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Aug 24, 2023 · When we think of gangster films, we tend to think of the classics—like Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather, Brian De Palma's Scarface, and Martin Scorsese's Goodfellas. They belong to a whole genre comprised of New York City Mafia flicks.
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- The Long Good Friday. Mackenzie (1980) Bob Hoskins plays Harold Shand in director John Mackenzie’s gritty gangster drama, an embattled tough guy who finds himself at the top of the criminal underworld.
- Get Carter. Hodges (1971) Michael Caine plays a tough, no nonsense London gangster who heads back home to the city of his birth – Newcastle in England’s north east – to attend his brother’s funeral only to find his death might not have been an accident.
- The Italian Job. Collinson (1969) This delightful British caper sees Michael Caine’s lovable rogue Charlie Croker concocting a plan to steal $4 million in gold bullion using Mini Coopers in Turin, Italy.
- Brighton Rock. Boulting (1948) John Boulting’s Brighton Rock is adapted from Graham Greene’s novel of the same name, telling the story of Pinkie Brown (Richard Attenborough) who finds circumstances spiralling more and more out of control after he kills a news reporter.
- The Long Good Friday
- Mcvicar
- Down Terrace
- Legend
- Get Carter
- Sexy Beast
- Snatch
- Layer Cake
- Dom Hemingway
- Rocknrolla
Before he royally embarrassed himself inWho Framed Roger Rabbit, the late, great Bob Hoskins made a name for himself in British gangster classic The Long Good Friday. Hoskins plays old school cockney villain Harold Shand who is one of the most convincing gangsters ever to kill a man on the big screen; in Shand's case, it involves brutally killing h...
Rock stars often get the urge to throw down the mic and pick up a screenplay, and it doesn't always ends well, but in McVicar, The Who’s Roger Daltrery has a larger than life presence as the title character. Based on a true story, McVicarsees Daltrey exudes a big screw-you attitude as a man with not so much a chip but a bag of potatoes on his shoul...
Down Terraceis one of the stranger gangster films to come out of Britain, but its domestic and dysfunctional weirdness is what sharpens its edge and makes it a razor sharp observation on the mundane reality of crime. Shot in eight days and riddled with dark humor, Ben Wheatley’s film documents what happens when career criminal Bill and his son Karl...
It was a gamble getting Tom Hardy to play both Ronnie and Reggie Kray in Brian Helgeland’s film on the notorious East End villains, but as anyone who’s seen Legendwill know, it paid off handsomely. The Krays are to British crime lore what Zeus is to Greek myth. Yet untilLegend swaggered onto the scene like a knuckle duster, bottle wielding thug rea...
The gangster genre is a treasure chest of films full of memorable lines - “Say hello to my little friend,” or “I’m gonna make him an offer he can’t refuse,” to quote a few. InGet Carter, every other line Michael Caine delivers is destined to be repeated down the pub until the big man calls last orders. Michael Caine may be a man of few words as the...
Famous for his portrayal of history’s greatest pacifist in Richard Attenborough’s Gandhi, thespian Ben Kingsley caught everyone’s eye as the bug-eyed and deeply disturbing psychopath Don Logan in Sexy Beast. Kingsley apparently based Logan on his grandmother who he described as a“vile and extremely unpleasant woman.” In light of this you can only i...
Guy Ritchie’s Snatchhas often been accused of prioritizing style over substance, but when a film is this entertaining and stylish and action-packed why complain that there’s no takeaway message? And let’s be honest: what would you rather watch, Woody Allen withering on about his insecurities, or Brad Pitt playing an Irish traveler with a punch like...
Before he was given a license to kill by Her Majesty, Daniel Craig appeared in the terribly titled Layer Cakeas an unnamed London underworld character who supplies cocaine on a grand scale. Sprinkling the white stuff everywhere he travels, like some sort of cockney Pablo Escobar, Craig’s character wants to put enough cash away to get out of the gam...
Jude Law clearly had a lot of fun playing the bumbling, alcoholic, and neurotic safecracker Dom Hemingway. Maybe it had something to do with the freedom of throwing off his usual debonair style and playing an out of shape slob with bad teeth, a broken nose, and mutton chops, who lurks on the fringes off society. Or maybe it’s just because theatrica...
On paper, any gangster film directed by Guy Ritchie and starring Tom Hardy, Idris Elba, and Gerald Butler should be worth its weight in casual violence and carefully crafted insults;RocknRolladoesn’t disappoint. As usual with Ritchie the plot is more layered than a web woven by a innately creative spider dosed with LSD, but if the devil is in the d...
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1. Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels. 1998 1h 47m R. 8.1 (624K) Rate. 67 Metascore. Eddy persuades his three pals to pool money for a vital poker game against a powerful local mobster, Hatchet Harry. Eddy loses, after which Harry gives him a week to pay back 500,000 pounds. Director Guy Ritchie Stars Jason Flemyng Dexter Fletcher Nick Moran. 2.
Oct 18, 2024 · Whether it's Lock, Stock and Snatch, or Get Carter and Bull, Empire runs downthe best British gangster movies ever made.
Apr 30, 2023 · Whether fans enjoy the gangster genre for the charismatic protagonists, exciting shootouts, or the heists and con artists, British gangster films provide it all in spades.
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This is not to say that all British gangster movies are tragic and boring. On the contrary, some are quite comic, with loveable characters and an intriguing, realistic storyline. Here is a list of some of the best British gangster films which have shaped the genre into what it is today.
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