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Amazon Prime Video
89
8.2
/300850/
80
/4812/
80
/3721/
4.3
/330608/
95
/74/
94
/5921/
98
/19/
cc age 11+

Some Like It Hot (1959)
Two musicians witness a mob hit and need to quickly find a way out of Chicago. Their only opportunity comes in the form of joining an all-girl band as they prepare to leave on a tour. The two disguise themselves as women and struggle to keep their identities secret as the gangsters close in.
poster
Kanopy
86
8.1
/56456/
79
/1054/
79
/779/
4.4
/96353/
91
/55/
94
/816/
77
/8/
cc age 12+

Paper Moon (1973)
During the Great Depression, a con man finds himself saddled with a young girl who may or may not be his daughter, and the two forge an unlikely partnership.
poster
Criterion Channel
82
7.7
/32752/
74
/727/
74
/654/
3.8
/47228/
98
/51/
87
/796/
90
/12/

Scarface (1932)
In 1920s Chicago, Italian immigrant and notorious thug, Antonio 'Tony' Camonte, aka Scarface, shoots his way to the top of the mobs while trying to protect his sister from the criminal life.
poster
82
80
7.9
/17055/
76
/299/
75
/252/
4.0
/13862/
100
/18/
89
/222/
80
/15/

The Roaring Twenties (1939)
After World War I, Armistice Lloyd Hart goes back to practice law, former saloon keeper George Hally turns to bootlegging, and out-of-work Eddie Bartlett becomes a cab driver. Eddie builds a fleet of cabs through delivery of bootleg liquor and hires Lloyd as his lawyer. George becomes Eddie's partner and the rackets flourish until love and rivalry interfere.
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
79
77
7.5
/13970/
73
/296/
69
/237/
3.8
/11305/
97
/31/
86
/362/
83
/11/
cc age 8+

Horse Feathers (1932)
Quincy Adams Wagstaff, the new president of Huxley U, hires bumblers Baravelli and Pinky to help his school win the big football game against rival Darwin U.
poster
Criterion Channel
79
75
7.7
/13879/
73
/215/
74
/269/
4.0
/28482/
90
/29/
86
/156/

Mouchette (1967)
A young girl living in the French countryside suffers constant indignities at the hand of alcoholism and her fellow man.
poster
AMC+
75
7.0
/6526/
70
/98/
67
/64/
3.8
/6211/
79
/100/
79
/434/
78
/33/

The Saddest Music in the World (2003)
In Depression-era Winnipeg, a legless beer baroness hosts a contest for the saddest music in the world, offering a grand prize of $25,000.
poster
76
74
7.4
/14847/
72
/293/
69
/205/
3.7
/11047/
90
/20/
84
/258/
74
/11/
cc age 5+

Monkey Business (1931)
Four stowaways get mixed up with gangsters while running riot on an ocean liner.
poster
The Roku Channel
77
73
7.2
/8248/
72
/184/
65
/128/
3.6
/8965/
100
/18/
74
/91/
89
/10/

Force of Evil (1950)
Lawyer Joe Morse wants to consolidate all the small-time numbers racket operators into one big powerful operation. But his elder brother Leo is one of these small-time operators who wants to stay that way, preferring not to deal with the gangsters who dominate the big-time.
poster
72
6.5
/18047/
72
/628/
71
/332/
3.4
/18927/
72
/93/
87
/2240/
55
/26/
cc age 16+

Baby Boy (2001)
The story of Jody, a misguided, 20-year-old African-American who is really just a baby boy finally forced-kicking and screaming to face the commitments of real life. Streetwise and jobless, he has not only fathered two children by two different women-Yvette and Peanut but still lives with his own mother. He can't seem to strike a balance or find direction in his chaotic life.
poster
Kanopy
71
7.0
/4329/
70
/157/
69
/112/
3.7
/17450/
94
/34/
68
/16/
68
/13/

Songs My Brothers Taught Me (2015)
This complex portrait of modern-day life on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation explores the bond between a brother and his younger sister, who find themselves on separate paths to rediscovering the meaning of home.
poster
HBO Max Amazon Channel
71
6.7
/5048/
67
/319/
63
/124/
3.4
/3709/
91
/32/
68
/45/
cc age 16+

