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White Hand - Films featuring the Irish Mafia
 36  8  7.7  Directors: Josef von Sternberg Cast: George Bancroft, Evelyn Brent, Clive Brook, Fred Kohler Story: Boisterous gangster kingpin Bull Weed rehabilitates his former lawyer from his alcoholic haze, but complications arise when he falls for Weed's girlfriend. 
17 7.1 6.9  Director: Lewis Milestone Cast: Thomas Meighan, Louis Wolheim, Marie Prevost, G. Pat Collins Story: An honest police captain vows to bring down a powerful bootlegger who is protected by corrupt politicians and judges. 
224 7.5 7.7  Director: William A. Wellman Cast: James Cagney, Jean Harlow, Edward Woods, Joan Blondell Story: A young hoodlum rises up through the ranks of the Chicago underworld, even as a gangster's accidental death threatens to spark a bloody mob war. mannapuuro's rating:
 
358 7.7 7.8  Directors: Howard Hawks and Richard Rosson Cast: Paul Muni, Ann Dvorak, Karen Morley, Boris Karloff Story: An ambitious and near insanely violent gangster climbs the ladder of success in the mob, but his weaknesses prove to be his downfall. mannapuuro's rating:
248 7.7 7.9  Director: Michael Curtiz Cast: James Cagney, Pat O'Brien, Humphrey Bogart, Ann Sheridan Story: A priest tries to stop a gangster from corrupting a group of street kids. mannapuuro's rating:
708 8.1 8.3  Director: Elia Kazan Cast: Marlon Brando, Karl Malden, Lee J. Cobb, Rod Steiger Story: An ex-prize fighter turned longshoreman struggles to stand up to his corrupt union bosses. mannapuuro's rating:
 
