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Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 95 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Italiano
Description
Referenced in Tarantino's Kill Bill Vol. 2, Uomini Si Nasce Poliziotti Si Muore (Live like a cop, die like a man, 1976) opens with an insane motorcycle chase that was filmed in rush hour in downtown Rome with no permission from the local authorities. To top it off, this is one of the most violent and unconventional Italian style action films of its time. The credit goes to the director, Ruggero Deodato, best known for his infamous and censored film...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 76 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
A wild throwback to '70s grindhouse movies, Modus operandi is shockingly violent and even more entertaining. Director Frankie Latina took four years to direct this lovingly constructed ode to disreputable genre flicks, all of it shot in his hometown of Milwaukee. He mashes together Blaxploitation, gore, Italian giallo, Japanese gangster flicks and much more into an irresistible guilty pleasure.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 500 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Italiano
Description
Fernando Di Leo was a prolific filmmaker who explored the political extremism and mafia corruption in Italy during the 1970's. Master of garish, intricately plotted, ultra-violent stories about pimps and petty gangsters, Di Leo has perfected the genre with an uncanny accuracy. Di Leo's films demonstrate the degradation of the working classes and how the mafia corrupted them. Though he slipped out of public consciousness after his death in 2003, his...
Series
Publisher
Kino Lorber Inc
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in..
Language
English
Description
Marvin Bookman is a small shop owner in Gary, Indiana. After he sees a drive-by shooting of Laurie Thompson's son by a local gang, he gives up the license number of the car to the police. The gang doesn't like this so they go to the store and rough him up. Soon, John Bookman comes to town to set the wrong things right. With the help of Laurie and his old friend Jake, they attempt to take back the streets and show the new breed of gang members what...
6) The gangster
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (84 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Shubunka pulled himself up by extorting protection money from small-time operators of policy number, gaming house and other illicit enterprises. But he had no friends, knew no happiness and tormented his moll until she finally put the finger on him for a rival mob. And Shubunka ended up in the gutter on a rainy night, his body riddled with bullets.
7) Undertow
Publisher
KL Studio Classics
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (71 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A gambler just out of wartime military service is no longer interested in wagers and speculations wants only to open a mountain vacation lodge.
8) Hot news
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 62 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Ex-prize fighter Mark Miller, now a sports writer, sets out to expose a murderous gambling ring -- IMDb.com.
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (81 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Look out, Jake Luva. That sinuous moll cuddling up to you on the dance floor isn't the floozy she seems. She's Bonnie Jordan, ex-society girl and current undercover reporter, investigating a murder that has your fingerprints all over it.--Container.
10) Hustle down
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Cully, a two-bit hustler and the driver for a Baja drug cartel, finds himself relying on skilled-but-reluctant bounty hunter, Turk, to stay out of the grasps of a merciless assassin, and vicious thugs led by a rival gang leader after Cully has stolen a money car stuffed with cash meant for his boss. The duo crosses paths with Crystal, a sultry dancer with too many secrets and a greater stake in all of this than they first realize. If Cully can convince...
11) Gangster Land
Publisher
Status Media
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (88 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
With a backdrop of the roaring 20s, the Italian and Irish mobs bloody the streets of Chicago during the infamous gangland wars. Al Capone, and his Machine Gunner Jack McGurn, take on Bugs Moran and the Irish mob in a battle that culminates with the Valentine2s Day Massacre.
12) American sicario
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (103 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
American gangster Erik Vasquez schemes to become the top dog in the Mexican underworld, only to find himself making enemies out of both the powerful cartels and his own allies.
13) 7 dias
Publisher
Moliere/Fidecine
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
A man decides to gamble a large sum of money to raise an even bigger sum--he wants to bring the world's biggest band, U2, to Mexico to play a concert.
Un promotor de recitales hace una apuesta con el capo mafioso para recaudar dinero para llevar al súper estelar conjunto U2 a su ciudad de Monterrey, y la pierde. Ahora tiene sólo siete días para pagar su deuda, pero a medida que se acerca el plazo, debe enfrentarse a una competencia implacable...
Series
Publisher
Warnerarchive.com
Pub. Date
2009]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (87 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Police captain Jim Fitzpatrick is shipped out to the suburbs by crime boss Sam Belmonte. Now rid of the do-gooder, Belmonte's stranglehold on the city tightens and crime is on the rise. Not to be thwarted, Fitzpatrick sets out to clean up the streets as well as the corruption within the department. When his brother Ed takes up with the gangster's moll, Fitzpatrick finds the war against crime hitting too close to home. Convinced that the legal system...
15) Hoodlum
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (130 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A gangster refuses to let others into his numbers racket. Set in Harlem during the 1930s.
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Richard Roundtree reunites with the director and screenwriter of 1971's trendsetting "Shaft" for "Shaft's Big Score!", the second of Roundtree's three movie portrayals of the street-smart, leather-jacketed private investigator. This time, the blown-to-kingdom-come murder of a client plunges Shaft into a case that bounces him like a pinball between the 133rd Precinct and competing mobs. But the players are about to be played in this "rousing and entertaining...
17) Wise guys
Series
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (91 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Best friends Harry and Moe are go-getters inside a Newark mob outfit. They go get the boss's drycleaning. They go get his car. Now they have a new task: go get each other. The boss has secretly hired each pal to whack the other. Their friendship might survive the mob - if they don't kill each other first. Brian De Palma, whose Scarface and Carlito's Way are mobster-movie classics, finds the genre's funny bone in a comedy.
18) A Bronx tale
Publisher
Tribeca Film
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (121 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A devoted father battles a local crime boss for the life of his son. Growing up on the racially divided mean streets of 1960s New York, 11-year-old Italian-American Calogero, known as 'C,' idolizes sophisticated local mob boss Sonny, despite stern warnings from his working-class father. When 'C' gets older and defies his dad in order to join Sonny's dangerous gang, he finds that life is never black and white.
Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Young Anthony Soprano is growing up in one of the most tumultuous eras in Newark's history, becoming a man just as rival gangsters begin to rise and challenge the all-powerful DiMeo crime family2s hold over the increasingly race-torn city. Caught up in the changing times is the uncle he idolizes, Dickie Moltisanti, who struggles to manage both his professional and personal responsibilities, and whose influence over his nephew will help make the impressionable...
20) Key Largo
Series
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (100 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A hurricane swells outside, but it's nothing compared to the storm within the hotel at Key Largo. There, sadistic mobster Johnny Rocco holds at gunpoint hotel owner Nora Temple, her invalid father-in-law, and ex-Gl Frank McCloud.
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