Crime and gangster films depict the sinister actions of criminals who operate outside the law, often focusing on bank robbers, gangsters, and ruthless hoodlums. These films are usually set in large cities and portray the secret criminal world through elements like nightclubs, fast cars, and gangland jargon. Crime stories in this genre often highlight the lives of criminals or their victims and the rise and fall of criminal figures in conflict with law enforcement.

2.  Crime and Gangster Films are developed around the sinister actions of criminals
or gangsters, particularly bank robbers, underworld figures, or ruthless hoodlums
who operate outside the law, stealing and violently murdering their way through
life. In the 1940s, a new type of crime thriller emerged, more dark and cynical -
see the section on film-noir for further examples of crime films. Criminal and
gangster films are often categorized as post-war film noir or detective-mystery
films - because of underlying similarities between these cinematic forms.
 Crime stories in this genre often highlight the life of a crime figure or a crime's
victim(s). Or they glorify the rise and fall of a particular criminal(s), gang, bank
robber, murderer or lawbreakers in personal power struggles or conflict with law
and order figures, an underling or competitive colleague, or a rival gang.
Headline-grabbing situations, real-life gangsters, or crime reports have often been
used in crime films. Gangster/crime films are usually set in large, crowded cities,
to provide a view of the secret world of the criminal: dark nightclubs or streets
with lurid neon signs, fast cars, piles of cash, sleazy bars, contraband, seedy living
quarters or rooming houses. Exotic locales for crimes often add an element of
adventure and wealth. Writers dreamed up appropriate gangland jargon for the
tales, such as "tommy guns" or "molls.“

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The Pleasure
Garden
(1925)
Bulldog Jack
(1935
Under
Capricorn
(1945)
Time
Without Pity
(1957)
The League
of Gentlemen
(1960)
A Clockwork
Orange
(1971)
The
Hit (1984)
The
Krays (1990)
Lock, Stock
and Two
Smoking
Barrels
(1998) Sexy Beast
(2000)
Snatch (2000
)
Dirty Pretty
Things (2002
) Dead Man's
Shoes (2004)
Brighton
Rock (2010)
Revolver (2005)
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4.  Patsy Brand is a chorus girl at the Pleasure Garden music hall. She meets Jill
Cheyne who is down on her luck and gets her a job as a dancer. Jill meets
adventurer Hugh Fielding and they get engaged, but when Hugh travels out of the
country, she begins to play around.
 Director:Alfred Hitchcock
 Writers:Oliver Sandys (novel), Eliot Stannard
 Stars:Virginia Valli, Carmelita Geraghty, Miles Mander
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5.  Bulldog Drummond is injured when his sabotaged car crashes and Jack
Pennington agrees to masquerade as the sleuth. He is enlisted to help Ann
Manders find her jeweler grandfather who has been kidnapped by a gang of
crooks who want him to copy a valuable necklace they want to steal. Their plan
backfires in the British Museum and the film climaxes in an exciting chase on a
runaway train in the London Underground.
 Director:Walter Forde
 Writers:Gerard Fairlie (screenplay), Sidney Gilliat(screenplay)
 Stars:Jack Hulbert, Fay Wray, Ralph Richardson
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6.  A young gentleman goes to Australia where he reunites with his now married
childhood sweetheart, only to find out she has become an alcoholic and harbors
dark secrets.
 Director:Alfred Hitchcock
 Writers:John Colton (play), Margaret Linden (play)
 Stars:Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten, Michael Wilding
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7.  Alec Graham is sentenced to death for the murder of his girlfriend Jennie, with whom
he spent a weekend at the English country home of the parents of his friend Brian
Stanford. Alec's father, David Graham, a not-so-successful writer and alcoholic who
has neglected his son in the past, flies in from Canada to visit his son on death row.
