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Pages in category "Spanish-language crime films" The following 18 pages are in this category, out of 18 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
El más buscado ("The Most Wanted") is a 2014 Mexican crime film, directed and written by José Manuel Cravioto.The film was also released as Mexican Gangster: La Leyenda del Charro Misterioso and is based on the life of Alfredo Ríos Galeana, a real life bank thief, considered the most prolific thief in the history of Mexico.
Gangs of New York (2002), also directed by Scorsese, was the first modern gangster film to focus on the 19th-century Irish gangs. Although the gay nineties had been a popular setting for prewar crime films, from the 1950s until the early 21st century most gangster movies were set in either the prohibition era, postwar America, or the present day.
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 ...
The Gangster (Paul Bettany and Malcolm McDowell) - Gangster No. 1; Benito García (Adal Ramones) - Saving Private Perez; Fernando "El Jefe" Garcia - Close Range; Julio Gonzales (Jimmy Smits) - Running Scared; Hideaki Goto (Kenichi Endo) - The Raid 2; Moe Greene - The Godfather; Manny "Papi" Greco (Edward James Olmos) - 2 Guns
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.
James Cagney in Angels with Dirty Faces, 1938. A gangster film or gangster movie is a film belonging to a genre that focuses on gangs and organized crime.It is a subgenre of crime film, that may involve large criminal organizations, or small gangs formed to perform a certain illegal act.
A capo is a "made member" of an Italian crime family who heads a regime or "crew" of soldiers and has major status and influence in the organization. Caporegime is an Italian word, used to signify the head of a family in Sicily.