Movies tagged with the "gangster" keyword

Fool's Gold (2008) [ USA]

Genres: Adventure , Comedy , Romance , Thriller Actors: Matthew McConaughey, Kate Hudson, Donald Sutherland, Alexis Dziena, Ewen Bremner, Ray Winstone, Kevin Hart, Malcolm-Jamal Warner, Brian Hooks, David Roberts, Michael Mulheren, Adam LeFevre, Rohan Nichol, Roger Sciberras, Elizabeth Connolly Directors: Andy Tennant A new clue to the whereabouts of a lost treasure rekindles a married couple's sense of adventure — and their estranged romance.

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The Dark Knight (2008) [ USA]

Genres: Action , Crime , Drama , Mystery , Thriller Actors: Christian Bale, Michael Caine, Heath Ledger, Aaron Eckhart, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Gary Oldman, Morgan Freeman, Eric Roberts, Cillian Murphy, Anthony Michael Hall, Monique Curnen, Nestor Carbonell, Joshua Harto, Michael Jai White, Colin McFarlane Directors: Christopher Nolan Right after taking out Ra's Al Ghul's plan and the mysterious disappearance of Dr. Jonathan Crane AKA Scarecrow, Batman continues his seemingly-endless effort to bring justice to Gotham's crime and corrupt with the help of Lt. James Gordon and new appointed District Attorney Harvey Dent. But this time, The Dark Knight faces a rising psychopathic criminal called The Joker, who's eerie grin makes him more dangerous than what he has yet to unleash. It becomes an agenda to both enemies that only one of them remains and are willing to break every part of what they believe in to stop the other.

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RocknRolla (2008) [ UK]

Genres: Action , Crime Actors: Nonso Anozie, David Bark-Jones, Geoff Bell, Morne Botes, Gerard Butler, Jamie Campbell Bower, Idris Elba, Tom Hardy, Ben Homewood, Toby Kebbell, Matt King, David Leon, Andy Linden, Ludacris, Roland Manookian Directors: Guy Ritchie In London, a real-estate scam puts millions of pounds up for grabs, attracting some of the city's scrappiest tough guys and its more established underworld types, all of whom are looking to get rich quick. While the city's seasoned criminals vie for the cash, an unexpected player - a drugged out rock 'n' roller presumed to be dead but very much alive - has a multi-million dollar prize fall into his hands.

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Identity Theft (2007) [ USA]

Genres: Crime , Drama Actors: Antonio Chávez, Cristobal Tapia-Montt, Raul Villarreal, Sam Gros Directors: Alfredo Rates When a drug deal turns into a bloodbath, a junkie-gangster crosses paths with an illegal alien. The illegal alien ends up with the gangster's ID and uses it to create a new successful life as a US citizen. A near death experience causes the gangster to re-evaluate his life, and when he leaves prison three years later, he is clean, sober, and ready to put his life back together. But both men are haunted by their pasts and they are soon set on a collision course that may destroy them and the women they love.

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The Departed (2006) [ USA]

Genres: Crime , Drama , Thriller Actors: Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Jack Nicholson, Martin Sheen, Mark Wahlberg, Vera Farmiga, Anthony Anderson, Ray Winstone, Alec Baldwin Directors: Martin Scorsese Two just-graduated officers from Massachusetts State Police Academy follow opposite sides of the law: William Costigan is assigned to work undercover with the Irish mobster Frank Costello to get evidences to arrest him. His true identity is only known by his superiors Dignam and Oliver Queenan. The protégée of Costello, Colin Sullivan, is promoted in the Massachusetts State Police and is the informer of Costello. Each police officer gives his best effort trying to disclose the identity of the other "rat".

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Assault on Precinct 13 (2005) [ USA, France]

Genres: Action , Crime , Drama , Thriller Actors: Ethan Hawke, John Leguizamo, Ja Rule, Maria Bello, Peter Bryant, Gabriel Byrne, Fulvio Cecere, Kim Coates, Matt Craven, Courtney Cunningham, Drea de Matteo, Brian Dennehy, Hugh Dillon, Laurence Fishburne, Tig Fong, Darren Frost, Jasmin Geljo Directors: Jean-François Richet On New Year's Eve, inside a police station that's about to be closed for good, officer Jake Roenick (Hawke) must cobble together a force made up cops and criminals to save themselves from a mob looking to kill mobster Marion Bishop (Fishburne).

