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1) 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
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.
4) 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...
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
10) 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.
11) Pierrot le fou
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.
12) Get Carter
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (112 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A small-time gangster journeys to Newcastle to investigate and avenge his brother's killing. Once there he finds himself drawn into the local underworld where he encounters the full spectrum of violence and corruption.
13) The sting
Series
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (3 hrs. 11 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Two con men set out to avenge the death of a mutual friend in 1930s Chicago. They swindle a powerful crime lord, pitting brain against brawn and pistol.
14) 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...
15) Mr. Majestyk
Publisher
Kino International
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (103 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Ex-con and Vietnam vet, Mr. Majestyk, whose efforts to run a straight business seem thwarted at every turn-- a town tough harasses him for employment of Hispanic migrant workers on his farm, the local police jail him on a false charge, and a Mafia hitman destroys his crop for crossing him during a jailbreak-- finally reaches the end of his fuse. With rifle in hand and his girlfriend at the wheel of his pickup, Majestyk goes after the syndicate assassin....
16) A cat in Paris
Publisher
New Video
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (62 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In Paris, a cat who lives a secret life as a cat burglar's aide must come to the rescue of Zoe, the little girl he lives with, after she falls into a gangster's clutches.
17) 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.
18) 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) Phantom boy
Pub. Date
2016
Formats
Description
A boy uses his super powers to help a handicapped policeman bring down a mob kingpin.
20) Exiled
Publisher
Distributed by Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
1 DVD (109 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The time is 1998. The setting is Macau. Every living soul jumps at every chance to make quick money before the Portuguese colony ushers in a new era under the Chinese rule. A relationship is formed between an ex-gangster trying to turn over a new leaf with his wife and newborn baby and two groups of hitmen - those who want to protect him and those who were sent to kill him.
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