Donnie Brasco
1978: an FBI agent successfully infiltrates the Brooklyn mafia with the unwitting help of the old hitman Lefty Ruggiero.
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Sicario
An FBI agent is on a special mission in a border zone between the United States and Mexico. She’s there to combat the drug trade run by the Mexican cartel, part of a task force led by an extremely ambiguous leader and a dangerous, impenetrable Colombian mercenary.
L A Confidential
A new entry in this series dedicated to films that deal with criminal enterprises.
Three police officers, all very different from each other, navigate 1950s Los Angeles, a place ruled by corruption, immorality, and political scandals.
Twin Peaks Julee Cruise Passed Away
In the night, Julee Cruise passed away, the singer and actress best known for her work on the TV series Twin Peaks by David Lynch and Mark Frost. She composed several songs for the series, including the main theme song Falling. The news of her death was confirmed by her husband, Edward Grinnan.
Peter Lorre
He was a Hungarian-born actor naturalized as an American citizen (like his colleague Lugosi), with an extremely expressive face and a shifty, watery gaze.
Sleepers
Four friends, raised in the tough neighborhood of Hell’s Kitchen, are sentenced to 18 months in a reform school for almost causing the death of an elderly man after a reckless prank.
the sequel to Joker is coming
The film Joker by Todd Phillips, starring Joaquin Phoenix, was a true media and especially commercial success. In 2019, just before the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, it broke box office records, even surpassing the recent The Batman with Robert Pattinson.
Buio Omega
Francesco is a noble and skilled embalmer who lives in a mansion in the mountains with his housekeeper, Iris. Secretly in love with him, Iris one day pays a witch to cast a curse on Francesco’s fiancée, Anna, who dies suddenly. Francesco is devastated, and after the funeral and burial, he decides to exhume Anna’s body, embalm it, and keep it in his home. This will be just the first extreme episode, followed by others that will drag the young man into a spiral of madness and murder.
Public Enemies
Public Enemies narrates the events surrounding John Dillinger, the number one criminal in the United States during the 1930s. Hot on his trail is the young agent Melvin Purvis, assigned by the FBI under the direction of Edgar Hoover.
The Departed
The Boston Police Department employs young recruit Billy Costigan to try to capture the powerful boss Costello and his gang.