Sentences with phrase «mafia films»

One of the most successful genres to garner attention at the Academy Awards is mafia films.

If Refn played his cards right, this could be a love letter to the great mafia films of old.

It would also bring back a proper mafia film.

We witness one in Scott Cooper's gritty mafia film Black Mass about former Boston mob leader James «Whitey» Bulger.

I've always been a huge fan of crime drama, whether it is Scorsese's classic mafia film GoodFellas, or the groundbreaking HBO series The Sopranos, in which James Gandolfini portrayed the iconic mob boss Tony Soprano.

This London - based mafia film starts with a barber who seems to think he's Sweeney Todd.

From his days as a child idolizing the mob to his upward push throughout the ranks of arranged crime, this slick mafia film is a vintage for a reason why.

Not exact matches

Enter Jackie Cogan (Brad Pitt), a hit - man hired by a mysterious group of mafia men represented throughout the film by a man called Driver (Richard Jenkins).

His third film, Mean Streets, is surely his first, as the director teams up with Harvey Keitel and Robert De Niro for a fiery crime drama about a small - time gambler who enlists the help of a friend, who's a rising star in the New York mafia, to help him get out of debt.

Based on a Black List screenplay by Matt Cook, the film will follow a gang of crooked police officers as they attempt to pull off a heist on behalf on the Russian mafia.

In Triple 9, Hillcoat's ode to Michael Mann's and David Ayer's LA oeuvre, plus more recent crime dramas The Wire (the HBO series) and The Town (the Ben Affleck film), a gang of outlaws / inlaws / lawmen - some are criminals, some crooked cops, some married into the same family - must carry out a series of sketchy robberies for a Jewish mafia crime queen played by Kate Winslet.

Behind the hilarity of the film is the tragic fact that all these incompetent people are maneuvered by mafia boss, Lucky Luciano.

Of course, since it's a film about mafia assassins, none of the...

At that time, Antonio and Fabio were inspired by an article in a local Sicilian newspaper about a mafia kidnapping and decided for their second film they would like to explore this incident's impact on the small Sicilian village while simultaneously evoking children's fables.

It follows a cast of barkeeps, prostitutes, pimps, police and nightlife denizens as they swirl through a world of sex, crime, high times and violence and the porn business begins its climb from mafia - backed massage parlors and film labs to legitimacy and cultural permanence.

The film includes a passionate romance of a couple that can make you believe the scene involving sex in a tiny phone booth, a rehash of the 1991 arrest of mafia chieftain John Gotti, and a family drama about a young man who makes too few visits to his mother and kid brother to impress them even though he offers them an envelope filled with more cash than they could make in five years.

Robert Pattinson, Robert De Niro and Rachel Weisz were slated to star in the French auteur's film, based on a 2007 Playboy article called «Boosting The Big Tuna» by Hillel Levin about a bunch of regular criminals who accidentally rob a porn store backed by Chicago mafia boss Tony Accardo.

Luckily, the marriage of Martin Scorsese — the unofficial mafia whisperer in modern cinema — alongside Leonardo DiCaprio, Jack Nicholson, Matt Damon, Vera Farmiga, Martin Sheen, Alec Baldwin, and Mark Wahlberg, builds upon the strength of the original film by injecting gritty realism, eliminating somber black - and - white flashbacks, and providing a grim bookend that doesn't occur in the Hong Kong film.

The darkly comedic action film The Family is the story of the Manzonis, a notorious mafia family who gets relocated to Normandy, France under the witness protection program.

A new Italian film about the mafia shows them not as deranged gangsters but sophisticated technocrats.

The film is about a young arrogant OBGYN who is a vegetarian and gets involved with the Russian mafia by performing illegal abortions for their prostitutes.

Stop me if you've heard this one before: a gruff CIA agent who suffers from PTSD and sees re-animated corpses at random moments is ordered to travel to the UK and hire Stanley Kubrick to film a fake moon landing that the American government can use in case the Apollo 11 mission turns out to be a tragic failure, only the agent (who is played by Ron Perlman, by the way) ends up giving a suitcase full of cash to a failed band manager and his perpetually stoned friend who looks a little bit like Stanley Kubrick, and those two idiots get robbed by the local mafia thugs right before Agent Ron Perlman realizes his mistake and threatens to kill everyone involved — and THEN the idiotic band manager (who is played by Rupert Grint, by the way) proposes that they all head off to film the fake moon landing with the help of a artistic hippie commune run by an egotistical dolt who can't understand why he can't put giant jellyfish on the moon.

It's not the best looking game you'll ever play, but it does look great, and Crazy Monkey has managed to fit in every little detail from every mobster / mafia style film you've ever seen.

Deadly pimps, pedophilic snuff film makers, Russian mafia hit men, crooked cops, drug - crazed hookers and more are what he finds as he makes his escape, and still he would gladly face all of them rather than be home with his cranky, physically abusive stepfather.

Set in London within the ritualized underworld of the Russian mafia — the dread vory v zakone — David Cronenberg's Eastern Promises couldn't be further, in terms of ambience, from the Americana of A History of Violence; and yet the two films are bonded, first by the enigmatic presence of Viggo Mortensen, once again playing a character with a mysterious past, and by the eroticized violence that is the currency of Cronenbergian male relationships.

Floating intermittently above the film is the voice of a 14 - year - old Russian girl who, lured to London and imprisoned in a mafia whorehouse, hemorrhages to death in childbirth.

The film, by first - time filmmaker Alex Oshmyansky and Akibimi Productions, LLC, is a «mocku - mentary» that follows the filming of a recruitment video for the Russian mafia.

The institution at the center of this film is a decaying old - school prison with heavy keys and paint flaking off the bars, and seemingly run by the ginger mafia.

The film, which tells the story of the LAPD trying to keep the East Coast mafia out of Los Angeles during -LSB-...]

With Gangster Squad coming out this weekend, Ed Haley looks at some of the best films featuring the mafia.

Shaft, the 1971 blaxploitation crime film, features private eye John Shaft (Richard Roundtree) as he goes up against the white mafia to track down the kidnapped daughter of a Harlem crime kingpin.

Made between 1994 and 2002, Barney's Cremaster films (named after the muscles that control the rise and fall of the testes) were strange, haunting, mythological conundrums, moving from celtic myth and the TT races on the Isle of Man, to scenes in the New York Guggenheim museum, featuring mafia hitmen, dentistry, Gary Gilmore, and sculptor Richard Serra as a grand masonic master.

«See Naples and Die» In the new Italian film Gomorrah — an arresting, documentary - like portrait of Italy's most powerful mafia element, the Camorra — mobsters wreak havoc on Naples, leaving behind a trail of bodies in their quest to protect a 15

«See Naples and Die» In the new Italian film Gomorrah — an arresting, documentary - like portrait of Italy's most powerful mafia element, the Camorra — mobsters wreak havoc on Naples, leaving behind a trail of bodies in their quest to protect a 15 billion Euro shadow economy built on drugs, sweatshop - made designer clothes and garbage.

The mafia requires «payment» when filming in Venice..