Bessie (2015)
The story of legendary blues performer, Bessie Smith, who rose to fame during the 1920s and '30s.
poster
AMC+
70
7.0
/61530/
75
/2434/
69
/770/
3.6
/59664/
72
/36/
85
/2114/
50
/6/
cc age 13+

Smokey and the Bandit (1977)
A race car driver tries to transport an illegal beer shipment from Texas to Atlanta in under 28 hours, picking up a reluctant bride-to-be on the way.
poster
70
7.5
/196247/
75
/3960/
74
/2754/
3.5
/128084/
61
/61/
87
/6582/
45
/23/
cc age 15+

Legends of the Fall (1994)
In early 20th-century Montana, Col. William Ludlow lives on a ranch in the wilderness with his sons, Alfred, Tristan, and Samuel. Eventually, the unconventional but close-knit family are bound by loyalty, tested by war, and torn apart by love, as told over the course of several decades in this epic saga.
poster
68
7.0
/21945/
70
/462/
67
/284/
3.2
/10719/
73
/80/
68
/1189/
61
/26/
cc age 9+

My Dog Skip (2000)
A shy boy is unable to make friends in Yazoo City, Mississippi in 1942, until his parents give him a terrier puppy for his ninth birthday. The dog, which he names Skip, becomes well known and loved throughout the community and enriches the life of the boy, Willie, as he grows into manhood. Based on the best-selling Mississippi memoir by the late Willie Morris.
poster
Starz Apple TV Channel
68
6.8
/60212/
72
/1978/
66
/840/
3.5
/42644/
53
/57/
77
/1360/
63
/20/
cc age 16+

Life (1999)
Two men in 1930s Mississippi become friends after being sentenced to life in prison together for a crime they did not commit.
poster
Curiosity Stream
68
7.2
/260969/
73
/6144/
70
/3206/
3.4
/92220/
67
/217/
74
/4043/
58
/38/
cc age 17+

Lawless (2012)
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.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
74
67
7.1
/8700/
70
/137/
65
/117/
3.5
/5550/
94
/18/
75
/194/

Penny Serenade (1941)
Julie and Roger are a love-struck married couple who desperately want to have a child. Tragedy after tragedy gets in their way, as the two attempt to rise above their troubles and fulfill their dreams of parenthood.
poster
Kanopy
71
67
6.8
/8671/
68
/200/
64
/121/
3.3
/7313/
95
/22/
69
/162/
69
/7/

The Cocoanuts (1929)
During the Florida land boom, the Marx Brothers run a hotel, auction off some land and thwart a jewel robbery.
poster
HBO Max Amazon Channel
70
65
6.8
/7511/
68
/167/
64
/147/
3.4
/10710/
93
/14/
63
/108/

Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933)
A wax sculptor opens a new museum years after he is severely injured during a fire that destroyed his original collection. The disappearance of both people and corpses coincides with this grand reopening and leads a reporter to start investigating.
poster
64
7.2
/633239/
72
/17405/
73
/12689/
3.5
/1265432/
48
/305/
67
/8328/
55
/45/
cc age 14+

The Great Gatsby (2013)
An adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's Long Island-set novel, where Midwesterner Nick Carraway is lured into the lavish world of his neighbor, Jay Gatsby. Soon enough, however, Carraway will see through the cracks of Gatsby's nouveau riche existence, where obsession, madness, and tragedy await.
poster
72
63
7.0
/3869/
63
/56/
65
/51/
3.4
/4089/
100
/5/
70
/54/

Red-Headed Woman (1932)
Lil works for the Legendre Company and causes Bill to divorce Irene and marry her. She has an affair with businessman Gaerste and uses him to force society to pay attention to her.
poster
72
63
7.0
/5006/
70
/89/
66
/85/
3.5
/6377/
82
/11/
73
/71/

Night Nurse (1931)
Lora Hart manages to land a job in a hospital as a trainee nurse. Upon completion of her training she goes to work as a night nurse for two small children who seem to be very sick, though something much more sinister is going on.
poster
63
6.6
/5134/
71
/128/
63
/108/
3.3
/2462/
75
/8/
67
/71/

