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Sonny, a mobster's bulldog, swallow's the master's precious ring and runs away. With two bird-brain henchmen on his tail, Sonny finds a new home in the suburbs with the Franks family. Twelve-year-old Josh and his mom thinks Sonny is super cool and super smart, but his stressed-out dad Brian, wants to get rid of him. Brian has a change of heart when Sonny is dog napped and he realizes how much Sonny means to his heartbroken family.
2) The family
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A mafia boss and his family are relocated to a sleepy town in France under the witness protection program after snitching on the mob. Despite Agent Stansfield's best efforts to keep them in line, Fred Blake and his family can't help resorting to old habits by handling their problems the 'family' way. Chaos ensues as their former Mafia cronies try to track them down, and scores are settled in the unlikeliest of settings.
3) City heat
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In the 1930s, a private investigator teams up with his old partner to fight the mob, but they can't stand each other.
4) Prime cut
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A Kansas City mobster uses a meat processing factory as a front for his drug and prostitution business. There, gangsters are ground into sausage, and women are sold like cattle. Things change, however, when Chicago tough guy Nick comes to town.
5) Goodfellas
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A dramatization of one man's life in the Mafia over a period of three decades. Includes two theatrical trailers.
6) Everly
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An intense action thriller centered on a down-on-her-luck woman (Salma Hayek) trapped in her apartment, forced to fend off waves of assassins sent by her former lover - a dangerous mob boss who wants her dead after he learns she no longer is loyal to him. Desperate to be reunited with her mother and young daughter, she fights to stay alive fending off Yakuza assassin soldiers.
7) Pay back
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When mafia fall guy Zhang Jin finally gets released from prison, he's nearly assassinated. In an effort to survive, Zhang becomes entangled in a conspiracy, linking his fate with unlikely allies and turning friends into enemies. Zhang must discover the identity of the assassin before he gets murdered, without plunging himself back into a life of crime.
8) Blood feud
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Titina is a happily married Sicilian housewife, but like so many others, is widowed early in life when her husband is brutally murdered by the Mafia. After spending ten years away, Spalione returns home and falls in love with Titina. Also returning to avenge his cousin's death is Nick, a small-time crook who also falls for his cousin's widow. In the deadly game of love - as in war - there is always a winner and loser.
10) Run all night
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Brooklyn mobster and prolific hit man Jimmy Conlon, once known as The Gravedigger, has seen better days. Longtime best friend of mob boss Shawn Maguire, Jimmy, now 55, is haunted by the sins of his past. Lately, it seems Jimmy's only solace can be found at the bottom of a whiskey glass. But when Jimmy's estranged son, Mike, becomes a target, Jimmy must make a choice between the crime family he chose and the real family he abandoned long ago.
11) Wild card
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A bodyguard goes after the sadistic thug who beat his friend, only to find that the object of his wrath is the son of a powerful mob boss.
12) Girl happy
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A Chicago mobster, Big Frank, hires rock-and-roll singer Rusty Wells and his band to keep an eye on his daughter during Spring Break in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Songs include "Do the clam," "Good news," "Puppet on a string," "Startin' tonight" and "Girl happy."
13) The godfather
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"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...
14) Survival game
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Moscow, 2072. Twelve contestants, each with their own story and motives, play a televised game of Mafia. Those eliminated must enter a virtual reality to conquer their worst fear or die trying.
15) Caliber 9
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In the first time of the Tirology, small-tiem gangster Ugo Piazza has just been released from prison. He tries to convince the police, the mafia, and his one-time associate Rocco, a sadistic hoodlum who enjoys sick violence and torture that he wants to go straight, but everyone believes that he has {dollar}300,000 of stolen money hidden somewhere. Caliber 9's stylized violence, fast-paced action sequence, tight editing and plot twists prefigure the...
16) The boss
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Based largely on real people and actual events, Fernando Di Leo's action-packed film- the final part of his Milieu Trilogy- is his boldest commentary on corruption and the criminal underworld. A bomb attack in a cinema in Palermo kills all the members of one mafia family except for Cocchi. Realizing that the instigator of the bomb attack is Daniello from another mafia family, Cocchi is determined to revenge. Lanzetta, a hired killed employed by Daniello...
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A group of friends reunites at a classmate's funeral, and stumbles upon a financial opportunity that's too good to pass up. But when the investment goes south, they learn that part of their funding came from a notoriously ruthless crime boss, and now it's payback time. They have one perilous chance to the erase the debt, and if they can complete the task they just might escape with their lives.
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On the tenth anniversary of his father's mysterious death, Gio brings a birthday cake prepared by his mother to a memorial celebration hosted by his uncle Angelo, a Brooklyn mafia boss. Gio's life begins to change as he pieces together what happened to his father all those years ago, coming face to face with a kind of violence he has been trying to avoid his whole life.
19) Mafia!
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Vincenzo Cortino is the ruthless, powerful and ceaselessly clumsy godfather who rules the underground world. When the time comes to choose the next Don Cortino, a riotous rivalry breaks out between his two sons.
20) The tourist
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During an impromptu trip to Europe to mend a broken heart, Frank unexpectedly finds himself in a flirtatious encounter with Elise, an extraordinary woman who deliberately crosses his path. Against the breathtaking backdrop of Paris and Venice, their whirlwind romance quickly evolves as they find themselves unwittingly thrust into a deadly game of cat and mouse.
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