Audience Participation Day: Crime Movie Edition.

[theweaselking]

I want to watch a good crime/heist/mob movie. I'd rather more drama than suspense or comedy - Donnie Brasco more than The Drop or Ocean's Eleven or Crime Spree, that kind of thing - and the catch is, I want it to be a movie either that I haven't seen before, or that I haven't seen in so long that I've forgotten it.

So let's start by disqualifying, right off the bat, any Godfather movie, Donnie Brasco, Goodfellas, The Usual Suspects. I want movies JUST LIKE THOSE, that I haven't already seen.

What's your favourite *moderately obscure* (or blazingly obvious and I've just missed it) mob movie?

Comments

[lurkerwithout.livejournal.com]

1st off I'll second the recommendation of "Miller's Crossing", which is one of my all time favorite Coen brothers' films. Also try their first movie "Blood Simple" if you haven't seen that...

My tastes tend to lean noir and heist over My Life as a Mobster crime movies. That said additional possibilitys:

"Winter's Bone"
"Killer Joe"
"The Long Good Friday" for Bob Hoskins' mob boss if nothing else
"The Devil's Double" if you look at the Husseins as being like a big crime family
"Kill the Irishman" which has Ray Stephenson AND Vinnie Jones in it
"M"
"Infernal Affairs"/"the Departed"
"The Friends of Eddie Coyle"

[torrain.livejournal.com]

Blood Simple is awesome, and now I need to see M again. Been meaning to catch Killer Joe for a bit, too.

Dammit. It might be a that-kind-of-night.

(Have you seen The Ice Harvest and A Simple Plan? Both solid, although I prefer the first, and both more noir/heist.)

[lurkerwithout.livejournal.com]

I've seen both and even own the second...