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Mobsters is a 1991 American crime drama film directed by Michael Karbelnikoff. It details the creation of The Commission.Set in New York City, taking place from 1917 to 1931, it is a semi-fictitious account of the rise of Charles "Lucky" Luciano, Meyer Lansky, Frank Costello, and Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel.
"Anarchism and Film". A database created by Santiago Juan-Navarro and hosted by ChristieBooks "A revolution in cinema?" by Duncan Campbell in The Guardian. An article dealing with anarchist films "Anarchist films" by Anarcho. An article on the subject which includes the trailers of some important films "Anarchist videos" by Anarchism.org
The book was a best seller and several companies were interested in film rights. In October 1959, film rights were bought by Allied Artists, who had enjoyed a big commercial success with Al Capone (1959) and were interested in making more gangster films. The purchase price was described as "well into six figures as against a percentage of the ...
American Gangster is a 2007 American biographical crime film directed and produced by Ridley Scott and written by Steven Zaillian.The film is loosely based on the criminal career of Frank Lucas, a gangster from La Grange, North Carolina who smuggled heroin into the United States on American service planes returning from the Vietnam War, before being detained by a task force led by Newark ...
A mobster is hiding from the law in a small town, and he is running out of money. So he robs a bank and gets away with some loot. However, not only are the cops now after him, but so is the local mob boss, who is jealous that an outsider pulled a job in his territory, especially without giving him a piece of the pie.
A Bronx Tale is a 1993 American coming-of-age crime drama film directed by and starring Robert De Niro in his directorial debut and produced by Jane Rosenthal, adapted from Chazz Palminteri's 1989 one-man show play of the same name.
Gun City (Spanish: La sombra de la ley) is a 2018 Spanish-French action thriller film directed by Dani de la Torre and written by Patxi Amezcua. [1] Set in 1921 Barcelona, the plot displays anarchist struggle and police brutality as a backdrop.
Anarchists is a 2000 South Korean action film directed by Yoo Young-sik and co-written by Park Chan-wook. Set in Shanghai in 1924, the film is about the Heroic Corps: a covert cell of insurrectionist anarchists who attempt to overthrow the Japanese government's occupation of Korea through propaganda of the deed. Told from the perspective of the ...