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Do the Right Thing (1989)
, 2hDirected by Spike Lee
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Crime
Themes L'action se déroule en une journée, Films about music and musicians, Films about racism, Hip hop films, Musical films, Gangster films
Actors Spike Lee, Danny Aiello, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, Richard Edson, Giancarlo Esposito
Mookie (Spike Lee) is a young black man living in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn with his sister, Jade (Joie Lee). He and his girlfriend, Tina (Rosie Perez), have a son. He's a pizza delivery man at the local pizzeria, but lacks ambition. Sal (Danny Aiello), the pizzeria's Italian-American owner, has been in the neighborhood for twenty-five years. His older son Pino (John Turturro) intensely dislikes blacks, and does not get along with Mookie. Pino is at odds with his younger brother, Vito (Richard Edson), who is friendly with Mookie.
Pokiri (2006)
, 2h48Directed by Puri Jagannadh
Genres Thriller, Action, Crime
Themes Gangster films
Actors Mahesh Babu, Ileana D'Cruz, Prakash Raj, Sayaji Shinde, Ashish Vidyarthi, Nassar
In Hyderabad, two rival mafia gangs headed by Dubai-based don Ali Bhai, and Narayana resort to criminal activities such as extortion, murder, and coercion for various reasons. The new commissioner of police, Sayyad Mohammad Pasha Qadri, focuses on making the city a better place by working at arresting all of them. Pandu, a remorseless gangster living in Hyderabad along with his friends, is hired by Narayana and attacks Ali Bhai's henchmen. He later joins Ali Bhai's gang for monetary reasons. He falls in love with Shruti, an aerobics teacher, who rejects his advances.
Le Samouraï (1967)
, 1h45Directed by Jean-Pierre Melville
Origin France
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Noir, Crime
Themes Transport films, Transport en Île-de-France, Gangster films
Actors Alain Delon, François Périer, Nathalie Delon, Michel Boisrond, Cathy Rosier, Catherine Jourdan
Hitman Jef Costello (Delon) lives in a single-room Parisian apartment whose spartan furnishings include a little bird in a cage. A long opening shot shows him lying on his bed, smoking, when the following text appears on-screen:
Vaastav: The Reality (1999)
Directed by Mahesh Manjrekar
Genres Drama, Action, Crime
Themes Gangster films
Actors Sanjay Dutt, Namrata Shirodkar, Mohnish Bahl, Sanjay Narvekar, Shivaji Satam, Reema Lagoo
Vaastav opens with a family performing the annual rites of a dead person on the beach. When the young son of the deceased asks his grandmother all about the deceased, she begins to narrate the story.
Sin City (2005)
, 2h4Directed by Quentin Tarantino, Robert Rodríguez, Frank Miller
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Thriller, Action, Crime
Themes Films about sexuality, Films about suicide, Films about pedophilia, Superhero films, Serial killer films, Gangster films, Striptease
Actors Jessica Alba, Alexis Bledel, Rosario Dawson, Benicio del Toro, Jaime King, Nick Stahl
The Salesman steps out of the elevator and walks onto a penthouse balcony where The Customer, wearing a beautiful red dress, looks out over Basin City. He offers her a cigarette and says that she looks like someone who is tired of running and that he will save her. She smiles to him, the two share a kiss and he shoots her; she dies in his arms. He says he will never know what she was running from but that he’ll cash her check in the morning.
Company (2002)
, 2h35Directed by Ram Gopal Varma
Origin Inde
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime
Themes Films set in Africa, Mafia films, Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Bollywood, Gangster films
Actors Ajay Devgn, Mohanlal, Manisha Koirala, Vivek Oberoi, Seema Biswas, Antara Mali
The film highlights the economics behind running an Indian mafia organization. In the opening, Ajay Devgan describes the modus operandi of underworld:
Maqbool (2003)
, 2h12Directed by Vishal Bhardwaj
Origin Inde
Genres Drama, Action, Crime
Themes Films about music and musicians, Théâtre, Musical films, Political films, Films based on plays, Films based on works by William Shakespeare, Bollywood, Gangster films, Films about royalty
Actors Irrfan Khan, Tabu, Pankaj Kapur, Om Puri, Naseeruddin Shah, Masumeh Makhija
The film is based on William Shakespeare's Macbeth and with Mumbai underworld as its backdrop. Maqbool (Irrfan Khan) is the right-hand man of Jahangir Khan (alias Abba Ji) (Pankaj Kapoor), a powerful underworld don. Maqbool is grateful and feels a close connection and personal indebtedness to Abba Ji. The movie gains pace with two corrupt police-men (played by Om Puri and Naseeruddin Shah) predicting that Maqbool would soon take over the reins of the Mumbai Underworld from Abba Ji. These two thus play a role akin to the three witches in the original play.
Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003)
, 1h51Directed by Quentin Tarantino
Genres Thriller, Martial arts, Action, Crime
Themes Feminist films, Seafaring films, Sports films, Transport films, Martial arts films, Samurai films, Yakuza films, Political films, Kung fu films, Gangster films
Actors Uma Thurman, Lucy Liu, Vivica A. Fox, Daryl Hannah, David Carradine, Michael Madsen
A woman in a wedding dress, the Bride, lies wounded in a church in El Paso, having been attacked by the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad. She tells their leader, Bill, that she is carrying his baby. He shoots her.
