1970s; Harlem hood Frank Lucas has hijacked the New York heroin business by dealing directly with the Chinese growers in SE Asia and importing large amounts of the drug inside the caskets of soldiers killed in Vietnam. However his nemesis, flamboyant, tenacious and unbribable narcotics cop Richie Roberts, is on his tail and is determined to bring him down. find out more...

The chairmanship of the ancient, powerful Wu Sing Society, a Triad alliance is up for 'election', a process by which the 'uncles', a group of ageing Mafiosi sit in a smoke filled room and vote. The trouble is that two characters of vastly different style, relaxed family man Lok and volatile Big D, are rivals for the post and a violent battle ensues for the future of the clan. find out more...

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LAPD police officers Brian Taylor and Mike Zavala are bonded by friendship and a crusade to clean up the violent streets of South Central, Los Angeles. Their mission is to serve and protect, their objective is to survive until the end of watch, that last moment in an officer’s patrol when he’s finally off duty. But when a routine traffic enquiry re find out more...

Irish Sicilian Henry Hill always wanted to be a gangster and from running errands as a small boy, he graduates to becoming a trusted member of the "family". A stunning, violent and essential portrait of the Mafia's intimate details. An award winning film, superbly crafted by Scorsese. find out more...

Ming is a sergeant in the Hong Kong police force, but his true colours lie with his Triad boss; Yan works for the same Triad boss but his real loyalties are with the police. Both men have spent years leading the same furtive and often fraught existence but for opposing sides, and it is only when a drugs bust goes spectacularly wrong that the two moles become aware of the other's existence, though not their identity. Infernal Affairs is a hard boiled character driven thriller that concentrates he find out more...

This second part of the Infernal Affairs trilogy is set ten years prior to the showdown witnessed in the first film. Here we find Yan and Ming at the very beginning of their careers, one a young police officer undercover with the triads, the other a triad infiltrating the cops. Infernal Affairs II is every bit as slick as the first, an intelligent action thriller that fleshes out the central characters' motivations and, in a pleasantly frustrating way, makes a second watching of Part One unavoid find out more...

The final part of the Chinese gangster epic in which our two protagonists finally come face to face. If you've seen parts 1 and 2 then watch this, if you haven't then watch them. find out more...

Melville's masterful take on the American crime thriller perfectly combines the Hollywood gangster film with his uniquely French style. Alain Delon as a master thief, Yves Montand as an alcoholic ex-cop and Gian-Maria Volonte as an escaped criminal plot a daring heist of an upmarket Parisian jewellery store against impossible odds. find out more...

A street quarrel leads to the death of a gang leader's son and, seeking revenge on a rival boss, he calls on Liu, a fixer, to import a hit man from the mainland. Lai Fu, a tough and youthful hick assassin, arrives with a day pass. The cops, led by the morose Milo, hear about the killer and start a full-scale Christmas Eve operation to find both warring brothers and the assassin. Lai Fu rescues a hooker, Dan Dan, from a sadist and asks her to help him find his way around Mongkok. By nightfall, Li find out more...