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FILMS Examples |
Crime-Gangster Films |
Greatest Early Crime and Gangster Films:
The Musketeers of Pig Alley (1912) The Regeneration (1915) Dr. Mabuse: The Gambler (1922) Underworld (1927) The Lights of New York (1928) The Racket (1928) The Big House (1930) Little Caesar (1930) Bad Company (1931) City Streets (1931) M (1931, Ger.) The Public Enemy (1931) I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang (1932) Scarface: The Shame of the Nation (1932) The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1933) Manhattan Melodrama (1934) The Petrified Forest (1934) G-Men (1935) Bullets or Ballots (1936) The Petrified Forest (1936) Dead End (1937) Marked Woman (1937) Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) Each Dawn I Die (1939) The Roaring Twenties (1939) Brother Orchid (1940) They Drive by Night (1940) High Sierra (1941) The Glass Key (1942) This Gun for Hire (1942)  Double Indemnity (1944) Detour (1945) Dillinger (1945) Scarlet Street (1945) The Big Sleep (1946) The Killers (1946) The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946) (remade in 1981) Brute Force (1947) Kiss of Death (1947) Out of the Past (1947) T-Men (1947) Force of Evil (1948) Key Largo (1948) Raw Deal (1948) Gun Crazy (1949) They Live By Night (1949) White Heat (1949) The Asphalt Jungle (1950) Dark City (1950) The Enforcer (1951) The Lavender Hill Mob (1951, UK) Strangers on a Train (1951) The Big Heat (1953) On the Waterfront (1954) The Big Combo (1955) Rififi (1955) The Killing (1956) The Defiant Ones (1958) Touch of Evil (1958) Al Capone (1959) Anatomy of a Murder (1959) The FBI Story (1959) Pickpocket (1959, Fr.) |
| Greatest Recent Crime and Gangster Films:
Breathless (1960, Fr.) (aka À bout de souffle) Ocean's Eleven (1960) (and remakes) The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond (1960) Underworld, U.S.A. (1961) Birdman of Alcatraz (1962) Cape Fear (1962) Band of Outsiders (1964, Fr.) (aka Bande à part) Bonnie and Clyde (1967) Cool Hand Luke (1967) In Cold Blood (1967) In the Heat of the Night (1967) Point Blank (1967) Le Samouraï (1967, Fr./It.) The St. Valentine's Day Massacre (1967) Wait Until Dark (1967) The Brotherhood (1968) Bullitt (1968) The Detective (1968) The Thomas Crown Affair (1968) (remade in 1999) The Italian Job (1969) (remade in 2003) Bloody Mama (1970) The Big Doll House (1971) Dirty Harry (1971) and sequels (1973, 1976, 1983 and 1988) The French Connection (1971) and sequel French Connection II (1975) Get Carter (1971) Klute (1971) Shaft (1971) and sequels (1972, 1973) (remade in 2000) The Big Bird Cage (1972) The Godfather (1972) The Hot Rock (1972) The New Centurions (1972) Pink Flamingos (1972) Badlands (1973) Badge 373 (1973) Cleopatra Jones (1973) and sequel (Cleopatra Jones and the Casino of Gold (1975)) Coffy (1973) Dillinger (1973) Magnum Force (1973) Mean Streets (1973) Serpico (1973) The Seven-Ups (1973) The Sting (1973) (and sequel The Sting II (1983)) The Stone Killer (1973) Walking Tall (1973) and sequels (1975, 1977) (remade in 2004) Chinatown
