Average rating: 3.25   65% from 4 members


Brother

Beat Takeshi is the ulitimate.
  • Brother on DVD (2000)
    Starring: 'Beat' Takeshi Kitano,  Omar Epps,  Tatyana M. Ali
    Director: 'Beat' Takeshi Kitano
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    In his first film shot in the United States, Japanese director Takeshi Kitano stars as Aniki, a stoic "yakuza" (the Japanese version of the Mafia) who heads to Los Angeles after his clan loses a mob war. Unable to speak English, he still manages to take control of his little brother's small-time ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 3,185 members

Heist

A brilliant film that twists msking you question every character.
  • Heist on DVD (2001)
    Starring: Gene Hackman,  Danny De Vito,  Delroy Lindo
    Director: David Mamet
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Written and directed by David Mamet, HEIST is a crime thriller that follows aging master thief Joe Moore (Gene Hackman) as he plans one last robbery before literally sailing off into the sunset. What seems like the perfect heist gets complicated, however, when Joe's "business" partner, Bergman (..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 62% from 3,427 members

Sexy Beast

Ray Winstone is excellent as the British gangster trying to retire but being forced into one last job.
  • Sexy Beast on DVD (2000)
    Starring: Ray Winstone,  Ben Kingsley,  Ian McShane
    Director: Jonathan Glazer
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Jonathan Glazer, the award-winning director of advertisements and music videos, presents his feature film debut with this lushly photographed, expertly written, and brilliantly performed convention-defying gangster film. SEXY BEAST jettisons the slickness of the LOCK, STOCK & TWO SMOKING BARRELS ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 11,961 members

Reservoir Dogs

An obvious choice but definitely worth seeing again.
  • Reservoir Dogs on DVD (1991)
    Starring: Harvey Keitel,  Tim Roth,  Christopher Penn
    Director: Quentin Tarantino
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Watch now: £2.49
    Former video store clerk Quentin Tarantino's directorial debut, RESERVOIR DOGS, is a brutally funny, supercharged introduction to his supremely distinct cinematic vision, which was later to become one of the most mimicked styles of the 1990s. Mastermind Joe Cabot (Lawrence Tierney) assembles a crew ..read more »
    Rate this: 4 stars out of 5 76% from 63,207 members

City Of God

You will never get bored of this film.

Colors

A hard hitting film about gangland LA.
  • Colors on DVD (1988)
    Starring: Sean Penn,  Robert Duvall,  Maria Conchita Alonso
    Director: Dennis Hopper
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    After the events of the previous decade in Los Angeles, this 1988 film about L.A. street gangs as seen through the eyes of the LAPD represented a serious effort to throw some light on the appalling carnage of that world in which, for example, 400 gangbangers were killed in 1987, the year the film ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 59% from 1,504 member




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