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This is the true story of Carmine Imbriale – a gambler, a brawler, a bandit, a bookie, an enforcer. For two decades, Imbriale was a street-level operative in one of the most violent crews in the Colombo Family, and he endeared himself to some of the major figures of organized crime while developing deadly disputes with others. Now in hiding, Imbriale teams up with true-crime veteran writer Craig McGuire to take you inside the 13th Avenue rackets...
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Many people are familiar with the story of Al Capone, the "untouchable" Chicago gangster best known for orchestrating the St. Valentine's Day Massacre. But few are aware that Capone's remarkable story began in the Navy Yard section of Brooklyn, New York. Tutored by the likes of infamous mobsters Johnny Torrio and Frankie Yale, young Capone's disquieting demeanor, combined with the "technical advice" he learned from these insidious pedagogues, contributed...
4) Marked man
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It must have been a hell of a night. One of those long, dangerous nights where the world shifts and doors open. A night of bad judgment and wrong turns, of weariness and hilarity and a hard sexual charge that both frightens and compels. A night where your life changes irrevocably, for better or for worse, but who the hell cares, so long as it changes.
It must have been a night just like that, yeah, if only I could remember it.
All Victor Carl...
5) 3 Musketeers
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Alexandra D'Artagnan, junior NSA officer, uncovers a plot to assasinate the President of the United States and enlists the help of three infamous international spies to stop the threat.
6) Wild Justice
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Ex-military man Daniel and his wife Lisa share a life which seems perfect in an environment of family people and cozy surroundings. But after Daniel intervenes during something terrible at the local pub, their life takes a violent turn. The thug brings his gang and they beat up Daniel in a park. Daniel and Lisa comfort each other in their home unknowingly watched by the gang members outside. One night, Lisa is kidnapped from the house. Upon returning...
7) Catch .44
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When three friends (Malin Akerman of THE WATCHMEN, THE BANG BANG CLUB, Deborah Ann Woll of TV's TRUE BLOOD, RUBY SPARKS, and Nikki Reed of THIRTEEN, TWILIGHT FRANCHISE) are sent by their boss to intercept a drug deal at a remote diner, they think nothing of it. But when they find themselves in a standoff involving a psychopathic hitman (Forest Whitaker of LEE DANIELS' THE BUTLER, THE LAST KING OF SCOTLAND), a grizzled truck driver, a delusional line...
10) The Nixer
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Two petty criminals, tired of living on the breadline and begging for scraps, decide to branch out on their own into a life of crime. They pull off their first job but quickly realize they've messed with the wrong person. Time is now running out as they try to escape retribution...
11) Cartel War
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L.A. undercover cops disregard the law to bring down the most powerful drug mob in the United States. Loosely based on Mexico's once most powerful drug cartel leader, this journey into the drug underworld cuts to the bone and through the heart.
14) Thick
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THICK is a 2012 based tale about a burgeoning apartment complex magnate, THERESA JAMES, who runs illegal businesses in her neighborhoods for added financial gain. Feeling the aftermath of the 2010 Recession, Theresa tries to regain a foot hold in her underworld, professional and private life as her employees start to undermine her by looking for a way out of her fledgling criminal empire.
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The movie centers around Lorenzo Lamas as the mysterious drifter known only as Brady. He innocently rides into a small southern town and is immediately drawn to the rescue of a young lady in distress,(Ms. Barr) against a well organized gang of cut-throats (literally) known as "The Blades". The leader of the gang (Timbrook) vows revenge and thus sets in motion a dramatic, action packed ride. Daniel Baldwin plays "Bart" the bartender who owns the watering...
16) Nirvana
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Ian Velloza (Vila Faia) is Vega, a small-time wiseguy who gets kicked out of his gang just when he expects to move up. Out for revenge, Vega teams up with a bunch of delinquent small-time criminals to pay back the leader of the gang, Barbas. Vega's plan is to beat Barbas's gang to the scene of a planned robbery and get the money first. What Vega doesn't realize is that Barbas has many enemies, all of whom had the same idea. Now Vega and his ragtag...
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Oscar Westerwit, a squirrel who loves baseball and Broadway musicals, fights back when a gangster rat named Big Daddy Duds and his thugs move uptown in the year 1900, invade Central Park, and evict Oscar and his animal friends from their homes.
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The boss of New York's infamous Lucchese crime family, Anthony "Gaspipe" Casso's life in the Mafia was preordained from birth. His rare talent for "earning"-concocting ingenious schemes to hijack trucks, rob banks, and bring vast quantities of drugs into New York-fueled his unstoppable rise up the ladder of organized crime. A mafioso responsible for at least fifty murders, Casso lived large, with a beautiful wife and money to burn. When the law finally...
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Light of the Diddicoy is the riveting and immersive saga of Irish gangs on the Brooklyn waterfront in the early part of the 20th century, told through the eyes of young newcomer Liam Garrity. Forced at age 14 to travel alone to America after money grew scarce in Ireland, Garrity stumbles directly into the hard-knock streets of the Irish-run waterfront and falls in with a Bridge District gang called the White Hand. Through a series of increasingly...
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