Mob Movies: Best Mob Movies

The Godfather

In 1945, at his daughter Connie’s wedding, Don Vito Corleone hears requests in his role as head of a New York crime family. His youngest son, Michael, who was a Marine during World War II, introduces his…

The Godfather Part II

The Godfather Part II is a 1974 American crime film produced and directed by Francis Ford Coppola from a screenplay co-written with Mario Puzo, starring Al Pacino and Robert De Niro. Partially based on…

Scarface (1983)

In 1980, Cuban refugee and ex-convict Antonio “Tony” Montana arrives in Miami, Florida as part of the Mariel boatlift, where he is sent to a refugee camp with his best friends, Manny Ribera,…

The Untouchables

During Prohibition in 1930, reigning crime kingpin Al Capone has nearly the whole city of Chicago under his control and supplies illegal liquor. Bureau of Prohibition agent Eliot Ness is assigned to…

Carlito’s Way

In 1975, after serving 5 years of a 30-year prison sentence, Carlito Brigante is freed on a legal technicality exploited by his close friend and lawyer, Dave Kleinfeld. Carlito vows to be through with his criminal activities but is…

The Godfather Part III

In 1979, Michael Corleone, approaching 60, is wracked with guilt over his ruthless rise to power, especially for having ordered Fredo‘s assassination. He donates part of his tremendous wealth to charitable causes. Michael…

Pulp Fiction

Hitmen Jules Winnfield and Vincent Vega arrive at an apartment to retrieve a briefcase for their boss, gangster Marsellus Wallace, from an associate, Brett. After Vincent checks the contents of the briefcase, Jules shoots one of Brett’s…

Reservoir Dogs

Eight men eat breakfast at a Los Angeles diner before carrying out a diamond heist. Mob boss Joe Cabot and his son and underboss “Nice Guy” Eddie Cabot are responsible for planning the job. The rest use aliases: Mr. Blonde, Mr.…

Heat

Neil McCauley (De Niro), a highly skilled career criminal, and his crew – Chris Shiherlis (Kilmer), Michael Cheritto (Sizemore), and Trejo – hire Waingro (Gage) to help them rob $1.6 million in bearer bonds from an armored car. During…

Key Largo

Ex-Major Frank McCloud (Humphrey Bogart) arrives at the Hotel Largo in Key Largo, Florida, visiting the family of George Temple, a friend from the Army who served under him and was killed in the Italian campaign, at the Battle of Monte…

True Romance

At a Detroit theater showing kung fu films, Alabama Whitman strikes up a conversation with Elvis Presley fanatic Clarence Worley. They later have sex at Clarence’s apartment in downtown Detroit. Alabama tearfully confesses…

White Heat

Arthur “Cody” Jarrett is a ruthless, psychotic criminal and leader of the Jarrett gang. Although married to Verna, he is overly attached to his equally crooked and determined mother, “Ma” Jarrett, his only…

The Italian Job

Charlie Croker is released from prison. He meets up with the widow of his friend and fellow thief Roger Beckermann, who has been killed by the Mafia while driving a Lamborghini Miura in the Italian Alps. Mrs Beckermann gives…

The Boondock Saints

Irish-American twin brothers Connor and Murphy MacManus attend Mass, where the priest mentions the fate of murder victim Kitty Genovese. Later, when Connor and Murphy are celebrating St. Patrick’s Day with friends,…

The Client

Eleven-year-old Mark Sway and his little brother, Ricky, are smoking cigarettes in the woods near their home when they encounter mob lawyer W. Jerome Clifford. Clifford tells Mark that he is about to kill himself to avoid being murdered by Barry…

Goodfellas

In 1955, Henry Hill, a high school student, becomes enamored of the criminal life in his neighborhood, and begins working for Paul “Paulie” Cicero and his associates: James “Jimmy the Gent” Conway, a truck hijacker; and…

Casino

In 1973, sports handicapper and Mafia associate Sam “Ace” Rothstein is sent to Las Vegas to run the Teamsters Union-funded Tangiers Casino on behalf of the Chicago Outfit, which secretly controls the Teamsters, while…

Donnie Brasco

Aging gangster Benjamin “Lefty” Ruggiero is introduced to a jewel thief named Donnie Brasco. Donnie impresses Lefty by threatening a diamond dealer whom Donnie suspects of selling Lefty a fake ring. Lefty teaches Donnie the rules of the…

A Bronx Tale

In 1960, Lorenzo Anello (Robert De Niro) lives in Belmont, an Italian-American neighborhood in The Bronx, with his wife Rosina and his 9-year-old son Calogero (Francis Capra), who is fascinated by the local mobsters led by Sonny LoSpecchio…

The Departed

As a child, Colin Sullivan is introduced to organized crime by Irish-American mobster Frank Costello in the Irish neighborhood of South Boston. Over the years, Costello grooms him to become a mole inside…

