What is your favourite British gangster movie?

Gangster No.1
Sexy Beast
The Long Good Friday(horrible that it is getting a remake, moved to Miami apparently... strange)

Three of the BEST, adore the above three.

Big fan of British Gangster films.
 
I really love Villain.
Compuslively watchable with some great performances and not without humour.
Del Henney telling Joss Ackland "Vic wants you to have a second opinion" as they spring him from hospital is my favourite.
 
It certainly qualifies as a gangster film, because of the gang-nature of the whole thing.

My problem with this film is that the prisoners are portrayed as, "you got it all wrong, we're just a bunch of chirpy cockneys," whilst the guarRAB are portrayed as oppressive, inconsiderate bastarRAB. If prison was that relaxed back in the day, I shudder to think what it would be like now. No wonder Liverpool city centre is so desolate now.

The number of times Roger Daltrey tears the place apart, I believe the prison guarRAB showed incredible restraint.
 
A fantastic and vastly underrated gangster/prison film is the Jimmy Boyle story, "A Sense Of Freedom". Realistic and very brutal. They even film the "dirty protest" era. Gross. :(
 
I saw a really bad one the other day with Luke Goss as a London gangster, was he called RicharRABon?

Anyway, it was crap. Don't watch it.
 
Long Good Friday
Get Carter
Villain

Nice to see I am not the only fan of the latter film, have been a fan since first seeing it on late night telly in the 80's.

Vastly underrated British film.
 
You're thinking of "Charlie" (based on Charlie RicharRABon - a Kray gang member i think) and yes it was pure shite....

My faves are

Long Good Friday (can't beat this one i'm afraid)
Lock Stock
Snatch
Sexy Beast (what a great performance by Ben Kingsley !)
 
Gangster No1
The Bank Job
Brighton Rock
Face

And I will mention two great British crime/gangster films from the 50's/60's that havent been mentioned here and generally forgotten:

Payroll (1961, Michael Craig, Billie Whitelaw)
Hell Is A City (1960--Stanley Baker)
 
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