Sentences with phrase «time mobster»

The film, according to the press release, tells the story of a man who gets into trouble by protecting his friend, a small - time mobster:

The cycle constantly repeats itself in a figurative sense after the pair are tapped by their construction boss, small - time mobster Max (Peter Falk), to handle what should be a quick and easy job in New York City.

In The Iceman, the film version of his life, smut - bootlegger Kuklinski starts a family with winsome Barbara (a baby - talky Winona Ryder) at the same time mobster Roy DeMeo (Ray Liotta) makes him an enforcer.

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.

Not exact matches

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.»

Was recognized by Time Magazine as the best TV villain of the 1980s for his portrayal of mobster Ray Luca inMichael Mann's critically acclaimed Crime Story.

After doing time in prison, mobster Jimmy the Tulip (Bruce Willis) moves to a suburban neighborhood.

Three - time Oscar nominee Johnny Depp («Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street,» «Finding Neverland,» the «Pirates of the Caribbean» films) stars as notorious mobster James «Whitey» Bulger in the drama «Black Mass,» directed by Scott Cooper («Crazy Heart»).

These mobsters, mistresses and their surrounding Broadway types — especially Dianne Wiest giving one of the greatest ever Oscar - winning performances — are a hoot to spend time with, as are the New York crazies that populate Deconstructing Harry, a film that sails along nicely until it turns into a curiously wooden (hah hah, right!)

«Gangster Squad» is a deliberately retro crime thriller about the rise and fall of Los Angeles mobster Mickey Cohen, played by Sean Penn with such twisted relish that at times he resembles a gargoyle — or maybe Gollum.

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.

Incompatible fugitive recovery agents, the flighty Jersey Bellini (Michael Dudikoff) and his more serious - minded female partner, B.B. (Lisa Howard), have, for the last time, ticked off mobster Wald (Tony Curtis) by apprehending his rather inept henchmen just as they are about to commit a robbery or kill one of Wald's enemies.

And you'd better believe he had to pitch the hell out of his time traveling mobster movie, so this is what he made.

Rian Johnson's Looper is a smart and unique science fiction film set in the future about time travel that is controlled by mobsters.

The Family: Two - time Oscar winner Robert De Niro sadly appeared in two of the worst movies of the year, appearing in The Family as a retired mobster in the witness protection program alongside fellow Oscar winner Tommy Lee Jones.

He persuades Rosie to drive a getaway car each time he does the unthinkable: he invades the turf of several mafia clubs with an Uzi he knows not how to use (a funny scene finds him shooting wildly into the air to get the mobsters» attention), and Rosie is so involved with her cigarette that she is unable to open the car door for her thieving boyfriend.

Easton's omniscient narration sets in and we back up a year in time, and see Easton taking a rap for the mobster he used to work for, Punchy (Joe Mantegna).

When Blackjack addict Jim Bennett (played by Mark Wahlberg) goes all in, which he does every time, it's more proof that he is «the kind of guy that likes to lose»... a description offered by one of the mobsters and loan sharks who lend him money.

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).

Takeshi is even more oblique in his presentation of violent action and spends the middle of the film on a strange, rambling subplot involving a disgraced mobster (Takeshi again, this time in a supporting role as a fun loving brute with a penchant for rape) and his mission of revenge.

It also pulls off the clever trick of operating as a gangster movie — these mobsters have missions to complete and people to kill — while at the same time sarkily undermining these same folk, attributing to them a heavy dose of incompetence.

Starring Ryan Gosling (The Notebook) as a mechanic, part - time stuntman and heist getaway driver, who finds himself inevitably caught up with mobsters and gun - toting pizzeria operators after falling for a gorgeous woman next door (Carey Mulligan, An Education).

A gangster with a moral code, Keitel's mobster spends the entire running time of this film, defending his ethos.

He becomes a small - time criminal, a stick - up artist and bank robber with the hots for the girlfriend of prominent Irish mobster Albert White.

Sexy, funny, raw (3) Meeting of the mobster & sheik... tension seeped from screen right into the theatre auditorium... surprise and revelation enhanced with perfectly timed pauses... O'Russell gets huge kudos from this scene (4) Cooper / Louis CK... LOL, these two are so funny on screen together (5) Jennifer Lawrence is a budding Meryl Streep.

Colin Farrell plays a Russian mobster sharing prison time with a Polish soldier who escapes from a Siberian work camp in «The Way Back.»

It's a steampunk / mobster noir / thriller that tosses clockmaker Joseph Spork into a race against time (get it?)

Inside the clinic, James is surrounded by patients as troubled as he is — including a judge, a mobster, a one - time world - champion boxer, and a fragile former prostitute to whom he is not allowed to speak - but their friendship and advice strikes James as stronger and truer than the clinic's droning dogma of How to Recover.

Lola has been going through a rough time since she found out that she isn't a real Trapezi, but the product of an illicit affair between her mother and a notorious mobster.

As the New York Times put it in McGrady's obituary, «She has sex with a mobster and sex with a rabbi.

The new zombie game mode, «Mob of the Dead» will let you play as one of four mobsters, voiced by some of your favorite actors (Ray Liotta, Chazz Palmentiri, Michael Madsen and Joe Pantoliano), as you fight your way out of Alcatraz, one headshot at a time.

The one - time drug mobster seems to be no exception in making attempts to tame the cryptomarket, and, most importantly, cash in on it.