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

[xengar.livejournal.com]

Well, IMDB calls Lucky Number Slevin a drama, and I can't think of any other category it fits in, so I guess it IS one.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

"Why do you call him The Rabbi?"
"Because he's a rabbi."
"Oh."

(Seriously, you talk about Lucky Number Slevin and don't mention Morgan Freeman or Ben Fucking Kingsley? It was an okay movie and they were great in it.)

[xengar.livejournal.com]

If an actor is doing a good job, I don't tend to store them in my brain under their name, they get stored \under the character name instead. I have trouble remembering that the main character in The Fugitive is played by Harrison ford, for instance. Bruce Willis and Samuel L. Jackson, however, are usually cast as roughly the same character and the specific name for a given movie is slapped on top like a sticker. And the there's Meatloaf. I don't even remember the name of his character in Formula 51.


But yes, the Rabbi and the Boss are the main characters of the movie. Slevin is merely the viewpoint.