The essential parts to a crime film are - the police are as bad as the gangters. Gangster films pretty much always show tough guys off the hardscrabble streets of blighted metropolises who turn to crime life because: it's the only way forward, they were wronged by authorities at a young age or they realised that Credit Suisse and Bank of America never higher people from their ethic background, so they might as well become leg breakers.
Gangster movies always have an amorphous code of behaviour whether it's omerta or hounour amoung thieves or "let's keep it in the family". This code is vaguely defined, it cannot be violated.
Crime movies usually always have a rat, sometimes several rats. The rat can either be an undercover cop, a member of the gang or even the gang leader himself/herself. Gangters have a hard time indentifying the rat, although the rat is usually alwqays the newest and best looking member of the gang, and they never seem to belong to the same ethnic group as the rest of the members of the gang. Gangster moves often include scenes set within a night club or a resaurant where somebody will say the wrong thing to the wrong guy, and later on will regret it.
In crime movies, there is usually one 'straight arrow' whom the gangsters have respect for because he is not completely crooked like them.
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