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CRIME and GANGSTER
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Selection of Greatest Crime and Gangster Films:
- Greatest Early Crime and Gangster Films:
- The Musketeers of Pig Alley (1912)
- The Regeneration (1915)
- Dr. Mabuse: The Gambler (1922-23)
- Underworld (1927)
- The Lights of New York (1928)
- The Racket (1928)
- The Big House (1930)
- Little Caesar (1930)
- Bad Company (1931)
- M (1931, Ger.)
- The Public Enemy (1931)
- I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang (1932)
- Scarface: The Shame of the Nation (1932)
- The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1933)
- Manhattan Melodrama (1934)
- The Petrified Forest (1934)
- G-Men (1935)
- Bullets or Ballots (1936)
- The Petrified Forest (1936)
- Dead End (1937)
- Marked Woman (1937)
- Angels With Dirty Faces (1938)
- Each Dawn I Die (1939)
- The Roaring Twenties (1939)
- They Drive by Night (1940)
- High Sierra (1941)
- The Glass Key (1942)
- This Gun for Hire (1942)
-
Double Indemnity (1944)
- Detour (1945)
- Dillinger (1945)
-
The Big Sleep (1946)
- The Killers (1946)
- The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)
- Brute Force (1947)
- Kiss of Death (1947)
-
Out of the Past (1947)
- T-Men (1947)
- Force of Evil (1948)
- Key Largo (1948)
- Raw Deal (1948)
- Gun Crazy (1949)
- They Live By Night (1949)
- White Heat (1949)
- The Asphalt Jungle (1950)
- The Enforcer (1951)
- The Lavender Hill Mob (1951, UK)
- Strangers on a Train (1951)
- The Big Heat (1953)
-
On the Waterfront (1954)
- The Big Combo (1955)
- Rififi (1955)
- The Killing (1956)
- The Defiant Ones (1958)
-
Touch of Evil (1958)
- Al Capone (1959)
- Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
- The FBI Story (1959)
- Recent Crime and Gangster Films:
- Cape Fear (1961)
- Underworld USA (1961)
- The Birdman of Alcatraz (1962)
-
Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
- Cool Hand Luke (1967)
- In Cold Blood (1967)
- In the Heat of the Night (1967)
- Point Blank (1967)
- Wait Until Dark (1967)
- The Brotherhood (1968)
- Bullitt (1968)
- The Detective (1968)
- The Thomas Crown Affair (1968)
- The Italian Job (1969)
- Dirty Harry (1971)
- The French Connection (1971)
- Get Carter (1971)
- Shaft (1971)
-
The Godfather (1972)
- The Hot Rock (1972)
- Shaft's Big Score! (1972)
- Badlands (1973)
- Dillinger (1973)
- Mean Streets (1973)
- Serpico (1973)
- The Seven-Ups (1973)
- Shaft in Africa (1973)
- The Stone Killer (1973)
- Walking Tall (1973) and sequels
- Death Wish (1974)
-
The Godfather, Part II (1974)
- Thieves Like Us (1974)
- Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
- French Connection II (1975)
- Assault on Precinct 13 (1976)
- Deadly Hero (1976)
-
Taxi Driver (1976)
- Boulevard Nights (1979)
- Hardcore (1979)
- The Warriors (1979)
- The Long Good Friday (1980)
- Raging Bull (1980)
- Fort Apache: The Bronx (1981)
- Nighthawks (1981)
- Prince of the City (1981)
- Death Wish 2 (1982)
- 48 Hrs. (1982)
- Blood Simple (1983)
- Scarface (1983)
- The Star Chamber (1983)
- Sudden Impact (1983)
- Once Upon a Time in America (1984)
- Prizzi's Honor (1985)
- Witness (1985)
- Manhunter (1986)
- Lethal Weapon (1987) and sequels
- The Untouchables (1987)
- Patty Hearst (1988)
- Things Change (1988)
- Dick Tracy (1990)
- The Godfather, Part III (1990)
- GoodFellas (1990)
- Miller's Crossing (1990)
- Q & A (1990)
- Bugsy (1991)
- Cape Fear (1991)
- JFK (1991)
- New Jack City (1991)
- One Good Cop (1991)
- The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
- Basic Instinct (1992)
- Hoffa (1992)
- Reservoir Dogs (1992)
- A Bronx Tale (1993)
- Carlito's Way (1993)
- In the Line of Fire (1993)
- Heavenly Creatures (1994, NZ)
- Natural Born Killers (1994)
- The Professional (Fr.) (1994)
- Pulp Fiction (1994)
- The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
- Casino (1995)
- Clockers (1995)
- Heat (1995)
- Se7en (1995)
- The Usual Suspects (1995)
- Bound (1996)
- Fargo (1996)
- Donnie Brasco (1997)
- Jackie Brown (1997)
- L. A. Confidential (1997)
- The Big Lebowski (1998)
- Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998)
- Out of Sight (1998)
- A Simple Plan (1998)
- The Thomas Crown Affair (1999)
- Traffic (2000)
- The Departed (2006)
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