
Wall Street(1987)
A young and impatient stockbroker is willing to do anything to get to the top, including trading on illegal inside information taken through a ruthless and greedy corporate raider, whom takes the youth under his wing.


“When you're down to your last dream, you either live it or lose it.”
Looking to get rich quick, an unsuccessful lawyer uses dishonest means to try to become a boxing promoter.

Robert De Niro
Harry Fabian

Jessica Lange
Helen Nasseros

Cliff Gorman
Phil Nasseros

Alan King
Ira "Boom Boom" Grossman

Jack Warden
Al Grossman

Eli Wallach
Peck

Barry Primus
Tommy Tessler

Gene Kirkwood
Resnick
Gerard Murphy
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Clem Caserta
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Night and the City is a crime, drama film released in 1992 exploring themes of waitress, lawyer, boxing promoter. Directed by Irwin Winkler, it stars Robert De Niro, Jessica Lange, Cliff Gorman. Looking to get rich quick, an unsuccessful lawyer uses dishonest means to try to become a boxing promoter.
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When a battered boxer past his prime finds his dreams and his relationships on the ropes, he falls back in with a dangerous crowd and has to take the biggest swing of his life to reclaim his hope and his family.

In 1934, the second most lucrative business in New York City was running 'the numbers'. When Madam Queen—the powerful woman who runs the scam in Harlem—is arrested, Ellsworth 'Bumpy' Johnson takes over the business and must resist an invasion from a merciless mobster.

The incredible true story of how an orphaned Jamaican baby, adopted by an elderly white couple and brought up in an all white area of London, became one of the most feared and respected men in Britain.