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Here are 22 of the best gangster stories of all time—12 crime movies and 10 crime series that deliver action, suspense, comedy, romance, and heartbreak, all nested within violent narratives of ...
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The American movie The Black Hand (1906) is thought to be the earliest surviving gangster film. [1] In 1912, D. W. Griffith directed The Musketeers of Pig Alley, a short drama film about crime on the streets of New York City (filmed, however, at Fort Lee, New Jersey) rumored to have included real gangsters as extras.
What Doesn't Kill You is a 2008 American crime drama loosely based on the true life story of the film's director Brian Goodman, [1] detailing his own exploits involved with South Boston's Irish Mob. [2]
52 Pick-Up: John Frankenheimer: Roy Scheider, Ann-Margret, Vanity: United States [71] Band of the Hand: Paul Michael Glaser: Stephen Lang, Michael Carmine, Lauren Holly: United States [72] A Better Tomorrow: John Woo: Chow Yun-fat, Leslie Cheung, Ti Lung: Hong Kong [73] Big Trouble: John Cassavetes: Peter Falk, Alan Arkin, Beverly D'Angelo ...
Burnett had penned the gangster story after seeing the aftermath of the Capone ordered Saint Valentine's Day massacre. [30] Generally considered the grandfather of gangster films, [31] in Caesar, Robinson as Rico, and his close friend Joe Massara (played by Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.), move to Chicago. Joe wants to go straight and meets a woman.
Mobsters is a 1991 American crime drama film directed by Michael Karbelnikoff. It details the creation of The Commission.Set in New York City, taking place from 1917 to 1931, it is a semi-fictitious account of the rise of Charles "Lucky" Luciano, Meyer Lansky, Frank Costello, and Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel.
Original Gangstas is a 1996 action-gangster film filmed and set in urban Gary, Indiana starring Blaxploitation film stars such as Fred Williamson, Pam Grier, Jim Brown, Richard Roundtree, and Ron O'Neal. [3]