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Genre "Gangster Film" Movies (showing 1 to 47 from 47 total)

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A Bronx Tale (1993) Genre: Drama, Coming-of-Age, Urban Drama, Gangster Film. Director: Robert De Niro. Actors: Robert De Niro, Chazz Palminteri, Lillo Brancato, Francis Capra, Taral Hicks, Kathrine Narducci, Clem Caserta, Alfred Sauchelli, Jr., Joe Pesci, Elizabeth Abassi, Ida Bemardini, Joe Black, Garry Blackwood, Nicky Blair, Patrick Borriello, Ellen Chenoweth, Joseph D'Onofrio, Chad Dowdell, Tommy A. Ford, Mitch Kolpan, Domenick Lombardozzi, Steve Pendleton, Paul Perri. Storyline: 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 Italian-America bus driver, is secondary to the part of his son Calogero, played by young Francis Capra. The top dog in Calogero's Bronx neighborhood is flashy "wiseguy" Sonny (Chazz Palminteri). When the boy witnesses Sonny commit a murder ...

American Gangster (2007) Genre: Crime, Crime Drama, Gangster Film. Director: Ridley Scott. Actors: Denzel Washington, Russell Crowe, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Cuba Gooding, Jr., Josh Brolin, Ted Levine, Armand Assante, Clarence Williams III, John Ortiz, John Hawkes, RZA, Lymari Nadal, Yul Vázquez, Ruby Dee, Idris Elba, Carla Gugino, Joe Morton, Common, Jon Polito, Kevin Corrigan, Roger Guenveur Smith, Malcolm Goodwin, Ric Young, Roger Bart, Tip "T.I." Harris, KaDee Strickland, Ruben Santiago-Hudson, Norman Reedus, Albert Jones, J. Kyle Manzay, Warner Miller. Storyline: Director Ridley Scott spins this yarn concerning a Harlem drug kingpin (Denzel Washington) who smuggles heroin into the country by hiding it in the bodies of U.S. soldiers killed during battle in Vietnam. There was a time when no one noticed reserved driver Frank Lucas (Washington), but when the criminal kingpin he was charged with transporting through the city streets suddenly dies, Lucas seizes ...

American Me (1992) Genre: Crime, Drama, Gangster Film, Crime Drama, Crime Thriller. Director: Edward James Olmos. Actors: Edward James Olmos, William Forsythe, Pepe Serna, Danny De La Paz, Evelina Fernandez, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Daniel Villarreal, Sal Lopez, Daniel Haro, Domingo Ambriz, Vic Trevino, Tom Bower, Panchito Gomez, Richard Coca, Joe Aubel, Lance August, Paul Bollen, Alex Brown, Tony Giorgio, Cody Glenn, Jaime Gomez, Richard Lee-Sung, Roberto Martin Marquez, Ken Medlock, Rolando Molina, Bennie Moore, Grace Morley, Bob Morones, Dyana Ortelli, Manny Perry, Robert Pucci, Don Pugsley, Rodney Rincon, Robby Robinson, Rafael Robledo, Michael Shaner, William Smith, Ron Thompson, Jacob Vargas, Abraham Verduzco. Storyline: 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 years in Folsom Prison rules over all the drug-and-murder activities behind bars. Upon his release, Santana goes back to his old neighborhood, intending to lead a peaceful, crime-free life. But his old gang buddies force him back into his old habits. The ...

American Yakuza (1994) Genre: Crime, Gangster Film, Crime Thriller. Director: Frank Cappello. Actors: Franklyn Ajaye, John Fujioka, Ryo Ishibashi, Nicky Katt, Viggo Mortensen, Michael Nouri, Yuji Okumoto. Storyline: American FBI agent Nick Davis is lured into the Tendo family crime syndicate — a major family in the Japanese yakuza. Viggo Mortensen stars in this two-fisted action spectacular.

Analyze This (1999) Genre: Comedy, Crime Comedy, Gangster Film. Director: Harold Ramis. Actors: Robert De Niro, Billy Crystal, Lisa Kudrow, Joe Viterelli, Chazz Palminteri, Bill Macy, Leo Rossi, Kyle Sabihy, Rebecca Schull, Molly Shannon, Max Casella, Pat Cooper, Richard C. Castellano, Jimmie Ray Weeks, Elizabeth Bracco, Tony Darrow, Donnamarie Recco, Michael Harkins. Storyline: In the same year that a hit cable television series, The Sopranos, successfully mined the same premise, this comedy about a mobster seeking advice from a psychiatrist was a box office winner for director Harold Ramis. Billy Crystal stars as Dr. Ben Sobel, a New York shrink who's becoming a little bored with his upscale but neurotic clientele. Into Sobel's practice comes a guy with legitimate probl ...

Beautiful Joe (2000) Genre: Comedy, Crime, Black Comedy, Crime Comedy, Gangster Film. Director: Stephen Metcalfe. Actors: Billy Connolly, Sharon Stone, Ian Holm, Gil Bellows. Storyline: 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 regular guy who runs a flower shop and has never had much in the way of good luck. Things seem to be grim for Joe when he's diagnosed with a brain tumor, but a bit of good fortune appears on the horizon when he wins a jackpot at the racetrack. However, ...

Blood In Blood Out (1993) Genre: Crime, Gangster Film, Crime Thriller, Prison Film. Director: Taylor Hackford. Actors: Damian Chapa, Jesse Borrego, Benjamin Bratt, Enrique J. Castillo, Victor Rivers, Delroy Lindo, Tom Towles, Carlos Carrasco, Theodore Wilson, Raymond Cruz, Valente Rodriguez, Lanny Flaherty, Alina Arenal, Jimmy Santiago Baca, Sharon Bialy, Roxann Biggs, Gary Cervantes, Luis Contreras, Roberto Contreras, David Dunard, Steve Eastin, Jenny Gago, Mike Genovese, Evelyn Guerrero, Richard Masur, Daniel McDonald, Victor Mojica, Karmin Murcelo, Natalia Nogulich, Lupe Ontiveros, Ray Oriel, Richard Pagano, Ving Rhames, Geoffrey Rivas, Gary Tacon, Billy Bob Thornton, Paolo Tocha, Danny Trejo, Peter Mark Vasquez, Noah Verduzco, Tom Wilson. Storyline: Taylor Hackford directed this urgent melodrama about the realities of street crime, gangs, and prison life among the Chicanos of East Los Angeles. Miklo (Damian Chapa), Paco (Benjamin Bratt) and Cruz (Jesse Borrego) are three friends who are living in the East Los Angeles of 1972 as it is torn apart by violence. When the gang violence hits the three friends, they are affected by their participatio ...

