Gangster Movies, a list by Riz

9.2

/2011552/

88

/27000/

87

/19331/

4.6

/1134540/

97

Audience

98

/736053/

100

/16/

4.0

age 16+

Spanning the years 1945 to 1955, a chronicle of the fictional Italian-American Corleone crime family. When organized crime family patriarch, Vito Corleone barely survives an attempt on his life, his youngest son, Michael steps in to take care of the would-be killers, launching a campaign of bloody revenge.

91

8.7

/1256872/

85

/19785/

84

/12189/

4.5

/991492/

95

/164/

Audience

97

/431430/

92

/21/

4.0

age 18+

The true story of Henry Hill, a half-Irish, half-Sicilian Brooklyn kid who is adopted by neighbourhood gangsters at an early age and climbs the ranks of a Mafia family under the guidance of Jimmy Conway.

88

8.5

/1421761/

83

/24816/

81

/14357/

4.3

/821406/

91

/287/

Audience

94

/739340/

85

/39/

4.0

age 17+

To take down South Boston's Irish Mafia, the police send in one of their own to infiltrate the underworld, not realizing the syndicate has done likewise. While an undercover cop curries favor with the mob kingpin, a career criminal rises through the police ranks. But both sides soon discover there's a mole among them.

69

7.2

/419928/

76

/20942/

72

/8680/

3.4

/190971/

61

/207/

Audience

77

/4201/

57

/41/

3.0

age 16+

McCall believes he has put his mysterious past behind him and dedicated himself to beginning a new, quiet life. But when he meets Teri, a young girl under the control of ultra-violent Russian gangsters, he can’t stand idly by – he has to help her. Armed with hidden skills that allow him to serve vengeance against anyone who would brutalize the helpless, McCall comes out of his self-imposed retirement and finds his desire for justice reawakened. If someone has a problem, if the odds are stacked against them, if they have nowhere else to turn, McCall will help. He is The Equalizer.

91

9.0

/1363704/

87

/17096/

85

/11661/

4.6

/612475/

96

Audience

97

/412766/

90

/18/

age 16+

In the continuing saga of the Corleone crime family, a young Vito Corleone grows up in Sicily and in 1910s New York. In the 1950s, Michael Corleone attempts to expand the family business into Las Vegas, Hollywood and Cuba.

85

8.3

/377579/

81

/5088/

84

/5106/

4.2

/163190/

87

/55/

Audience

93

/75331/

75

/20/

4.0

age 18+

A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan over thirty years later, where he once again must confront the ghosts and regrets of his old life.

74

8.2

/910555/

82

/17501/

78

/8611/

4.0

/380943/

74

/143/

Audience

93

/395291/

55

/31/

2.0

age 17+

Unscrupulous boxing promoters, violent bookmakers, a Russian gangster, incompetent amateur robbers and supposedly Jewish jewelers fight to track down a priceless stolen diamond.

83

8.3

/916106/

83

/15906/

81

/11289/

4.1

/704159/

79

/77/

Audience

93

/489945/

65

/9/

4.0

age 18+

After getting a green card in exchange for assassinating a Cuban government official, Tony Montana stakes a claim on the drug trade in Miami. Viciously murdering anyone who stands in his way, Tony eventually becomes the biggest drug lord in the state, controlling nearly all the cocaine that comes through Miami. But increased pressure from the police, wars with Colombian drug cartels and his own drug-fueled paranoia serve to fuel the flames of his eventual downfall.

78

7.3

/69215/

72

/1273/

70

/716/

3.9

/81348/

87

/141/

Audience

85

/38759/

79

/30/

3.5

age 17+

Ex-safecracker Gal Dove has served his time behind bars and is blissfully retired to a Spanish villa paradise with a wife he adores. The idyll is shattered by the arrival of his nemesis Don Logan, intent on persuading Gal to return to London for one last big job.

85

7.8

/161036/

80

/3019/

78

/2276/

4.0

/94352/

97

/36/

Audience

93

/67083/

80

/15/

4.0

Set in the Bronx during the tumultuous 1960s, an adolescent boy is torn between his honest, working-class father and a violent yet charismatic crime boss. Complicating matters is the youngster's growing attraction - forbidden in his neighborhood - for a beautiful black girl.

83

7.8

/430926/

76

/13264/

76

/6514/

3.9

/614676/

95

/466/

Audience

86

/1058/

94

/55/

3.5

age 17+

Pennsylvania, 1956. Frank Sheeran, a war veteran of Irish origin who works as a truck driver, accidentally meets mobster Russell Bufalino. Once Frank becomes his trusted man, Bufalino sends him to Chicago with the task of helping Jimmy Hoffa, a powerful union leader related to organized crime, with whom Frank will maintain a close friendship for nearly twenty years.

