Sentences with phrase «as a gangster who»

Starring the trio of Tom Hardy, Shia LaBeouf and Jason Clarke as the leading bootlegging brothers, the film has apparently been killing test screenings and features a stellar supporting cast including Jessica Chastain as Hardy's love interest Maggie; Mia Wasikowska as LaBeouf's belle; Dane DeHaan as Labeouf's partner - in - crime; Guy Pearce as a violent deputy with the brothers in his sights, and Gary Oldman as a gangster who employs the boys.

In the second short, on a rainy night, a restaurant waitress (Julieta Zylberberg) recognizes her one patron as the gangster who drove her father to suicide and shortly thereafter tried to seduce her mother.

Mortensen is the main attraction, but this is everybody's show, with Bello passionate and fierce as his wife and Harris exuding an eerie reasonableness as the gangster who can't be dissuaded.

Not exact matches

The plot of Godless is carried along by Frank Griffin (Jeff Daniels), a notorious and bloodthirsty gangster who leads a posse that once wiped out an entire frontier town as an act of vengeance.

is carried along by Frank Griffin (Jeff Daniels), a notorious and bloodthirsty gangster who leads a posse that once wiped out an entire frontier town as an act of vengeance.

Lightning Partners, Ltd., as the franchise is formally known, has a mystery owner from Japan named Takashi Okubo, who bought a limited stake in the team in»90 through his Tokyo golf resorts company, Kokusai Green, and is identified by a source in one lawsuit as being a «gangster.»

Briefing journalists on the incident, Ashanti Regional Police Public Relations Officer, ASP Juliana Obeng, said the complainant during his report to police mentioned Charles Sarpong alias Gangster, who he knows in the community neighborhood as one of the suspects.

I mean, Eve, who marketed herself as a gangster rapper has been able to have successful relationships with white men... which I think goes to show that black women can be exactly who they are and still attract white men.

It's impossible not to laugh as the Gingerbread Man, two of his little baked legs cruelly broken off at the knee, scowls like a hard - boiled gangster at Farquaad, who's captured him in the hopes of gleaning information about the renegade storybook characters.

It has a reasonably tight script and is well cast, with Warner Baxter playing the lawyer and Myrna Loy as the gangster's moll, a «bad girl» with glittering eyes who he quite understandably falls for.

Brad Pitt (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Burn After Reading) stars as Gerry Lane, a former field investigator for the United Nations who finds himself running for his life in Philadelphia, along with his wife (Enos, Gangster Squad) and two daughters, as a major viral pandemic that causes infected people to turn into raging, mindless «zombies» whose only purpose is to infect the uninfected by biting them.

Originally written by James Toback (Two Girls and a Guy) and starring James Caan, this 2014 version, scripted by William Monahan (The Departed), stars Mark Wahlberg as an English professor and a high - stakes gambler who is trying to balance his relationship with his mother (Jessica Lange) and a student (Brie Larson) as he gets involved with a gangster played by The Wire's Michael Kenneth Williams and a loan shark played by John Goodman.

Many handsome leading men lose their seductive confidence as they grow older, but Bachchan is such a industry - defining star that he can do (and often has done) whatever he wants, whether it's scowling pensively throughout a trilogy of «Godfather» - esque gangster films («Sarkar,» «Sarkar Raj» and «Sarkar 3») or playing a Cyrano de Bergerac - like bum who lends his commanding baritone voice to a struggling young movie star whose natural voice isn't sexy enough («Shamitabh»).

Damian Chapa stars as honest but financially strapped cop Angel Alvarez, who makes some quick money — but loses his soul — when he goes to work for a local gangster, Fernando.

Unleashed (a.k.a. Danny The Dog) is a gangster - fairytale - martial arts - drama about a man who not only was never given the chance to grow up, but was raised as a dog.

Nick DeMaio is an aspiring actor who is perpetually typecast as «Gangster Number 3» in films about the Mob.

Schrader added his voice to the angry outcry against Weinstein with a rather tone - deaf Facebook post that downplays Weinstein's personality as a «sexual gangster» since «most people who crossed his path» knew about it.

I'd say the true star of the film is Josh Brolin, who has proved in the past few years that he can do many things, such as giving an Oscar - caliber performance in Milk (which also stars Gangster Squad's Sean Penn), do an uncanny Tommy Lee Jones impression in Men In Black III, and proves here that he can dish up a good dash of old - fashioned rough - and - tough heroism.

