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Pub. Date
2001, c1993
Description
This collection of documentaries produced by A & E presents a broad overview of organized crime in America, beginning with immigrants who formed gangs soon after arriving in the late 19th century. The focus is on Italian-American gangsters, though there are mentions of Irish and Jewish gangs, which at various times cooperated with or competed against the Mafia, and one program in the collection presents skeins of conjecture while seeking to document...
Series
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
Maximum overdrive (1986, 98 min.): For three horrifying days, the Earth passes through the tail of a mysterious comet. The comet's magnetic fields cause all the machines to suddenly come to life and terrorize their human creators in a horrific killing spree. Now it's up to a small group of people trapped at a desolate truck stop to defeat the killer machines.
Raw deal (1986, 106 min.): A suspended FBI agent becomes trapped in a deadly game against...
Pub. Date
[2011]
Description
An urban epic set in Baltimore, where police detectives investigate cases involving the illegal drug trade, the seaport system, the city government and its bureaucracy, the school system, and the print news media. Unvarnished and highly realistic, Season One follows a single sprawling drug and murder investigation in Baltimore--one that culminates in a complex series of dangerous wiretaps and surveillance. Told from the points of view of both the...
125) Crank
Pub. Date
c2006
Description
Hit man Chev Chelios...has one hour to settle the score and say good-bye to his girl and go out with a little style!
126) Lawless
Pub. Date
[2012]
Description
Based on the true story of the infamous Bondurant brothers: bootlegging siblings who made a run for the American Dream in Prohibition-era Virginia. In this epic outlaw tale, inspired by true-life tales of author Matt Bondurant's family, the loyalty of three brothers is put to the test against the backdrop of the nation's most notorious crime wave.
127) Punisher: war zone
Pub. Date
2009
Description
Seeking revenge for the death of his wife and son, Punisher (aka Frank Castle) fights the crime syndicate headed by Jigsaw.
128) Mean Streets
Pub. Date
2004.
Description
Charlie, a 27-year-old, tries to work his way up the bottom rungs of organized crime's ladder. Amy Robinson is Teresa, the girlfriend Charlie's family declares "unsuitable" because she has epilepsy.
129) The Wire: Season 1
Pub. Date
c2010
Description
An urban epic set in Baltimore, where police detectives investigate cases involving the illegal drug trade, the seaport system, the city government and its bureaucracy, the school system, and the print news media.
130) The Wire: Season 2
Pub. Date
c2010
Description
An urban epic set in Baltimore, where police detectives investigate cases involving the illegal drug trade, the seaport system, the city government and its bureaucracy, the school system, and the print news media.
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
A realistic look at the violence that shook America's past, this gritty series pays tribute to stoic gangbuster Eliot Ness and his incorruptible treasury agents as they battle organized crime. In this volume, it looks like Frank Nitti's evil empire might be crumbling--but then heroin becomes the new drug of choice. Now the rivalry between Ness and Nitti intensifies.
135) Punisher 2. War zone
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
Infamous vigilante, Frank Castle, known as the Punisher, has been on his vengeance driven zeal for the past six years. He brutally assaults a 'beat the rap' party for the notorious mob boss Gaitano Cesare. He hideously disfigures gangster Billy Russoti and murders a mafia lackey who turns out to be an undercover FBI agent. Agent Paul Budiansky is the ex-partner of the undercover agent who joins the NYPD's 'Punisher Task Force' to help bring Castle...
136) For your eyes only
Series
James Bond blu-ray volume 2
Pub. Date
c1981
Description
James Bond is thrust into one of his most riveting adventures filled with outrageous stunts, passionate encounters and exciting confrontations. James has a lethal determination to find himself infiltrating the Greek underworld and races against time to find a stolen device capable of controlling a fleet of nuclear submarines.
137) Driven to kill
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
Ruslan Drachev is a highly-respected former enforcer in the New York-based Russian mob. He abandoned his gangland lifestyle years ago to pursue a peaceful career as a novelist. But after the brutal attack and kidnapping of his daughter, who happens to be engaged to the son of a ruthless Russian nemesis, Ruslan returns to the sinister underworld of his past and doles out his own style of merciless justice.
138) Steven Seagal
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
Driven to kill Ruslan, a former Russian gangster who's now a successful crime novelist, goes to attend his daughter's wedding and finds out her fianc ǐs the son of his arch enemy, a crime boss.
Tunnel vision: After a serial killer is found not guilty, a man seeks revenge against the murderer for the death of his family.
Living to die: A burned-out private detective in Las Vegas gets involved in blackmail and murder.
C.I.A. code name, Alexa: A...
Pub. Date
c2008
Description
In the final installment of the Godfather Trilogy, an aging Don Michael Corleone seeks to legitimize his crime family's interests and remove himself from the violent underworld but is kept back by the ambitions of the young. While he attempts to link the Corleone's finances with the Vatican, Michael must deal with the machinations of a hungrier gangster seeking to upset the existing Mafioso order and a young protégé's love affair with his daughter....