Catch Me If You Can (2002)
, 2h21Directed by Steven Spielberg
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Crime
Themes La provence, Transport films, L'usurpation d'identité, Films about automobiles, Road movies, Heist films, Chase films, Gangster films, Escroquerie
Actors Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hanks, Christopher Walken, Amy Adams, Martin Sheen, Nathalie Baye
In 1963, teen-aged Frank Abagnale (Leonardo DiCaprio) lives in New Rochelle, New York with his father Frank Abagnale, Sr. (Christopher Walken), and French mother Paula (Nathalie Baye). When Frank Sr. is denied a business loan at Chase Manhattan Bank due to unknown difficulties with the IRS, the family is forced to move from their large home to a small apartment. Paula carries on an affair with Jack (James Brolin), a friend of her husband. Meanwhile, Frank poses as a substitute teacher in his French class. Frank’s parents file for divorce, and Frank runs away. When he runs out of money, he begins relying on confidence scams to get by. Soon, Frank’s cons increase and he even impersonates an airline pilot. He forges Pan Am payroll checks and succeeds in stealing over $2.
The Punisher: Dirty Laundry (2012)
, 10minutesDirected by Phil Joanou
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime
Themes Films about sexuality, Rape in fiction, Punisher films, Superhero films, Rape and revenge films, Super-héros inspiré de comics, Gangster films
Actors Thomas Jane, Ron Perlman, Shannon Collis, Jack Goldenberg
In a run-down neighborhood, Frank Castle wakes up and exits his van to get his laundry done. On his way to the coin-op laundromat, he witnesses a street gang stop and confront three prostitutes before Goldtooth, the gang leader, takes one of them to a back alley and rapes her. Despite hearing her screams from a distance, Frank minds his business and places his laundry in a washing machine.
Bugs and Thugs (1954)
, 7minutesDirected by Friz Freleng
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Crime, Animation
Themes Films about animals, Mise en scène d'un lapin ou d'un lièvre, Court métrage de Bugs Bunny, Heist films, Children's films, Gangster films, Mise en scène d'un mammifère, Escroquerie
Actors Mel Blanc, Gérard Surugue
It begins with Bugs emerging from his hole in a city park, reading the newspaper on his way to the nearest bank, for a withdrawal from his personal depository of carrots. He reads that "Rabbit Season Opens Today" and comments on his pleasure of living in a "more secure" urban environment (miraculously avoiding heavy traffic crossing the street while reading the paper).
No Country for Old Men (2007)
, 2h2Directed by Frères Coen
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Mob film, Crime
Themes Medical-themed films, Serial killer films, Films about psychiatry, Gangster films
Actors Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem, Josh Brolin, Woody Harrelson, Kelly Macdonald, Garret Dillahunt
In West Texas, 1980, Ed Tom Bell laments the increasing violence in a region where, like his father and grandfather before him, he has become sheriff. Anton Chigurh, a hitman, strangles a sheriff's deputy to escape custody and steals a car by using a captive bolt pistol to kill the driver.
Big Deal on Madonna Street (1958)
, 1h42Directed by Mario Monicelli
Origin Italie
Genres Comedy, Crime
Themes Heist films, Gangster films, Escroquerie
Actors Vittorio Gassman, Totò, Claudia Cardinale, Marcello Mastroianni, Renato Salvatori, Rosanna Rory
A Roman small-time crook, Cosimo, is arrested for the attempted theft of a car. After he is convicted and put in prison, he starts haranguing his girlfriend and former accomplices by telling them that he has a plan for a heist but that he needs their help to be freed. In order to assure his release, they find an acquaintance named Peppe (Vittorio Gassman) with a clean criminal record to take the blame for the theft in the hope that the police will release Cosimo. They instead have both of them jailed. While Peppe is in jail, Cosimo tells him the plans for the heist of a safe in a pawnshop. Peppe then reveals that he got off merely with probation, leaving him free to pursue the heist without Cosimo, much to his chagrin.
Bound by Honor (1993)
, 3hDirected by Taylor Hackford
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about music and musicians, Prison films, Films about drugs, Hip hop films, Gangster films
Actors Damian Chapa, Jesse Borrego, Benjamin Bratt, Enrique Castillo, Delroy Lindo, Victor Rivers
Miklo is a man of Mexican and Caucasian ethnicity who grew up in El Pico Aliso barrio in east Los Angeles. Upon moving back home from Las Vegas, Nevada, Miklo goes to stay with his two cousins Paco and Cruz. Miklo tells Cruz that he wants to join their gang Vatos Locos. While Paco is initially skeptical, Miklo later proves himself when he performs an attack on a rival gang, Tres Puntos. Afterwards he is made a member of Vatos Locos.
Carlito's Way (1993)
, 2h24Directed by Brian De Palma
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Mob film, Action, Crime, Romance
Themes Mafia films, Medical-themed films, Films about drugs, Gangster films
Actors Al Pacino, Sean Penn, Penelope Ann Miller, John Leguizamo, Luis Guzmán, Viggo Mortensen
In New York City in 1975, after serving only five years of a 30-year prison sentence, Carlito Brigante is freed on a legal technicality exploited by his lawyer, Dave Kleinfeld, infuriating the district attorney. Brigante returns to his old neighborhood of Spanish Harlem, where he reconnects with old associates. Although he vows that he is finished with crime, Brigante is persuaded to accompany his cousin Guajiro to a drug deal at a bar. Guajiro is betrayed and killed while Brigante is forced to shoot his way out. He takes Guajiro's money and uses it to buy into a nightclub, with the intent of saving $75,000 to retire to the Caribbean.