A dedicated cop (Chow Yun-Fat) infiltrates a murderous gang of jewel thieves and is badly injured in a bungled heist, leaving him at the mercy of his "colleagues" as they get ever closer to discovering the truth. The ending of the film provided the inspiration for Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs. find out more...

Lucky grows up in a South African township in the post-apartheid era and is caught between the desire to go university and the lure of easy money from violent crime.
A decade on an we see him as a struggling taxi-driver before his transformation into a businessman who uses violence to reclaim inner-city Joburg tenement blocks from the drug-dealers and hookers who inhabit them and from the rich white slum landlords who own them. Thus the ambitious gangster realises an aim of the revolution find out more...

Michael Mann's late '80's prototype for his Pacino/De Niro blockbuster "Heat". Plotwise, it's a cops 'n' robbers game of cat and mouse, during which the division between good guy and villain becomes worryingly blurred. Lacks the polish of the Hollywood version, but still well worth a look. 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...

In the 1930s the new FBI became involved in the hunt for America's most notorious criminals; Pretty Boy Floyd, Baby Face Nelson and John Dillinger. This, in particular, is the story of the search, using distinctly 'unorthodox' methods, for the latter. find out more...

A bunch of likely London lads are hired to rob a bank of its safety deposit boxes, but unfortunately this bunch of amateurs aren't really the best outfit to pull the job off. While the robbery doesn't go exactly according to plan, the scandal that they inadvertently bring to light may become the boys' best hope of dodging a very long stretch at Her Majesty's pleasure, or worse. Apparently based loosely on a true event, Princess Margaret(?) Lord Lambton(?), the Bank Job is a highly enjoyable, pac find out more...

Episode 3, Hot Shots; Lt Daniels gets ready to leave and a pair of longshoreman steal a container and sell the goods to some of The Greek's men. find out more...

Episode 8, Duck And Cover; McNully goes on a drunken binge and Bunk persuades Daniels to get Rawls to put him back on the case... just in time to catch yet another disappearing container. find out more...

A perhaps ill advised, but nonetheless likable comedy from two of the greatest actors of the silver screen. Two legendary bank robbers are released on parole after their thirty year imprisonment and the lycra clad 1980's are something of a culture shock to our grizzled heroes. Frustrated and angry, the guys decide to embark on one final great heist, marginally impeded by their old nemesis and a virtually blind hitman. find out more...

Bringing together three of Hong Kong's most prolific directors, Ringo Lam, Johnny To and Hark Tsui, 'Triangle' tells the story of three financially troubled friends who get given a map and decide to end their problems by digging up a hidden treasure from under the HK Legislative Council building. With each director taking a third of the film to make his own, this high octane action-thriller is occasionally a bit disjointed, but in the main holds together surprisingly well. find out more...