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Gangster
see all genres ›From Hollywood's classic 1930s gangster antiheroes to Japanese yakuza and beyond, gangland power, politics and violence have remained a film staple.
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The Bad Bunch
Violence and racial tension punctuate this fast moving study of prejudice and discrimination. THE BAD BUNCH is the story of a black gang who run the streets of Watts. It is also the story of Jim (played by director/screenwriter Greydon Clark), a white man who tries to befriend them. Prejudice stands in the way of any...Start your free trial to watch
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Bar Paradise
Cheuk looks for a job at a bar run by a girl named Beauty. In the middle of his interview, he foils what he believes is a crime being committed. In return, he gets the job. Meanwhile, desperate for money to return home to Hong Kong, a gangster named Hai and his girlfriend, Su, also begin working for Beauty. Both Cheuk and Hai...Start your free trial to watch
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Black Heat
Timothy Brown (NASHVILLE, STUD BROWN) stars as "Kicks" Carter, a tough-as-nails LA cop and one bad dude hot on the trail of a black mob boss named Guido. Guido and his sleazy henchman Ziggy (Russ Tamblyn, Twin Peaks) are planning a big-time, drugs-for-munitions trade, but Kicks and partner Tony (Geoffrey Land) stand in the...Start your free trial to watch
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Black Shampoo
John Daniels stars as Jonathan Knight, the owner of the most successful hair salon for women on the Sunset Strip. Jonathan is tall, muscular, black and ballsy. His reputation as a lover has become so awesome that he is sought after almost as much in that capacity as in his experience as a hair stylist. Everything is cool for...Start your free trial to watch
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Bruce's Deadly Fingers
After malicious gangsters capture Bruce Lee's ex-girlfriend, a young martial artist attempts to rescue her along with the late master's book containing lethal techniques for killing with one's fingers. Plenty of kung fu action and mayhem (including a particularly gruesome scene involving the torture of a...Start your free trial to watch
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The Butterfly Tattoo
From the moment they first met, secrets from a hidden past would tear them apart. Chris and Jenny are teenage lovers from the gritty side of modern Oxford, England in this adaptation of the acclaimed novel by Philip Pullman (author of "The Golden Compass"). Chris, a naive lad, suspended between school and...Start your free trial to watch
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Clean
Maynard Yates is trying to clean up his life when chance gives him a job as a limousine driver. He is soon chauffeuring the Hollywood elite and finds himself submerged in the dark, seedy underbelly of celebrity. When his own bad habits return, Maynard is unwillingly led into a downward spiral and slowly realizes that he may...Start your free trial to watch
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Cop Unbowed
Hong Kong police inspector Lam (Alex Fong) has to leave the force against his will when he defied orders and rescued his girlfriend who had been kidnapped by the mob. Hoping to live a new life, Lam moves to a small island and becomes a restaurant owner but the past continues to haunt him ten years later as the mob has put a...Start your free trial to watch
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The Crown Witness
Based on an actual event, THE CROWN WITNESS tells the story of an investigative reporter and a gangster who meet for an interview. The reporter carries a deep dark secret while the gangster (who has turned over a new leaf for a woman) is the star witness in a trial against his former mob associates. Both...Start your free trial to watch
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Deadly Sweet
Starring 17-year-old beauty contest winner Ewa Aulin (CANDY), and Jean-Louis Trintignant (A MAN AND A WOMAN), DEADLY SWEET is a most unusual crime story. In the film, a French actor finds his business contact lying murdered on the floor. Rather than call the police, he decides to protect the young woman at the scene and nail...Start your free trial to watch
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Death of a Snowman
Master criminals meet violent death in Johannesburg, South Africa, a city wrought with organized crime. Steve Chaka (Ken Gampu), an ambitious news reporter, learns that these deaths are from the hands of an all-black vigilante group known only as “War on Crime." Teaming up with Lt. Ben Deel (Nigel...Start your free trial to watch
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The Deli
THE DELI is an enchanting slice-of-life comedy about a hard luck gambler who gets in over his head when he starts putting his store's profits on the line. Mike Starr plays Johnny Amico, a delicatessen owner who plays the same numbers in the lottery every week for his mother. The one week he doesn't play, his mother's numbers...Start your free trial to watch
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Enter the Phoenix
Daniel Wu (THE SHINJUKU INCIDENT) stars in this action comedy, the directorial debut by actor Stephen Fung (HOUSE OF FURY). Hong Kong’s top triad leader Hung appoints his gay son Georgie (Wu) to be his successor before he dies. But Hung’s loyal right-hand man Cheung mistakes his roommate Sam (pop superstar...Start your free trial to watch
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Entrails of a Beautiful Woman
In this extremely explicit follow-up to ENTRAILS OF A VIRGIN (though not exactly a sequel), a doctor gets more than she bargained for after getting entangled with an evil Japanese Yakuza clan. A woman commits suicide at a clinic after being brutally raped and injected with a drug called Angel Rain by the...Start your free trial to watch
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The Exterminator
Christopher George, Robert Ginty and Samantha Eggar star in THE EXTERMINATOR, James Glickenhaus’ explosive story of Vietnam vet John Eastland, a man who launches a bloody vendetta against the New York underworld when his best friend is brutally beaten by a vicious street gang. Eastland becomes a vigilante...Start your free trial to watch
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Female Prisoner 701: Scorpion
This all-time Japanese cult favorite inspired a series of sequels and remakes still extending today. It's a crazed mixture of “women in prison” and revenge-flick tropes that was a key inspiration for KILL BILL (which used some of its music as an homage). Gorgeous Meiko Kaji plays the girlfriend of an...Start your free trial to watch
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Fighter in the Wind
A young Korean Taekwondo competitor arrives in Japan near the end of World War II with hopes of being a fighter pilot, but ends up on the streets battling racism, organized crime, occupying American servicemen, and his own fear of failure as a martial artist. He retires to the wilderness for two years to...Start your free trial to watch