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Criterion Channel
90
8.2
/141034/
80
/2326/
81
/1605/
4.3
/162000/
96
/51/
96
/2271/
93
/17/

Yojimbo (1961)
A nameless ronin, or samurai with no master, enters a small village in feudal Japan where two rival businessmen are struggling for control of the local gambling trade. Taking the name Sanjuro Kuwabatake, the ronin convinces both silk merchant Tazaemon and sake merchant Tokuemon to hire him as a personal bodyguard, then artfully sets in motion a full-scale gang war between the two ambitious and unscrupulous men.
poster
Kanopy
89
8.6
/857997/
85
/13573/
84
/7895/
4.6
/959916/
91
/163/
97
/15603/
79
/33/
cc age 18+

City of God (2002)
In the poverty-stricken favelas of Rio de Janeiro in the 1970s, two young men choose different paths. Rocket is a budding photographer who documents the increasing drug-related violence of his neighborhood, while José “Zé” Pequeno is an ambitious drug dealer diving into a dangerous life of crime.
poster
Criterion Channel
87
8.2
/3514/
81
/163/
74
/64/
4.4
/17109/
100
/12/

Streetwise (1984)
This documentary about teenagers living on the streets in Seattle began as a magazine article. The film follows nine teenagers who discuss how they live by panhandling, prostitution, and petty theft.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
85
8.3
/403059/
81
/6370/
84
/5802/
4.2
/267692/
86
/56/
93
/3956/
75
/20/
cc age 18+

Once Upon a Time in America (1984)
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.
poster
84
8.0
/72803/
79
/4161/
77
/1678/
4.0
/136549/
100
/11/
92
/1486/
cc age 14+

Batman: Under the Red Hood (2010)
One part vigilante, one part criminal kingpin, Red Hood begins cleaning up Gotham with the efficiency of Batman, but without following the same ethical code.
poster
Netflix
84
7.8
/165545/
78
/4321/
76
/2145/
4.0
/271316/
96
/71/
93
/3912/
76
/20/
cc age 17+

Boyz n the Hood (1991)
In the middle of the Los Angeles ghetto, drugs, robberies and shootings dominate everyday life. During these times, Furious tries to raise his son Tre to be a decent person. Tre's friends, on the other hand, have little regard for the law and drag the entire neighborhood into a street war...
poster
Criterion Channel
83
7.5
/28837/
74
/787/
71
/402/
3.9
/38849/
97
/32/
89
/773/
82
/16/
cc age 17+

The Long Good Friday (1980)
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.
poster
Kanopy
85
83
8.0
/14285/
77
/346/
78
/414/
4.1
/28860/
100
/20/
93
/131/

The Cameraman (1928)
A photographer takes up newsreel shooting to impress a secretary.
poster
Netflix
83
8.3
/994658/
82
/19981/
81
/12599/
4.1
/1328323/
79
/81/
93
/30672/
65
/9/
cc age 18+

Scarface (1983)
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.
poster
Kanopy
82
7.7
/57705/
76
/1518/
75
/882/
4.2
/97803/
92
/71/
92
/3019/

Hard Boiled (1992)
A cop who loses his partner in a shoot-out with gun smugglers goes on a mission to catch them. In order to get closer to the leaders of the ring he joins forces with an undercover cop who's working as a gangster hitman. They use all means of excessive force to find them.
poster
82
7.5
/68726/
78
/2082/
75
/841/
3.9
/79133/
84
/45/
93
/2211/
76
/19/
cc age 17+

Menace II Society (1993)
A young street hustler attempts to escape the rigors and temptations of the ghetto in a quest for a better life.
poster
MGM Plus
81
7.9
/249532/
78
/6419/
78
/4534/
4.0
/308698/
98
/56/
91
/3315/
65
/7/
cc age 11+

A Fistful of Dollars (1964)
The Man With No Name enters the Mexican village of San Miguel in the midst of a power struggle among the three Rojo brothers and sheriff John Baxter. When a regiment of Mexican soldiers bearing gold intended to pay for new weapons is waylaid by the Rojo brothers, the stranger inserts himself into the middle of the long-simmering battle, selling false information to both sides for his own benefit.
poster
Netflix
80
7.3
/10193/
75
/394/
78
/512/
4.0
/65617/
98
/45/
90
/34/
72
/6/
cc age 16+

I'm No Longer Here (2019)
In Monterrey, Mexico, a young street gang spends their days dancing to slowed-down cumbia and attending parties. After a mix-up with a local cartel, their leader is forced to migrate to the U.S. but quickly longs to return home.
poster
80
7.4
/24882/
74
/636/
75
/666/
4.1
/54450/
93
/27/
89
/406/
73
/22/

