Once Upon a Time in London

Apr 19, 2019

1h 51m

★ 5.4

Overview

Billy Hill and Jack 'Spot' Comer were among the most notorious criminals in London up until the 1950s. Dramatising the violent reign of two of London's most notorious gangsters, Billy Hill (Leo Gregory) and Jack 'Spot' Comer (Terry Stone), ONCE UPON A TIME IN LONDON charts the legendary rise and fall of a nationwide criminal empire that lasted until the mid-fifties and which paved the way for the notorious Kray Twins and The Richardsons. This is the story of their rise and fall.

Genres

Crime

Production Companies

Gateway Films

Ratio Film

Once Upon a Time in London Trailers

Cast

Jack 'Spot' Comer

Terry Stone

Billy Hill

Leo Gregory

Aggie Vaux

Holly Earl

Alf White

Jamie Foreman

Harry White

Justin Salinger

Belgian Johnny

Dominic Keating

Darky Mulley

Geoff Bell

Detective Rogers

Michael McKell

Sonny The Yank

Andy Beckwith

Stanley

Theo Devaney

Gypsey

Kate Braithwaite

Albert Dimes

Doug Allen

Sang-hoon is a lowlife gangster, a debt collector exercising thuggish ways to collect his money. The recipient of nothing but anger since his childhood, he expresses himself through violence. When he finally encounters someone who can stand up to him, feisty school-girl Yoon-hee they become unlikely friends.

10.0

Call If You Need Me

Mar 28, 2009

Gentle, easy-going Or Kia moves from the countryside to Kuala Lumpur to work for his cousin and best friend Ah Soon, a mid-level gangster and enforcer. While Or Kia works hard to put a sister through school, Ah Soon cares for an unstable girlfriend prone to mysterious disappearances. As they both sink deeper into a nocturnal world of debts, drugs, and betrayal, Or Kia's loyalties are strained when Ah Soon falls out of favor with the bosses and tries to escape the business.

0.0

Men of Sacrifice

Oct 5, 2022

The police bomb squad and SWAT teams face off against an embittered serial bomber out to get revenge for his daughter against the gangster who caused her death.

6.3

Face

Sep 26, 1997

Ray is an aging ex-socialist who has become a bankrobber after seeing the demise of socialism in 1980s Britain. Teaming up with a gang of other has-beenish crims, he commits one bank job too many. The gang dissolves in a murderous flurry of recriminations.

6.7

Raw Deal

May 21, 1948

Joe Sullivan is itching to get out of prison. He's taken the rap for his accomplice Rick, a sadistic mobster who owes him $50,000 from the job they pulled. Rick sets up an escape for Joe, assuming that Joe will be killed while fleeing. But with the help of his love-struck girl Pat and his sympathetic legal caseworker Ann, Joe gets further than Rick intended...

6.2

The Stone Killer

Aug 8, 1973

A Los Angeles detective is sent to New York where he must solve a case involving an old Sicilian Mafia family feud.

7.3

10 Rillington Place

Feb 10, 1971

The story of British serial killer John Christie, who committed most or all of his crimes in the titular terraced house, and the miscarriage of justice involving Timothy Evans.

5.7

Death Wish 4: The Crackdown

Jun 11, 1987

After the death of his girlfriend's daughter from a drug overdose, Paul Kersey takes on the local drug cartel.

0.0

Cadillac: A Mobster Fairy Tale

Apr 16, 2023

In the 1960s, after the love of his life leaves him in the dust, a young soldier in Boston's Italian Mafia must decide whether his future will be one of violence and lust, or love and morality.

5.0

Woman Unafraid

Mar 27, 1934

A dedicated and compassionate policewoman risks her job by offering refuge to a young mother with mob associations. Crime drama.

6.2

Villain

May 26, 1971

In 1970s London, Scotland Yard orchestrates the downfall of mob boss Vic Dakin after he crosses the line by blackmailing Members of Parliament.

0.0

Moloss

Aug 31, 2022

A sixty-year-old who has always obediently followed the rules, suffers an existential burnout. He has always done his part and, in his own modest way, has worked for a better society. But that society has hit rock bottom and our former good Samaritan is no longer in the mood for concessions. Moloss is his name and he’s got a mission: to cure the world of a very human disease. But his method could not differ more from those of Gandhi or Mother Theresa. He’s certainly not turning the other cheek. His approach is a lot more direct, not to say radical. His very personal spin on the tactic of the scorched earth to make way for a better future implicates not only his daughter Doianna and his ex-wife Veronica, but many others who didn’t plan any revolution. Is he out of his mind? Desperate? Dangerous? Perhaps all three, but in his defense, it’s our society that has started it!

1.9

Ram Gopal Varma Ki Aag

Aug 31, 2007

A pair of bodyguards for a politician find their positions under threat when their employer is implicated in a scandal. Fleeing to Mumbai they find work with a gangster, but also find that the police are onto them.

6.8

The Little Giant

May 20, 1933

Prohibition is ending so bootlegger Bugs Ahearn decides to crack California society. He leases a house from down-on-her-luck Ruth and hires her as social secretary. He rescues Polly Cass from a horsefall and goes home to meet her dad who sells him some phony stock certificates. When he learns about this he sends to Chicago for mob help.

6.1

Night Key

Apr 18, 1937

The inventor of a new top-of-the-line burglar alarm system is kidnapped by a gang in order to get him to help them commit robberies.

3.6

Played

May 19, 2006

An examination of the malevolent London underworld with it's despicable criminal underground. Ray (Mick Rossi) just finished an eight year prison sentence after getting set up. Now he is back on the streets to settle the score.

5.4

The Hitman

May 1, 1991

After surviving an attempt on his life by his former partner, officer Cliff Garrett (Norris) exacts revenge on those who wronged him by going undercover as a hit man. He works to gain the reputation and trust needed in order to be accepted by the burgeoning Seattle-area criminal underworld, but it is all done in order to take it down from within.

5.5

American Buffalo

Sep 13, 1996

Three inner-city losers plan a robbery of a valuable coin in a seedy second-hand junk shop.

5.5

Bloody Mama

Mar 24, 1970

Sexually abused as a young girl, Kate "Ma" Barker grows into a violent and powerful woman by the 1930s. She lovingly dominates her grown sons and grooms them into a pack of tough crooks. The boys include the cruel Herman, who still shares a bed with Ma; Fred, an ex-con who fell in love with a fellow prisoner; and Lloyd, who gets high on whatever's handy. Together they form a deadly, bizarre family of Depression-era bandits.

7.1

The Chase

Feb 18, 1966

The escape of Bubber Reeves from prison affects the inhabitants of a small Southern town.