
Pub. Date
2004, c1955
Physical Desc
1 DVD (84 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Discouraged by his superior officers, but helped by a gangster's former girl friend, a dedicated detective lieutenant doggedly continues his investigation to obtain evidence that would convict the head gangster of a crime syndicate.
Series
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (ca. 92 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (27 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.)
Description
Charlie Kohler is a piano player in a bar. Lena, a waitress at the bar, is in love with him. One of Charlie's brothers, Chico, a crook, takes refuge in the bar because he is being chased by two gangsters, Momo and Ernest. But Charlie's real name is Edouard Saroyan,who was once a virtuose who gave up playing after his wife's suicide. Charlie now has to deal wih Chico, Ernest, Momo, Fido (his youngest brother who lives with him), and Lena. Charlie ends...
Series
Film noir classic collection volume 3
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
1 DVD (120 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Hard-luck gambler Dan Milner is in sudden luck. He'll get $50,000 to hang out at a posh Mexican resort. $5,000 now and the big payoff when the reason he's been sent there is revealed. Of course, the gangsters making the offer don't expect him to live long enough to collect.
13) The equalizer
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (132 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When he meets a young girl under the control of violent Russian gangsters, a man who thought he had left his Special Forces past behind him finds himself compelled to help her.
Publisher
VCI Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (152 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The Chase: A rich gangster and his bodyguard try to kill the gangster's chauffeur who manages to escape with his life and the gangster's wife. Bury me dead: A woman attends her own funeral and begins an investigation to find out who is buried in her place and who wanted her dead.
15) The protector
Series
Publisher
Weinstein Co
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (194 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Kham grew up with elephants in Thailand. To him elephants are majestic creatures, bred for peace, but prepared for war. When an evil Asian gang kidnap a bull and baby elephant during a festival, they are smuggled into Sydney, Australia. Kham must travel to a foreign land, and unravel a conspiracy that will reach into the highest levels of Australian law and business circles. With only his Muy Thai fighting techniques, and a disgraced Thai-descent...
16) Safe
Publisher
Lions Gate Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 95 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When a second-rate cage fighter, Luke Wright, is tormented by the Russian Mafia and wanders the streets of New York, he witnesses a young Chinese girl, Mei, being pursued by the same mafia who want her for a priceless numerical code that they would kill for.
17) Full contact
Pub. Date
1992.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Betrayed by both his partner and his girl, and persecuted by a rival smuggling ring, a daredevil adventurer turns into a lonely gunman seeking bloody revenge from the suburbs of Bangkok to the streets of Hong Kong.
19) Ip man 3
Publisher
Well Go USA Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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.
20) Parker
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (119 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Parker is a thief who has an unusual code. He doesn't steal from the poor or hurt innocent people. He is asked to join four other guys, one of whom is related to a known mobster. They pull off the job flawlessly and Parker wants to part ways with them. When he refuses to join them for another job, they try to kill him. They dispose of his body, but someone finds him...still alive. After recovering, he sets out to get back at the ones who tried to...
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