According to Felix Chongs Once a Gangster, being a gangster in real life is nothing like being one in the movies. Chong, who cowrote the Infernal Affairs series, reportedly got the idea for the film after talking to reallife triad members who complained that Johnnie Tos Election films actually dont reflect how the triad really is today. According to them, no one wants to be the boss anymore because theres no benefit to being so.

A young gangster goes to a record company to collect debt and only finds out the owner has run away, leaving a rock band behind to take the fall. The gangster than takes over the business and only finds out the entertainment industry is more dangerous than the gang world…

Past young and dangerous slayers, Roast Pork (Jordan Chan) and Sparrow (Ekin Cheng) are now asked to run for the Dragon Head position in the underworld. While these two reluctant candidates are racking their brains to outwit each other so that they can stay out of the race, their inglorious pasts eventually catch up with them as their followers are plunged into mayhem and bloodshed to get their leaders onto the throne.

According to Felix Chongs Once a Gangster, being a gangster in real life is nothing like being one in the movies. Chong, who cowrote the Infernal Affairs series, reportedly got the idea for the film after talking to reallife triad members who complained that Johnnie Tos Election films actually dont reflect how the triad really is today. According to them, no one wants to be the boss anymore because theres no benefit to being so.

The true story of Danny Greene, a tough Irish thug
working for mobsters in Cleveland during the 1970 s.

Rosli is a stall owner who, in his quest to get rich, borrows money from illegal moneylenders. However he loses all his money in a get rich quick scheme and now owes the moneylenders a significant amount. Unable to pay, his wife and son are kidnapped by the moneylenders to ensure his repayment. Meanwhile a young man, Rizal, is involved with the illegal racing scene. He crosses paths with a notorious racer Legau and in their attempts to beat each other, they cause the deaths of innocent people. Ria, on the other hand, is involved in the sale of designer drugs headed by her boyfriend Nala. In a period of rebelliousness she meets Sufi, a nightclub waiter. Sufi is an addict but his relationship with Ria becomes so strong that he decides to take her away from Nala.

Starting off with simple smash and grabs, and petty crime, Lucky Kunene quickly graduates to more aggressive heists such as armed robbery and carjacking. Soon, Lucky realizes he needs a bigger score to fulfill his goals of making it big, and escaping from the slums, to a dream house by the sea. Kunene hatches an elaborate and violent plan to make his fortune - hijacking buildings from landlords of Johannesburg tenements by winning the favor of the tenants and then holding their rent hostage from the landowners. His high-profile real estate acquisitions attract the attention of the local police force who have no qualms about using unprovoked brutality to bring him down. His trouble with the law, coupled with an escalating war between a local drug lord, creates a tense standoff: both sides are closing in, and Kunene must stay one step ahead--or his empire, and his life, will come crashing down.

Following the death of his employer and mentor, Bumpy Johnson, Frank Lucas establishes himself as the number one importer of heroin in the Harlem district of Manhattan. He does so by buying heroin directly from the source in South East Asia and he comes up with a unique way of importing the drugs into the United States. As a result, his product is superior to what is currently available on the street and his prices are lower. His alliance with the New York Mafia ensures his position. It is also the story of a dedicated and honest policeman, Richie Roberts, who heads up a joint narcotics task force with the Federal government. Based on a true story.

Following the death of his employer and mentor, Bumpy Johnson, Frank Lucas establishes himself as the number one importer of heroin in the Harlem district of Manhattan. He does so by buying heroin directly from the source in South East Asia and he comes up with a unique way of importing the drugs into the United States. As a result, his product is superior to what is currently available on the street and his prices are lower. His alliance with the New York Mafia ensures his position. It is also the story of a dedicated and honest policeman, Richie Roberts, who heads up a joint narcotics task force with the Federal government. Based on a true story.

After sixteen years at Her Majesty s Pleasure, Britain s hardest man is released from prison, and into the care of a documentary film crew headed by a Brit-loving American film-maker who follow him for the next week, on an hilarious roller-coaster tour of gangland London and beyond.