Top 10 Best Gangster Movies

Number 10

White Heat Raoul Walsh, 1949

Even though it's an older gangster film, it deserves to be in a list of the best gangster films. Sadistic

Cody Jarrett is the captor of a vicious crew of robbers. Cody is a turbulent, angry, and quirky leader who

suffers from awful migraines and is deeply loyal to his "Ma." While Cody is in jail, he runs the gang from

there and tries to have a "accident" happen to him in order to take over. However, Cody is saved by a

police officer working undercover, who later becomes his friend and joins the group. Finally, a major

robbery at a chemical plant sets up Cody's ultimate betrayal and demise.

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Number 9

Carlito’s Way Brian De Palma, 1993

Carlito was recently released from prison on technicalities with the aid of his sleazy attorney. He

decides not to live on the streets after a lifetime of trafficking drugs. He invests in a nightclub and starts

saving money for a move to the Bahamas, but because he is a well-known player, he will unavoidably be

drawn back into his violent past.

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Number 8

Scarface Brian De Palma, 1983

In an adaption of the 1932 gangster film, Tony Montana and his close friend Manny Ray are

followed from their journey on the Cuban Boat Lift for refugees until their arrival in Miami in the 1983

film Scarface. Montana and his companions are given the ability to leave their refugee camps and travel

the United States after assassinating a significant individual from Cuba. Montana and Ray turn to

trafficking cocaine to international traffickers after failing to establish themselves legally in the nation.

Tony rises quickly, but as his empire grows, his opponents and his own paranoia start to cause problems.

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Number 7

Once upon a time in America Sergio Leone, 1984

This gangster film is an epic, episodic account of the over 40-year existence of a select group of

Jewish criminals in New York City. The story, which is primarily told in flashbacks and flash-forwards,

centers on small-time criminal David "Noodles" Aaronson and his lifelong cohorts Max, Cockeye, and

Patsy, as well as their friends, from their early years growing up in the gritty Jewish neighborhood of New

York City's Lower East Side in the 1920s to the final years of Prohibition in the early 1930s, and finally to

the late 1960s when an elderly Noodles returns to the city after spending

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Number 6

Du Rififi Chez les Hommes Jules Dassin, 1955

Tony Stephanois, just out of prison and angry at his girl Mado’s infidelity, decides to join his pals

Jo and Mario in an ambitious crime. With Italian safe expert Cesar, they meticulously plan the burglary of

a large jewelry establishment. Not a word is spoken as the crime is carried out. And then things begin to

go wrong…

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Number 5

Pulp Fiction Quentin Tarantino, 1994

In this very original twist on the gangster movie genre, Jules and Vincent serve as hitmen for

criminal Marcellus Wallace. Wallace is currently dealing with Butch Collidge, a boxer who accepted

Wallace's money but chose not to engage in combat. Collidge now plans to leave the city, but he can't do

so without his father's watch. When Wallace asks Vincent to show his wife Mia a good time while he's

away, Vincent encounters some of his own issues. All of these people experience a resolution consistent

with their decisions, while some of them do so and others do not.

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Number 4

Mou gaan dou Wai Keung Lau, 2002

As a mole in the neighborhood mafia, Shawn Yue portrays a young police officer. The role of a

teenage mafia operative infiltrating the police is played by Edison Chen. After some time has passed,

their more senior equivalents, Tony Leung and Andy Lau, respectively, engage in a race against time to

find and eliminate the mole they both harbor. The Departed was inspired by this movie. Line to

Remember: Keung: Keep in mind that a person is a police officer if you notice him acting in one way

while monitoring you in another.

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Number 3

Cidade de Deus Fernando Meirelles, 2002

1960s in Brazil; City of God. The Tender Trio robs gas stations and hotels. Younger children

observe and learn well—perhaps too well. The city is owned by Li'l Zé, who has thrived greatly in the

1970s. He kills rival groups mercilessly, inciting violence and dread. Bené, his closest buddy, is the only

person who can maintain him in good standing with reason. Years of seeing these two grow in power

have made Rocket decide he doesn't want any of it. He yet continues to be sucked into the chaos. He

only wants to snap pictures. The final two gangs are at war with one another in the 1980s. When will it

end? Greetings from the City of God.

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Number 2

Goodfellas Martin Scorsese, 1990

In this crime biography of wise guy Henry Hill, the poor, blue-collar aspect of the New York Italian

mafia is depicted. In-depth examination of the customs and practices of organized crime is done in the

film as the main character progresses from a muscular young petty criminal to a professional burglar to a

middle-aged cocaine addict and dealer. This true story accurately tackles the fundamental, blue-collar

element of the mafia by following the rise and fall of Hill and his two equivalents, the slick jack-of-alltrades criminal Jimmy Conway and the hulking, scary Tommy DeVito.

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Top 1 Gangster movie of all time

The Godfather Francis Ford Coppola, 1972

The Godfather, which is unmatched in this genre, must be ranked as the best gangster film; this

was my easiest decision (and virtually all others). The ailing don (leader) of the Corleone Mafia Family is

named Vito Corleone. Michael, his youngest son, arrived home from the war in time to witness Connie

Corleone's marriage to Carlo Rizzi. Connie is Michael's sister. Michael only wants to lead a normal life

despite the fact that his entire family is implicated in the Mafia. Virgil Sollozzo, a drug dealer, is looking

for Mafia Families to provide him with protection in exchange for a cut of the drug sales revenue. He

talks to Don Corleone about it, but the Don rejects the offer because he has a moral objection to heroin

use, much to the dismay of the Don's attorney Tom Hagen. Sollozzo orders several of his hit men to

shoot the Don down because this displeases him. The Corleone family is torn apart as a result of the Don

narrowly making it out alive, which motivates his son Michael to start a bloody mob war against

Sollozzo.

Noteworthy Line: I'm going to make him an offer that he can't reject, said Don Corleone.

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