There are conventional gangster films like The Public Enemy, Scarface (1932), and Little Caesar that defined a genre. Then there are films like On the Waterfront or Touch of Evil that utilize ...
Villains could not be protagonists, and at the end, they had to be dead or in jail. Because gangster films were Hollywood's most profitable movies, the studios were faced with a dilemma.
A century on, crime has been at the centre of some of the greatest films ever made. Our list includes gangster films, film noir, prison dramas, heist movies, police procedurals, and more.
Read the Empire review here. The late ‘90s and earlier ‘00s were overrun with British gangster films, but Jonathan Glazer’s debut feature was entirely its own animal. Often in the cryptic ...