English movies about gangsters

List of the best English movies about gangsters selected by visitors to our site: The Parade, Legend, RockNRolla, Black Mass, American Gangster, Lucky Number Slevin, The Gentlemen, Eastern Promises, Suburbicon, Brighton Rock.

In the top there are new films of 2021, a plot description and trailers for films that have already been released.

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Markimdb: 7.3
Genrecomedy, drama
CountrySerbia, Slovenia, Croatia, France, Macedonia, United Kingdom
Duration01:55

The Parade, in a tragicomic way, tells the story about ongoing battle between two worlds in contemporary post-war Serbian society - the traditional, oppressive, homophobic majority and a liberal, modern and open-minded minority... The film, which deals with gay rights issues in Serbia, features footage of the 2010 Belgrade gay pride parade. The film introduces a group of gay activists, trying to organize a pride parade in Belgrade

Markimdb: 6.9
Genrethriller, drama, crime
CountryUnited Kingdom, France, USA
Duration02:29

Suave, charming and volatile, Reggie Kray and his unstable twin brother Ronnie start to leave their mark on the London underworld in the 1960s. Using violence to get what they want, the siblings orchestrate robberies and murders while running nightclubs and protection rackets. With police Detective Leonard "Nipper" Read hot on their heels, the brothers continue their rapid rise to power and achieve tabloid notoriety.

Markimdb: 7.3
Genreaction, thriller, crime
CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
Duration01:54

    When a Russian mobster sets up a real estate scam that generates millions of pounds, various members of London's criminal underworld pursue their share of the fortune. Various shady characters, including Mr One-Two, Stella the accountant, and Johnny Quid, a druggie rock-star, try to claim their slice.

    Markimdb: 6.9
    Genredrama, crime, biography
    CountryUSA, United Kingdom
    Duration02:09

      The true story of Whitey Bulger, the brother of a state senator and the most infamous violent criminal in the history of South Boston, who became an FBI informant to take down a Mafia family invading his turf.

      Markimdb: 7.8
      Genredrama, crime, biography
      CountryUSA, United Kingdom
      Duration02:37

      Following the death of his employer and mentor, Bumpy Johnson, Frank Lucas establishes himself as the number one importer of heroin in the Harlem district of Manhattan. He does so by buying heroin directly from the source in South East Asia and he comes up with a unique way of importing the drugs into the United States. Based on a true story.

      Markimdb: 7.7
      Genrethriller, drama, crime
      CountryUSA, Canada, United Kingdom, Germany
      Duration01:50

      Slevin is mistakenly put in the middle of a personal war between the city’s biggest criminal bosses. Under constant watch, Slevin must try not to get killed by an infamous assassin and come up with an idea of how to get out of his current dilemma. A film with many twists and turns.

      Markimdb: 7.8
      Genreaction, comedy, crime
      CountryUnited Kingdom, USA

      American expat Mickey Pearson has built a highly profitable marijuana empire in London. When word gets out that he’s looking to cash out of the business forever it triggers plots, schemes, bribery and blackmail in an attempt to steal his domain out from under him.

      Markimdb: 7.6
      Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
      CountryUnited Kingdom, Canada, USA
      Duration01:40

      A Russian teenager, living in London, dies during childbirth but leaves clues to a midwife in her journal, that could tie her child to a rape involving a violent Russian mob family.

      Markimdb: 5.7
      Genrethriller, comedy, drama, crime
      CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, China
      Duration02:35

      In the quiet family town of Suburbicon during the 1950s, the best and worst of humanity is hilariously reflected through the deeds of seemingly ordinary people. When a home invasion turns deadly, a picture-perfect family turns to blackmail, revenge and murder.

      Markimdb: 5.7
      Genrethriller, drama, crime
      CountryUnited Kingdom, France

      Charts the headlong fall of Pinkie, a razor-wielding disadvantaged teenager with a religious death wish.

      Markimdb: 7.1
      Genredrama, crime, music
      CountryUnited Kingdom
      Duration02:01

      Ensemble film revolving around characters living in Forest Gate, London. Over the course of a few days, six inter-linking stories explore issues of drug use, prostitution and urban poverty.

      Markimdb: 5.2
      Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
      CountryUnited Kingdom

      A cruel twist of fate catapults small time crook Mickey Skinner into the big league, as head of a brutal London gang poised on the brink of a lucrative human-trafficking deal.

