The Long Good Friday 1980  R, 114 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: John Mackenzie
Cast: Bob Hoskins, Helen Mirren, Eddie Constantine, Dave King, Bryan Marshall, Derek Thompson, Pierce Brosnan, George Coulouris, Paul Freeman, P.H. Moriarty, Daragh O'Malley, Alan Ford
In this good gangster film, London mob boss Harold Shand (Bob Hoskins) is fighting to keep power in his dangerous world when bombs explode in his Rolls Royce and the pub he owns. Then, a third bomb is discovered in his casino. It is Easter weekend, and Shand appears to be doomed because the IRA is behind the bombings, and he cannot defend himself against their terrorism.
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The Wild Geese II 1985  R, 124 min.
Genre: Action / Adventure / Thriller
Director: Peter R. Hunt
Cast: Scott Glenn, Edward Fox, Barbara Carrera, Laurence Olivier, Robert Webber, Robert Freitag, Kenneth Haigh, Stratford Johns, Derek Thompson, Paul Antrim, John Terry, Ingrid Pitt, Patrick Stewart, David Lumsden, Michael N. Harbour
Brother and sister, Michael and Kathy Lukas (John Terry and Barbara Carrera)–along with his old comrade Alex Faulkner (Edward Fox)–aid John Haddad (Scott Glenn) who is hired by an American TV station to free Nazi war criminal Rudolph Hess (Laurence Olivier) from a Berlin prison and force Hess to reveal hidden Nazi secrets. German Heinrich Stroebling (Robert Freitag), who is working with the Russians and Palestinian terrorists, organizes assassination attempts on Haddad. Meanwhile, Kathy is kidnapped, and Haddad's assignment proves to be more and more dangerous.
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| 1. The Long Good Friday (1980)
2. The Wild Geese II (1985)
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