What is the best you remember, I'd say "St. Valentines Day Massacre and Scarface".

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I never saw that one. I'll have to look it up.

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The Godfather I, is the best, followed by GF II, which has the single best performance in the Genre', Robert Dinero's portrayal of the young Vito Corleone.

White Heat and The Public Enemy with James Cagney are both classics and great. More recently, Public Enemies isn't too bad. The death scene with Dillinger is pretty awesome.

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My Blue Heaven
Johnny Dangerously
Tough Guys

Public Enemies was all right. I liked how they portrayed Baby Face Nelson as a straight-psychopath.

The Departed with Jack Nicholson.

Another movie "Bugsy and the Untouchables"



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> White Heat and The Public Enemy with James Cagney
> are both classics and great. More recently, Public
> Enemies isn't too bad. The death scene with
> Dillinger is pretty awesome.


+1 on the Cagney films, Bogart, Cagney, Robinson, and the guy who played in the original "Scarface" were legendary. Also, the actor who used to always flip a coin, I can't recall his name, great actors all.

The Godfather, and not only because of the story, but also due to how realistic it actually is.

I also liked American Gangster, and Public Enemies.

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Goodfellows or Casino, maybe that Johnny Depp and Pacino one too.

Hubert Wrote:
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> > White Heat and The Public Enemy with James
> Cagney
> > are both classics and great. More recently,
> Public
> > Enemies isn't too bad. The death scene with
> > Dillinger is pretty awesome.
>
>
> +1 on the Cagney films, Bogart, Cagney, Robinson,
> and the guy who played in the original "Scarface"
> were legendary. Also, the actor who used to
> always flip a coin, I can't recall his name, great
> actors all.


George Raft was the coin flipper

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> > WashingTone-Locian Wrote:
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> > > White Heat and The Public Enemy with James
> > Cagney
> > > are both classics and great. More recently,
> > Public
> > > Enemies isn't too bad. The death scene with
> > > Dillinger is pretty awesome.
> >
> >
> > +1 on the Cagney films, Bogart, Cagney,
> Robinson,
> > and the guy who played in the original
> "Scarface"
> > were legendary. Also, the actor who used to
> > always flip a coin, I can't recall his name,
> great
> > actors all.
>
>
> George Raft was the coin flipper


Right thats the guy. Thanks.

A Bronx Tale

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DeNiro playing against type. That was a good one.

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boyz n the hood

Who Framed Roger Rabbit

new jack city

Good Fellas.

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Good Fellas has to be the best of all time.

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Donnie Brasco is a great flick, and I've read that it portrayed mob life more accurately than most movies. I also love alot of the movies listed above. Another good one is "Things To Do In Denver When You're Dead". Not a mafia movie, just a quirky, gangster crime caper (anytime Christopher Walken and Steve Buscemi play bad guys, it's automatically a good film).

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> DeNiro playing against type. That was a good one.

+1

Just watched it on Spike TV. Underrated movie.

I liked Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction. Both by Tarantino.

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> Goodfellows or Casino, maybe that Johnny Depp and
> Pacino one too.


I can watch both of those movies over, and over again.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMow8XsAVt4


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGkMbVAGpco&feature=related

The japanese Robert De Niro

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> Another good one is "Things To Do In
> Denver When You're Dead". Not a mafia movie, just
> a quirky, gangster crime caper (anytime
> Christopher Walken and Steve Buscemi play bad
> guys, it's automatically a good film).


Agree, that's a great movie, and it seems like few people ever heard of it for some reason.

I think Goodfellas is my favorite, but it's tough because GF 1 and 2 are so awesome. DeNiro as young Vito Corleone is the best he's ever done, and I love when he goes back to Sicily for payback.

Just too many to list. Donnie Brasco, Casino, Gangs of New York, etc.

Some films have a few really good scenes but overall are kind of blah. A Bronx Tale is worth it just for the scener where the biker gang picks a fight in a mafia bar, to the tune of the Beatles' Come Together:

Gangs of New York is pretty good too.

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> ...gangs of ny


don't mean to be a cock and step on your post, but man, i *hated* that film.

pretty good recent crime picture - not sure if it's strictly a "gangster" movie - is mesrine part i, killer instinct, currently available on Netflix instant watch.

some very kick ass stuff in that. great performance by vincent cassell, as closely modeled on the real-life french criminal mesrine.

the several prison escapes - all true - are mind-boggling. particularly the one in canada.

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> > just a quirky, gangster crime caper
>
> Agree, that's a great movie, and it seems like few
> people ever heard of it for some reason.


I actually watched this again earlier, first time I've seen it since the 90s, back when it was a big hit at Cannes and considered a rip-off of Tarantino.

Really different film. An examination of life & death set among likeable gangsters. I forgot Christopher Lloyd was in it. There's a scene with him and Andy Garcia that is kinda touching. And I lol'd again when the Treat Williams character jumped out to kill the assassin.