      Markimdb: 5.5
      Genrethriller, drama, crime
      CountryUnited Kingdom

      In 1995, drug suppliers and career criminals Tony Tucker, Patrick Tate and Craig Rolfe were blasted to death by a shot gun whilst waiting in a Range Rover in Rettendon, Essex. The film charts their rise to become the most prolific dealers and feared criminals in the south of England, maintaining the hold on their empire with fear and violence until their untimely death.

      Markimdb: 5.4
      Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
      CountryUnited Kingdom

      In the mean streets of London's East End, a former Serbian commando and a fourteen-year old boy plot revenge against a powerful crime lord and his ruthless lieutenants. As our heroes prepare to take on their enemies, the boy is mentored in the dark arts of assassination and learns the true meaning of friendship, honor and respect.

      Markimdb: 5.5
      Genrecomedy, crime, biography
      CountryUnited Kingdom

      Set in late-1970's Dundee, Schemers is based on writer-producer David McLean’s early years in the music business. After a run in with a local gangster, a fledgling promoter and his two friends raise their ambitions to booking major bands in order to escape their debt.

      Markimdb: 5.9
      Genreaction, comedy, drama, crime
      CountryUnited Kingdom
      Duration01:41

      Sam & Fordy run a credit card fraud scheme, but when they steal from the wrong man, they find themselves threatened by sadistic gangster. They need to raise £5m and pull off a daring diamond heist to clear their debt.

      Markimdb: 5.7
      Genrethriller
      CountryUnited Kingdom
      Duration01:35

      The Guvnors is a violent thriller set amongst the clans and firms of South East London, bringing two generations together in brutal conflict.

      Markimdb: 7.3
      Genrethriller, drama, crime
      CountryUnited Kingdom, Spain
      Duration02:24

      Ex-safecracker Gal Dove has served his time behind bars and is blissfully retired to a Spanish villa paradise with a wife he adores. The idyll is shattered by the arrival of his nemesis Don Logan, intent on persuading Gal to return to London for one last big job. Desperate not to sacrifice his enchanted existence, Dove is drawn into a shocking battle of wills with Logan, and takes part in a sensational underwater heist, risking everything to protect the woman he loves.

      Markimdb: 4.4
      Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
      CountryUnited Kingdom

      A thief is caught up in a deadly game of cat-and-mouse between a maverick cop and London crime boss.

      Markimdb: 7.2
      Genredrama, crime
      CountryUnited Kingdom
      Duration01:38

      Out on parole after 8 years inside Bill Hayward returns home to find his now 11 and 15 year old sons abandoned by their mother and fending for themselves. Unwilling to play Dad, an uncaring Bill is determined to move on.

      Markimdb: 7.2
      Genredrama, adventure
      CountryUSA, United Kingdom
      Duration01:33

      Based on the 2013 Academy Award® winning short film 'Curfew'. At the lowest point of his life, Richie gets a call from his estranged sister, asking him to look after his eleven-year-old niece, Sophia, for a few hours.

      Markimdb: 4
      Genrethriller, melodrama, crime
      CountryUnited Kingdom

      A trusted driver must deal with his dead boss's Muslim mistress, her dark past pulling him into a life-and-death showdown with her notorious gangster cousin/ex-husband.

      Markimdb: 6.1
      Genreaction, comedy
      CountryUSA, Hong Kong, Bulgaria, Netherlands, Canada, United Kingdom, France, Sweden

      The sequel to the assassin action-comedy The Hitman's Bodyguard.

      Markimdb: 7
      Genrethriller, drama, crime, biography
      CountryUSA, United Kingdom
      Duration02:34

        A U.S Customs official uncovers a massive money laundering scheme involving Pablo Escobar.

        Markimdb: 6.1
        Genrethriller, crime
        CountryUnited Kingdom
        Duration02:10

        Billy has just scored an entry-level position with the local crime cartel. His first job is to mind Jason, a newly released thug with a vicious temper. Jason thinks it's his job to teach Billy about crime, drugs and women. Little does he know that Billy has his eyes on Jason's own wife, Lisa. When an ecstasy deal goes bad, Jason vows revenge on the boss, while Billy looks to take out Jason. Before long, bodies start turning up

        Markimdb: 5.4
        Genrehorror, action, crime
        CountryItaly, USA, United Kingdom
        Duration01:24

        Set in the fictional country of Heaven Valley, the film is the story of a man, Adam, who following the suspicious death of his wife begins to investigate her murder and in doing so, discovers the involvement of local mafia boss: Denny Richards. Unable to trust the police, corrupt and controlled by Denny, Adam, consumed by anger, summons a demon who offers him superhuman strength and dark powers. The demon follows him during his trip, promising to lead Adam to the door of the murderer if he does everything the demon asks. This unleashes a bloody war that will bring Adam, the demon on his side, against the police department with all its dark allies. The fight begins and it will be extreme!

