Subgenre Sampler
Gangsters: 360 Films to Buy & Rent
- Fall Time (1995)
- Dir. Paul Warner
Feat. Mickey Rourke, Stephen Baldwin
- A prank backfires for three teenagers who interrupt the plans of hardened gangsters. The innocence lost of '50s America is disturbingly mirrored as…
- Get Shorty (1995)
- Dir. Barry Sonnenfeld
Feat. John Travolta, Danny De Vito, Gene Hackman…
- Riding the wave of PULP FICTION, this is the most successful stab at translating Elmore Leonard for the screen. John Travolta is an amiable mobster…
- Heat (1995)
- Dir. Michael Mann
Feat. Al Pacino, Robert De Niro
- Epic bank–heist drama matches heavyweight detective Al Pacino against master–thief Robert De Niro. While this dream pairing generates the…
- Kamikaze Taxi (1995)
- Dir. Masato Harada
Feat. Koji Yakusho, Kazuya Takahashi, Reiko Kataoka
- An apprentice gangster fouls up his first major assignment and flees Tokyo in a taxi, the driver of which turns out to be a unlikely confident with a…
- Shanghai Triad (1995)
- Dir. Zhang Yimou
Feat. Gong Li
- Richly–hued encounter with the criminal high–life of 1930s Shanghai, told through the hired servant of a pampered gangster's moll, and…
- Sugartime (1995)
- Dir. John N. Smith
Feat. John Turturro, Mary-Louise Parker, Elias Koteas…
- Charts the infamous, real–life romance between Chicago mobster Sam Giancana (John Turturro) and whitebread songstress Phyllis McGuire…
- Getting Gotti (1994)
- Dir. Roger Young
Feat. Lorraine Bracco, Ellen Burstyn, Anthony John Denison
- Lorraine Bracco pre–SOPRANOS stardom takes on the role of a determined U.S. Attorney Assistant tracking down a Mafia Crime Boss that grew up in…
- God of Gamblers Return (1994)
- Dir. Wong Jing
Feat. Chow Yun-Fat
- Chow Yun–Fat returns as a charming poker player who enjoys the quiet life until a challenger kills his wife and begins to target his friends. …
- Pulp Fiction (1994)
- Dir. Quentin Tarantino
Feat. John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, Uma Thurman…
- With just his second film, Quentin Tarantino not only became a household name but a massive cultural phenomenon.
He miraculously surpasses…
- Bronx Tale, A (1993)
- Dir. Robert De Niro
Feat. Robert De Niro, Chazz Palminteri
- Robert De Niro makes an accomplished directing debut with this vivid '60s rites–of–passage tale about a boy whose loyalty is divided…