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Feb 27, 2023 · Top 10 Gangster Movies Based on True Stories. If you want to see true stories in the world of organized crime you should definitely watch our picks for the best real life gangster movies....
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For this list, we’ll be looking at the most critically acclaimed performances of historic gangster figures. Our countdown includes... Hollywood loves gangsters.
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Apr 6, 2014 · Join http://www.WatchMojo.com as we count down our picks for the top 10 movie portrayals of real-life gangsters. If you want to suggest an idea for a WatchMojo video, check out our...
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- 20 Goodfellas
- 19 Gomorrah
- 18 Donnie Brasco
- 17 Black Mass
- 16 The Untouchables
- 15 The French Connection
- 14 The General
- 13 Bugsy
- 12 on The Waterfront
- 11 The Sicilian Girl
Once you get past The Godfather, another main contender for the most famous mafia movie ever made is Martin Scorsese’s 1990 film Goodfellas. It was based on Nicholas Pileggi’s 1985, Wiseguy: Life in a Mafia Family, a biography of turncoat Henry Hill, a one-time gangster with the Lucchese crime family. He was with the Lucchese family for nearly thir...
Mateo Garrone’s 2008 film was based on Roberto Saviano’s explosive 2006 book of investigative journalism, for which he has lived both in hiding and under police protection ever since. The book delved deep into the secrets of the Camorra, the mafia-like group operating predominantly in Naples since the 17th century. At this point, the Camorra have t...
Al Pacino and Johnny Depp chewed some serious scenery in Mike Newell’s 1997 mafia film, inspired by Joseph D. Pistone’s 1988 memoir, Donnie Brasco: My Undercover Life in the Mafia. Depp played Pistone/Brasco, an undercover FBI agent pretending to be a jewel thief under the tutelage of Lefty Ruggiero (Pacino), an enforcer for the Bonanno family. Ove...
2015’s Black Massjumped into the story of Whitey Bulger practically as it was still unfolding. Johnny Depp starred as Bulger, a notorious Boston mobster who led the Winter Hill Gang. The film follows Bulger’s ruthless reign in South Boston starting in 1975, and was filmed only two years after Bulger’s arrest after nearly 20 years as a fugitive. (Th...
If you’re looking for a historically accurate recounting of Eliot Ness and his quest to take down Al Capone in the days of Prohibition, you might want to look elsewhere, but if you’re looking for historically inspired entertainment with Kevin Costner, Sean Connery, and Robert De Niro, you’ve come to the right place. Brian De Palma’s 1987 movie was ...
Two years before he directed The Exorcist, WIlliam Friedkin took on the story of real NYPD detectives Eddy Egan and Sonny Grosso, using Robin Moore’s 1969 book to transform their story into that of Jimmy “Popeye” Doyle (Gene Hackman) and Buddy “Cloudy” Russo (Roy Scheider), hot on the trail of a French heroin smuggler through the streets of New Yor...
The true story of Irish crime lord Martin Cahill (Brendan Gleeson) was written by Irish journalist Paul Williams, and John Boorman used it as the basis for his 1998 film. Cahill pulled a number of notorious heists before falling afoul of the police and the Irish Republican Army, eventually being assassinated in 1994 by still unknown assailants. Cah...
Warren Beatty was at his suave, lady-killing best as notorious gangster Bugsy Siegel, who, along with associates Meyer Lansky (Ben Kingsley) and Charlie “Lucky” Luciano (Bill Graham), left New York behind to try and break into the California and Las Vegas gambling markets, and the film also details his affair with showgirl Virginia Hill, who was pl...
While not wholly based on specific true-life characters, Elia Kazan’s 1954 drama starring Marlon Brando was inspired by a series of articles in The New York Sunabout longshoremen, for which journalist Malcolm Johnson won a Pulitzer Prize. The article series centered on union corruption and violence on the docks of Hoboken, New Jersey, and was title...
Rita Atria grew up in Sicily, and by the age of 17, having already lost her mafia-connected father and brother, inspired her to testify against the mafia to the police. She ended up being kicked out by her mother, losing family and friends, and eventually committing suicide after the prosecuting judge to whom she had grown close was killed by a car...
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Apr 30, 2021 · We combed through YouTube's list of free movies and handpicked some of the best crime stories, from murderous morticians to kids that love to stab.
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an in depth look with interviews with former associates, law enforcement officials and others as well as reenactments of their criminal activities to show how each real life mobster made an impact on society individually and as a whole.
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