The St. Valentine's Day Massacre (1967)
Chicago February 14th 1929. Al Capone finally establishes himself as the city's boss of organised crime. In a north-side garage his hoods, dressed as policemen, surprise and mow down with machine-guns the key members of Bugs Moran's rival gang. The film traces the history of the incident, and the lives affected and in some cases ended by it.
poster
Hoopla
64
62
6.5
/8236/
69
/609/
70
/302/
2.6
/4031/
64
/32/
cc age 10+

The Spirit of Christmas (2015)
A woman falls in love with a man who is somewhat unavailable.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
61
6.2
/11087/
67
/707/
60
/159/
3.0
/4184/
64
/45/
82
/63/
45
/7/
cc age 15+

Lansky (2021)
When the aging Meyer Lansky is investigated one last time by the Feds who suspect he has stashed away millions of dollars over half a century, the retired gangster spins a dizzying tale, revealing the untold truth about his life as the notorious boss of Murder Inc. and the National Crime Syndicate.
poster
MGM Plus
64
60
6.4
/6528/
70
/206/
61
/104/
3.3
/6760/
67
/9/
61
/98/
60
/4/

White Lightning (1973)
An ex-con teams up with federal agents to help them with breaking up a moonshine ring.
poster
74
59
7.6
/3185/
71
/35/
68
/28/
3.8
/1764/
81
/16/
84
/40/
67
/7/

To Each His Own (1946)
During World War I, small-town girl Josephine Norris has an illegitimate son by an itinerant pilot. After a scheme to adopt him ends up giving him to another family, she devotes her life to loving him from afar.
poster
66
56
7.0
/3894/
70
/74/
65
/74/
3.5
/3268/
69
/122/
55
/4/

I Walk Alone (1947)
Bootleggers on the lam Frankie and Noll split up to evade capture by the police. Frankie is caught and jailed, but Noll manages to escape and open a posh New York City nightclub. 14 years later, Frankie is released from the clink and visits Noll with the intention of collecting his half of the nightclub's profits. But Noll, who has no intention of being so equitable, uses his ex-girlfriend Kay to divert Frankie from his intended goal.
poster
Kanopy
56
6.4
/28521/
65
/526/
63
/499/
3.2
/27186/
41
/41/
47
/867/
43
/5/
cc age 13+

The Great Gatsby (1974)
Nick Carraway, a young Midwesterner now living on Long Island, finds himself fascinated by the mysterious past and lavish lifestyle of his neighbor, the nouveau riche Jay Gatsby. He is drawn into Gatsby's circle, becoming a witness to obsession and tragedy.
poster
fuboTV
61
55
6.4
/6014/
68
/160/
61
/73/
3.2
/3164/
40
/10/
70
/160/

Robin and the 7 Hoods (1964)
Set in Prohibition era Chicago, bootlegger Robbo and his cronies refuse to pay the greedy Guy Gisborne a cut of their profits after Guy shoots mob boss Big Jim and takes over. When Big Jim's daughter, Marian, gives Robbo a large sum, believing he has avenged her father's death, the gangster donates to an orphanage, cementing his reputation as a softhearted hood.
poster
75
54
7.5
/2500/
71
/60/
75
/70/
3.6
/1189/
85
/44/

Them Thar Hills (1934)
Stan and Ollie travel to the mountains for Ollie's health, and park their caravan near a well into which a gang of moonshiners have earlier dumped their moonshine; and the boys proceed to quench their thirst thinking that it is iron-rich mountain water. The real trouble doesn't begin, though, until a married motoring couple stop by to borrow some gasoline, and the already-cranky husband leaves his thirsty wife with the boys while he goes off to refill his car's empty gas-tank. A sequel was made to this film: TIT FOR TAT, q.v.
poster
67
54
6.7
/3709/
63
/59/
64
/34/
3.3
/3762/
78
/1508/

Ziegfeld Girl (1941)
Discovery by Flo Ziegfeld changes a girl's life but not necessarily for the better, as three beautiful women find out when they join the spectacle on Broadway: Susan, the singer who must leave behind her ageing vaudevillian father; vulnerable Sheila, the working girl pursued both by a millionaire and by her loyal boyfriend from Flatbush; and the mysterious European beauty Sandra, whose concert violinist husband cannot endure the thought of their escaping from poverty by promenading her glamor in skimpy costumes.
poster
Starz Apple TV Channel
59
53
6.2
/5973/
68
/136/
56
/63/
3.1
/2853/
47
/129/
66
/943/
55
/31/
cc age 15+