Bonnie and Clyde (1967) Genre: Crime, Gangster Film, Crime Drama, Road Movie. Director: Arthur Penn. Actors: Warren Beatty, Faye Dunaway, Michael J. Pollard, Gene Hackman, Estelle Parsons, Gene Wilder, Denver Pyle, Dub Taylor, Evans Evans, Martha Adcock, Mabel Cavitt, Sadie French, Roy Heard, Clyde Howdy, J.J. Lemmon, Jr., Russ Marker, Ken Mayer, Ann Palmer, Joe Spratt, James Stivers. Storyline: 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 caused major controversy by redefining violence in cinema and casting its criminal protagonists as sympathetic anti-heroes. Based loosely on the true exploits of Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker during the 30s, the film begins as Clyde (Beatty) tries to ...

Bugsy (1991) Genre: Crime, Biography [feature], Gangster Film, Crime Drama. Director: Barry Levinson. Actors: Warren Beatty, Annette Bening, Harvey Keitel, Ben Kingsley, Elliott Gould, Joe Mantegna, Bebe Neuwirth, Wendy Phillips, Richard Sarafian, Lewis van Bergen, Bill Graham, Andy Romano, Robert Beltran, Gian-Carlo Scandiuzzi, Stefanie Mason, Kimberly McCullough, James Toback, Jamie Angell, Joe Baker, Lloyd Baskin, Albina Boccicchio, Don Calfa, Carmine Caridi, Don Carrara, Ellen Chenoweth, Eric Christmas, Julie Christensen, Cathleen Crone, Kal David, Debrah Farentino, Peter Giuliano, Robert Glaudini, David H. Hebble, Austin Kelly, Michael Kenner, Fred Lehto, Traci Lind, Steven D. Maines, Wendie Malick, DeVera Marcus, Gary McGurk, Gerard Joseph McKenna, Ray McKinnon, Hal Melia, "Cousin Brucie" Morrow, John Moskoff, Ksenia Prohaska, Paul Roache, Joseph Spallina Roman, Clive Rosengren, Susan Rumor, Anthony Russell, Bryan Smith, Michael Sollenberger, Ralph Tabakin, Tommy Townsend, James Zahnd. Storyline: Bugsy is a character study of mobster Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel wrapped up in a gangster movie. Siegel (Warren Beatty in a flashy performance) arrives in California in the Forties, assigned to oversee the L.A. rackets. He is quickly seduced by both the glamour of Hollywood and actress Virginia Hill (Annette Bening), whom he romances despite being unable to leave his wife and children. Sieg ...

Carlito's Way (1993) Genre: Crime, Crime Drama, Gangster Film. Director: Brian De Palma. Actors: Al Pacino, Sean Penn, Penelope Ann Miller, Luis Guzman, John Leguizamo, Viggo Mortensen, Ingrid Rogers, James Rebhorn, Joseph Siravo, Richard Foronjy, Jorge Porcel, Adrian Pasdar, Marc Anthony, Rick Aviles, Garry Blackwood, John Michael Bolger, Christopher Bregman, James Bulleit, Gene Canfield, Anthony Catanese, Joe Conzo, Caesar Cordova, Richard Council, Tony Cucci, Bo Dietl, Frank Ferrara, John Finn, Mel Gorham, Michael Hadge, Owen Hollander, John Hoyt, Al Israel, Vincent Jerosa, Sharmagne Leland-St. John, Paul Mazursky, Frank Minucci, Michael P. Moran, John Ortiz, Vincent Pastore, Steven Puente, Rene Rivera, Angel Salazar, Jaime Sanchez, Elliott Santiago, Jon Seda, Rocco Sisto, Tera Tabrizi, Brian Tarantina, Bonnie Timmermann, Jaime Tirelli, Luke Toma, Orlando Urdaneta, Nelson Vasquez, Chuck Zito. Storyline: 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 from a three-decade jail sentence after only five years, thanks to a technicality and his sleazy, cocaine-addled lawyer, Dave Kleinfeld (Sean Penn). Carlito renounces his previous ways and takes a job as the manager of a club that Kleinfeld has inve ...

Casino (1995) Genre: Crime, Gangster Film, Crime Drama, Film a Clef. Director: Martin Scorsese. Actors: Robert De Niro, Sharon Stone, Joe Pesci, James Woods, Don Rickles, Alan King, Kevin Pollak, Joe Bob Briggs, Dick Smothers, Frank Adonis, Steve Allen, Bill Allison, Frankie Avalon, Joseph Bono, Pasquale Cajano, Clem Caserta, Dean Casper, Carl Ciarfalio, Roy Conrad, Daniel P. Conte, Peter Conti, Sonny D'Angelo, Joey de Pinto, Oscar Goodman, Paul Herman, Andy Jarrell, L.Q. Jones, Tyde Kierney, Mitch Kolpan, Joe La Due, Ronald Maccone, John Manca, Bret McCormick, Audrey Meadows, Jayne Meadows, Jed Mills, Cameron Milzer, Toru Nagai, Stuart Nisbet, Jack Orend, Linda Perri, Melissa Prophet, Eric Randall, Max Raven, Brian Reddy, Joseph P. Reidy, Richard Riehle, David Rose, Anthony Russell, Catherine Scorsese, Sasha Semenoff, Fred Smith, Sly Smith, Philip Suriano, Jerry Vale, Vinny Vella, Steve Vignari, Frank Vincent, Craig Vincent, Erika vonTagen, Richard Wagner. Storyline: 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 times of three characters: "Ace" Rothstein (Robert De Niro), a bookmaking wizard; Nicky Santoro (Joe Pesci), a Mafia underboss and longtime best friend to Ace; and Ginger McKenna (Sharon Stone, in a role she was born to play), a leggy ex-prost ...

City Heat (1984) Genre: Mystery, Drama, Action, Detective Film, Police Comedy, Gangster Film, Buddy Film. Director: Richard Benjamin. Actors: Clint Eastwood, Burt Reynolds, Jane Alexander, Madeline Kahn, Rip Torn, Irene Cara, Richard Roundtree, Tony Lo Bianco, William Sanderson, Nicholas Worth, Robert Davi, Jude Farese, John Hancock, Harry Caesar, Hank Calia, Hamilton Camp, Michael Cassidy, Anthony Charnota, Dallas Cole, Nick Dimitri, Richard Drown, Daphne Eckler, Buddy Ekins, Lou Filippo, Bruce M. Fischer, George Fisher, Richard Foronjy, Holgie Forrester, Allan Graf, Wiley Harker, Bill Hart, Bob Herron, Chuck Hicks, Art La Fleur, Gene Lebell, Julius Le Flore, Fred Lerner, Jimmy Lewis, Minnie Lindsay, Carey Loftin, Arthur Malet, Fritz Manes, Michael Maurer, Bob Maxwell, Lonna Montrose, Christopher Moore, Jack Nance, Gerald O'Loughlin, George Orrison, Charles Parks, Alex Plasschaert, Debby Porter, James Hooks Reynolds, Walter Robles, Mic Rodgers, Ernie Sabella, Sharon Schaffer, Joan Shawlee, Preston Sparks, Tom Spratley, Beau Starr, Darwyn Swalve, Bob Terhune, Tab Thacker, Jack Thibeau, Wayne Van Horn, George Wilbur, Glenn Wilder, Alfie Wise. Storyline: 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 taciturn, tough, play-it-by-the-book cop, and on Burt Reynolds as Mike Murphy, Speer's old friend in the force, now turned private eye but still a captivating rogue at heart. With a sub-text of playing their well-known screen personas off each other, Eastw ...