Sonatine (1993)
Murakawa, an aging Tokyo yakuza tiring of gangster life, is sent by his boss to Okinawa along with a few of his henchmen to help end a gang war, supposedly as mediators between two warring clans. He finds that the dispute between the clans is insignificant and whilst wondering why he was sent to Okinawa at all, his group is attacked in an ambush. The survivors flee and make a decision to lay low at the beach while they await further instructions.
poster
80
7.7
/160882/
78
/6830/
75
/3024/
4.0
/191973/
90
/188/
89
/10747/
78
/38/
cc age 14+

Kung Fu Hustle (2004)
It's the 1940s, and the notorious Axe Gang terrorizes Shanghai. Small-time criminals Sing and Bone hope to join, but they only manage to make lots of very dangerous enemies. Fortunately for them, kung fu masters and hidden strength can be found in unlikely places. Now they just have to take on the entire Axe Gang.
poster
80
7.6
/210783/
74
/8213/
74
/4012/
3.9
/233614/
93
/61/
86
/3474/
77
/15/

Mad Max 2 (1981)
Max Rockatansky returns as the heroic loner who drives the dusty roads of a postapocalyptic Australian Outback in an unending search for gasoline. Arrayed against him and the other scraggly defendants of a fuel-depot encampment are the bizarre warriors commanded by the charismatic Lord Humungus, a violent leader whose scruples are as barren as the surrounding landscape.
poster
Kanopy
79
7.6
/24454/
73
/437/
72
/372/
3.7
/24342/
100
/33/
84
/466/
80
/18/

The Public Enemy (1931)
Two young Chicago hoodlums, Tom Powers and Matt Doyle, rise up from their poverty-stricken slum life to become petty thieves, bootleggers and cold-blooded killers. But with street notoriety and newfound wealth, the duo feels the heat from the cops and rival gangsters both. Despite his ruthless criminal reputation, Tom tries to remain connected to his family, however, gang warfare and the need for revenge eventually pull him away.
poster
MGM Plus
79
8.0
/815792/
77
/17712/
74
/8560/
3.7
/358464/
76
/256/
78
/941202/
74
/40/
cc age 18+

Sin City (2005)
Welcome to Sin City. This town beckons to the tough, the corrupt, the brokenhearted. Some call it dark… Hard-boiled. Then there are those who call it home — Crooked cops, sexy dames, desperate vigilantes. Some are seeking revenge, others lust after redemption, and then there are those hoping for a little of both. A universe of unlikely and reluctant heroes still trying to do the right thing in a city that refuses to care.
poster
Kanopy
78
7.4
/52977/
74
/1265/
72
/915/
3.7
/25062/
87
/123/
88
/1672/
75
/33/
cc age 17+

Zatoichi (2003)
Blind traveler Zatoichi is a master swordsman and a masseur with a fondness for gambling on dice games. When he arrives in a village torn apart by warring gangs, he sets out to protect the townspeople.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
78
7.0
/31337/
74
/1889/
78
/1370/
3.5
/63327/
97
/36/
94
65
/7/

The Gangster, the Cop, the Devil (2019)
After barely surviving a brutal attack by a sadistic serial killer, crime boss Jang Dong-su is left humiliated. Determined to catch the killer known as K, he forms an uneasy alliance with Jung Tae-seok, a relentless and incorruptible detective who often disrupts his illegal business. However, while Jang Dong-su wants K dead, Jung Tae-suk is determined to bring him to justice. With a deal in place—whoever finds K first will decide his fate—the hunt begins, blurring the lines between crime and law.
poster
79
78
7.7
/13460/
75
/374/
78
/733/
4.0
/33358/
86
/68/

El Infierno (2010)
After being deported back to Mexico, a man has no choice but to join the vicious drug cartel that has corrupted his hometown in order to survive.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
78
7.0
/52787/
70
/1258/
69
/1259/
3.7
/36622/
90
/155/
71
/2117/
87
/30/

Gomorrah (2008)
An inside look at Italy's modern-day crime families, the Camorra in Naples and Caserta. Based on a book by Roberto Saviano. Power, money and blood: these are the "values" that the residents of the Province of Naples and Caserta have to face every day. They hardly ever have a choice and are forced to obey the rules of the Camorra. Only a lucky few can even think of leading a normal life.
poster
Netflix
77
7.2
/83911/
73
/4732/
70
/1264/
3.5
/103033/
86
/173/
92
/157/
69
/39/
cc age 15+

The Outfit (2022)
Leonard is an English tailor who used to craft suits on London’s world-famous Savile Row. After a personal tragedy, he’s ended up in Chicago, operating a small tailor shop in a rough part of town where he makes beautiful clothes for the only people around who can afford them: a family of vicious gangsters.
poster
MGM Plus
76
7.5
/497674/
75
/11361/
73
/6972/
3.7
/419545/
72
/210/
81
/11176/
72
/39/
cc age 17+

