Why we like it: A grand tragedy, The Godfather is often used as a measuring stick for other great films, and it’s widely considered not just a good gangster movie but one of the best movies of all ...

MobLand’s ensemble is composed of an impressive range of actors and creatives, especially with the most prominent trio ...

While Tom Hanks has expressed an interest from time to time in playing superheroes like the Flash, mostly this leading man ...

Renowned as one of modern cinema’s best exponents of the British gangster movie, Ritchie has done most of his work for the big screen, with his small-screen adaptation of The Gentlemen last year ...

Back in 1980, both actors appeared in the seminal British gangster film The Long Good Friday, led by Bob Hoskins, who plays flailing, fictional Cockney crime boss Harold Shand. “That was such a ...

“That was such a trailblazer of a movie,” Mirren tells me on Zoom. “I suspect it inspired people like Guy Ritchie, who came along and transformed the whole British gangster movie genre.

On working with Dame Helen, Pierce says: 'My first film was a film called The Long Good Friday, a classic British gangster movie. I was in that film with her [Helen], but I'd really never seen the ...

The film’s gritty realism and unflinching brutality set it apart from the more polished crime dramas of the time, making it one of the defining films of the British gangster genre. Get Carter ...