Thursday, 26 November 2009

British Gangster Films

British Gangster films are a sub-genre of the Thriller genre. Their settings typically tend to be dark, rough city streets, run down council estates, and old ware houses. The characters usually involve male leads, who are immoral criminals, who only care about making money, through the most dishonest of ways. violence is a theme that runs throughout British Gangster Films.

There are not many well know British Gangster Films. Apart from the famous, lock, stock and two smoking barrels (1998) directed by Guy Ritchie








Other British Gangster Films:
-Brighton Rock (1947) directed by Graham Greene
- Get Carter (1971) directed by Mike Hodges

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