Entertainment – Crime – Movies
Crime Movies – An A to Z Guide
Essex Boys
The film is based loosely around events in December 1995 that culminated in the murders of three drug dealers in Rettendon, Essex, UK.
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Get Carter (1971)
When his brother dies under mysterious circumstances in a car accident, London gangster Jack Carter travels to Newcastle to investigate.
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Amazon Prime, Apple TV, YouTube, Google Play Movies & TV, Sky Store
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Harry Brown (2009)
An elderly ex-serviceman and widower looks to avenge his best friend’s murder by doling out his own form of justice.
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Amazon Prime, Lionsgate+, Apple TV, YouTube, Google Play Movies & TV, Sky Store
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The Krays (1990)
This fact-based movie follows the life of the twin crime-lords in London’s ’60s underworld.
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Layer Cake (2004)
A successful cocaine dealer gets two tough assignments from his boss on the eve of his planned early retirement.
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Netflix, NOW TV, Amazon Prime, Apple TV, YouTube, Google Play Movies & TV, Sky Store
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Legend (2015)
Identical twin gangsters Ronald and Reginald Kray terrorize London during the 1960s.
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Netflix, Amazon Prime, Apple TV, YouTube, Google Play Movies & TV, Sky Store
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Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels (1998)
Eddy persuades his three pals to pool money for a vital poker game against a powerful local mobster, Hatchet Harry. Eddy loses, after which Harry gives him a week to pay back 500,000 pounds.
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McVicar (1980)
‘John McVicar’ was a London Bad Boy. He graduated to armed bank robbery and was Britain’s “Public Enemy No. 1”. He was captured and put into a high security prison. Will even the highest security prison be able to hold him? This is the true story of his life, his criminal exploits and his eventual rehabilitation.
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Rise of the Footsoldier (2007)
The life of career criminal Carlton Leach.
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Amazon Prime, YouTube, Google Play Movies & TV, Sky Store
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RocknRolla (2008)
When a Russian mobster orchestrates a crooked land deal, millions of dollars are up for grabs, drawing in the entire London underworld into a feeding frenzy at a time when the old criminal regime is losing turf to a wealthy foreign mob.
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Amazon Prime, Apple TV, YouTube, Google Play Movies & TV, Sky Store