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1) Lord of war
Publisher
Lions Gate Entertainment
Language
English
Formats
Description
Chronicles the rise and fall of Yuri Orlov, from his early days in the early 1980s in Little Odessa to selling guns to mobsters in his local neighbourhood, and through to his ascension through the decade of excess and indulgence into the early 90s. He forms a business partnership with an African warlord and his psychotic son. His relationship with his younger brother is somewhat volatile, he is married to a famous model, and he is relentlessly pursued...
3) Parker
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Parker is a thief who has an unusual code. He doesn't steal from the poor or hurt innocent people. He is asked to join four other guys, one of whom is related to a known mobster. They pull off the job flawlessly and Parker wants to part ways with them. When he refuses to join them for another job, they try to kill him. They dispose of his body, but someone finds him...still alive. After recovering, he sets out to get back at the ones who tried to...
4) Stolen souls
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
After Galya Petrova fights her way out of a Belfast brothel, killing one of her captors, she seeks refuge with a man who turns out to be a serial killer, while Detective Inspector Jack Lennon looks into a gang war that was triggered by Galya.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
Marty is a struggling screenwriter who wants nothing more than to finish his script. Instead, he becomes entangled with the Los Angeles gangster underworld when his odd, but well-meaning friends kidnap a volatile gangster's shih tzu. The ordeal gives Marty all the inspiration he needs; now, he must live long enough to finish his story.
7) White heat
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
A violent criminal obsessed with his mother breaks out of prison and leads a gang of thugs on a railroad heist.
8) Passion play
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
The last thing washed up jazz musician, Nate Pool, wanted to do was betray sinister gangster, Happy Shannon. But it may be the last thing he does unless he can deliver Lily, a beautiful and mysterious carnival sideshow attraction.
9) Made
Publisher
Artisan Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
Bobby and Ricky, long-time pals in Los Angeles, fail as amateur boxers. They're recruited by their mob-connected boss to make what should be an easy delivery to an East Coast kingpin named Ruiz. By the time they reach New York, Bobby's no-nonsense approach has been bulldozed by Ricky's hopelessly false bravado, which he's blithely absorbed from too many mobster movies. While Ricky invites disaster with reckless ambition, Bobby just wants a happier,...
10) 7 seconds
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
Captain Jack Tolliver is an ex-Delta Force commando leading what should have been a clockwork-perfect armored car heist. Instead, he ends up with a priceless Van Gogh painting--and one of his crew ends up held hostage by the sadistic Russian gangsters who muscled in on the heist. Tolliver's only option: a suicidal rescue mission where enemies become allies, your best friend can be your worst nightmare, and survival is the deadliest art of all.
11) The equalizer
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
McCall, a man who believes he has put his mysterious past behind him and dedicated himself to beginning a new, quiet life. But when McCall meets Teri, a young girl under the control of ultra-violent Russian gangsters, he can't stand idly by; he has to help her. Armed with hidden skills that allow him to serve vengeance against anyone who would brutalize the helpless, McCall comes out of his self-imposed retirement and finds his desire for justice...
14) Heist
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
When a desperate father's attempt to steal money from a mobster's casino for his daughter's medical bills goes awry, he hijacks a city bus taking passengers hostage, trying to elude the police and the mobster's hitman.
15) Capone
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
1975
Language
English
Description
The life story of infamous Chicago gangster Al Capone.
16) The defense
Author
Series
Eddie Flynn volume 1
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Formats
Description
Former con artists turned lawyer Eddie Flynn vowed never to step foot in a courtroom again after a disastrous case. But now he doesn't have a choice. The head of the Russian mob in New York City, on trial for murder, has kidnapped Eddie's ten-year-old daughter: Eddie has to take this case whether he likes it or not.
17) The sting
Publisher
Universal Home Video
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
A 1930's ambitious small-time crook and a veteran con-man seek revenge on a crime lord who murdered one of their friends.
18) No mortal thing
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
After witnessing an assault by a member of one of Calabria's crime families and discovering that the police do not care, a young Englishman begins a pursuit that leads him to a delicate surveillance operation, setting off alarms in multiple countries.
20) Max and Mona
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
p2007
Language
English
Description
Leaving his country home, a young man travels to Johannesburg with the village goat, Mona, hoping to become a doctor.
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