Universal Pictures The ultimate gangster box set
This collection features five classic gangster films.
american gangsteracademy award winners denzel washington and russell crowe team with director ridley scott (gladiator) in this powerful, epic story.
armed with ruthless tactics and a strict sense of honour, crime boss frank lucas (washington) rules harlems chaotic drug underworld.
when outcast cop richie roberts (crowe) sets out to bring down lucass multimillion-dollar empire, it plunges both men into a legendary confrontation.
carlitos wayoscar winner al pacino gives an electrifying performance as former drug kingpin carlito brigante, who is sprung from prison by his highpowered attorney (academy award winner sean penn).
he stuns the new york underworld by vowing to go straight from a history of violence, but his plans are undermined by misguided loyalties and an outmoded code of honour.
in a life-or-death battle, carlito takes on the relentless forces that refuse to let him go.
casinorobert de niro, sharon stone and joe pesci star in director martin scorseses riveting look at how blind ambition, white-hot passion and 24-carat greed toppled an empire.
las vegas, 1973, is the setting for this fact-based story about the mobs multimillion-dollar casino operation, where fortunes and lives were made and lost with a roll of the dice.
public enemiesfrom visionary director michael mann (heat, collateral) comes the film inspired by one of the countrys most captivating and infamous outlaws – john dillinger.
johnny depp (pirates of the caribbean series) stars as the charismatic and elusive bank robber marked by the fbi as americas public enemy number one.
academy award winner marion cotillard (la vie en rose) plays billie frechette, the only woman capable of capturing his heart.
hunted relentlessly by top fbi agent melvin purvis (christian bale, the dark knight), dillinger engages in an escalating game of cat and mouse that culminates in an explosive legendary showdown.
scarfacedirected by hit-maker brian depalma and produced by martin bregman who brought both carlitos way legends to the screen, scarface follows the violent career of a small-time cuban refugee hoodlum who guns his way to the top of miamis cocaine empire.
with its intense screenplay by academy award winner oliver stone, driving musical score by giorgio moroder, and superb insights into miamis latin lifestyle, scarface joins the ranks of hollywoods greatest underworld dramas, as it lays bare the sordid power of the american drug scene.
