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. find out more...

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 find out more...

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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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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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...

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. find out more...

The chairmanship of the ancient, powerful Wu Sing Society, a Triad alliance is up for 'election', a process by which the 'uncles', a group of ageing Mafiosi sit in a smoke filled room and vote. The trouble is that two characters of vastly different style, relaxed family man Lok and volatile Big D, are rivals for the post and a violent battle ensues for the future of the clan. find out more...

Pam Grier displays the charms that made her a 70s icon of the blaxploitation movie. When Foxy Brown's undercover drug squad boyfriend is murdered after her bad-ass brother reveals his identity, she poses as a hooker to take revenge on The Man. Cue bucketloads of gratuitous sex and violence. Brilliant (say some)! 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...