Missing The Gentlemen? 6 Crime Movies to Watch on Tubi
Keep the criminal schemes coming with Guy Ritchie, British gangsters, and enough double-crosses to make trusting anyone feel wildly irresponsible.
The Gentlemen is back for season 2, which means the suits are sharp, the criminal enterprises are expanding, and somebody is almost certainly explaining an extremely complicated scheme like it's a perfectly reasonable way to conduct business. Season 2 has Eddie and Susie going bigger with their empire, and if watching beautifully dressed people negotiate, threaten, and occasionally betray each other has put you back in a very specific British crime-story mood, understandable.
That's where these six crime movies on Tubi come in. We've got actual Guy Ritchie, British underworld politics, con artists, mob fixers, and enough people confidently saying “I've got a plan” to make you immediately question the plan. Think gangster movies, crime thrillers, and elaborate cons with a little The Gentlemen-style swagger. The criminal ecosystem stretches even further through Tubi's Gangsters collection.
Keep your friends close, your enemies closer, and perhaps don't accept any mysterious business opportunities. Let's get into it.
Revolver
First order of business: go directly to the source. Guy Ritchie's Revolver reunites the director with Jason Statham, whose Jake Green leaves prison with money on his mind and Ray Liotta's crime boss Dorothy Macha very much on his list of unfinished business. Except Ritchie isn't satisfied with simply setting two dangerous men against each other. Gambling, con games, mysterious loan sharks, and an increasingly psychological battle start folding into one another until figuring out who's actually controlling the game becomes part of the game itself.
If The Gentlemen has you craving another Guy Ritchie crime movie full of criminal hierarchies, swagger, and men discussing enormous sums of money with concerning calmness, start here. Just know this is Ritchie with the difficulty setting turned up. The suit is optional. Keeping up is not.
The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare
Same director. Entirely different criminal assignment. Henry Cavill, Alan Ritchson, Eiza González, and Henry Golding assemble for Guy Ritchie's The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare, which takes the specialized-crew appeal of a gangster movie and drops it into a covert World War II mission. The team is unconventional, the methods are considerably less regulation-friendly, and everybody seems suspiciously delighted by the opportunity to cause problems for Nazis.
That's The Gentlemen connection worth chasing here: the ensemble of highly specialized troublemakers. Ritchie loves putting wildly specific personalities around one dangerous objective and letting competence, ego, and banter bounce off each other until the plan inevitably gets louder. Eddie has his empire. These gentlemen have explosives.
Layer Cake
Now we're entering the British criminal ecosystem. Please mind the hierarchy. Before Daniel Craig became James Bond, Layer Cake made him an unnamed cocaine dealer who has one very reasonable goal: get out while things are still going well. Naturally, his bosses respond by giving him another assignment involving a missing woman, stolen ecstasy, and enough competing criminal interests to make retirement feel increasingly theoretical.
Craig is cool without making his character invincible, which is exactly why the movie works. He's smart enough to understand the rules of this world but not powerful enough to simply ignore them, and watching him maneuver between people above, below, and beside him gives the whole movie British gangster-movie tension. If the criminal hierarchy is your favorite part of The Gentlemen, consider your next layer served.
Lucky Number Slevin
You know that moment when every character appears to have their own plan? Welcome. Josh Hartnett's Slevin arrives in New York, gets mistaken for somebody else, and somehow ends up owing money to two rival crime bosses played by Morgan Freeman and Ben Kingsley. Lucky Number Slevin then adds Bruce Willis and Lucy Liu because somehow the situation wasn't complicated enough.
The fun is surrendering to the chessboard. Alliances shift, information arrives exactly when somebody wants you to have it, and seemingly casual details start looking considerably less casual in hindsight. For crime thriller fans who enjoy watching a criminal scheme slowly reveal another scheme hiding underneath it, take a seat.
Confidence
Not every gangster needs a gun. Some people can cause enough trouble with a very convincing sentence. Confidence focuses on Edward Burns' Jake Vig, a con artist whose crew accidentally steals from the wrong criminal and responds by attempting an even bigger con to settle the debt. Dustin Hoffman enters as crime boss Winston King, Rachel Weisz joins the crew, and suddenly every conversation feels like somebody is either being recruited, manipulated, or quietly set up.
Audacity is basically the weapon of choice in this con-artist crime thriller. The movie keeps asking whether Jake is actually three steps ahead or simply very good at looking like he is, which scratches the same itch as watching The Gentlemen characters negotiate their way through situations where saying the wrong thing could become a serious occupational hazard. Confidence is key. Receipts are probably helpful too.
Killing Them Softly
We've enjoyed the suits and schemes. Time to turn the glamour down. Two small-time criminals rob a mob-protected poker game in Killing Them Softly, creating exactly the kind of workplace issue organized crime prefers to resolve internally. Enter Brad Pitt as Jackie Cogan, the fixer hired to restore order. He doesn't need an enormous criminal empire or particularly theatrical introduction. He needs names, information, and enough time to clean up somebody else's terrible idea.
The hierarchy, money, and underworld rules of a gangster movie are still there, but director Andrew Dominik strips away the fantasy and makes organized crime feel like a deeply unpleasant business with invoices attached. After six movies of criminal maneuvering, think of this as the appropriate reminder that eventually somebody has to settle the account.