Uma Thurman also impresses as Mia, the coke snorting gangster's moll who seems ill at ease with all the violence and whispers that surround her no - nonsense kingpin husband Marsellus Wallace (a brilliant Ving Rhames).

Gangster Squad follows a team of LAPD Officers who go rogue as a secretly assembled team of cops who start to raid mob operations with no limits as to killing criminals in order to stop the infamous gangster, Mickey Cohen, from taking over Los Gangster Squad follows a team of LAPD Officers who go rogue as a secretly assembled team of cops who start to raid mob operations with no limits as to killing criminals in order to stop the infamous gangster, Mickey Cohen, from taking over Los gangster, Mickey Cohen, from taking over Los Angeles.

Reduced by Refn almost to the point of abstraction — it could have been called Notes on a Rehearsal for an Action Movie — Drive may do little to win over multiplex crowds who prefer the fast and furious to the moody and languorous, but it reconfirms Refn as one of the most exciting young directors around, and Albert Brooks (stealing the film as a small - time Jewish gangster with an aversion to loose ends) as a national treasure.

As in Melville's brooding gangster classic, Mamet's film focuses on a lonely, figurative samurai devoted to a governing code, in this case a jiu - jitsu instructor named Mike Terry (Chiwetel Ejiofor) who runs a Los Angeles martial arts academy where he trains both lay people and cops.

SING stars Academy Award winner Matthew McConaughey as Buster Moon, an eternally optimistic koala who puts on the world's greatest singing competition to save his crumbling theater; Academy Award winner Reese Witherspoon as Rosita, an overworked and underappreciated mother of 25 piglets desperate to unleash her inner diva; Scarlett Johansson as Ash, a punk rock porcupine with a beautiful voice behind her prickly exterior; Taron Egerton as Johnny, a young gangster gorilla looking to break free of his family's felonies; as well as Seth MacFarlane, John C. Reilly, and Grammy Award - nominated Tori Kelly.

Luckily, the girl he likes has a dad who's in trouble with gangsters or drug dealers or something, so Pettyfer convinces the dad to send the girl to live as his virtual prisoner.

Meet Stephen French, a former gangster from Liverpool who built a notorious reputation as a taxman by robbing drug dealers in the 80s and 90s.

Damon would play a gangster who has infiltrated the Boston police department as part of its cadet class and has been steadily rising through the ranks.

Instead of a kid who dreamed of growing up to be a mobster, we have two kids who grow up as imposters: One becomes a cop who goes undercover as a gangster, and the other becomes a gangster who goes undercover as a cop.

Exercising some terrible mock trumpet - playing, Rourke stars as washed - up jazz musician Nate Poole, who finds himself on the wrong side of a grudge with gangster Happy Shannon (Murray).

Giamatti looks almost embarrassed as a wacky gangster who's involved in the chaos, although the character makes sense later on.

The Brazilian star who played a favela gangster on film and sang Bowie in Portuguese says he makes music to get people thinking as well as dancing

Lee Valmassy has a lot of fun letting loose as the gleefully farcical villain (a mohawked, golden - grilled gangster who only wears jumpsuits), and Art Hsu turns in a scene - stealing performance as the hero's duck - loving sidekick, but while fans of bad movies might appreciate what «The FP» has to offer, it's not exactly the ready - made cult classic that it's so desperately trying to be.

The subplot involving Bishop's stepson Ryan (Gerard Kearns), who falls in with a sociopathic gangster, manages the difficult feat of being both lurid and boring; and the way Bishop finally extricates the boy from the mess is so raucously unbelievable that what no doubt was meant to be a crowd - pleasing finale comes across instead as crowd - annoying.

Steiger is the gangster, who at the urging of his partners in crime, decides to ice the girl he loves for the good of his operation as a whole and piece of mind.

Mickey Rourke stars as a down - on - his - luck jazz trumpeter who flees into the desert after he sleeps with the wife of local gangster Bill Murray and ends up targeted for death.

The comedy from the In Bruges writer and director reunites him with actor Colin Farrell as a struggling screenwriter who inadvertently becomes entangled in the Los Angeles criminal underworld after his two oddball friends (Christopher Walken and Sam Rockwell) kidnap a gangster's (Woody Harrelson) beloved Shih Tzu.

