Sentences with phrase «underworld figures»

Inspired by a priest's sermon, they decide to rid the city of «evil men» and begin staging elaborate slaughters of underworld figures.

Entering the main flow of the story relatively late, Don Cheadle steals all his scenes as a live - wire, trigger - happy old buddy of Easy's from Texas, while Sizemore and Mel Winkler, as colorful underworld figures, make strong impressions.

Set in prohibition - era Virginia, the film will depict the criminal nature of a family of bootleggers and their «business» dealings with major underworld figures that ultimately turn fatal.

For some reason which puzzles even himself, Charlie prefers to associate with underworld figures rather than with eggheads or businessmen, and he plays poker with hoodlums.

A powerful dark tale that is emotional and profound in its unsentimental characterization of lowly underworld figures.

In this wild comedy of errors, a group of London friends find themselves deep in debt to an unsavory underworld figure.

Unwittingly drawn into a dangerous urban underworld, he encounters dark, harrowing practices, and a sinister underworld figure who will test him to his very limits...

Based on Matt Bondurant's period novel «The Wettest County In the World», the fact - based tale sees petty criminals, the Bondurant brothers (played by Shia LaBeouf, Jason Clarke and Tom Hardy), cross paths with ruthless underworld figures and corrupt law enforcers, each wanting their own piece of the prohibition pie.

Undoubtedly one of the new century's few effective comic - book adaptations, Deadpool follows Ryan Reynolds» Wade Wilson as he's forcefully transformed into the superpowered title character by a vicious underworld figure named Ajax (Ed Skrein)- with the movie, surprisingly enough, emphasizing Wade's efforts to reunite with his former girlfriend, Morena Baccarin's Vanessa.

Johnny Fontane, the world's greatest saloon singer, who ascends to new heights as a recording artist, cozying up to Washington's power elite and maintaining a precarious relationship with notorious underworld figures;

Gaining the subtitle of «Retribution», the game features the crime - fighting duo fighting to «expose the shadowy underworld figures exerting their evil grip over the crumbling metropolis.»

His role is less to be a charismatic catalyst than to be perpetually schooled on the inveterate cruelty and viciousness of existence by a series of more interesting and colorful underworld figures.

Using the alias Bob Musella, Mazur worked undercover for years as a money launderer to major underworld figures and and organizations, including Pablo Escobar's Medellín Cartel, gathering the evidence that would eventually lead to a blockbuster string of more than 40 arrests and the collapse of the Bank of Credit and Commerce International.

For two days Shuler moved around like an underworld figure on the lam.

The film follows Uxbal (Bardem), an underworld figure and devoted single dad, through his attempts to reconcile with a past love and secure a future for his children as his own death draws near.

Add into the mix a subplot involving Hans» cancer striken wife and a mysterious masked killer who is going around taking down underworld figures, and «Seven Psychopaths» has a lot of narrative balls to juggle, and doesn't always handle them satisfactorily.

Johnny Truelove, drug dealer and son of a underworld figure, threatens Jake Mazursky, an explosive head case who owes Johnny money; Jake responds by breaking into Johnny's house.

«It is really about being an underworld figure, a black Orpheus,» says Musson.