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Manderlay (2005) [ Denmark, Sweden, Netherlands, France, Germany, UK]

Genres: Drama Actors: Bryce Dallas Howard, Isaach De Bankolé, Danny Glover, Willem Dafoe, Michaël Abiteboul, Lauren Bacall, Jean-Marc Barr, Geoffrey Bateman, Virgile Bramly, Ruben Brinkmann, Doña Croll, Jeremy Davies, Llewella Gideon, Mona Hammond, Ginny Holder Directors: Lars von Trier In 1933, after leaving Dogville, while traveling with her father (Willem Dafoe) and his gangsters to the south of USA, Grace Margaret Mulligan (Bryce Dallas Howard) sees a slave ready to be punished in a property called Manderlay. The slavery had been abolished seventy years ago, and Grace becomes revolted with the attitude of the owners of Manderlay, keeping slaves in their cotton fields and following predetermined despicable rules called "Mam's Law". Grace decides to stay with some gangsters in Manderlay and give notions of democracy to the slaves and to the white family. When harvest time comes, Grace sees the social and economical reality of Manderlay.

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The Business (2005) [ UK]

Genres: Comedy , Crime , Drama , Thriller Actors: Danny Dyer, Tamer Hassan, Geoff Bell, Georgina Chapman, Paul Burns, James Hagger, Roland Manookian, Martin Marquez, Michael Maxwell, Dan Mead, Andy Parfitt, David Spratt, Arturo Venegas, Eddie Webber, Camille Coduri Directors: Nick Love Frankie, a young lad on the run from the grimy ghetto of South London, plans his escape and the beginnings of a new life in sunny Spain - the Costa Del Sol to be more precise. Armed with nothing but a bundle of cash stashed in his luggage he heads off, yet Frankie has no idea that this sum of money will catapult him into the seductive world of ex-gangster Charlie. Before he knows it Frankie's got more then he bargained for - he's one of Charlie's gang and slap bang in the middle of the heady world of organized crime.

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A History of Violence (2005) [ Germany, USA]

Genres: Action , Crime , Drama , Thriller Actors: Viggo Mortensen, Maria Bello, Ed Harris, William Hurt, Ashton Holmes, Peter MacNeill, Stephen McHattie, Greg Bryk, Sumela Kay, Kyle Schmid, Deborah Drakeford, Gerry Quigley, Heidi Hayes, Aidan Devine, Bill MacDonald Directors: David Cronenberg Tom Stall, a humble family man and owner of a popular neighborhood restaurant, lives a quiet but fulfilling existence in the Midwest. One night Tom foils a crime at his place of business and, to his chagrin, is plastered all over the news for his heroics. Following this, mysterious people follow the Stalls' every move, concerning Tom more than anyone else. As this situation is confronted, more lurks out over where all these occurrences have stemmed from compromising his marriage, family relationship and the main characters' former relations in the process.

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Layer Cake (2004) [ UK]

Genres: Crime , Drama , Thriller Actors: Daniel Craig, Tom Hardy, Jamie Foreman, Sally Hawkins, Burn Gorman, George Harris, Tamer Hassan, Colm Meaney, Marcel Iures, Francis Magee, Dimitri Andreas, Kenneth Cranham, Garry Tubbs, Nathalie Lunghi, Marvin Benoit Directors: Matthew Vaughn A successful cocaine dealer, who has earned a respected place among England's Mafia elite, plans an early retirement from the business. However, big boss Jimmy Price hands down a tough assignment: find Charlotte Ryder, the missing rich princess daughter of Jimmy's old pal Edward, a powerful construction business player and gossip papers socialite. Complicating matters are two million pounds' worth of Grade A ecstasy, a brutal neo-Nazi sect and a whole series of double crossings. The title "LAYER CAKE" refers to the layers or levels anyone in business goes through in rising to the top. What is revealed is a modern underworld where the rules have changed. There are no 'codes', or 'families' and respect lasts as long as a line. Not knowing who he can trust, he has to use all his 'savvy', 'telling' and skills which make him one of the best, to escape his own. The ultimate last job, a love interest called Tammy, and an international drug ring threaten to draw him back into the 'cake mix'. But, time is running out and the penalty will endure a lifetime..

