Crime
Casino
Ace Rothstein is the front man for a mob Las Vegas casino. Joined by strong man Nicky Santoro, the casino runs smoothly until…
Directed by Martin Scorsese. Starring Robert de Niro and Sharon Stone.
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Chinatown
Private eye Jake Gittes, hired by a socialite to investigate her husband’s affair, is swept into a loop of double dealings
Directed by Roman Polanski. Starring Jack Nicholson and Faye Dunaway.
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The day of the Jackal
Gentleman assassin “The Jackal” travels calmly through Europe. He’s going to kill French president De Gaulle and anyone who might compromise his mission.
Directed by Fred Zinnemann. Starring Edward Fox.
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The French connection
Based on a real life heroin bust, detective Popeye stumbles upon a 32 million dollar drug smuggling operation from France.
Directed by William Friedkin. Starring Gene Hackman and Roy Scheider.
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Get Carter
Jack Carter, a vicious gangster from London, travels to Newcastle to attend his brother’s funeral. He begins to suspect that his brother’s death was not an accident.
Directed by Mike Hodges. Starring Michael Caine.
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The Godfather
The rise of Michael Corleone within a New York Mafia family, headed by Don Vito Corleone.
Directed by Francis Coppola. Starring Marlon Brando, Al Pacino and Robert Duvall.
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The Godfather 2
The saga of two generations of power within the Corleone family. A portrait of the life’s of Vito Corleone and his son Michael.
Directed by Francis Ford Coppola. Starring Al Pacino, Robert de Niro and Robert Duvall.
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The Godfather 3
Aging Don Michael Corleone wants to legitimize his crime family’s interests but is kept back by the young members of the family.
Directed by Francis Coppola. Starring Al Pacino Diane Keaton and Andy Garcia.
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Goodfellas
The career of low-level gangster Henry Hill who became part of the federal witness protection program after testifying against his erstwhile partners in crime.
Directed by Martin Scorsese, Ray Liotta and Joe Pesci.
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Heat
Neil McCauley is the cautious leader of a gang that specializes in high-stakes heists. Vincent Hanna, a volatile police detective, is charged with bringing McCauley and company to justice
Directed by Michael Mann. Starring Robert de Niro and Al Pacino.
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The killer
An eponymous killer is tangled in a web of moral imperatives after accidentally blinding a nightclub singer.
Directed by John Woo. Starring Chow Yun Fat.
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The Maltese falcon
Detective Sam Spade searches for a missing statue of a bird as a number of criminal characters try to put him off the trail.
Directed by John Huston. Starring Humphrey Bogart and Mary Astor.
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Once upon a time in America
The not so lasting friendship and love between Noodles, Max and Deborah.
Directed by Sergio Leone. Starring Robert de Niro, James Woods and Jennifer Connelly.
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On the waterfront
Terry Malloy, a retired prize-fighter who has started running errands for the Dockers Union finds himself involved a the murder. He becomes involved with the dead man’s sister.
Directed by Elia Kazan. Starring Marlon Brando and Karl Malden.
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The professional
Mathilda’s father runs afoul of a drug kingpin and gets murdered. She turns to neighbor Leon for assistance.
Directed by Luc Besson. Starring Jean Reno, Gary Oldman and Natalie Portman.
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Pulp fiction
The stories of two mob hit men, a boxer and a pair of diner bandits intertwine in four tales of violence and redemption.
Directed by Quentin Tarantino. Starring John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson and Bruce Willis.
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Reservoir dogs
A heist goes badly wrong and the men, fleeing separately, roll around their scattered brains who has done the dirty on them.
Directed by Quintin Tarantino. Starring Harvey Keitel and Steve Buscemi.
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Scarface
Cuban hood Tony Montana lies his way into the US, where he and his friend Manny soon enter the world of crime.
Directed by Brian De Palma. Starring Al Pacino, Michelle Pfeiffer and Steven Bauer.
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The usual suspects
An elite group of thieves under the direction of the mysterious Keyser Söze, plan to steal a massive cocaine shipment.
Directed by Brian Singer. Starring Kevin Spacey and Benicio del Toro.
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Spotlight
Robert de Niro
Remarkable:
In 1998 De Niro was subject in a Paris prostitution investigation. De Niro, denying any involvement, vowed never to return to France again (but he did).
Born:
August 17, 1943
Robert De Niro was born and grew up in New York City (USA). He was trained for the stage by Stella Adler and Lee Strasberg. In the sixties De Niro appeared in several low-budget Brian de Palma movies but first gained fame for his role in Bang the Drum Slowly (1973).
His incisive performance as a simple minded hood in Scorsese's Mean streets started an ongoing working relationship between the actor and the director. De Niro’s breakthrough role was that of the young Vito Corleone in the flashback sequences of The Godfather II (1974). In 1980, De Niro gained 50 pounds to play boxer Jake LaMotta in Scorsese's Raging Bull.
For the next 10 years, he branched out into a number of different types of films. Robert made his directional debut in 1993 with A Bronx Tale. In 2006 he directed the historic epic The Good Shepherd starring Matt Damon. De Niro will work again with Michael Mann. Mann is likely to direct Robert in Frankie Machine, a new mob flick that Martin Scorsese was to direct before dropping out.
Academy awards
1992 Nominated Leading Role for: Cape Fear (1991)
1991 Nominated Leading Role for: Awakenings (1990)
1981 Won Oscar Leading Role for: Raging Bull (1980)
1979 Nominated Leading Role for: The Deer Hunter (1978)
1977 Nominated Leading Role for: Taxi Driver (1976)
1975 Won Oscar Supporting Role for: The Godfather: Part II (1974)
Selected Movies:
- The Godfather: Part II (1974)
- Goodfellas (1990)
- Taxi driver (1976)
- Raging Bull (1980)
- The deer hunter (1978)
- Once upon a time in America (1984)
- Brazil (1985)
- Heat (1995)
Books:
Douglas Brode -> The Films of Robert De Niro (1996)
John Parker -> De Niro (1995)