Subgenre Sampler
Suspense/Crime > Gangsters: 151 Films to Buy & Rent
- Blood Ties (2013)
- Dir. Guillaume Canet
Feat. Clive Owen, Billy Crudup, Marion Cotillard…
- French dir. Guillaume Canet helms this cagey thriller about a convicted killer (Clive Owen) who returns from prison to live with his younger brother…
- New World (2013)
- Dir. Hoon-jung Park
Feat. Jung-Jae Lee, Min-sik Choi
- Essentially INFERNAL AFFAIRS transposed to the Korean underworld, this brutal gangster flick revolves around an undercover cop whose loyalty to the…
- Siberian Education (Deadly Code) (2013)
- Dir. Gabriele Salvatores
Feat. John Malkovich, Peter Stormare, Eleanor Tomlinson…
- Gabriele Salvatores (I'M NOT SCARED) directs this odd Italian production of Russian gangster memoir, with John Malkovich as the hard–bitten…
- Underbelly - Season 7 (TV Mini-series) (Squizzy) (2013)
- Feat. Jared Daperis, Camille Keenan
- Further tales from Australia's underworld, this time centred on the life and times of notorious Melbourne gangster Squizzy Taylor, whose blend of…
- Beyond Outrage (2012)
- Dir. Takeshi Kitano
Feat. Takeshi Kitano, Ryo Kase
- A straightforward sequel to Takeshi Kitano's late return to the yakuza genre, continuing the bloody battle between police and rival gangs.
As with…
- Black's Game (2012)
- Dir. Óskar Thór Axelsson
Feat. Thor Kristjansson, Jóhannes Haukur Jóhannesson
- A young opportunist is drawn into Reykjavik's underworld of gangsters and drug pushers in this hardcore Scandi–crime, an eye–catching if…
- Iceman, The (2012)
- Dir. Ariel Vromen
Feat. Michael Shannon, Winona Ryder, Chris Evans…
- Michael Shannon embodies cold faced killer Richard Kuklinski in this oddly sympathetic portrait of the notorious contract killer, who was as infamous…
- Ill Manors (2012)
- Dir. Ben Drew
Feat. Riz Ahmed, Natalie Press, Ed Skrein…
- English rapper Plan B directs this multistory portrait of life in a London housing estate beset by drugs, gangsters, and sexual crime.
- Killing Them Softly (2012)
- Dir. Andrew Dominik
Feat. Brad Pitt, Scoot McNairy, Ben Mendelsohn…
- Ex–pat Kiwi Andrew Dominik helms this sullen gangland thriller, about a professional enforcer (Pitt) hired to track down the amateur criminals…
- Last Dragon Master, The (The Last Tycoon) (2012)
- Dir. Wong Jing
Feat. Chow Yun-Fat, Sammo Hung, Francis Ng
- Chow Yun–Fat lends his charismatic presence to this sumptuous gangster picture detailing the rise of a legendary Shanghai mobster at the turn…