Best Gangster movies of 1990s

Actors : Nick Nolte, Jennifer Lopez, Billy Bob Thornton, Sean Penn,
Directors : Oliver Stone,

A man heading to Vegas to pay off his gambling debt before the Russian mafia kills him, is forced to stop in an Arizona town where everything that can go wrong, does go wrong.

Actors : Rene Russo, Joe Pesci, Mel Gibson, Danny Glover,
Directors : Richard Donner,

With personal crises and age weighing in on them, LAPD officers Riggs and Murtaugh must contend with deadly Chinese triads that are trying to free their former leaders out of prison and onto American soil.

Actors : Allen Payne, Wesley Snipes, Chris Rock, Ice-T,
Directors : Mario Van Peebles,

A crime lord ascends to power and becomes megalomaniacal while a maverick police detective vows to stop him.

Actors : Laura Drasbæk, Zlatko Buric, Slavko Labovic, Kim Bodnia,
Directors : Nicolas Winding Refn,

A drug pusher grows increasingly desperate after a botched deal leaves him with a large debt to a ruthless drug lord.

Actors : Willem Dafoe, Sean Patrick Flanery, David Della Rocco, Norman Reedus,
Directors : Troy Duffy,

Fraternal twins set out to rid Boston of the evil men operating there while being tracked down by an FBI agent.

Actors : David Thewlis, Saffron Burrows, Malcolm McDowell, Paul Bettany,
Directors : Paul McGuigan,

Chronicles the rise and fall of a prominent, and particularly ruthless English gangster.

Actors : Paul Ben-Victor, Mark Wahlberg, Ric Young, Yun-Fat Chow,
Directors : James Foley,

With the aid from a New York City policeman, a top immigrant cop tries to stop drug-trafficking and corruption by immigrant Chinese Triads, but things get complicated when the Triads try to bribe the policeman.

Actors : Sharon Stone, James Woods, Joe Pesci, Robert De Niro,
Directors : Martin Scorsese,

A tale of greed, deception, money, power, and murder occur between two best friends: a mafia enforcer and a casino executive, compete against each other over a gambling empire and over a fast living and fast loving woman.

Actors : Diane Venora, Sidney Poitier, Bruce Willis, Richard Gere,
Directors : Michael Caton-Jones,

An imprisoned IRA fighter is freed to help stop a brutal, seemingly "faceless" assassin from completing his next job.

Actors : Edoardo Ballerini, John Rothman, Frank Bongiorno, Danny Aiello,
Directors : Bob Giraldi,

Is it just another evening at the hugely popular Italian restaurant of proprietor and bookmaker Louis Cropa in New York? Anything but as tonight's guests include; a local police detective ...

Actors : Rachael Leigh Cook, Rhona Mitra, Sylvester Stallone, Miranda Richardson,
Directors : Stephen Kay,

A Las Vegas mob enforcer, travels back to his hometown to investigate his brothers' mysterious death.

Actors : Michael Rooker, Mira Sorvino, Yun-Fat Chow, Kenneth Tsang,
Directors : Antoine Fuqua,

A troubled hitman seeks aid from a forger to help him get papers to China. However, the drug lord has hired replacements to finish the job, and kill the hitman.

Actors : Andy Garcia, Christopher Walken, Christopher Lloyd, William Forsythe,
Directors : Gary Fleder,

Five different criminals face imminent death after botching a job quite badly.

Actors : J.T. Walsh, Danny DeVito, Jack Nicholson, Armand Assante,
Directors : Danny DeVito,

The story of the notorious American labor union figure Jimmy Hoffa, who organizes a bitter strike, makes deals with members of the organized crime syndicate, and mysteriously disappears in 1975.

Actors : Al Pacino, John Leguizamo, Sean Penn, Penelope Ann Miller,
Directors : Brian De Palma,

A Puerto Rican former convict, just released from prison, pledges to stay away from drugs and violence despite the pressure around him and lead on to a better life outside of N.Y.C.

Actors : Antonio Banderas, Julianne Moore, Sylvester Stallone, Anatoli Davydov,
Directors : Richard Donner,

Professional hit-man Robert Rath wants to fulfill a few more contracts before retiring but unscrupulous ambitious newcomer hit-man Miguel Bain keeps killing Rath's targets.

Actors : John Glover, Mario Machado, Leeza Gibbons, Peter Weller,
Directors : Irvin Kershner,

Cyborg law enforcer RoboCop returns to protect the citizens of old Detroit but faces a deadly challenge when a rogue OCP member secretly creates a new, evil RoboCop 2.

Actors : Harvey Keitel, Warren Beatty, Annette Bening, Ben Kingsley,
Directors : Barry Levinson,

The story of how Bugsy Siegel started Las Vegas.

Actors : Keanu Reeves, Dina Meyer, Dolph Lundgren, Ice-T,
Directors : Robert Longo,

A data courier, literally carrying a data package inside his head, must deliver it before he dies from the burden or is killed by the Yakuza.

Actors : Sal Lopez, Edward James Olmos, William Forsythe, Vira Montes,
Directors : Edward James Olmos,

A Mexican-American Mafia kingpin is released from prison, falls in love for the first time, and grows introspective about his gangster lifestyle.