Best Gangster Movies List
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Goodfellas (1990)| Imdb: 8 | Metascore: 89 | Earnings: $46.84M Lead Role: Robert De Niro, Ray Liotta, Joe Pesci, Lorraine Bracco, | Director: Martin Scorsese, The story of Henry Hill and his life through the teen years into the years of mafia, covering his relationship with his wife Karen Hill and his Mob partners Jimmy Conway and Tommy DeVito in the Italian-American crime syndicate. |
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Pulp Fiction (1994)| Imdb: 8 | Metascore: 94 | Earnings: $107.93M Lead Role: John Travolta, Uma Thurman, Samuel L. Jackson, Bruce Willis, | Director: Quentin Tarantino, The lives of two mob hit men, a boxer, a gangster's wife, and a pair of diner bandits intertwine in four tales of violence and redemption. |
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American Hustle (2013)| Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 90 | Earnings: $150.12M Lead Role: Christian Bale, Amy Adams, Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence, | Director: David O. Russell, A con man, Irving Rosenfeld, along with his seductive partner Sydney Prosser, is forced to work for a wild FBI agent, Richie DiMaso, who pushes them into a world of Jersey powerbrokers and mafia. |
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Snatch (2000)| Imdb: 8 | Metascore: 55 | Earnings: $30.09M Lead Role: Jason Statham, Brad Pitt, Benicio Del Toro, Dennis Farina, | Director: Guy Ritchie, Unscrupulous boxing promoters, violent bookmakers, a Russian gangster, incompetent amateur robbers, and supposedly Jewish jewelers fight to track down a priceless stolen diamond. |
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Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998)| Imdb: 8 | Metascore: 66 | Earnings: $3.65M Lead Role: Jason Flemyng, Dexter Fletcher, Nick Moran, Jason Statham, | Director: Guy Ritchie, A botched card game in London triggers four friends, thugs, weed-growers, hard gangsters, loan sharks and debt collectors to collide with each other in a series of unexpected events, all for the sake of weed, cash and two antique shotguns. |
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Casino (1995)| Imdb: 8 | Metascore: 73 | Earnings: $42.44M Lead Role: Robert De Niro, Sharon Stone, Joe Pesci, James Woods, | Director: 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. |
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Donnie Brasco (1997)| Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 76 | Earnings: $41.95M Lead Role: Al Pacino, Johnny Depp, Michael Madsen, Bruno Kirby, | Director: Mike Newell, An FBI undercover agent infiltrates the mob and finds himself identifying more with the mafia life, at the expense of his regular one. |
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The Godfather: Part III (1990)| Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 60 | Earnings: $66.68M Lead Role: Al Pacino, Diane Keaton, Andy Garcia, Talia Shire, | Director: Francis Ford Coppola, In the midst of trying to legitimize his business dealings in New York and Italy in 1979, aging Mafia don Michael Corleone seeks to avow for his sins while taking his nephew Vincent Mancini under his wing. |
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John Wick (2014)| Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 68 | Earnings: $43.00M Lead Role: Keanu Reeves, Michael Nyqvist, Alfie Allen, Willem Dafoe, | Director: An ex-hitman comes out of retirement to track down the gangsters that took everything from him. |
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Kung fu (2004)| Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 78 | Earnings: $17.10M Lead Role: Stephen Chow, Wah Yuen, Qiu Yuen, Shengyi Huang, | Director: Stephen Chow, In Shanghai, China in the 1940s, a wannabe gangster aspires to join the notorious "Axe Gang" while residents of a housing complex exhibit extraordinary powers in defending their turf. |
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A Bronx Tale (1993)| Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 80 | Earnings: $17.27M Lead Role: Robert De Niro, Chazz Palminteri, Lillo Brancato, Francis Capra, | Director: Robert De Niro, A father becomes worried when a local gangster befriends his son in the Bronx in the 1960s. |
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Public Enemies (2009)| Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 70 | Earnings: $97.03M Lead Role: Christian Bale, Johnny Depp, Christian Stolte, Jason Clarke, | Director: Michael Mann, The Feds try to take down notorious American gangsters John Dillinger, Baby Face Nelson and Pretty Boy Floyd during a booming crime wave in the 1930s. |
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Midnight Run (1988)| Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 78 | Earnings: $38.41M Lead Role: Robert De Niro, Charles Grodin, Yaphet Kotto, John Ashton, | Director: Martin Brest, An accountant is chased by bounty hunters, the FBI, and the Mafia after jumping bail. |
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Game Night (2018)| Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 66 | Earnings: $69.00M Lead Role: Jason Bateman, Rachel McAdams, Kyle Chandler, Sharon Horgan, | Director: A group of friends who meet regularly for game nights find themselves entangled in a real-life mystery when the shady brother of one of them is seemingly kidnapped by dangerous gangsters. |
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Crna macka, beli macor (1998)| Imdb: 8 | Metascore: 73 | Earnings: $0.35M Lead Role: Bajram Severdzan, Srdjan 'Zika' Todorovic, Branka Katic, Florijan Ajdini, | Director: Emir Kusturica, Matko is a small time hustler, living by the river Danube with his 17 year old son Zare. After a failed business deal he owes money to the much more successful gangster Dadan. Dadan has a ... |
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Malcolm X (1992)| Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 72 | Earnings: $48.17M Lead Role: Denzel Washington, Angela Bassett, Delroy Lindo, Spike Lee, | Director: Spike Lee, Biographical epic of the controversial and influential Black Nationalist leader, from his early life and career as a small-time gangster, to his ministry as a member of the Nation of Islam. |
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Black Mass (2015)| Imdb: 6 | Metascore: 68 | Earnings: $62.56M Lead Role: Johnny Depp, Benedict Cumberbatch, Dakota Johnson, Joel Edgerton, | Director: Scott Cooper, The true story of Whitey Bulger, the brother of a state senator and the most infamous violent criminal in the history of South Boston, who became an FBI informant to take down a Mafia family invading his turf. |
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Sin nombre (2009)| Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 77 | Earnings: $2.53M Lead Role: Paulina Gaitan, Marco Antonio Aguirre, Leonardo Alonso, Karla Cecilia Alvarado, | Director: Cary Fukunaga, A Honduran young girl and a Mexican gangster are united in a journey across the American border. |
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Sexy Beast (2000)| Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 79 | Earnings: $6.94M Lead Role: Ray Winstone, Ben Kingsley, Ian McShane, Amanda Redman, | Director: Jonathan Glazer, Brutal gangster Don Logan recruits "retired" safecracker Gal for one last job, but it goes badly for both of them. |
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Thief (1981)| Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 78 | Earnings: $4.30M Lead Role: James Caan, Tuesday Weld, Willie Nelson, James Belushi, | Director: Michael Mann, Coming closer to his dream of leading a normal life, a professional safecracker agrees to do a job for the Mafia, who have other plans for him. |
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