Four Italian-Americans from New York's lower East Side hang around at a local bar. Charlie, the most responsible of the group, tries to protect his girlfriend's cousin Johnny Boy from the local debt collectors, but his young charge seems determined to live fast and die young.

Heavily influenced by the French New Wave, Mean Streets provided the first high-profile success for director Martin Scorsese and star Robert De Niro.

Controversial crime drama from Abel Ferrara, the director of 'Driller Killer'. Harvey Keitel plays an unhinged New York detective who feeds his drug habit and eases his gambling debts by preying on the low-life criminals with whom he comes into contact. However, when a young nun (Frankie Thorn) refuses to reveal to him the identity of the men who raped her, he begins to question his errant behaviour and believes the nun may offer him a chance of spiritual redemption.