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Load up on ammo and wiseguy patter with our ranked list of the best gangster and crime movies in cinema. Call it an offer you can't refuse, a Sicilian message or a pair of cement shoes: The gangster film has an iron-clad lock on the hearts of movie lovers. Some of Hollywood's finest exports are crime sagas, and the indie and foreign-film worlds have followed suit with classics of their own.
Gritty or romantic , coolly silent or loaded with tough talk, these movies are five-course feasts, heavy on the red sauce—and make plenty of room for the most notorious mobsters from Chicago , like Al Capone, who appears on our list more than once. Already a master of the crime film and the inventor of the serial-killer thriller with M , Fritz Lang returned to the fearsome villain of 's Dr.
Mabuse: the Gambler for this superior sequel. It didn't make the incoming Nazi regime happy; Goebbels banned it, probably because it cut too close for comfort. Lang fled his homeland shortly thereafter. Simultaneously a yakuza movie, a kung-fu flick and a love letter to cinema, Japanese director Sion Sono's Why Don't You Play in Hell is the anti-gritty gangster tale.
Following a group of young filmmakers who decide to turn a real conflict between rival gangs into a film, while inserting some stars of their own. Comedic and bloody in it's execution, Sono's movie pokes fun at genre tropes one minute and shamelessly embraces them the next.
Director John Woo deserves several places on any list of classic crime movies, but there's no more perfect representation of his stylish brand of brotherly bonding across lines of justice than this box-office smash. It made Chow Yun Fat a star and was centrally responsible for thrusting Hong Kong action cinema into the global limelight. Takeshi Kitano takes a dispassionate but heartfelt look at what happens after high school, as two best friends follow divergent paths, one becoming a boxer, the other a yakuza soldier.
The result is a razor-sharp study of Japanese masculinity wrapped up in a lucid tale of post-adolescent angst. You've seen plenty of gangster and crime movies that build to a heist, but The Hot Rock is a string of heists that take place as a result of unforseen circumstances.
Robert Redford and George Segal play against type, presenting themselves as hardened crooks, but ultimately revealing that they're extremely fallible. And just wait until you hear the funky soundtrack that Quincy Jones cooked up for this crime comedy of errors. This lovers-on-the-run classic is tougher and sexier than Bonnie and Clyde if not as iconic , and the single-shot getaway sequence is breathtaking.
There are three ways of doing things around here: the right way, the wrong way and the way that I do it. The shoe had a foot in it. We're gonna make you pay for that mess.
Charlton Heston plays a Mexican newlywed investigating an explosion on the U. You can't stop what's coming. It ain't all waiting on you. That's vanity. The wild and wonderful Christopher Walken never had a better showcase for his inimitable charms than the role of Frank White, a ferocious NYC drug lord on the rebound after his release from Sing Sing. A kinetic multigenerational portrait of life and death and death and death , the film follows a Rio de Janeiro kid named Rocket nonprofessional actor Alexandre Rodrigues as he miraculously survives several decades in a place where guns far outnumber consequences.
And not your ordinary gangster, either, but Cheech, a secret creative genius, expertly played by Chazz Palminteri. When characters you've long since forgotten in this great novel called life show up at the end and the whole story gets filled right in.
This twisting Steven Soderbergh film is best described as a depiction of unorganized crime, depicting a ramshackle Detroit crew dealing with a job gone wrong. The super-wide angle cinematography is an acquired taste, but seeing Don Cheadle and Benicio del Toro portray complicated criminals trying to save their own hides is worth the trouble.
He may not have snorted quite as much cocaine as Tony Montana who has? The world is yours, Tony Montana, or at least our No. Don't even begin to complain that Brian De Palma's dizzyingly lurid coke meltdown ranks higher than the original—it's proven to be vastly more influential, the throbbing id of many criminal fantasies since. Sadly, the psychedelic existential gangster flick was a subgenre that never really took off.
I coulda had class. I coulda been a contender. At least, until he gets whacked halfway through. It's better remembered for popularizing Scott Joplin's rags, but George Roy Hill's verbally deft comedy has staying power as a fun, double-crossing caper, gentler than most films on this list. Stars like Paul Newman and Robert Redford don't hurt the appeal one bit.
The old adage about cops and crims being two sides of the same coin has rarely been this brilliantly realised on screen. Edward Norton owns the film as a former skinhead, hoping to prevent his younger brother from following on his heels. Sometimes we watch movies to escape into something foreign. Sometimes we watch to see the mirror held up to our own world and country. Watch if you can stomach the reflection.
You thought we'd come to the end of the list and not have at least one Quentin Tarantino, didn't you? Well, sit down. Reservoir Dogs , Tarantino's debut, is as good on the second, third, fifteenth watch, as it is on the first.
Based on the graphic novel of the same name , Sam Mendes's Road to Perdition is simply top-notch visual storytelling. The story unfolds after the son of an enforcer witnesses a murder. From there: the road, in all its beautiful, deadly, and chaotic shapes.
Shane Meadows's portrait of the developing skinhead subculture in s England, This Is England captures the youth-fueled desire for belonging that still underlies much gang involvement.
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The ending is a kicker. A perfect introduction to the films of To, godfather of Hong Kong action cinema, and a must-see for fans of Melville and Woo. A triad boss hires five bodyguards played by To regulars including Anthony Wong, Simon Yam and Suet Lam who must ultimately decide where their loyalties lie. A catchy score, super-stylised shootouts and male bonding aplenty.
When his boss retires, a loyal enforcer finds himself targeted by rival gangs in a yakuza fantasy of mad camera angles, fever-dream colour schemes and more talk about real estate than you might expect.
It also has an earworm theme song. Trust French mobsters to have the best lifestyles. Lino Ventura makes his film debut as the antagonist; Scorsese cited it as one of the films that influenced The Irishman. Handheld camera and natural lighting give it a fly-on-the-wall docudrama feel.
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