There are so many great gangster films out there that you surely must have watched some in your life, infact gangster genre is one of the most popular in modern movies and the highest rated movie of all time belongs to this genre. Today we present a list of the top 10 gangster movies of all time.
#10. Reservoir Dogs
Director: Quentin Tarantino
Year: 1992
If a top ten list starts off with Reservoir Dogs, you can only imagine how awesome other movies in the list are. Anyway, this movie is about six criminals, strangers to each other, hired by a crime boss Joe Cabot to carry out a diamond robbery. There bulletproof plan somehow is derailed when police show up right at the time and the site of the robbery. One of the criminal dies along with a few policemen and civilians. Now, after all the mess, when they all rendezvous at a predetermined meeting point they begin to suspect that one of them is an undercover cop. Via: realitypod.com
#9. Carlito’s Way
Director: Brian De Palma
Year: 1993
In this movie a Puerto Rican ex-con pledges to stay away from his former drug dealing ways but finds his past hard to let go of and is dragged back by the naive machinations of his lawyer and best friend. Hoping to raise enough money to get away from New York, Carlito Brigante takes on the job of running a nightclub, renews an affair with a dancer but old associates and old instincts suck him back into a world of violence and mistrust. Via: realitypod.com
#8. Scarface
Director: Brian De Palma
Year: 1983
This is a remake of the 1932 classic. This movie follows a Cuban refugee, Tony Montana and his close friend Manny Ray, together who build a strong drug empire in Miami. Montana must deal with the hardships of this type of business and his powers grow, so does his ego and his paranoia. Via: realitypod.com
#7. Once Upon a Time in America
Director: Sergio Leone
Year: 1984
This is a tale of the lives of a small group of New York City Jewish gangsters spanning over 40 years. Told mostly in flashbacks and flash-forwards, the movie centers on small-time hood David ‘Noodles’ Aaronson and his lifelong partners in crime; Max, Cockeye and Patsy and their friends from growing up in the rough Jewish neighborhood of New York’s Lower East Side in the 1920s, to the last years of Prohibition in the early 1930s, and then to the late 1960s where an elderly Noodles returns to New York after many years in hiding to look into the past. Via: realitypod.com
#6. Rififi
Director: Jules Dassin
Year: 1955
The oldest movie in our list tells the story of Tony le Stéphanois who meets his dearest friends Jo and the Italian Mario Ferrati and they invite Tony to steal a couple of jewels from the show-window of the famous jewelry Mappin & Webb Ltd, but he declines. Tony finds his former girlfriend Mado, who became the lover of the gangster owner of the night-club L’ Âge d’ Or Louis Grutter, and he humiliates her, beating on her back and taking her jewels. Then he calls Jo and Mario and proposes a burglary of the safe of the jewelry. They invite the Italian specialist in safes and elegant wolf Cesar to join their team and they plot a perfect heist. They are successful in their plan, but the D. Juan Cesar makes things go wrong when he gives a valuable ring to his mistress. Via: realitypod.com
#5. Pulp Fiction
Year: 1994
#4. Mou gaan dou
Directors: Wai-keung Lau, Alan Mak
Year: 2002
Chan Wing Yan, a young police officer, has been sent undercover as a mole in the local mafia. Lau Kin Ming, a young mafia member, infiltrates the police force. Years later, their older counterparts, Chen Wing Yan and Inspector Lau Kin Ming, respectively, race against time to expose the mole within their midst. Via: realitypod.com
#3. Cidade de Deus
Directors: Fernando Meirelles, Kátia Lund
Year: 2002
City of God is based on a true story that takes place in the 60′s where in the slums of Rio de Janeiro two boys growing up in the neighborhood take on different paths in life. The story is told through eyes of Buscape, a poor young fisherman’s son who dreams of becoming a photographer one day. His story narrates the violence and corruption surrounding the city and the rise and fall of one of the city’s most notorious boss; Li’l Ze. As war wages on the streets, Buscape’s only way out of this violent life is to expose its brutality to the world through his pictures. Along the way the lives of others are put into perspective as their stories intersect with the events that take place. Via: realitypod.com
#2. Goodfellas
Director: Martin Scorsese
Year: 1990
Henry Hill is a small time gangster, who takes part in a robbery with Jimmy Conway and Tommy De Vito, two other gangsters who have set their sights a bit higher. His two partners kill off everyone else involved in the robbery, and slowly start to climb up through the hierarchy of the Mob. Henry, however, is badly affected by his partners’ success, but will he stoop low enough to bring about the downfall of Jimmy and Tommy? Via: realitypod.com
#1. The Godfather
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Year: 1972
How could a movie be this epic and flawless? No one knows, the Godfather has a score of 100/100 on Metacritic and 9.2 at IMDB.
The story begins as “Don” Vito Corleone, the head of a New York Mafia “family”, oversees his daughter’s wedding. His beloved son Michael has just come home from the war, but does not intend to become part of his father’s business. Through Michael’s life the nature of the family business becomes clear. The business of the family is just like the head of the family, kind and benevolent to those who give respect, but given to ruthless violence whenever anything stands against the good of the family. Don Vito lives his life in the way of the old country, but times are changing and some don’t want to follow the old ways and look out for community and “family”. An up and coming rival of the Corleone family wants to start selling drugs in New York, and needs the Don’s influence to further his plan. The clash of the Don’s fading old world values and the new ways will demand a terrible price… Via: realitypod.com
Top 10 Gangster Movies