Donnie Brasco (1997) Genre: Crime, Gangster Film, Crime Drama. Director: Mike Newell. Actors: Johnny Depp, Al Pacino, Michael Madsen, Bruno Kirby, James Russo, Anne Heche, Gerry Becker, Paul Giamatti, Zach Grenier, Zeljko Ivanek, Robert Miano, Brian Tarantina. Storyline: 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) is an FBI agent who is given an assignment to infiltrate the Mafia; calling himself Donnie Brasco, he befriends Lefty Ruggiero (Al Pacino), a low-level mob hit man whose personal life is in tatters. Lefty's marriage is falling apart, his son is a j ...

Gangs Of New York (1938) Genre: Drama, Crime, Police Detective Film, Gangster Film. Director: James Cruze. Actors: Charles Bickford, Ann Dvorak, Alan Baxter, Wynne Gibson, Harold Huber, Willard Robertson, "Slapsie Maxie" Rosenbloom, Charles Trowbridge, John Wray, Jonathan Hale, Fred Kohler, Howard Phillips, Elliott Sullivan, Maurice Cass, Robert Gleckler. Storyline: Sorry, no description is available yet for this movie...

Get Carter (2000) Genre: Thriller, Action Thriller, Crime Thriller, Gangster Film. Director: Stephen Kay. Actors: Sylvester Stallone, Miranda Richardson, Rachael Leigh Cook, Alan Cumming, Mickey Rourke, John C. McGinley, Rhona Mitra, Johnny Strong, John Cassini, Garwin Sanford, Michael Caine, Gretchen Mol. Storyline: 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) is a ruthless hired killer whose bloody career in Los Angeles has driven a wedge between himself and his family in the Northwest. When he learns that his brother has died, he flies back to Seattle, hoping to pay his respects and reconnect with his ...

GoodFellas (1990) Genre: Crime, Gangster Film, Crime Drama. Director: Martin Scorsese. Actors: Robert De Niro, Ray Liotta, Joe Pesci, Lorraine Bracco, Paul Sorvino, Frank Sivero, Tony Darrow, Mike Starr, Frank Vincent, Frank di Leo, Christopher Serrone, Henny Youngman, Jerry Vale, Frank Adonis, Frank Albanese, Anthony Alessandro, Erasmus C. Alfano, Manny Alfaro, Bob Altman, Vito Antuofermo, Frank Aquilino, Vito Balsamo, Norman Barbera, Daniela Barbosa, Tobin Bell, Joanna Bennett, Mikey Black, Garry Blackwood, Joel Blake, Joseph Bono, Spencer Bradley, Nicole Burdette, Michael Calandrino, Joel Calendrillo, Thomas E. Camuti, Gene Canfield, Clem Caserta, Nancy Ellen Cassaro, Johnny "Cha-Cha" Ciarcia, Peter Cicale, Michael Citriniti, Victor Colicchio, Tony Conforti, Daniel P. Conte, Mike Contessa, Kevin Corrigan, Janis Corsair, Joseph D'Onofrio, Lisa DaPolito, Ed Deacy, H. Clay Dear, Jamie de Roy, Dominque de Vito, John di Benedetto, Richard "Bo" Dietl, Richard Dioguardi, Illeana Douglas, Tony Ellis, Lou Eppolito, Peter Fain, Steve Forleo, Paula Gallo, Vincent Gallo, Julie Garfield, Ruby Gaynor, Joseph P. Gioco, Bob Golub, Michaelangelo Graziano, Margaux Guerard, Russell Halley, Edward Hayes, Paul Herman, Thomas Hewson, Peter Hock, Michael Imperioli, Samuel L. Jackson, Mark Jacobs, Alyson Jones, Elaine Kagan, Nadine Kay, Stella Kietel, Jesse Kirtzman, Dino Laudicina, Marianne Leone, Ellen Lewis, Gayle Lewis, Tony Lip, Gaetano Lisi, Gaetano LoGiudice, Charles Low, Thomas Lowry, Ronald Maccone, John Manca, Gina Mastrogiacomo, Gina Mattia, Debi Mazar, Edward McDonald, Fran McGee, Paul McIsaac, Marie Michaels, Paul Mougey, Richard Mullally, Edward D. Murphy, Lo Nardo, Peter Onorati, Vincent Pastore, Frank Pellegrino, Vito Picone, Angela Pietropinto, Anthony Polemeni, Anthony Powers, Melissa Prophet, James Quattrochi, Max Raven, Lawrence Sacco, Catherine Scorsese, Charles Scorsese, Andrew Scudiero, Suzanne Shepherd, Larry Silvestri, Tony Sirico, Margaret Smith, Beau Starr, Philip Suriano, Berlinda Tolbert, Anthony Valentin, Susan Varon, Robbie Vinton, Katherine Wallach, Luke Walter, Adam Wandt, Irving Welzer, Elizabeth Whitcraft, Welker White, Isiah Whitlock, Jr., John Williams, Margo Winkler, Paula Young. Storyline: Martin Scorsese explores the life of organized crime with his gritty, kinetic adaptation of Nicolas Pileggi's best-selling Wiseguy, the true-life account of mobster and FBI informant Henry Hill. Set to a true-to-period rock soundtrack, the story details the rise and fall of Hill, a half-Irish, half-Sicilian New York kid who grows up idolizing the "wise guys" in his impoverished Brooklyn ...

King of New York (1990) Genre: Crime, Crime Thriller, Gangster Film. Director: Abel Ferrara. Actors: Christopher Walken, David Caruso, Laurence Fishburne, Victor Argo, Wesley Snipes, Janet Julian, Joey Chin, Giancarlo Esposito, Paul Calderon, Steve Buscemi, Theresa Randle, Leonard Thomas, Roger Guenveur Smith, Carrie Nygren, Freddie Jackson, Sari Chang, Vanessa Angel, Phoebe Legere, Pete Hamill, Ernest Abuba, Frank Adonis, Ariane, Erica Gimpel, Frank Gio, Jack Goode, Jr., Michael Guess, Nancy Hunter, Robert La Sardo, James Lorinz, Gary Landon Mills, Gerard Murphy, Harold Perrineau, Jr., Peter Richardson, Randall Sabusawa, Wendell Sweda. Storyline: The gritty underbelly of New York's complex, ethnically divided criminal world is exposed in this dark drama from director Abel Ferrara. Christopher Walken stars as Frank White, a drug lord who's just been released from a long stint in prison. Aware that feeding off of society's depravity has made him a wealthy man, Frank has become determined to give something back to the city, and he hatches a s ...

