Rififi (1955)
Jules Dassin's 1955 French heist. Thirty-two-minute silent jewelry heist sequence.
1950sJules Dassin's 1955 French heist. Thirty-two-minute silent jewelry heist sequence.
1980sSergio Leone's 1984 final film. New York Jewish gangsters across five decades.
1930sWilliam Wellman's 1931 pre-code gangster classic. Wellman's 1931 American gangster film.
1940sRaoul Walsh's 1949 noir gangster. Cagney as psychopathic mama's boy Cody Jarrett.
1990sMike Newell's 1997 undercover FBI drama. Donnie Brasco is Mike Newell's 1997 American crime drama.
2000sRob Marshall's 2002 jazz-age murder musical. Won six Academy Awards including Best Picture.
2000sFrancine McDougall's 2001 American crime comedy about a high school cheerleading squad that robs banks to support their leader's pregnancy. Sugar & Spice is Francine McDougall's 2001 American crime comedy depicting a high school cheerleading squad whose lead member becomes…
2010sThe screenplay was written by Gary Spinelli. The work is one of the strongest Cruise performances of his late career and the rare American biopic that engages substantially with Cold War foreign policy material.
1990s1995 Barry Sonnenfeld crime comedy adapting Elmore Leonard. Travolta as Miami loan shark who becomes a Hollywood producer.
2010sThe Forger is Philip Martin's 2014 American crime drama. The work struggles between dramatic family content and the art forgery procedural that the title promises.
2010s2018 Kevin Connolly biopic with Travolta as Gambino crime family boss John Gotti. Notorious zero-percent Rotten Tomatoes score.
2020s2024 Ives action with Travolta as a master thief in a botched bank heist. Day-and-date streaming late-career programmer.
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