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A Bullet for Pretty Boy (1970)
, 1h28Directed by Maury Dexter
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime
Themes Gangster films
Actors Fabian Forte, Jocelyn Lane, Adam Roarke, Morgan Fairchild, James N. Harrell
Oklahoma farmer Charles Floyd marries Ruby. At the reception, some goons insult Ruby and Charles attacks them. This results in Floyd's father and one of the goons being killed. Floyd is convicted of the crime and sent to work on the chain gang.
Trespass Against Us (2017)
, 1h39Directed by Adam Smith
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime
Themes Mafia films, Heist films, Gangster films
Actors Michael Fassbender, Brendan Gleeson, Sean Harris, Lyndsey Marshal, Rory Kinnear, Killian Scott
Chad Cutler, qui vit de combines en tout genre organisées par son père, tente d'échapper à son emprise afin d'offrir une vie meilleure à ses enfants.
We Still Kill the Old Way (1967)
, 1h39Directed by Elio Petri
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Themes Mafia films, Seafaring films, Transport films, Gangster films
Actors Gian Maria Volonté, Irène Papas, Gabriele Ferzetti, Salvo Randone, Luigi Pistilli, Mario Scaccia
Dans une petite commune de Sicile, le pharmacien Arturo Manno, connu pour ses infidélités conjugales, et son ami, le Dr. Roscio, sont assassinés au cours d'une partie de chasse. La Police conclut à un règlement de comptes, imputable à la jalousie. Deux frères, ainsi que leur père, sont accusés du meurtre de Manno car le pharmacien aurait eu une liaison avec leur sœur mineure de 15 ans. Mais Paolo Laurana, professeur, autrefois militant communiste, flaire des motifs plus graves : il découvre, notamment, que Roscio s'apprêtait à dénoncer un notable local compromis avec la Mafia et que Manno recevait des lettres de menace. La lecture du journal intime du docteur, retrouvé par son épouse Luisa, semble confirmer ses soupçons… Toutefois, Luisa, consciemment ou inconsciemment, engage Laurana dans un piège dont il ne sortira pas vivant. Quelque temps après l'inhumation du professeur Laurana, Luisa célèbre son mariage avec son cousin, l'avocat Rosello, le fameux notable impliqué dans les écrits du Dr.
A Colt Is My Passport (1967)
, 1h24Genres Thriller, Action, Crime
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Yakuza films, Gangster films
Actors Joe Shishido, Kanjūrō Arashi, Hitoshi Takagi, Wataru Takagi
It stars Joe Shishido as a hitman who, along with his sidekick played by Jerry Fujio, is hired by the yakuza to eliminate a rival gang's boss. The two are captured after the job, escape and are waylaid once again resulting in a climatic battle. The film was among Shishido's first starring roles, cementing him as a hardboiled action hero, and remains a personal favourite of the 170 films he made at Nikkatsu.
A Day in the Life (2009)
, 1h30Directed by Sticky Fingaz
Origin USA
Genres Musical theatre, Musical, Crime
Themes Films about music and musicians, Hip hop films, Musical films, Gangster films
Actors Mekhi Phifer, Sticky Fingaz, Fredro Starr, Bokeem Woodbine, Omar Epps, Faizon Love
The film centers on one day in the life of Stick, a gang leader, as he attempts to retire from a life of crime. A Day in the Life contains no spoken dialogue. Instead, the actors rap all their lines over a hip-hop beat.
The Underneath (1995)
, 1h39Directed by Steven Soderbergh
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Themes Heist films, Gangster films, Escroquerie
Actors Peter Gallagher, Alison Elliott, William Fichtner, Paul Dooley, Joe Don Baker, Shelley Duvall
Michael Chambers returns home to celebrate his mother's remarriage. Michael had fled his hometown due to gambling indiscretions and had left his wife Rachel to deal with the mess he created. He must now reassimilate into the town, renew his relationships with his family and friends (and enemies) and, most of all, seek out his ex-wife to woo her again.
