About
Nick Love’s follow-up to The Football Factory, set in Marbella in the mid-1980s. Danny Dyer plays Frankie, a young Londoner sent to Spain to deliver a package and pulled into the orbit of two British expat gangsters, Charlie (Tamer Hassan) and Sammy (Geoff Bell).
Cast crossovers with ROTF
- Tamer Hassan stars. Joins ROTF in 2025’s Ibiza as Colonel Sullivan.
- Geoff Bell stars. Appears in Rise of the Footsoldier: Vengeance as Jonny Knight.
- Danny Dyer, Roland Manookian (who plays Craig Rolfe in ROTF).
Direct connection
Nick Love’s The Business is the closest tonal cousin to Rise of the Footsoldier 4: Marbella. Both films deal with British criminals in Spanish exile, both involve drug deals on the Costa del Sol, both have a swimming-pool-and-Ferrari aesthetic. Marbella (2019) is almost a direct response to The Business (2005).