Crime genre conventions

-Use of weapons/violence

-Anti police

-Protagonist normally 'gangster type style'

-Money and the use of value- drives narrative

-Emphasizes struggle of daily life , normally anti state.

-Binary oppositions, Good vs evil.

-Low key lighting very dark

Shawshank redemption

Film based on the Stephen king novel , which explores ideologies and conventions of crime in 50s America . Realistic crime is what is focused.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLl99DlL6b4

A Guy Ritchie film that explores British crimes. Film is multi ethnical. Conventions of this film is corruption , drugs , crime lifestyle , robberies but also has a comedy aspect.

Snatch

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Jar2XkBboo

Taxi driver

Explores the crime in new york , starring robert de niro , who is an 'outsider'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5IligQP7Fo