(1974) and sequel The Two Jakes (1990) Death Wish (1974) and sequels (1982, 1985, 1987, 1994) and remake (2018) Dirty Mary Crazy Larry (1974) Foxy Brown (1974) The Godfather, Part II (1974) The Super Cops (1974) The Taking of Pelham 123 (1974) (remade in 2009) Thieves Like Us (1974) Capone (1975) Deadly Hero (1975) Dog Day Afternoon (1975) Friday Foster (1975) Sheba, Baby (1975) Assault on Precinct 13 (1976) Bugsy Malone (1976) The Enforcer (1976) Taxi Driver (1976) Trackdown (1976) The Choirboys (1977) Short Eyes (1977) Blue Collar (1978) The Brink's Job (1978) The Driver (1978) Eyes of Laura Mars (1978) Midnight Express (1978) Straight Time (1978) ...And Justice For All. (1979) Boulevard Nights (1979) Escape From Alcatraz (1979) Hardcore (1979) The Onion Field (1979) The Warriors (1979) American Gigolo (1980) Cruising (1980) Gloria (1980) The Hunter (1980) The Long Good Friday (1980) Raging Bull (1980) Atlantic City (1981) Fort Apache: The Bronx (1981) Nighthawks (1981) Prince of the City (1981) True Confessions (1981) 48 Hrs. (1982) and Another 48 Hrs. (1990) (sequel) Vice Squad (1982) Bad Boys (1983) Breathless (1983) Blood Simple (1983) Scarface (1983) The Star Chamber (1983) Sudden Impact (1983) Beverly Hills Cop (1984) and sequels (1987, 1994) Once Upon a Time in America (1984) Tightrope (1984) The Boys Next Door (1985) Prizzi's Honor (1985) That Was Then...This Is Now (1985) To Live and Die in L.A. (1985) Witness (1985) At Close Range (1986) Manhunter (1986) River's Edge (1986) Lethal Weapon (1987) and sequels (1989, 1992 and 1998) The Untouchables (1987) Wall Street (1987) The Accused (1988) Colors (1988) The Dead Pool (1988) Die Hard (1988) and sequels (1990, 1995, 2007 and 2013) Mississippi Burning (1988) Patty Hearst (1988) Crimes & Misdemeanors (1989) An Innocent Man (1989) Lock Up (1989) Dick Tracy (1990) The Godfather, Part III (1990) GoodFellas (1990) Internal Affairs (1990) Miller's Crossing (1990) Q & A (1990) Boyz N The Hood (1991) Bugsy (1991) Cape Fear (1991) JFK (1991) New Jack City (1991) One Good Cop (1991) Point Break (1991) Rush (1991) The Silence of the Lambs (1991) and sequels (2001, 2002, and 2007) Thelma & Louise (1991) Bad Lieutenant (1992) (also 2009) Basic Instinct (1992) Glengarry Glen Ross (1992) Hoffa (1992) Reservoir Dogs (1992) A Bronx Tale (1993) Carlito's Way (1993) Falling Down (1993) In the Line of Fire (1993) True Romance (1993) Bullets Over Broadway (1994) Heavenly Creatures (1994, NZ) Natural Born Killers (1994) The Professional (1994, Fr.) (aka Leon) Pulp Fiction (1994) The Shawshank Redemption (1994) Speed (1994) and sequel (Speed 2: Cruise Control (1997)) Casino (1995) Clockers (1995) Get Shorty (1995) La Haine (1995, Fr.) Heat (1995) Se7en (1995) The Usual Suspects (1995) Bottle Rocket (1996) Bound (1996) Fargo (1996) Mulholland Falls (1996) Night Falls on Manhattan (1996) Ransom (1996) Sleepers (1996) Con Air (1997) Donnie Brasco (1997) Jackie Brown (1997) L. A. Confidential (1997) The Big Lebowski (1998) Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998) Out of Sight (1998) Run Lola Run (1998, Germ.) A Simple Plan (1998) Arlington Road (1999) Double Jeopardy (1999) 8MM (1999) Entrapment (1999) Fight Club (1999) The Thomas Crown Affair (1999) Snatch (2000) Traffic (2000) Ocean's Eleven (2001) and sequels (2004, 2007) Training Day (2001) City of God (2002, Brazil) (aka Cidade de Deus) Road to Perdition (2002) Taking Lives (2004) A History of Violence (2005) The Departed (2006) Inside Man (2006) American Gangster (2007) No Country For Old Men (2007) Changeling (2008) Street Kings (2008) Public Enemies (2009) American Hustle (2011) End of Watch (2012) Gangster Squad (2013) The Wolf of Wall Street (2013) Black Mass (2015) Hell or High Water (2016) The Mule (2018) The Irishman (2019) Queen & Slim (2019) Richard Jewell (2019) |
