"Edward Wilson believed in America, and he would sacrifice everything he loved to protect it." The tumultuous early history of the Central Intelligence Agency is viewed through the prism of one man's life.

"It's no laughing matter." Aspiring comic Rupert Pupkin wants to achieve success in showbiz, by resorting to stalking his idol, a late night talk show host who craves his own privacy.

"One breath of oxygen and it explodes in a deadly rage." Two Chicago firefighter brothers who don't get along have to work together while a dangerous arsonist is on the loose.

"No one stays at the top forever." Greed, deception, money, power, and murder occur between two mobster best friends and a trophy wife over a gambling empire.

"No One Is Above The Law." The sheriff of a suburban New Jersey community populated by New York City policeman slowly discovers the town is a front for mob connections and corruption.

"As far back as I can remember, I've always wanted to be a gangster." -- Henry Hill, Brooklyn, N.Y. 1955. Henry Hill and his friends work their way up through the mob hierarchy.

An emotionally self-destructive boxer's journey through life, as the violence and temper that leads him to the top in the ring, destroys his life outside it.

"On every street in every city, there's a nobody who dreams of being a somebody." A mentally unstable Vietnam war veteran works as nighttime taxi driver in a city whose perceived decadence and sleaze feeds his urge to violently lash out.

The early life & career of Vito Corleone in 1920's New York is portrayed while his son, Michael, expands and tightens his grip on his crime syndicate stretching from Lake Tahoe, Nevada to pre-Revolution 1958 Cuba.