Knockaround Guys (2001) Genre: Crime, Gangster Film. Director: Brian Koppelman, David Levien. Actors: John Malkovich, Dennis Hopper, Vin Diesel, Barry Pepper, Seth Green, Andrew Davoli, Tom Noonan, John Liddle, Michael A. Miranda, Nicholas Pasco. Storyline: 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 Brooklyn mob boss, Benny "Chains" Demaret (Dennis Hopper). When Matty was 12 years old, Benny and Uncle Teddy (John Malkovich) decided to see if Matty had what it took to be in the mob; they gave the boy a gun and ordered him to shoot a longti ...

Lansky (1999) Genre: Crime, Biography [feature], Gangster Film. Director: John McNaughton. Actors: Richard Dreyfuss, Eric Roberts, Beverly D'Angelo, Ryan Merriman. Storyline: 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 American organized crime. The tale begins with Lansky's youth, when he was just another Jewish immigrant, and chronicles his rise from petty gambler to powerful crime lord.

Last Man Standing (1996) Genre: Action, Gangster Film. Director: Walter Hill. Actors: Bruce Willis, Christopher Walken, Bruce Dern, Michael Imperioli, Alexandra Powers, David Patrick Kelly, Karina Lombard, Leslie Mann, Andrew Alden, Arnie Alpert, Dana Bambo, R.D. Call, Michael Cavalieri, Philip Ciano, Robert Coffee, Luis Contreras, Michael Cordeiro, Sonny D'Angelo, Christopher Doyle, Ned Eisenberg, Hannes Frisch, Rocky Reyna Galiente, Timothy Gallegos, Cassandra Gava, Allan Graf, Carmine Grippo, Randy Hall, Larry Holt, Ken Jenkins, Joel Kay, Patrick Kilpatrick, Michael Lerner, Kerry Lynch, Paul Lyons, Ted Markland, Michael McBride, Jillian McWhirter, Ken Medlock, Rick Merring, Matt O'Toole, Jimmy Ortega, Jim Palmer, John Paxton, Scott Pierce, Michael Prozzo, Dean Rader-Duval, Bill Rochon, Tom Rosales, Edward Rote, William Sanderson, Raynor Scheine, Lin Shaye, Scott Strand, Michael Strasser, Tiny Ron, Jim Wilkey. Storyline: 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 much like it did in the 1860s, except that two violent gangs of rival bootleggers have driven away nearly all of the citizens not involved in the booze racket. Strozzi (Ned Eisenberg) leads a gang of Italian rum-runners with the help of his right-hand- ...

Layer Cake (2004) Genre: Crime, Crime Drama, Gangster Film. Director: Matthew Vaughn. Actors: Daniel Craig, Colm Meaney, Kenneth Cranham, George Harris, Jamie Foreman, Michael Gambon, Tamer Hassan, Ben Whishaw, Burn Gorman, Sally Hawkins, Sienna Miller, Stephen Walters, Jason Flemyng, Dragan Micanovic, Rab Affleck, Dimitri Andreas, Marvyn Benoit, Ben Brasier, Louis Emerick, Neil Finnighan, Dexter Fletcher, Brinley Green, Tom Hardy, Darren Healy, Marcel Iures, Ivan Kaye, Natalie Lunghi, Francis Magee, Don McCorkindale, Paul Orchard, Budgie Prewitt, Matthew Ryan, Steve John Shepherd, Garry Tubbs. Storyline: 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 a nameless go-between in the British mob who buys drugs from underground wholesalers and them sells them to street dealers, keeping the system flowing and making a tidy profit in the process. XXXX is looking forward to getting out of the game, and h ...

Menace II Society (1993) Genre: Drama, Crime, Urban Drama, Gangster Film. Director: Albert Hughes, Allen Hughes. Actors: Tyrin Turner, Jada Pinkett Smith, Vonte Sweet, Larenz Tate, Ryan Williams, Samuel L. Jackson, Charles S. Dutton, Glenn Plummer, Bill Duke, Khandi Alexander, Reginald Ballard, Christopher M. Brown, Marilyn Coleman, Nancy Cheryl Davis, Julian Roy Doster, Chad Dowdell, Robert Gonzales, Clifton Gonzalez Gonzalez, Brandon Hammond, Anthony Johnson, Arnold Johnson, Michael Kelly, Eugene Lee, Rolando Molina, James Pickens, Jr., Clifton Powell, Saafir, Toshi Toda, Tony Valentino, Yo-Yo. Storyline: 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 John Singleton's influential Boyz N the Hood. Set in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles, the film is narrated by 18-year-old Caine (Tyrin Turner), a drug dealer and car thief who lives with his religious grandparents. After graduating from high sch ...

Miller's Crossing (1990) Genre: Crime, Gangster Film, Crime Thriller. Director: Joel Coen. Actors: Gabriel Byrne, Albert Finney, Marcia Gay Harden, Jon Polito, John Turturro, J.E. Freeman, Danny Aiello III, Joey Ancona, Michael Badalucco, Steve Buscemi, David Darlow, Kevin Dearie, Dave Drinkx, George Fernandez, Esteban Fernandez, Charles Ferrara, Lanny Flaherty, Charles Gunning, Jack David Harris, Jery Hewitt, Donna Isaacson, Michael Jeter, Helen Jolly, Jeanette Kontomitras, Olek Krupa, Robert La Brosse, Zolly Levin, John Lyons, Al Mancini, John "Spud" McConnell, Frances McDormand, Hilda McLean, Louis Charles Mounicou III, Don Picard, Bill Raye, William Preston Robertson, Carl Rooney, John Schnauder, Jr., Mike Starr, Monte Starr, Mario Todisco, Thomas Toner, Salvatore H. Tornabene, Richard Woods. Storyline: 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 Irish mob boss Leo (Albert Finney). The film opens with Italian mobster Johnny Caspar (Jon Polito) and his second in command Eddie Dane (J.E. Freeman) informing Leo and Tom that they are going to kill bookie Bernie Bernbaum (John Turturro) because he has ...

