The most modern gangster film on this list, Killing Them Softly addresses the impact of organized crime on American society after the collapse of the housing market. It also happens to be one of the best crime movies.
The Harder They Come is perhaps best known for its infectious reggae soundtrack, which holds its own against the best movie songs. But at the heart of the picture, is an important commentary on gangster celebrity. The protagonist Ivan, played by Jimmy Cliff, wants to be a reggae singer but corruption and poverty keep him from success.
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By the year 2000, world culture had grown to see gangster films as a mostly sensational, idyllic genre. Popular gangster movies were rife with moral praise; often creating heroes and badass anti-heroes out of people the court would sentence to death.
Jacques Audiard directs this thrilling gangster film about a young man who finds himself recruited into the Corsican Mafia while serving a prison sentence. A Prophet is a remarkably modern gangster movie.
The gangster movie. It's the genre that made actors like Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, and Joe Pesci into household names, and directors like Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola, and Brian De Palma into iconic figures in Hollywood.
Guy Ritchie would gain international acclaim for this slick gangster movie in which we follow a collection of British underworld guys as they suddenly converge in a mess of money, weed, and two antique rifles.
In a movie that has only gained more clout in the gangster genre as the years have passed (especially because of the stylish look by director Hype Williams), rappers DMX and Nas star as two friends who find themselves deep in organized crime and eventually take two separate paths to get out of it.
Though this American remake by Martin Scorsese of the Hong Kong hit "Infernal Affairs" finally scored him a best director Oscar and stars the likes of Leonardo DiCaprio, Jack Nicholson, and Matt Damon, it's hardly the best of Scorsese's gangster movies.
Based on the hit play by Chazz Palminteri, Robert De Niro directs and also stars along with Palminteri in this story that follows a young boy's introduction into the gangsters on his block that he idolizes and the quest by his father (played by De Niro) to keep him out of that life.
This Hong Kong hit, featuring many of the region's biggest stars, is definitely worth the watch if you liked "The Departed" (which is the American remake of this movie). The story and characters feel fresher and more thought out than the US version.
Jonathan Glazer's beautifully shot gangster movie features amazing performances from Ray Winstone as a retired safe cracker who isn't interested in doing one last job and Ben Kingsley as the guy who has to convince him to do it.
Scorsese's first gangster movie combined the talents of Harvey Keitel and a then-unknown Robert De Niro as two small-time hoods who run around the city with their other friends trying to figure out their lives and act tough.
Based on the true events of FBI undercover cop Joe Pistone (played by Johnny Depp) who gets deep inside the inner working of the mob, the movie is a thrilling journey in the life of a gangster and how intoxicating it can be.
Abel Ferrara's gritty gangster movie features Christopher Walken in one of his most chilling roles. As Frank White, he plays a New York City drug lord who has just gotten out of prison and is driven to wipe out his competition.
Having already made "Scarface," Al Pacino and director Brian De Palma teamed up once again for a different kind of gangster movie. Pacino plays Puerto Rican ex-con Carlito Brigante who is looking to go on the straight and narrow now that he's out of prison. But the streets won't let him go.
Regarded as Scorsese's gangster masterpiece, he adapts the tell-all book (written by Nicholas Pileggi) of mobster-turned-informant Henry Hill and turns it into a vibrant story about life as a mobster.
This American wide release (1984, 139 minutes) was drastically different from the European release, as the non-chronological story was rearranged into chronological order. Other major cuts involved many of the childhood sequences, making the adult 1933 sections more prominent. Noodles' 1968 meeting with Deborah was excised, and the scene with Bailey ends with him shooting himself (with the sound of a gunshot off screen) rather than the garbage truck conclusion of the 229-minute version.[31][page needed] Sergio Leone's daughter, Raffaella Leone, said that Leone had dismissed the US version as not his own movie.[32]
In the Soviet Union, the film was shown theatrically in the late 1980s, with other Hollywood blockbusters such as the two King Kong films. The story was rearranged in chronological order and the film was split in two, with the two parts shown as separate movies, one containing the childhood scenes and the other comprising the adulthood scenes. Despite the rearranging, no major scene deletions were made.[33]
Gangster movies have come to change all of our perspectives on crime stories. Films from the Prohibition-era to those that take place in the modern streets of New York or Los Angeles allow us to enter the sophisticated minds of the gangster protagonists. For years, we've been fascinated with this movie genre and its popularity will only continue to grow stronger.
