Sentences with phrase «by ruthless crime»

Vinnie's been hired by a ruthless crime lord to protect his son from his countless enemies.

Forced by his ruthless crime partner Franck (Vincent Cassel, Black Swan) to undergo hypnosis, Simon enters into a deadly love triangle with his seductive hypnotist (Rosario Dawson, Sin City).

When Mikey is kidnapped and held for a ransom by ruthless crime boss Eddie, JP turns to the brothers» old pal Sal, who is a plainclothes detective, for help.

Rise to become the hero of the Neox Sector — a deadly fringe world terrorized by ruthless crime lords and their no - good underlings.

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Now hunted by the ruthless MNU military division and the exploitive slum crime syndicates, Wikus has nowhere else to hide but within District 9.

While suffering from amnesia, Kazuya Mishima is kidnapped by an underground crime syndicate and forced to become a ruthless assassin.

Aided by the Machine - and opposed by ruthless criminals, corrupt cops, and shadowy elements within the government - the team works with two NYPD detectives to stop crimes before they happen.

Rama (Uwais) is a rookie cop in crime - ridden Jakarta whose assignment for the day is to raid an apartment building run by a ruthless drug lord.

Based on the edgy and explosive series by visionary director Nicolas Winding Refn (DRIVE), PUSHER stars Richard Coyle as a drug dealer who grows increasingly desperate over the course of a week after a botched deal lands him in the merciless clutches of a ruthless crime lord.

Written and directed by Gareth Evans, the action sequel picks up right where the first film left off and follows Rama (Iko Uwais) as he goes undercover and infiltrates the ranks of a ruthless Jakarta crime syndicate in order to protect his family and uncover the corruption in his own police force.

Heatstroke (Unrated) Crime thriller about the girlfriend (Svetlana Metkina) and daughter (Maisie Williams) of a research scientist (Stephen Dorff) who are forced to survive by their wits after he is murdered in an African desert by ruthless arms dealers.

Directed by Scott Cooper and starring Johnny Depp, the movie tells the true story of James «Whitey» Bulger, who rose to become the most powerful and ruthless crime lord in Boston thanks in large part to his «alliance» with the local branch of the FBI.

Ordered by Winston, kingpin of secret assassin society The Continental, to respect the organization's ancient code, Wick reluctantly accepts the assignment to travel to Rome to take out D'Antonio's sister, the ruthless capo atop the Italian Camorra crime syndicate.

This three - disc set boxes up Shoot First, Die Later (1974), a ruthless crime drama starring Luc Merenda as a corrupt cop on a mission of righteous vengeance (previously released as a stand - alone disc), with two disc debuts: Naked Violence (1969), a juvenile delinquent cop drama by way of social commentary, and Kidnap Syndicate (1975), a revenge thriller with Merenda, this time playing an innocent bystander roused to take justice into his own hands.

Film Review by Kam Williams Ruthless Russian Mobsters Blackmail Crooked Cops in Riveting, High Body - Count Thriller Irina Vlaslov (Kate Winslet) assumed the reins of an Atlanta - based crime syndicate after her husband Vasili (Igor Komar) was sent up the river.

The most atypical of Flynn's WWII propaganda films, Uncertain Gory begins as a crime thriller about a crook who miraculously escapes the guillotine and seeks aide from a partner in crime, morphs into the latter half of Les Miserables where a an escaped convict is hunted down by a ruthless detective, and concludes with the last act of Charles Dickens» A Tale of Two Cities wherein a rogue considers a noble act of redemption by offering to exchange his life to save many innocents from execution.

However, when his brother is killed by a corrupt, Bangkok police officer (Vithaya Pansringaram), Julian's ruthless crime boss mother (Kristen Scott Thomas) demands he avenge his brother's death.

This updated version appears to not only revamp his armor but it also replaces his cop partner with an increased role for his wife (played by Abbie Cornish) perhaps to raise the emotional stakes when the mechanical crime - fighter regains a conscious and rebels against the puppet - masters of OmniCorp (Michael Keaton being the ruthless face of).