Once Upon a Time in America

Three thugs enter a Chinese wayang theatre, looking for a marked man. The proprietors slip into a hidden opium den and warn a man named “Noodles”, but he pays no attention. In a flashback, Noodles observes police removing three…

Road to Perdition

In 1931, during the Great Depression, Michael Sullivan, Sr. is an enforcer for Irish mob boss John Rooney in Rock Island, Illinois. Rooney raised the orphan Sullivan and loves him more than his own biological son, Connor. Rooney…

American Gangster

In 1968, Frank Lucas is the right-hand man of Harlem gangster Ellsworth “Bumpy” Johnson. When Johnson dies of a heart attack, Lucas takes control of the Harlem crime scene. After handing in almost $1 million that…

Gangs of New York

In the slum neighborhood of Five Points, Manhattan in 1846, two gangs have engaged in a final battle (or “challenge”) in Paradise Square over “who holds sway over the Five Points”; these two…

Mean Streets

Charlie is a young Italian-American man in New York City. He is hampered by his feeling of responsibility towards his reckless younger friend Johnny Boy, a small-time gambler who owes money to many loan sharks. Charlie works for his…

On the Waterfront

Mob-connected union boss Johnny Friendly (Lee J. Cobb) gloats about his iron-fisted control of the waterfront. The police and the Waterfront Crime Commissionknow that Friendly is behind a number of murders, but witnesses play “D and…

Bugsy

Gangster Bugsy Siegel, who works for Meyer Lansky and Lucky Luciano, goes to Los Angeles and instantly falls in love with Virginia Hill, a tough-talking Hollywood starlet. The two meet for the first time…

Miller’s Crossing

Tom Reagan is the right-hand man for Leo O’Bannon, an Irish mobster and political boss who runs a U.S. city during Prohibition. When Leo’s rival, the Italian gangster Johnny Caspar, announces his intent to…

The Public Enemy

As youngsters in 1900s Chicago, Irish-Americans Tom Powers (James Cagney) and his lifelong friend Matt Doyle (Edward Woods) engage in petty theft, selling their loot to “Putty Nose” (Murray Kinnell). Putty Nose persuades them to join his…

Bonnie and Clyde

In the middle of the Great Depression, Clyde Barrow (Warren Beatty) and Bonnie Parker (Faye Dunaway) meet when Clyde tries to steal Bonnie’s mother’s car. Bonnie, who is bored by her job as a waitress, is intrigued by Clyde, and…

Public Enemies

After killing Charles Floyd, FBI agent Melvin Purvis is promoted by J. Edgar Hoover to lead the hunt for bank robber John Dillinger. Purvis shares Hoover’s belief in using scientific methods to battle…

Black Mass

In 1975, James “Whitey” Bulger(Johnny Depp), leader of the Winter Hill Gang, controls most organized crime within South Boston, along with his right-hand man Stephen Flemmi, newcomer Kevin Weeks, and callous…

Mobsters

This highly dramatized film focuses primarily on Luciano and Lansky. They start as young men victimized by the current mafia. They rise from petty criminals and bootleggers to push aside the old guard of…

Chinatown

A woman identifying herself as Evelyn Mulwray hires private investigator J.J. “Jake” Gittes to follow her husband, Hollis Mulwray, chief engineer for the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power. Gittes tails him, hears…

Get Carter

Newcastle-born gangster Jack Carter (Michael Caine) has lived in London for years in the employ of organised crime bosses Gerald and Sid Fletcher (Terence Rigby and John Bindon). Jack is sleeping with…

Kill the Irishman

In 1960 Danny Greene and his childhood friends Billy McComber and Art Sneperger are longshoremen at the Cleveland docks. The members are exploited by corrupt union boss Jerry Merke, and the leadership of the ILA…

Little Caesar

Small-time criminals Caesar Enrico “Rico” Bandello (Edward G. Robinson) and his friend Joe Massara (Douglas Fairbanks Jr.) move to Chicago to seek their fortunes. Rico joins the gang of Sam Vettori (Stanley Fields), while Joe…

King of New York

Frank White, a drug lord, is riding into New York in a limousine after being released from Sing Sing. Emilio El Zapa, a Colombian drug dealer, is shot dead and the killers leave a newspaper headline announcing Frank’s…

Eastern Promises

Anna Khitrova, a British-Russian midwife at a London hospital, finds a Russian-language diary on the body of Tatiana, a 14-year-old girl who dies in childbirth. She also finds a card for the Trans-Siberian Restaurant, which is owned by…

Cop Land

The town of Garrison, New Jersey is home to several NYPD officers, led by Lt. Ray Donlan. Freddy Heflin, the town sheriff, idolizes the NYPD and once hoped to become an officer, but cannot due to going deaf in one ear while…

