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Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Edition
Widescreen version ; second-disc unrated extended edition.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Frank Lucas is the number one importer of heroin in Harlem. His product is superior to what is currently available on the street and his prices are lower. Richie Roberts is a dedicated police officer who heads up a joint narcotics task force and is determined to bring down Lucas' drug empire. Based on a true story.
2) Gloria
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
An ex-gun moll and showgirl is suddenly forced to protect a child whose parents have been rubbed out by the mob.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
New York City, November 1988. Bobby Green is the manager of a Russian nightclub frequented by gangsters owned by Marat Buzhayev. Bobby has a secret, however, which he guards closely. His brother is Police Captain Joseph Grusinsky and his father, Bert, is a legendary Deputy Chief. Bobby's strained relationship with his father and brother is tested when Joseph is badly wounded in an assassination attempt and Bobby discovers his father could be next....
Publisher
Inception Media Group, LLC
Language
English
Description
Apple Annie, a cantankerous New York City fruit peddler, has been pretending to be a high-society matron in letters to her daughter. When her daughter comes to visit with her aristocratic fiance, Apple Annie enlists her gangster friends for help.
Series
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Language
English
Description
The folks who live in the teeming tenements lining Manhattan's Tenth Avenue could sure use an angel. And they have one Flavia Mills, a little girl with big dreams who touches the lives and hearts of everyone in her run-down neighborhood.
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
"Don" Vito Corleone is the head of a New York mafia 'family.' His beloved son Michael has just come home from the war, but does not intend to become part of his father's business. Not given a choice, the business of the family is just like the head of the family, kind and benevolent to those who give respect, but gives in to ruthless violence whenever anything stands against the good of the family. An up and coming rival of the Corleone family wants...
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Edition
Widescreen; Coppola restoration.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
The continuing saga of the Corleone crime family which tells the story of a young Vito Corleone growing up in Sicily and in 1910s New York; and follows Michael Corleone in the 1950s as he attempts to expand the family business into Las Vegas, Hollywood and Cuba.
Series
Warner Bros. Pictures gangsters volume 1
Publisher
Turner Entertainment Co
Edition
Full screen version.
Language
English
Description
A World War I veteran (Cagney) returns to New York, innocently becomes involved in bootlegging, builds up an empire and dies in a gang war. Set against a background of newsreel-like montages and narration.
Publisher
Home Box Office
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
Several crises threaten Tony and his crew. Rival boss Johnny Sack is in prison, and the always tense relations between the New Jersey and New York families are strained through the unpredictable behavior of Sack's surrogates.
Publisher
Home Box Office
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
Tony faces a myriad of immediate, stress-inducing crises at home, at work and from the law. Tony's wife Carmela plans for a future she's not sure will arrive, and son AJ and daughter Meadow find that adulthood holds its own surprises.
13) Goodfellas
Publisher
Warner Bros. Pictures
Edition
Two-disc special edition; widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
Details the rise and fall of Henry Hill, a Brooklyn kid who grows up idolizing the "wise guys" from his neighborhood. He begins hanging around the mobsters and doing odd jobs until he gains the notice of local chieftain Paulie Cicero. In his teens, Hill distinguishes himself as a "stand-up guy" by choosing jail time over ratting on his accomplices. From that moment on, he is a part of the family. Along with his partner Tommy, he rises through the...
Language
English
Description
"Feet Samuels is known as a very honorable man. When he is arrested because of a misunderstanding, gangster Joel Baldwin, known as the Brain, bails him out. Now Feet owes five hundred dollars and is worried because the Brain is known to punish those who default on loans. Feet is an unlucky gambler and is unlucky at love as well. His girl friend, Hortense Hathaway, is only interested in money and Feet has none. Finally, in desperation, Feet decides...
Publisher
Binge Box
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
The Godfather: It is the late 1940s in New York and "Don" Vito Corleone is the head of a powerful Mafia "family." His youngest son Michael had defied Vito by enlisting in the Marines to fight in World War II. Michael has returned with no intention of continuing the family business, but after several assassination attempts on his father's life, Michael wants revenge on the men responsible. He is groomed as the new don, leading the family to a new era...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Language
English
Description
Coming to America: Pampered African Prince Akeem is a rebel who is against an arranged marriage and heads to Queens, New York to find a new bride. His regal father agrees to allow the prince 40 days to roam the U.S., sending the prince's faithful retainer Semmi along to make sure nothing untoward happens. To avoid fortune hunters, Prince Akeem conceals his true identity and gets a "regular" guy job at a fast-food restaurant.
Harlem nights: In 1938,...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Language
English
Description
Coming to America: Pampered African Prince Akeem is a rebel who is against an arranged marriage and heads to Queens, New York to find a new bride. His regal father agrees to allow the prince 40 days to roam the U.S., sending the prince's faithful retainer Semmi along to make sure nothing untoward happens. To avoid fortune hunters, Prince Akeem conceals his true identity and gets a "regular" guy job at a fast-food restaurant.
Harlem nights: In 1938,...
Publisher
Binge Box
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
A collection of the American Film Institutes top ten movies of all time in one convenient box for binge watching. Titles included: Schindler's List (Rated R), the Graduate (Rated PG), Lawrence of Arabia (PG), the Godfather (Rated R), On the Waterfront (Not Rated), Casablanca (Rated PG), the Wizard of Oz (Rated G), Singin' in the Rain (Rated G), Citizen Kane (Rated PG), Gone With the Wind (Rated G)
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