Subgenre Sampler
Gangsters: 361 Films to Buy & Rent
John Wick: Chapter 4 (2023)
- Dir. Chad Stahelski
Feat. Keanu Reeves, Donnie Yen, Bill Skarsgård…
- Keanu's stonefaced man–alone takes his fight to the High Table as he seeks to dispatch the most powerful players in the underworld, from New…
Capone (2020)
- Dir. Josh Trank
Feat. Tom Hardy, Linda Cardellini, Jack Lowden…
- Tom Hardy plays the legendary Chicago gangster at the age of 47, after a decade in prison, where his untreated neurosyphilis is robbing him of…
Irishman, The (2019)
- Dir. Martin Scorsese
Feat. Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Joe Pesci…
- Unwieldly but fascinating Scorsese crime drama, in which the director reunites with good fellas Robert De Niro and Joe Pesci to tell the…
Lucky Grandma (2019)
- Dir. Sasie Sealy
Feat. Tsai Chin, Hsiao-Yuan Ha, Michael Tow
- Veteran Chinese actress Tsai Chin (THE JOY LUCK CLUB) plays a cranky, chain–smoking, 86–year–old Grandma in this feisty comedy set…
Miss Bala (2019)
- Dir. Catherine Hardwicke
Feat. Gina Rodriguez, Ismael Cruz Córdova
- Mexican crime thriller which marks a gritty turn for director Catherine Hardwicke (TWILIGHT), with Gina Rodriguez (JANE THE VIRGIN) playing a woman…
True Story of the Kelly Gang, The (2019)
- Dir. Justin Kurzel
Feat. George MacKay, Essie Davis, Nicholas Hoult…
- Justin Kurzel (SNOWTOWN) directs this adventurous retelling of the Australian story of bushranger and outlaw Ned Kelly, based on Peter Carey's 2001…
Wild Goose Lake, The (Nan fang che zhan de ju hui) (2019)
- Dir. Diao Yinan
Feat. Ge Hu, Fan Liao, Lun-Mei Kwei
- Chinese noir thriller with impeccable visual flair, following the fates of a rogue gangster and the prostitute he meets whilst on the run from the…
McMafia (TV Series) (2018)
- Feat. James Norton, David Strathairn, Juliet Rylance
- Slow–burning crime TV series following the son of a Russian mafia boss who lives in London with his dad, and becomes pulled into the criminal…
Dog Eat Dog (2016)
- Dir. Paul Schrader
Feat. Nicolas Cage, Willem Dafoe
- Demonstrating that age hasn't tamed him, 70–year–old director Paul Schrader delivers this frenetic, nihilistic black comedy based on the…
Live by Night (2016)
- Dir. Ben Affleck
Feat. Ben Affleck, Elle Fanning, Brendan Gleeson…
- Ben Affleck's love letter to film noir set in Prohibition–era Boston where the flow of booze is controlled by an underground network of…