Gangs of New York (2002)
In early 1860s New York, Irish immigrant Amsterdam Vallon is released from prison and returns to the Five Points, seeking revenge against his father's killer, William Cutting, a powerful anti-immigrant gang leader. He knows that revenge can only be attained by infiltrating Cutting's inner circle. Vallon's journey becomes a fight for personal survival and to find a place for the Irish people.
poster
Kanopy
75
7.3
/13237/
77
/403/
69
/211/
3.6
/8591/
89
/19/
87
/326/
64
/13/

The Wanderers (1979)
The streets of the Bronx are owned by '60s youth gangs where the joy and pain of adolescence is lived. Philip Kaufman tells his take on the novel by Richard Price about the history of the Italian-American gang ‘The Wanderers.’
poster
Criterion Channel
75
7.2
/20922/
74
/637/
73
/449/
3.7
/15185/
75
/8/
83
/639/

Infernal Affairs II (2003)
In this prequel to the original, a bloody power struggle among the Triads coincides with the 1997 handover of Hong Kong, setting up the events of the first film.
poster
Kanopy
75
7.2
/17803/
72
/496/
68
/501/
3.6
/19839/
88
/130/
81
/64/
76
/29/
cc age 17+

Dheepan (2015)
Three war-torn strangers posing as a family flee Sri Lanka’s civil war to start over in a troubled Paris suburb, but their past traumas resurface as they struggle to survive in their new environment.
poster
75
7.3
/24385/
74
/789/
73
/536/
3.7
/18506/
88
/25/
78
/142/
70
/10/

The Yellow Sea (2010)
A Korean man in China takes an assassination job in South Korea to make money and find his missing wife. But when the job is botched, he is forced to go on the run from the police and the gangsters who paid him.
poster
75
7.9
/137582/
77
/5356/
76
/2495/
4.0
/129042/
83
/172/
87
/1758/
71
/34/
cc age 17+

The Raid 2 (2014)
After fighting his way through an apartment building populated by an army of dangerous criminals and escaping with his life, SWAT team member Rama goes undercover, joining a powerful Indonesian crime syndicate to protect his family and uncover corrupt members of his own force.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
74
6.7
/8675/
68
/496/
67
/320/
3.5
/26974/
98
/121/
88
/3/
77
/25/

First Love (2019)
One night in Tokyo, Leo, a young boxer, meets his first love, Monica, an imprisoned sex worker. Caught up in a drug-smuggling scheme, they find themselves pursued by a corrupt cop, a yakuza, his nemesis, and a female assassin.
poster
Kanopy
83
74
8.0
/14754/
78
/113/
69
/64/
3.9
/9169/
100
/7/
93
/57/
cc age 15+

Maqbool (2003)
The Scottish tragedy 'Macbeth' set in the contemporary underworld of India's commercial capital; two corrupt, fortune telling policemen take the roles of the weird sisters, and "Duncan" is Abbaji, the head of a crime family.
poster
78
74
8.2
/39646/
76
/276/
74
/137/
3.7
/5365/
88
/106/

Paan Singh Tomar (2012)
Paan Singh Tomar goes from celebrated runner to star brigand and rebel when life after sports fails to unfold as planned.
poster
Kanopy
74
6.8
/20614/
72
/516/
66
/299/
3.5
/23889/
79
/29/
80
/925/
71
/7/
cc age 8+

Bugsy Malone (1976)
New York, 1929, a war rages between two rival gangsters, Fat Sam and Dandy Dan. Dan is in possession of a new and deadly weapon, the dreaded "splurge gun". As the custard pies fly, Bugsy Malone, an all-round nice guy, falls for Blousey Brown, a singer at Fat Sam's speakeasy. His designs on her are disrupted by the seductive songstress Tallulah who wants Bugsy for herself.
poster
74
7.5
/117641/
76
/3746/
76
/2274/
3.9
/165723/
88
/52/
88
/5888/
65
/16/
cc age 16+

The Warriors (1979)
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.
poster
MGM Plus
73
7.1
/28031/
71
/612/
69
/391/
3.6
/15063/
86
/28/
82
/560/
60
/19/

State of Grace (1990)
Hell's Kitchen, New York. Terry Noonan returns home after a ten-year absence. He soon reconnects with Jackie, a childhood friend and member of the Irish mob, and rekindles his love affair with Jackie's sister Kathleen.
poster
73
6.8
/74150/
69
/1751/
67
/1224/
3.4
/48841/
91
/77/
76
/2051/
73
/9/