72

7.6

/423956/

76

/8867/

74

/5841/

3.5

/231736/

66

/67/

Audience

67

/261953/

60

/19/

3.5

age 16+

In the midst of trying to legitimize his business dealings in 1979 New York and Italy, aging mafia don, Michael Corleone seeks forgiveness for his sins while taking a young protege under his wing.

60

6.9

/202344/

70

/7959/

70

/3676/

3.2

/119737/

61

/173/

Audience

59

/28605/

55

/31/

1.5

age 17+

Suave, charming and volatile, Reggie Kray and his unstable twin brother Ronnie start to leave their mark on the London underworld in the 1960s. Using violence to get what they want, the siblings orchestrate robberies and murders while running nightclubs and protection rackets. With police Detective Leonard "Nipper" Read hot on their heels, the brothers continue their rapid rise to power and achieve tabloid notoriety.

66

6.9

/44025/

71

/1138/

68

/765/

3.3

/24779/

66

/32/

Audience

69

/22181/

51

/7/

3.0

age 17+

After his wife is murdered by street punks, a pacifistic New York City architect becomes a one-man vigilante squad, prowling the streets for would-be muggers after dark.

81

7.8

/452409/

78

/8654/

75

/5138/

3.8

/155214/

81

/217/

Audience

90

/831466/

76

/38/

4.0

age 17+

Following the death of his employer and mentor, Bumpy Johnson, Frank Lucas establishes himself as the number one importer of heroin in the Harlem district of Manhattan. He does so by buying heroin directly from the source in South East Asia and he comes up with a unique way of importing the drugs into the United States. Partly based on a true story.

76

7.3

/195519/

74

/4337/

69

/1959/

3.5

/88445/

81

/142/

Audience

84

/148262/

73

/30/

3.5

age 17+

When a seemingly straight-forward drug deal goes awry, XXXX has to break his die-hard rules and turn up the heat, not only to outwit the old regime and come out on top, but to save his own skin...

77

7.8

/330718/

78

/6496/

77

/5363/

3.8

/178988/

83

/75/

Audience

89

/218057/

79

/16/

2.5

age 16+

Young Treasury Agent Eliot Ness arrives in Chicago and is determined to take down Al Capone, but it's not going to be easy because Capone has the police in his pocket. Ness meets Jim Malone, a veteran patrolman and probably the most honorable one on the force. He asks Malone to help him get Capone, but Malone warns him that if he goes after Capone, he is going to war.

74

7.5

/110650/

76

/2806/

76

/1994/

3.8

/101118/

88

/51/

Audience

88

/76394/

65

/16/

2.0

age 16+

Prominent gang leader Cyrus calls a meeting of New York's gangs to set aside their turf wars and take over the city. At the meeting, a rival leader kills Cyrus, but a Coney Island gang called the Warriors is wrongly blamed for Cyrus' death. Before you know it, the cops and every gangbanger in town is hot on the Warriors' trail.

84

7.8

/154557/

78

/3149/

76

/1879/

4.0

/164092/

96

/71/

Audience

93

/144505/

76

/20/

4.0

age 17+

Boyz n the Hood is the popular and successful film and social criticism from John Singleton about the conditions in South Central Los Angeles where teenagers are involved in gun fights and drug dealing on a daily basis.

82

7.6

/261044/

75

/4395/

73

/3163/

3.9

/134490/

89

/202/

Audience

83

/149521/

83

/35/

4.0

age 18+

A Russian teenager living in London dies during childbirth but leaves clues in her diary that could tie her child to a rape involving a violent Russian mob family.

78

7.7

/142113/

76

/2105/

74

/1539/

4.0

/87021/

93

/70/

Audience

90

/50703/

66

/18/

3.0

Set in 1929, a political boss and his advisor have a parting of the ways when they both fall for the same woman.

73

7.1

/273870/

72

/7176/

68

/3755/

3.6

/177741/

83

/218/

Audience

71

/130382/

66

/43/

3.5

age 17+

A struggling screenwriter inadvertently becomes entangled in the Los Angeles criminal underworld after his oddball friends kidnap a gangster's beloved Shih Tzu.

69

7.0

/318520/

69

/6046/

66

/4257/

3.2

/119959/

68

/281/

Audience

59

/634042/

70

/35/

3.5

age 17+

Depression-era bank robber John Dillinger's charm and audacity endear him to much of America's downtrodden public, but he's also a thorn in the side of J. Edgar Hoover and the fledgling FBI. Desperate to capture the elusive outlaw, Hoover makes Dillinger his first Public Enemy Number One and assigns his top agent, Melvin Purvis, the task of bringing him in dead or alive.

