One of these movies is absolutely on fire and the other is a dumpster fire. What makes one a heater and the other burned trash? What would happen if Johnny Boy met Vito Corleone? Do all roads lead back to Roger Corman? And how is Harvey Keitel responsible for Bruce Willis being cast in Pulp Fiction?! Find out by walking the MEAN STREETS OF FIRE with us!

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MEAN STREETS OF FIRE Movie Index:

Streets of Fire

Mean Streets

Lou Reed - “The Original Wrapper (Live 1986)” [music video] 

Clerks

Trouble Every Day

Stolen

Ghostbusters

Rumble Fish

The Outsiders

48 Hours

1941

Big Bully

Wild Wild West

Eddie and the Cruisers

Eddie and the Cruisers II: Eddie Lives!

Five Easy Pieces

Flashdance

Clue

Fear on SNL 10/31/1981 [TV]

Colors

Inside Man

Spider-Man: No Way Home

The Northman

Hard Times

The Terminator

Dick Tracy

Dick

Raging Bull

The Whale

He Got Game

New Jack City

Do the Right Thing

Annie Hall

Saturday Night Fever

New Jersey Drive

On the Waterfront

Apocalypse Now

Blue Collar

Targets

Pulp Fiction

Die Hard with a Vengeance

Married to the Mob

10th & Wolf

My Blue Heaven

Pope of Greenwich Village

The Godfather Part II

The Color of Money

New York Stories

Warrior

Boogie Nights

Wolf of Wall Street

O Brother, Where Art Thou?

The Ladykillers (2004)

The Ladykillers (1955)

Intolerable Cruelty

A Serious Man

The Color Purple

Green Book