49 6.9 6.5  Director: Roger Corman Cast: Jason Robards, George Segal, Ralph Meeker, Jean Hale Story: Chicago February 14th 1929. Al Capone finally establishes himself as the city's boss of organised crime. In a north-side garage his hoods, dressed as policemen, surprise and mow down with machine-guns the key members of Bugs Moran's rival gang. The film traces the history of the incident, and the lives affected and in some cases ended by it. 
43 6.5 6.8  Director: Michael Ritchie Cast: Lee Marvin, Gene Hackman, Angel Tompkins, Gregory Walcott Story: A Chicago mob enforcer is sent to Kansas City to settle a debt with a cattle rancher who not only grinds his enemies into sausage, but sells women as sex slaves. 
829 8 8.4  Director: George Roy Hill Cast: Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Robert Shaw, Charles Durning Story: In 1930s Chicago, a young con man seeking revenge for his murdered partner teams up with a master of the big con to win a fortune from a criminal banker. 
76 8.1 7.5  Director: Peter Yates Cast: Robert Mitchum, Peter Boyle, Richard Jordan, Steven Keats Story: After his last crime has him looking at a long prison sentence for repeat offenses, a low level Boston gangster decides to snitch on his friends to avoid jail time. 
35 7 6.2  Director: Mike Hodges Cast: Mickey Rourke, Bob Hoskins, Alan Bates, Sammi Davis Story: Martin Fallon is an IRA bomber who tries to blow up a troop truck but instead kills a bus load of school children. He loses heart and quits the movement and goes to London trying to leave the U.K. and start a new life. 
850 7.9 7.9  Directors: Ethan and Joel Coen Cast: Gabriel Byrne, Marcia Gay Harden, John Turturro, Jon Polito Story: Tom Regan, an advisor to a Prohibition-era crime boss, tries to keep the peace between warring mobs but gets caught in divided loyalties. 
170 7.2 7.2  Directors: Phil Joanou Cast: Sean Penn, Ed Harris, Gary Oldman, Robin Wright Story: Terry Noonan returns home to New York's Hells Kitchen after a ten year absence. He soon hooks up with childhood pal Jackie who is involved in the Irish mob run by his brother Frankie. 
10 5.3 5.7  Directors: Geoff Burrowes Cast: Patrick Dempsey, Kelly Preston, Ken Pogue, Alan C. Peterson Story: When a law student accidentally kills the son of a mob boss in a fight, he finds himself relentlessly pursued by the mob and the police. 
384 6.3 6.2  Directors: Walter Hill Cast: Bruce Willis, Bruce Dern, William Sanderson, Christopher Walken Story: A drifting gunslinger-for-hire finds himself in the middle of an ongoing war between the Irish and Italian mafia in a Prohibition era ghost town. 
13 6.9 6.8  Directors: Paddy Breathnach Cast: Peter McDonald, Antoine Byrne, Brendan Gleeson, Michael McElhatton Story: Fresh out of prison, Git rescues a former best friend (now living with Git's girlfriend) from a beating at the hands of loan sharks. He's now in trouble with the mob boss, Tom French, who sends Git to Cork with another debtor, Bunny Kelly, to find a guy named Frank Grogan, and take him to a man with a friendly face at a shack across a bog. 
50 7.5 7.2  Directors: John Boorman Cast: Brendan Gleeson, Adrian Dunbar, Sean McGinley, Maria Doyle Kennedy Story: The real-life story of Dublin folk hero and criminal Martin Cahill, who pulled off two daring robberies in Ireland with his team, but attracted unwanted attention from the police, the IRA, the UVF and members of his own team. 
8 5.2 6.5  Directors: Ted Demme Cast: Denis Leary, Ian Hart, Jason Barry, Lenny Clarke Story: A small time hoodlum is divided between his conscience and loyalty to his boss when his cousin is murdered. 
1 0 5.1  Directors: John Shea Cast: Donnie Wahlberg, Rose McGowan, Anne Meara, Lawrence Tierney Story: South Boston Irish bad boy Danny Quinn returns back home from New York and gets stuck between his pals, who are supported by one Irish mafia clan, and his family, which are members of another. 
98 6.3 6.3  Directors: Thaddeus O'Sullivan Cast: Kevin Spacey, Linda Fiorentino, Peter Mullan, Stephen Dillane Story: Brilliant, flamboyant master criminal Michael Lynch is more interested in his image and his posterity than the actual profit from his ill-gotten gains. 
3 7 6.6  Directors: John Mackenzie Cast: Joan Allen, Patrick Bergin, Liam Cunningham, Kevin McNally Story: Fact-based story about Irish crime-investigating reporter Sinead Hamilton, who invaded the Irish underworld and attempted to expose the illegitimate activities she found. 
85 6.1 6.3  Directors: Jon Favreau Cast: Jon Favreau, Vince Vaughn, Joe Goossen, Famke Janssen Story: Two aspiring boxers, lifelong friends, get involved in a money-laundering scheme through a low-level organized crime group. 
25 5.5 5.8  Directors: Edward Burns Cast: Brian Burns, Vincent Rubino, Jimmy Cummings, Elijah Wood Story: Set in the Manhattan of the early 1980's, a pair of Irish-American brothers become embroiled in a conflict with the Irish Mob. 
468 5.7 6.2  Directors: Danny DeVito Cast: Robin Williams, Edward Norton, Catherine Keener, Danny DeVito Story: When he is fired for taking payola, the host for a children's television show plots revenge against his replacement, a rhino named Smoochy. 
27 7.1 6.2  Directors: Davis Caesar Cast: Bryan Brown, Toni Collette, John Goodman, Sam Neill Story: Set in 1960's Sydney, this is the story of an Australian gangster whose booming business, buoyed by the influx of U.S. soldiers in town for R&R during their tours in Vietnam, attracts the attention of first the Chicago mafia, and then their East Coast competitors. 
3179 7 7.5  Directors: Martin Scorsese Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Daniel Day-Lewis, Cameron Diaz, Jim Broadbent Story: In 1863, Amsterdam Vallon returns to the Five Points area of New York City seeking revenge against Bill the Butcher, his father's killer. mannapuuro's rating:
1857 7.2 7.7  Directors: Sam Mendes Cast: Tom Hanks, Tyler Hoechlin, Paul Newman, Jude Law Story: Bonds of loyalty are put to the test when a hitman's son witnesses what his father does for a living. mannapuuro's rating:
 
6 5 4  Director: Daniel McCarthy Cast: Daniel Baldwin, John Novak, Wings Hauser, Walter Learning Story: Explores the relationship between two Irish-American brothers in Boston born to immigrant parents and raised in a rough, working class Irish neighborhood. 
1759 7.2 7.6  Director: David Cronenberg Cast: Viggo Mortensen, Maria Bello, Ed Harris, William Hurt Story: A mild-mannered man becomes a local hero through an act of violence, which sets off repercussions that will shake his family to its very core. 
4303 8 8.5  Director: Martin Scorsese Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Jack Nicholson, Mark Wahlberg Story: Two men from opposite sides of the law are undercover within the Massachusetts State Police and the Irish mafia, but violence and bloodshed boil when discoveries are made. 
63 6.1 6.6  Director: Brian Goodman Cast: Mark Ruffalo, Ethan Hawke, Amanda Peet, Will Lyman Story: Two childhood friends from South Boston turn to crime as a way to get by, ultimately causing a strain in their personal lives and their friendship. 
69 6.3 6.2  Director: Ian Fitzgibbon Cast: Gabriel Byrne, Cillian Murphy, Michael McElhatton, Don Wycherley Story: A gangster named Perrier looks to exact his revenge on a trio of fugitives responsible for the accidental death of one of his cronies. 
146 6.4 7.1  Director: Jonathan Hensleigh Cast: Ray Stevenson, Vincent D'Onofrio, Val Kilmer, Christopher Walken Story: The true story of Danny Greene, a tough Irish thug working for mobsters in Cleveland during the 1970's. |
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