Get Carter (1971)

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Michael Caine is Jack Carter, the London gangland enforcer who returns to his hometown of Newcastle to avenge his brother’s death. Rarely has the criminal underworld been so realistically portrayed as in this 1971 masterpiece. Shot on location, resulting in a devastatingly authentic snapshot of life in the north east of England in the late-industrial period, Get Carter remains arguably the grittiest and greatest of all British crime films.

when jack carter comes to newcastle to inquire about his brother's mysterious death, racketeers think they can threaten him, rough him up, shoo him away like a fly. which shows they don't know jack about carter.
double academy award winner michael caine plays the relentless title character in this gritty neo-noir (sylvester stallone stars in a 2000 remake). caine's carter is a sharp portrait of cold-blooded precision as he connects the dots of a cover-up that leads to a pornography ring (john osborne, whose look back in anger launched britain's "angry young man" era, plays the flesh peddlers' ringleader). revenge is sweet for carter. but in the hard world of latter-day film noir, sweet is sure to turn suddenly violently sour.