Eddie Constantine

In a career-making performance, Bob Hoskins plays a cockney London crime boss whose world starts tumbling down during a momentous weekend. Tough and ruthless, Harold Shand (Hoskins) is trying to pull together a billion-dollar deal with the American underworld. However, just when the agreement seems a certainty, the bodies of his associates begin piling up with menacing dread. John Mackenzie's dark and gritty British gangster classic features a sharp star-turn from Helen Mirren as Shand's savvy wife and Pierce Brosnan in a very early role. <!-- exceptions -->

Entrepreneurial mob boss Harold Shand (Academy Award-nominee Bob Hoskins, Mona Lisa) runs an underworld empire but his dreams are much bigger. He and his sophisticated wife (Oscar-winner Helen Mirren, The Queen) aspire to partner with American mobsters to turn the barren docklands of London into a development for the upcoming Olympics. But their perfect plan begins to unravel when a string of deadly bombings leads Shand to the stunning realization that he is being targeted by the IRA. A bloody race to hold on to his crumbling schemes brings him to an explosive climax in this taut, riveting thriller.

Paul Chevrolet and the Ultimate Hallucination -- Paul Chevrolet is the alias of a writer of hard-boiled detective-novels, Leopold (Peter Faber), who still owes his ex-wife Willie (Jenny Arean) a great deal of money. In his latest detective-novel, gangster-boss Boy Pappa (Eddie Constantine) is introduced, who gets pursued by Leopold s alter ego: Scotty. After writing a philosophical manuscript, The Ultimate Hallucination , Leopold gets in contact with publisher s daughter Susanne (Liz Snoyink) who resembles his character Savannah MacKnight. Also, Boy Pappa really seems to exist. From that moment on, reality and fiction intertwine. Official Selection in main program Filmfest Berlin.

The Long Good Friday -- Open-ended Trailer from Paramount Pictures