This is the true story of Joe Valachi (Charles Bronson) who in 1963 before a United States Investigating Committee and a vast live television audience explained for the first time the inner workings of The Mafia, Valachi serving his third prison term was speaking from experience having been a valued member of Cosa Nostra for thirty three years, from driver to 'hit man' he had witnessed the power struggles of the Mafia's key figures including Lucky Luciano (Angelo Infanti) and Vito Genovese (Lino Ventura).
Left behind by the world, former hit man and union truck driver Frank Sheeran (Robert De Niro) looks back from a nursing home on his life's journey through the ranks of organized crime: from his involvement with Philadelphia mob boss Russell Bufalino (Joe Pesci) to his association with Teamsters union head Jimmy Hoffa (Al Pacino) to the rift that forced him to choose between the two. An intimate story of loyalty and betrayal writ large across the epic canvas of mid-twentieth-century American history...
The ground-shaking impact of The Comic Strip's anarchic humour rattled the televisions of 1980's Britain, and when the smoke cleared they left a gaping crater that lesser comics are still falling into today. This set includes new episodes 'The Hunt for Tony Blair', 'Five Go to Rehab' and 'Sex Actually' plus the anniversary episode '30 Years of Comic Strip' including hilarious new and previously unreleased footage, all of which are new to video.
Also Includes the Best of the Original Comic Strip Presents Films:
- Bad News Tour and More Bad News
- Five Go Mad In Dorset
- The Strike
- GLC
- Gino: Full Story and Pics
- Susie
- A Fistful of Travellers Cheques
- Mr Jolly Lives Next Door
- Spaghetti Hoops
- Red Nose of Courage
- The Bullshitters
- Detectives on the Edge of a Nervous Breakdown
- Gregory
- Diary of a Nutcase
- The Crying Game
- Four Men in a Car
- Four Men in a Plane
Jean-Claude Van Damme stars in an explosive thriller set in Hong Kongs shady manufacturing scene during the 1997 handover to China. When a shipment of jeans to the US proves counterfeit, Marcus Ray, the King of the Knock-Offs (Van Damme), finds himself at the centre of a Russian Mafia plot to hold the United States security for ransom. Thousands of tiny micro-bombs disguised within other manufactured goods are schedules for departure from Hong Kong to America. When Rays company's jeans are found to be the housing for the explosives, hes the one man the CIA can count on to prevent certain disaster! In a territory where loyalty can change hands overnight, Marcus Rays survival will depend on him knowing the fakes from the real thing!
This darkly comic story of love and revenge, set in a barren Australian industrial town, explores the tempestuous relationships, and sexual adventures, of Lola (Lola Marceli) and her family. The day that Lola's husband Ricardo (Simon Palomares) walks out on her to live with Wendy (Helen Thomson) - his blonde Australian mistress - Lola is enraged. When he buys a new car and starts to enjoy the good life with the savings he took from the family home, she is pushed to the limit and plots to take back what is rightfully hers. When Ricardo falls foul of Wendy's high cholesterol diet, Lola plans to take back the brand new car - her only family fortune - by any means necessary. Meanwhile, her daughter Lucia (Alice Ansara) hatches an alternate plan, and their strategies collide with disastrous but comical results.
When elderly mother Edna (Robyn Nevin), inexplicably vanishes, her daughter Kay (Emily Mortimer) and granddaughter Sam (Bella Heathcote) rush to their family's decaying country home. When Edna returns her behaviour is strangely volatile.
An unforgettable trip for everyone, 'Summer Things' is a hilarious blend of small-town snobbery, insatiable lust and fidelity. When Elizabeth's wayward husband Bertrand (Jacques Dutronc) finds every excuse to stay at home in Paris with his mistress, Elizabeth (Charlotte Rampling) invites friend Julie (Clotilde Courau) on holiday instead; a single mother desperate for holiday romance, but with a screaming baby in tow! On the other side of town their hard-up neighbours, Vero (Karin Viard), Jerome (Denis Podalydès) and son Loic (Gaspard Ulliel), are roughing it at a nearby caravan park and hating every minute. Meanwhile enjoying life stateside Elizabeth and Bertrand's nymphomaniac daughter, Emilie (Lou Doillon), is partying with boyfriend Kevin (Sami Bouajila), unaware that he's embezzled the money from her father's firm to pay for the trip...The scene is set for a farce of outrageous proportions, involving bed swapping, mistaken identity, suicide bids, passionate affairs and rampant testosterone...but whatever difficulties the holidaymakers get into, they make sure it never gets in the way of their constant pursuit of pleasure.
