Best 10 Gangster Movies

The Gipper

@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.

The Gipper

@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.

slowburn

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

The Gipper

@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.

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 Gipper

@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.

slowburn

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.

miktoxic

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

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 Gipper

@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

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 Cysko Kid

Angels with filthy souls. Anyone? Anyone?

Keep the change ya filthy animal.

gftChris

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 Kid

@the-gipper said:
Never heard of The Town

the town is good

slowburn

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

miktoxic

@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.

nickers

The Godfather Trilogy

Goodfellas

Casino

Bronx Tales.

The French Connection.

thats My top 5 anyway.

The Gipper

@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.

The Cysko Kid

If you mention seven which is not about the mafia, you'd have to mention silence of the lambs which is better in every way