Genre "Gangster Film" Movies
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| 1. A Bronx Tale (year: 1993) |
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Robert De Niro made his directorial debut with this expanded adaptation of Chazz Palminteri's one-character play. DeNiro's role of Lorenzo Anello, an ...
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| 2. American Gangster (year: 2007) |
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Director Ridley Scott spins this yarn concerning a Harlem drug kingpin (Denzel Washington) who smuggles heroin into the country by hiding it in the bo ...
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| 3. American Me (year: 1992) |
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Edward J. Olmos made his directorial bow with the powerhouse crime saga American Me. Olmos stars as street-gang leader Santana, who during his 18 year ...
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| 4. American Yakuza (year: 1994) |
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American FBI agent Nick Davis is lured into the Tendo family crime syndicate — a major family in the Japanese yakuza. Viggo Mortensen stars ...
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| 5. Analyze This (year: 1999) |
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In the same year that a hit cable television series, The Sopranos, successfully mined the same premise, this comedy about a mobster seeking advice fro ...
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| 6. Beautiful Joe (year: 2000) |
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A dying man finds that horses, blondes, and the Mob may end his life faster than cancer in this dark comedy from the U.K. Joe (Billy Connolly) is a re ...
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| 7. Blood In Blood Out (year: 1993) |
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Taylor Hackford directed this urgent melodrama about the realities of street crime, gangs, and prison life among the Chicanos of East Los Angeles. Mik ...
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| 8. Bonnie and Clyde (year: 1967) |
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Producer/star Warren Beatty had to convince Warner Bros. to finance this film, which went on to become the studio's second-highest grosser. It also ca ...
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| 9. Bugsy (year: 1991) |
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Bugsy is a character study of mobster Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel wrapped up in a gangster movie. Siegel (Warren Beatty in a flashy performance) ...
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| 10. Carlito's Way (year: 1993) |
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Carlito's Way is a tale of a former hood trying to escape his former life. Al Pacino is Carlito Brigante, a high-level Puerto Rican drug dealer sprung ...
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| 11. Casino (year: 1995) |
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The inner-workings of a corrupt Las Vegas casino are exposed in Martin Scorsese's story of crime and punishment. The film chronicles the lives and tim ...
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| 12. City Heat (year: 1984) |
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This standard, tongue-in-cheek, gangsters and good guys saga is carried on the star power and screen presence of Clint Eastwood as Lt. Speer, a tacitu ...
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| 13. Donnie Brasco (year: 1997) |
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This drama about an undercover cop who learns the hidden dangers of working his way inside the mob was based on a true story. Joe Pistone (Johnny Depp ...
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| 14. Gangs Of New York (year: 1938) |
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| 15. Get Carter (year: 2000) |
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A man who has made murder his business is thrown into the underbelly of an unfamiliar criminal world in this thriller. Jack Carter (Sylvester Stallone ...
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| 16. GoodFellas (year: 1990) |
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Martin Scorsese explores the life of organized crime with his gritty, kinetic adaptation of Nicolas Pileggi's best-selling Wiseguy, the true-life acco ...
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| 17. King of New York (year: 1990) |
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The gritty underbelly of New York's complex, ethnically divided criminal world is exposed in this dark drama from director Abel Ferrara. Christopher W ...
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| 18. Knockaround Guys (year: 2001) |
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A big score goes wrong in a big way for a bunch of aspiring gangsters in this crime comedy. Matty Demaret (Barry Pepper) is the son of a mid-level Bro ...
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| 19. Lansky (year: 1999) |
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Scripted by David Mamet, this made-for-HBO outing dramatizes the brutal life and career of Meyer Lansky (Richard Dreyfuss), one of the key figures in ...
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| 20. Last Man Standing (year: 1996) |
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The traditions of the western and the gangster film meet head-on in this dark crime drama. Jericho is a small town in Texas that in the 1920s looks mu ...
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| 21. Layer Cake (year: 2004) |
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A mechanic in the British drug trade finds himself caught in the middle of some dangerous circumstances in this crime thriller. XXXX (Daniel Craig) is ...
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| 22. Menace II Society (year: 1993) |
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This debut offering from twin brothers Albert and Allen Hughes was one of the most critically-acclaimed urban crime films to appear in the wake of Joh ...
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| 23. Miller's Crossing (year: 1990) |
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Joel and Ethan Coen's third collaboration, the gangster film Miller's Crossing, stars Gabriel Byrne as Tom Reagan, the right-hand man of big-city Iris ...
