Shooting Heroin (
2020) | IMDb:
4.9
A small town community comes together to eradicate the heroin epidemic from its midst by whatever means necessary.
Starring:
Alan Powell
,
Sherilyn Fenn
,
Garry Pastore
,
Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs
,
Nicholas Turturro
,
Rachel Hendrix
The Irishman (
2019) | IMDb:
7.8
Pennsylvania, 1956. Frank Sheeran, a war veteran of Irish origin who works as a truck driver, accidentally meets mobster Russell Bufalino. Once Frank becomes his trusted man, Bufalino sends him to Chicago with the task of helping Jimmy Hoffa, a powerful union leader related to organized crime, with whom Frank will maintain a close friendship for nearly twenty years.
The Wolf of Wall Street (
2013) | IMDb:
8.2
A New York stockbroker refuses to cooperate in a large securities fraud case involving corruption on Wall Street, corporate banking world and mob infiltration. Based on Jordan Belfort's autobiography.
Starring:
Leonardo DiCaprio
,
Jonah Hill
,
Margot Robbie
,
Kyle Chandler
,
Rob Reiner
,
Matthew McConaughey
The Yards (
2000) | IMDb:
6.4
In the rail yards of Queens, contractors repair and rebuild the city's subway cars. These contracts are lucrative, so graft and corruption are rife. When Leo Handler gets out of prison, he finds his aunt married to Frank Olchin, one of the big contractors; he's battling with a minority-owned firm for contracts.
Starring:
Mark Wahlberg
,
Joaquin Phoenix
,
Charlize Theron
,
James Caan
,
Ellen Burstyn
,
Faye Dunaway
Black and White (
1999) | IMDb:
5
Rich Bower is an up-and-coming star in the hip-hop world. Everyone wants to be around him, including Raven and her fellow upper-class white high school friends. The growing appeal of black culture among white teens fascinates documentary filmmaker Sam Donager, who sets out to chronicle it with her husband, Terry. But before Bower was a rapper, he was a gangster, and his criminal past comes back to haunt him and all those around him.
Starring:
Robert Downey Jr.
,
Scott Caan
,
Stacy Edwards
,
Allan Houston
,
Gaby Hoffmann
,
Jared Leto
Cop Land (
1997) | IMDb:
7
Freddy Heflin is the sheriff of a place everyone calls “Cop Land” — a small and seemingly peaceful town populated by the big city police officers he’s long admired. Yet something ugly is taking place behind the town’s peaceful facade. And when Freddy uncovers a massive, deadly conspiracy among these local residents, he is forced to take action and make a dangerous choice between protecting his idols and upholding the law.
Starring:
Sylvester Stallone
,
Harvey Keitel
,
Ray Liotta
,
Robert De Niro
,
Peter Berg
,
Janeane Garofalo
Donnie Brasco (
1997) | IMDb:
7.7
An FBI undercover agent infiltrates the mob and identifies more with the mafia life at the expense of his regular one.
Carlito's Way (
1993) | IMDb:
7.9
Free after years in prison, Carlito Brigante intends to give up his criminal ways, but it's not long before the ex-con is sucked back into the New York City underworld. Reconnecting with his dancer girlfriend, Carlito gets entangled in the shady dealings of his friend Dave Kleinfeld, who also serves as his lawyer. An encounter with shifty gangster Benny Blanco sets the duo on a dangerous path.
Starring:
Al Pacino
,
Sean Penn
,
Penelope Ann Miller
,
John Leguizamo
,
Ingrid Rogers
,
Luis Guzmán
GoodFellas (
1990) | IMDb:
8.7
The true story of Henry Hill, a half-Irish, half-Sicilian Brooklyn kid who is adopted by neighbourhood gangsters at an early age and climbs the ranks of a Mafia family under the guidance of Jimmy Conway.
Cocktail (
1988) | IMDb:
5.9
After being discharged from the Army, Brian Flanagan moves back to Queens and takes a job in a bar run by Doug Coughlin, who teaches Brian the fine art of bar-tending. Brian quickly becomes a patron favorite with his flashy drink-mixing style, and Brian adopts his mentor's cynical philosophy on life and goes for the money.