Bonnie and Clyde Case Study

Stars: Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway

Director: Arthur Penn

Genre: Drama/Romance/Crime

Production Company: Warner Bros.

Release Date:13th August 1967

Running Time:111mins

Production Budget:$2.5million

A somewhat romanticized account of the career of the notoriously violent bank robbing couple and their gang.

Wild At Heart Case Study

Stars: Nicolas Cage and Laura Dern

Director: David Lynch

Genre: Crime/Romance

Production Company: The Samuel Goldwyn Company

Certificate:18

Release Date: 17 August 1990

Running Time: 124mins

Production Budget:$10million

Young lovers Sailor and Lula run from the variety of weirdos that Lula's mom has hired to kill Sailor.

True Romance Case Study

Stars: Christian Slater, Patricia Arquette and Dennis Hopper

Director: Tony Scott

Genre: Thriller/Crime/Romance

Production Company: Warner Bros.

Certificate:18

Release Date:10th September 1993

Running Time: 118mins

Production Budget:$13million 

Clarence marries hooker Alabama, steals cocaine from her pimp, and tries to sell it in Hollywood, while the owners of the coke try to reclaim it.

The Italian Job (1969) Case Study

Stars: Michael Caine, Benny Hill, Noel Coward

Director:Peter Collinson

Genre: Action/Crime/Comedy

Production Company: Paramount Pictures

Certificate:PG

Release Date:2nd June 1969
Running Time:95mins

Comic caper movie about a plan to steal a gold shipment from the streets of Turin by creating a traffic jam.

Harry Brown Case Study

Stars: Michael Caine, Emily Mortimer, David Bradley, Ben Drew

Director:Daniel Barber

Genre: Action/Crime/Drama

Production Company: Lionsgate

Certificate:18

Release Date:11th November 2009

Running Time:103mins

Production Budget:$7.3 million

An elderly ex-serviceman and widower looks to avenge his best friend's murder by doling out his own form of justice .

Badlands Case Study

Stars: Martin Sheen, Sissy Spacek and Warren Oates

Director: Terrance Malick

Genre: Lovers on the Lam/Drama

Production Company: Warner Bros.

Certificate:18

Release Date:October 15, 1973

Running Time:94mins

Production Budget:$500,000 (estimated)

Based on the Starkweather-Fugate killing spree of the 1958, in which a fifteen-year-old girl and her twenty-five-year-old boyfriend slaughtered her entire family and several others in the Dakota badlands.

Natural Born Killers Case Study

Stars: Woody Harrelson, Juliette Lewis, Robert Downey Jr. and Tom Sizemore

Director: Oliver Stone

Genre: Lovers on the Lam/Thriller/Romance

Production Company: Warner Bros.

Certificate: 18

Release Date:August 26,1994 

Domestic Total Gross: $50,282,766

Running Time: 3hrs 2mins

Production Budget: $34 million

Two victims of traumatized childhoods become lovers and psychopathic serial murderers irresponsibly glorified by the mass media.