A History of Violence (2005)
, 1h36Directed by David Cronenberg
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime
Themes Films about immigration, Mafia films, Superhero films, Super-héros inspiré de comics, Gangster films
Actors Viggo Mortensen, Maria Bello, Ed Harris, William Hurt, Ashton Holmes, Peter MacNeill
Tom Stall (Viggo Mortensen) is a restaurant owner in the small town of Millbrook, Indiana, with a loving wife Edie (Maria Bello), teenage son Jack (Ashton Holmes), and young daughter Sarah (Heidi Hayes). One night two men (Stephen McHattie and Greg Bryk) attempt to rob the restaurant. When a waitress is threatened, Tom deftly kills both robbers with surprising skill and precision. He is hailed as a hero by his family and the townspeople, and the incident makes him a local celebrity.
A Moment of Romance (1990)
, 1h28Directed by Benny Chan
Origin Hong kong
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime, Romance
Themes Sports films, Transport films, Martial arts films, Road movies, Gangster films
Actors Andy Lau, Ng Man-tat, Lau Kong
Wah Dee (Andy Lau), a young triad gangster, is the getaway driver in a jewelry store robbery. When the raid goes wrong, he takes a young woman named Jo Jo (Jacklyn Wu) hostage. The head of Wah Dee's gang, Trumpet, demands that she be killed, but Wah Dee resists and saves her. Despite the fact that Wah Dee and Jo Jo come from different backgrounds, the two fall in love but still face many difficulties.
Hard Boiled (1992)
, 2h6Directed by John Woo
Origin Hong kong
Genres Thriller, Action, Crime
Themes Sports films, Martial arts films, Gangster films
Actors Chow Yun-fat, Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Philip Chan, Teresa Mo, John Woo, Philip Kwok
In a tea house in Hong Kong, Officer "Tequila" Yuen (Chow Yun-fat) and his partner Benny (Bowie Lam), attempt to arrest a group of gun smugglers while they are making a deal. After an ambush from another gang member, a fierce gun battle breaks out. The gangsters are defeated but with several police officers badly wounded, and Benny is killed. Tequila, seeking revenge, decides to kill the gangster who ambushed them, rather than arrest him. This angers his boss, Officer Superintendent Pang (Philip Chan), who wanted the gangster alive to testify. Tequila is ordered off the case.
The Grad Job (2013)
, 1h37Directed by Antoine Blossier
Origin France
Genres Comedy
Themes Buddy films, Heist films, Gangster films, Escroquerie
Actors Marc Lavoine, Valérie Karsenti, Thomas Solivéres, La Fouine, Louise Grinberg, Samy Seghir
Dans le lycée Le Corbusier, il y a Greg. Celui-ci passe son bac cette année mais ce n'est pas gagné. S'il veut pouvoir continuer à vivre son histoire d'amour avec la belle Maeva, il va devoir préparer un cambriolage irréel et qui doit rester invisible : voler les sujets du bac ! Il décide alors de monter une équipe composée notamment de son meilleur ami Yani (Samy Seghir), de Fati (Melha Bedia) et de Scarface (La Fouine), qui avait déjà essayé de commettre ce braquage il y a 10 ans, avant de se faire prendre au dernier moment.
A True Mob Story (1998)
, 1h52Directed by Wong Jing
Origin Hong kong
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime, Romance
Themes Sports films, Martial arts films, Gangster films
Actors Andy Lau, Alex Fong, Gigi Leung, Mark Cheng, Sam Lee, Lee Siu-kei
In 1993, Wai Kat-cheung (Andy Lau) is an underling of Prince (Mark Cheng). Since Cheung was young, his father was a triad member so Cheung also joined the triad. One time when Prince owed Crazy Ball (Ben Ng) HK$3 million debt, Crazy Ball abducted Prince and Cheung rescues him by slicing Crazy Ball's left eye. Although he later became highly regarded by Prince and his status rose, he also had to pay a heavy price. He not only forged a vendetta with Crazy Ball, that night, his wife Cindy (Angie Cheung) also saw him slaughtering and went to help him but was run over by a car.
