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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

Looking for recommendations I can watch when I'm off work over Xmas.

I've seen the main ones, Casino, Godfather etc.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Gangster no1

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Legend about the Kray brothers. And Narco,Netflix series about Pablo Escobar,both very good

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"Gangster no1"

Nice one

Just watched the trailer, looks good.

That's the stuff I'm after.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

White Heat with Jimmy Cagney

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By *az696969TV/TS
over a year ago

essex

Foot soldier set is good. Bronson

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Foot soldier set is good. Bronson "

That's an absolute classic film

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Gangs of New York

The Departed

Donnie Brasco

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

A good one I've seen is called Cardboard Gangsters.

Really rough estate in Ireland, reminds me of when I lived in Benwall haha

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

Benwell*

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The Wee Man is good too

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Gangs of New York

The Departed

Donnie Brasco

Gangs of new York is a brilliant film

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Scarface (1932)

The Public Enemy (1931) again with Cagney

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Rocknrolla

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Casino

Mean streets

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By *nderyaMan
over a year ago

Clare

Brighton Rock - 1947 b/w Brit pic

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"Rocknrolla "

Is that the Guy Ritchie film?

I've searched for that before on the apps I have but it's not on any

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The gentlemen. Quite a modern film but pretty good

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

Thank you all, I'll check these all out.

I've never seen the b/w ones so I'm looking forwards to those also

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By *ave1212Man
over a year ago

caistor

Once upon a time in america

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Not a gangster film really, but Sexy Beast is outstanding.

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By *ondon RimmerMan
over a year ago

Islington

The Usual Suspects

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Not a gangster film really, but Sexy Beast is outstanding."

Fuck me, Ben Kingsley is absolutely terrifying in that.

Well worth a watch.

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By *enri du lacMan
over a year ago

Coventry

Goodfellas

Miller's Crossing

The Long Good Friday

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By *outh Brum cocksuckerMan
over a year ago

Birmingham

Carlito's Way .

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By *ock Rider 4 allMan
over a year ago

ryde

I do like American gangster

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By *ach139TV/TS
over a year ago

liverpool

The Towns a good movie

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By *etaTV/TS
over a year ago

chelmsford /Hemel Hempstead

"Looking for recommendations I can watch when I'm off work over Xmas.

I've seen the main ones, Casino, Godfather etc.

Why do fiction when all you have to do is watch parliament on the BBC during the day and totally cut out any possible middle men

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Long good friday

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By *rTongueTasticMan
over a year ago

Close_To_Chichester

"Not a gangster film really, but Sexy Beast is outstanding."

..& as referenced in the thread, Ben Kingsley was immense.

As also mentioned, The Long Good Friday, which boasts one of my favourite lines in cinema..

'Stop standing there long stream of paralysed piss'..

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By *ach139TV/TS
over a year ago

liverpool

"Not a gangster film really, but Sexy Beast is outstanding.

..& as referenced in the thread, Ben Kingsley was immense.

As also mentioned, The Long Good Friday, which boasts one of my favourite lines in cinema..

'Stop standing there long stream of paralysed piss'..

Ben Kingsley again In Bruges is a great film

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By *mbatmanMan
over a year ago

southampton

"A good one I've seen is called Cardboard Gangsters.

Really rough estate in Ireland, reminds me of when I lived in Benwall haha"

Great film, if you enjoyed that kind of film, check out

Calm with horses.

Another great one its sort gangsterish

Dead mans shoes

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Gangster no1"

Excellent, seriously underrated film.

Even though Paul Bettany is like a foot taller than Malcolm Mcdowell lol.

Great cast...

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By *mbatmanMan
over a year ago

southampton

"Not a gangster film really, but Sexy Beast is outstanding.

..& as referenced in the thread, Ben Kingsley was immense.

As also mentioned, The Long Good Friday, which boasts one of my favourite lines in cinema..

'Stop standing there long stream of paralysed piss'..

Ben Kingsley again In Bruges is a great film"

In bruges is amazing. Ben kingsley isn’t in it tho

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Love Layer Cake

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By *ach139TV/TS
over a year ago

liverpool

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By *ach139TV/TS
over a year ago

liverpool

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Who am I thinking of then the boss in In Bruges

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Not a gangster film really, but Sexy Beast is outstanding.

Fuck me, Ben Kingsley is absolutely terrifying in that.

Well worth a watch."

Excellent. I think Ian McShane is great in that. Great cast. Kingsley is immense.

Love it when he's talking to himself in the mirror. Total cunt. And he says that a few times lol.