First of all, Johnny Depp looks absolutely fantastic as Whitey Bulger, the notorious gangster who cinema has seemingly been obsessed with in the last decade or so.

The Boston accents of Mitchum and castmates seem to come and go, but nonetheless, we buy the star, prominently billed Peter Boyle (who's not quite a co-lead), and former gangster Alex Rocco (Moe Greene in The Godfather) as criminal types (two of those three do have criminal records).

In Wonder Wheel, four peoples» lives intertwine amid the hustle and bustle of the Coney Island amusement park in the 1950s: Ginny, an emotionally volatile former actress now working as a waitress in a clam house; Humpty, Ginny's rough - hewn carousel operator husband; Mickey, a handsome young lifeguard who dreams of becoming a playwright; and Carolina, Humpty's long - estranged daughter, who is now hiding out from gangsters at her father's apartment.

This time Woody Allen has no problem identifying his principal characters as Jewish, including one Member of the Tribe who is an outright gangster (Corey Stoll as Ben Dorfman), and two folks who are lower - middle - class products of 1930's Jews living in a humble Brooklyn residence (Jeannie Berlin as Rose and Ken Stott as Marty).

It's directed by Robert Siodmak, who made more film noirs than any other director, and it is one of his darkest, a gangster drama seeped in shadows, corruption, and psychosis, with Victor Mature (in what I believe is his best noir role) a as Lt. Candella, an Italian - American police detective who takes the pursuit of small - time gangster Martin Rome (Richard Conte) personally.

Director Jack Perez, who previously directed the John Landis - produced Some Guy Who Kills People, cast Dante and Landis in cameo roles in Blast Vegas, and Landis even had an in - joke in the credits for his gangster comedy Oscar, in which Joe Dante is billed as Face on the Cutting Room Flowho previously directed the John Landis - produced Some Guy Who Kills People, cast Dante and Landis in cameo roles in Blast Vegas, and Landis even had an in - joke in the credits for his gangster comedy Oscar, in which Joe Dante is billed as Face on the Cutting Room FloWho Kills People, cast Dante and Landis in cameo roles in Blast Vegas, and Landis even had an in - joke in the credits for his gangster comedy Oscar, in which Joe Dante is billed as Face on the Cutting Room Floor.

Based on the Dennis Lehane novel of the same name, the film takes place during Prohibition and stars Affleck as Joe Coughlin, the prodigal son of a Boston police captain who works his way up from bootlegger to notorious Florida gangster.

This one appears to be full of double crossing since it features Foxx playing an undercover detective named Vincent Downs, posing as a corrupt cop, who gets the raw end of a bad deal when his son is kidnapped by one of the gangsters (Scoot McNairy) Downs has been working with.

Mickey and Ginny's relationship becomes even more complicated when her daughter, Carolina (Juno Temple) returns to Coney Island, a marked woman who's trying to escape from her gangster boyfriend and also falls for Mickey as their lives all intertwine with the amusement park serving as the setting.

Former «Saturday Night Live» favorite Jason Sudeikis stars opposite Jennifer Aniston, playing a pot dealer forced by gangsters to smuggle drugs across the border with the help of Aniston's stripper, who poses as his wife, and two hapless teens who pretend to be their kids.

The star of that film, Matthias Schoenaerts, returns for this, alongside Noomi Rapace and Tom Hardy, who co-stars with Gandolfini as owners of a Brooklyn bar used as a drop - off for illicit funds by local gangsters.

Following in the director's tradition of creating stories that are more complicated than they need to be, Tom Wilkinson stars as Lenny Cole, an old school gangster turned businessman who's made his millions in real estate.

Ryan Gosling fairs better in Gangster Squad but he is more known as a guy who takes off his shirt in the movies than for any acting skills.

Casting rakish rising star Jean - Paul Belmondo as a hoodlum on the run from the law and American ingenue Jean Seberg as the sly, pixieish girlfriend who ultimately betrays him, Godard was riffing on the American gangster picture, but with its revelatory handheld camerawork and frenetic jump cuts, Breathless is clearly more than homage: it launched a New Wave, rewrote the rules of cinema, and along the way became the definition of cool.

We watch as Connolly hatches a plan to pay back Bulger, who protected him when they were kids, by helping the gangster inform on the Italian mob that's muscling in on his turf — essentially offering up the FBI as Bulger's unwitting private army, waging war on rivals.