New Jack City (1991) Genre: Crime, Crime Drama, Urban Drama, Gangster Film. Director: Mario Van Peebles. Actors: Wesley Snipes, Ice-T, Mario Van Peebles, Allen Payne, Judd Nelson, Chris Rock, John Aprea, Nick Ashford, Harold Baines, Sekou Campbell, Thelma Louise Carter, Bill Cobbs, Anthony de Sando, Eek-A-Mouse, Fab 5 Freddie, Flavor Flav, Clebert Ford, Tiger Frederick, Linda Froehlich, David Michael Golson, Ben Gottlieb, Aaron Hall, Damion Hall, Laverne Hart, Garvin Holder, Tracy Camilla Johns, Rynel Johnson, Erik Kilpatrick, Gerald Levert, Tina Lifford, Marcella Lowery, Erica McFarquhar, Allen McNeil, Christopher Michael, Michael Michele, Kelly Minter, Bill Nunn, Leo O'Brien, Kim Park, Max Rabinowitz, Paul Raczkowski, Thalmus Rasulala, Max Raven, Teddy Riley, Manuel Santiago, Gregg Smrz, Bobby Stancil, Phyllis Stickney, Keith Sweat, Christopher Williams, Vanessa A. Williams, Russell Wong. Storyline: 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 film's heroes are Scotty (Ice-T) and Nick (Judd Nelson), a pair of tough, streetwise cops, the main focus is their target, drug lord Nino Brown (Wesley Snipes). A criminal businessman with no room for pity or emotion, the flashy but severe Brown has ...

Once Upon a Time in America (1984) Genre: Crime, Gangster Film, Ensemble Film, Period Film. Director: Sergio Leone. Actors: Robert De Niro, James Woods, Elizabeth McGovern, Treat Williams, Tuesday Weld, Burt Young, Joe Pesci, Danny Aiello, William Forsythe, James P. Hayden, Darlanne Fluegel, Larry Rapp, Amy Ryder, Scott Tiler, Rusty Jacobs, Jennifer Connelly, Adrian Curran, Brian Bloom, Julie Cohen, Noah Moazezi, James Russo, Karen Shallo, Mario Brega, Richard Bright, Clem Caserta, Scott Coffey, Cis Corman, Cliff Cudney, Ray Dittrich, Paul Farentino, Joey Faye, Angelo Florio, Richard Foronjy, Mort Freeman, Frank Gio, Robert Harper, Baxter Harris, Estelle Harris, Paul Herman, Bruno Iannone, Linda Ipanema, Olga Karlatos, Marcia Jean Kurtz, Sergio Leone, Arnon Milchan, Dutch Miller, Gerard Murphy, Marvin Scott, Jerry Strivelli, Richard Zobel. Storyline: 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 masterpiece. Spanning four decades, the film tells the story of David "Noodles" Aaronson (Robert De Niro) and his Jewish pals, chronicling their childhoods on New York's Lower East Side in the 1920s, through their gangster careers in the 1 ...

Oscar (1991) Genre: Crime, Comedy, Farce, Gangster Film. Director: John Landis. Actors: Sylvester Stallone, Ornella Muti, Peter Riegert, Tim Curry, Marisa Tomei, Vincent Spano, Don Ameche, Eddie Bracken, Linda Gray, Chazz Palminteri, Kurtwood Smith, Yvonne De Carlo, Ken Howard, William Atherton, Martin Ferrero, Harry Shearer, Sam Chew, Mark Metcalf, Richard Romanus, Joey Travolta, Elizabeth Barondes, Jocelyn O'Brien, Robert Lesser, Art La Fleur, Richard Foronjy, Paul Greco, Arleen Sorkin, Kai Wulff, Kirk Douglas, Rick Avery, Marshall Bell, Jackie Burch, Louis D'Alto, Joe Dante, Bruce Davison, Danny Goldstein, Tom Grant, Jim Mulholland, Tony Munafo, Sal Vecchio. Storyline: Sylvester Stallone gives comedy another try in this farce set in the 1930s. Angelo "Snaps" Provelone (Stallone) is the wealthy and powerful head of the Chicago mob, but his ailing father (Kirk Douglas) doesn't approve of his life in crime, and on his deathbed, Dad makes Snaps promise to go straight. Determined to honor his late father's wishes, Snaps decides to go into banking &mdash ...

Pulp Fiction (1994) Genre: Crime, Crime Comedy, Ensemble Film, Gangster Film. Director: Quentin Tarantino. Actors: John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, Uma Thurman, Harvey Keitel, Bruce Willis, Tim Roth, Amanda Plummer, Ving Rhames, Eric Stoltz, Rosanna Arquette, Christopher Walken, Maria de Medeiros, Frank Whaley, Quentin Tarantino, Angela Jones, Peter Greene, Alexis Arquette, Lawrence Bender, Don Blakely, Steve Buscemi, Paul Calderon, Eric Clark, Bronagh Gallagher, Michael Gilden, Kathy Griffin, Susan Griffiths, Stephen Hibbert, Brenda Hillhouse, Linda Kaye, Phil LaMarr, Lorelei Leslie, Karen Maruyama, Dick Miller, Joseph Pilato, Robert Ruth, Emil Sitka, Burr Steers, Julia Sweeney, Rich Turner, Venessia Valentino, Duane Whitaker. Storyline: Outrageously violent, time-twisting, and in love with language, Pulp Fiction was widely considered the most influential American movie of the 1990s. Director and co-screenwriter Quentin Tarantino synthesized such seemingly disparate traditions as the syncopated language of David Mamet; the serious violence of American gangster movies, crime movies, and films noirs mixed up with the wacky violence ...

Reservoir Dogs (1992) Genre: Crime, Crime Thriller, Ensemble Film, Gangster Film. Director: Quentin Tarantino. Actors: Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth, Michael Madsen, Chris Penn, Steve Buscemi, Lawrence Tierney, Quentin Tarantino, Kirk Baltz, Randy Brooks, Lawrence Bender, Edward Bunker, Suzanne Celeste, Tony Cosmo, Craig Hamann, Linda Kaye, Laurie Latham, Stevo Poliy, Robert Ruth, Michael Sottile, David Steen, Burr Steers, Maria Strova, Rich Turner, Steven Wright. Storyline: In 1992, Reservoir Dogs transformed Quentin Tarantino practically overnight from an obscure, unproduced screenwriter and part-time actor to the most influential new filmmaker of the 1990s. The story looks at what happens before and after (but not during) a botched jewelry store robbery organized by Joe Cabot (Lawrence Tierney). Mr. White (Harvey Keitel) is a career criminal who takes a liking to n ...

