Posts Tagged ‘gang’

Havoc (2005)

Sunday, April 13th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Romance
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Hathaway, Anne | Phillips, Bijou | Appleby, Shiri | Biehn, Michael | Gordon-Levitt, Joseph | O'Leary, Matt | Rodríguez, Freddy | San Giacomo, Laura | Vogel, Mike | Cruz, Raymond | Dziena, Alexis | Tatum, Channing | Vasquez, Johnny | Robledo, Luis | Hennings, Sam
Directors: Kopple, Barbara
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In Los Angeles, Allison Lang is a bored girl from an upper class dysfunctional family that acts and dresses like a slut. Her wealthy boyfriend and friends are totally influenced by the hip-hop culture, behaving like rappers, dressing and imitating their lifestyle. When they decide to drive to East L.A. for fun, they meet a Latin gang of drug-dealers and Allison and her best friend Emily become fascinated with their “gangsta” lifestyle. Later they return to the ghetto to visit and excite Hector and his friends, expecting to join their 16th Street gang. When the guys propose them to have sex as a form of initiation, they change their mind, leading to a tragic consequence.

Alpha Dog (2006)

Friday, February 22nd, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Willis, Bruce | Barry, Matthew | Hirsch, Emile | Vargas, Fernando | Kartheiser, Vincent | Timberlake, Justin | Hatosy, Shawn | Wahlquist, Heather | Solowitz, Alex | Vigil, Alec | Stanton, Harry Dean | Cassavetes, Frank | Dubos, Nicole | Rice, Regina | Nativo, Laura
Directors: Cassavetes, Nick
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In 1999, in Claremont, California, the violent Jake Mazursky owes US$ 1,200.00 to the coward drug dealer Johnny Truelove, who is son of the powerful criminal Sonny Truelove. They fight and start a personal war, with Jake breaking into the house of Johnny with his friends, stealing the TV and leaving excrement in the living room. Johnny kidnaps Jake’s fifteen year old brother Zach Mazurka, who has just had an argument with his parents, and brings him to the upper class house of his friend Frankie Ballenbacher. Along a couple of days, Zach meets the friends of Frankie, goes to parties, drinks boozes, smokes pot and has sex with other teenagers. When Johnny realizes that kidnapping means life sentence, he asks the servile scum Elvis Schmidt to kill the boy.

Juice (1992)

Monday, February 18th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Epps, Omar | Shakur, Tupac | Hopkins, Jermaine 'Huggy' | Kain, Khalil | Herron, Cindy | Laresca, Vincent | Jackson, Samuel L. | Gore II, George | Garland, Grace | Latifah, Queen | Harris, Bruklin | Campos, Victor | Payne, Eric | Cook, Sharon | Berry, Darien
Directors: Dickerson, Ernest R.
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4 Harlem teens, Q, Bishop, Raheem and Steel, are out skipping school one day when they find out an old friend was killed in a shootout at a bar. After this, Bishop tells his friends that they have no respect, or juice. To get some, they rob a corner grocery store, but the lunatic Bishop intentionally shoots the clerk for no apparent reason. They run into an alley where Raheem tells Bishop to give him the gun, they fight, and Raheem gets shot. Only the other 3 know what happened, and Bishop wants to get rid of them too.

Bound by Honor (aka “Blood in, blood out”) (1993)

Monday, February 18th, 2008
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Chapa, Damian | Borrego, Jesse | Bratt, Benjamin | Castillo, Enrique | Rivers, Victor | Lindo, Delroy | Towles, Tom | Carrasco, Carlos | Wilson, Teddy | Cruz, Raymond | Rodriguez, Valente | Flaherty, Lanny | Thornton, Billy Bob | Rivas, Geoffrey | Murcelo, Karmin
Directors: Hackford, Taylor
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Based on the true life experiences of poet Jimmy Santiago Baca, the film focuses on half-brothers Paco and Cruz, and their bi-racial cousin Miklo. It opens in 1972, as the three are members of an East L.A. gang known as the “Vatos Locos”, and the story focuses on how a violent crime and the influence of narcotics alter their lives. Miklo is incarcerated and sent to San Quentin, where he makes a “home” for himself. Cruz becomes an exceptional artist, but a heroin addiction overcomes him with tragic results. Paco becomes a cop and an enemy to his “carnal”, Miklo.