80

7.7

/332120/

77

/5059/

75

/4212/

3.8

/144284/

88

/57/

Audience

89

/204648/

77

/21/

3.5

age 17+

An FBI undercover agent infiltrates the mob and identifies more with the mafia life at the expense of his regular one.

80

7.9

/232300/

78

/3285/

78

/2964/

4.0

/98379/

84

/50/

Audience

91

/124957/

66

/25/

3.5

A Puerto-Rican ex-con, just released from prison, pledges to stay away from drugs and violence despite the pressure around him, and lead a better life outside NYC.

66

7.1

/197614/

72

/4348/

69

/2695/

3.5

/70988/

69

/52/

Audience

79

/188570/

55

/18/

2.0

Mariachi plunges headfirst into the dark border underworld when he follows a trail of blood to the last of the infamous Mexican drug lords, Bucho, for an action-packed, bullet-riddled showdown. With the help of his best friend and a beautiful bookstore owner, the Mariachi tracks Bucho, takes on his army of desperados, and leaves a trail of blood of his own.

68

6.9

/192330/

68

/7839/

65

/3226/

3.1

/83305/

73

/293/

Audience

68

/19634/

68

/43/

3.0

age 18+

The true story of Whitey Bulger, the brother of a state senator and the most infamous violent criminal in the history of South Boston, who became an FBI informant to take down a Mafia family invading his turf.

56

6.6

/152047/

69

/3198/

64

/1559/

3.0

/38910/

31

/158/

Audience

62

/338317/

45

/32/

age 18+

When a Las Vegas performer-turned-snitch named Buddy Israel decides to turn state's evidence and testify against the mob, it seems that a whole lot of people would like to make sure he's no longer breathing.

67

7.7

/325624/

78

/7814/

74

/3885/

3.5

/65404/

52

/154/

Audience

87

/337023/

53

/36/

2.0

age 18+

Slevin is mistakenly put in the middle of a personal war between the city’s biggest criminal bosses. Under constant watch, Slevin must try not to get killed by an infamous assassin and come up with an idea of how to get out of his current dilemma.

68

7.2

/253425/

73

/5365/

70

/2940/

3.4

/70776/

67

/221/

Audience

74

/4096/

58

/38/

age 17+

In 1931, the Bondurant brothers of Franklin County, Virginia, run a multipurpose backwoods establishment that hides their true business — bootlegging. Middle brother Forrest is the brain of the operation; older Howard is the brawn, and younger Jack, the lookout. Though the local police have taken bribes and left the brothers alone, a violent war erupts when a sadistic lawman from Chicago arrives and tries to shut down the Bondurants operation.

60

6.2

/153113/

62

/3702/

60

/2067/

3.3

/88699/

74

/233/

Audience

44

/121769/

64

/42/

2.0

age 17+

Jackie Cogan is an enforcer hired to restore order after three dumb guys rob a Mob protected card game, causing the local criminal economy to collapse.

74

6.9

/89073/

70

/1972/

65

/973/

3.4

/37102/

89

/57/

Audience

70

/62219/

81

/22/

3.5

age 17+

Chili Palmer is a Miami mobster who gets sent by his boss, the psychopathic "Bones" Barboni, to collect a bad debt from Harry Zimm, a Hollywood producer who specializes in cheesy horror films. When Chili meets Harry's leading lady, the romantic sparks fly. After pitching his own life story as a movie idea, Chili learns that being a mobster and being a Hollywood producer really aren't all that different.

82

7.2

/119592/

70

/1896/

70

/1966/

3.7

/141991/

94

/78/

Audience

84

/55021/

96

/11/

4.0

age 18+

A small-time hood must choose from among love, friendship and the chance to rise within the mob.

68

6.9

/42081/

71

/946/

67

/596/

3.8

/50906/

70

/30/

Audience

77

/21289/

66

/20/

2.0

A former drug lord returns from prison determined to wipe out all his competition and distribute the profits of his operations to New York's poor and lower classes in this stylish and ultra violent modern twist on Robin Hood.

82

7.5

/64443/

78

/1554/

75

/720/

3.9

/48124/

84

/45/

Audience

93

/62822/

76

/19/

4.0

age 17+

A young street hustler attempts to escape the rigors and temptations of the ghetto in a quest for a better life.

60

6.3

/48952/

67

/1436/

62

/784/

3.0

/17628/

53

/34/

Audience

44

/19793/

46

/15/

3.5

age 17+

Dirty Harry Callahan returns for his final film adventure. Together with his partner Al Quan, he must investigate the systematic murder of actors and musicians. By the time Harry learns that the murders are a part of a sick game to predict the deaths of celebrities before they happen, it may be too late...

