Two men in 1930s Mississippi become friends after being sentenced to life in prison together for a crime they did not commit.
Al comtat de Franklin, Virgínia, en Howard i en Jack Bondurant, que han sobreviscut a la guerra i la grip espanyola, respectivament, tenen fama d'immortals. Ells i el petit dels tres germans, en Jack, destil·len alcohol il·legal. Quan arriba el fiscal corrupte Mason Wardell, acompanyat de l'agent especial Charles Rakes, els Bondurant són els únics que no cedeixen al seu xantatge. L'agent especial fa mans i mànigues per trobar-los la destil·leria. Mentrestant en Forrest s'enamora de la Maggie, una exballarina procedent de Chicago, que lloga de cambrera. En Jack, per la seva banda, festeja amb la Bertha, la filla del predicador, i fa grans negocis amb el poderós gàngster Floyd Banner. Fins que un dia els descobreixen la destil·leria i tot se'n va en orris.
Young Al Capone catches the eye of Johnny Torrio, a criminal visiting New York from Chicago. Torrio invites Capone to move to Illinois to help run his Prohibition-era alcohol sales operation. Capone rises through the ranks of Torrio's gang and eventually takes over. On top, he works to consolidate his power by eliminating his enemies, fixing elections to his advantage and getting rich. In his spare time, Capone courts the principled Iris Crawford.
Set in the early ’80s and ’90s in Gujarat, India, ‘Raees’ is a fictitious story of a crime lord named Raees, who builds an entire empire from scratch, and a police officer who is determined to bring him down.
It's Prohibition, and the boys wind up behind bars after Stan sells some of their home-brew beer to a policeman.
Anys 30. Als Estats Units impera la Llei Seca, situació que aprofiten els contrabandistes per obtenir grans beneficis traficant amb alcohol. Tres ambiciosos aventurers uneixen les forces i les males arts per controlar el contraban.
When their money scam runs aground, a group of would-be thieves turn to kidnapping in an attempt to blackmail their target.
In late eighties, in Ceausescu's Romania, a black market VHS bootlegger and a courageous female translator brought the magic of Western films to the Romanian people and sowed the seeds of a revolution.
A young man who hauls liquor for moonshiners comes up against a competing gang of moonshiners who intend to get rid of him and take over his operation.
"Say goodnight to the bad guys" picks up where "A Sh*t river runs through it" left off. it's a year after the events of A.S.R.R.T.I and Ricky, Julian, and bubbles are rich with cash, but Julian sits on the money for a year claiming "movies like casino prove that waving money around right away is a bad idea." and then hides it in his newly purchased Delorean (AKA car from back to the future)
Bootlegger/cafe owner, Johnny Franks recruits crude working man Scorpio to join his gang, masterminded by crooked criminal defense lawyer Newton. Scorpio eventually takes over Frank's operation, beats a rival gang, becomes wealthy and dominates the city for several years until a secret group of 6 masked businessmen have him prosecuted and sent to the electric chair.
A violent sadist has been appointed a deputy sheriff by his uncle, the alcoholic and corrupt county sheriff, who runs a drug-smuggling and bootlegging operation on the side. When the sheriff's nephew decides to steal the land of some local "half-breeds", a young deputy in the department decides it's time to stand up to him.
Prohibition is ending so bootlegger Bugs Ahearn decides to crack California society. He leases a house from down-on-her-luck Ruth and hires her as social secretary. He rescues Polly Cass from a horsefall and goes home to meet her dad who sells him some phony stock certificates. When he learns about this he sends to Chicago for mob help.
America's DJ Dick Clark and Robert Walker Jr. star as two country boys who decide to rob a pile of cash from a bootlegger, assisted by the man's restless wife (Diane Varsi). But the heist doesn't go as planned and takes a tragic turn. The trio of would-be thieves then takes off for California, but with the police already on their tail, it's clear that a trail of blood and death is going to follow them all the way there.
A bootlegger falls apart when his wife leaves him.
Rivalry between two stock-car racers, on the track and off.
In a small rural town hit hard by the Depression, Katie Connors resides in a middle-class home with her bootlegging husband Melvin. When the opportunity arises to bump him off without getting her hands dirty, she takes a chance she may never get again. After his murder at the hands of criminal Richard Hayden, she begins to receive inopportune visits by Melvin's old business partners about a large shipment of moonshine in her possession. Contacting the FBI for help, agent Ron Sheridan is assigned to her case and develops an unrequited love for Katie. But when a full-scale war develops, she learns the FBI may not be much help to her as she thought, and Katie must take matters into her own hands to pay off her husband's debts for good.
Several prohibition agents display cans and bottles of seized liquor for the camera. They are then shown dumping the goods at a junk yard.
Deep in the wilds of Southern Appalachia, lifelong moonshiner Popcorn Sutton runs 1 last batch of accurate moonshine whiskey. By means of the exhausting work of clearing the site, building a rock and clay furnace, brewing corn mash and producing high-proof moonshine, Sutton reveals the craft of standard distillation, the character of his Scots-Irish ancestors, and a lifetime of memories in the trade.
This newsreel depicts the inner-workings of a bootleggers' facility for making and distributing illegal bootleg liquor..