Idlewild (2006)
A reticent piano player Percival, along with Rooster, his flamboyant lead performer and manager, struggle to keep their speakeasy, in the Prohibition-era South, out of the hands of gangsters who want to take it over.
poster
Kanopy
72
52
7.2
/2177/
68
/45/
65
/59/
3.6
/1632/
82
/158/

They Made Me a Fugitive (1947)
After being framed for a policeman's murder, a criminal escapes prison and sets out for revenge.
poster
52
6.4
/63111/
67
/1566/
63
/937/
3.0
/19097/
44
/32/
51
/1155/
44
/24/
cc age 16+

Last Man Standing (1996)
John Smith is a mysterious stranger who is drawn into a vicious war between two Prohibition-era gangs. In a dangerous game, he switches allegiances from one to another, offering his services to the highest bidder. As the death toll mounts, Smith takes the law into his own hands in a deadly race to stay alive.
poster
70
49
6.6
/1813/
61
/37/
65
/40/
3.1
/1863/
100
/6/
67
/18/

The Racket (1928)
A renegade police captain sets out to catch a sadistic mob boss. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2016.
poster
72
48
7.0
/2060/
67
/68/
62
/44/
3.5
/1938/
80
/5/
85
/12/

City Streets (1931)
A mobster's daughter leads her boyfriend from the circus into bootlegging.
poster
72
47
7.0
/2931/
73
/61/
70
/23/
3.3
/1033/
83
/2841/

Tammy and the Bachelor (1957)
An unsophisticated young woman from the Mississippi swamps falls in love with an unconventional southern gentleman.
poster
61
46
6.5
/2412/
60
/35/
61
/50/
3.3
/3315/
54
/507/

Contraband (1980)
Cigarette smugglers in Naples run into problems with cocaine operations being set up by a rival smuggler.
poster
46
5.3
/1479/
52
/18/
53
/16/
3.0
/707/
25
/12/
35
/6/

Lucky Lady (1975)
When an American booze smuggler gets murdered in Prohibition-era Mexico, his widow, a nightclub singer, joins forces with her lover and a desperate loner to become rum-runners to the U.S.
poster
74
46
7.1
/1991/
72
/24/
67
/21/
3.5
/1559/
88
/175/

Has Anybody Seen My Gal? (1952)
When a 1920s millionaire tests the fiber of his Vermont family, a young lady and her boyfriend feel the repercussions.
poster
66
45
6.8
/2463/
67
/43/
67
/29/
3.3
/989/
83
/6/
46
/35/

Alexander's Ragtime Band (1938)
Classical violinist Roger Grant disappoints his family and teacher when he organizes a jazz band, but he and the band become successful. Roger falls in love with the band's singer, Stella, but his reluctance to lose her leads him to thwart her efforts to become a solo star. When the World War separates them in 1917, Stella marries Roger's best friend and, when Roger returns home after the war, an important concert at Carnegie Hall brings the corners of the romantic triangle together.
poster
Criterion Channel
63
45
6.5
/2470/
60
/63/
58
/58/
3.4
/7949/

It's Not Just You, Murray! (1964)
A middle-aged mobster reflects on his rise from bootlegger to success, crediting his longtime friend Joe for his good fortune—unaware that Joe has been betraying him all along, both in business and at home.
poster
62
42
6.7
/3942/
64
/18/
63
/50/
3.4
/878/
48
/48/

Hellsinki (2009)
In the mid-1960s, three small-time Finnish bootleggers seize control of their Helsinki neighborhood's black-market liquor business.
poster
60
42
6.3
/2263/
68
/70/
62
/35/
3.1
/1262/
50
/8/
57
/38/

Wild in the Country (1961)
A troubled young man discovers that he has a knack for writing when a counselor encourages him to pursue a literary career.
poster
66
42
7.1
/5794/
68
/32/
61
/47/
3.4
/1201/
65
/15/

The Tough Ones (1999)
The Tough Ones tells a story of two friends who have a hard time finding their place in the society. Antti and Jussi are released from jail. While they were doing time for bank robbery, the third man involved in the robbery, the one who was not convicted, has become a policeman. He tries to help his friends to settle into the small town in Pohjanmaa, but the boys start a black market liquor business instead. The road seems to lead back to the jail.


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