Robert De Niro
2) Raging bull
Language
English
Formats
Description
Robert De Niro teams up with director Martin Scorsese to create one of cinema's eternal masterpieces. Nominated for eight Academy Awards®, including Best Picture and Best Director, this contemporary classic is "ambitious, violent, poetic and lyrical" (The New York Times). De Niro turns in a powerful, Best Actor Oscar®-winning performance as Jake La Motta, a boxer whose psychological and sexual complexities erupt into violence both...
3) Mean streets
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
The story of life and coming-of-age in New York's Little Italy. Keitel stars as Charlie Cappa Jr., a young man trying to break out of the group he has run with, and DeNiro is Johnny Boy, a reckless gambler. Includes the original theatrical trailer.
5) Men of honor
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
The story of Carl Brashear, the first African American, then also the first amputee, US Navy diver.
9) Joy
Publisher
Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
A wild story of a family across four generations centered on the girl who becomes the woman who founds a business dynasty and becomes a matriarch in her own right. Betrayal, treachery, the loss of innocence and the scars of love, pave the road in this intense emotional and human comedy about becoming a true boss of family and enterprise facing a world of unforgiving commerce.
"Uproariously funny"--Entertainment Weekly
"Joy is a fun but untidy muddle,...
10) Goodfellas
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Formats
Description
For as long as he could remember, Henry Hill wanted to be a gangster. So, when he was 12 years old, he started running errands for the neighborhood wiseguy and extortionist, "Paulie" Cicero. By the time he was 21, Henry had made a name for himself and had a good life by stealing and reselling cargo. Along with Jimmy "The Gent" Conway and Tommy DeVito, Henry organizes and executes heists, big and small, for their boss and protector, Paulie. He marries...
11) City by the sea
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2003, c2002
Language
English
Description
When a respected NYPD homicide detective finds the prime suspect in a murder case is his estranged son, he is forced to return home to the decaying boardwalks of Long Island to confront the darkness of his past.
13) Righteous kill
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Turk and Rooster are two aging NYPD detectives who have been partners for 30 years. They are faced with a serial killer who is murdering other sociopathic criminals. They both have personal issues. They start working with Perez and Riley, a younger team. Tensions between the pairs of partners is inevitable, especially since Turk is now living with Perez's ex-girlfriend. She also happens to be a homicide detective. But before Turk and Rooster can retire,...
Publisher
Universal Pictures
Pub. Date
2007, c2006
Language
English
Description
Edward, the only witness to his father's suicide and a member of the Skull and Bones Society while a student at Yale, is a morally upright young man who values honor and discretion. These are the qualities that help him become recruited for a career in the newly founded Office of Strategic Services (CIA). While working there, his ideals gradually turn to suspicion influenced by the Cold War paranoia present within the office. Eventually, he becomes...
15) The Irishman
Series
Criterion collection volume 1058
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
An epic saga of organized crime in post-war America told through the eyes of World War II veteran Frank Sheeran, a hustler and hitman who worked alongside some of the most notorious figures of the twentieth century. Left behind by the world, former hit man and union truck driver Frank Sheeran looks back from a nursing home on his life's journey through the ranks of organized crime: from his involvement with Philadelphia mob boss Russell Bufalino to...
16) Taxi driver
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
A New York cab driver is driven to obsession when he attempts to save a teenage prostitute and embarks on a violent rampage against a world of filth and corruption.