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I don't think Road to Perdition comes to mind as a gangster film because of Tom Hanks, Sam Mendes and the whole art house movie feel of it. But I like it...



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wanted to like it - saw it in the theater when it first came out - but the road to perdition did not work for me *at all*

a lot of style but very little excitement or suspense.

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> first came out - but the road to perdition did not
> work for me *at all*
>
> a lot of style but very little excitement or
> suspense.

I can understand that. It has a very stoic, film noir feel to it. It's not like Casino or Good Fellas where it crosses into the absurd. The Hanks character is doomed from the start. It's kind of like watching a funeral. But I do like it, still.

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> But I do like it, still.

i may give it another try. i'd *like* to like it, to tell you the truth. but it just didn't play for me.

you mentioned white heat.

i love all the scenes with cagney, but the non-cagney scenes are very flat, and kind of crappy.

but the cagney stuff is so good that it hardly matters.

high sierra is a favorite of mine. it's not as hard-edged as white heat, but it's a very solid picture.

187 was a classic in my book

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> high sierra is a favorite of mine. it's not as
> hard-edged as white heat, but it's a very solid
> picture.


I've been debating about posting crime dramas and film-noir that don't really fall into the "gangster" category. For instance, both The Asphalt Jungle and The Killing are fantastic crime dramas. But they aren't technically "gangster films" along the lines of the Godfather or Casino. I love good film-noir.

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> I've been debating about posting crime dramas and
> film-noir that don't really fall into the
> "gangster" category. For instance, both The
> Asphalt Jungle and The Killing are fantastic crime
> dramas. But they aren't technically "gangster
> films" along the lines of the Godfather or Casino.
> I love good film-noir.


non-us gangster film: city of god.

the film doesn't quite come off as a whole - it's a pretty ambitious, near-epic story - but i thought it had some very good stuff in it.

on the film noir front, the maltese falcon may be my all-time favorite movie.

asphalt jungle - excellent.

i'd rank the killing a notch beneath that, but still very good.

love touch of evil, though it's somewhat uneven.

pickup on south street is a favorite.

night and the city, also with widmark, very good, but it's such an excruciating bummer of a story that i find it hard to watch.

rififi is a film i discovered only recently. really outstanding, suspenseful heist film.


> 187

had never heard of that. on bloody's advices, i have, with some trepidation, put it in my netflix queue.

Not a (deliberate) cock Wrote:
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>
> > 187
>
> had never heard of that. on bloody's advices, i
> have, with some trepidation, put it in my netflix
> queue.


starring sammy L and that mexican guy. great film. not a mobster flick but more of a modern(90's+) gang film.

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> While White Heat might be uneven, the thing with
> the movie is almost all of Cagney's scenes have
> become iconic...


true dat... the headache scenes, the relationship with his mother, the prison blow-up... and of course, that fantastic ending.

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> starring sammy L and that mexican guy. great film.
> not a mobster flick but more of a modern(90's+)
> gang film.


Okay, sounds interesting. I'll give it a shot.

Lots of good picks - Goodfellas, Gangs of New York, etc. Although when cruising around cable, I keep coming back to Public Enemies, especially the extended scene when the FBI raids the hideout in Wisconsin. A nice bit of filmwork and acting.

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whiterussian Wrote:
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> I
> keep coming back to Public Enemies, especially the
> extended scene when the FBI raids the hideout in
> Wisconsin. A nice bit of filmwork and acting.


That was an epic movie gunfight. I love the way Nelson goes down blazing away with his tommy gun.

Even though they're British,I would consider Snatch and Lock, Stock and two Smoking Barrels gangster films

I love both those movies

When it comes to Mafia movies it's Godfather I&II, Goodfellas, Casino and then everything else,,,,those 4 movies set the bar REAL high

We'll pretend Godfather III didn't happen

Godfather 3 wasn't that good. It had its moments, though, I really like Andy Garcia's scenes, especially the part where the mooks break into his apartment.

"I'M BOUT IT" -MASTER P

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> Godfather 3 wasn't that good. It had its moments,
> though, I really like Andy Garcia's scenes,
> especially the part where the mooks break into his
> apartment.


Godfather III was the Return of the Jedi of the trilogy,,,

tomahawk Wrote:
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> TheMeeper Wrote:
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> > Another good one is "Things To Do In
> > Denver When You're Dead". Not a mafia movie,
> just
> > a quirky, gangster crime caper (anytime
> > Christopher Walken and Steve Buscemi play bad
> > guys, it's automatically a good film).
>
>
> Agree, that's a great movie, and it seems like few
> people ever heard of it for some reason.
>
> I think Goodfellas is my favorite, but it's tough
> because GF 1 and 2 are so awesome. DeNiro as young
> Vito Corleone is the best he's ever done, and I
> love when he goes back to Sicily for payback.
>
> Just too many to list. Donnie Brasco, Casino,
> Gangs of New York, etc.
>
> Some films have a few really good scenes but
> overall are kind of blah. A Bronx Tale is worth it
> just for the scener where the biker gang picks a
> fight in a mafia bar, to the tune of the Beatles'
> Come Together:
>
>

That scene is an all-time classic. The capper is when the music switches to the totally unexpected doo-wop classic, Ten Commandments of Love.