Road to Perdition (2002) Genre: Crime, Drama, Crime Drama, Period Film, Gangster Film. Director: Sam Mendes. Actors: Tom Hanks, Paul Newman, Jude Law, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Stanley Tucci, Daniel Craig, Tyler Hoechlin, Liam Aiken, Dylan Baker, Ciarán Hinds, Mina Badie, Lance Baker, Ian Barford, Dylan Barker, Michael Brockman, Nicholas Cade, Jack Callahan, Jobe Cerny, Kevin Chamberlin, David Darlow, Diane Dorsey, Stephen P. Dunn, Maurie Gallagher, James Greene, Harry Groener, Timothy Hendrickson, Marty Higginbotham, John Judd, Kathleen Keane, Ed Kross, Keith Kupferer, Lawrence MacGowan, Rob Maxey, Brendan McKinney, The Monte Carlos, Jackie Moran, Kurt Naebig, Heidi Jayne Netzley, Kieran O'Hare, Roderick Peeples, Lara Phillips, Phil Ridarelli, Peggy Roeder, Lee Roy Rogers, Michael Sassone, Jon Sattler, Duane Sharp, John Sierros, Craig Spidle, Doug Spinuzza, John Sterchi, Christian Stolte, Paul Turner. Storyline: The acclaimed graphic novel from crime writer Max Allan Collins becomes this big budget Dreamworks drama from director Sam Mendes and screenwriter David Self. Tom Hanks stars as Michael Sullivan, a morally conflicted Depression-era hit man committing murder in the name of his employer, John Rooney (Paul Newman). A kindly, aging Irish crime boss who raised Sullivan as his surrogate son, Rooney is a ...

Scarface (1932) Genre: Crime, Gangster Film, Film a Clef, Crime Drama. Director: Howard Hawks. Actors: Paul Muni, Ann Dvorak, Karen Morley, George Raft, Boris Karloff, C. Henry Gordon, Osgood Perkins, Purnell Pratt, Vince Barnett, Inez Palange, Edwin Maxwell, Tully Marshall, Henry Armetta, Maurice Black, Paul Fix, Howard Hawks, John Lee Mahin, Hank Mann, Dennis O'Keefe, Bert Starkey, Charles Sullivan, Harry Tenbrook, Harry Vejar. Storyline: Sorry, no description is available yet for this movie...

Shinjuku Triad Society (1995) Genre: Crime, Crime Thriller, Chase Movie, Gangster Film. Director: Takashi Miike. Actors: Storyline: 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 and all regulations in his attempt to bring down Wang, an inhumanely cruel criminal who lords over an empire that makes its fortune from the debasing of human beings. The cast includes Kippei Shiina, Tomorowo Taguchi, Takeshi Caesar, and Shinsuke Izutu ...

Shottas (2002) Genre: Crime, Gangster Film, Crime Drama. Director: Cess Silvera. Actors: Ky-mani Marley, Spragga Benz, Paul Campbell, Louie Rankin, Wyclef Jean. Storyline: Grammy-nominated reggae artist Kymani Marley and Jamaican dancehall star Spragga Benz star in director Cess Silvera's tale of two Kingston gangsters looking to make a name for themselves on the mean streets of Kingston. Homegrown gangers Biggs (Marley) and Wayne (Benz) have paid their dues in Kingston, and now they've set their sights on a better life in Miami. After robbing a soda truck to gain t ...

Smokin' Aces (2007) Genre: Crime, Ensemble Film, Crime Thriller, Action Thriller, Gangster Film. Director: Joe Carnahan. Actors: Ben Affleck, Andy Garcia, Alicia Keys, Ray Liotta, Jeremy Piven, Ryan Reynolds, Peter Berg, Taraji P. Henson, Chris Pine, Martin Henderson, Jason Bateman, Common, Joel Edgerton, Curtis Armstrong, David Proval, Tommy Flanagan, Joseph Ruskin, Christopher Holley, Nestor Carbonell, Kevin Durand, Vladimir Kulich, Maury Sterling, Matthew Fox, Alex Rocco, Wayne Newton, Mike Falkow, Joe Drago, Jeff Habberstad, Davenia McFadden, George Fisher, Janet Edwards, Suzanne Stover, Scott Halberstadt, Lorna Scott, Lonnie Moore, Patrick St. Esprit, Steve Florian, Robert J. Weir, Zach Cumer, Ken Rudulph, Christopher Murray, Michael Murphy, Marianne Muellerleile, Stefanie Cruz, John Alston, Brian Bloom, Paul Wilson, Scott Bloom, Alfred Woodley, James Conkle, Clare Carey, David 'Goldy' Goldsmith. Storyline: 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 snitch out and collect a tidy paycheck in Narc director Joe Carnahan's dark action comedy. Buddy "Aces" Israel (Jeremy Piven) is a small time scammer who has somehow managed to get the goods on big time mobster Primo Sparazza. Upon discove ...

Strange Things Happen at Sundown (2003) Genre: Horror, Monster Film, Gangster Film. Director: Marc Fratto. Actors: Jocasta Bryan, Masha Sapron. Storyline: 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 by a powerful female vampire whose intentions are clouded in mystery. Jimmy Fangs is the kind of gangster you don't want to cross, especially after dark. As Jimmy sets about building the ultimate underworld syndicate, a pair of thieving vampire lovers ...

The Asphalt Jungle (1950) Genre: Crime, Crime Thriller, Caper, Gangster Film, Film Noir. Director: John Huston. Actors: Sterling Hayden, Louis Calhern, James Whitmore, Jean Hagen, Sam Jaffe, John McIntire, Marilyn Monroe, Marc Lawrence, Barry Kelley, Anthony Caruso, Teresa Celli, Wee Willie Davis, Dorothy Tree, Brad Dexter, John Maxwell, Benny Burt, Frank Cady, John Cliff, Henry Corden, Ralph Dunn, Pat Flaherty, Alex Gerry, Sol (Saul) Gorss, Fred Graham, Don Haggerty, Eloise Hardt, Tom Browne Henry, Strother Martin, Patricia Miller, Howard Mitchell, Alberto Morin, Kerry O'Day, Raymond Roe, Henry Rowland, Tim Ryan, James Seay, Jack Shea, Joseph Darr Smith, Helene Stanley, Ray Teal, Bill Washington, Judith Wood, Wilson Wood. Storyline: The Asphalt Jungle is a brilliantly conceived and executed anatomy of a crime — or, as director John Huston and scripter Ben Maddow put it, "a left-handed form of human endeavor." Recently paroled master criminal Erwin "Doc" Riedenschneider (Sam Jaffe), with funding from crooked attorney Emmerich (Louis Calhern), gathers several crooks together in Cincinnati for a Big ...

The Departed (2006) Genre: Crime, Gangster Film, Crime Thriller, Police Drama. Director: Martin Scorsese. Actors: Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Jack Nicholson, Mark Wahlberg, Martin Sheen, Ray Winstone, Vera Farmiga, Anthony Anderson, Alec Baldwin, James Badge Dale, J.C. MacKenzie, David Patrick O'Hara, Mark Rolston, Kevin Corrigan, Gerard McSorley. Storyline: Legendary director Martin Scorsese takes the helm for this tale of questionable loyalties and blurring identities set in the South Boston organized crime scene and inspired by the wildly popular 2002 Hong Kong crime film Infernal Affairs. As the police force attempts to reign in the increasingly powerful Irish mafia, authorities are faced with the prospect of sending in an undercover agent or seei ...

