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...

Abel Davis is a criminal, hunted in Italy. The police are closing in, so he and his pal Raymond arrange to flee back to France with Abel's wife, Thérèse, and their two young sons. Abel and Raymond commit a brazen robbery to get funds, killing two men; in the escape, more die. Abel arrives in Nice with the boys, calls his pals in Paris, and gets the brush-off. Reluctantly, they send a stranger, Eric Stark, to bring Abel to Paris, but he's getting the message he's on his own. Hono find out more...

Arthur Clutten (Norman Wisdom) is an expert safecracker who masterminds every heist for the crime syndicate he belongs to. But when he witnesses the brutal methods of persuasion being meted out the gang s leader, Ignatius Smith (Bernard Hill), Clutten decides to quit the gang. However, he soon realises that the gang would rather see him dead than leave them, and so he decid find out more...

Director Antonia Bird has triumphed where so many have failed since "The Long Good Friday", with a British crime thriller that actually works. Robert Carlyle (Trainspotting, The Full Monty) is Ray, a politically correct armed robber who's gathered together a bunch of his fellow East End "faces" to pull off an ambitious raid on a London warehouse. Amongst his partners-in-crime are the old-fashioned gangster (Winstone), the alarming but amusing psycho (Davis) and the cocky young apprentice (Albarn find out more...

Four adopted brothers set out to avenge their mother's death, but they soon realise that what seemed, at first, to be a random grocery store robbery was no accident. For those who are expecting a film with the incite and acutely observed characters of Singleton's groundbreaking Boyz N the Hood, Four Brothers, a film rooted firmly in the 'let's kick some serious butt' and 'take no prisoners' territory, may disappoint. If you are looking for a solid, high adrenalin, action movie then Four Brothers find out more...

A assembled cast of Japan's coolest actors in a hyperstylish tale of 5 desperate men from the robbery of a Yakuza gangster to the bloody revenge that follows. What, as with many Japanese films, raises the film's profile are the off-beat characters, from Beat Takeshi's one-eyed hitman to the gay hustlers and downtrodden ex-cops. An eccentric film noir atmosphere that will blow your socks off. Well crafted and intense. 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...

In a dark, moody South Central Los Angeles, with its drug dealers, gangs, prostitutes etc, ex-squaddie Jim, plagued by nightmares from the Iraq war, alternates between drifting back into a life of petty crime and drugs, with best buddy Mike, and hanging out south of the border with his mamasita, Marta, for whom he's promised a US visa. Mike's yuppy girlfriend is hauling him on to the straight and narrow and after Jim's job application with the LAPD goes down in flames an offer of a federal job k find out more...

High Sierra follows a failed robber broken out of prison by an old associate, who takes part in a failed robbery in which a man is killed, and makes a getaway into the Sierra mountains for a final doomed stand. find out more...

Two classic Bogart films for the price of one! High Sierra follows a failed robber broken out of prison by an old associate, who takes part in a failed robbery in which a man is killed, and makes a getaway into the Sierra mountains for a final doomed stand. Treasure of the Sierra Madre; 'Gold does funny things to a man's soul'. That's the issue tackled by this seminal movie about the pursuit of money and its effect on the brotherhood of man. Bogart plays the down-and-out Dobbs who hooks up with find out more...