*‘BUTCH CASSIDY’ + ‘THE SUNDANCE KID’*
(1969)
(‘bank robbers’)
(“the wild west”)
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“WALL STREET”
(1987)
(*’white collar’ crime*)
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“GOODFELLAS”
(1990)
(“organized crime”)
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“BULLY”
(2001)
(“murder”)
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“CHANGING LANES”
(2002)
(“road rage”)
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“SPOTLIGHT”
(2015)
(‘child sex abuse’)
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(‘crime films’ (in the broadest sense) are a ‘film genre’ inspired by + analogous to the ‘crime fiction literary genre’)
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(films of this ‘genre’ generally involve various aspects of ‘crime’ + its ‘detection’)
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(stylistically, the genre may ‘overlap’ + ‘combine’ with many other ‘genres’, such as [‘drama’ / ‘gangster film’], but also include ‘comedy’, and, in turn, is divided into many sub-genres, such as [‘mystery’ / ‘suspense’ / ‘noir’])
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