The General (1998) Genre: Crime, Crime Drama, Biography [feature], Gangster Film. Director: John Boorman. Actors: Brendan Gleeson, Adrian Dunbar, Jon Voight, Maria Doyle Kennedy, Angeline Ball, Sean McGinley, Eanna McLiam, Tom Murphy, Paul Hickey, Tommy O'Neill, John O'Toole, Ciaran Fitzgerald, Ned Dennehy, Vinny Murphy, Roxanna Williams, Eamonn Owens, Colleen O'Neill. Storyline: 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 for his Leo the Last (1969) about an alienated aristocrat in a London slum. Shot in widescreen color (but printed in sharp black-and-white), The General is a biographical portrait of ruthless Irish crime lord Martin Cahill, shot down outside his hom ...

The Godfather (1972) Genre: Crime, Gangster Film, Crime Drama, Family Drama. Director: Francis Ford Coppola. Actors: Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan, John Cazale, Robert Duvall, Diane Keaton, Sterling Hayden, Richard Conte, Talia Shire, Al Lettieri, Al Martino, Lenny Montana, Rudy Bond, Richard Bright, Richard S. Castellano, Franco Citti, Sofia Coppola, Carmine Coppola, Salvatore Corsitto, Corrado Gaipa, Tony Giorgio, Julie Gregg, Angelo Infanti, Morgana King, Jeannie Linero, Tere Livrano, John Marley, John Martino, Victor Rendina, Alex Rocco, Gianni Russo, Vito Scotti, Ardell Sheridan, Joe Spinell, Simonetta Stefanelli, Saro Urzi, Abe Vigoda. Storyline: 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 most widely imitated, quoted, and lampooned movies of all time. Marlon Brando and Al Pacino star as Vito Corleone and his youngest son, Michael, respectively. It is the late 1940s in New York and Corleone is, in the parlance of organized crime, a " ...

The Godfather Part II (1974) Genre: Crime, Gangster Film, Crime Drama. Director: Francis Ford Coppola. Actors: Al Pacino, Robert Duvall, Diane Keaton, Robert De Niro, John Cazale, Lee Strasberg, Talia Shire, Danny Aiello, John Aprea, Carmen Argenziano, David Baker, Oreste Baldini, Kathleen Beller, William Bowers, Richard Bright, James Caan, Carmine Caridi, Maria Carta, Dominic Chianese, Vincent Coppola, Roman Coppola, Sofia Coppola, Roger Corman, Mario Cotone, Tom Dahlgren, Joseph Della Sorte, Francesca de Sapio, Nick Discenza, Troy Donahue, Peter Donat, Phil Feldman, Ezio Flagello, Carmine Foresta, Michael Vincente Gazzo, James Gounaris, Marianna Hill, Morgana King, Bruno Kirby, Tere Livrano, Gastone Moschin, Ignazio Pappalardo, Tom Rosqui, Gianni Russo, Giuseppe Sillato, Frank Sivero, Fay Spain, Joe Spinell, G.D. Spradlin, Harry Dean Stanton, Herkulis E. Strolia, Amerigo Tot, Leopoldo Trieste, Abe Vigoda, Richard Watson, Erica Yohn. Storyline: Francis Ford Coppola's legendary continuation and sequel to his landmark 1972 film, The Godfather, parallels the young Vito Corleone's rise with his son Michael's spiritual fall, deepening The Godfather's depiction of the dark side of the American dream. In the early 1900s, the child Vito flees his Sicilian village for America after the local Mafia kills his family. Vito (Robert De Niro) struggles ...

The Godfather Part III (1990) Genre: Crime, Crime Drama, Family Drama, Gangster Film, Ensemble Film. Director: Francis Ford Coppola. Actors: Al Pacino, Diane Keaton, Talia Shire, Andy Garcia, Eli Wallach, Sofia Coppola, Joe Mantegna, George Hamilton, Bridget Fonda, Raf Vallone, Franc D'Ambrosio, Donal Donnelly, Richard Bright, Helmut Berger, Don Novello, John Savage, Franco Citti, Mario Donatone, Vittorio Duse, Enzo Robutti, Michele Russo, Al Martino, Robert Cicchini, Rogerio Miranda, John Abineri, Diane Agostini, Vito Antuofermo, Rick Aviles, Tere L. Baker, Francesco Paolo Bellante, Ida Bemardini, Nicky Blair, Michael Boccio, Michael Bowen, Willie Brown, Carmine Caridi, Gregory Corso, Don Costello, Mimmo Cuticchio, James D. Damiano, Jessica Di Cicco, Joe Drago, Brian Freilino, Maggie Goz, Anthony Guidera, Brett Halsey, Richard Honigman, Santo Indelicato, David Hume Kennerly, Mickey Knox, Luigi Laezza, Jeannie Linero, Marino Masé, Carlos Miranda, Jeanne Savarino Pesch, Beppe Pianiti, Paco Reconti, Remo Remotti, Al Ruscio, Dado Ruspoli, Valeria Sabel, Geanne Savarino, Catherine Scorsese, Janet Savarino-Smith, Simonetta Stefanelli, Frank Tarsia, Gabriele Torrei, Robert Vento. Storyline: 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 fictional Corleone crime family. Two decades have passed, and crime kingpin Michael Corleone (Al Pacino), now divorced from his wife Kay (Diane Keaton), has nearly succeeded in keeping his promise that his family would one day be "completely legit ...

The Killing (1956) Genre: Crime, Crime Thriller, Gangster Film, Film Noir. Director: Stanley Kubrick. Actors: Sterling Hayden, Coleen Gray, Marie Windsor, Elisha Cook, Jr., Vince Edwards, Jay C. Flippen, Ted de Corsia, Joe Sawyer, Timothy Carey, Jay Adler, Joe Turkel, Dorothy Adams, William Benedict, Mary Carroll, James Edwards, James Griffith, Kola Kwarian, Steve Mitchell, Tito Vuolo, Robert B. Williams. Storyline: The Killing was director Stanley Kubrick's first major film effort — though, like Kubrick's earlier films, it was economically produced with an inexpensive cast. In a variation of his Asphalt Jungle role, Sterling Hayden plays veteran criminal Johnny Clay, planning one last big heist before settling down to a respectable marriage with Fay (Colleen Gray). Teaming with several cohorts, Joh ...

