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2) The gambler
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2015?]
Language
English
Description
Both an English professor and a high-stakes gambler, Jim Bennett bets it all when he borrows from a gangster and offers his own life as collateral. Always one step ahead, Bennett pits his creditor against the operator of a gambling ring and leaves his dysfunctional relationship with his wealthy mother in his wake. He plays both sides, immersing himself in an illicit, underground world while garnering the attention of Frank, a loan shark with an interest...
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
A drama that takes you deep inside organized crime and the cops who keep tabs on it. A father, businessman, and drug smuggler, Jimmy Reardon, feels the heat from outlaw bikers muscling in on his territory. Mary Spalding, head of Vancouver's Organized Crime Unit, fears her rivals in the intelligence community more than criminals. Together, they form an alliance that threatens to undo them both.
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
A drama that takes you deep inside organized crime and the cops who keep tabs on it. A father, businessman, and drug smuggler, Jimmy Reardon, feels the heat from outlaw bikers muscling in on his territory. Mary Spalding, head of Vancouver's Organized Crime Unit, fears her rivals in the intelligence community more than criminals. Together, they form an alliance that threatens to undo them both.
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
A drama that takes you deep inside organized crime and the cops who keep tabs on it. A father, businessman, and drug smuggler, Jimmy Reardon, feels the heat from outlaw bikers muscling in on his territory. Mary Spalding, head of Vancouver's Organized Crime Unit, fears her rivals in the intelligence community more than criminals. Together, they form an alliance that threatens to undo them both.
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
A drama that takes you deep inside organized crime and the cops who keep tabs on it. A father, businessman, and drug smuggler, Jimmy Reardon, feels the heat from outlaw bikers muscling in on his territory. Mary Spalding, head of Vancouver's Organized Crime Unit, fears her rivals in the intelligence community more than criminals. Together, they form an alliance that threatens to undo them both.
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Jimmy Reardon (Ian Tracey), a Vancouver drug lord trying to go legit and Mary Spalding (Klea Scott), the head of the Canadian intelligence service for the Pacific region work on opposite sides of the law. Reardon and Spalding form an uneasy undercover alliance to protect their turf from rivals inside and outside their organizations. All loyalties are negotiable in this high-stakes game, and the players use money, sex, drugs, and murder to secure the...
9) The departed
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2007, 2006
Language
English
Description
In South Boston, the state police force are waging a war on Irish-American organized crime. Undercover cop Billy Costigan is assigned to infiltrate the mob syndicate, which is run by gangland chief Frank Costello. Billy quickly gains Costello's confidence. Colin Sullivan is a hardened young criminal who has infiltrated the police department as an informer for the syndicate. Colin is rising to a position of power within the Special Investigation Unit....
Publisher
HBO Video
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
Contains the first twelve episodes of the sixth season of the television program "The Sopranos" in which Tony Soprano, the head of a mob family, seeks the advice of a psychiatrist to help make sense of the problems he has with his wife, children, and crime organization.
Publisher
HBO Video
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
Contains the last nine episodes of the sixth season of the television program "The Sopranos" in which Tony Soprano, the head of a mob family, seeks the advice of a psychiatrist to help make sense of the problems he has with his wife, children, and crime organization.
12) Gotti
Publisher
Vertical Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Follows infamous crime boss John Gotti's rise to become the 'Teflon Don' of the Gambino Crime Family in New York City. Spanning three decades and recounted by his son John Jr., it examines Gotti's tumultuous life as he and his wife attempt to hold the family together amongst tragedy and multiple prison sentences.
13) Black mass
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1970s South Boston, FBI agent John Connolly persuades Irish mobster Jimmy Bulger to collaborate with the FBI in order to eliminate their common enemy: the Italian mob. The drama tells the story of this unholy alliance, which spiraled out of control, allowing Whitey to evade law enforcement while consolidating his power and becoming one of the most ruthless and dangerous gangsters in Boston history.
14) 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...
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) The godfather
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
2001, c1972
Language
English
Description
A portait of the Sicilian clan's rise and near fall from power in America, balancing the story between the Corleones' family life and the crime business in which they are engaged.
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