While Martin Scorsese's perhaps the king of the gangster movie, plenty of classics, like The Godfather and Scarface, weren't ...

PARIS — Few film types are as iconic in French cinema as the gangster. Throughout the genre’s heyday from the early ’50s through the late ’70s, Belmondo, Montand and Delon seemed to live with a gun in ...

Crime movie classics like The Godfather, Animal Kingdom, and The Usual Suspects are perfectly written gangster movies.

Which of the following gangster movies have you seen? Which sound like something you’d give a shot? Let’s find out. Running Scared isn’t a gangster film in the traditional sense, but it does work its ...

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While slogging through the new crime film “The Alto Knights” this week, a depressing thought came up. Has Father Time put a hit on Mafia movies? The limping genre’s best stars and directors are all in ...

Few genres embody the definition of a “cult classic” quite like the mob mentality fandom of gangster films. After all, nothing builds a bond between viewer and protagonist quite like bearing witness ...

The 1980s continued to evolve the gangster genre, blending larger-than-life crime stories with a growing sense of realism. It ...

Granted, The Untouchables isn’t a particularly historically accurate retelling of how Eliot Ness and his crew took down Al Capone, but it’s certainly an entertaining one. Kevin Costner was a great ...

While watching “The Alto Knights,” Barry Levinson’s tribute to the mob movie starring not one but two Robert De Niros, it feels like a meta commentary on the gangster films that made De Niro an iconic ...