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Bullet Boy (2004) [ UK]

Genres: Drama Actors: Leon Black, Chris Callendar, Luke Fraser, Des Hamilton, Gary Henry, Clark Lawson, Greg Tanner, Rio Tison, Jadiel Vitalis, Curtis Walker, Ashley Walters, Sylvester Williams, Louise Delamere, Claire Perkins, Sharea-mounira Samuels Directors: Saul Dibb Ricky is just out of a young offenders institute, heading home to Hackney and determined to go straight. Instead, he heads straight for trouble when he becomes involved in a street confrontation, siding with his best friend Wisdom against a local rude boy. The trouble escalates into a series of tit-for-tat incidents that threaten to spiral out of control. Ricky's 12-year-old brother Curtis, hero-worships Ricky, though he appears smart enough to know he doesn't want to follow his example. Yet, despite the stern warnings from his mother and support from her friends in the community, might Ricky's bad boy allure be too attractive for Curtis to resist?

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Malevolence (2004) [ USA]

Genres: Crime , Horror , Mystery , Thriller Actors: Samantha Dark, R. Brandon Johnson, Heather Magee, Richard Glover, Courtney Bertolone, John Richard Ingram, Keith Chambers, Kevin McKelvey, Lenn Gross, Pamela Marie Guida, Mia Lotringer, Stevan Mena, Jay Cohen, David K. Guida II, Mark Dobil Directors: Stevan Mena Created as the middle section of a three-part trilogy, 'Malevolence' is the tragic story of a group of bank robbers on the run from the law. They hide out in an abandoned house on the outskirts of town, unaware it is next door to the home of a family of serial killers. One of their hostages escapes and runs for help, but all hell breaks loose when she runs to the "wrong" house.

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Dogville (2003) [ UK, Germany, Denmark, Netherlands, Norway, USA, Finland, France, Sweden]

Genres: Drama , Mystery , Thriller Actors: Nicole Kidman, Harriet Andersson, Lauren Bacall, Jean-Marc Barr, Paul Bettany, Blair Brown, James Caan, Patricia Clarkson, Jeremy Davies, Ben Gazzara, Philip Baker Hall, Thom Hoffman, Siobhan Fallon, John Hurt, Zeljko Ivanek Directors: Lars von Trier The beautiful fugitive, Grace (Nicole Kidman), arrives in the isolated township of Dogville on the run from a team of gangsters. With some encouragement from Tom (Paul Bettany), the self-appointed town spokesman, the little community agrees to hide her and in return, Grace agrees to work for them. However, when a search sets in, the people of Dogville demand a better deal in exchange for the risk of harbouring poor Grace and she learns the hard way that in this town, goodness is relative. But Grace has a secret and it is a dangerous one. Dogville may regret it ever began to bare its teeth...

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Gigli (2003) [ USA]

Genres: Romance , Comedy , Crime Actors: Ben Affleck, Terry Camilleri, David Backus, Lenny Venito, Robert Silver, Luis Alberto Martínez, Justin Bartha, Jennifer Lopez, Christopher Walken, Todd Giebenhain, Brian Sites, Brian Casey, Les Bradford, David Bonfadini, Dwight P. Ketchum Directors: Martin Brest Gigli, a lowly and inept hitman, is assigned a job by the mob to kidnap a mentally retarded brother of a California district attorney. Gigli abducts the brother from his mental hospital and holds him hostage in his apartment. Ricki, a "lesbian assassin", is sent to oversee Gigli's job and make sure he doesn't screw it up. Comedic high jinks ensue as the two go on the lam and start to fall in love.

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Gangs of New York (2002) [ UK, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, USA]

Genres: History , Drama , Crime , Action Actors: Leonardo DiCaprio, Daniel Day-Lewis, Cameron Diaz, Jim Broadbent, Henry Thomas, Liam Neeson, Brendan Gleeson, John C. Reilly, Gary Lewis, Stephen Graham, Eddie Marsan, Alec McCowen, Larry Gilliard Jr., Cara Seymour, David Hemmings Directors: Martin Scorsese As waves of immigrants swell the population of New York, lawlessness and corruption thrive in Manhattan's Five Points section. After years of incarceration, young Irish immigrant Amsterdam Vallon returns seeking revenge against the rival gang leader who killed his father. But Amsterdam's personal vendetta becomes part of the gang warfare that erupts as he and his fellow Irishmen fight to carve a place for themselves in their newly adopted homeland!

