Favorite Tough-guy/Crime Films
 

The crime film/tough-guy film genre may not be horror, but it is as similarly linked to the genre as the Spaghetti Western. These films often feature bleak situations, nihilistic behavior, shocking violence and (when we're really lucky) some really great gore.

My wriring partner have dipped our toes into these waters recently and the reaction has been quite positive (more news on that when it is prudent to divulge) and we will be making quite a few more of these films in the future.

Not easily classified, these films vassilate between thriller, drama, caper and revenge flicks, but the tough-guy and crime element always shine through.

Personally I'm quite fond of:

The Getaway
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia
Straw Dogs
Mean Streets
The Long Good Friday
Resevior Dogs
Eastern Promises
A History of Violence
Taken
Death Wish
Le Cercle Rouge
Youth of the Beast
The Wages of Fear
The Killing
Hard Boiled
The Departed (I actually liked it better than Infernal Affairs)


What are your favorites?

you listed most of mine (long good friday especially)

i also really like
Scorcerer (friedkin's wages of fear remake)
Thief
the amateur
To Live and Die in LA

That was the primany inspiration for the tough-guy/crime script we wrote that is getting a lot of heat right now.

Great film.
Bob Hoskins, Helen Mirren, and a very young Pierce Brosnan

Does Alex De Large of Clockwork Orange count?

Well, the classics for me- anything with Cagney, like White Heat
Treasure of Sierra Madre
Dead End
Goodfellas?
Dog Day Afternoon

The Outlaw Josey Wales

Sexy Beast

any of the Dirty Harry movies

Rambo

Oldboy

All solid choices - I wasn't sure wather to include pure gangster flicks in the genre, but you're right - they all belong there

I especially love Treasure of the Sierra Madre

Ditto


Pusher (danish movie)
Oldboy
The long kiss goodnight (Gina Davis got balls :D)
Die Hard
Last Boyscout

i haven't seen that one... hmmm

I love The Las Boy Scout and Die Hard, but feel they fall too squarely into the huge, action/comedy vein and are a bit too over-the-top to be considered true "tough-guy" films

Sorry.

I thought the suggestions just had to have serious tough guys in em. My bad.


I'm sure i'll come up with more soon.