THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION (1994)
142 min - Crime | Drama Director: Frank Darabont
Stars: Tim Robbins, Morgan Freeman, Bob Gunton
OVERVIEW
Andy Dufresne, a banker, is convicted of murdering his wife and her lover. Andy slowly forges an friendship with Red, a seasoned lifer and his gang. The ugly realities of prison life are quickly introduced to Andy: a corrupt warden (Bob Gunton), sadistic guards led by Capt. Byron Captain Hadley (prison guard) who offers him protection against the jail's rougher convicts in exchange for financial counseling. The prison warden also takes advantage of Andy's banking knowledge by exchanging privileges for creative bookkeeping. Over a twenty year period, Andy is able to maintain his sanity and dignity in prison not by physical force but by mental force.
L.A. CONFIDENTIAL (1997)
OVERVIEW
Andy Dufresne, a banker, is convicted of murdering his wife and her lover. Andy slowly forges an friendship with Red, a seasoned lifer and his gang. The ugly realities of prison life are quickly introduced to Andy: a corrupt warden (Bob Gunton), sadistic guards led by Capt. Byron Captain Hadley (prison guard) who offers him protection against the jail's rougher convicts in exchange for financial counseling. The prison warden also takes advantage of Andy's banking knowledge by exchanging privileges for creative bookkeeping. Over a twenty year period, Andy is able to maintain his sanity and dignity in prison not by physical force but by mental force.
Director: Curtis Hanson
Stars: Kevin Spacey, Russell Crowe, Guy Pearce
OVERVIEW
Set against the glamorous backdrop of 1950's crime drama explores both the dark side of the Los Angeles police force and Southern California's criminal underbelly in the early '50s, Los Angeles, Sid Hudgeons is the reporter for the tabloid "Hush-Hush". Jack Vincennes is a celebrity cop who serves as the technical advisor for a TV show called . He becomes involved in a murder investigation which will link him to a web of corruption and scandal involving fellow detectives Ed Exley and Bud White.
Heat (1995)
- Action | Crime | Drama
Director: Michael Mann
Stars: Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Val Kilmer
OVERVIEW
Neil McCauley is a professional criminal who has spent many years behind bars and is determined never to go back. Vincent Hanna is a lieutenant of detectives in LAPD's Robbery Division. When McCauley and his team rob an armored van of bearer bonds, Hanna takes over the case. McCauley and his crew are nearly impossible to identify, but Hanna's network of informants generate clues. Soon, Hanna and his detectives and McCauley and his crime partners are driven towards a collision from which only some will survive.
GOODFELLAS (1990)
- Biography | Crime | Drama
Director:
Martin ScorseseStars:
Robert De Niro, Ray Liotta, Joe Pesci
OVERVIEW
True tale of FBI informant Henry Hill and mobster. Henry Hill and and his friends work their way up through the mob hierarchy.
CASINO (1990)
Director: Martin ScorseseStars: Robert De Niro, Sharon Stone, Joe Pesci
OVERVIEW
Sam "Ace" Rothstein, the consummate bookie who can change the odds merely by placing a bet., has risen through the ranks of the Midwestern mob to be picked by the bosses to front their entree into Vegas. Ginger McKenna, the chip-hustling vamp who charms Ace and becomes his wife. The third member of this triangle of greed and obsession is Nicky Santoro, Ace's best friend and fellow graduate of the city streets. Together, they run the perfect operation, with Ace in charge and Nicky providing the muscle. But as Nicky expands his interests and each man gains power, their lives become entangled in a story of hot tempers, obstinacy, money, love and deception.
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