Chazz Palminteri

Set in the Bronx during the tumultuous 1960s, an adolescent boy is torn between his honest, working-class father and a violent yet charismatic crime boss.

In 1950s Los Angeles, a special crime squad of the LAPD investigates the murder of a young woman in this Noir thriller from Lee Tamahori (Once Were Warriors).

Paul Walker leads this crime-thriller about a low-ranking thug who is entrusted by his boss to dispose of a gun that killed corrupt cops, but things spiral out of control when the gun ends up in wrong hands.

Robert De Niro is a neurotic gangster opposite Billy Crystal's out-of-his-depths therapist in this 1999 comedy spoofing wiseguy films prior.

Winner of two Oscars (for Kevin Spacey and screenwriter McQuarrie), this is Bryan Singer's (who would go on to direct X-Men and Superman Returns) riveting modern film noir, with a twist ending that will blow your mind to smithereens.

Based on a play by David Rabe which chronicles the non-events in the lives of a group of fast talking, narcissistic professionals in 1980s Hollywood.

The little man is Calvin – revolting to the eye, and both a hardened criminal and a dwarf...