British Crime/Gangster Movies?

odium-LSC · Post by **odium-LSC** » Fri Aug 14, 2009 12:15 am

Any recommendations?

christian from austin · Fri Aug 14, 2009 12:20 am

sexy beast (not me, the movie)

Lid · Post by **Lid** » Fri Aug 14, 2009 12:32 am

Long good friday
Later cake
Limey
Mr, Inbetween
The Krays
Sexy Beast(classic)

odium-LSC · Post by **odium-LSC** » Fri Aug 14, 2009 12:37 am

if you could throw up some descriptions of the movies too, that'd be appreciated.

drizzle · Post by **drizzle** » Fri Aug 14, 2009 12:44 am

i'm assuming you've seen snatch/lock stock/layer cake

try these:

get carter (original with michael cane) - best british crime movie

long good friday - best british organized crime movie

the general

croupier

italian job (origian with michael cane) if you don't mind a little comedy, it's rediculously entertaining

face

gangster #1

drizzle · Post by **drizzle** » Fri Aug 14, 2009 12:46 am

Lid wrote: The Krays

unfortunately like many of the best brit gangster movies this one doesn't exist on reg1

odium-LSC · Post by **odium-LSC** » Fri Aug 14, 2009 1:00 am

I'm not trying to rent any of these. I'm searching torrents for them.

Lid · Post by **Lid** » Fri Aug 14, 2009 1:01 am

drizzle wrote:
the general

croupier

face

gangster #1

havent seen these, good work

drizzle · Post by **drizzle** » Fri Aug 14, 2009 1:01 am

odium-LSC wrote:I'm not trying to rent any of these. I'm searching torrents for them.

in that case add Sitting Target to the list, like high on the list

ric · Post by **ric** » Fri Aug 14, 2009 1:41 am

sexy beast is a brit comedy that i highly recommend if you like style and have an odd, dry sense of humor

Spartan · Post by **Spartan** » Fri Aug 14, 2009 5:45 am

Lock, Stock....,Snatch & Layer Cake already got mentioned.

The Italian Job
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Get Carter
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The Long Good Friday
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Brighton Rock
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Sexy Beast
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The Krays (it's all on Youtube)
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Villain
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Gangster No. 1
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I would recommend The Lavender Hill Mob & The Lady Killers like The Italian Job but they're more comedy capers than straight laced. Classics though.

The alley chase scene is Face was filmed in my old neighbourhood. Not a real fan of that film.

Moolah · Post by **Moolah** » Fri Aug 14, 2009 6:05 am

Seeing as you haven't seen many movies, Lock Stock and Snatch.

ackbar · Post by **ackbar** » Fri Aug 14, 2009 6:43 am

sexy beast is the best out of those mentioned
it is not a comedy

Spartan · Post by **Spartan** » Fri Aug 14, 2009 7:47 am

ackbar wrote:sexy beast is the best out of those mentioned
it is not a comedy

But Kingsley as scarily awesome as his performance was, did have lots of comedic value in plenty of his scenes e.g. the airplane incident and the subsequent interview with security are just hilarious along with how he wakes up Ray Winstone's character in the morning.

Get Carter and The Krays are far more straight laced gangster dramas and far more chilling too.

LONDON! · Post by **LONDON!** » Fri Aug 14, 2009 8:18 am

get carter

long good friday

shooters-about the gangster scene in liverpool, security firms, kidnappings, drug crews and that type of shit, they use authentic road(street) niggas and gangsters to play the parts too, its hard to find, but a very authentic film

essex boys-the ending is bare corny, but the build up to it is decent, its based on a true story and the murders of certain gangsta's stemming from a drug feud

those are the ones i recommend

layer cake-i couldn't watch the whole of it, the beginning started heavy like, they were talking on real authentic shit about how gangsta's in the 70's turned from robbing banks and into the drug game, but its daniel craig(james bond) narrating it and acting in it as the main lead, which i couldn't get into, because of his posh accent, i just wern't buying him as a working class gangsta, it didn't drop

eastern promises-again, it starts off well, it breaks down about how the russian mafia gets down in london, very authentic, but i couldn't watch the whole movie, because they were into underage sex trafficking, plus the main guy is a undercover fed, theirs no one to root for and that scene were they start fighting in the bath house, but 'naked(did they have to do that)', kinda put me off and i couldn't watch the rest of it, but it seems like a good movie, don't pay any attention to me, ha ha, viggo mortenson merks it too, he's a proper character actor

Tommy Bunz · Post by **Tommy Bunz** » Fri Aug 14, 2009 8:24 am

Most of the good ones have been said already, I think Snatch, Get Carter and A Long Good Friday are about as good a starting point as possible. Most all of the movies mentioned so far are good though.

Another recent good one that hasn't been mentioned yet is In Bruges (i know they are Irish and not English before somebody tries to correct me, it still fits with the rest of these movies)

Spartan · Post by **Spartan** » Fri Aug 14, 2009 8:37 am

LONDON! wrote:get carter

essex boys-the ending is bare corny, but the build up to it is decent, its based on a true story and the murders of certain gangsta's stemming from a drug feud

You really liked that? Kind of fell in the same bracket to me as Rise of the Foot Soldier & Outlaw.

jay · Post by **jay** » Fri Aug 14, 2009 9:10 am

Gettin Square - this one is an Aussie movie but if you liked Lock Stock and Snatch you'll probably dig this one too. It stars the super slept on Timothy Spall and the rest are Aussies including new Hollywood "it" boy, Sam Worthington who was recently in the new Terminator and will be in Avatar and Clash of the Titans later this year.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0341376/

Plot:

Gettin' Square is about starting over, keeping clean and going straight. Barry Wirth (Sam Worthington) is fresh out of prison and determined to stay on the straight and narrow. But like his mate Johnny 'Spit' Spiteri (David Wenham) and reformed gangster turned restaurateur Dabba (Timothy Spall), he finds out the hard way that there are old scores and a few new ones that'll make getting square a lot harder than he thought.

