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RevengeRevenge (Shadow Boxing 2) (2010)
Dir. Anton Megerdichev
Feat. Denis Nikiforov, Andrey Panin, Victor Lopez
Punchy crime thriller with a Russian boxer taking on a Mexican mafia boss after mortally injuring his son in the ring. Leave your brain parked in…
Father and Son (TV Mini-Series)Father and Son (TV Mini-Series) (2009)
Dir. Brian Kirk
Feat. Dougray Scott, Sophie Okonedo, Stephen Rea
Gritty, tough–minded BBC serial examines the reverberations of crime across two parallel storylines: a father (Scott), whose wife was murdered…
Shinjuku IncidentShinjuku Incident (San suk si gin) (2009)
Dir. Derek Yee
Feat. Jackie Chan, Naoto Takenaka, Daniel Wu
Jackie Chan turns serious for this gritty, nocturnal gangland drama centered around a Chinese immigrant who is unintentionally drawn into Tokyo’s…
Staten IslandStaten Island (Little New York) (2009)
Dir. James DeMonaco
Feat. Ethan Hawke, Vincent D'Onofrio, Seymour Cassel
Ethan Hawke plays a blue collar New Yorker whose plan to fleece a mob boss of his dirty money comes unstuck when a deaf–mute hitman enters the…
American Trap, TheAmerican Trap, The (2008)
Dir. Charles Biname
Feat. Remy Girard, Colm Feore, Janet Lane
Paranoid sixties set thriller has a Canadian criminal becoming an unwitting secret weapon for a covert organisation and bearing witness to a chain of…
In BrugesIn Bruges (2008) Recommended
Dir. Martin McDonagh
Feat. Colin Farrell, Brendan Gleeson, Ralph Fiennes
A smart, jet–black comedy centred on two Irish assassins who are packed off to Bruges, Belgium by their superior after a hit goes horribly…
JerusalemaJerusalema (2008)
Dir. Ralph Ziman
Feat. Daniel Buckland, Robert Hobbs
A punchy, gun–toting gangland epic following the rise to two Soweto teenagers seduced by crime and violence in South Africa. Although…
MesrineMesrine (Killer Instinct, Public Enemy Number 1) (2008)
Dir. Jean-François Richet
Feat. Vincent Cassel, Cecile De France, Gerard Depardieu
Effective, if at times highly sensationalised biopic of career criminal Jacques Mesrine – France’s ‘Public Enemy #1’ throughout the 1960s and…
RocknRollaRocknRolla (2008)
Dir. Guy Ritchie
Feat. Gerard Butler, Tom Wilkinson, Thandiwe Newton
Stylephile Guy Ritchie revisits well–trodden territory with this typically tangled crime caper involving a menagerie of seedy opportunists…
Black Donnellys, The (TV Series)Black Donnellys, The (TV Series) (2007)
Feat. Michael Stahl-David, Jonathan Tucker, Tom Guiry
Haphazard but engrossing antidote to the status quo of gangster TV series (i.e. THE SOPRANOS) centres on four Hell's Kitchen brothers whose…

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