Ameerin Aadhi Bhagavan (2013)
, 2h40Directed by Ameer Sultan
Genres Action
Themes Films about families, Gangster films
Actors Jayam Ravi, Neetu Chandra, Sudha Chandran, Saiju Kurup, Babu Antony, P. Ravi Shankar
The film begins in a city in Andhra, where the CBI raid a rich local politician's house. The Chief Officer is shown to be Jayam Ravi, who orders to seize all illegal items found. The politician is arrested, but he requests to come to the CBI office in his own car. It is later revealed that, no CBI raid was planned on his house and all that happened was a hoax. The politician gets angry and orders to hunt down the men who cheated him in the name of CBI. Aadhi (Jayam Ravi) is a gangster, specialised in drug and arms dealing. The hoax CBI raid was one of his mission to loot the politicians. Aadhi is living alone, as his mom and sister are angry with him for being a gangster. As it goes, Aadhi meets Karishma, (Neetu Chandra), a beautiful hotel waitress, who often gets humiliated by her boss. Aadhi falls for her, and saves her and takes her home to be with him. During a drug deal, Aadhi is being attacked and he is shot. Karishma saves him, treats his wounds and saves his life. Aadhi plans to leave to Mumbai, where he gets attacked in the airport, and it is revealed that Karishma is a part of the criminal gang that was trying to kill Aadhi. Then Aadhi is taken Hostage, where another victim reveals the true story about Karishma. Her name is not Karishma at all, but she is Rani, the right hand and partner in crime of a very powerful, cruel, ruthless criminal named Bhagavan Alias Mumbai Bhagavan (Jayam Ravi) who looks exactly like Aadhi. Bhagavan is a very feminine charactered guy, who loves to wear make up and walk, talk and do everything like a girl. But he still has a weakness for good looking girls. Bhagavan does so many jobs for his customers, such as include murder, robbery, and kidnap . At one such instance, Bhagavan gets angry by the behavior of a politician's cousin and murders him. The politician gets angry and promises to get Bhagavan murdered. As the politician is much more powerful than Bhagavan, he goes into hiding. But the Politician makes the search very intense and is very keen to find Bhagavan. So Arumugam comes to know about Aadhi, who resembles Bhagavan. So she traps him and makes him fall into her plan, so that he can be substituted as Bhagavan, on whom the politician wants to take revenge. In the climax, Aadhi kills Karishma and Bhagavan brutally. The film ends with Aadhi leaving the place while Bhagavan also moves away from the place which indicates that Bhagavan is alive and film also hints for sequel.
