Subgenre Sampler
Suspense/Crime > Gangsters: 151 Films to Buy & Rent
- Love, Honour and Obey (2000)
- Dir. Dominic Anciano, Ray Burdis
Feat. Jonny Lee Miller, Ray Winstone, Jude Law…
- Jonny Lee Miller is appealing as a mischief–making wannabe–crim in this half–serious set of London gangster moves, that basically…
- One Hundred Steps, The (I Cento Passi) (2000)
- Dir. Marco Tullio Giordana
- Expansive, fact–based drama set around a young man's fight against local mafiosos in the small Sicilian village of Cinisi in the…
- Essex Boys (1999)
- Dir. Terry Winsor
Feat. Charlie Creed-Miles, Sean Bean
- One of the present wave of British crime–films, this tale of trainee cabbie Charlie Creed–Miles going to work for volatile hard–man…
- Heaven (1999)
- Dir. Scott Reynolds
Feat. Martin Donovan, Joanna Going, Danny Edwards…
- Banished into virtual anonymity by Miramax studio indifference, we can only assume they found this 'arty' thriller too slippery to pigeonhole and…
- If… Dog… Rabbit… (1999)
- Dir. Matthew Modine
Feat. Matthew Modine, Bruce Dern, John Hurt…
- Directorial debut for actor Matthew Modine (who also stars), coming up with a by now rather familiar gangster caper, set among an eccentric bunch of…
- Sopranos, The (TV Series) - Season 1 (1999)
- Dir. Nick Gomez, John Patterson, David Chase
Feat. James Gandolfini, Edie Falco, Lorraine Bracco…
- Groundbreaking TV–series that ironically portrays the life of a New Jersey Mafia clan as a parade of suburban neurosis, pop–culture…
- Suicide Kings (1999)
- Dir. Peter O'Fallon
Feat. Christopher Walken, Denis Leary
- Post–PULP FICTION black–comedy, that does better than most in juggling a crime setting, a mystery and various comical dialogues, with a…
- Two Hands (1999)
- Dir. Gregor Jordan
Feat. Heath Ledger, Bryan Brown, Steve LaMarquand
- Mobster Bryan Brown finds work for Heath Ledger's idle hands, who fumbles the ball and finds himself deep in the crapper…
Overcoming the…
- Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998)
- Dir. Guy Ritchie
Feat. Jason Statham, Jason Flemyng, Nick Moran…
- The independent hit of 1998 is a massively assured directing debut and an entertainment sensation.
Cocked with sharp dialogue, intricate plotting,…
- Donnie Brasco (1997)
- Dir. Mike Newell
Feat. Al Pacino, Johnny Depp, Michael Madsen…
- Riveting, true–life tale of an FBI agent's perilous infiltration of the New York Mafia in the 70s. A knife–edge dramatic tension is…