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Neither of these is the better film. They are just at opposite ends.
29 films tagged gangsters
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1972 · Crime
The ageing head of a New York crime family starts handing the business to his sons, and the youngest, who wanted no part of it, is pulled in. Much of it plays out in quiet rooms, in conversations about loyalty and who owes what to whom.
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2015 · Thriller
An FBI agent is recruited onto a cross-border task force going after a cartel, and is told very little about who she is working for or what the job actually is. She spends the film trying to find out.
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2008 · Action
Batman, a new district attorney and a straight-arrow cop try to break organised crime in Gotham, and a criminal with no name and no plan starts pulling the city apart. Much of it is about what each of them will agree to do.
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2014 · Action
A retired hitman is pulled back in after some young men break into his house and take the one thing he had left. It runs on a strict underworld etiquette that the film never stops to justify.
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2008 · Crime
Two Irish hitmen are sent to a picture-postcard Belgian town to lie low after a job, and one of them is bored out of his mind. They wait for a phone call.
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2000 · Crime
A stolen diamond, an unlicensed boxing promoter and a bare-knuckle fighter nobody can understand all end up chasing the same few objects around London. Told fast, with a large cast and a lot of doubling back.
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2019 · Crime
An American who built a cannabis empire in England wants to sell up and retire, which brings every rival and blackmailer out at once. A tabloid reporter narrates most of it as a pitch.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2005 · Thriller
A quiet diner owner in a small Indiana town stops a robbery and ends up on the news, which brings men from out of state who say they know him. Short, tense, and close to his family.
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2009 · Crime
A nineteen-year-old with no family and no schooling starts a six-year sentence, and the Corsican men who run the prison put him to work. It takes its time, and the violence is sudden and close.
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1995 · Crime
A career thief planning one last big score and the detective chasing him circle each other across Los Angeles. It gives both men full lives outside the job, and the two sit down together only once.
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1998 · Crime
Four friends lose half a million pounds in a rigged card game and have a week to find it, so they plan to rob the neighbours who are busy robbing someone else. Several groups end up after the same two antique shotguns.
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1995 · Thriller
Five criminals meet in a police line-up and agree to work together, and the only man left standing after the job tells the story to a customs agent. Almost all of it is that interview.
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2005 · Action
A billionaire's son leaves Gotham after his parents are killed and spends years abroad learning to fight, then comes back to a city run by mobsters. A good half of it is the training and the building of the kit.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2015 · Crime
A Boston gangster becomes an FBI informant and uses the arrangement to take over the city, while the agent who signed him up keeps covering for him. Cold and talky, with long scenes of men at tables.
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2002 · Crime
Two boys grow up in a Rio housing project through the sixties and seventies, one drifting toward photography and the other toward the drug trade. It moves fast and jumps between dozens of lives.
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2011 · Crime
A Hollywood stunt driver takes getaway jobs at night and keeps himself to himself, until his neighbour's husband comes home from prison. Long quiet stretches, then sudden and very hard violence.
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2007 · Crime
A London midwife has the diary of a girl who died in childbirth translated, and it points her at a Russian family who run more than a restaurant. Quiet and slow, then suddenly not, more than once.
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2024 · Musical
A Mexico City lawyer with no prospects is hired by a cartel boss who wants help disappearing from his own life and becoming someone else. It is sung, and it swings between crime story and dance number.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2002 · Crime
A policeman has spent ten years undercover in a Hong Kong triad while one of the triad's men has spent the same ten years rising inside the police. Both sides find out there is a mole, and it moves fast.
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2023 · Action
John Wick goes looking for a way out from under the crime syndicate that has put a price on his head, which means Osaka, Berlin and Paris. Nearly three hours long, and most of it is fighting.
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2010 · Action
A comic-obsessed teenager buys a wetsuit online and starts patrolling his neighbourhood as a superhero, which goes about as well as you would expect. Very violent, and going for laughs throughout.
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2015 · Crime
Tom Hardy plays both Kray twins, the brothers who ran a piece of 1960s London, while one of them courts a girl from Bethnal Green. Suits, nightclubs, and violence that arrives without warning.
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2012 · Science fiction
In a near future where the mob sends people back thirty years to be shot on arrival, a young hitman is sent a target he recognises. Fast to begin with, then it stops somewhere quiet for a long while.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2002 · Crime
An enforcer for an Illinois mob boss in 1931 takes to the road with his twelve-year-old son after a job goes wrong. Slow and quiet, and it tells you more with pictures than with dialogue.
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2008 · Drama
A teenager from the Mumbai slums is one question from winning the country's biggest game show, and the police want to know how a boy like him has the answers. His whole life, out of order and fast.
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2022 · Action
In his second year out at night, Batman follows a killer who leaves riddles addressed to him at every scene, and the trail runs into the city's oldest families. Long, rainy, and closer to a detective film than a superhero one.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2006 · Crime
A young cop goes undercover inside a Boston crime boss's crew while one of the boss's own men rises through the state police, and each side works out there is a rat. It is long, loud and full of swearing.
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2019 · Crime
A truck driver falls in with the Philadelphia mob and spends decades doing what he is told, including for a union boss the whole country knew. Three and a half hours, told by an old man looking back.
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2011 · Action
A police team goes into a tower block run by a crime boss to take him out floor by floor, and the building fills up behind them. Almost nothing but fighting, in one building, for ninety minutes.
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