Chazz Palminteri
Pub. Date
[2002]
Edition
Special edition.
Language
English
Description
Police investigating an exploded boat on a San Pedro pier discover 27 bodies and $91 million worth of drug money. The only survivors are a severely burned Hungarian terrorist and Roger Kint, a crippled con-man. Reluctantly, Kint is pressured into explaining what happened on the boat. His story begins six weeks earlier with five criminals being dragged in by New York police desperate for suspects in a truck highjacking, and ends with the possible identification...
3) Noel
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Five strangers lives intertwine on Christmas Eve to tell a story of companionship, love, and healing which unfolds against the backdrop of New York City. A delightful tale of redemption, faith, and the joy of living; proving miracles are closer than you think.
4) A Bronx tale
Pub. Date
[1998]
Edition
Widescreen version ... enhanced for 16:9 widescreen TVs.
Language
English
Description
A hard-working bus driver must stand up to the local mob boss if he is to keep his son from falling into a life of crime.
5) Legend
Language
English
Formats
Description
The true story of the rise and fall of London's most notorious gangsters, Reggie and Ron Kray, both portrayed by Tom Hardy in an amazing double performance. It is a classic crime thriller taking viewers into the secret history of the 1960s and the extraordinary events that secured the infamy of the Kray twins.
"The most impressive thing about'"Legend' is Hardy's ability to differentiate the twins and the camera tricks employed to put them together...
7) A Bronx tale
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
A devoted father battles a local crime boss for the life of his son. Growing up on the racially divided mean streets of 1960s New York, 11-year-old Italian-American Calogero, known as 'C,' idolizes sophisticated local mob boss Sonny, despite stern warnings from his working-class father. When 'C' gets older and defies his dad in order to join Sonny's dangerous gang, he finds that life is never black and white.
8) Legend
Language
English
Description
The true story of the rise and fall of London's most notorious gangsters, Reggie and Ron Kray, both portrayed by Tom Hardy in an amazing double performance. It is a classic crime thriller taking viewers into the secret history of the 1960s and the extraordinary events that secured the infamy of the Kray twins.
10) Mighty fine
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Set in the 1970s, Joe Fine is a charismatic man who is utterly devoted to his family and uproots them from Brooklyn to New Orleans in search of a better life. But Joe's spending spree is out of touch with reality: his apparel business is teetering near collapse. His business woes fuel a growing rage that threatens the very fabric of the family.
11) Noel: Smile
Pub. Date
2010.
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
The lives of five strangers become intertwined on Christmas Eve; a privileged California teenager discovers her strengths when she works for a volunteer program in China.
12) Vault
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
A gripping, stylish thriller that reveals the true story of one of the largest robberies in US history. While doing time for a botched heist, two small-time crooks cook up an ill-fated scheme to rip off a nearby vault for $30 million, money that belongs to the local Mafia!
13) Henry & me
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
A young boy battling illness is taken on a magical adventure by a stranger named Henry. On their journey, the boy meets New York Yankee legends, both past and present, who give him lessons about baseball and life.
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
A coming-of-age story about a boy growing up in Astoria, N.Y., during the 1980s. As his friends end up dead, on drugs or in prison, he comes to believe he has been saved from their fate by various so-called saints. He goes back home after fifteen years when he finds out that his father is ill. There he finds old friends, lost friends, and new relationships as he comes to term with his father's rage and love.
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Frank Gregorio is a successful psychiatrist and loving family man. But when a patient introduces him to the world of karaoke, Frank begins to obsessively revisit his boyhood dream of becoming a professional singer. Add in his eldest daughter's own midlife crisis, a relationship with a lounge-singing femme fatale, his youngest daughter's upcoming wedding, a precocious granddaughter, his aging father and very suspicious wife, then shake well.
16) Legend
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Twin brothers Ronnie and Reggie Kray rise to power in the criminal underworld of 1960s London.
17) Diabolique
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
The wife and mistress of a cruel schoolmaster collaborate in a carefully planned and executed attempt to murder him. The plan goes well until the body, which has been strategically dumped, disappears.
18) The Dukes
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Once a top-selling doo wop group, The Dukes are now barely making ends meet. To earn the money to build a nightclub and revive their career, the misfit group decides to rob a shady dentist's office filled with cavity-filling gold.