The Public Enemy (1931) Genre: Crime, Gangster Film, Crime Drama. Director: William Wellman. Actors: James Cagney, Edward Woods, Donald Cook, Joan Blondell, Jean Harlow, Beryl Mercer, Robert E. O'Connor, Leslie Fenton, Murray Kinnell, Buddy Burroughs, Mae Clarke, Frank Coghlan, Jr., George Daly, Frankie Darro, Snitz Edwards, Rita Flynn, Douglas Gerrard, Dorothy Gray, Ben Hendricks, Jr., Robert E. Homans, Eddie Kane, Mia Marvin, Sam McDaniel, Helen Parrish, Lee Phelps, Russell Powell, Purnell Pratt, Nanci Price, Landers Stevens, William Strauss, Charles Sullivan, Adele Watson. Storyline: 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 childhood with the corrupting influences of the beer hall, pool parlor, and false friends like minor-league fence Putty Nose. As young adults, Tom (James Cagney) and his pal, Matt Doyle (Edward Woods), are hired by ruthless but innately decent bootl ...

The Sting (1973) Genre: Crime, Crime Comedy, Buddy Film, Period Film, Gangster Film. Director: George Roy Hill. Actors: Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Robert Shaw, Charles Durning, Ray Walston, Eileen Brennan, Dimitra Arliss, Ed Bakey, Leonard Barr, William Benedict, Jack Collins, Charles Dierkop, Dana Elcar, Harold Gould, John Heffernan, Arch Johnson, Robert Earl Jones, Jack Kehoe, Sally Kirkland, Avon Long, Larry D. Mann, Paulene Myers, Kenneth O'Brien, Lee Paul, John Quada, Ken Sansom, James J. Sloyan, Tom Spratley, Brad Sullivan, Joe Tornatore. Storyline: 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 with similar success for The Sting. Redford plays Depression-era confidence trickster Johnny Hooker, whose friend and mentor Luther Coleman (Robert Earl Jones) is murdered by racketeer/gambler Doyle Lonnegan (Robert Shaw). Hoping to avenge Luther's ...

The Untouchables (1987) Genre: Crime, Crime Thriller, Police Detective Film, Gangster Film, Period Film. Director: Brian De Palma. Actors: Kevin Costner, Sean Connery, Charles Martin Smith, Andy Garcia, Robert De Niro, Richard Bradford, Jack Kehoe, Brad Sullivan, Billy Drago, Patricia Clarkson, Jennifer Anglim, Peter Aylward, Mike Bacarella, Colleen Bade, Patrick Billingsley, John Bracci, Larry Brandenburg, Michael Byrne, Clem Caserta, Valentino Cimo, Del Close, Vito D'Ambrosio, Kevin Michael Doyle, Mali Finn, Tim Gamble, Steve Goldstein, Joe V. Greco, Sean Grennan, James Guthrie, Don Harvey, Clifton James, Aditra Kohl, Louie Lanciloti, Bob Martana, Eddie Minasian, Robert Miranda, Tony Mockus, Kaitlin Montgomery, Greg Noonan, Meldoy Rae, Basil Reale, Chelcie Ross, Sam Smiley, Lynn Stalmaster, Robert Swan, Vince Viverito Sr., John J. Walsh, Charles Keller Watson, Will Zahrn. Storyline: 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, this time in the form of a feature film boasting big stars, a big budget, and a script from respected playwright David Mamet. Kevin Costner stars as Ness, a federal agent who has come to Chicago during the Prohibition Era, when corruption in the loca ...

The Whole Ten Yards (2004) Genre: Crime, Comedy, Gangster Film, Crime Comedy. Director: Howard Deutch. Actors: Bruce Willis, Matthew Perry, Amanda Peet, Kevin Pollak, Natasha Henstridge, Frank Collison, Johnny Messner, Silas Weir Mitchell, Tasha Smith, Elisa Gallay, Debbie Atkinson, Lou Beatty, Jr., Ned Bellamy, Carl Ciarfalio, Jon Donahue, Doc Duhame, Dusan Fager, Jessica Flaherty, Lily Kravets, Irene Olga Lopez, Julie Lott, Buck MacDancer, Caitlin Morrison, Brad Orrison, Amy Peitz, Monte Perlin, Franck Pesce, Ian Quinn, Robert Rusler, McNally Sagal, Emmett Shoemaker, Barry Thompson, Tallulah Belle Willis, Johnny Williams, George Zapata, Carlo Zapata. Storyline: 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 Whole Nine Yards. Former hitman Jimmy "The Tulip" Tudeski (Bruce Willis) has retired from his life of crime and is living a quiet life of cooking and housekeeping in Mexico, despite the fact his wife, Jill (Amanda Peet), a would-be hired kil ...

The Yakuza (1975) Genre: Crime, Gangster Film. Director: Sydney Pollack. Actors: Robert Mitchum, Ken Takakura, Brian Keith, Herb Edelman, Richard Jordan, James Shigeta, Christina Kokubo, Denis Akiyama, Lee Chitillo, Go Eiji, Harada, M. Hisaka, Keiko Kishi, Kyosuke Mashida, Eiji Okada, William Ross. Storyline: 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 Robert Towne. The Yakuza stars Robert Mitchum as Harry Kilmer, a former soldier who returns to Japan to help rescue the daughter of his friend George Tanner (Brian Keith). Once he arrives in the country, Kilmer discovers that the daughter has been kidna ...

White Heat (1949) Genre: Crime, Gangster Film, Crime Thriller. Director: Raoul Walsh. Actors: James Cagney, Virginia Mayo, Edmond O'Brien, Steve Cochran, Margaret Wycherly, John Archer, Wally Cassell, Mickey Knox, Ian MacDonald, Fred Clark, G. Pat Collins, Paul Guilfoyle, Fred Coby, Ford Rainey, Robert Osterloh, Joel Allen, Claudia Barrett, Ray Bennett, Marshall Bradford, John Butler, Bob Carson, Leo Cleary, Garrett Craig, Fern Eggen, Hank Fallon, Art Foster, Eddie Foster, Robert Foulk, Buddy Gorman, Sherry Hall, Carl Harbaugh, Perry Ivins, Harry Lauter, Nolan Leary, Murray Leonard, Larry McGrath, John McGuire, Sid Melton, Arthur Miles, Ray Montgomery, Milton Parsons, Lee Phelps, Eddie Phillips, John M. Pickard, Joey Ray, Grandon Rhodes, George Spaulding, Harry Strang, George Taylor, Jim Thorpe, Jim Toney, Jack Worth. Storyline: In later years, James Cagney regarded White Heat with a combination of pride and regret; while satisfied with his own performance, he tended to dismiss the picture as a "cheap melodrama." Seen today, White Heat stands as one of the classic crime films of the 1940s, containing perhaps Cagney's best bad-guy portrayal. The star plays criminal mastermind Cody Jarrett, a mother-dominated psyc ...

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