Gangster, Mob, Mafia & Organized Crime
The gangster genre is one of the most popular in modern movies and some of the best film directors alive have produced some incredible ganster movies. Mob films or gangster films are a subgenre of American crime films dealing with organized crime, often specifically with the Mafia.
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- StarsMichael NouriJoe PennyBrian BenbenThe series follows the lives of the three main characters from their youth into becoming major criminal figures in 1920's America.
- DirectorLeslie FentonStarsLew AyresRita JohnsonLloyd NolanAfter unwittingly selling a life insurance policy to a gangster who receives death threats, a naïve insurance salesman must keep him alive to avoid paying-up the benefits.
- DirectorAnurag KashyapStarsManoj BajpayeeNawazuddin SiddiquiTigmanshu DhuliaA clash between Sultan and Shahid Khan leads to the expulsion of Khan from Wasseypur, and ignites a deadly blood feud spanning three generations.
- DirectorRuben FleischerStarsSean PennRyan GoslingEmma StoneIt's 1949 Los Angeles, the city is run by gangsters and a malicious mobster, Mickey Cohen. Determined to end the corruption, John O'Mara assembles a team of cops, ready to take down the ruthless leader and restore peace to the city.
- DirectorNic AuerbachStarsLeo GregoryVincent ReganBeatrice RosenA cruel twist of fate catapults small time crook Mickey Skinner into the big league, as head of a brutal London gang poised on the brink of a lucrative human-trafficking deal
- DirectorGuy MaddinStarsJason PatricIsabella RosselliniUdo KierGangster and deadbeat dad Ulysses Pick embarks on an unusual journey through his home.
- DirectorVolt JonesMicah MooreStarsEric JacobusHuyen ThiRay CarbonelA hit man must battle Italian and Chinese criminal organizations to be with the woman he loves.
- DirectorBrian CaunterStarsFrank VincentKathrine NarducciMike StarrThe fates of an aging hitman and a washed up detective become entwined when one last job leads to one last chance to settle an old score.
- DirectorJerry CiccorittiStarsAlyssa MilanoJason GedrickJanet WrightA drama centered around Patty Montanari, the widowed mother of two who went to work for her lover Frank Russo, a Captain in a Brooklyn crime family.
- DirectorJon S. BairdStarsNonso AnozieGavin BrockerLeo GregoryAn orphaned Jamaican baby is adopted by an elderly white couple and brought up in an all white area of London and becomes one of the most feared and respected men in Britain. Based on a true story.
- DirectorJohn McNaughtonStarsRichard DreyfussYosef CarmonMosko AlkalaiRichard Dreyfuss stars in this compelling, fact-based movie about notorious mobster Meyer Lansky, chronicling his beginnings as a Jewish immigrant to his successful career in gambling, bootlegging and racketeering--and eventually murder.
- DirectorDavid GreeneStarsVanessa RedgraveDennis FarinaNastassja KinskiStarting in Palermo, Italy, 1977 - The ups and downs of a mafia family opposed to drug trade until the men are murdered and the widows take over.
- DirectorMichael BregmanStarsJay HernandezMario Van PeeblesLuis GuzmánIn the late 1960s, Carlito Brigante emerges as the heroin czar of Harlem.
- DirectorDwight H. LittleStarsChazz PalminteriAngela AlvaradoJay O. SandersThe story of the rise and fall of the powerful New York City organized crime boss, Paul Castellano.
- DirectorRidley ScottStarsDenzel WashingtonRussell CroweChiwetel EjioforAn outcast New York City cop is charged with bringing down Harlem drug lord Frank Lucas, whose real life inspired this partly biographical film.
- DirectorArthur PennStarsWarren BeattyFaye DunawayMichael J. PollardBored waitress Bonnie Parker falls in love with an ex-con named Clyde Barrow and together they start a violent crime spree through the country, stealing cars and robbing banks.
- DirectorHarold RamisStarsRobert De NiroBilly CrystalLisa KudrowMobster Paul Vitti is released into Dr. Ben Sobol's care, where only more chaos ensues.
- DirectorBarry LevinsonStarsWarren BeattyAnnette BeningHarvey KeitelThe story of how Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel started Las Vegas.
- DirectorJohn HustonStarsHumphrey BogartEdward G. RobinsonLauren BacallA man visits his war buddy's family hotel and finds a gangster running things. As a hurricane approaches, the two end up confronting each other.
- DirectorJonathan HensleighStarsRay StevensonChristopher WalkenVincent D'OnofrioThe true story of Danny Greene, a tough Irish thug working for mobsters in Cleveland during the 1970's.
- DirectorAshley WayStarsMia SaraTed KingRon PerlmanIn 1933, ten-year-old troublemaker Archie and his neglectful father have a strained relationship . Archie gets in the way of his father's attempts to clear a debt with Benny, a hardcore mobster only interested in serious business.
- DirectorMax MakowskiStarsFrancis NgLung TiVivian HsuAn assassin is hired to kill the men responsible for kidnapping an important man's son. With every death, the killer gets closer to the last kidnapper's name.
- DirectorTakashi MiikeStarsHisao MakiMasaru MatsudaDaisuke NagakuraA ex-prisoner hires the invincible bodyguard Kiba to protect him from vengeful Yakuza, while he travels cross-country to the location of some hidden loot.
- DirectorFilippo OttoniStarsDavid LandsbergLorin DreyfussChristian De SicaTwo bumbling private detectives get themselves hired to find a missing person. They find themselves in the middle of a mob war when it turns out that the missing person is somebody the mob wants to stay missing.
- StarsDanny AielloJoe MantegnaDaryl HannahSprawling Mario Puzo novel about an Italian family of gangsters draws the inevitable comparison to "The Godfather", but does find its own direction. Headed by Don Domenico Clericuzio, the family kills a rival gang on the night of the Don's daughter's wedding, including her new husband, the son of his rival. Unfortunately the daughter gets pregnant and the repercussions of the night drift into the future. Spanning 1964-1985, the film jumps forward with the growing up of the grandson who has grown ruthless and scheming. A co-rival in the family is a nephew who has been raised to take his father's place in the family as a hit man and has established his place by assassinating a man who killed a senator's daughter. However, he is proven to not be ruthless enough and moves into the family's casino business in Vegas. When the nephew falls in love with a beautiful actress, everything is set in place for the grandson to set up a coup to take over the family.