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Best 10 Gangster Movies

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  • BadNewsBrownsB BadNewsBrowns wrote on
    #9

    Godfather 1 & 2
    Goodfellas
    Scarface
    The Departed
    American History X
    Casino
    A Bronx Tale
    American Me

    Inside Job (2010) If that's not a movie about a certain ethnic Mafia,organized crime and crooks I don't know what is...

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  • The Cysko KidT The Cysko Kid

    Usual suspects and Fargo are both kinda sorta. Boondock saints too. I'd put all three of those in my top ten. Kill the Irishmen and American gangster maybe too

    The GipperT The Gipper wrote on
    #10

    @the-cysko-kid said:

    Usual suspects and Fargo are both kinda sorta. Boondock saints too. I'd put all three of those in my top ten. Kill the Irishmen and American gangster maybe too

    I have never seen Boondock Saints. But I hear good things about it. It is obviously possible that I haven't seen all gangster movies.

  • Browns149B Browns149

    American Gangster is a very good movie.

    The GipperT The Gipper wrote on
    #11

    @browns149 said:

    American Gangster is a very good movie.

    Oh, yea, the Denzel Washington movie. I liked it. Would not make it Top Ten though. It was kind of a upgraded New Jack City.

  • slowburnS slowburn wrote on
    #12

    Look for a Whitey Bulger gansta flick in the near future.

  • slowburnS slowburn

    Look for a Whitey Bulger gansta flick in the near future.

    The GipperT The Gipper wrote on
    #13

    @slowburn said:

    Look for a Whitey Bulger gansta flick in the near future.

    The Departed was loosely a fictional version of the Whitey Bulger story, essentially. Jack Nicholson playing the role.

  • slowburnS slowburn wrote on
    #14

    Yep, forgot all about that. Of course, the demise of "Whitey" in The Departed is vastly different than the fate of the real Bulger.

  • slowburnS slowburn

    Yep, forgot all about that. Of course, the demise of "Whitey" in The Departed is vastly different than the fate of the real Bulger.

    The GipperT The Gipper wrote on
    #15

    @slowburn said:

    Yep, forgot all about that. Of course, the demise of "Whitey" in The Departed is vastly different than the fate of the real Bulger.

    Yea, he went and lived in Santa Monica right near the beach for like 10-15 years until he was caught recently.

    Many think the FBI knew just where he was and let him be.

  • slowburnS slowburn wrote on
    #16

    Actually I read where the FBI had a huge hard on for him after he had been protected by a rouge FBI agent during his run in Beantown. He was a cold blooded killer but had no vices (drugs, gambling) to trip him up. Clean living enabled him to be on the lam for 15 years.

  • miktoxicM miktoxic wrote on
    #17

    i would ask what do you consider gangster films? do the main actors have to be affiliated with an gang (no matter what kind) in order to justify them on this list? what about a gang of dirty cops?

    1. godfather

    2. goodfellas

    3. the departed

    4. bronx tale

    5. cop land

    6. eastern promises

    7. road to perdition

    8. a prophet

    9. the warriors

    10. training day

  • W Westside Steve wrote on
    #18

    I love just about every gangster movie. I don't know that I would call Copland or American History X a gangster movie but I recently watched Copland again on PPV. Very good. And good call on the Warriors, the original, that was an outstanding film.

    Anybody remember the Pope of Greenwich Village?

    Mean Streets? Angels with dirty faces? Little Caesar?

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  • W Westside Steve

    I love just about every gangster movie. I don't know that I would call Copland or American History X a gangster movie but I recently watched Copland again on PPV. Very good. And good call on the Warriors, the original, that was an outstanding film.

    Anybody remember the Pope of Greenwich Village?

    Mean Streets? Angels with dirty faces? Little Caesar?

    WSS

    The GipperT The Gipper wrote on
    #19

    @westside-steve said:

    I love just about every gangster movie. I don't know that I would call Copland or American History X a gangster movie but I recently watched Copland again on PPV. Very good. And good call on the Warriors, the original, that was an outstanding film.

    Anybody remember the Pope of Greenwich Village?

    Mean Streets? Angels with dirty faces? Little Caesar?

