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Gangs of Wasseypur - Part 1 (2012)
, 2h40Directed by Anurag Kashyap
Genres Thriller, Action, Crime
Themes Gangster films
Actors Manoj Bajpayee, Jaideep Ahlawat, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Huma Qureshi, Tigmanshu Dhulia, Jameel Khan
Wasseypur, Inde. La ville voit s'affronter trois générations de gangsters, héritiers de deux clans. Celui de Shahid Khan, qui le premier se lança dans le pillage de trains britanniques, contre celui de Ramadhir Singh, au pouvoir sans partage sur la région. Devenu paria, Shahid Khan est contraint de travailler dans la mine de son pire ennemi. Sardar Khan, fils de Shahid et coureur de jupon invétéré, a juré de rétablir l'honneur de son père en devenant l'homme le plus redouté de Wasseypur.
Die Hard (1988)
, 2h12Directed by John McTiernan
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Action
Themes L'action se déroule en une journée, Christmas films, Psychologie, Films about terrorism, Heist films, Children's films, Gangster films, Escroquerie
Actors Bruce Willis, Alan Rickman, Alexandre Godounov, Reginald VelJohnson, Bonnie Bedelia, William Atherton
On Christmas Eve, New York City Police Detective Lieutenant John McClane arrives in Los Angeles to reconcile with his estranged wife, Holly. McClane is driven to the Nakatomi Plaza building for a company Christmas party by Argyle. While McClane changes clothes, the party is disrupted by the arrival of Hans Gruber and his heavily armed group: Karl, Franco, Tony, Theo, Alexander, Marco, Kristoff, Eddie, Uli, Heinrich, Fritz, and James. The group seize the tower and secure those inside as hostages, except for McClane, who manages to slip away.
The Departed (2006)
, 2h30Directed by Martin Scorsese
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime
Themes Films about immigration, Mafia films, Transport films, Gangster films
Actors Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Jack Nicholson, Mark Wahlberg, Martin Sheen, Ray Winstone
As a child, Colin Sullivan (Damon) had been introduced to organized crime by Irish-American mobster Frank Costello (Nicholson) in the Irish neighborhood of South Boston. Over the years, Costello grooms him to become a mole inside the Massachusetts State Police, until Sullivan is accepted into the Special Investigations Unit, which focuses on organized crime.
Jigarthanda (2014)
, 2h51Directed by Karthik Subbaraj
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Action, Crime
Themes Gangster films
Actors Siddharth, Lakshmi Menon, Bobby Simha, Pratap K. Pothen, Karunakaran, Sangili Murugan
Karthik (Siddharth) is a short-film maker and aspires to make a feature film. He participates in a talent search program (like Naalaya Iyakkunar) and is in the semi-final round. The show’s two judges include a highbrow film director (Nassar) who trashes Karthik’s attempt at film-making and a profit-oriented producer (Aadukalam Naren) who riles against the director, and declares that Karthik made the best film among the contestants. Though the director eliminates karthik from the contest,the producer offers to produce a film with Karthik as the director and both the judges storm out of the show. The next day, the producer is annoyed that Karthik took his words seriously and came to meet him. He is uninterested in the script that Karthik wants to film, and instead suggests that he wants to make a gangster film along the style of Nayagan, Thalapathi, The Godfather etc. Karthik takes this suggestion to heart and sets his mind on documenting the life of a gangster and making a film script out of it.
Reservoir Dogs (1992)
, 1h39Directed by Quentin Tarantino
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Mob film, Crime
Themes Medical-themed films, Psychologie, Films about psychiatry, Heist films, Gangster films, Escroquerie
Actors Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth, Chris Penn, Steve Buscemi, Lawrence Tierney, Michael Madsen
Eight men eat breakfast at a Los Angeles diner before their planned diamond heist, most of them unknown to each other. Six of them use aliases: Mr. Blonde, Mr. Blue, Mr. Brown, Mr. Orange, Mr. Pink, and Mr. White. With them are mob boss Joe Cabot, the organizer of the heist, and his son/underboss, "Nice Guy" Eddie Cabot. During the course of the film, the major characters are sporadically introduced by subtitles (e.g., "Mr. White") and their character backstories are explored in subsequent, non-linear fashion.
