Leandro Firmino as Zé Pequeno (Li'l Ze) in "City of God"

Li'l Zé's real name is never mentioned in the movie. Instead, as a child, he was known as Li'l Dice (Dadinho). Like Rocket, he grew up in the favela City of God. His best friend is Benny (Bené), who is Shaggy's (Cabeleira) younger brother. As a child, Dice wishes to be the boss of bosses in the City of God when he grows up. He and Benny hang around the Tender Trio, which consists of Goose (Marreco), Rocket's (Buscapé) brother, Clipper (Alicate), and Shaggy.

Chris Walken as Frank White in "King Of New York" drug lord Frank White (Christopher Walken) is released from Sing-Sing prison after serving a number of years for drug trafficking. He is reunited with his former gang, led by the ruthless Jimmy Jump (Laurence Fishburne), as well as his personal bodyguards, Raye (Theresa Randle) and Melanie (Carrie Nguyen), and his lover/legal analyst Jennifer (Janet Julien).

Appalled by the crime and poverty that have infected his old neighborhood, White makes a bid for redemption by eliminating his competitors and using their money to finance a new South Bronx hospital for the needy. He becomes a hero to the poor, as well as target for a group of overzealous cops, led by corrupt detective Roy Bishop (Victor Argo).

Welsey Snipes as Nino Brown in "New Jack City"

Nino Brown (Wesley Snipes) and his gang, the Cash Money Brothers, become the dominant drug ring within New York City when crack cocaine is introduced to the city streets during the 1980s and early 1990s. They convert an entire apartment complex ("The Carter") into a crack house. Undercover cops Scotty Appleton and Nick Peretti (played by Ice T and Judd Nelson) try to convict the gang with evidence of the drug dealing. They recruit Pookie (played by Chris Rock), a former stick-up kid turned recovering crackhead, to work undercover at "The Carter" to help them gather incriminating evidence against Nino and the Cash Money Brothers. Eventually, megalomania separates Nino from his gang and is the catalyst for their downfall.

Al Pacino as Carlito Brigante in "Carlito's Way"

Samuel L. Jackson as Jules Winnfield in "Pulp Fiction"

Al Pacino as Tony Montana in "Scarface"
"In the spring of 1980 the port at Mariel Harbor was opened, and thousands set sail for the United States. They came in search of the American Dream. One of them found it on the sun washed avenues of Miami... wealth, power and passion beyond his wildest dreams. He was Tony Montana, but the world will remember him by another name... Scarface".

Robert Deniro as Vito Corleone in "Godfather Part II"
Vito is the head of the Corleone crime family, one of the most powerful Mafia families in New York. He is depicted as an ambitious Italian immigrant to Little Italy who builds a mafia empire, yet retains (and strictly adheres to) his own personal code of honor. His youngest son, Michael Corleone becomes the Don upon his death at the end of the novel. He has two other sons, Santino "Sonny" Corleone and Fredo Corleone, and a daughter, Connie Corleone, all of whom play major roles in the story.

Kevin Spacey as Kaiser Soze a/k/a 'Verbal' Kint in "Usual Suspects"
In the film, Söze is an underworld kingpin whose ruthlessness and influence have a legendary, even mythical status among law enforcement agents and criminals alike.

Michael Douglas as Gordon Gecko in "Wall Street"
Gekko has since become a symbol of 1980s corporate greed. While the producers of the movie Wall Street clearly intended to portray this character as a villain, ironically enough, thanks to this movie, Gordon Gekko became a source of inspiration for countless number of investment bankers around the world. It has often been suggested that Wall Street turned out to be a most effective recruitment tool for the investment banking industry. As well, Gekko's diatribe against corporate mismanagement is just as relevant in the 21st century as in the 1980s. Gekko made the argument against well-entrenched corporate managers, saying they were taking advantage of shareholders. He contrasted the role of early American business leaders like the Carnegies and Mellons who only managed businesses in which they had significant investments with that of well paid company senior executives who owned very little of a company's stock, and hence had little stake in the company's performance.

Laurence Fishburne as Morpheus in "The Matrix"

Morpheus was the captain of the Nebuchadnezzar, a hovercraft of the human forces of the last human city, Zion, in a devastated world where most humans are grown by sentient Machines and kept imprisoned in the Matrix, a virtual computer-generated world. Morpheus was once a human living inside the Matrix until he was freed earlier in life. The name he may have had while a human in the Matrix is not known.

Morpheus is apparently a very popular public figure in the city of Zion. He is also known in the Matrix, but as a dangerous terrorist wanted by Agents (who are actually sentient programs that patrol the Matrix, eliminating any human that is a threat to the secret of the Matrix or dispatching programs that exile themselves in the Matrix to avoid their deletion).

Like other hovercraft crews, Morpheus and his crew are dedicated to the protection of Zion and the freeing of humans from the Matrix.
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