Gangster Films

The General: he General is an Irish film directed by John Boorman about Dublin crime boss Martin Cahill, who pulled off several daring heists in the early 1980s, and attracted the attention of the Gardaí, IRA, and UVF. The film was shot in 1997 and released in 1998. Brendan Gleeson plays Cahill, Adrian Dunbar plays his close friend Noel Curley, and Jon Voight plays Inspector Ned Kenny.

Great movie.

Fifty Dead Men Walking: Fifty Dead Men Walking is a 2008 English-language crime thriller film written and directed by Kari Skogland. It is a loose adaptation of Martin McGartland's 1997 autobiography of the same name. It premiered in September 2008, and stars Jim Sturgess as Martin McGartland, an informant within the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA), and Ben Kingsley as Fergus, his British handler.
The film is set from 1987 until 1991, the time in which McGartland acted as an undercover informant within the IRA during The Troubles. In 1991 his cover was blown and he was kidnapped by the IRA, although he later escaped and went into hiding.
At the time of the release of the film McGartland was still in hiding. The film takes its name from McGartland's claim within his book to have saved the lives of fifty people during his time as an informant.

I haven't seen this one.

JinkyRctongs wrote:The General: he General is an Irish film directed by John Boorman about Dublin crime boss Martin Cahill, who pulled off several daring heists in the early 1980s, and attracted the attention of the Gardaí, IRA, and UVF. The film was shot in 1997 and released in 1998. Brendan Gleeson plays Cahill, Adrian Dunbar plays his close friend Noel Curley, and Jon Voight plays Inspector Ned Kenny.

Great movie.

I've ordered this one and it hasn't arrived yet.

Here are more English/UK gangster films:

BRIGHTON ROCK Brighton Rock is a 1947 British drama film directed by John Boulting based on the novel of the same name by Graham Greene. The film is considered one of the most successful British films noir. In the United States, the film was released under the title Young Scarface.

Centring on the activities of a gang of assorted criminals and, in particular, their leader – a vicious young hoodlum known as "Pinkie" – the film's main thematic concern is the criminal underbelly evident in inter-war Brighton. (I haven't seen this one.)

GET CARTER Get Carter is a 1971 British crime film directed by Mike Hodges and starring Michael Caine as Jack Carter, a gangster who sets out to avenge the death of his brother in a series of unrelenting and brutal killings played out against the grim background of derelict urban housing in the city of Newcastle upon Tyne. The film was based on Ted Lewis' 1969 novel Jack's Return Home, itself inspired by the real life one-armed bandit murder in the north east of England.

THE LONG GOOD FRIDAY The film's protagonist is Harold Shand (played by Bob Hoskins), an old fashioned 1960s-style London gangster who in the late 1970s is aspiring to become a legitimate businessman, albeit with the financial support of the American Mafia, with a plan to redevelop the disused London Docklands as a venue for a future Olympic Games. The storyline weaves together the events of the late 1970s, including low-level political and police corruption, Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) gun-running, the displacement of traditional British industry with property development, Britain's membership of the EEC (later the European Union) and the emerging free market economy.

THE KRAYS The film begins with a shot of a swan in flight over the caption "Shall I tell you my dream?" and charts Ronnie and Reggie Kray's lives from their humble beginnings in the East End of London to their rise in the 1960s to become the most infamous and notorious gangland leaders in London's criminal underworld. They were subsequently convicted of murder and were incarcerated for over 30 years. Ron died in Broadmoor Hospital, a high security psychiatric hospital, in 1995. Reg however was released on 1 October 2000 on health grounds. He died 3 weeks later of cancer. They were played by real-life brothers Gary and Martin Kemp, who at the time of the film were more famous for their pop group Spandau Ballet.

SEXY BEAST Ex-con and expert safe-cracker Gary "Gal" Dove has served his time behind bars and blissfully retired to a Spanish villa with his beloved wife Deedee. He also has the company of longtime friend Aitch and his wife Jackie. Their idyll is shattered, however, by the arrival of an old criminal associate, the sociopathic Don Logan, who is intent on enlisting Gal in a bank heist back in London.

GANGSTER NO 1 Gangster No. 1 is a 2000 British crime film. It stars Malcolm McDowell, David Thewlis and Paul Bettany and was directed by Paul McGuigan. (I haven't seen this one.)

Quentin Tarantino

Non-linear storylines, groovy soundtracks, 70s cinema ultraviolence, Tarantino's influences are diverse and multi-national that includes Hitchcockian stylist De Palma, genre-master Scorsese, groundbreaking Japanese director Kinji Fukasaku, French New Wave master Jean-luc Godard, etc including all and any b-movie gratuity and excess. His films are always choked full of encyclopedic film references.

RESERVOIR DOGS
PULP FICTION
JACKIE BROWN
KILL BILL VOL 1&2

Robert Rodriguez

Rodriguez's auspicious debut hit El Mariachi was made on an unheardful $7000 budget. Robert Rodriguez has since cemented himself as a multi-talented film maker and producer.

