Top 100 Gangster Movies List

#80 Gangster Movie

The Freshman (1990) PG

Clark Kellogg is a young man starting his first year at film school. After a small time crook steals all his belongings, Clark meets Carmine "Jimmy the Toucan" Sabatini. When Sabatini makes Clark an offer he can't refuse, he finds himself caught up in a caper involving endangered species and fine dining.

Director:

Andrew Bergman

Writers:

Andrew Bergman

Stars:

Marlon Brando, Matthew Broderick, Bruno Kirby

#79 Gangster Movie

Get Shorty (1995) PG-13

A mobster travels to Hollywood to collect a debt and discovers that the movie business is much the same as his current job.

Director:

Barry Sonnenfeld

Writers:

Elmore Leonard (novel), Scott Frank

Stars:

Gene Hackman, Rene Russo, Danny DeVito

#78 Gangster Movie

The Iceman (2012) R

The story of Richard Kuklinski, the notorious contract killer and family man. When finally arrested in 1986, neither his wife nor daughters have any clue about his real profession.

Director:

Ariel Vromen

Writers:

Morgan Land, Ariel Vromen

Stars:

Michael Shannon, Chris Evans, James Franco

#77 Gangster Movie

Eastern Promises (2007) R

A Russian teenager living in London who dies during childbirth leaves clues to a midwife in her journal that could tie her child to a rape involving a violent Russian mob family.

Director:

David Cronenberg

Writers:

Steven Knight

Stars:

Naomi Watts, Viggo Mortensen, Armin Mueller-Stahl

#76 Gangster Movie

The Limey (1999) R

An extremely volatile and dangerous Englishman goes to Los Angeles to find the man he considers responsible for his daughter's death.

Director:

Steven Soderbergh

Writers:

Lem Dobbs

Stars:

Terence Stamp, Peter Fonda, Lesley Ann Warren

#75 Gangster Movie

Clockers (1995) R

Young drug pushers in the projects of Brooklyn live hard dangerous lives, trapped between their drug bosses and the detectives out to stop them.

Director:

Spike Lee

Writers:

Richard Price

Stars:

Harvey Keitel, John Turturro, Delroy Lindo

#74 Gangster Movie

Once Upon A Time in America (1985) R

A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan over thirty years later, where he once again must confront the ghosts and regrets of his old life.

Director:

Sergio Leone

Writers:

Harry Grey (novel), Leonardo Benvenuti

Stars:

Robert De Niro, James Woods, Elizabeth McGovern

#73 Gangster Movie

Grosse Pointe Blank (1997) R

Martin Blank is a professional assassin. He is sent on a mission to a small Detroit suburb, Grosse Pointe, and, by coincidence, his ten-year high school reunion party is taking place there at the same time.

Director:

George Armitage

Writers:

Tom Jankiewicz

Stars:

John Cusack, Minnie Driver, Dan Aykroyd

#72 Gangster Movie

Mafia! (1998) PG-13

Takeoff on the Godfather with the son of a mafia king taking over for his dying father.

Director:

Jim Abrahams

Writers:

Jim Abrahams, Greg Norberg

Stars:

Jay Mohr, Christina Applegate, Lloyd Bridges

#71 Gangster Movie

Gangster No. 1 (2000) R

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

Director:

Paul McGuigan

Writers:

Johnny Ferguson, Louis Mellis

Stars:

Malcolm McDowell, David Thewlis, Paul Bettany

#70 Gangster Movie

Dillinger and Capone (1995) R

Outside Chicago's Biograph Theater, a barrage bullets brings down John Dillinger. As the body of Public Enemy Number one crumbles to the ground, one of most riveting stories in the history of crime begins to unfold. It seems that the F.B.I. have unknowingly blown away the wrong Dillinger.

Director:

Jon Purdy

Writers:

Michael B. Druxman

Stars:

Martin Sheen, F. Murray Abraham, Stephen Davies

#69 Gangster Movie

Analyze This (1999) R

A comedy about a psychiatrist whose number one-patient is an insecure mob boss.

Director:

Harold Ramis

Writers:

Kenneth Lonergan (story), Peter Tolan (story)

Stars:

Robert De Niro, Billy Crystal, Lisa Kudrow

#68 Gangster Movie

The Way of the Gun (2000) R

Two criminal drifters without sympathy get more than they bargained for after kidnapping and holding for ransom the surrogate mother of a powerful and shady man.

Director:

Christopher McQuarrie

Writers:

Christopher McQuarrie

Stars:

Ryan Phillippe, Benicio Del Toro, Juliette Lewis

#67 Gangster Movie

End of Watch (2012) R

Shot documentary-style, this film follows the daily grind of two young police officers in LA who are partners and friends, and what happens when they meet criminal forces greater than themselves.

Director:

David Ayer

Writers:

David Ayer

Stars:

Jake Gyllenhaal, Michael Peña, Anna Kendrick

#66 Gangster Movie

Kill the Irishman (2011) R

The true story of Danny Greene, a tough Irish thug working for mobsters in Cleveland during the 1970's.

Director:

Jonathan Hensleigh

Writers:

Jonathan Hensleigh, Jeremy Walters

Stars:

Ray Stevenson, Christopher Walken, Vincent D'Onofrio

#65 Gangster Movie

Killing Them Softly (2012) R

Jackie Cogan is an enforcer hired to restore order after three dumb guys rob a Mob protected card game, causing the local criminal economy to collapse.

Director:

Andrew Dominik

Writers:

Andrew Dominik, George V. Higgins

Stars:

Brad Pitt, Ray Liotta, Richard Jenkins

#64 Gangster Movie

The Business (2005) R

Frankie decides he's had enough with his life as a street thug living on a South London estate, and jets off to spain where he meets big time businessman Charlie, who's currently running the hottest bars in the land and also a South London bank robber and drug kingpin.

Director:

Nick Love

Writers:

Nick Love

Stars:

Danny Dyer, Tamer Hassan, Geoff Bell

#63 Gangster Movie

The Gambler (2014) R

Lit professor and gambler Jim Bennett's debt causes him to borrow money from his mother and a loan shark. Further complicating his situation is his relationship with one of his students. Will Bennett risk his life for a second chance?

Director:

Rupert Wyatt

Writers:

William Monahan, James Toback

Stars:

Mark Wahlberg, Jessica Lange, John Goodman

#62 Gangster Movie

Ordinary Decent Criminal (2000) R

Brilliant, flamboyant master criminal Michael Lynch is more interested in his image and his posterity than the actual profit from his ill-gotten gains.

Director:

Thaddeus O'Sullivan

Writers:

Gerard Stembridge

Stars:

Kevin Spacey, Linda Fiorentino, Peter Mullan

#61 Gangster Movie

Wild Card (2015) R

When a Las Vegas bodyguard with lethal skills and a gambling problem gets in trouble with the mob, he has one last play...and it's all or nothing.

Director:

Simon West

Writers:

William Goldman

Stars:

Jason Statham, Michael Angarano, Dominik García-Lorido

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