Alec repudiates his father's attempts for a final reconciliation. David Graham,
convinced of his son's innocence and, despite his preoccupation with himself and his
own alcoholism, mounts a last-ditch effort to find the true murderer in the 24 hours
remaining until the planned execution. Graham encounters the wealthy and famous
car manufacturer Robert Stanford, tyrant at home and in the office and an apparent
womanizer, Stanford's young, curiously troubled wife Honar, their ill-at- ease son
Brian, himself disturbed by his parents' relationship, and Vicky Harker, a young,
brainless secretary at Stanford's factory who has been climbing up the career ladder at
a rapid pace lately...
 Director:Joseph Losey
 Writer:Ben Barzman (screenplay)
 Stars:Michael Redgrave, Ann Todd, Leo McKern
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8.  A disgruntled veteran recruits a group of disgraced collegues to perform a bank
robbery with military precision.
 Director:Basil Dearden
 Writers:John Boland (novel), Bryan Forbes (screenplay)
 Stars:Jack Hawkins, Nigel Patrick, Roger Livesey
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9.  In future Britain, charismatic delinquent Alex DeLarge is jailed and volunteers
for an experimental aversion therapy developed by the government in an effort to
solve society's crime problem - but not all goes according to plan.
 Director:Stanley Kubrick
 Writers:Stanley Kubrick (screenplay), Anthony Burgess(novel)
 Stars:Malcolm McDowell, Patrick Magee, Michael Bates
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10.  Ex-gangster Willie Parker has betrayed his former "colleagues" and now lives in
Spain where he thinks he can hide from their vengeance. But one day, ten years
later, two hitmen (Braddock and Myron) show up and kidnap Willie. They are
ordered to escort him back to Paris where he should stand trial. But it is a long
way to Paris...
 Director:Stephen Frears
 Writer:Peter Prince
 Stars:Freddie Stuart, Ralph Brown, A.J. Clarke
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11.  A botched card game in London triggers four friends, thugs, weed-growers, hard
gangsters, loan sharks and debt collectors to collide with each other in a series of
unexpected events, all for the sake of weed, cash and two antique shotguns.
 Director:Guy Ritchie
 Writer:Guy Ritchie
 Stars:Jason Flemyng, Dexter Fletcher, Nick Moran
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12.  This fact-based movie follows the life of the twin crime-lords in London's '60s
underworld.
 Director:Peter Medak
 Writer:Philip Ridley
 Stars:Gary Kemp, Martin Kemp, Billie Whitelaw
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13.  Brutal gangster Don Logan recruits "retired" safecracker Gal for one last job, but
it goes badly for both of them.
 Director:Jonathan Glazer
 Writers:Louis Mellis, David Scinto, 1 more credit
 Stars:Ray Winstone, Ben Kingsley, Ian McShane
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14.  Unscrupulous boxing promoters, violent bookmakers, a Russian gangster,
incompetent amateur robbers, and supposedly Jewish jewelers fight to track down
a priceless stolen diamond.
 Director:Guy Ritchie
 Writer:Guy Ritchie
 Stars:Jason Statham, Brad Pitt, Benicio Del Toro
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15.  An illegal Nigerian immigrant discovers the unpalatable side of London life.
 Director:Stephen Frears
 Writer:Steven Knight
 Stars:Chiwetel Ejiofor, Audrey Tautou, Sophie Okonedo
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16.  A disaffected soldier (Considine) returns to his hometown to get even with the
thugs who brutalized his mentally-challenged brother (Kebbell) years ago.
 Director:Shane Meadows
 Writers:Paddy Considine, Shane Meadows
 Stars:Paddy Considine, Gary Stretch, Toby Kebbell
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17.  Gambler Jake Green enters into a game with potentially deadly consequences.
 Director:Guy Ritchie
 Writers:Luc Besson (adaptation), Guy Ritchie
 Stars:Jason Statham, Ray Liotta, Vincent Pastore
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18.  Charts the headlong fall of Pinkie, a razor-wielding disadvantaged teenager with
a religious death wish.
 Director:Rowan Joffe
 Writers:Rowan Joffe, Graham Greene (novel)
 Stars:Sam Riley, Andrea Riseborough, Helen Mirren
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