Rodríguez not only has the usual credits of producing, directing and writing his films, he also frequently serves as editor, director of photography, camera operator, steadicam operator, composer, production designer, visual effects supervisor, and sound editor on his films. This has earned him the nickname of "the one-man film crew." He abbreviates his numerous roles in his film credits; Once Upon A Time In Mexico, for instance, is "shot, chopped, and scored by Robert Rodriguez", and Sin City is "shot and cut by Robert Rodriguez".

He calls his style of making movies "Mariachi-style" (in reference to his first feature film El Mariachi) in which (according to the back cover of his book Rebel Without a Crew) "Creativity, not money, is used to solve problems". Stu Maschwitz coined the term "Robert Rodriguez list", i.e. you make a list of things you have access to like cool cars, apartments, horses, samurai swords and so on, and then write the screenplay based on that list.

EL MARIACHI
DESPERADO
FROM DUSK TIL DAWN
ONCE UPON A TIME IN MEXICO
SIN CITY
PREDATORS
MACHETE

Guy Ritchie

In the style both of Tarantino and British disorganized crime comedies, Ritchie keeps his Cockney crime capers well stocked with outrageous, contageous characters and confusing entangled plotlines that are held together by the glue of screen titles and narration amongst Ritchie's highly energetic use of split screens, fast-cutting, slo-mo, and comic book ultraviolence.

LOCK, STOCK, AND 2 SMOKING BARRELS
SNATCH
REVOLVER
ROCKNROLLA

Matthew Vaughn

LAYER CAKE

I've only seen the Krays out the ones you mentioned, I need to look a few of them up.

3l3m3ntal wrote:

wesiderider wrote:New Jack City....
Deep Cover...

New Jack City was inspired by the real life Chamber brothers of Detroit that built an empire on crack and owned their own apartment building that served as the manufacture and distribution of their product.

Deep Cover is a great film directed by none other than Bill Duke who also directed Hoodlum a loosely Hollywood retelling of the conflict between Jewish, Italian, and black gangsters Dutch Schultz, "Bumpy" Johnson, and Lucky Luciano in the 30s.

wesiderider wrote:'Bonnie&Clyde'...
'Bugsy'...
'Mobsters'...
'Boss of bosses'...

Billy Bathgate
Once Upon A Time In America - Italian spaghetti western maestro Sergio Leone's epic story of adolescents in a Jewish ghetto rising up to become mobsters between 1920s and 1930s New York City starring Robert De Niro, James Woods, and William Forsythe.

A funny about Bill Duke is that he was also in the movies 'predator' & 'MenaceIISociety'....

Sin Nombre

JinkyRctongs wrote:Sin Nombre

That's a good one

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A funny about Bill Duke is that he was also in the movies 'predator' & 'MenaceIISociety'....

You know you done fucked up right?

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wesiderider wrote:

3l3m3ntal wrote:

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A funny about Bill Duke is that he was also in the movies 'predator' & 'MenaceIISociety'....

You know you done fucked up right?

Nahhh see when I was coming out other people was coming in....and I didn't see what they looked like....

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wesiderider wrote:

3l3m3ntal wrote:

wesiderider wrote:

A funny about Bill Duke is that he was also in the movies 'predator' & 'MenaceIISociety'....

You know you done fucked up right?

Nahhh see when I was coming out other people was coming in....and I didn't see what they looked like....

I want your motherfuckin' Daytons and your motherfuckin' stereo. And I'll take a double burger with cheese.

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wesiderider wrote:

.02 cents wrote:

wesiderider wrote:

3l3m3ntal wrote:

wesiderider wrote:

A funny about Bill Duke is that he was also in the movies 'predator' & 'MenaceIISociety'....

You know you done fucked up right?

Nahhh see when I was coming out other people was coming in....and I didn't see what they looked like....

I want your motherfuckin' Daytons and your motherfuckin' stereo. And I'll take a double burger with cheese.

oh now you trying to spit knowledge...gimme yo muthafuckin (Jewry)

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3l3m3ntal wrote:

wesiderider wrote:

.02 cents wrote:

wesiderider wrote:

3l3m3ntal wrote:

wesiderider wrote:

A funny about Bill Duke is that he was also in the movies 'predator' & 'MenaceIISociety'....

You know you done fucked up right?

Nahhh see when I was coming out other people was coming in....and I didn't see what they looked like....

I want your motherfuckin' Daytons and your motherfuckin' stereo. And I'll take a double burger with cheese.

oh now you trying to spit knowledge...gimme yo muthafuckin (Jewry)

The fuck you mean you ain't got my money yet? The fuck you mean you don't got my money yet? You best pay me my motherfuckin' money.

Who the fuck gonna be old out there at 12o'clock at night ni%$a I just dont givva fuck...
Both of y'all acting like some bitches scared to Peel these ni*&as caps back man give me my muthafucking joint ni%&a.....

Anybody see on the news the godfather house is for sale for 2.9 million.....seriously tho if you had that kinda loot would you buy???? I sure the fuck would!!!!!

wesiderider wrote:Anybody see on the news the godfather house is for sale for 2.9 million.....seriously tho if you had that kinda loot would you buy???? I sure the fuck would!!!!!