Funky Butler · Post by **Funky Butler** » Fri Aug 14, 2009 9:52 am

glad someone mentioned brighton rock

great film

drizzle · Post by **drizzle** » Fri Aug 14, 2009 10:43 am

Funky Butler wrote:glad someone mentioned brighton rock

great film

i was trying to stay away from b&w cause that's a whole different conversation but generally i'm with you. Attenborough as Pinkie>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Icesickle · Post by **Icesickle** » Fri Aug 14, 2009 11:03 am

I can co-sign The General (a must see, think Scorsese does Irish gangsters), Sexy Beast, and The Limey. I'm embarrassed to say I've never seen The Long Good Friday, but I have it on my netflix queue.

A film that hasn't been mentioned in this thread is I'll Sleep When I'm Dead, which is by the guy who directed Croupier and Get Carter. It's a crime film that does an excellent job at creating and sustaining a haunting, almost dreamlike mood. It has Clive Owen, Malcolm McDowell, and Jonathan Rhys Meyers. It was on my Top 10 list the year it came out.

Career Over Like Mike(NJJ) · Fri Aug 14, 2009 11:06 am

This is the worst sub-genre ever bar, like, 3 movies.

LONDON! · Post by **LONDON!** » Fri Aug 14, 2009 11:21 am

Spartan wrote:
LONDON! wrote:get carter

essex boys-the ending is bare corny, but the build up to it is decent, its based on a true story and the murders of certain gangsta's stemming from a drug feud

You really liked that? Kind of fell in the same bracket to me as Rise of the Foot Soldier & Outlaw.

i thought the essex boys was ok up until the last quarter of the film when it started getting a bit silly

drizzle · Post by **drizzle** » Fri Aug 14, 2009 11:22 am

Icesickle wrote:I can co-sign The General (a must see, think Scorsese does Irish gangsters), Sexy Beast, and The Limey. I'm embarrassed to say I've never seen The Long Good Friday, but I have it on my netflix queue.

A film that hasn't been mentioned in this thread is I'll Sleep When I'm Dead, which is by the guy who directed Croupier and Get Carter. It's a crime film that does an excellent job at creating and sustaining a haunting, almost dreamlike mood. It has Clive Owen, Malcolm McDowell, and Jonathan Rhys Meyers. It was on my Top 10 list the year it came out.

mood is the only thing that movie gets right, i omitted it on purpose. i'm a huge fan of Hodges and Owen, but both have done far far superior work together and separately.

lol at people recommending the limey because it has a british dude in the lead, that's an american movie through and through

Lid · Post by **Lid** » Fri Aug 14, 2009 3:16 pm

drizzle wrote:
Icesickle wrote:I can co-sign The General (a must see, think Scorsese does Irish gangsters), Sexy Beast, and The Limey. I'm embarrassed to say I've never seen The Long Good Friday, but I have it on my netflix queue.

A film that hasn't been mentioned in this thread is I'll Sleep When I'm Dead, which is by the guy who directed Croupier and Get Carter. It's a crime film that does an excellent job at creating and sustaining a haunting, almost dreamlike mood. It has Clive Owen, Malcolm McDowell, and Jonathan Rhys Meyers. It was on my Top 10 list the year it came out.
mood is the only thing that movie gets right, i omitted it on purpose. i'm a huge fan of Hodges and Owen, but both have done far far superior work together and separately.

lol at people recommending the limey because it has a british dude in the lead, that's an american movie through and through

LOL it is american as fuck, but british dude kicks ass

odium-LSC · Post by **odium-LSC** » Fri Aug 14, 2009 6:39 pm

Tommy Bunz wrote:Most of the good ones have been said already, I think Snatch, Get Carter and A Long Good Friday are about as good a starting point as possible. Most all of the movies mentioned so far are good though.

Another recent good one that hasn't been mentioned yet is In Bruges (i know they are Irish and not English before somebody tries to correct me, it still fits with the rest of these movies)

I'm all for the inclusion of the irish in this. and to moolah, I've seen snatch and lock stock smoking barrel. It's just movies from my childhood. My mom was insanely religious and wouldn't let me watch or listen to anything that wasn't strictly religious. When she went to prison, I was put in a series of foster homes where we didn't exactly have movie nights so I missed most 80's movies.

ric · Post by **ric** » Fri Aug 14, 2009 6:47 pm

ackbar wrote:sexy beast is the best out of those mentioned
it is not a comedy

i laughed so much during this movie i dont really know what else to call it. crime drama? i guess. fucking hilarious movie through and through.

roger ebert says it best: "The movie's humor is inseparable from its brutality."

drizzle · Post by **drizzle** » Fri Aug 14, 2009 6:54 pm

ric wrote:
ackbar wrote:sexy beast is the best out of those mentioned
it is not a comedy
i laughed so much during this movie i dont really know what else to call it. crime drama? i guess. fucking hilarious movie through and through.

roger ebert says it best: "The movie's humor is inseparable from its brutality."

it's actually a love story at heart, wrapped into some heist stuff and a awesome/hilarious turn by Kingsley

mud · Post by **mud** » Fri Aug 14, 2009 7:15 pm

As great as The General is, it is not a British movie.

Big Lurk · Post by **Big Lurk** » Fri Aug 14, 2009 8:36 pm

Another great Irish movie is I Went Down. It's like the original In Bruges.