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Letters of Love

By Alan Ng | November 2025

Writer/director Johan Wickholm drops us into the turbulent world of Letters of Love, a story about a young man who hits rock…

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Letters of Love

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Writer/director Johan Wickholm drops us into the turbulent world of Letters of Love, a story about a young man who hits rock bottom after crossing paths...

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Georgie

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Capturing its subject in a similar fashion to the Maysles brothers, Jennie Butler’s Georgie is an engrossing mini-doc about what happens to old mobsters...

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Silent Partners

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Based on the Dave Iacovetti novel Silent Partners, which was written by J. Bishop and Jokes Yanes, who also directed it. The story is narrated by Valentine...

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The Alto Knights

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One of the most famous scenes in The Irishman comes when Frank Sheeran (Robert De Niro) beats up a shopkeeper. Taking advantage of the then zeitgeist for...

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Fresh Kills

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NOW IN THEATERS! Get ready to join the mob crowding your local theater to see the outstanding deep dish Mafia drama Fresh Kills, the impressive debut from...

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Inside Man

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Mob films document the rise, infiltration, or gradual fall of organized crime families and institutions. For police detective Bobby Belucci (Emile Hirsch)...

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Mob Land

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COMING TO THEATERS AND VOD! I recently got into a debate about whether director Nicholas Maggio's Mob Land was a Southern mob movie. Well, The...

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The Outfit

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NEW TO PEACOCK! Graham Moore won the Best Adapted Screenplay Academy Award for his first feature-length script, The Imitation Game. Now, Graham's making...

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Tomorrow’s Today

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Tomorrow's Today follows a small-time semi-reformed gangster, Charlie Boy (Greg Kritikos), as he navigates the mean streets of the Astoria neighborhood of...

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Downeast

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Downeast is a wicked good mob drama set in Maine that takes you for a spin down the wrong side of the lobster claw. Following up his superb saltwater...

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