Mix-and-match from
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Subgenre Sampler
Godfather, The (1972)
- Dir. Francis Ford Coppola
Feat. Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, Robert De Niro… - Adaptation of Mario Puzo's novel is a vivid and immaculately staged chronicle of a Sicilian family's ascension to NY gangland dominance. Seamlessly…
Prime Cut (1972)- Dir. Michael Ritchie
Feat. Lee Marvin, Gene Hackman, Sissy Spacek… - Gritty underworld thriller set in the fields and meat–packhouses of Kansas, where mob enforcer Marvin is sent to collect money from local…
Scoumoune: Mafia Warfare (La Scounoune) (1972)- Dir. Jose Giovanni
Feat. Jean-Paul Belmondo, Claudia Cardinale, Michael Constantine - Punchy underworld tale charts the rise and fall of icy hitman Belmondo who returns to Marseilles to help clear his friend of a murder charge. Told…
French Connection, The (1971)
- Dir. William Friedkin
Feat. Gene Hackman, Fernando Rey, Roy Scheider… - An influential crime picture based on the largest narcotics seizure of all time. Won the Oscar for Best Picture for its realistic portrait of New…
Get Carter (1971)- Dir. Mike Hodges
Feat. Michael Caine - A small–time London hood takes on tough Northerners while investigating his brother's death. Exciting, violent thriller shows off the once…
Grissom Gang, The (1971)- Dir. Robert Aldrich
Feat. Kim Darby, Scott Wilson, Tony Musante… - Crime noir set in Missouri during the Depression, following the kidnapping of a priviledged meat heiress by notorious amateur hoodlums the Grissom…
American Soldier, The (Der Amerikanische Soldat) (1970)- Dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Feat. Karl Scheydt, Elga Sorbas, Jan George… - The third in a loose trilogy of gangster films directed by prolific German iconoclast Rainer Werner Fassbinder early in his career. A…
Bloody Mama (1970)- Dir. Roger Corman
Feat. Shelley Winters, Robert De Niro - 'The family that stays together slays together!'. Shelley Winters is Ma Barker, the mad matriarch who led her brood's violent reign in the '30s.…
Borsalino (1970)- Dir. Jacques Deray
Feat. Jean-Paul Belmondo, Alain Delon, Michel Bouquet - Delightful seriocomic film of two likeable hoods who become gangland chieftains in 1930s Marseilles. Music by Claude Bolling.
Gods of the Plague (Götter der Pest) (1970)- Dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Feat. Hanna Schygulla, Margarethe von Trotta, Harry Baer… - The second in a loose trilogy of gangster films directed by prolific German iconoclast Rainer Werner Fassbinder early in his career. In this…
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