Chronicles the life and times of Nucky Thompson, the undisputed ruler of Atlantic City, who was equal parts politician and gangster.
High production values and a fine ensemble cast: HBO knows how to do TV.

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The first and best of the Italian "Mexi-Westerns", on a par with Leone's and with a haunting soundtrack. An American mercenary teams up with a bandit on the fringes of the revolutionaries in order to assinate their leader. A violent political film from the same pen as The Battle Of Algiers. find out more...

One of the most stylish and beautiful films ever made and a cult classic that helped to repopularise French cinema over here. A courier obsessed with a beautiful black opera singer enters an underworld of visual splendour and tortuous emotions where love and desire go a long way to realising dreams. Brilliant! 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...

Chas is a gangland killer, on the run from his former employers, who moves in on a lacklustre ex-rock singer and his two girlfriends. This psychedelic film juxtaposes Chas's violent energy and the fading rock star's languidness. 'Performance' is treasured as a 'sixties' classic and was Roeg's directorial debut. find out more...

A Trenchtown variant on Robin Hood with Rasta drummer Horsemouth taking on the local minor league Mafia - but that's not what this cult Jamaican classic's about. It's Rastas, ganja and reggae, and it's still cool after all these years. With a soundtrack including Burning Spear, Peter Tosh, Bunny Wailer, Third World, Jacob Miller and The Inner Circle, The Heptones, Gregory Isaacs, Junior Murvin and the Abyssinians. find out more...

Handsome loner Mark Taffin is a professional debt collector in a small Irish community. When a vicious crime syndicate tries to move in with its plans to build a dangerous chemical plant, Taffin is recruited as a last resort, and soon finds himself fighting for his life... Thought by some to be the inspiration for Swayze's 'Road House', this remains a curious film. Clunky dialogue and a dismissive attitude to credibility have done nothing to dent its growing reputation as something of a cult cla find out more...

Mr. Ruggerio's Neighborhood: Agent Harris and his team concoct a plan to wiretap the Soprano basement, tailing all the family. Tony keeps his eye on Patsy Parisi, twin brother of Juniour's slain ally. Proshai, Livushka: A Soprano family loss (is CGIs gain...). Janice comes back from Seattle to arrange the funeral and Tony 'chats' with Noah, Meadow's new boyf. Fortunate Son: Janice moves into Livia's house while Tony and Melfi discuss his anxiety attacks. Employee of the Month: A difficult epis find out more...

B-movie legend, Roger Corman moved into the mainstream to produce this depiction of the infamous 1929 shooting of seven Chicago mobsters. find out more...

Excellent crime thriller with James Caan as a professional criminal who makes the mistake of joining up with murderous ganster Robert Prosky for a once-in-a-lifetime heist. The meticulous planning and execution of the robbery (using a burning ten-foot pole to penetrate the targeted vault) is superbly tense and entertaining, but the partners-in-crime begin to fall out when Prosky takes charge of the loot and "invests" it on Caan's behalf, inflaming him to embark on a lone revenge mission. Taut an find out more...