All Blog Posts Tagged 'Video' (51)

By David Amoruso

Oh, there will be blood. Plenty of it. Hell, the title pretty much promises it! Vince Vaughn stars as Bradley Thomas, a man who brings the pain as he brawls fellow inmates in a desperate murder plot to save his wife who’s being held hostage by a drug boss.

After playing a Los Angeles crime boss in the second…

By Gangsters Inc. Editors

Mob author George Anastasia and crime reporter Dave Schratweiser discuss the government's racketeering case against Philly Mafia boss Joseph Merlino. The flamboyant Don was caught on tape talking about committing murder and…

By David Amoruso

A bunch of pipe slinging bank robbers face a tougher opponent than the one they targeted after cracking the wrong safe in The Vault, starring Hollywood heartthrob James Franco as a bank manager in charge of some sinister stuff.

Two estranged sisters, played by Taryn Manning and Francesca Eastwood (daughter of…

By David Amoruso

Gangsters better watch who they call a bitch, because there’s a new powerhouse in town and SHE doesn’t mess around. Meet Mary, a deadly hitwoman who dresses the part while doing contract murders for an organized crime family in Boston.  

Mary is played by Taraji P. Henson, known from the hit television series…

By David Amoruso

Call it Top Gun on cocaine! In American Made actor Tom Cruise plays pilot Barry Seal, a man who is offered a job smuggling drugs for the Medellin drug cartel led by Pablo Escobar and starts working as an…

Organized crime is big business. And not just of the illegal kind. Each year, millions are made by film studios, writers, and media giants by turning stories about stone cold gangsters and Mafiosi in cold hard dollars.

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By Gangsters Inc. Editors

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has undergone quite a few changes in its 109-year existence. Starting out investigating mostly white-collar crimes, it made its name hunting infamous bank robbers and cemented its legacy as a crime busting force with its crackdown on the Italian American Mafia. But in…

By Gangsters Inc. Editors

As dark and gritty as the world of violent crime may get, it remains a brilliant source for jokes. Case in point: The Hitman’s Bodyguard, an action-packed comedy starring Samuel L. Jackson as a hitman who is assigned his former enemy - known as the world’s best bodyguard - played by Ryan Reynolds, to protect…

By Gangsters Inc. Editors

He may have been diminutive, but mob boss “Little Nicky” Scarfo turned the city of Philadelphia into a war zone during his reign atop the…

Salvatore "Sammy the Bull" Gravano is arguably the most famous turncoat in the history of the American Mafia. When the Gambino crime family underboss flipped and…

By David Amoruso

Ah, the Roaring Twenties, how we can’t get enough of those glorious times when women were broads, men were fellas, and everyone dressed to the nines while sipping some illegal brew during Prohibition. Hollywood knows this all too…

By Gangsters Inc. Editors

In a world where most gangster movies based on a true story tend to deviate and take a left turn into a fictional alley a film like 22 Bullets is a breath of fresh air. Known under its original French title as L’immortel, 22 Bullets tells the fictional-yet-true story of Marseille mob…

By Gangsters Inc. Editors

President-elect Donald Trump is gathering quite the staff. Promising to seek the best and brightest to form his cabinet, he has made a few appointments that seem a bit contradictory. Someone who doesn’t believe in climate…

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Another deadly night in Mexico. When 35-year-old Manuel “El Manny” Cardenas Medina (above) pulled up his Mercedes Benz to the entrance of his home in the La Escondido neighborhood in Monterrey on October 8, he was almost safe. Hell, the security guard almost waved him through the gate. But then an assassin pulled up…

Fuggedabout Batman. Ben Affleck is back! In The Accountant, he stars as the mildly autistic Christian Wolff, a math savant with more affinity for numbers than people. Though he looks like a boring office clerk, he actually works as a freelance accountant for some of the world's most dangerous criminal organizations, anyone from the Italian …

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It takes a lot of courage to fight the Mafia. Especially in Italy, where the four main crime groups - Sicily's Cosa Nostra,…

By David Amoruso

Heisenberg takes on Pablo Escobar! If you ever needed a line to sell your movie this is it. In The Infiltrator we see Bryan Cranston, known best for his role as Walter White in AMC’s Breaking Bad, as a seasoned undercover U.S. Customs agent who goes in deep as he infiltrates the American branch of Colombian drug lord…

By David Amoruso

The hunt continues. Despite more and more reports showing the war on drugs has been lost, brave men and women continue the fight against those behind the production and distribution of illegal narcotics.

As this spectacular video footage taken by Colombian jungle commandos shows, it is a dangerous …

By David Amoruso

A gangster movie starring Liam Neeson as a notorious hitman for New York’s Irish mob? Yep, that’s what we at Gangsters Inc. call must-see! In the film Run All Night, Neeson plays mobster Jimmy Conlon, an alcoholic whose own son does not want to see him anymore due to his violent profession.

He spends his time hanging around…

By David Amoruso

A large table with men seated around it in silence. One man does all the talking. “You can work in everything - extortion, cocaine, heroin,” he says. That man is mob boss Antonio Nesci, and every word he utters is captured on video giving it the feel of a Hollywood movie. Only this is real life. Swiss police just caught a meeting of the…