Cry-Baby (1990)

Sunday, February 17th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Musical | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Depp, Johnny | Amy Locane | Tyrrell, Susan | Bergen, Polly | Pop, Iggy | Lake, Ricki | Lords, Traci | McGuire, Kim | Burrows, Darren E. | Mailer, Stephen | Webb, Kim | Wendl, Alan J. | Donahue, Troy | Stole, Mink | Dallesandro, Joe
Directors: Waters, John
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Allison is a “square” good girl who has decided she wants to be bad and falls hard for Cry-Baby Walker, a Greaser (or “Drape” in John Waters parlance). Spoofing Elvis movies and Juvenile Delinquency scare films of the ’50s, this movie follows the adventures of Cry-Baby who, though he is sent to juvie, is determined to cross class (and taste) boundaries to get Allison back.

Corruptor, The (1999)

Saturday, February 16th, 2008
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Chow, Yun-Fat | Wahlberg, Mark | Young, Ric | Ben-Victor, Paul | Lee, Jonkit | Pang, Andrew | Lindsey, Elizabeth | Cox, Brian | Mann, Byron | Chan, Kim | MacDonald, Bill | Trinh, Susie | Chow, Ho | Yap, Olivia | Chiu, Lynda
Directors: Foley, James
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A New York police officer (Wahlberg) goes undercover in a dangerous crime scene to investigate abductions and drug-trafficking operations. He obtains backup with the help of another brave Hong Kong police officer (Yun-Fat) who works for the NYPD. They partner up together to stop the operation before the city goes down. The criminal orginization is called the “Fukanese Dragons” who are likely terrorists and illegal immigrants who are about to tear up Chinatown in New York City.

Brother (2000)

Saturday, February 16th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: Japan | UK | USA
Actors: Kitano, Takeshi | Epps, Omar | Maki, Kuroudo | Kato, Masaya | Terajima, Susumu | Watkins, Royale | Boyar, Lombardo | Osugi, Ren | Ishibashi, Ryo | Shigeta, James | Ali, Tatyana | Otake, Makoto | Okumura, Kouen | Musaka, Naomasa | Katase, Rino
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A Japanese Yakuza gangster is exiled to the United States. Takeshi settles in Los Angeles where his younger, half brother lives and finds that although the turf is new, the rules are still the same as they try to take over the local drug trade.

Lethal Weapon 3 (1992)

Friday, February 15th, 2008
Genres: Action | Comedy | Crime | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Gibson, Mel | Glover, Danny | Pesci, Joe | Russo, Rene | Wilson, Stuart | Kahan, Steve | Love, Darlene | Wolfe, Traci | Hines, Damon | Smith, Ebonie | Millar, Gregory | Chinlund, Nick | Iorg, Jason | Scarfe, Alan | Hall, Delores
Directors: Donner, Richard
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Martin Riggs finally meets his match in the form of Lorna Cole, a beautiful but tough policewoman. Together with Roger Murtaugh, his partner, the three attempt to expose a crooked former policeman and his huge arms racket. The crooked cop (Jack Travis) thwarts them at every turn, mainly by killing anyone who is about to talk, but Murtaugh has personal problems of his own as his family are brought into the equation.

Romeo Must Die (2000)

Friday, February 15th, 2008
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Li, Jet | Aaliyah | Washington, Isaiah | Wong, Russell | DMX | Lindo, Delroy | Woodside, D.B. | O, Henry | Lee, Jonkit | Ballerini, Edoardo | Anderson, Anthony | Harrison, Matthew | Chen, Terry | Lowe, Derek | Wong, Ronin
Directors: Bartkowiak, Andrzej
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In this modern day Romeo and Juliet, kung fu action star Jet Li plays Romeo to hip-hop singer, Aaliyah Haughton’s Juliet. Li is an ex-cop investigating the murder of his brother, who had ties with the Chinese mafia in America. Aaliyah plays the daughter of the American mob boss. Neither side approves of their romance, so, obviously, kung fu action ensues, with a soundtrack by Aaliyah.

Lords of Dogtown (2005)

Friday, February 15th, 2008
Genres: Action | Biography | Drama | Sport
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Robinson, John | Hirsch, Emile | De Mornay, Rebecca | Mapother, William | Mechoso, Julio Oscar | Rasuk, Victor | Reed, Nikki | Ledger, Heath | Laresca, Vincent | Zarate, Brian | Schreiber, Pablo | Henson, Elden | Angarano, Michael | Hedberg, Mitch | Nurick, Benjamin
Directors: Hardwicke, Catherine
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A fictionalized take on the group of brilliant young skateboarders raised in the mean streets of Dogtown in Santa Monica, California. The Z-Boys, as they come to be known, perfect their craft in the empty swimming pools of unsuspecting suburban homeowners, pioneering a thrilling new sport and eventually moving into legend.