During the Great Depression, casting gangsters as heroes created a new film genre that symbolized the decay of American society, as well as the fear that traditional values would not survive the ...

The Godfather is an undeniable masterpiece, but these 10 gangster movies are arguably just as good as the 1972 gangster ...

Audiences walked out of an early screening. Decades later, AFI ranked the film No. 2 among American gangster movies.

The 1990s produced some of the greatest crime films ever made. These are the 20 best gangster movies from that decade, ranked ...

Noodles in a hat and coat in Once Upon a Time in America (1984) - Warner Bros. Whether it's a more classic Italian Mafia tale, or a look at the kingpins who rule over inner city neighborhoods, or all ...

The rise of the mob in America can be tied to the passing of the 18th Amendment on Jan. 16, 1919, which banned the "manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors" and essentially made ...

Prime fans will be pleased to learn of an epic gangster movie currently streaming on the platform. Kill the Irishman is a biographical crime film that is based on the life of the Irish-American ...

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Ryan Heffernan is a Senior Writer at Collider. Storytelling has been one of his interests since an early age, with his appreciation for film and television becoming a particular interest of his during ...

William likes watching movies and writing about those movies. Anything else is minutae. When it comes to the crime genre, it doesn't get much more popular than gangster movies. There's something that ...