Movies like Live by Night

“Live by Night (2016) is a United States 2010s gangster-epic that stages a transplantation of Boston criminality into Prohibition-era Florida as its central conflict. The film frames that conflict through chiaroscuro lighting, tight mise-en-scène, and narrative-architecture that prioritizes escalation between rival syndicates and racially motivated vigilantism. Live by Night therefore shows how institutional violence reshapes personal identity and why that remainder matters for period crime narratives.”