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| 24. New Jack City (year: 1991) |
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The ruthless leader of a New York City drug syndicate battles to maintain his power and avoid imprisonment in this fast-moving action drama. While the ...
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| 25. Once Upon a Time in America (year: 1984) |
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Though some viewers might be put off by its length, graphic violence, and absence of likable characters, Sergio Leone's final film is also a cinematic ...
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| 26. Oscar (year: 1991) |
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Sylvester Stallone gives comedy another try in this farce set in the 1930s. Angelo "Snaps" Provelone (Stallone) is the wealthy and powerful ...
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| 27. Pulp Fiction (year: 1994) |
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Outrageously violent, time-twisting, and in love with language, Pulp Fiction was widely considered the most influential American movie of the 1990s. D ...
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| 28. Reservoir Dogs (year: 1992) |
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In 1992, Reservoir Dogs transformed Quentin Tarantino practically overnight from an obscure, unproduced screenwriter and part-time actor to the most i ...
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| 29. Road to Perdition (year: 2002) |
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The acclaimed graphic novel from crime writer Max Allan Collins becomes this big budget Dreamworks drama from director Sam Mendes and screenwriter Dav ...
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| 30. Scarface (year: 1932) |
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| 31. Shinjuku Triad Society (year: 1995) |
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Takashi Miike's Shinjuku Triad Society is the first of a three-film series known as the Black Society Trilogy. Corrupt cop Tatsuhito disregards any an ...
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| 32. Shottas (year: 2002) |
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Grammy-nominated reggae artist Kymani Marley and Jamaican dancehall star Spragga Benz star in director Cess Silvera's tale of two Kingston gangsters l ...
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| 33. Smokin' Aces (year: 2007) |
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When a shifty magician turns state's evidence against a Las Vegas underworld heavy, the high price placed on his head sparks a fevered race to rub the ...
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| 34. Strange Things Happen at Sundown (year: 2003) |
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A gang of vampiric mobsters, the bloodsucking lovers that stole his money, a thousand year-old assassin, and his virgin-slaying wife are all stalked b ...
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| 35. The Asphalt Jungle (year: 1950) |
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The Asphalt Jungle is a brilliantly conceived and executed anatomy of a crime — or, as director John Huston and scripter Ben Maddow put it, ...
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| 36. The Departed (year: 2006) |
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Legendary director Martin Scorsese takes the helm for this tale of questionable loyalties and blurring identities set in the South Boston organized cr ...
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| 37. The General (year: 1998) |
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John Boorman, who won the 1998 Cannes Film Festival's Direction award for this film, previously won the same Cannes award almost three decades earlier ...
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| 38. The Godfather (year: 1972) |
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Popularly viewed as one of the best American films ever made, the multi-generational crime saga The Godfather is a touchstone of cinema: one of the mo ...
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| 39. The Godfather Part II (year: 1974) |
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Francis Ford Coppola's legendary continuation and sequel to his landmark 1972 film, The Godfather, parallels the young Vito Corleone's rise with his s ...
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| 40. The Godfather Part III (year: 1990) |
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After a break of more than 15 years, director Francis Ford Coppola and writer Mario Puzo returned to the well for this third and final story of the fi ...
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| 41. The Killing (year: 1956) |
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The Killing was director Stanley Kubrick's first major film effort — though, like Kubrick's earlier films, it was economically produced with ...
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| 42. The Public Enemy (year: 1931) |
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William Wellman's landmark gangster movie traces the rise and fall of prohibition-era mobster Tom Powers. We are first shown various episodes of Tom's ...
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| 43. The Sting (year: 1973) |
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Four years after setting box offices ablaze in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Paul Newman, Robert Redford, and director George Roy Hill re-teamed ...
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| 44. The Untouchables (year: 1987) |
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Like the TV series that shared the same title, The Untouchables (1987) was an account of the battle between gangster Al Capone and lawman Eliot Ness, ...
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| 45. The Whole Ten Yards (year: 2004) |
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Bruce Willis and Matthew Perry reprise their roles as a killer for hire and a dentist with a bad case of nerves in this sequel to the comedy hit The W ...
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| 46. The Yakuza (year: 1975) |
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Between making They Way We Were and Three Days of The Condor, Sydney Pollack directed this little-seen thriller from a script by Paul Schrader and Rob ...
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| 47. White Heat (year: 1949) |
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In later years, James Cagney regarded White Heat with a combination of pride and regret; while satisfied with his own performance, he tended to dismis ...
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