GANGS
West Side Story
Two youngsters from rival New York City gangs fall in love, but tensions between their respective friends build toward tragedy.
MILLER’S CROSSING -R
When the Italian Mafia threatens to kill a crooked bookie (John Turturro), Irish mob boss Leo O’Bannon (Albert Finney) refuses to allow it, chiefly because he’s dating the bookie’s sister, crafty gun moll Verna Bernbaum (Marcia Gay Harden). Leo’s right-hand man, Tom Reagan (Gabriel Byrne), is also seeing Verna on the sly, and when he’s found out is obliged to switch sides, going to work for the Italian mob amidst a dramatically escalating gang war over liquor distribution.
LAYER CAKE – R
Sleek, well dressed and polite, our unnamed hero (Daniel Craig) is a consummate professional. Treating cocaine and ecstasy like any other commodity, he has made a fortune for himself by keeping his hands clean and staying under the radar. Having made the decision to retire, his aim is to break free from the world of crime, drugs and violence and live a simple, quiet life with the money he has amassed.
SCARFACE 1983 – R
Al Pacino plays Antonio “Tony” Montana as the main character. The film is a loose remake of the 1932 Howard Hawks gangster film of the same title. It tells the story of a fictional Cuban refugee who comes to Florida in 1980 as a result of the Mariel Boatlift. Tony becomes a gangster against the backdrop of the 1980’s cocaine boom. The film chronicles his rise to the top of Miami’s criminal underworld and subsequent downfall in Greek tragedy fashion.
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HEAT – R
De Niro plays a professional robber named “Neil McCauley,” who is a calm, methodical loner and an introvert, while Pacino’s cop, “Vincent Hanna,” is a veteran LAPD homicide detective whose devotion to his job leads to a doomed marriage that is collapsing around him.
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GOODFELLAS – R
The story details the rise and fall of Hill, a half-Irish, half-Sicilian New York kid who grows up idolizing the “wise guys” in his impoverished Brooklyn neighborhood. He begins hanging around the mobsters, running errands and doing odd jobs until he gains the notice of local chieftain Paulie Cicero, who takes him in as a surrogate son.
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LOCK, STOCK AND TWO SMOKING BARRELS – R
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A brutally comic tale about a group of London friends who find themselves deep in debt to an East End tough, Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels is quick-paced, stylized, and highly entertaining. In his debut feature film, director-writer Guy Ritchie weaves a tangled web of shady, blithely eccentric characters and several storylines, all of them coming together in a gleeful explosion of murder and mayhem. When streetwise charmer Eddy (Nick Moran), the son of steely bar owner JD (Sting), botches a gambling scheme with his dad’s nemesis, porn king Hatchet Harry (P.H. Moriarty), he’s got one week to come up with 500,000 pounds or he loses his fingers–and so do his friends Tom (Jason Flemyng), Bacon (Jason Statham), and Soap (Dexter Fletcher). While the pals scheme to make the money, Harry indulges his penchant for valuable antique shot guns, stolen for him by a couple of inept burglars. Soon the missing guns, a paranoid group of marajuana growers, a mean-spirited debt collector (Vinnie Jones) and his young son, and a violent bunch of thugs, are all thrown together in this tightly-woven, genuinely funny story that takes its inspiration from old British comic gangster flicks