OFFICIAL BRITISH GANGSTER MOVIES APPRECIATION THREAD - Page 1

[ARCHIVED THREAD] - OFFICIAL BRITISH GANGSTER MOVIES APPRECIATION THREAD

Posted: 12/29/2010 10:09:22 AM EDT

I love British Gangster movies, but not many make it to the big screen here in the US.

The thing about these movies is that they are apparently supposed to be realistic of the british crime scene...

...as such, there is not quite as much gunplay and more "hands on" violence

We all know the Guy Ritchie ones like 'Lock, Stock and 2 Smoking Barrels' or 'Snatch', but here are a few

lesser known (to us) flicks I want to share w/ Arfcom...I've seen some others but i forget the names

Rise of the Footsoldier (2007)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0901507/

The Crew (2008)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1071880/

Cass (2008)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0954981/
Please feel free to add to this list; especially our U.K. cousins!
Speed

Posted: 12/29/2010 10:10:26 AM EDT

[#1]

The Bank Job. Its got a bit of everything

Posted: 12/29/2010 10:11:58 AM EDT

[#2]

Tagged for choices

Posted: 12/29/2010 10:13:10 AM EDT

[#3]

Have to throw Layer Cake in there.

Posted: 12/29/2010 10:13:43 AM EDT

[#4]

The Sexy Beast FTMFW

Posted: 12/29/2010 10:14:41 AM EDT

[#5]

Harry Brown - Not a ganster movie per se, but it's a mans fight against a gang.

This is England - British skin heads in the 80's.

Posted: 12/29/2010 10:15:08 AM EDT

[#6]

i may hafta check these out, thanks for the thread.

Posted: 12/29/2010 10:16:26 AM EDT

[#7]

Quoted:

Harry Brown - Not a ganster movie per se, but it's a mans fight against a gang.

This is England - British skin heads in the 80's.

This is England is a good flick

"So why do they call you 'Smells'?"

Speed

Posted: 12/29/2010 10:20:07 AM EDT

[#8]

"shopping" or maybe "the cray twins". with the cray twins you have to get past the fact that the 2 guys playing the twins were in that fag 80s band spandau ballet. appart from that it's a good violent flick about 50s gangsters in London.

Posted: 12/29/2010 10:20:23 AM EDT

[#9]

Quoted:
Harry Brown - Not a ganster movie per se, but it's a mans fight against a gang.

This is England - British skin heads in the 80's.

Good movies.

I'll add some:

From London to Brighton
Sexy Beast
The Limey
The Krays
Gangster No. 1

Posted: 12/29/2010 10:21:34 AM EDT

[#10]

Gangster No 1 was kick ass too.

Gomorrah was a good true story but it's Italian.

Posted: 12/29/2010 10:26:21 AM EDT

[#11]

Intermission.

Not gangster, more thug like, the character roles are quite good.

Posted: 12/29/2010 10:28:04 AM EDT

[#12]

Snatch.
Lock Stock and two smoking barrels.

Not gangster persay but good crime movies

Posted: 12/29/2010 10:29:36 AM EDT

[#13]

Quoted:

Quoted:
Harry Brown - Not a ganster movie per se, but it's a mans fight against a gang.

This is England - British skin heads in the 80's.

This is England is a good flick

"So why do they call you 'Smells'?"[img]http://www.ar15.com/images/smilies/icon_smile_clown.gif[/img]

Speed

It rhymes with "Michelle".

Posted: 12/29/2010 10:31:02 AM EDT

[#14]

Sexy Beast was the British "Goodfellas" (With a little Terry Gilliam thrown in )

Posted: 12/29/2010 10:31:23 AM EDT

[#15]

The General

Posted: 12/29/2010 1:18:31 PM EDT

[#16]

You guys...

The original ––->

My favorite ––->

Posted: 12/29/2010 1:24:36 PM EDT

[#17]

I just saw "The Heavy". It was a decent British crime flick but a little hard to follow. I will have to look into some of these. I loved Snatch.

Posted: 12/29/2010 1:25:21 PM EDT

[#18]

Dinsdale..................

Posted: 12/29/2010 1:26:18 PM EDT

[#19]

Essex Boys. A bit hard to find though

Posted: 12/29/2010 1:27:17 PM EDT

[#20]

I don't know how truly british gangster it is, but it's one of my favorites and they have British accents.

Rock n Rolla.

It's better than Lock Stock, Snatch, and Boondock Saints (the first one), but same type of movie I suppose.

Posted: 12/29/2010 1:28:09 PM EDT

[#21]

I am going to say

The Italian Job

Which is probably a comedy based on the genre.