        Markimdb: 5.3
        Genredrama, crime
        CountryUnited Kingdom
        Duration01:37

        Everybody Loves Sunshine (released in the United States as B.U.S.T.E.D.), is a 1999 British independent film written and directed by Andrew Goth, and starring Rachel Shelley, David Bowie and Goldie. In the Pepperhill Estate of Manchester, an ongoing battle rages between Triad gangs and street gangs. Gang leaders Ray (Andrew Goth) and Terry (Goldie), who are cousins and lifelong friends, always trusting and relying on each other, have been in prison. Ray doesn't want to be a gangsters anymore, having also fallen for Clare (Rachel Shelley). But Terry, driven by an obsession beyond friendship, is determined to make sure that Ray never leaves the gang. During their time in prison, the Triads have grown stronger and more daring, eventually killing a member ofTerry and Ray's gang. Revenge is called for and the gang turns to them for direction. Bernie (David Bowie) is the aging gangster who struggles to keep the peace.

        Markimdb: 8.3
        Genreaction, comedy, crime
        CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
        Duration01:42

        The second film from British director Guy Ritchie. Snatch tells an obscure story similar to his first fast-paced crazy character-colliding filled film “Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels.” There are two overlapping stories here – one is the search for a stolen diamond, and the other about a boxing promoter who’s having trouble with a psychotic gangster.

        Markimdb: 5.9
        Genrethriller, crime
        CountryUnited Kingdom

        Tom is a middle-class city boy whose life has reached breaking point. he thinks D - a young desperate drug addict can give him what he needs. But what D’s offering comes with more than just a price tag…. Tom is completely out of his depth when he finds himself in D's abandoned warehouse attempting to do a deal with him. The two enter into an irrational, deadly game of cat and mouse. The tense drama escalates when local crime lord, Hoodwink, wakes up to find his gun missing. With this impending threat at their backs, both men play an intense game of cat and mouse; scrambling to cut a deal and make sense of the very lives they may be about to lose.

        Markimdb: 5.5
        Genrethriller, crime
        CountryUnited Kingdom
        Duration01:29

        In London, a drug dealer grows increasingly desperate over the course of a week after a botched deal lands him in the merciless clutches of a ruthless crime lord. The more desperate his behavior, the more isolated he becomes until there is nothing left standing between him and the bullet his debtors intend to fire his way.

        Markimdb: 5.7
        Genrethriller, crime, detective
        CountryUnited Kingdom
        Duration01:06

        A gang of thieves gather at a safe house following a robbery, but a detective is on their trail.

        Markimdb: 7.1
        Genrethriller, drama, crime
        CountryUnited Kingdom, USA

        Leonard is an English tailor who used to craft suits on London’s world-famous Savile Row. After a personal tragedy, he’s ended up in Chicago, operating a small tailor shop in a rough part of town where he makes beautiful clothes for the only people around who can afford them: a family of vicious gangsters.

        Markimdb: 6.2
        Genrecomedy, drama, adventure, biography
        CountryUSA, United Kingdom
        Duration02:00

          Tired of the noise and madness of New York and the crushing conventions of late Eisenhower-era America, itinerant journalist Paul Kemp travels to the pristine island of Puerto Rico to write for a local San Juan newspaper run by the downtrodden editor Lotterman. Adopting the rum-soaked lifestyle of the late ‘50s version of Hemingway’s “The Lost Generation,” Paul soon becomes entangled with a very attractive American woman, Chenaults and her fiancée Sanderson, a businessman involved in shady property development deals.  It is within this world that Kemp ultimately discovers his true voice as a writer and integrity as a man.

          Markimdb: 7.2
          Genrecomedy, crime
          CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
          Duration01:50

            A struggling screenwriter inadvertently becomes entangled in the Los Angeles criminal underworld after his oddball friends kidnap a gangster's beloved Shih Tzu.

            Markimdb: 5.5
            Genrecomedy, drama, crime
            CountryUnited Kingdom

            A young gambler makes a large, risky bet on a horse race. When the odds turn in his favour, more than one party has sudden interest in the winning betting slip, and they'll do anything to get their hands on it.

