Boston Crime film sub-genre
 

I think...it's ok to call it a sub-genre.... I never really thought of it till the most recent film, The Town.

We've had a small but steady amount of them since the start of the 2000s....but...what do you guys think of them? It just seems like Boston's the place for great crime films all of a sudden.

The Town
The Departed
Gone Baby Gone
Mystic River
The Friends of Eddie Coyle
What Doesn't Kill You
Boondock Saints
Boondock Saints 2: All Saints Day

what else is there?

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/\ We Own the Night was New York City.

Off the top of my head...
The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1973)
What Doesn't Kill You (2008)

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Boondock Saints?

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The Brink's Job
State of Grace
The Thomas Crown Affair (original)

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Southie (1998)
The Boston Strangler (1968)
Monument Avenue (1998)

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Southie, with Donnie Wahlberg

EDIT: TallGuyMe beat me to it.

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Anyone mention Southie yet?

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I should point out that I provided the vital information that Donnie Wahlberg stars in it.

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I don't get it....do you want a dick in your ass or something? Now shut the fuck up and get back to your seat...:)

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my rank:
The Departed
The Town (very close with GBG, still fresh so may actually be under, but...)
Gone Baby Gone
Mystic River
What Doesn't Kill You (saw this one recently and really liked it)
Boondock Saints 2: All Saints Day (surprisingly enjoyed this as i never had an affintiy for the first)
Boondock Saints

(never saw)
Thee Friends of Eddie Coyle
Southie

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Southie

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Northie.

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Blown Away
Edge of Darkness

I'm also fairly sure The Spanish Prisoner takes place there.

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^ Yeah, it's half NYC and Half Boston.

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FUZZ (1972), starring Burt Reynolds, Raquel Welch and Yul Brynner, takes place in Boston and I believe was partly shot there.

This film had some notoriety in the 1970s when, after its network showing, somebody in Boston set fire to a homeless person who then burned to death. Since a similar act is depicted in the film, someone raised a stink about how films inspire copycat crimes.

Of the films mentioned so far, my favorite is THE FRIENDS OF EDDIE COYLE (1973), which stars Robert Mitchum in an adaptation of the novel by George V. Higgins (highly recommended). Mitchum and co-star Richard Jordan would reunite two years later for THE YAKUZA, shot in Japan.

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On television:

- Fringe
- Leverage

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Has anyone here ever seen The North End? It was a small independent film released in 1997 that takes place in Boston and stars Frank Vincent as a local mob boss. I have always wanted to see it but it has never been on home video.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0124028/

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State of Grace is Hell's Kitchen in NY.