Greatest Gangster Movies

A big-time West End drug dealer, Mr. X (Daniel Craig) is about to retire and start a new life, when he's asked for one last favor. The negotiation of a one million Ecstacy pills sale.

However these pills |had been stolen from a Serbian drug lord who will kill him if he sells them. One the other hand a London criminal will murder him if he doesn't sell, so Mr. X is in quite a tough spot.

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George Jung was a young boy that grew up in a struggling family during the 1950's. The father is trying to make a living for the household but is not capable to do so and the family winds up going bankrupt.

George doesn't wish for the same thing to happen to him, and his friend, therefore in the 60's, he started dealing marijuana. He's a big hit in California in the 1960's, but ends up going to prison. But instead of prison changing his life around, it took him to whole other level of dealing drugs. In prison he learned the great potentials of coke.

As a result, when released, he gets rich by bringing coke to America. However, he soon will have to pay the price.
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Charlie (Harvey Keitel) is going up the ranks of a local mob. Teresa (Amy Robinson) is the girlfriend his family deems unsuitable because of her epilepsy.

And in the starmaking role that won Best Supporting Actor Awards from the New York and National Society of FIlm Critics, De Niro is Johnny Boy, a small-time gambler in big-time debt to loan sharks. This is a story Martin Scorsese lived, a semi-biographical tale of the first-generation children of New York's Little Italy.

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Michael Sullivan (Tom Hanks) works as a hit man for crime boss John Rooney (Paul Newman), but when his son witnesses one of his hits, he must choose between his crime family and his own family.

Jude Law co-stars as the hit man that is hired to kill Sullivan.

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FBI agent Joseph D. Pistone (Johnny Depp) is posing as a jewel broker named Donnie Brasco and is accepted into the violent mob family of aging hit man Lefty Ruggiero (Al Pacino).

However his personal and professional lives collide and Pistone endangers his marriage, his job and, finally, the gangster mentor he has come to respect and admire.

With the direction of Mike Newell, and an extraordinary supporting cast including Michael Madsen, Anne Heche, BrunoKirby and James Russo.


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Academy Award winners Denzel Washington and Russell Crowe team with director Ridley Scott (Gladiator) in this powerful, epic story. Armed with ruthless tactics and a strict sense of honor, crime boss Frank Lucas (Washington) rules Harlem's chaotic drug underworld.

When outcast cop Richie Roberts (Crowe) sets out to bring down Lucas's multimillion-dollar empire, it plunges both men into a legendary confrontation.

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Oscar winner Al Pacino gives an electrifying performance as former drug kingpin Carlito Brigante, who is sprung from prison by his high-powered attorney (Academy Award winner Sean Penn).

He stuns the New York underworld by vowing to go straight from a history of violence, but his plans are undermined by misguided loyalties and an outmoded code of honor. In a life-or-death battle, Carlito takes on the relentless forces that refuse to let him go. Co-starring John Leguizamo and Luis Guzman, Carlito's Way is a powerful, action-packed ride all the way to its explosive conclusion.

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The critics and public agree. Brian De Palma's The Untouchables is a must-see masterpiece - glorious, fierce, larger-than-life depiction of the mob warlord who ruled Prohibition-era Chicago... and the law enforcer who vowed to bring him down.

This classic confrontation between good and evil and stars Kevin Costner as federal agent Eliot Ness, Robert De Niro as gangland kingpin Al Capone and Sean Connery as Malone, the cop who teaches Ness how to beat the mob: shoot fast and shoot first.
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The story is about a mob-connected gambling establishment manager that is trying to run a respectable lifestyle.

On the other hand his boyhood friend Nicky Santoro (Joe Pesci), arrives in town with an agenda of his own that soon disrupts Ace's life.

And when a veteran hustler Ginger McKenna (Sharon Stone), enters the picture, Ace and Nicky's friendship gets even more complicated and the three of them are up against their own greed.


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In his role as a ruthless criminal, James Cagney embarks on a prison break of a lifetime and leads his old gang in a chemical plant payroll heist.

After the plan takes place, this amazing tale features one of the most riveting finales in movie history.

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Streetwise charmer Eddie (Nick Moran) enters the biggest card game of his life with the savings of his three best friends: Tom (Jason Flemyng), Bacon (Jason Statham) and Soap (Dexter Fletcher).