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Federal Protection (2002) [ USA]

Genres: Action , Drama , Thriller Actors: Armand Assante, Angela Featherstone, Dina Meyer, David Lipper, Frank Chiesurin, Tony Calabretta, Mark Camacho, Steve Park, Chip Chuipka, Danny Blanco, Maxim Roy, Anatoly Zinoviev, Michael Filipowich, Carl Alacchi, Maria Bertrand Directors: Anthony Hickox "Chop Chop" Frankie Carbone (Armand Assante) has made a career out of stealing cars for the mob in Chicago. An attempted assassination by a mob boss goes badly and Frankie retaliates, only to wind up in the hands of the Feds. Frankie agrees to testify against the mobsters and his life is suddenly worthless - unless he submits to going into federal protection. The FBI gives him a new name - Howard Akers - and relocates him to a sleepy middle-class suburb in Little Rock, AR. Howard catches the attention of his lovely neighbor, Leigh (Angela Featherstone), a bored fund-raiser for a non-profit zoo whose husband, Dennis (David Lipper), is having an affair - and she knows it, but she doesn't know it's with her hot-blooded sister, Bootsie (Dina Meyer). Leigh becomes friends with the enigmatic Howard, but Dennis and Bootsie see an opportunity to earn the million-dollar bounty the mob has put on his head by turning him in to the mob.

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Osmosis Jones (2001) [ USA]

Genres: Animation , Action , Comedy , Crime , Drama , Romance , Thriller Actors: Molly Shannon, Bill Murray, Ben Stein, Joel Silver, Chris Rock, Laurence Fishburne, David Hyde Pierce, Brandy Norwood, William Shatner, Ron Howard, Kid Rock, Kenny Olson, Jason Krause, Joe C., Stefanie Eulinberg, Jimmie Bones, Uncle Kracker, Jonathan Adams, Carlos Alazraqui Directors: Bobby Farrelly , Peter Farrelly Frank Detomello catches a cold. The inside of his body is known as the "City of Frank" to its inhabitants, two of which - white blood cell cop Osmosis Jones, and cold tablet Drixorial - team up to fight the invading viruses intent on taking over the City.

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Hard As Nails (2001) [ USA]

Genres: Crime , Action Actors: Allen Scotti, Kim Yates, Andrew Craig, Matt Westmore, Lorissa McComas, John Timmons, Stella Farentino, Shannon Reynolds, Andre Hotchko, Jade, Matthew Pollino, Jerome Katz, Nicole Mercier, Andre McCoy, Marko Zaror Directors: Brian Katkin A young American member of the Japanese Mafia gains power, and anyone standing in his way is asking for big trouble. Meanwhile, another gangster is caught up in this game of deception and betrayal, and must fight to survive in the dangerous crossfire.

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Heist (2001) [ Canada, USA]

Genres: Action , Crime , Drama , Thriller Actors: Sam Rockwell, Gene Hackman, Danny DeVito, Delroy Lindo, Ricky Acker, Rebecca Pidgeon Directors: David Mamet David Mamet takes this story of thieves along many twists and turns, some of which work and some of which don't. Gene Hackman plays the brilliant leader of a gang (Delroy Lindo, Ricky Jay & Rebecca Pigeon as Hackman's youngish wife), which pulls off complex heists for a despicable fence (Danny DeVito). After stiffing the gang on a jewelry robbery, DeVito forces the gang to go after a Swiss gold shipment and to use his nephew (Sam Rockwell) in the crime. No one trusts anyone and every step is shaded with the unexpected.

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One Eyed King (2001) [ USA]

Genres: Crime , Drama , Thriller Actors: William Baldwin, Dash Mihok, Justin Bradley, Johnny Griffin, Gary Fine, Mitchell David Rothpan, Kevin Woodhouse, Thomas Michael, Jim Breuer, Josh Hopkins, Jason Gedrick, Lara Daans, Paolo Mancini, Rick Aiello, Rick Aiello Directors: Robert Moresco Residents of Manhattan's Hell's Kitchen attempt to balance family and friendship against the harsh street life that unfolds around them.

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