Guy Ritchie's Unofficial Crime Trilogy Is Officially Complete

Published Oct 24, 2026, 5:00 PM EDT

Since then, Ritchie has honed his style, bringing his auteur filmmaking to a variety of genres including medieval fantasy with King Arthur, children's films with Aladdin, and period mystery with Sherlock Holmes. However, he's always been most comfortable within the crime genre.

Ritchie best films are generally considered to be his crime films. Snatch, Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, and The Gentlemen rank high on his all-time list. Always a prolific filmmaker, in recent years, Ritchie has found success on television, creating a TV adaptation of The Gentlemen, producing and directing a few episodes of MobLand, and now, co-creating another crime show, Capital.

Capital is the latest Ritchie TV project, and his third major streaming crime show. We still don't know a whole lot about the Amazon Prime series save that it will be set in London in the modern day, and will explore the underbelly of the criminal world there. Ritchie is co-creating the show with Rob Williams.

This is Ritchie's second TV collaboration with Amazon Prime after 2026's Young Sherlock, and the second TV show he's being credited with creating after The Gentlemen. Ritchie and his crime shows make up a genre unto themselves, and Capital makes for the third in his unofficial trilogy.

After The Gentlemen & MobLand, Capital Is The Third Part Of Guy Ritchie's Crime Streaming Trilogy

While The Gentlemen and MobLand are not related, and while there's no suggestion that Capital will have anything to do with either show, these three series do make an unofficial crime trilogy. The Gentlemen, like the film, takes place in the countryside of England, where an aristocrat learns his family estate is home to a marijuana empire.

In MobLand, Tom Hardy plays a fixer for the North London crime family, the Harrigans, as they battle it out with other local gangs. Capital also appears to be about crime in England, and will slot in nicely with the rest of Ritchie's crime TV streaming shows.

The Gentlemen and MobLand have similar styles and tones, though they are not exactly the same, a consequence of Jez Butterworth being the showrunner for MobLand. It's possible that Capital will be a mix of the two shows. A series with a similar setting and plot to MobLand but with the distinctly Ritchie tone and style of The Gentlemen.

How Has Guy Ritchie Fared Away From The Crime Genre?

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Guy Ritchie has been leaning in hard to the crime drama genre, but he's had plenty of success outside it. Young Sherlock was recently renewed for a second season, adding another entry into his Sherlock canon. His war movies have also been quite successful. The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare and Guy Ritchie's The Covenant are both strong entries in the genre.

His spy films, The Man from U.N.C.L.E. and Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre, have their supporters. While he hasn't returned to the Medieval well since King Arthur: Legend of the Sword, he absolutely should. That retelling of the King Arthur myth is better than it's given credit for. Shows like Capital may be Ritchie's genre bread-and-butter, but he can dabble in other genres when he wishes.