In the second part of the trilogy, Francis Ford Coppola takes us to a whole new crime dimension. The sequel includes one of the most iconic scenes in the history of gangster films in which Michael Corleone reflects on his life as a young man growing up in Sicily in the early 1900s and then in New York. The Godfather part II then follows Michael Corleone into the 1950s as he attempts to expand the family business into Las Vegas, Hollywood, and Cuba.
This classic gangster cinema is Sergio Leone's most precious creation in which a former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster must return to the Lower East Side of Manhattan to face the ghosts of his past. This film was originally planned to be split into two three-hour films but ended up becoming one 229-minute long movie. Later on, it was shortened into 139 minutes in which DeNiro gives one of his best performances.
For this movie, Scorsese remade and adapted the classic Hong Kong crime film: Internal Affairs. The story centers around an investigation of the Irish mafia starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Jack Nicholson, and Matt Damon. An undercover cop and a mole in the police department work to identify one another while infiltrating an Irish gang in South Boston.
This is the Coen brother's version of a gangster movie during the Prohibition-era. Two rival gangs, Irish and Italian, end up in a power struggle against one another, both sides getting played by the protagonist (Tom Reagan).
Fernando Meirelles portraits the life of the gangsters in the slums of Rio de Janeiro. This unique mob movie tells the story from the perspective of a photographer documenting the area as well as from one drug dealer on the rise.
Brian De Palma directed the story of Eliot Ness in his journey to bring down Al Capone's activities in Chicago during the Prohibition-era. Kevin Costner, Robert DeNiro, and Sean Connery are the stars of this mafia movie.
For a gambling gangster movie, Las Vegas makes the perfect scenario. Scorsese along with Robert DeNiro and Joe Pesci tells the story of a casino runner who's one of the most infamous associates of organized crime in the city. Sam "Ace" Rothstein gets tapped by his bosses to head the Tangiers Casino. At first, he's hugely successful, but over the years, Sam ends up in ever-increasing danger.
Directed by Jacques Audiard, this acclaimed crime drama is a modern perspective of a mob film that relates the story of a young Muslim man recruited by the Corsican Mafia in prison. The movie portrays the struggles between the Muslim and the Corsican cultures. As Malik rises in mob ranks, he creates more and more enemies.
Brian De Palma created one of the most seen gangster movies of all time: Scarface. This is De Palma's take on the 1932 movie that goes by the same name, only bigger and better. The story circles around Tony Montana, an ex-convict played by Al Pacino, who gets a Green Card in exchange for assassinating a Cuban government official and later stakes a claim in the drug trade in Miami.
This crime movie was the directional debut of Allen and Albert Hughes. It is a teenhood drama that tells the story of an 18-year-old boy living in the projects of Los Angeles who wants to find a way out. In a series of tragic events, he discovers that it may be more difficult than he originally thought. Jada Pinkett Smith, Tyrin Turner, and Larenz Tate put together this popular gangster movie.
This french gangster classic narrates how a criminal group does the impossible to rob an exclusive jewelry store in one of the most iconic streets of Paris. This movie put Jules Dassin, an American blacklisted director, back on the map as he earned the award for best director at the Cannes Film Festival.
This mafia film features top performances from Al Pacino and Johnny Depp. Inspired by a true story, the movie takes place in the 70s and tells how an FBI agent infiltrates one of the major New York Mafia families in an attempt to fight organized crime. Joseph Pistone (Johnny Depp) befriends a hitman in order to go deeper undercover but ends up developing a real friendship with the man. Joseph must choose how to move forward knowing that completing his mission will end up getting his good friend killed.
This gangster movie portrays some of the most impressive landscapes and views seen in crime films. Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson, two former hitmen, tour the city of Bruges as they hide from the law.
Also considered a police action-thriller because the story is told from the police perspective, The French Connection is considered one of the most praised films in the history of the gangster genre with 5 Oscar wins at the 44th Academy Awards. In The French Connection, New York Police Detectives pursue a wealthy French heroin smuggler. 2ff7e9595c
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