A Miami forensics analyst who kills killers; the first four seasons.
A motorcycle club in California as Hamlet; Charlie Hunnam and Katey Sagal.
The Shelby gang in 1920s Birmingham with razor blades in their caps; Cillian Murphy.
A financial adviser launders cartel money at a Missouri lake; Jason Bateman and Laura Linney.
A US marshal in his Kentucky home county and Boyd Crowder; Elmore Leonard on TV.
Benedict Cumberbatch in modern London; the Reichenbach fall and the internet.
The Professor and his Dali-masked crew inside the Royal Mint of Spain; "Bella Ciao".
Peter Falk's rumpled detective, "just one more thing", with the murderer shown first.
Kate Winslet as a Pennsylvania detective in a town she cannot leave; the hoagie and the accent.
Nucky Thompson runs Atlantic City in Prohibition; Scorsese directed the pilot.
A corporate recruiter who steals art picks the wrong target; Jo Nesbo's thriller on screen.
Rio's BOPE police unit in the favelas; the Brazilian action film everyone argued about.
A Romani boy with telekinesis sold to a gangster; Kusturica's magical realism.
Brad Pitt as an unintelligible boxer and an 86-carat diamond; Ritchie's follow-up.
A teenager taken in by his criminal family in Melbourne; Jacki Weaver's grandmother.
Vic Mackey's corrupt strike team in LA; the first cable anti-hero and the best finale.
Ben Kingsley as the most terrifying gangster in Britain arrives at a Costa del Sol villa.
Five stories of the Camorra in the Naples suburbs, shot like a documentary.
Two con men and a sheet of rare stamps in Buenos Aires; Argentina's heist classic.
How Jimmy McGill became Saul Goodman; the Breaking Bad prequel many rate higher.
Bob Hoskins as a London gangster whose empire explodes over one Easter weekend.
Rust Cohle and Marty Hart in Louisiana; the six-minute tracking shot and "time is a flat circle".
An anthology in the Coens' Minnesota; each season a new decade and a new crime.
Noomi Rapace as Lisbeth Salander; the Swedish Millennium film before Fincher's.
Four friends, a card game and a lot of London gangsters; Guy Ritchie's debut.
Four hours of Taipei teenagers in 1960 and a murder; Edward Yang's masterpiece.
A hitman tries to fund an eye operation for the singer he blinded; Woo's doves and two-gun ballet.
A cop in the triads and a triad in the police; the film The Departed remade.
Chow Yun-fat in a hospital shootout of one continuous take; John Woo's Hong Kong farewell.
Five hours of a coal-mafia feud across three generations; Anurag Kashyap's Godfather.
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