            Markimdb: 5.8
            Genredrama, crime
            CountryUnited Kingdom

            Jamaica, 1973. When a young boy witnesses his brother’s assassination, a powerful Don gives him a home. But 10 years later, when he’s sent to London, his past catches up to him.

            Markimdb: 3.9
            Genrecomedy, crime
            CountryUSA, United Kingdom
            Duration01:04

            In an effort to avoid paying of a massive gambling debt to a notorious mobster in England, a couple flees to Los Angeles and hatch a jewel theft plot.

            Markimdb: 5.7
            Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
            CountryUnited Kingdom
            Duration01:41

            A group of people who feel betrayed by their government and let down by their police force form a modern-day outlaw posse in order to right what they see as the wrongs of society.

            Markimdb: 5.4
            Genrefantastic, thriller, detective
            CountryUnited Kingdom, Germany
            Duration02:09

            A mute man with a violent past is forced to take on the teeming underworld of a near-future Berlin as he searches for his missing girlfriend.

            Markimdb: 4.9
            Genremelodrama, drama
            CountryUnited Kingdom
            Duration01:27

            A prison story. Father Jack finds love with a male guard in the prison. Some of the other inmates suspect he's been sentenced for paedophilia.

            Markimdb: 5.8
            Genreaction, comedy, crime
            CountryUSA, United Kingdom
            Duration01:42

            A classically-trained martial artist goes to work as a debt collector for the mob. The job seems easy enough, until one “client” pulls him into a situation deeper than could ever be expected.

            Markimdb: 6.6
            Genredrama, crime, biography
            CountryUnited Kingdom
            Duration01:59

            The Krays is a film based on the lives and crimes of the British gangsters Ronald and Reginald Kray, twins who are often referred to as The Krays and were active in London in the 1960s.

            Markimdb: 6.1
            Genrefantastic, action, thriller, drama, crime
            CountryUSA, United Kingdom
            Duration02:35

            Los Angeles, June 21st, 2028. While the streets are being torn apart by riots, the Nurse, who runs a clandestine hospital for criminals in the penthouse of the Artemis, a closed old hotel, has a rough night dealing with troublemaker clients: thieves, assassins, someone from the past and the one who owns the place and the whole city.

            Markimdb: 6.1
            Genreaction, comedy, drama, crime
            CountryUnited Kingdom

            Fate, the pensions crisis and a steadfast refusal to accept the injustice of old age have contrived to force law abiding, retired couple, Arthur and Martha Goode into a life of crime.

            Markimdb: 4.8
            Genrethriller, crime
            CountryUnited Kingdom

            Ex-con Johnny is forced into pulling a heist he wants nothing to do with. Mob boss ‘Shrewd’ Eddie has one million is dirty cash stashed at his home, just waiting to be stolen. But what Johnny doesn’t know is that seven other very dangerous criminals also have plans to steal the money...

            Markimdb: 5.9
            Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
            CountryUnited Kingdom
            Duration01:58

            Hoping to raise enough capital to finance a legitimate business and leave behind his life of crime, Liverpool underworld boss Ged Brennan sends his brother Ratter and a crew to pull a daring final heist. But when Ratter kills a drug kingpin during the job, Brennan must turn to rival crook Franner to avert an all-out gangland war.

            Markimdb: 7.3
            Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
            CountryUSA, United Kingdom
            Duration01:45

            When a seemingly straight-forward drug deal goes awry, XXXX has to break his die-hard rules and turn up the heat, not only to outwit the old regime and come out on top, but to save his own skin...

            Markimdb: 6.1
            Genrehorror, thriller, comedy, crime
            CountryUnited Kingdom
            Duration01:32

            In a remote part of the countryside, a bungled kidnapping turns into a living nightmare for four central characters when they cross paths with a psychopathic farmer and all hell breaks loose.

            Markimdb: 6.8
            Genredrama, crime
            CountryUnited Kingdom
            Duration01:45

            Young gangster Chas Devlin seeks refuge from the mob in a basement belonging to a reclusive, fading rock star Turner.

            Markimdb: 6.2
            Genreaction, thriller, crime
            CountryUnited Kingdom
            Duration01:34

            Mike Fallon, the Accident Man, is a stone cold killer. When a loved one is murdered by his own crew, Fallon is forced to avenge the one person who actually meant something to him.




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