, 1h47Directed by Guy Ritchie
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Thriller, Comedy, Mob film, Action, Crime
Themes Mafia films, Medical-themed films, Films about drugs, Heist films, Gangster films, Escroquerie
Actors Jason Flemyng, Dexter Fletcher, Nick Moran, Jason Statham, Steven Mackintosh, Sting
Long-time friends and small-time criminals Eddy, Tom, Soap and Bacon put together £100,000 so that Eddy, a genius card shark, can buy into one of "Hatchet" Harry Lonsdale's weekly high-stakes three card brag games. The game is rigged however, and the friends end up massively indebted to Harry, who fully expects them not to be able to come up with the money before the deadline he gives them. He has his sights set on Eddy's father's bar as repayment, and sets his debt collector Big Chris (who is often accompanied by his beloved son, Little Chris) to work in order to ensure that some form of payment is coming up.
La Haine (1995)
, 1h38Directed by Mathieu Kassovitz
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama
Themes La banlieue française, Dance films, Films about music and musicians, Films about racism, Hip hop films, Gangster films
Actors Vincent Cassel, Hubert Koundé, Saïd Taghmaoui, Mathieu Kassovitz, Benoît Magimel, Omar Sy
The film depicts approximately 19 consecutive hours in the lives of three friends in their early twenties from immigrant families living in an impoverished multi-ethnic French housing project (a ZUP – zone d'urbanisation prioritaire) in the suburbs of Paris, in the aftermath of a riot. Vinz (Vincent Cassel), who is Jewish, is filled with rage. He sees himself as a gangster ready to win respect by killing a cop, manically practising the role of Travis Bickle from the film Taxi Driver in the mirror secretly. His attitude towards police, for instance, is a simplified, stylized blanket condemnation, even to individual policemen who make an effort to steer the trio clear of troublesome situations. Hubert (Hubert Koundé) is an Afro-French boxer and small time drug dealer, the most mature of the three, whose gymnasium was burned in the riots. The quietest, most thoughtful and wisest of the three, he sadly contemplates the ghetto and the hate around him. He expresses the wish to simply leave this world of violence and hate behind him, but does not know how since he lacks the means to do so. Saïd – Sayid in some English subtitles – (Saïd Taghmaoui) is an Arab Maghrebi who inhabits the middle ground between his two friends' responses to their place in life.
Gran Torino (2009)
, 1h52Directed by Clint Eastwood
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller
Themes Films about racism, Transport films, Films about automobiles, Road movies, Gangster films
Actors Bee Vang, Ahney Her, Cory Hardrict, Clint Eastwood, Geraldine Hughes, Christopher Carley
Walt Kowalski (Clint Eastwood) is a cantankerous, retired Polish American assembly line worker and Korean War veteran, who has recently been widowed after 50 years of marriage, causing him to be a lapsed Catholic. His Highland Park, Michigan neighborhood in the Detroit area, formerly populated by working class white families, is now dominated by poor Asian immigrants, and gang violence is commonplace. Adding to the isolation he feels is the emotional detachment of his family.
On the Waterfront (1954)
, 1h48Directed by Elia Kazan
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Noir, Crime, Romance
Themes Mafia films, Films about religion, Films about the labor movement, Political films, Gangster films
Actors Marlon Brando, Karl Malden, Eva Marie Saint, Lee J. Cobb, Rod Steiger, Leif Erickson
Mob-connected union boss Johnny Friendly (Lee J. Cobb) gloats about his iron-fisted control of the waterfront. The police and the Waterfront Crime Commission know that Friendly is behind a number of murders, but witnesses play "D and D" ("deaf and dumb"), accepting their subservient position rather than risking the danger and shame of informing.
The Bandit (1996)
, 2h1Directed by Yavuz Turgul
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime
Themes Mafia films, Gangster films
Actors Şener Şen, Uğur Yücel, Kamran Usluer, Özkan Uğur
After serving a 35-year jail sentence, Baran (played by Şener Şen), an eşkıya (a bandit, a haydut in Turkish), is released from prison in a town in Eastern Turkey. When returning to the home village he witness the fact that the world has changed dramatically during those years, with the village itself underwater after the construction of a dam. Then he also finds out that the person who masterminded the betrayal that brought him to jail was Berfo (Kamuran Usluer), a friend who had once been closer to him than a brother. In order to snare Keje (Sermin Şen), Baran's sweetheart, Berfo seized his best friend's gold and had Baran arrested by the gendarmes on Mountain Cudi. Then Berfo purchased Keje from her father against her will, and disappeared. According to rumor, he is in Istanbul.
