Subgenre Sampler
Gangsters: 360 Films to Buy & Rent
- 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…
- Lawless (2012)
- Dir. John Hillcoat
Feat. Shia LaBeouf, Tom Hardy, Guy Pearce…
- Three ambitious brothers from the south turn to bootlegging, only to come up against the might of powerful urban gangsters in this vivid…
- Luck (TV Series) (2012)
- Dir. Michael Mann, Phillip Noyce, Mimi Leder
Feat. Dustin Hoffman, Dennis Farina, John Ortiz…
- Heavy–hitting HBO crime drama centred on the deal–makers who frequent a popular Los Angeles racetrack – principally, an aging…
- Magic City (TV Series) (2012)
- Feat. Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Olga Kurylenko, Steven Strait…
- Slavishly seductive period drama set in late 50s Florida, where a high–rolling hotel owner is forced to do business with a Miami mob boss in…