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> Godfather 3 wasn't that good. It had its moments,
> though, I really like Andy Garcia's scenes,
> especially the part where the mooks break into his
> apartment.

Godfather 3 was awful. I imagine the trailer voice-over going something like this:

"Michael Corleone THOUGHT he could get away from the mafia life. But when a conspiracy involving the Catholic church jeopardizes his attempt to leave his criminal past behind, he's going to have to mafia harder than ever."

Not to mention the "I'm in love with my cousin" sub-plot.

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MrMephisto Wrote:
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> Not to mention the "I'm in love with my cousin"
> sub-plot.

The helicopter scene was totally retarded.

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>
> The helicopter scene was totally retarded.

The whole movie was a steaming shit pile. It's like they kept forgetting they were making a mafia movie and only threw some mafia stuff in when someone reminded them.

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Regarding GF III, there has to be a law passed that bans hotshot directors in their 20s who happen to make some of the all-time great movies from coming back 20 or 30 years later and fucking everything up with a terrible sequel. The biggest offenders are Spielberg and Lucas. I just hope to God Coppola doesn't get financing for an Apocalypse Now sequel.

Apocalypse Again! The Errand Boy is Back to Collect a Bill...with Interest!

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I thought Hotshots Part Deux was the sequel to Apocalypse Now...

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> Godfather I and II and GoodFellas are the only OC
> movies I really liked.
>
> Call me a heretic, but I think Scarface, King of
> New York and New Jack City were some serious
> blowfests. They are even worst 20-25 years later.


I agree on Scarface. It's nothing but an overrated B-movie. King of New York I can't comment on because I only saw it once long ago, but I can say it didn't blow me away. New Jack City though was pretty good.

Did anyone mention Miller's Crossing yet? I liked that one. Haven't seen that one in a long time either though.

I thought "Bad Streets" a 70s flick with deNero was good, one of those films with a small budget, that had the ability to draw a viewer in. Like Spielberg's "Duel" with Dennis Weaver.

That Lone wolf and cub

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> The japanese Robert De Niro


Takeshi Kitano is really more the Japanese Clint Eastwood to me. I think Violent Cop is the best of his gangster movies. Takashi Miike's gangster movies are good.

I like "King of New York" with Christopher Walken.And can watch "Once Upon a Time in America" over and over. I love Sergio Leone films.
Ever seen the car chase in The Seven Ups. Maybe not as stylistic as "Bullitt" but pretty damn exciting. Almost like it more than "The French Connection" car chase.

Forgot, Robert Mitchum movie "The Friends of Eddie Coyle"

King of New York is great fun. Not in the same class as Godfather, of course, but seeing Walken be a complete gangster and his right hand man is a younger Larry Fishburne, what's not to like? Bonus points because Walken blows away that annoying ginger asshole from CSI Miami.

It later got turned into an animated gif:

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> Coyle"


+1

West side Story, although not technically a gangster movie, does have the gang element in it. I grew up in Hell's Kitchen and the concept is pretty accurate, they were gangs left and right, many years ago.

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I value your opinion, chuck...

Signatures are for fags

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> Time in America", so I will.


OOOOOoooohh,

That's a good one,,,,how did that one go forgotten

best Crime movies of all time:

1.The Godfather
2.The Godfather part 2
3.Goodfellas
4.Pulp Fiction
5.Reservoir Dogs
6.Scarface
7.Casino
8.A Bronx Tale
9.Heat
10.Training Day

Carlito's Way was a pretty good one, too.

I like how Southpark parodied the whole scene where the guy in the wheelchair with the wire is begging for his life and saying how he's pathetic and he shits in his pants.

Please provide link to the south Park parody of Carlito's Way. I could use a laugh.
I mentioned "Once Upon a Time in America" first

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> Please provide link to the south Park parody of
> Carlito's Way. I could use a laugh.

You should probably search for it on Comedy Central's site. It was the "Gay Fish" episode where Kanye West tortures Carlos Mencia for making a joke about him. Mencia begs for pity, saying he has no dick, and that he stole the joke from Cartman.

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>
>
> OOOOOoooohh,
>
> That's a good one,,,,how did that one go forgotten


I agree, the only thing I didn't like was I thought it dragged a little too much!

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Anybody ever see "THE KRAYS" good movie weird twist.

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> Anybody ever see "THE KRAYS" good movie weird
> twist.


Yeah Krays was good first time I saw it, but I tried to watch it again a few years later and for some reason didn't like it as much.