Ray Winstone is ace in that too.

They are all part of a criminal gang so it counts as a gangster flick.

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By *ubbledude2001Man
over a year ago

Limerick

I haven't seen this movie before but it's meant to be good. The many saints of Newark. I believe that it's a prequel to the sopranos

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By *ope123456123Man
over a year ago

Marlow

My Blue heaven

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Deleted by mistake

Who am I thinking of then the boss in In Bruges "

Ralph Fiennes. Its funny when the ticket guy for the tower starts poking him on the head. Brendan Gleeson just rolls his eyes and walks away, knowing his boss is going to kick off lol

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By *mbatmanMan
over a year ago

southampton

"Deleted by mistake

Who am I thinking of then the boss in In Bruges "

I think it was Ralph fiennes

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I haven't seen this movie before but it's meant to be good. The many saints of Newark. I believe that it's a prequel to the sopranos"

James Gandolfinis son plays Tony Soprano in it.

Never saw it.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"The Towns a good movie"

Great film, directed by Ben Affleck too.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I do like American gangster "

Underrated film. Great performance from Crowe.

Ridley Scott doesn't make bad films.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Here's one not many have seen but it's great.

'The King of New York' starring Christopher Walken. Co-starring Wesley Snipes, David Caruso, Laurence Fishburne and Steve Buscemi.

Directed by Abel Ferrara.

Definitely worth watching.

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

Thanks for all these, think I'll just work my way through the list lol

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By *az696969TV/TS
over a year ago

essex

"A good one I've seen is called Cardboard Gangsters.

Really rough estate in Ireland, reminds me of when I lived in Benwall haha"
that’s the worst film lol

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Goodfellas

Once upon a time in America

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By *unFitFifty888Man
over a year ago

various

Road to Perdition (well, it’s got gangsters in it)

Pulp Fiction (tenuous)

Get Carter (Gangs in the NE, not The Mafia but…)

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By *atalieCDTV85TV/TS
over a year ago

Bury St Edmunds

Snatch

Lock stock & two smoking barrels

City of gold

Eastern promises

Donnie brasco

Public enemies

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By *atalieCDTV85TV/TS
over a year ago

Bury St Edmunds

City of God even.

A history of violence is also very good.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

A History Of Violence is good, watched it few months back.

Eastern Promises is fucking excellent. A-list Hollywood cast but feels like a British film. BBC cash well spent for a change.

That bathouse fight scene is epic.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Underbelly the first series is a great recreation of the true story of the Melbourne gang wars over drugs from mid 90s to 2004.

It's got actors from Neighbours and Home and Away in it.

Well worth watching. Its on Real Drama on YouTube. Many other spin-offs about true Aussie crime. Underbelly 'Badness' is very good. As is Underbelly season 2. All true stories dramatised.

Love/Hate is a fictional gangster series set in Dublin and is great too. Think it's on Britbox. Very gritty, especially the final season.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Was going to suggest the French gangster epic based on the true life story of Jacques Mesrine. Vincent Cassel is outstanding in Mesrine parts 1&2.

Mesrine:Killer Instinct and Mesrine:Public Enemy Number 1

Just noticed it's on ItvX so you can watch it for free.

It's a 4-hour epic in 2 parts. Great stuff...

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By *lim_pickinsMan
over a year ago

birkenhead

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By *lim_pickinsMan
over a year ago

birkenhead

the long good friday

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By *luboy01Man
over a year ago

liverpool

Try going off big time

And love honour and obey

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Mona Lisa is a great British one.

Also, tangentially gangster perhaps but the two De Palma movies Scarface and Carlton's Way are famous.

Still remember the pearl clutching over the violence when Scarface came out

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Snatch

Lock stock & two smoking barrels

City of gold

Eastern promises

Donnie brasco

Public enemies"

You forgot Layer Cake!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Forgot Carlitos Way, excellent performance from Sean Penn and Pacino.

I think Scarface is Als best performance ever. Great film, watched it many times.

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By *haneportsMan
over a year ago

portsmouth

"White Heat with Jimmy Cagney"

‘The dead end kids’ with Cagney is good too.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Layer cake

G-men

Things to do in Denver when your dead

Death in Bruges

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Love, Honour and Obey

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By *laireKTV/TS
over a year ago

Manchester

There was a film called Bound.

Produced by the Warkowski brothers I believe.

I thought that was very good.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Thing To Do In Denver When You're Dead is a great film. Great cast.

