John Woo's first film has all the hallmarks of his later brand of violent, choreographed gunplay. A revenge actioner with Chow Yun Fat as Mark, who teams up with his imprisoned friend's brother, a cop, to defeat his previous bosses, the notorious yakuza crimelords. Action packed.
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AMERICAN GANGSTER (2007)
Certification15 Our Rating
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.
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ASSAULT ON PRECINCT 13 (2004) (2004)
Certification15 Our Rating
Precinct 13 is facing its last night as an active police station, only a skeleton staff is kept on, but then nobody is expecting any trouble, and as a blizzard rages outside everyone settles down for an uneventful evening. A prison bus, no longer able to cope with the weather conditions pulls up to the precinct, and discharges a motley selection of prisoners, one of them a recently convicted high profile ganglord. What follows is a lethally one sided siege, convicts and cops forced into an uneas
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BAD LIEUTENANT: PORT OF CALL NEW ORLEANS (2009)
Certification18 Our Rating
Terence is a cop addicted to pain-killers prescribed to him after a work-related back injury during the Katrina flood. A chance for redemption occurs as he investigates the murder of an immigrant family.
Not to be confused with Abel Ferrara's 1994 film this is an exotic blend of European and American cinematic styles; free-spirited American junk and experimental, police procedure and fantasy.
Critically acclaimed but a box-office loser - never again will the manic German be allowed loo
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BOARDWALK EMPIRE SEASON 4: DISC 1 (2014)
Certification18 Our Rating
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BRAQUO SEASON 1: DISC 1 (2009)
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CITY ON FIRE (1987)
Certification18 Our Rating
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.
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DEAD OR ALIVE (1999)
Certification18 Our Rating
Ryuichi is a gangster, Jojima a detective and both are in the middle of a brutal gang war between the Japanese Yakuza and the Chinese Triads. Miiki supposedly throw out most of the script for this movie and replaced it with a series of bizarre deaths. Dead Or Alive is a brutal, frantic and dark thriller from the Japanese master of the avant-garde.
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DEXTER SEASON 1 DISC 1 (2007)
Certification15 Our Rating
By day, Dexter Morgan is a jovial blood spatter expert working for the Miami Metropolitan Police Department's forensic lab, but by night he is a disciplined and murderous psychopath who stalks the city dispensing his own inimitable brand of punishment to those murderers, rapists and all-round-bad-guys who have managed to evade justice.
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DEXTER SEASON 1 DISC 2 (2007)
Certification15 Our Rating
By day, Dexter Morgan is a jovial blood spatter expert working for the Miami Metropolitan Police Department's forensic lab, but by night he is a disciplined and murderous psychopath who stalks the city dispensing his own inimitable brand of punishment to those murderers, rapists and all-round-bad-guys who have managed to evade justice.
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