No guns, just cricket bats.

The one with Micheal Cain and Benny Hill, not the remake.

Posted: 12/29/2010 1:30:09 PM EDT

[#22]

Get Carter and The Limey are the best of the genre.

Performance deserves mention just for its weirdness.

Memo from Turner.

Posted: 12/29/2010 1:30:51 PM EDT

[#23]

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Posted: 12/29/2010 1:34:43 PM EDT

[#24]

Quoted:
Dinsdale..................

And what's more, he knew how to treat a female impersonator.

Posted: 12/29/2010 1:37:08 PM EDT

[#25]

Quoted:
Dinsdale..................

Posted: 12/29/2010 1:40:37 PM EDT

[#26]

Quoted:
Have to throw Layer Cake in there.

Great movie.

Posted: 12/29/2010 1:41:21 PM EDT

[#27]

Quoted:

Quoted:
Harry Brown - Not a ganster movie per se, but it's a mans fight against a gang.

This is England - British skin heads in the 80's.

Good movies.

I'll add some:

From London to Brighton
Sexy Beast
The Limey Kick ass movie.
The Krays
Gangster No. 1

Posted: 12/29/2010 1:42:11 PM EDT

[#28]

Quoted:
Snatch.
Lock Stock and two smoking barrels.

Not gangster persay but good crime movies

WUT!

Those are absolutely gangster movies.

LS&2SBs is awesome.

Posted: 12/29/2010 1:43:11 PM EDT

[#29]

Quoted:
I don't know how truly british gangster it is, but it's one of my favorites and they have British accents.

Rock n Rolla. Freaking great movie.

It's better than Lock Stock, Snatch, and Boondock Saints (the first one), but same type of movie I suppose.

Posted: 12/29/2010 1:51:03 PM EDT

[#30]

Quoted:

Dinsdale..................

It had to be said.

Everyone was terrified of Doug.

Posted: 12/29/2010 2:01:03 PM EDT

[#31]

b. monkey

Posted: 12/29/2010 2:04:37 PM EDT

[#32]

Quoted:
I love British Gangster movies, but not many make it to the big screen here in the US.
The thing about these movies is that they are apparently supposed to be realistic of the british crime scene...
...as such, there is not quite as much gunplay and more "hands on" violence

We all know the Guy Ritchie ones like 'Lock, Stock and 2 Smoking Barrels' or 'Snatch', but here are a few
lesser known (to us) flicks I want to share w/ Arfcom...I've seen some others but i forget the names

Rise of the Footsoldier (2007)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0901507/

The Crew (2008)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1071880/

Cass (2008)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0954981/

Please feel free to add to this list; especially our U.K. cousins!

Speed

Hope they're good. I just added all 3 to Netflix

Posted: 12/29/2010 2:08:13 PM EDT

[#33]

The Long Good Friday

Posted: 12/29/2010 2:11:03 PM EDT

[#34]

Quoted:

The Long Good Friday

Jesus... thank you.

I was wondering when someone would mention that.

Posted: 12/29/2010 2:20:55 PM EDT

[#35]

Quoted:

Snatch.

Lock Stock and two smoking barrels.

Not gangster persay but good crime movies

These.

Posted: 12/29/2010 2:22:09 PM EDT

[#36]

The Informer

Not strictly a gangster flick (IRA).

But Victor McLaglen is one of my favorites.

Posted: 12/29/2010 2:26:56 PM EDT

[#37]

Loves me some British Gangster movies.

"Revolver" is a Guy Ritchie movie that kinda goes unnoticed, still really good.

Not really a gangster movie but, "Green Street Hooligans" was good.

Posted: 12/29/2010 2:51:17 PM EDT

[#38]

McVicar...Roger Daltrey
The Business...
Football Factory...
The Firm...Gary Oldman, so you know its good

all gang related

Posted: 12/29/2010 3:02:02 PM EDT

[#39]

In Bruges
+2 for The Long Good Friday
50 Dead Men Walking is supposed to be good...anyone seen it?

Posted: 12/29/2010 3:03:35 PM EDT

[#40]

Quoted:

Quoted:
Dinsdale..................

It had to be said.

Everyone was terrified of Doug.

Doug, on the other hand, was the most feared man in the London underworld. Luigi Vercotti, a pimp, claims to have seen grown men pull their own heads off rather than speak to Doug – indeed, even Dinsdale feared Doug.
This was largely due to his merciless use of sarcasm, dramatic irony, metaphor, bathos, puns, parody, litotes and satire.