George Clooney teams up with writer Charles Kaufman (Adaptation, Being John Malkovich) and Oscar winner writer/producer Steven Soderbergh for his impressive directorial debut. Together they create a winning combination that is rounded out with an acclaimed cast including Sam Rockwell, Julia Roberts and Drew Barrymore. This film is based on Chuck Barris' autobiography. Young, energetic, and focused on a top career in the growing television industry,...

ANIMAL KINGDOM is a story about the battle between Melbourne's underworld and the police and the ordinary lives caught in between. The film tracks 17-year-old Joshua "J" Cody, a troubled kid caught between his own criminal family and Detective Leckie (Guy Pearce), a compromised cop who thinks that he can save him. J comes to realize that in order to survive he must write his own rule book and choose his place in the brutal animal kingdom.

When the aging Meyer Lansky is investigated one last time by the Feds who suspect he has stashed away millions of dollars over half a century, the retired gangster spins a dizzying tale, revealing the untold truth about his life as the notorious boss of Murder Inc. and the National Crime Syndicate.

Sent to prison on a drug charge, Jackie Dinorsio refuses to turn government witness against his former associates in the New Jersey Lucchesi crime family. However, prosecutor Sean Casey mounts a huge case under the RICO statutes involving dozens of defendants and their attorneys, including Nick Calabrese. For Casey, it looks like an open and shut case, until Jackie, who is already serving 30 years, decides to defend himself. Initially dismissed as...

Matt Dillon and his not-so-merry band of junkies rob pharmacies and cheat death.

In this dark crime comedy, a gang of ragtag Vegas bounty hunters kidnap the wrong target, leaving behind vital evidence at the scene which leads a group of Russian gangsters to their doorstep.

In 1982 three of the most powerful men in Asia met in Hong Kong. They would decide how Hong Kong would be handed over to the People's Republic of China and how Chinese business tycoons Henry Fok and Li Ka-Shing would help Deng Xiaoping realize the Chinese Communist Party's domestic and global ambitions. That meeting would not only change Vancouver but the world. Billions of dollars in Chinese investment would soon reach the shores of North America's...

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'The woman who first gives life, light, and form to our shadowy conceptions of beauty, fills a void in our spiritual nature that has remained unknown to us till she appeared.' One of the earliest works of 'detective' fiction with a narrative woven together from multiple characters, Wilkie Collins partly based his infamous novel on a real-life eighteenth century case...

Award-winning director David Sington presents the story of the 2008 financial credit crisis that brought suffering to millions. Forsaking easy explanations of greedy bankers and incompetent regulators, this investigation goes to the root causes of the USA's and UK's deluded belief that everyone could be rich and property prices would rise forever. It asks the question: why are the perpetrators of the mess now entrusted with the lucrative task of clearing...

The mafia are not just the underworld and organized crime. It is a way of life, an overwhelming social phenomenon, the engine of the economy and true political class of an entire society. This was the Camorra in Naples between the sixties and the nineties, and this film is told through shocking but real archival materials (watch out for the Camorra children), terrifying and fascinating at the same time. Along with the Gomorrah by Saviano, this film...