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All the book-based movies and TV shows featuring Al Pacino, ranked
The offspring of the head of New York’s most influential Mafia dynasty returns from war with a resolve to forge his own path, only to find himself drawn into a conflict between his father’s entrenched traditions and the encroaching rivals endangering the family’s enterprise.
In 1950, Michael Corleone, the son of American Mafia Don Vito Corleone, is preparing to return home to America after his exile in Sicily. Don Croce and Michael’s father have allied to help the famous bandit Salvatore ‘Turi’ Guiliano escape Sicily and go with Michael to America.
In 1980, Cuban refugee and ex-convict Tony Montana arrives in Miami, Florida, as part of the Mariel boatlift, where he is sent to a refugee camp with friends Manny Ray, Angel, and Chi Chi. Angel is dismembered with a chainsaw, while Manny and Chi Chi rescue Tony and kill the Colombians.
In 1980, Cuban refugee and ex-convict Tony Montana arrives in Miami, Florida, as part of the Mariel boatlift, where he is sent to a refugee camp with friends Manny Ray, Angel, and Chi Chi. Angel is dismembered with a chainsaw, while Manny and Chi Chi rescue Tony and kill the Colombians.
Charlie Simms is a student at the Baird School, an exclusive New England prep school. Charlie and George Willis, Jr., another student at the Baird School, witness three students setting up a prank that publicly humiliates the headmaster, Mr. Trask. They pay an uninvited visit to Frank’s brother’s home in White Plains for Thanksgiving dinner.
On August 22, 1972, first-time crook Sonny Wortzik, his friend Salvatore Sal Naturile, and Stevie attempt to rob the First Brooklyn Savings Bank. The plan immediately goes awry when Stevie loses his nerve and flees, and Sonny discovers they have arrived after the daily cash pickup, finding only $1,100 in cash.
In a nursing home in his wheelchair, Frank Sheeran, an elderly World War II veteran, recounts his time as a hitman for a crime syndicate. Soon, Russell introduces Sheeran to Jimmy Hoffa, head of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, who has financial ties with the Northeastern Pennsylvania crime family and is struggling to deal with fellow rising Teamster Anthony Tony Pro Provenzano, as well as mounting pressure from the federal government.
In 1975 New York, after having served five years of a 30-year prison sentence, career criminal Carlito Brigante is freed on a legal technicality exploited by his close friend and lawyer, Dave Kleinfeld. Carlito vows to end his unlawful activities but is persuaded to accompany his young cousin Guajiro to a drug deal held at a bar.
In 1975 New York, after having served five years of a 30-year prison sentence, career criminal Carlito Brigante is freed on a legal technicality exploited by his close friend and lawyer, Dave Kleinfeld. Carlito vows to end his unlawful activities but is persuaded to accompany his young cousin Guajiro to a drug deal held at a bar.
In 1970s New York City, Lefty Ruggiero, an aging gangster in the Bonanno crime family, is introduced to a jewel thief named Donnie Brasco, who impresses Lefty by threatening a diamond dealer whom Donnie suspects of having sold Lefty a zirconia set ring, priced as a real diamond one. Donnie is revealed to be Joseph D. Pistone, an undercover FBI agent, whose wife, Maggie, is not fond of his undercover position.
In 1971, NYPD Officer Frank Serpico is rushed to the hospital, having been shot in the face. Years earlier, Frank graduates from the police academy and becomes frustrated with his fellow officers’ laxness. Frank breaks protocol to arrest the suspect himself, but is coerced not to take credit.
The film depicts two days in the lives of four real estate salesmen who are supplied with leads — the names and phone numbers of prospects — and use deceitful and dubious tactics to make sales. Blake unleashes a torrent of verbal abuse on the salesmen and announces that only the top two will be allowed access to the more promising Glengarry leads.