Sentences with phrase «mobsters who»

Safe (R for profanity and graphic violence) Action thriller about a retired Mixed Martial Arts fighter (Jason Statham) who comes to the rescue of a 12 year - old Chinese girl (Catherine Chan) who's been abducted by the same mobsters who murdered his wife and children.

Via Deadline, Andrea Berloff is making her directorial debut on the film, which is set in Hell's Kitchen, New York, in the 1970s and follows the wives of Irish mobsters who end up taking over the criminal enterprise after their husbands are arrested and jailed.

Pluto's a nightclub owner on the moon on the run from mobsters who want to take over his property and turn it into a casino.

Straight Outta Compton co-writer Andrea Berloff is making her directorial debut on the film, which is set in Hell's Kitchen, New York, in the 1970s and follows the wives of Irish mobsters who end up taking over the criminal enterprise after their husbands are arrested and jailed.

The first movie had Keanu Reeves's stoic man of action taking on the Russian mobsters who killed his dog — a vengeance with a vicious edge.

In «American Cousins», Dan Hedaya and Danny Nucci play Settimo and Gino, a couple of slick - haired mobsters who've run into a spot of bother with a Ukrainian underworld overlord.

Ace Rothstein and Nicky Santoro, mobsters who move to Las Vegas to make their mark, live and work in this paradoxical world.

Playing the title character, Scarlett unleashes all horror on a group of Taiwanese mobsters who kidnap her and turn her into a drug mule.

New York City becomes the bullet - riddled playground of a former assassin as he hunts down the Russian mobsters who destroyed everything he held dear.

So says professional killer Jackie Cogan at one point in Killing Them Softly, the third film by New Zealander Andrew Dominik - and considering the filmmaker's efforts to establish a connection between the events in the movie and the economic crisis started in the late 2000s thanks to the greed and lack of scruples of Wall Street, it is easy to see Cogan as an ordinary employee of any company complaining about the lack of vision of his bosses and, on the other hand, the big bankers as Armani - dressing versions of the violent mobsters who inhabit the crime section of the newspapers.

Even if New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie succeeds in legalizing - and taxing - sports gambling, illegal bookmakers will still have a thriving business according to two former mobsters who once took illegal bets, reports Jack Ford.

Tony Thick is a mobster who was expecting a lucrative visit from Los Angeles - based delivery man Lenny Long.

Colin Farrell plays Ray Velcoro, a compromised detective whose allegiances are torn between his bosses in a corrupt police department and the mobster who owns him.

A professional killer carries out hits for her uncle and dreams of taking revenge on the mobster who murdered her parents.

Cliff Martinez's pounding synth - rock score meanwhile makes it feel like Refn is remaking some lost 1980s classic of existential action cool — John Carpenter at his most ruthless, or maybe something produced by Drive's Bernie, played by Albert Brooks, once a sort of LA Woody Allen, here a late - middle - aged urbane mobster who guts arteries with his razor if you let him get close.

Of course, the director never had someone as talented as Wilkinson in the role, and the veteran actor has a field day as the cold - hearted mobster who disciplines his cronies with backhanded slaps and tortures his enemies with American crawfish.

This time around, Mortensen steps into the shoes of a Russian mobster who must placate his sinister boss (Armin Mueller - Stahl) while ensuring the safety of a well - meaning midwife (Naomi Watts).

He becomes this monster of monsters, a mobster who reminds us that there's nothing glamorous about «Thug Life,» nothing romantic about stone cold criminals who turn their limited intellects toward the illegal, whose sole «code» is self - preservation.

Character study of an aging mobster who takes an eager young man under his wing — unaware that he is an undercover FBI agent.

Synopsis: Chelios faces a Chinese mobster who has stolen his nearly indestructible heart and replaced it with a battery - powered ticker that requires regular jolts of electricity to keep working.

A bearlike mobster who loves his family, Dima is trying to save his skin and get his wife and children to England.

That man is James Whitey Bulger, order the Boston mobster who was one of the FBI's Most Wanted criminals before he was arrested in early 2011.

At a swank penthouse party where the high rollers gather — Lana Turner's there, and Frank Sinatra — Valentine introduces Mallory to the powerful Paul Mantilini, the mobster who's made Valentine's career.

78 - year - old Robert Gentile, the mobster who police suspect spearheaded the $ 500 million Isabella Stewart Gardner museum theft in 1990, was arrested for selling a firearm to an undercover agent.

British interviewers marvel at Stella's high - pitched New Yorker's voice, reminiscent of Joe Pesci in Goodfellas, but today he sounds a little reedy, giving the impression of a mobster who's been recently cashiered.

