Chamoun and May lives in no-mans land after running from the mafia. One day Kaine, a diamond robber show up. He’s on the run from Sheriff Blade. Now they are hunted by the mafia and the law.Read More »
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Jean-Pierre Desagnat – Les Etrangers AKA The Strangers (1969)
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António-Pedro Vasconcelos – Os Imortais AKA The Imortals (2003)
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Antonio-Pedro Vasconcelos’ Os Imortais (The Immortals) ironically opens with a funeral. The last of the immortals is present among the crowd, the others having died or disappeared over the years. The man being buried, however, is the policeman who found out about the criminal secrets of the immortals. This is an intriguing start for a mediocre film, in which this tongue-in-cheek sort of cleverness is reserved for the opening scene only. The “immortals” are a group of Portuguese war veterans who earned their title in the colonial wars in Africa in the early 1970s. When Portuguese East Africa became Mozambique, they returned to their fatherland only to feel left out and misunderstood. Read More » -
Laurence Harvey – Welcome to Arrow Beach (1974)
1971-1980HorrorLaurence HarveyThrillerUSAA hippie girl wandering on a California beach is taken in by a Korean War veteran who lives in a nearby mansion with his sister. The girl soon begins to suspect that the mansion is home to some very strange goings-on….Read More »
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David Cronenberg – Eastern Promises (2007)
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David Cronenberg’s “Eastern Promises” opens with a throat- slashing and a young woman collapsing in blood in a drugstore, and connects these events with a descent into an underground of Russians who have immigrated to London and brought their crime family with them. Like the Corleone family, but with a less wise and more fearsome patriarch, the Vory V Zakone family of the Russian mafia operates in the shadows of legitimate business — in this case, a popular restaurant.Read More » -
Sutton Roley – Snatched (1973)
1971-1980CrimeSutton RoleyThrillerUSAThe wives of three wealthy men are kidnapped and held for a $3 million ransom, but one of the men doesn’t want to pay his share.Read More »
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Robert Michael Lewis – A Stranger Waits (1987)
1981-1990Robert Michael LewisThrillerUSAA wealthy widow lives moments of tension when she decides to spend a few days in a beach house of a mysterious young man.Read More »
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Michio Yamamoto – Akuma ga yondeiru AKA Terror in the Streets (1970)
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Vincenzo Natali – Cypher (2002)
2001-2010Sci-FiThrillerUSAVincenzo NataliA scifi thriller about technology firms, spying, brainwashing and paranoia… from the director of CUBE.Read More »
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Kôsaku Yamashita – Bakuchiuci: Sôchô Tobaku AKA Big Time Gambling Boss (1968)
1961-1970CrimeJapanKôsaku YamashitaThrillerTokyo, 1934. Gang boss Arakawa is too ill and a successor must be named. The choice falls on Nakai, but being an outsider he refuses and suggests senior clansman Matsuda instead. But Matsuda is in jail and the elders won’t wait for his release, so they appoint the younger and more malleable Ishido to take the reins. Clan honour and loyalties are severely tested when Matsuda is released, resulting in an increasingly violent internal strife. An atmospheric tale of gangland intrigue written by Kazuo Kasahara (Battles Without Honour and Humanity) and starring Tomisaburo Wakayama, (Lone Wolf and Cub, The Bounty Hunter Trilogy) and genre legend Koji Tsuruta, Big Time Gambling Boss is one of the all-time classics of the yakuza genre. Paul Schrader called it the richest and most complex film of its type, while novelist Yukio Mishima hailed it as a masterpiece.Read More »









