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Punisher: War Zone (2008)

6/10
Director: Lexi Alexander
Starring: Ray Stevenson, Dominic West, Doug Hutchison, Colin Salmon, Wayne Knight, Dash Mi...

An ultra-violent outing for the two-fisted wrecking ball of vengeance known as the Punisher. Six years after the death of his family, Frank Castle is... Read more

Black Rain (1989)

6.6/10
Director: Ridley Scott
Starring: Michael Douglas, Andy Garcia, Ken Takakura

Ridley Scott directs this stylish suspenser starring Michael Douglas and Andy Garcia as New York detectives assigned to escort the extradited Yakuza h... Read more

Public Enemies ( Blu-ray ) (2009)

7/10
Director: Michael Mann
Starring: Billy Crudup, Christian Bale, David Wenham, Giovanni Ribisi, Johnny Depp, Stephe...

Johnny Depp plays Depression-era, celebrity gangster John Dillinger, in Michael Mann's bio-pic. Christian Bale co-stars as the ambitious Agent Purvis... Read more

The Yakuza (1975)

7.3/10
Director: Sydney Pollack
Starring: Robert Mitchum, Ken Takakura, Brian Keith

A superb blending of the American gangster, Japanese Samurai, blazing guns and swinging swords combine in this thrilling actioner about a former Ameri... Read more

The Tiger Brigades (2006)

5.9/10
Director: Jerome Cornuau, Francois Cornuau
Starring: Clovis Cornillac, Diane Kruger, Edouard Baer, Olivier Gourmet, Stefano Accorsi

This film (and the popular television series it sprang from) has earned the nickname 'the French Untouchables' for its gritty story of an elite force... Read more

The FBI Story (1959)

6.6/10
Director: Mervyn LeRoy
Starring: James Stewart, Vera Miles, Murray Hamilton, Nick Adams

A rat-a-tat depiction of the FBI's formative years, as seen through the eyes of agent Chip Hadesty (James Stewart). See Chip take on gangsters like Ba... Read more

Chancer: Series 1 (1990)

7.7/10
Starring: Philip Glenister, Susannah Harker, Clive Owen, Leslie Phillips, Ralph Riach, Sim...

One of Clive Owen's earliest TV roles was as the arrogantly charming conman, Stephen Crane, in this series that screened at the tail end of the yuppie... Read more

Mean Streets (1973)

7.4/10
Director: Martin Scorsese
Starring: Robert De Niro, Harvey Keitel, David Proval

Scorsese's early masterpiece, set in New York's Little Italy, features a great cast headed by Harvey Keitel as a small-time hood trying to protect his... Read more

American Gangster ( Blu-ray ) (2007)

7.8/10
Director: Ridley Scott
Starring: Josh Brolin, Russell Crowe, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Cuba Gooding Jr, Denzel Washington...

Ridley Scott's rivetting real-life crime drama stars Denzel Washington as '70s drug kingpin Frank Lucas, who wrested control of the Harlem heroin trad... Read more

Mobsters (1991)

5.9/10
Director: Michael Karbelnikoff
Starring: Christian Slater, Patrick Dempsey, Costas Mandylor, F Murray Abraham, Lara Flynn...

Based on the true story of the rise of organised crime in America, revolving around four up and coming gangsters, Lucky Luciano (Christian Slater), Me... Read more