what are some classic gangster movies?

Question

set in the 20's through the 40's/50's.

Answer 1

I'll give you a few here "cee!"

- Angels with Dirty Faces
- Little Caesar
- The Petrified Forest
- The Roaring Twenties
- Key Largo
- The Asphalt Jungle
- On The Waterfront
- The Desperate Hours

-L

Answer 2

Aside from the obvious Godfather series, there is "Once Upon a Time in America" a great old school gangster movie, Bugsy starring Warren Beaty, the Untouchables, and Carlitos Way is another great movie.

Answer 3

G-Men
The Roaring Twenties
Little Casear
Scarface (the original)
White Heat
The Public Enemy

Answer 4

Godfather 1 n 2
Hoodlams
As a comedy goes check out Jonny Dangerously.

Answer 5

The Untouchables - Kevin Costner, Sean Connery
Mobsters - Christian Slater, Patrick Dempsey

Both great gangster movies........

Answer 6

A Bronx Tale

Answer 7

Godfather series
Scarface
Once Upon a Time in America
I do not know more name . I know but I cannot remember their names .
Hey but I found some more by searching these information taken from wikipedia.

On the Waterfront is an American 1954 film about mob violence and corruption among longshoremen, and it has become a standard of its kind. The film was directed by Elia Kazan and stars Marlon Brando, Eva Marie Saint, Rod Steiger, Karl Malden and Lee J. Cobb. The film deals with social issues which paralleled the emerging organization of labor. It was based on a series of articles in the New York Sun by Malcolm Johnson.

Pigs and Battleships (豚と軍艦 , Buta to gunkan?) is a 1961 Japanese film by director Shohei Imamura.It is later than 1950 s but I put here because this is an old fiml too.

"The Purple Gang "was a mob of bootleggers and hijackers in the 1920s. Under the leadership of Abe Bernstein, the gang operated out of Detroit, Michigan, in the United States, which was a major port for running cached alcohol products across during Prohibition, since it is on the border with Canada. The history of the organization was recounted vividly in Paul R. Kavieff's The Purple Gang : Organized Crime in Detroit 1910-1945. Perhaps the most ruthless bootleggers of their time, they may have killed over 500 members of rival bootlegging gangs during Detroit's bootleg wars.


Du" rififi" chez les hommes, released in the English-speaking world as Rififi, is a 1955 black-and-white heist movie. The word rififi means fighting or brawling. The film was directed by Jules Dassin, creator of many American film noir classics including The Naked City, Thieves' Highway, Brute Force and Night and the City. The film stars Jean Servais, Carl Möhner, Robert Manuel, and Dassin himself as César le Milanais (the womaniser). The film's score was composed by Georges Auric.

Scarface (also known as Scarface: the Shame of the Nation and The Shame of a Nation) is a 1932 gangster film of the Pre-Code era which tells the story of gang warfare and police intervention when rival gangs fight over control of a city. It stars Paul Muni, Ann Dvorak, Karen Morley, Osgood Perkins, C. Henry Gordon, George Raft, Vince Barnett and Boris Karloff. It was directed by Howard Hawks and produced by Howard Hughes.
The movie was adapted by Ben Hecht, Fred Pasley, (uncredited), Seton I. Miller, John Lee Mahin, W.R. Burnett and Howard Hawks (uncredited) from the novel "Scarface" by Armitage Trail.
The film is loosely based upon the life of Al Capone (whose nickname was "Scarface"). Capone was rumored to have liked the film so much that he had his own copy of it.
The film was completed in 1930 but censors would not allow its release until 1932, because of concerns that it glorified the gangster lifestyle and showed too much violence. Several scenes had to be edited, the subtitle "The Shame of the Nation" as well as a text introduction and epilogue had to be added, and the ending had to be modified. Howard Hawks disowned this version and it was created without his input.

Le Samouraï (English title The Samurai) is a French crime/drama/thriller directed by French filmmaker Jean-Pierre Melville in 1967. The film's protagonist Jef Costello is played by Alain Delon.

"Smart Money" is a 1931 film starring Edward G. Robinson and James Cagney, the only time Robinson and Cagney made a movie together, despite being the two leading gangster actors at Warner Brothers studios all through the 1930s. Smart Money was shot after Robinson's signature film Little Caesar had been released, and after Cagney's breakthrough masterpiece Public Enemy had been filmed but before it was released, which is how Cagney came to play, just this once, the kind of supporting role usually done by Humphrey Bogart later in the '30s. Robinson plays a barber who goes to the big city to become a gambler but finds himself rooked by a blonde and a gang of thugs, whereupon he vows to take revenge, with the help of his own henchman in the formidable form of Cagney.
A gentle-spirited film, Smart Money features some intriguing Cagney sequences, particularly a pre-Code pantomime of cunnilingus(!) that has to be seen to be believed, and critics noted how well Robinson and Cagney played off each other, but this was their only screen pairing (some cinema aficionados refer to this dilemma as the "Gene Autry-Roy Rogers effect" or the "John Wayne-Gary Cooper effect" or the "Cary Grant-any other commensurately important actor effect;" it's rather like Wild West gunslingers reluctant to go up against each other).
Boris Karloff, not yet the icon he would soon become following his performance in Frankenstein that same year, has a brief role early in this film

White Heat is a 1949 crime film starring James Cagney, Edmond O'Brien, Virginia Mayo, Margaret Wycherly, John Archer, and Steve Cochran. Directed by Raoul Walsh, it is considered one of the great gangster films and a classic film noir.

Answer 8

Miller's Crossing
Donnie Brasco
Calrito's Way
The Untouchables
Public Enemy

Some may not fall in the years listed... but are decent films regardless.

Answer 9

Scarface

Answer 10

White Heat
Angels With Dirty Faces
The Godfather series
Bugsy
Bonnie and Clyde