I inbördeskrigets kaotiska Sierra Leone under 90-talet får vi möta Danny Archer, en sydafrikansk legosoldat och fiskaren Solomon Vandy. Båda är afrikaner men deras bakgrund är så olika de kan vara, tills ödet för dem samman i en gemensam jakt på en sällsynt rosa diamant som kan förändra deras liv. Under en fängelsevistelse får Archer reda på att Solomon - som har tagits från sin familj och tvingats jobba på diamantfältet – har hittat och gömt den ovanliga råstenen. Till sin hjälp har han Maddy Bowen, en amerikansk journalist vars idealism fått sig en törn av bekantskapen med Archer. De två männen beger sig ut på en jakt genom ogästvänliga territorier, en resa som kan rädda Solomons familj och ge Archer den andra chans han trodde han aldrig skulle få.
Lora Hart manages to land a job in a hospital as a trainee nurse. Upon completion of her training she goes to work as a night nurse for two small children who seem to be very sick, though something much more sinister is going on.
The story of Jody, a misguided, 20-year-old African-American who is really just a baby boy finally forced-kicking and screaming to face the commitments of real life. Streetwise and jobless, he has not only fathered two children by two different women-Yvette and Peanut but still lives with his own mother. He can't seem to strike a balance or find direction in his chaotic life.
Parodi som driver både med Robin Hood-legenden och gangsterfilmen, försedd med sång- och dansnummer.
När gatusmarta Raees blir Gujarats bootlegkung på 1980-talet försöker han hitta balansen mellan sin kriminella livsstil och att hjälpa sitt folk.
A renegade police captain sets out to catch a sadistic mob boss.
Unrepentant Tennessee moonshine runner Luke Doolin (Robert Mitchum) makes dangerous high-speed deliveries for his liquor-producing father, Vernon (Trevor Bardette), but won't let his younger brother Robin (James Mitchum) join the family business. Under pressure from both out-of-town gangster Kogan (Jacques Aubuchon), who wants a piece of the local action, and Treasury agent Barrett (Gene Barry), who wants to destroy the moonshine business, Luke fights for his fast-fading way of life.
The coquettish granddaughter of a respected small-town judge is stranded at a bootleggers’ hide-out, subjected to an act of nightmarish sexual violence, and plunged into a criminal underworld that threatens to swallow her up completely.
A mobster's daughter leads her boyfriend from the circus into bootlegging.
Bootleggers on the lam Frankie and Noll split up to evade capture by the police. Frankie is caught and jailed, but Noll manages to escape and open a posh New York City nightclub. 14 years later, Frankie is released from the clink and visits Noll with the intention of collecting his half of the nightclub's profits. But Noll, who has no intention of being so equitable, uses his ex-girlfriend Kay to divert Frankie from his intended goal.
To impress the girl he loves, a naive country boy tries to capture a group of local bootleggers.
Former bootlegger Remy Marco has a slight problem with forclosing bankers, a prospective son-in-law, and four hard-to-explain corpses.
In 1920s rural Mississippi, Nancy Mannigoe, an African-American servant, is placed on death row for the murder of Temple Drake's infant child. Temple, the daughter of the governor, pleads with her father to exonerate Nancy of the charges, explaining that Nancy acted in haste to prevent her from resuming her affair with a roguish Cajun called Candy Man. Details of Temple's sordid past are uncovered as she begs mercy for her faithful servant.
Gangsters, nightclubs and the Roaring '20s.
Betty Ingals walks out on her fiancé in search of adventure. She gets more than she bargained for when she stumbles upon a gang of bootleggers.
When misfortune hits hard on the Jordan family of Chicago's upper class, Bonnie Jordan, a dazzling and witty girl, finds a job as an aspiring reporter; however, his naive younger brother Rodney takes a twisted path and gets involved with the wrong people.
A teenager lands in a brutal reform school for refusing to squeal on his bootlegger boss.
A gangster's wife, fearful that he is about to be murdered by his rivals, tips off the police to his whereabouts in order to save his life. Her husband, however, believes her reason was that she wanted him out of the way so she could have his best friend.
A stock market broker plans to liven up his boring life by taking up piracy on the high seas.
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.