    WSS

    Yea, as I said, I kept my list to just post 1960s. Prior to that you have a ton of them with Cagney, E.G. Robinson, Bogart, George Raft etc. And the whole Film Noir genre

  • D Dste Ace wrote on
    #20

    In no particular order:

    Godfather I and II

    Goodfellas

    Donnie Brasco

    Casino

    Eastern Promises

    The Town

    Usual Suspects

    Pulp Fiction

    Reservoir Dogs

    The GipperT 1 Reply
  • The Cysko KidT The Cysko Kid wrote on
    #21

    Angels with filthy souls. Anyone? Anyone?

    Keep the change ya filthy animal.

    This shit ain't nothing to me, man.
  • gftChrisG gftChris wrote on
    #22

  • D Dste Ace

    In no particular order:

    Godfather I and II

    Goodfellas

    Donnie Brasco

    Casino

    Eastern Promises

    The Town

    Usual Suspects

    Pulp Fiction

    Reservoir Dogs

    The GipperT The Gipper wrote on
    #23

    @dste-ace said:

    In no particular order:

    Godfather I and II

    Goodfellas

    Donnie Brasco

    Casino

    Eastern Promises

    The Town

    Usual Suspects

    Pulp Fiction

    Reservoir Dogs

    Never heard of The Town

  • The GipperT The Gipper

    @dste-ace said:

    In no particular order:

    Godfather I and II

    Goodfellas

    Donnie Brasco

    Casino

    Eastern Promises

    The Town

    Usual Suspects

    Pulp Fiction

    Reservoir Dogs

    Never heard of The Town

    The Cysko KidT The Cysko Kid wrote on
    #24

    @the-gipper said:

    Never heard of The Town

    the town is good
    This shit ain't nothing to me, man.
  • slowburnS slowburn wrote on
    #25

    The Town:

    The shootout at Fenway was badass. One of my favorites along with the bank job shootout in Heat

    while im at it:

    The shoot out at the motor court in Bonnie and Clyde

    Travis rescuing the child prostitute in Taxi Driver

    Inglorious Basterd's tavern shootout is aces.

    runner up include shootouts from LA Confidential and Unforgiven

    👍
  • W Westside Steve

    I love just about every gangster movie. I don't know that I would call Copland or American History X a gangster movie but I recently watched Copland again on PPV. Very good. And good call on the Warriors, the original, that was an outstanding film.

    Anybody remember the Pope of Greenwich Village?

    Mean Streets? Angels with dirty faces? Little Caesar?

    WSS

    miktoxicM miktoxic wrote on
    #26

    @westside-steve said:

    Anybody remember the Pope of Greenwich Village?

    "dey took my thumbs micky...they took my fucking thumbs!!"

    @slowburn said:

    TOne of my favorites along with the bank job shootout in Heat

    Travis rescuing the child prostitute in Taxi Driver

    runner up include shootouts from LA Confidential and Unforgiven

    some of the best movie endings ever.

  • nickersN nickers wrote on
    #27

    The Godfather Trilogy

    Goodfellas

    Casino

    Bronx Tales.

    The French Connection.

    thats My top 5 anyway.

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  • nickersN nickers

    The Godfather Trilogy

    Goodfellas

    Casino

    Bronx Tales.

    The French Connection.

    thats My top 5 anyway.

    The GipperT The Gipper wrote on
    #28

    @nickers said:

    The Godfather Trilogy

    Goodfellas

    Casino

    Bronx Tales.

    The French Connection.

    thats My top 5 anyway.

    The French Connection choice brings up a question: Is that a "Mob" movie? Or a "Cop" movie/mystery. I think there is a difference.

    If one were to say name the best Detective/Cop movies you would likely come up with a completely different list from the "Mob movie" category.

    You would likely get the likes of:

    Dirty Harry and sequels

    Maltese Falcon

    LA Confidential

    Die Hard

    Heat

    Seven

    Serpico etc. stuff like that where the cops are the primary characters, not the criminals.

    In Mob movies, the criminals are the lead. Godfather/Goodfellas etc.

    I think the French Connection is a cop movie, not a mob movie.

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