I 30'ernes USA står Ray og Claude uden en mønt på lommen. Derfor virker det som en god idé at smugle illegal spiritus fra Sydstaterne til New York. Men de to tabere bliver fanget, og den lokale sherif har hårdt brug for et par syndebukke for et mord. Ray og Claude får livstid og må nu hustle sig igennem hverdagen blandt fanger og fangevogtere.
Forbudstiden hærger i USA, men forbuddet mod alkohol bringer langt mere ondt end godt. De hårde tider har også ramt Bondurant-brødrene - og ligesom så mange andre har de stablet en god forretning på benene og tjener pænt på deres eget populære mærke af hjemmebrændt spiritus. Men forretningen trues, da Chicago-politimanden Charlie Rakes ankommer til Franklin County. Snart ligger alle under for den nådesløse og korrupte håndhævelse af loven, men Bondurant-brødrene vil ikke lade sig tryne...
Legenden om Al Capone vækkes til live i det aktionmættede drama, som giver et fængslende billede af Capone fra hans tid som spritsmugler til den berygtede massakre på Valentinsdag.
Gøg og Gokke slår sig på hjemmebrænderi i forbudstidens USA, men da Gøg i sin salige uvidenhed prøver at sælge sprut til en politibetjent, havner makkerparret bag tremmer. Her får de problemer med Gøgs løse tand og en ilter lærer, før det lykkes dem at flygte til en bomuldsplantage.
When their money scam runs aground, a group of would-be thieves turn to kidnapping in an attempt to blackmail their target.
Drengen Raees er god til at begå sig og bliver Gujarats konge af spritsmugleri i 1980'erne. Han prøver at forene sit kriminelle liv med at hjælpe sit folk.
When an American booze smuggler gets murdered in Prohibition-era Mexico, his widow, a nightclub singer, joins forces with her lover and a desperate loner to become rum-runners to the U.S.
"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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Rivalry between two stock-car racers, on the track and off.
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..