Gangsters – MovieLog

Gangster Squad (2013)

Sat, 22 Oct 2022 12:46:53 +0000

It’s 1949 Los Angeles, and gangster Mickey Cohen has moved in, with the intention of controlling all criminal activity in the city. He has bought local judges and police, and no one is willing to cross him or testify against him. Everyone except Seargant John O’Mara, a former World War II soldier, whose goal is to settle with his family in a peaceful Los Angeles. Police Chief William Parker decides to form a special unit whose mission is to take down Cohen, and chooses O’Mara to lead the unit. O’Mara chooses 4 cops and asks another cop and vet, Jerry Wooters to join him but Wooters is not interested. But when he witnesses the murder of a young boy by Cohen’s people, he joins them, and they decide to take apart Cohen’s organization. Cohen wonders if a rival is going after him, but eventually he realizes it’s the cops.

Gangster Squad

Fuerza antigángster

No names. No badges. No mercy.

Ruben Fleischer

USA

6.7

IMDb

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Iceman, The (2012)

Sat, 22 Oct 2022 12:46:47 +0000

In the 1960s, Richard Kuklinski is working as a porn film lab tech until his mob bosses persuade him to change his career into that of a contract killer. For years, Kuklinski gains a reputation for cold blooded professionalism even as he raises a family who are kept in the dark about his true career. Unfortunately, mob politics ultimately forces him to secretly work independently with the psychopathic Robert ‘Mr. Freezy’ Pronge. As much as Kuklinski tries to keep his lives separate, circumstances and his own weaknesses threaten a terrible collision as the consequences of his choices finally catch up to him.

Iceman, The

Iceman

Loving husband. Devoted father. Ruthless killer.

Ariel Vromen

USA

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Donnie Brasco (1997)

Sat, 22 Oct 2022 12:46:30 +0000

An FBI undercover agent infilitrates the mob and finds himself identifying more with the mafia life to the expense of his regular one.

Donnie Brasco

Donnie Brasco. Based On A True Story.

Mike Newell

USA

7.8

IMDb

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Millers Crossing (1990)

Sat, 22 Oct 2022 12:46:14 +0000

A highly styled ‘genre’ film which can perhaps be seen as a pastiche of all gangster movies. Tom Reagan is the laconic anti-hero of this amoral tale which is also, paradoxically, a look at morals within the criminal underworld of the 1930s. Two rival gangs vie for control of a city where the police are pawns, and the periodic busts of illicit drinking establishments are no more than a way for one gang to get back at the other. Black humour and shocking violence compete for screen time as we question whether or not Tom, right-hand man of the Irish mob leader, really has a heart.

Millers Crossing

Up is down, black is white, and nothing is what it seems.

Joel Coen, Ethan Coen

USA

7.9

IMDb

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Layer Cake (2004)

Sat, 22 Oct 2022 11:23:22 +0000

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..

Layer Cake

Matthew Vaughn

7.4

IMDb

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Godfather: Part II, The (1974)

Sat, 22 Oct 2022 11:23:21 +0000

The continuing saga of the Corleone crime family tells the story of a young Vito Corleone growing up in Sicily and in 1910s New York; and follows Michael Corleone in the 1950s as he attempts to expand the family business into Las Vegas, Hollywood and Cuba.

Godfather: Part II, The

Francis Ford Coppola

USA

9.1

IMDb

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American Gangster (2007)

Sat, 22 Oct 2022 11:23:20 +0000

Following the death of his employer and mentor, Bumpy Johnson, Frank Lucas establishes himself as the number one importer of heroin in the Harlem district of Manhattan. He does so by buying heroin directly from the source in South East Asia and he comes up with a unique way of importing the drugs into the United States. As a result, his product is superior to what is currently available on the street and his prices are lower. His alliance with the New York Mafia ensures his position. It is also the story of a dedicated and honest policeman, Richie Roberts, who heads up a joint narcotics task force with the Federal government. Based on a true story.

American Gangster

There are two sides to the American dream.

Ridley Scott

USA

7.8

IMDb

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Goodfellas (1990)

Sat, 22 Oct 2022 11:23:05 +0000

Henry Hill is a small time gangster, who takes part in a robbery with Jimmy Conway and Tommy De Vito, two other gangsters who have set their sights a bit higher. His two partners kill off everyone else involved in the robbery, and slowly start to climb up through the hierarchy of the Mob. Henry, however, is badly affected by his partners success, but will he stoop low enough to bring about the downfall of Jimmy and Tommy?

Goodfellas

Shooting people was ‘No big deal’.

Martin Scorsese

USA

8.8

IMDb

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Revolver (2005)

Sat, 22 Oct 2022 11:22:52 +0000

After seven years in solitary, Jake Green is released from prison. In the next two years, he amasses a lot of money by gambling. He’s ready to seek his revenge on Dorothy (Mr. D) Macha, a violence-prone casino owner who sent Jake to prison. He humiliates Macha in front of Macha’s lieutenants, leaves, and keels over. Doctors tell him he has a rare disease and will die in three days; Macha also puts a hit out on him. Loan sharks, Zack and Avi, demand Jake’s cash and complete fealty in return for protection. Jake complies, and through narration and flashbacks, we watch him through at least three days of schemes, danger, and redemption. Who is his greatest enemy?

Revolver

Your mind will not accept a game this big

Guy Ritchie

France, UK

6.3

IMDb

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Lock, Stock And Two Smoking Barrels (1998)

Sat, 22 Oct 2022 11:22:34 +0000

Four Jack-the-lads find themselves heavily – seriously heavily – in debt to an East End hard man and his enforcers after a crooked card game. Overhearing their neighbours in the next flat plotting to hold up a group of out-of-their-depth drug growers, our heros decide to stitch up the robbers in turn. In a way the confusion really starts when a pair of antique double-barrelled shotguns go missing in a completely different scam.

Lock, Stock And Two Smoking Barrels

A Disgrace to Criminals Everywhere.

Guy Ritchie

8.2

IMDb

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