gangster films: do you like them/which are the best?

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  1. Wildest cat from montana

    Wildest cat from montana Humble Reader

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    Take me out to the ball game!
     
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  2. smilin ed

    smilin ed Senior Member

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    Better than Get Carter? Not sure. Villain is good too, as is Mona Lisa. Brighton Rock? The Lady-Killers? Maybe Gangster No. 1 too
     
  3. smilin ed

    smilin ed Senior Member

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    Um...
    Little Caesar
    Touchez pas au grisbi
    Scarface (original)
    Public Enemy
    Gomorrah
    Once Upon a Time in America
    Pépé le Moko
    White Heat
    De battre mon coeur s’est arrêté
    High Sierra
    The Sicilian Clan
    Il Divo
    Rififi
    The Untouchables
    Mesrine (parts 1 and 2)
    The Desperate Hours
    Bob le flambeur
    Godfather 1-3
    Bullets over Broadway
    Goodfellas
    Le Cercle rouge
    Casino
    Dead End
    Borsalino
    I am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
    The Roaring Twenties

    For now...
     
  4. Jazzmonkie

    Jazzmonkie Forum Resident

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    Suzuki is one of my favorite directors. Have you seen his own semi-remake "Pistol Opera?"
     
  5. Halfwit

    Halfwit Forum Resident

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    It's great. I still think Branded to Kill is his masterpiece though. I even picked up the soundtrack on Japanese import vinyl
     
  6. Dillydipper

    Dillydipper Space-Age luddite

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    For reasons I detailed in the Raging Bull thread which I won't rehash (although it's highly-relevant to this topic, even moreso than the other one), no I do not like them.

    My one exception is Once Upon A Time In America, which heartbreakingly details all the main character's paths towards their hard choices, starting at their very childhood traumas. The Morricone soundtrack is outstanding, from the Zamfir performances to that achingly wondrous entrance of Jennifer Connelly as Deborah (and, a Beatles track thrown in, presumably just for the Hoffman Board viewers). Leone has crafted an innocent, hard-scrapple past in a place and time, most people will never experience; and it leads to something far more devastating than ballsy gun battles, chest-thumping and salty language. It is a tale of life as a innocent, spiritual Titanic, sinking to ruins after a glorious maiden voyage.

    So...feel free to consider this a legitimate threadcrap...because I do not consider this a real "gangster movie". It's gangsters in a Wagnerian tragedy.
     
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  7. zombie dai

    zombie dai people live in dreams, but not in their own Thread Starter

    is this it?
     
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  8. Chazro

    Chazro Forum Resident

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    If you add tv series it's a whole new ball game!
     
  9. Michael

    Michael I LOVE WIDE S-T-E-R-E-O!

    yes, IIRC that version is edited and looks like junk...I'M HOPING FOR AN OFFICIAL RELEASE ON BD. : )
     
  10. Jazzmonkie

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    BTK is my favorite too.
     
  11. Grant

    Grant Life is a rock, but the radio rolled me!

    The only gangsta movie I ever liked is Boyz in Tha Hood. Yes, it's a gangsta film no matter how you decide to say the word.
     
  12. zombie dai

    zombie dai people live in dreams, but not in their own Thread Starter

    i think it's on amazon prime too, maybe the version you want?
     
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  13. zombie dai

    zombie dai people live in dreams, but not in their own Thread Starter

    is there a definition of gangster films? would film noir and raymond chander esque detective films be gangster films?
     
  14. Evethingandnothing

    Evethingandnothing Forum Resident

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    Only really good ones.

    At one point I got really fed up with the amount of Hitman movies. I mean, how many hitmen can there be? But I got over it.
     
  15. Michael

    Michael I LOVE WIDE S-T-E-R-E-O!

    i'll check...thanks.
     
  16. Jazzmonkie

    Jazzmonkie Forum Resident

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    Do they involve large criminal organizations, or small gangs formed to perform a certain illegal act?
     
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  17. SPF2001

    SPF2001 a must to avoid

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    And when you're done with all the blood
    and gore,maybe check out "Bugsy Malone".
     
  18. Vic_1957

    Vic_1957 Forum Resident

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    Most of the usual suspects have been posted already. I'll go with a comedy... Wise Guys with Joe Piscopo and DeVito :

     
  19. Monosterio

    Monosterio Forum Resident

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    What other gangster film manages to briefly turn into a western like The Untouchables does?

     
  20. zombie dai

    zombie dai people live in dreams, but not in their own Thread Starter

     
  21. Jimmy Cleveland

    Jimmy Cleveland Forum Resident

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    Surprised no one has mentioned it directly yet, but I just picked up the blu ray of Angels With Dirty Faces, which probably uses every Warner Brothers gangster movie trope there is! Cagney, O’Brian, Bogart, and the Dead End Kids! Cagney chews it up like a Chicago typewriter spitting bullets! A must see…
     
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  22. razerx

    razerx Forum Resident

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    Yakuza movies are pretty violent. I am no connoisseur and most to me are formula. The one that stood out was Outrage with Takeshi Kitaro. Highly recommended.
     
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  23. Grower of Mushrooms

    Grower of Mushrooms Omnivorous mammalian bipedal entity.

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    Ghost Dog (the Way of the Samurai)
    Blue Velvet
    Miller's Crossing

    And strangely, I don't think the Usual Suspects has been mentioned yet.
     
  24. DaveinMA

    DaveinMA Some guy

    If TV shows are going to be allowed, as a few have suggested, then all of the Fargo series would be on my list.
     
  25. unclefred

    unclefred Coastie with the Moastie

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    It's one of my favorites.
     
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