![]() | Miller's Crossing
Buy new: $9.98 / Used from: $2.96 Gabriel Byrne <down, girls!> being all he can be as an Irish mobster during Prohibition. Fantastic performances by Turturro, Buscemi, and Harden. A devious, twisty plot.
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![]() | State of Grace
Buy used from: $3.36 Sean Penn, Ed Harris as Irish mobsters (Westies) in New York. Lovely fellows, just making do between prayer service and coming to terms with the Italian mob. Robin Wright is gorgeous.
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![]() | Donnie Brasco (Special Edition)
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $1.97 Based on a true story: Johnny Depp as an undercover FBI agent living his life in a mob familly. A very human piece. The price of forming attachments and betraying them.
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![]() | Casino
Buy used from: $1.71 Based on a true story. Another tale of thieves, murderers, gamblers and whores not living happily ever after. Sharon Stone gives a great performance. Very dark.
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![]() | GoodFellas
Buy used from: $1.97 A strung-out criminal's wistful look back at his life and his friends <who were, alas, on the verge of killing him>. Several great performances.
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![]() | The Godfather DVD Collection (The Godfather/ The Godfather - Part II/ The Godfather - Part III)
Buy new: $39.99 / Used from: $16.96 The second installment is most interesting if you know some of the history to which it alludes.
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![]() | Payback
Buy used from: $1.59 Clever. Gibson as "Porter," a ruthless, hardened criminal dead-set on getting back exactly the amount of money stolen from him. No more, no less. An homage to 70's films, w several notables in film.
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![]() | The Grifters (Miramax Collector's Series)
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $3.30 Darkly humorous look at the lives of a group of Grifters (thieves, con-artists). Spend time with them. If nothing good happens to them, you won't be disappointed.
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![]() | Serpico (Widescreen Edition)
Buy new: $9.98 / Used from: $2.55 Based on a true story. The joys of trying to be an honest cop when your colleagues are on the take, work for the mob, or are turning their eyes.
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![]() | Glengarry Glen Ross
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $3.83 Completely destroys any sense of trust you may ever develop towards real estate agents. Great performances, even if you want them all to suffer by the end of the movie.
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![]() | The Talented Mr. Ripley
Buy used from: $1.26 This was quite touching in a sad, pathetic sort of way.
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![]() | Mortal Thoughts
Buy new: $9.95 / Used from: $1.53 Bruce Willis as a very unfortunate husband.
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![]() | Fargo
Buy used from: $1.93 Coen brother's film. Numerous unfortunate criminals.
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![]() | Clue
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $2.56 ... in the library with the...
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![]() | Reindeer Games
Buy used from: $0.98 Charlize Theron steals the movie.
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![]() | Memento (Widescreen Two-Disc Limited Edition)
Buy used from: $5.15 Someone killed his wife. Now if he could just remember...
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![]() | The Big Sleep (Snap case)
Buy used from: $2.28 It's a classic for a reason.
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![]() | The Maltese Falcon
Buy used from: $9.94 It's a classic for a lot of fhe same reasons.
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![]() | The Sopranos: The Complete First Season
Buy new: $27.49 / Used from: $9.95 The HBO series. This is a difficult work to judge, princpally because it is hard to say if it will end where it should or whether it will continue past its prime into one-more-season territory.
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![]() | Bound
Buy new: $12.49 / Used from: $4.63 You have to love a thief that wears lockpicks as earrings. Sexual. Made by the Wachowski's of Matrix fame.
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![]() | Hitched
Buy used from: $3.60 A woman is called to the hospital one night to discover her husband has been in a car accident, accompanied by a young woman. Great story, nice twists, delightful ending.
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