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Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Chev Chelios returns to track down a ruthless Chinese mobster who has stolen his most prized possession: his heart. As he hunts down his enemy in Los Angeles, his battery-operated ticker requires regular jolts of electricity in order to work. Chev is determined to get his real heart back and wreak vengeance on whoever stole it.
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Based on a true story. A man leaves his gangster-filled lifestyle to start over with his family. After he relocates to Los Angeles, it isn't long before the world of crime that he tried to escape finds him. Threatened by a dangerous gangster, his criminal cousin and a drug lord, he finds getting a fresh start almost impossible. He'll do whatever it takes to keep those close to him safe, even if it means going back to his old ways.
3) Chinatown
Language
English
Formats
Description
A landmark movie in the film-noir tradition, CHINATOWN stands as a true screen classic. Jack Nicholson is private eye Jake Gittes, living off the murky moral climate of sunbaked, pre-war Southern California. Hired by a beautiful socialite (Faye Dunaway) to investigate her husband's extra-marital affair, Gittes is swept into a maelstrom of double dealings and deadly deceits, uncovering a web of personal and political scandals that come crashing together....
4) Gigli
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Larry Gigli is a low-level Los Angeles mob enforcer whose volatile boss, Louis, hires Gigli to kidnap Brian, the mentally handicapped younger brother of a federal prosecutor who's about to bring Louis' boss to trial in New York. Gigli gets the kid home without a hitch. Then Ricki, a beautiful woman, shows up at his door. Gigli soon learns that the nervous Louis has hired her to keep an eye on him. As Gigli and Ricky continue to look after the young,...
5) The outfit
Series
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
Remastered ed.
Language
English
Description
"You know how it is. You hit us. We hit you." Career thief Earl Macklin pays no mind to the mobster's threat. He intends to put a big hurt on an L.A crime outfit. He, his girlfriend, and his partner will avenge the murder of Macklin's brother by cutting down gangland operations bit by violent bit.
6) Waist deep
Pub. Date
[2006]
Edition
Full screen edition.
Language
English
Description
O2 is an ex-con who is trying to go straight. His life takes a deadly turn when his son gets kidnapped in a carjacking and held for ransom by a ruthless druglord. With a street-smart hustler as his partner and his shady cousin along for the ride, O2 races through the violent streets of Los Angeles in a desperate attempt to outsmart rival gangs and save his son.
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