On an island in the Canaries there is a language spoken only through whistling... Using the whistling language, a gang of criminals are planning the perfect crime, they will communicate across the rooftops and the police will simply think the birds are singing. Cristi is a police officer who has been sent to infiltrate their operation. But when he falls for the glorious femme fatale Gilda who suggests other plans will this cop with a history of playing both sides of the law choose justice or self-service?
"El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie" reunites fans with Jesse Pinkman (Emmy Award-winner Aaron Paul). In the wake of his dramatic escape from captivity, Jesse must come to terms with his past in order to forge some kind of future.
In Clark Duke's directorial debut, Kyle (Liam Hemsworth) and Swin (Clark Duke) live by the orders of an Arkansas-based drug kingpin named Frog (Vince Vaughn), whom they've never met. Posing as junior park rangers by day, they operate as low-level drug couriers by night under the watchful eye of Frog's proxies (John Malkovich and Vivica A. Fox). Swin settles into his day job by taking up a relationship with Johnna (Eden Brolin) against orders to blend in, while Kyle continues to question his night job by trying to figure out who Frog really is. Their world is then upended after one too many inept decisions, and Kyle, Swin, and Johnna find themselves directly in Frog's crosshairs, who mistakenly sees them as a threat to his empire. Based on John Brandon's best-selling novel of the same name, 'Arkansas' weaves together three decades of Deep South drug trafficking to explore the cycle of violence that turns young men into criminals, and old men into legends.
A naive novelty performer on Hollywood Boulevard, Moose (John Travolta) is movie star Hunter Dunbar's (Devon Sawa)'s biggest fan. When Dunbar refuses to give him an autograph, Moose becomes a stalker whose actions escalate out of control, with devastating consequences for both.
To spy on her younger ex-lover, divorcee Claire (Juliette Binoche) creates a fake profile on social media. Posing as a 24-year-old named Clara, Claire becomes entangled with her ex's friend Alex who is instantly enamored. Riding a wave of self-discovery but confined to her avatar, Claire falls madly in love with Alex. Although everything is played out in the virtual world, the feelings that blossom become very real. As Clara and Alex's virtual lives grow, Claire's reality begins to hang by a thread as her web of lies starts to unravel.
Unbeknown to the passengers on board a cruise ship in the Caribbean, a mysterious vessel is approaching - on a collision course! Despite the attempts of the crew to avert disaster, the liner is lost with all hands down, except for seven survivors. They are saved when they clamber aboard a ghostly freighter, where they discover an even worse fate. They are now prisoners on a former wartime vessel. As this ship speeds towards an unknown destination, they realise that something is internet on destroying each one of them in a gruesome and terrifying way...It's not a ship, it's a killing machine! From an original story by Hollywood legend Jack Hill and starring none other than George Kennedy and Richard Crenna.
In Blumhouse's Fantasy Island, the enigmatic Mr. Roarke (Michael Peña) makes the secret dreams of his lucky guests come true at a luxurious but remote tropical resort. But when the fantasies turn into nightmares, the guests have to solve the island's mystery in order to escape with their lives.
Inheritance is a tense and nightmarish dive into the deepest and darkest secrets of New York's elite. Lily Collins stars alongside Simon Pegg (as you have never seen him before) in this high-stakes thriller. Lauren, a young and ambitious lawyer (Lily Collins) finds her perfect life falling off the tracks following the death of her hedge fund tycoon father. Lauren is left with a shocking secret inheritance that will threaten to unravel and destroy all of their lives.
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