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Publisher
Distributed in the U.S. by New Video
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
A collection of five documentaries in 2 videodiscs chronicling the rise of the Mafia, from its birth in Sicily to its proliferation in the United States, focusing on the Genovese family, Lucky Luciano, Bugsy Siegel, and Meyer Lansky
3) The outfit
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Formats
Description
An expert tailor must outwit a dangerous group of mobsters in order to survive a fateful night
Publisher
Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
After witnessing the brutal murders of a convenience store owner and his son; firefighter Jeremy Coleman nearly escapes with his life. As he is forced to testify against the crime lord, Hagan, he is placed in the witness protection program under the watch of the U.S. Marshalls
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
As a boy a young Bruce Wayne watched in horror as his millionaire parents were slain in front of his eyes. This trauma led him to become obsessed with revenge. After disappearing to the East where he seeks counsel with a ninja cult leader, he returns to his now decaying Gotham City. The City is now overrun by organized crime and dangerous individuals manipulating the system. The discovery of a cave under his mansion, and a prototype armoured suit,...
6) Capone
Publisher
Vertical Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Formats
Description
The 47-year old Al Capone, after ten years in prison, suffering from syphilis and dementia, comes to be haunted by his violent past
8) Your honor
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
New Orleans judge Michael Desiato is forced to confront his own deepest convictions when his son is involved in a hit and run that embroils an organized crime family
9) The departed
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
In South Boston, the state police force are waging a war on Irish-American organized crime. Undercover cop Billy Costigan is assigned to infiltrate the mob syndicate, which is run by gangland chief Frank Costello. Billy quickly gains Costello's confidence. Colin Sullivan is a hardened young criminal who has infiltrated the police department as an informer for the syndicate. Colin is rising to a position of power within the Special Investigation Unit....
Author
Language
Italiano
Description
Based on the true story of Rita Atria and Judge Paolo Borsellino, The Sicilian Girl is the dramatic retelling of Atria's Story: how a 17 year-old Sicilian whose father and brother were both Mafia Members (and victims) breaks the vow of silence that enshrouds that world, and gives evidence to famed anti-Mafia judge Borselllino.
13) Nirvana
Author
Language
Portuguese
Description
Ian Velloza (Vila Faia) is Vega, a small-time wiseguy who gets kicked out of his gang just when he expects to move up. Out for revenge, Vega teams up with a bunch of delinquent small-time criminals to pay back the leader of the gang, Barbas. Vega's plan is to beat Barbas's gang to the scene of a planned robbery and get the money first. What Vega doesn't realize is that Barbas has many enemies, all of whom had the same idea. Now Vega and his ragtag...
Publisher
Vertical
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Caught up in a criminal enterprise, Ashley and her young daughter turn to her estranged father, Matt, for help. Retired and living a beach bum's life in The Caymans, her dad's secret past is revealed as the Mob tracks them down on the island
16) Exit to Hell
Author
Language
English
Description
Horror Legend Kane Hodder (Friday the 13th, Hatchet) is Sheriff Slade Sickle who's particular brand of justice cuts quickly and deeply when a bloodthirsty gang on the run arrives in his town. Before day's end, this dusty town will run blood red.'
Publisher
Vertical
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Caught up in a criminal enterprise, Ashley and her young daughter turn to her estranged father, Matt, for help. Retired and living a beach bum's life in The Caymans, her dad's secret past is revealed as the Mob tracks them down on the island
18) Widows
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Four women with nothing in common except a debt left by their dead husbands' criminal acts conspire to take fate into their own hands
Author
Language
English
Description
Joey Coyle, an unemployed longshoreman, stumbled upon $1.2 million in unmarked, untraceable currancy that had fallen off an armored truck and wanted to keep it. He turns to his girlfriend, Monica, to help him launder the loot. but keeping a million-dollar secret is harder than it looks, especially when Joey begins upgrading his social standing with extravagant gestures -- such as picking up enormous bar tabs for his friends. As an investigating...
20) Playing God
Author
Language
English
Description
Stripped of his medical license after performing an operation while high on amphetamines, Los Angeles surgeon Dr. Eugene Sands abandons his career, and finds himself crossing paths with a ruthless criminal, Raymond Blossom. Raymond hires Eugene as his "gun-shot doctor", to treat associates who cannot risk visiting a hospital. Lured deeper and deeper into the dangerous underworld and growing too close to Raymond's seductive girlfriend Claire, Eugene...
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