But he leaves the table owing his underworld boss Hatchet Harry half a million and has a week to come up with the money.

Now Eddie and his friends must outsmart and outgun all types of lowlifes on their way to pay off Harry before time runs out.

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When jewel thief, Franky Four Fingers (Benicio Del Toro), takes a slight detour to London on route to delivering a huge stolen diamond to his boss in New York, he unwittingly sets off an avalanche of sinister and comic events that wind their way through the rough and tumble worlds of bare-knuckle boxing, Irish gypsies, pawn shops, pig farming and... a stray dog.

Snatch, Guy Ritchie's brilliant follow up to his critically acclaimed Lock, Stock And Two Smoking Barrels, exposes us to his hip and helter-skelter view of London's gangster underbelly

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Four Perfect Killers. One Perfect Crime. Critically acclaimed for its raw power and breathtaking ferocity, it's the brilliant American gangster movie classic from writer-director Quentin Tarantino.

They were perfect strangers, assembled to pull off the perfect crime. Then their simple robbery explodes into bloody ambush, and the ruthless killers realize one of them is a police informer. But which one?

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Ten years in planning, Sergio Leone's epic Once upon a Time in America portrays 50 years of riveting underworld history and offers rich roles to a remarkable cast. Robert De Niro and James Woods play lifelong Lower East Side pals whose wary partnership unravels in death and mystery.

Strong support comes from Tuesday Weld, Joe Pesci, Jennifer Connelly, Elizabeth McGovern and the young actors playing the central characters as ghetto kids.

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Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Jack Nicholson and Mark Wahlberg star in Martin Scorsese's new crime drama "The Departed." "The Departed" is set in South Boston where the state police force is waging an all-out war to take down the city's top organized crime ring. The key is to end the reign of powerful mob boss Frank Costello (Jack Nicholson) from the inside.

A young rookie, Billy Costigan (Leonardo DiCaprio) is assigned to infiltrate Costello's mob. While Billy is working to gain Costello's trust, another young cop, Colin Sullivan (Matt Damon) is among a handful of elite officers whose mission is to bring Costello down.

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An update of the 1932 classic, Scarface (1983) follows Cuban refugee Tony Montana and his friend Manny Ray from their trip on the Cuban Boat Lift for refugees to their arrival in Miami. After killing a powerful Cuban figure, Tony and Manny gain the ability to leave their refugee camps and roam around the U.S.

After an unsuccessful try to make a living legitimately in the country, Montana and Ray resort to selling cocaine to dealers around the world. Tony's rise is quick, but as he becomes more powerful, his enemies and his own paranoia begin to plague his empire.

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Martin Scorsese's 1990 masterpiece GoodFellas immortalizes the hilarious, horrifying life of actual gangster Henry Hill (Ray Liotta), from his teen years on the streets of New York to his anonymous exile under the Witness Protection Program.

The director's kinetic style is perfect for recounting Hill's ruthless rise to power in the 1950s as well as his drugged-out fall in the late 1970s; in fact, no one has ever rendered the mental dislocation of coke better than Scorsese. Scorsese uses period music perfectly, not just to summon a particular time but to set a precise mood.

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This brilliant companion piece to the original The Godfather continues the saga of two generations of successive power within the Corleone family. Coppola tells two stories in Part II: the roots and rise of a young Don Vito, played with uncanny ability by Robert De Niro, and the ascension of Michael (Al Pacino) as the new Don. Reassembling many of the talents who helped make The Godfather, Coppola has produced a movie of staggering magnitude and vision, and undeniably the best sequel ever made. Robert De Niro won an Oscar; the film received six Academy Awards, including Best Picture of 1974.

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Francis Ford Coppola's epic masterpiece features Marlon Brando in his Oscar-winning role as the patriarch of the Corleone family. Director Coppola paints a chilling portrait of the Sicilian clan's rise and near fall from power in America, masterfully balancing the story between the Corleone's family life and the ugly crime business in which they are engaged.

Based on Mario Puxo's best-selling novel and featuring career-making performances by Al Pacino, James Cann and Robert Duvall, this searing and brilliant film garnered ten Academy Award nominations, and won three including Best Picture of 1972.

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