 The gangster thriller "Get Carter" (1971) was shot on location in and around Newcastle and offers an opportunity to see what Newcastle looked like in the early 1970s.The city was also backdrop to another gangster film, the film noir "Stormy Monday" (1988), directed by Mike Figgis and starring Tommy Lee Jones, Melanie Griffith, Sting and Sean Bean.The city has been the setting for films based around football; films such as "Purely Belter" (2000), "The One and Only" (2002) and "Goal!"