El Mariachi (1993)
El Mariachi just wants to play his guitar and carry on the family tradition. Unfortunately, the town he tries to find work in has another visitor, a killer who carries his guns in a guitar case. The drug lord and his henchmen mistake el Mariachi for the killer, Azul, and chase him around town trying to kill him and get his guitar case.
poster
73
6.7
/114909/
69
/4507/
64
/2186/
3.6
/137975/
91
/186/
75
/3386/
75
/27/
cc age 17+

Attack the Block (2011)
A teen gang in a South London housing estate must team up with the other residents to protect their neighbourhood from a terrifying alien invasion.
poster
72
6.7
/41563/
72
/1415/
66
/565/
3.4
/32505/
81
/37/
80
/1186/
61
/13/

New Jack City (1991)
A gangster, Nino, is in the Cash Money Brothers, making a million dollars every week selling crack. A cop, Scotty, discovers that the only way to infiltrate the gang is to become a dealer himself.
poster
Kanopy
72
6.7
/3256/
71
/251/
64
/78/
3.4
/2142/
83
/47/
70
/49/
71
/19/

Whitey: United States of America v. James J. Bulger (2014)
A documentary that captures the sensational trial of infamous gangster James 'Whitey' Bulger, using the legal proceedings as a springboard to explore allegations of corruption within the highest levels of law enforcement. Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Joe Berlinger examines Bulger's relationship with the FBI and Department of Justice that allowed him to reign over a criminal empire in Boston for decades.
poster
Fandango at Home Free
72
6.7
/20542/
68
/493/
64
/250/
3.4
/5735/
85
/68/
63
/150/
75
/27/

Easy Money (2010)
When JW becomes a drug runner in order to maintain his double life, his fate becomes tied to two other men: Jorge, a fugitive on the run from both the Serbian mafia and the police, and mafia enforcer Mrado, who is on the hunt for Jorge.
poster
Kanopy
72
7.5
/28368/
76
/962/
74
/505/
3.8
/22393/
63
/16/
86
/1186/
58
/6/

New World (2013)
An undercover cop has his loyalties tested when the boss of the corporate gang he's spent years infiltrating dies.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
72
7.9
/37031/
81
/908/
81
/1465/
4.0
/21884/
64
/14/
94
/1854/
47
/12/

Bound by Honor (1993)
Based on the true life experiences of poet Jimmy Santiago Baca, the film focuses on half-brothers Paco and Cruz, and their bi-racial cousin Miklo. It opens in 1972, as the three are members of an East L.A. gang known as the "Vatos Locos", and the story focuses on how a violent crime and the influence of narcotics alter their lives. Miklo is incarcerated and sent to San Quentin, where he makes a "home" for himself. Cruz becomes an exceptional artist, but a heroin addiction overcomes him with tragic results. Paco becomes a cop and an enemy to his "carnal", Miklo.
poster
71
6.5
/896/
73
/54/
71
/60/
3.4
/901/
88
/7/

Boulevard Nights (1979)
Raymond Avila is an ex-gang member trying to build a future. His kid brother Chuco is a sullen low-rider still caught up in the life. Despite their differences, their family bond is strong. But that bond is violently tested when rivals challenge Chuco's gang and ignite a neighborhood war.
poster
Kanopy
71
7.2
/16773/
71
/416/
70
/288/
3.6
/9025/
74
/81/
78
/697/
63
/25/
cc age 17+

City of Men (2007)
Best buddies Acerola and Laranjinha, about to turn 18, discover things about their missing fathers' pasts which will shatter their solid friendship, in the middle of a war between rival drug gangs from Rio's favelas.
poster
79
71
8.3
/18143/
77
/158/
71
/65/
4.0
/8209/
90
/74/

Satya (1998)
A young man named Satya comes to Mumbai from South India in search of a job. Jailed for something he did not do, the once-honest young man meets an underworld boss, Bhiku Mhatre in jail and joins his gang.
poster
72
71
7.0
/9457/
73
/407/
71
/365/
3.6
/11659/
78
/240/

Crows Zero (2007)
The students of Suzuran High compete for the King of School title. An ex-graduate yakuza is sent to kill the son of a criminal group, but he can't make himself do it as he reminds him of his youth.
poster
Kanopy
71
7.1
/30583/
71
/1086/
69
/652/
3.6
/13384/
86
/63/
79
/16/
74
/20/

In Order of Disappearance (2014)
Upstanding community leader Nils has just won an award for "Citizen of the Year" when he learns the news that his son has died of a heroin overdose. Suspecting foul play, Nils begins to investigate, and soon finds himself at the center of an escalating underworld gang war between Serbian drug dealers and a sociopathic criminal mastermind known only as “The Count.”
poster
fuboTV
71
7.5
/447964/
75
/10508/
74
/6607/
3.5
/402939/
66
/68/
68
/125/
60
/19/
cc age 16+

The Godfather: Part III (1990)
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.


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