The prodigal son of police captain Thomas Coughlin (Brendan Gleeson) finds himself blackmailed into doing the dirty work for a violent Italian mafia boss when he's caught in a love affair with the mistress of a rivaling, Irish mob leader by the name of Albert White (Robert Glenister). (digitalshortbread.com)
Al Pacino stars as Michael Corleone in this dark side of the American dream story, rising from clean - cut son of New York Godfather Vito Corleone (Marlon Brando in an Oscar — winning performance) to ruthless mob leader to modern American businessman trying to pull his family's tentacles from the criminal world. (seanax.com)
We witness one in Scott Cooper's gritty mafia film Black Mass about former Boston mob leader James «Whitey» Bulger. (screenpicks.com)