So while talking with some friends of mine over films we liked, I found myself stuck to describe the genre of recent films that I find myself attracted to. Hopefully some one here as run into this and can let me in, also if anyone has a film they would recommend adding to my list, please let me know.
The protagonists are anti-hero criminals and or small time hoods/thieves in most cases. Usually involve a seemly complex or bizarre crime/plotline that when all the pieces are made available, it makes perfect sense. Are they modern “old fashion gangster/crime” movies in a way? (ie. older style criminals instead of drug dealing gang bangers in the hood flicks) Many have different parallel story lines that weave and merge at the end, but not always. So do these have a genre they can be grouped in, does such a genre even exist?
Pulp Fiction
Reservoir Dogs
Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
Snatch (side note, can we get Guy Ritchie away from Madonna and back to making decent films?)
Ocean’s Eleven (Clooney remake)
The Way of The Gun
The Usual Suspects
The Italian Job (original and remake)
2 Days in the Valley
3000 Miles to Graceland (corny as hell, but I liked it)
HEAT (not sure if it mixes with the rest, but it’s still a damn good film)
*looks at havokeff, looks at OP, grabs eraser*
What would you call this film genre?
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What would you call this film genre?
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Heist movies? But in the case of Snatch, I think it falls into the 'everyone is a dick' category...
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I would disagree with such a notion that the caper genre being related to Film Noir. Above anything, Noir is primarily classified through specific stylistic criteria, and the majority of such films belong within the detective and thriller genres. As I see it, the caper film is either closely related to or is a sub-division of the crime and gangster genres.
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Maybe Pulp movies?
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Re: What would you call this film genre?
*AHEM*Azazal wrote:Unusual Suspects
That would be The Usual Suspects
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