A penniless pianist learns that contract-killing target Alfredo Garcia is already dead and sets out to recover his head and claim the bounty. Perhaps Peckinpah's most complex and critically controversial film, an eclectic mix of existensial quest, gothic tale, political critique of American involvement in Latin America and a love story of two losers challenging destiny. Set in Mexico. find out more...

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...

It's 2010 and a wall has been built around Paris's most criminally inclined neighbourhood, a prison of sorts but run by the inmates, all of whom answer to the lord of it all, Taha. However when Taha kidnaps the sister of heroic loner Leito his days immediately become numbered. I fear I've over complicated the plot being as this makes Taxi look overly wordy, but 'District 13' is all about the action and the ‘Free Running' set pieces have to be one of the most mesmerising expressions of physical a 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...

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After the subsequent murder of a scared running girl he picked up on the highway Mickey Spillane's anti-hero, dodgy private eye Mike Hammer, smells money and follows the threads on a seedy trip through the LA underworld. find out more...

Who could have seen this coming? Mike ‘Get' Hodges and Michael ‘Carter' Caine follow up their masterpiece (which redefined the British Gangster flick genre) with a heady mix of sunshine, farce and clownish Mafioso. Set on an idyllic Mediterranean island, ‘Pulp' follows the story of Micky King, a writer of pulp Chandleresque novels, who tags along with the retired star of a thousand gangster B-movies, Preston Gilbert (played by Mickey Rooney). The seeming lightness of tone (a multitude of sight g 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...

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...