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By *immy48Man
over a year ago

Sheerness

Chopper is good

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Chopper is good "

Great performance from Eric Bana. Choppers books are an interesting, if repetitive and one-dimensional read.

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By *ichey6Man
over a year ago

aberdeen

The Wee Man...

The ascendancy of Paul Ferris in the Glasgow Underworld. Martin Compston in fine form.

Also

Gangster Number One

The Long Good Friday

Sexy Beast

Casino

Legend

Ordinary Decent Criminal

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The Wee Man would have been much better if it had been allowed to be filmed in Glasgow.

Ordinary Decent Criminal is good. Peter Mullan says Kevin Spacey was a complete pompous arsehole during filming. My pal knows Mullan well he says he despises Kevin Spacey lol

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over a year ago

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I suppose Pain And Gain is within the 'gangster' genre.

Great film, hilarious at times.

Very unsympathetic to the real-life victim though

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Not exactly a film but topboy on Netflix is pretty grim gang stuff, very real

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Not exactly a film but topboy on Netflix is pretty grim gang stuff, very real"

Great series

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The Long Good Friday,an old Film about a London Gangster wanting to join up with the Mafia but his plans are ruined by the IRA,

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By *ongjohn12Man
over a year ago

Chelmsford

"I haven't seen this movie before but it's meant to be good. The many saints of Newark. I believe that it's a prequel to the sopranos"

Ray liottas last film, not bad but certainly not the sopranos worthy, why not get the sopranos box set and watch that??

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Black Mass with Johnny Depp, true life depiction of Boston gangster.

Precinct Seven Five, cop version of goodfellas

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By *ichey6Man
over a year ago

aberdeen

"The Long Good Friday,an old Film about a London Gangster wanting to join up with the Mafia but his plans are ruined by the IRA, "
Harold thought he could shit 'em! The look on his boat as he goes to meet his maker was vintage Hoskins.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

A young Pierce Brosnan pointing the gun at him.

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By *luboy01Man
3 weeks ago

liverpool

Have you seen once upon a time in America

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By *raggyjackMan
3 weeks ago

Dublin

Maybe not a traditional 'Gangster' movie, but I think 'The Departed' is one of the best movies ever made..

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By *ary1066Man
3 weeks ago

Preston

Love honour obey , Ray winston and a whole load of Brit actors or Going off Big Time set in Liverpool

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By *usan jonesTV/TS
3 weeks ago

Wolverhampton

Try gangsters 90s film about how it all started with Christian slater quite enjoyable

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By *usan jonesTV/TS
3 weeks ago

Wolverhampton

"Maybe not a traditional 'Gangster' movie, but I think 'The Departed' is one of the best movies ever made.."

Yup

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By *ugged NorthernerMan
3 weeks ago

North East

"Underbelly the first series is a great recreation of the true story of the Melbourne gang wars over drugs from mid 90s to 2004.

It's got actors from Neighbours and Home and Away in it.

Well worth watching. Its on Real Drama on YouTube. Many other spin-offs about true Aussie crime. Underbelly 'Badness' is very good. As is Underbelly season 2. All true stories dramatised.

Love/Hate is a fictional gangster series set in Dublin and is great too. Think it's on Britbox. Very gritty, especially the final season."

Love/Hate is brilliant 👌

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By *bigail_dubMan
3 weeks ago

ballymount

The wire

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By *elly_leKTV/TS
3 weeks ago

corby

Hana-bi

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By *Dan85Man
3 weeks ago

Blackburn area

Black Mass

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By *ocalMan
3 weeks ago

North West

"A young Pierce Brosnan pointing the gun at him.

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there's a scene were Pierce Brosnan comes on to a guy to fuck him in a sauna and shower area, but instead of fucking him he just says "Hi" then murders him, it's the kind of shit you have to do if you want to become James Bond.

It's the only word, Hi, that Brosnan says in the film, it was his first ever movie part.

Bob Hoskins didn't know who Brosnan was and didn't meet him till years later, the scene at the end where Brosnon kills Hoskins was filmed on different days, Brosnon just pointed the gun at a camera, Hoskins wasn't there

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By *lan82Man
3 weeks ago

North Hykeham, Lincoln

"Thing To Do In Denver When You're Dead is a great film. Great cast."

Andy Garcia, Christopher Lloyd and Walken, Gabrielle Anwar, William Forsyth, Bill Nunn, Treat Williams, Josh Charles (tho he is uncredited)

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By *uriohornMan
3 weeks ago

Kettering

Sense of Freedom

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By *wadbisexualMan
3 weeks ago

Castle Gresley

Angels with dirty faces.

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