Not exact matches

Idean, I am a descendant of Edmund Durfee, who was shot in the back by mobsters as he was trying to herd his family to safety.

Same thing is happening to Crook Christie, who decided to experiment with being just another New Jersey Mobster.

So, if murder victims get a free pass despite whether they had personally gained salvation prior to dying then plenty of mobsters and career criminals who were also murdered are now in heaven too.

The story revolves around Boston mobster White Bulger — a man who was listed as the FBI's second most wanted man for over a decade.

Though the race only recently got underway, it's already taken a negative turn, which Brindisi and Tenney, who also used to be a member of the Assembly, trading barbs on everything from Brindisi's father's legal representation of mobsters to a town hall the congressman is scheduled to hold this coming Tuesday.

Key testimony is expected to come from former lobbyist - turned - cooperating witness Todd Howe, who allegedly exchanged emails with Percoco in which they referred to cash as «ziti» — a move prosecutors say they lifted from HBO's mobster series «The Sopranos.»

A few years later it was the Italian immigrants, my grandfather among them, who were called «mobsters» or worse, «dagos.»

Top cop Bill Bratton — who was on the Boston force around the time the FBI was investigating infamous local mobster James «Whitey» Bulger — says the joke in law enforcement after Bulger went into hiding in 1994 was, «Whitey was on the «Least Most Wanted» [list] for the fear of him coming back and the embarrassment he could cause.»

he feds» Albany corruption probe inched closer to Gov. Cuomo Thursday with the unsealing of charges against two of his most trusted former aides — who imitated «Sopranos» mobsters by using «ziti» a...

This redemptive move comes at the end of a complicated plot involving Baxter's efforts to save Phillips Holmes, who has been framed by nasty mobster C. Henry Gordon, from the hot seat.

Robert Knepper malevolently hams it up as the vicious mobster Marino, who has little regard to innocent bystanders.

This is a true crime documentary featuring a Russian mobster, a Miami playboy and a Cuban spy who sold a Soviet submarine to a Colombian drug cartel for $ 35 million.

Operation Odessa: Operation Odessa is a true crime documentary about a Russian mobster, a Miami playboy and a Cuban spy who sold a Soviet submarine to a Colombian drug cartel for $ 35 million.

You May Not Kiss the Bride is a charming tale of adventurous high jinx and budding romance involving an unassuming pet photographer (Annable) who is thrown head first into a series of unforeseeable events when he's forced to marry a Croatian mobster's daughter (McPhee) and spend his honeymoon at a secluded Tahitian resort where the bride is kidnapped.

norma shearer plays a spoilt rich gal jan ashe who defies her family by dating mobster ace wilfong (gable), emancipated by her alcoholic father (lionel barrymore) who encourages her to be free.

So now Murray will be Happy Shannon, the mobster that has the number of a hapless angel (Megan Fox) who is rescued by a trumpet player (Mickey Rourke).

She becomes ensnared in the trap of his gang of con men when she decides to help Billy (Steven Goldstein), a patient who informs her during a session that his life is being threatened by mobsters he owes money to.

Huston was extraordinary as a fire - breathing mobster chick who gets in deeper than she can deal with.

Shoot «Em Up (Unrated) Clive Owen stars in this high - impact adventure about a mysterious loner who teams with a proverbial hooker (Monica Bellucci) with a heart of gold and lactating mammary to protect a stranger's newborn he's just delivered from a gang of hit men led by a bloodthirsty mobster (Paul Giamatti).

(In Spanish and English with subtitles) Exiled (R for sexuality and graphic violence) Set in Macau in 1998, this highly - stylized mobster saga revolves around a couple of hit men (Francis Ng and Anthony Wong Chau - Sang) dispatched from Hong Kong to execute a renegade member (Nick Cheung) of their gang who's just trying to leave his life of crime behind to settle down with his wife (Josie Ho) and newborn.

In addition to Al Pacino (as Starkman, a big - time mobster from New York), Christopher Walken shows up as the only police officer who seems at all concerned that the younger brother of a federal prosecutor has been kidnapped.

TCM Select Pick of the Week: Some Like it Hot (1959), Billy Wilder's best loved film and the AFI's number one pick for best American comedy of all time, plays the St. Valentine's Day Massacre for farce when the two musicians (Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon) who witness the brutal gangland slaying elude mobsters by hiding out in an all - girl band.

Based on the Chinese - linguage Hong Kong gangster film of the same name («Wu jian dao»), «Infernal Affairs» will be reset in Boston amid Irish - American mobsters and the cops who are their nemeses.

Everyone speaks with thick Russian accents, and even a London doctor who saves a baby fathered by a Russian mobster turns out to have Russian lineage.

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.