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...

Scott Donaldson says: "A ?lmic take on the notorious Rampart scandal in LA (also the jumping off point for TV's excellent The Shield), the ?lm follows Woody Harrelson as a cop who is permanently in full on sh*t kicker mode, although there is little detecting for this detective so don't expect much in the way of sleuthing cop thriller stuff. Instead we get slow moving character study, more Bad Lieutenant than Beverly Hills Cop.

Not to say it isn't fun, as Harrelson's performance alone find out more...

After a brief introduction, in the 60s, to three young criminals, Lebanese, Ice and Dandy, the film jumps forward to the 70s prison release of Lebanon. It's the birth of a smart and ruthless organization which soon crushes all its rivals assuming total control of the Roman drugs, and other criminal, business. Their progress, and changes in leadership, is viewed over twenty-five years and is inseparably intertwined with the dark history of modern Italy; terrorism, kidnappings and corruption at th find out more...