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Another gangster film DONNIE BRASCO

Donnie Brasco is a 1997 crime drama film directed by Mike Newell, starring Al Pacino, Johnny Depp and Michael Madsen. It is based on the real-life events of Joseph D. Pistone, an FBI agent who infiltrated the Bonanno crime family, one of the Mafia's Five Families based in New York City during the 1970s, under the alias "Donnie Brasco". The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay.

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A new French gangster 2 part, 2 movie epic on Jacques Mesrine will be hitting home video this year.

MESRINE: KILLER INSTINCT
MESRINE: PUBLIC ENEMY NUMBER 1

Jacques Mesrine (French pronunciation: [meʁin], or more commonly [mɛsʁin]; 28 December 1936–2 November 1979) was a French criminal who was also briefly active in the United States and Canada. He was responsible for numerous bank robberies, burglaries, and kidnappings, and claimed in an autobiography he wrote from prison to have committed upwards of forty murders. He was adept at disguising himself (earning himself the moniker "The Man of a Hundred Faces") and making successful escapes from prison.

Mesrine's life was the subject of an acclaimed pair of films which came out in 2008.

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Romper Stomper
American History X
This Is England
Dead Bang

I wouldn't class This is England as a gangster movie, they done a short series not long ago called This is England 86.

3l3m3ntal wrote:

JinkyRctongs wrote:3l3m3ntal, theres a new movie coming out very soon on the same subject heres the trailer.



Quick fact: The Garraside tongs in Small faces is based on were yours truely is from.

Non Educated Delinquents looks awesome.

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Robert Mitchum starred in two great mob films back in the 70s.

FRIENDS OF EDDIE COYLE About a small time criminal and informant mixed in with the Irish mob underworld in Boston or rather a crew of Irish mobsters that rob banks. The film plays upon the universal code "honour among thieves" with abit irony.

THE YAKUZA This turn Mitchum as a WWII veteran cum detective with alot of ties in Japan where he fought is approached by a friend seeking his help to bail him out of the dilemna of being indebted to the Yakuza for a lost paid shipment of guns.

Both are worthwhile films.

Here are some classics (from the 30s through the 70s)

Public Enemy
Dillinger (1945)
Dillinger (1973)
The Doorway To Hell
The Mayor Of Hell
Smart Money
Angels With Dirty Faces
The Roaring Twenties
White Heat
Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye
Scarface (original)
Little Caesar
Bullets Or Ballots
Key Largo
The Asphalt Jungle
The Big Heat
They Live By Night
Hell On Frisco Bay (haven't seen it)
The Enforcer (haven't seen it, Bogart vehicle about Murder, Inc)
Al Capone
Murder Inc
Underworld USA (1960)
Underworld USA (1961)
Lucky Luciano (haven't seen it)
The St. Valentine's Day Massacre
The Rise And Fall Of Legs Diamond (haven't seen it)
Thieves Like Us (haven't seen it)
The Grissom Gang (haven't seen it)

Ma Barker gang trilogy
Bloody Mama
Big Bad Mama
Crazy Mama

Genre master is at it again

Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro gang up for new mafia film



Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro gang up for new mafia film

Al Pacino, Joe Pesci and Harvey Keitel also tipped to star in story of hitman Frank 'The Irishman' Sheeran

Martin Scorsese Mob rule ... Martin Scorsese to direct Robert De Niro in The Irishman. Photograph: Jean Blondin/Reuters

Martin Scorsese will turn back the clock on his career when he reunites with Robert De Niro for a gangster movie about mob hitman Frank "The Irishman" Sheeran. The director and actor last worked together on the 1995 drama Casino.

The Irishman is scripted by Steven Zaillian from Charles Brandt's 2004 book I Heard You Paint Houses. A former union official, Sheeran was linked to the 1975 murder of Teamster boss Jimmy Hoffa and was one of only two non Italian-Americans on the FBI's list of mafia suspects. He died at a Philadelphia nursing home in December 2003.

Reports suggest Al Pacino may also join the cast along with two other seasoned Scorsese collaborators, Joe Pesci and Harvey Keitel. The Irishman is due to shoot next year.

Scorsese and De Niro first worked together on the 1973 film Mean Streets. In the following two decades they collaborated on another seven pictures, including Taxi Driver, The King of Comedy and Goodfellas. De Niro won the 1981 best actor Oscar for his role as boxer Jake LaMotta in Scorsese's Raging Bull.

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Brazilian director Fernando Meirelles' CITY OF GOD and CITY OF MEN

Excellent movies about the roving youth gangs / dealers in Rio de Janeiro between the 60s and the 80s depicting the growth of organized crime in Brazil's favelas, the labyrinthine slums sprawling with shanties piled upon one another. These movies have an Italian neorealist style of relying upon non-professional actors (or non-actors), improvisation, and on-the-spot real locations and real people. Very gritty, grimy, and oftentimes grim.

The CITY OF GOD DVD has an excellent hour long documentary "News From A Personal War", which presents the multiple point-of-views of favela "dwellers", gang members / dealers, and narcs. Pretty sad.

Kill The Irishman was a good flick.