59

6.6

/59680/

69

/1278/

65

/1010/

3.2

/24912/

54

/24/

Audience

55

/27884/

56

/18/

2.0

Two New York cops get involved in a gang war between members of the Yakuza, the Japanese Mafia. They arrest one of their killers and are ordered to escort him back to Japan. However, in Japan he manages to escape, and as they try to track him down, they get deeper and deeper into the Japanese Mafia scene and they have to learn that they can only win by playing the game—the Japanese way.

61

6.7

/129126/

71

/3177/

64

/1775/

3.1

/34928/

43

/105/

Audience

64

/211772/

47

/32/

3.0

age 17+

After a mobster agrees to cooperate with an FBI investigation in order to stay out of prison, he's relocated by the authorities to a life of suburban anonymity as part of a witness protection program. It's not long before a couple of his new neighbours figure out his true identity and come knocking to see if he'd be up for one more hit—suburban style.

54

6.7

/222711/

69

/5913/

63

/3906/

2.8

/76616/

31

/206/

Audience

57

/3949/

40

/38/

2.0

age 17+

Los Angeles, 1949. Ruthless, Brooklyn-born mob king Mickey Cohen runs the show in this town, reaping the ill-gotten gains from the drugs, the guns, the prostitutes and — if he has his way — every wire bet placed west of Chicago. And he does it all with the protection of not only his own paid goons, but also the police and the politicians who are under his control. It’s enough to intimidate even the bravest, street-hardened cop… except, perhaps, for the small, secret crew of LAPD outsiders led by Sgt. John O’Mara and Jerry Wooters who come together to try to tear Cohen’s world apart.

61

6.5

/61484/

69

/1635/

69

/1229/

3.1

/30450/

32

/28/

Audience

80

/65942/

53

/16/

age 17+

When Ashtray moves to South Central L.A. to live with his father (who appears to be the same age he is) and grandmother (who likes to talk tough and smoke reefer), he falls in with his gang-banging cousin Loc Dog, who along with the requisite pistols and Uzi carries a thermo-nuclear warhead for self-defense. Will Ashtray be able to keep living the straight life?

73

7.1

/41497/

71

/561/

67

/339/

3.6

/17044/

76

/80/

Audience

89

/31548/

68

/26/

3.0

The true and infamous story of Australia's notorious criminal Mark 'Chopper' Read and his years of crime, interest in violence, drugs and prostitutes.

65

6.8

/92951/

68

/1552/

66

/1290/

3.5

/33238/

57

/155/

Audience

61

/264424/

59

/33/

3.0

age 17+

A New York nightclub manager tries to save his brother and father from Russian mafia hitmen.

83

7.6

/25585/

75

/559/

71

/317/

3.9

/22500/

97

/30/

Audience

89

/10543/

82

/16/

4.0

In the late 1970s, Cockney crime boss Harold Shand, a gangster trying to become a legitimate property mogul, has big plans to get the American Mafia to bankroll his transformation of a derelict area of London into the possible venue for a future Olympic Games. However, a series of bombings targets his empire on the very weekend the Americans are in town. Shand is convinced there is a traitor in his organization, and sets out to eliminate the rat in typically ruthless fashion.

58

6.2

/12622/

73

/463/

59

/122/

3.6

/20322/

23

/22/

Audience

87

/34314/

36

/20/

Tommy Bundy and Sincere are best friends as well as infamous and ruthless criminals and shot-callers in the hood. Respected by many but feared by all. As the police are closing in on them and new players are looking for a come up, will their reign last?

64

6.6

/66579/

70

/1478/

68

/1123/

3.1

/11886/

52

/109/

Audience

68

/66340/

58

/26/

3.0

age 18+

Liu Jian, an elite Chinese police officer, comes to Paris to arrest a Chinese drug lord. When Jian is betrayed by a French officer and framed for murder, he must go into hiding and find new allies.

61

6.3

/12565/

72

/316/

63

/173/

3.0

/3323/

43

/21/

Audience

65

/10014/

50

/17/

3.0

In 1934, the second most lucrative business in New York City was running 'the numbers'. When Madam Queen—the powerful woman who runs the scam in Harlem—is arrested, Ellsworth 'Bumpy' Johnson takes over the business and must resist an invasion from a merciless mobster.

73

6.7

/26387/

70

/439/

63

/347/

3.3

/8978/

85

/41/

Audience

62

/7957/

84

/16/

3.5

Charley Partanna is a hitman who works for the Prizzis, one of the richest crime families in the US. When he sees Irene Walker, it's love at first sight. But he soon finds that she, too, is a killer for hire. Charley can overlook his suspicions, but he can't turn off his heart. And the couple must remember that even if they love each other, the Prizzis love only money.

60

6.7

/29779/

69

/589/

65

/354/

3.2

/7322/

37

/30/

Audience

72

/13383/

45

/16/