Right, I know all the fellas are gonna be arguing over this question, what was the greatest gangster film ever? (As it being bank holiday yesterday, I watched a large collection of them, starting with Godfather Part 1, Scarface, Goodfellas and Reservoir Dogs).
2007-05-28 21:49:52 · 45 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Movies
By the way, you can select any film you think is the best, my selection is just what I watched!
2007-05-28 21:53:30 · update #1
Goodfellas for me!
2007-05-28 21:51:37 · answer #1 · answered by ? 4 · 4⤊ 0⤋
The Godfather
The Godfather: Part 2
GoodFellas
Angels With Dirty Faces
White Heat
Bonnie and Clyde
Reservoir Dogs
The St. Valentine's Day Massacre
King of New York
Pulp Fiction
On the Waterfront
Scarface
True Romance
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
The Untouchables
A Fish Called Wanda (semi-gangsters)
The Departed
Mobsters
Road to Perdition
Once Upon a Time in America
Key Largo
2007-05-29 03:50:25 · answer #2 · answered by Bob Mc 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
when you say greatest gangster film of all time, I would hope there are those of us who look back to the old black and white films. Several of these are the key inspiration for the gangster movies we have today. Here is just a list of some of the "great gangster films" from back in the day, you should check some of them out.
White Heat
The Maltese Falcon
Bonnie and Clyde
The Newton Boys
China Town
The Year of the Dragon
King of New York
New Jack City
Bound by Honor
Sugar Hill
Dog Day Afternoon
The Untouchables (original and remake)
Ricochet
Bullet (Steve McQueen)
Bullet (Tupac and Mikey Rourke)
American Me
La Familia
Angels with Dirty Faces
Lansky
Belly
City on Fire
Ghost Dog: way of the samurai
Gotti
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
Hoffa
Mean Streets
Mean Guns
Once Upon a Time in America
Snatch
2007-05-28 22:58:30 · answer #3 · answered by Lazrus 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Godfather and Godfather Part II are in all honesty two of the 5 or 10 best films that have ever been made by anyone, period, and are probably among the best pieces of art in *any* genre that Americans have created. These are about as close to perfect films as I think films can come.
2007-05-28 21:58:37 · answer #4 · answered by SimAlex 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you may have not seen this one since its a TV show and not a movie Boardwalk Empire (started in 2010 and still going) Chronicles the life and times of Enoch "Nucky" Thompson (Steve Buscemi), the undisputed ruler of Atlantic City, who was equal parts politician and gangster. its a mixture of real life gangsters (such as Al Capone, Lucky Luciano, Arnold Rothstein) and fictional characters its on HBO. season 2 starts next month you probably have seen all these, but i'll name them just in case you haven't seen them all Donnie Brasco (1997) The Godfather (1972) The Godfather Part 2 (1974) The Godfather Part 3 (1990) American Gangster (2007) Goodfellas (1990) The Untouchables (1987) Public Enemies (2009) Scarface (1983) Casino (1995) Blow (2001) (not really a "gangster" movie. its about a drug dealer who worked for Pablo Escobar)
2016-05-20 05:10:11 · answer #5 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
a lot of people would say **** like scarface and casino and goodfellas, thats all good but i think you would have to go all the way back to when real gangsters actaully ran the streets. I would say White Heat with James Cagney is the best, it was so good in the movie juice with tupac they where watching it
2007-05-31 23:27:48 · answer #6 · answered by Tok 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Godfather part 1
classic film
(closely followed by goodfellas, casino, gangster no. 1, scarface etc etc)
2007-05-31 02:16:38 · answer #7 · answered by Gyp77 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Goodfellas
2007-05-28 22:59:19 · answer #8 · answered by L 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What a difficult one to answer.For me,personal the movies from the early 40's and 50's were the best.My 2 favorites both starred James Cagney,"Angels with dirty faces"made in 1948 along with Pat 'O' Brian.Cagney played a gangster who was eventully capture and was made to go to the chair.However he was idolised by streetwise kids who thought he was tough.'O' Brian persuaded him to go to the chair and turn yellow,meaning soft to make the kids work out that crime does'nt pay.My 2nd choice is "White Heat" made 2 years earlier.This time, another heavyweight Humphey Bogart was in it and it has the classic last line,"Hey,Mama I'M ON top of the world" from Cagney.Wonderful film.
2007-05-29 03:42:36 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Bella Mafia
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120602/
2007-05-28 22:02:28 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Depends on what's your definition of "gangster film", but I think I like Ocean's 11 and Ocean's 12. The up-coming Ocean's 13 won't be bad either.
2007-05-28 21:56:27 · answer #11 · answered by Iceman҂ 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