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?

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[thornae.livejournal.com]

Incidentally, this is exactly the sort of thing that Google Sets was quite good at. Unfortunately, it never made it out of Labs, and was killed off with the rest of those nifty features in Google's ongoing drift away from doing neat geeky stuff.

Nonetheless, a quick search reminded me of some other non-Aussie candidates:
- Eastern Promises (and maybe A History of Violence if you want more Viggoodness).
- Le Cercle Rouge is in French and quite long (in its original cut), but has a killer heist sequence.
- L.A. Confidential isn't quite in the spirit of the list, but is a hell of a good noir crime film.

- Finally, Scarface, Casino, Mean Streets, Carlito's Way and The Departed all tend to crop up regularly in discussions of American Crime Dramas, along with the films you mentioned - so if there's any of those you haven't seen yet, you could round out the list with them.