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The final unguessed movie (well unguessed by people who don't live in my apartment or who used IMDB) was Get Carter. Though even using IMDB

the_outlawmass guessed at the 2000 version, which I think is the Stallone remake...

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The Michael Caine one. Not the remake with Stallone. This is what movies like L4yer Cake or #1 Gangster are trying for. Crime noir with a British sense of class and timing to it all. But they end up trying to get too fancy with camera tricks and miss out on the basic concepts. Criminals doing bad things to other criminals. Pure nihilistic anti-heroism at its finest. Also, while I'm not unappreacitive of Paul Bettany or Daniel Craig, they're no Caine...