20. Road to Perdition
Michael Sullivan commits murder in the name of his boss, John Rooney. Everything is changed when Sullivan's son is witness to a brutal murder at the hands of Rooney's son Connor..
19. Donnie Brasco
The true story of an FBI undercover agent who has to infiltrate a mob family
18. Miller’s Crossing
Two men, Leo and Tom belong to the same local mob. When they both happen to fall in love with the same woman their friendship is severed and Tom joins up with Leo's enemy. A gang war begins to rip the city apart..
17. The Untouchables
Set in Prohibition Chicago, 1931. Gangster Al Capone ruled the city with absolute power. No-one could stop him. Until Elliott Ness and a small force of men swore they'd bring him down..
16. The Departed
An all-star cast brings this remake of Wai Keung Lau and Alan Mak's INFERNAL AFFAIRS to the screen. Martin Scorsese's film follows the story of two Boston police officers, one of whom is a member of the Irish Mafia who has infiltrated the ranks of the police, and the other is a bona fide cop sent on an undercover mission to join the Irish Mafia.
15. Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
Over a game of cards, a bunch of relatively innocent lads get involved with some violent, vicious, gun-toting gangsters. The result is endless mayhem which is both hilarious and violent.
14. Mean Streets
A study of four young Italian-Americans and their involvement with the Mafia and local crooks.
13. Casino
Robert De Niro stars as a Jewish front man for the Las Vegas Mob. Sharon Stone stars as his wife who jinxes the operation. Based on the real-life story of Frank 'Lefty' Rosenthal and Tony 'The Ant' Spilotro. Based on the book by Nicholas Pileggi.
12. Snatch
Turkish and Tommy, unlicensed boxing promoters, become unwillingly involved with a underground criminal called Brick Top. When they are persuaded to stage rigged bare knuckle fights things don't go exactly to plan...
11. Reservoir Dogs
A group of criminals carry out a jewel heist which results in a battle with the police to secure an escape. Suspicions are roused at the readiness of the police and an informer is sought.
10. White Heat
In his last role as a heartless gangster, James Cagney embarks on a prison break of a lifetime in this chilling tale that features one of the most riveting finales in movie history
9. Carlito’s Way
The fast-moving story of an underworld legend, Carlito Brigante, desperately trying to escape his past. However, he has one final favour to repay...
8. Scarface
A tense and violent update of the 1932 Howard Hughes gangster classic with the setting changed from Chicago to Miami. Lots of graphic brutality, drug using and coarse language.
7. Once upon a time in America
From Sergio Leone, director of "A Fistful of Dollars", comes an immense saga which spans four decades in the lives of Jewish gangsters in New York's Lower East Side, starring Robert De Niro, James Woods and Joe Pesci. Leone's commanding epic traces the destinies of four men from childhood on the streets through their violent rise to power and maturity during Prohibition as fully fledged hoods. De Niro is magnificent as "Noodles" Aaronson, one of the four, forced by murder and betrayal to flee New York in 1933. When he is mysteriously summoned back in 1968, he discovers that the tragic and bloody events surrounding his betrayal are not as they once seemed.
6. Du Rififi Chez les Hommes /Rififi
Jean Servais is Toney le Stephanois, a master thier with a battered face and a tubercular cough, souvinrs of a recent stint in the pen. The aging Toney is reluctant to return to a life of crime, but when her realizes his girlfriend has thrown his over for a rival gangster, he agrees to attempt one last job. Toghther the three collaboratirs - a young father, A boisterous Franco-Italian, and a sentimental milsnese safecracker - Toney meticulously engineers his biggest heist yet: robbig the most heavily garded jewlery store in Paris.
5. Pulp Fiction
John Travolta, Bruce Willis and Samuel L. Jackson star as petty thugs in the seedy underworld of Los Angeles where smart talk, quickfire humour and confrontation are a way of life. Winner of the Golden Palm Award at Cannes. Winner of the Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay.
4. Mou gaan dou
Shawn Yue plays a young police officer who has been sent undercover as a mole in the local mafia. Edison Chen plays a young mafia member who is infiltrating the police force. Years later, their older counterparts, Tony Leung and Andy Lau respectively, race against time to expose the mole within their midsts and destroy him. This is the film that lead to the Departed.
3. Cidade de Deus / City of God
Built in the 1960s, the City of God has by the 1980s become a very dangerous place to live. A lack of opportunities and hope often leads the children of the City of God onto a path of drugs, crime and corruption, and it seems more palatable to many of them to have their 15 minutes of fame and die young than to live a life of misery and submission. But some manage to break the cycle of violence - and the main character and narrator of City of God, Rocket, is one of them. A poor, black youth who leaves a life of crime behind to become a professional photographer, Rocket must struggle against the odds to make his way through the violence that surrounds him, shooting pictures instead of people and finding redemption in his artistic vision. As his story unfolds, we meet others in his world: Benny, the most popular guy in the slum and a partner in crime to L'il Ze, an ambitious and powerful villain who wants to be the slum's drug leader; and Knockout Ned, who tries very hard to have a decent life but ultimately gets dragged deep into crime.
2. Goodfellas
Based on the book 'Wiseguy' by Nicholas Pileggi, 'Goodfellas' follows the career of an ambitious school boy who joins the Mob and becomes a member of the inner sanctum. Full of his own success, he kills the wrong guy and begins to deal in drugs.
1. The Godfather
'The Godfather' is a Chilling portrait of a Sicilian family's rise and near fall from power in America, and the passage of rites from father to son. Based on the novel by Mario Puzo.
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