Mix-and-match from
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Subgenre Sampler
Mafia! (Jane Austen's Mafia) (1998)- Dir. Jim Abrahams
Feat. Lloyd Bridges, Christina Applegate, Olympia Dukakis - Ever the low–brow, dir. Jim Abrahams (NAKED GUN et al) delivers a fair quota of spoofing lowblows to the goodfella genre, assisted by a gang of…
Payback (1998)
- Dir. Brian Helgeland
Feat. Mel Gibson, Deborah Kara Unger - Mel Gibson gets to behave badly as an indestructible armed robber who gets carried away on a sadistic get–even mission against a crime…
Sleepless Town (Fuyajo) (1998)- Dir. Chi-Ngai Lee
Feat. Takeshi Kaneshiro, Sihung Lung, Kathy Chow - Hybridistic pan–Asian thriller set in the 'sleepless' red–light district of Tokyo, where petty crim Kaneshiro must revisit his gangster…
Donnie Brasco (1997)- Dir. Mike Newell
Feat. Al Pacino, Johnny Depp, Michael Madsen… - Riveting, true–life tale of an FBI agent's perilous infiltration of the New York Mafia in the 70s. A knife–edge dramatic tension is…
Eight Heads in a Duffel Bag (1997)- Dir. Tom Schulman
Feat. Joe Pesci, Andy Comeau, Kristy Swanson - Mob bagman Joe Pesci must transport hard evidence of a mass slaying, but he loses the noggins and has to recoup them by any means necessary from a…
Face (1997)- Dir. Antonia Bird
Feat. Robert Carlyle, Ray Winstone, Phillip Davis - The wily Robert Carlyle plays lead 'face' of an armed–robbery gang, in a tense, grabby thriller that more than holds its own in…
Full Alert (1997)- Dir. Ringo Lam
Feat. Lau Ching-wan, Francis Ng - Quality police thriller with realistic drama, bracing action and strong sense of locale – regarded as one of the last 'classics' from the…
Hana-Bi (1997)
- Dir. Takeshi Kitano
Feat. Takeshi Kitano, Kayoko Kishimoto, Ren Osusi - 'Beat' Takeshi cements his reputation as the modern visionary of Japanese cinema with his most celebrated film to date, returning as the formidably…
L.A. Confidential (1997)- Dir. Curtis Hanson
Feat. Russell Crowe, Guy Pearce, Kevin Spacey… - Slam–bang adaptation preserves the lacerating edge of James Ellroy's crime novel while polishing up the sheen of 50s Hollywood. Antipodean boys…
Playing God (1997)- Dir. Andy Wilson
Feat. David Duchovny - Diverting psycho–thriller for David Duchovny, playing a doctor struck–off for malpractice. After flirting with skid–row he lands in…
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