Rififi (1955)
, 1h54Directed by Jules Dassin
Origin France
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Noir, Crime
Themes Heist films, Gangster films, Escroquerie
Actors Jean Servais, Carl Möhner, Jules Dassin, Magali Noël, Robert Hossein, Janine Darcey
Tony "le Stéphanois" has served a five-year prison term for a jewel heist and is out on the street and down on his luck. His friend Jo approaches him about a smash-and-grab proposed by mutual friend Mario in which the threesome would cut the glass on a Parisian jeweler's front window in broad daylight and snatch some gems. Tony declines. He then learns that his old girlfriend, Mado, took up in his absence with gangster Parisian nightclub owner Pierre Grutter. Finding Mado working at Grutter's, Tony invites her back to his rundown flat. She is obviously well-kept, and Tony savagely beats her for being so deeply involved with Grutter. Tony changes his mind about the heist; he now accepts on the condition that they rob the jeweler's safe instead of the window. Mario suggests they employ the services of Italian compatriot César, a safecracker. The four devise and rehearse an ingenious plan to break into the store and disarm its sophisticated alarm system.
White Heat (1949)
, 1h54Directed by Raoul Walsh
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Noir, Crime
Themes Medical-themed films, Prison films, Films about psychiatry, Gangster films
Actors James Cagney, Virginia Mayo, Edmond O'Brien, Margaret Wycherly, Steve Cochran, Ford Rainey
Arthur "Cody" Jarrett (James Cagney) is a ruthless, deranged criminal gang leader. Although married to Verna (Virginia Mayo), Cody is overly attached to his equally crooked and determined mother, "Ma" Jarrett (Margaret Wycherly), his only real confidante (Cody's father died in an insane asylum). Cody suffers from debilitating headaches, and Ma consoles him--even sitting him on her lap and giving him a shot of whiskey with the toast, "Top of the world," an expression she uses more than once.
Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
, 2h4Directed by Sidney Lumet
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy-drama, Documentary, Mob film, Crime
Themes L'action se déroule en une journée, Psychologie, Films about sexuality, Bisexuality-related films, LGBT-related films, Transgender in film, Heist films, Gangster films, Escroquerie, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Al Pacino, John Cazale, Charles Durning, James Broderick, Chris Sarandon, Carol Kane
First-time crook Sonny Wortzik (Al Pacino), his friend Salvatore "Sal" Naturale (John Cazale), and Stevie (Gary Springer) attempt to rob the First Brooklyn Savings Bank. The plan immediately goes awry when Stevie loses his nerve shortly after Sal pulls out his gun, and Sonny is forced to let him flee the scene. In the vault, Sonny discovers that he and Sal have arrived after the daily cash pickup, and only $1,100 in cash remains in the bank.
Infernal Affairs (2002)
, 1h41Directed by Andrew Lau, Alan Mak
Origin Hong kong
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime
Themes Sports films, Martial arts films, Gangster films
Actors Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Andy Lau, Anthony Wong, Eric Tsang, Edison Chen, Sammi Cheng
Infernal Affairs focuses on a police officer named Chan Wing-yan, who goes undercover into a triad, and a triad member Lau Kin-ming, who infiltrates the Hong Kong Police Force. Each mole has been planted by the rival organisation to gain an advantage in intelligence over the other side. The more the moles become involved in their undercover lives, the more issues they have to cope with.
, 1h50Directed by George Roy Hill
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Action, Adventure, Historical, Crime, Western
Themes Transport films, Films about automobiles, Road movies, Buddy films, Chase films, Gangster films
Actors Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Katharine Ross, Henry Jones, Cloris Leachman, Ted Cassidy
In late 1890s Wyoming, Butch Cassidy (Paul Newman) is the affable, clever, talkative leader of the outlaw Hole in the Wall Gang. His closest companion is the laconic dead-shot "Sundance Kid" (Robert Redford). The two return to their hideout at Hole-in-the-Wall (Wyoming) to discover that the rest of the gang, irked at Butch's long absences, have selected Harvey Logan (Ted Cassidy) as their new leader. Harvey challenges Butch to a knife fight over the gang's leadership. Butch defeats him using trickery, but embraces Harvey's idea to rob the Union Pacific Overland Flyer train on both its eastward and westward runs, agreeing that the second robbery would be unexpected and likely reap even more money than the first.