gangster

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Many of the movies of the era picked up on this theme and offered people solace by turning the tables—especially the new genre of gangster movies.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 21, 2026

"Sinners," the tale of gangster twins returning home to a supernatural and segregated Deep South in the 1930s, has already made Academy Awards history with its whopping 16 nominations.

From Barron's • Mar. 15, 2026

He went on to make the Whitey Bulger gangster film “Black Mass,” starring Johnny Depp, then “Hostiles,” a western with Bale, Rosamund Pike and Wes Studi.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 28, 2025

Actor Cillian Murphy has said he is nothing like his Peaky Blinders character Tommy Shelby, because he is not a "psychopathic gangster".

From BBC • Sep. 19, 2025

I tell him I don’t know and when he pokes his finger into my chest Malachy says, I’m a gangster, Frank’s a cowboy.

From "Angela's Ashes: A Memoir" by Frank McCourt