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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) 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.
3) 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.
4) 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.
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.
6) Arkansas
Publisher
Lions Gate
Pub. Date
[2020]
Formats
Description
Two men operating as drug couriers in Arkansas discover they have made too many mistakes and learn that the kingpin of the operation is trying to hunt them down.
Series
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (90 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A young man is called to Rome to help a woman whose restaurant is the target of gangsters. When the thugs are unable to get rid of him, they call in an international martial arts champion, creating the clash of Kung Fu giants.
8) Cornered
Series
Film noir classic collection volume 5, disc 1
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (175 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Cornered: an ex-RCAF pilot stalks the Nazi collaborator who murdered his bridge, but no one can describe the mysterious man.
Desperate: an Everyman who accepts what he thinks is an honest trucking job, only to find he's the driver in a botched heist that puts Brodie and his bride on the run from the cops and the cons who planned the job.
9) Vanquish
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2021]
Formats
Description
A retired police commissioner forces his caretaker, a former drug courier, to set out on a mission to kill some gangsters by holding her daughter hostage.
10) Black Mass
Formats
Description
In 1970s South Boston, FBI agent John Connolly persuades Irish mobster Jimmy Bulger to collaborate with the FBI in order to eliminate their common enemy: the Italian mob. The drama tells the story of this unholy alliance, which spiraled out of control, allowing Whitey to evade law enforcement while consolidating his power and becoming one of the most ruthless and dangerous gangsters in Boston history.
"Black Mass is a tightly wound piece of work,...
11) Point blank
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (84 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Samuel is 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.
12) 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.
Author
Publisher
Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
278 pages ; 21 cm
Description
On his drive home from college after being kicked out, Tucker picks up the mysterious Corinne Chang at a rest stop and accompanies her to St. Louis, where they get jobs in a Chinese restaurant and have to deal with Chinese gangsters.
14) Live by night
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 129 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
It's the Roaring Twenties and Prohibition hasn't stopped the flow of booze in an underground network of gangster-run speakeasies. The opportunity to gain power and money is there for any man with enough nerve, and Joe Coughlin, the son of the Boston Police superintendent, long ago turned his back on his strict upbringing for the spoils of being an outlaw. But even among criminals there are rules, and Joe breaks a big one: crossing a powerful mob boss...
Series
Criterion collection volume 1112
Description
A Roaring Twenties gangster saga that only the Coen brothers could concoct, Miller's Crossing marries the hard-boiled sensibility of classic noir fiction with the filmmakers' trademark savory dialogue, colorful characters, and finely calibrated set pieces. Gabriel Byrne brings a wry gravitas to the role of Tom Reagan, the quick-thinking right-hand man to a powerful crime boss (Albert Finney), whose unflappable cool is tested when he begins offering...
Series
Film noir classic collection volume 5, disc 4
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (174 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Backfire: A war veteran, aided by his resourceful nurse, is on a quest to prove his pal innocent of murder.
Deadline at dawn: A gangster's sister lies dead. All clues point to sailor Bill Williams. He has mere hours to prove that he is innocent.
17) A song is born
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (113 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
This hilarious and high-spirited musical stars Danny Kaye as a professor of high-brow music who inadvertently becomes involved with a sensual saloon singer (Virginia Mayo) and a crooked criminal gang.
19) Gangster no. 1
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (103 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Chronicles the bloody, single-minded climb of a crime lord to power. Enter the psyche of an unrepentant mobster who slugs, claws and kills his way to the top. But when he learns that a former mentor he put in prison is about to get out, this self-made mobster must now face a man whose life he ruined ... and confront the twisted remnants of his own demented conscience as well.
20) Bad city
Author
Publisher
Well Go USA Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (119 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"In a city plagued with rampant poverty, violence and crime, a corrupt mafia-connected businessman runs for mayor and starts eliminating his opponents. A former police captain in jail for murder is secretly released and put in charge of a special task force in a desperate, last-ditch effort to take down the corrupt tycoon"--
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