Aaghaaz (2000)
, 2h40Genres Drama, Action, Crime
Themes Gangster films
Actors Suniel Shetty, Sushmita Sen, Namrata Shirodkar, Suman Ranganathan, Johnny Lever, Rajinikanth
The film is the story of Govind Narang (Sunil Shetty), an honest and chivalrous man from a small village in Punjab. He falls in love with Sudha (Sushmita Sen), but marries Masterji's daughter, Pushpa (Suman Ranganathan), to save her from public ridicule. Pushpa was impregnated by a police officer who refuses to marry her. She does not love Govind and hates Sudha with a passion. Together with her brother, Laxman (Sharad Kapoor), Pushpa tries to expel Sudha from of the village, but is unsuccessful. When Laxman finds out about Pushpa's infidelity, he poisons her. After his wife's death, Govind relocates to Mumbai with his sister, Ratna (Shraddha Nigam). He meets beautiful Gitika (Namrata Shirodkar) and they fall in love. One day, as Govind defends the honor of a young girl from the brother of a hoodlum, Johnny Handsome (Sharat Saxena), he generates hatred and animosity. Johnny is humiliated by Govind and swears vengeance with the help of Sadanand Kutty (Gulshan Grover) and Karim Khan Toofani (Govind Namdeo). On the other hand, Govind befriends Ram Sevak (Alok Nath), and with his help and assistance of a landowner arranges the purchase of a large plot of land so that hawkers and small shop-owners could set up their businesses. But nothing goes according to plan. The plot of land and the owner turn out to be fake, Ram Sevak turns out to be in hand with the gangsters, and Govind gets all the blame; His sister is openly raped, and Govind himself gets seriously wounded, in broad daylight before the very eyes of the people he defended. Govind is then helped by Sudha, and he decides to teach everyone a lesson. He files an FIR against everyone in the neighbourhood who witnessed what happened to his sister except the culprits themseleves. When they are brought to court, he condemns everyone for their attitude, and then tells them to be brave and fight goondaism. Encouraged by this, the entire neighborhood decides to take on the gang. They attack the gangsters with bottles when they come to threaten them in the locality, and then move on to Johnny handsome's office, breaking everything and attacking all the goons. In join Govind and Sudha to attack the gangsters and arrest them. The criminals are sentenced and everything returns to normal. In the end, though on a happy note, Govind's sister marries a close friend of the family, and Govind agrees to marry Sudha.
Aaranya Kaandam (2011)
, 2h3Directed by Thiagarajan Kumararaja
Genres Drama, Comedy, Action, Crime
Themes Gangster films
Actors Jackie Shroff, Ravi Krishna, Sampath Raj, Five Star Krishna, Sugunthan Deenadayalan, Guru Somasundaram
The film opens with the aging gangster, Singaperumal, forcing himself on a young girl, Subbu. He is unable to perform, and vents his anger by slapping the helpless Subbu. Singaperumal is the grand don of crime in Madras. His lieutenant, Pasupathi, brings a proposal. A large stash of cocaine, worth about 20 million rupees, has entered the city. The guy bringing the stash wants to sell it for 5 million rupees. Pasupathi sees the immediate easy profit, as well as the long term benefit (to control the cocaine market with such a large supply) and the recognition that they are able to pull off such a deal. The drawback is that the stash really belongs to their arch rival Gajendran. Singaperumal knows that Gajendran is a vicious and unpredictable adversary, and the venture is risky and likely to become messy. He decides to pass. Pasupathi dourly suggests Singaperumal is getting old and rusty. He asks Singaperumal to loan him the five million so he can do the job himself. Pasupathi is prepared to face the risks, and in return for the loan, he offers Singaperumal a cut of the profits. Singaperumal agrees to the loan, but, instead asks Pasupathi to first get the stash and then think of the profit distribution. The money for the loan is brought to Singaperumal.
Ab Tak Chhappan (2004)
, 2h9Directed by Shimit Amin
Origin Inde
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Bollywood, Gangster films
Actors Nana Patekar, Mohan Agashe, Revathi, Yashpal Sharma, Hrishitaa Bhatt, Tanmay Jahagirdar
The section of the Mumbai Police Department responsible for handling the underworld known as Crime Branch is headed by Sadhu Agashe (Nana Patekar). Sadhu is the city’s best inspector, with an enviable reputation and record of encounter shootings. Though tough, he is a loving husband to his wife (Revathi) and father and also helps his informers and other poor people in times of need. His immediate junior, Imtiyaz Siddiqui (Yashpal Sharma) despises Sadhu to no end; he feels Sadhu intentionally belittles him. Also Imtiyaz is more concerned about adding to his encounter score and therefore ends up killing more than the primary target which is the main reason Sadhu dislikes him. To add to his woes, Imtiyaz is unable to surpass Sadhu’s encounter "score". Enter Jatin (Nakul Vaid), a rookie to this line of policing who manages to impress Sadhu. The inspector takes the newcomer under his wing, further antagonising Imtiyaz. All of them report to the Commissioner Pradhan (Mohan Agashe) who is a fair and honest police officer.