The Getaway

Serving four years of his ten-year sentence for armed robbery, Carter “Doc” McCoy is denied parole from a Texas prison. When his wife Carol visits him, he tells her to do whatever is necessary to make a deal with Jack Beynon, a corrupt…

Analyze This

Mob boss Paul Vitti and his consigliere Dominic are discussing an upcoming meeting and the Mafia’s present-day problems. Just as Dominic warns Vitti to look out for Primo Sindone (an up-and-coming mafioso who wants to be capo di…

Snatch

After stealing an 86-carat (17.2 g) diamond in a heist in Antwerp, Franky “Four-Fingers” goes to London to see diamond dealer Doug “The Head” on behalf of New York jeweller “Cousin…

High Sierra

An aged gangster, Big Mac (Donald MacBride), is planning a robbery at a fashionable California resort hotel in the fictional resort town of Tropico Springs, California. He wants the experienced Roy Earle (Humphrey Bogart), just released from an…

The Big Heat

Homicide detective Sergeant Dave Bannion (Glenn Ford) of the Kenport Police Department investigates the suicide of a rogue fellow officer, Tom Duncan, whose wife, Bertha Duncan (Jeanette Nolan), says her husband had lately been in ill health.…

The Valachi Papers

The movie begins in the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary, where an aging prisoner named Joseph Valachi (Charles Bronson) is imprisoned for smuggling heroin. The boss of his crime family, Vito Genovese (Lino Ventura), is…

Dillinger

The story begins with a newsreel summing up the gangster life of John Dillinger in detail. At the end of the newsreel, Dillinger’s father (Victor Kilian) walks onto the stage and speaks to the movie audience about his son’s childhood…

My Cousin Vinny

Driving through Alabama in their metallic, mint green 1964 Buick Skylark convertible, Bill Gambini and Stan Rothenstein, college students from New York who just got scholarships to UCLA shop at a Sac-O-Suds convenience store and accidentally…

Infernal Affairs

During a drug bust, LAPD patrolmen Dennis Peck and Van Stretch assault a dealer and his girlfriend. Outside, fellow patrolman Dorian Fletcher shoots a man running towards him, only to discover that he was unarmed. While Fletcher is…

Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels

Long-time friends and small-time criminals Eddy, Tom, Soap, and Bacon put together £100,000 so that Eddy, a genius card sharp, can buy into one of “Hatchet” Harry Lonsdale’s high-stakes three card brag games. The…

The Killing

Johnny Clay (Sterling Hayden) is a veteran criminal planning one last heist before settling down and marrying Fay (Coleen Gray). He plans to steal $2 million from the money-counting room of a racetrack during a featured race. He assembles a team…

Killing Them Softly

During the American financial crisis and presidential election campaign in the fall of 2008, Johnny “Squirrel” Amato plans to rob a Mafia poker game. He enlists Frankie, a former business associate, and Russell, a…

The Long Good Friday

A man named Colin delivers money to an unknown destination in Belfast, taking some of the cash in the process. The recipients realize that money is missing but are then attacked. Soon afterwards, the delivery driver is kidnapped and killed at the…

The Roaring Twenties

Three men meet in a foxhole during the waning days of World War I: Eddie Bartlett, George Hally and Lloyd Hart, and experience trials and tribulations from the Armistice through the passage of the 18th Amendment leading to…

Point Blank

Walker works with his friend Mal Reese to rob a major crime operation, ambushing the courier on deserted Alcatraz Island. After counting the money, Reese shoots Walker, leaving him for dead. Reese takes the money and Walker’s wife, Lynne.…

Gloria

In the South Bronx, Jeri Dawn is heading home with groceries. Inside the lobby of her apartment building, she passes a man whose dress and appearance are out of place. The woman quickly boards the elevator. She is met in her apartment by her…

Hoffa

On July 30, 1975, Jimmy Hoffa and his longtime friend, Bobby Ciaro are impatiently waiting in the parking lot of a roadhouse diner. Moving in vignettes from his early years when Hoffa was a Teamsters union organizer who was working to…

Night and the City

Harry Fabian (Widmark) is an ambitious American hustler and con man operating in London, always looking for a better deal. He maintains a fractured relationship with the honest Mary Bristol (Tierney), nightclub owner and businessman Phil…

Breathless

Michel (Jean-Paul Belmondo) is a youthful dangerous criminal who is intrigued with the film persona of Humphrey Bogart. After stealing a car in Marseille, Michel shoots and kills a policeman who has followed him onto a country road. Penniless…

The Iceman

In the 1960s, Richard Kuklinski (Michael Shannon) marries Deborah (Winona Ryder) and the couple have two daughters. Kuklinski keeps secrets from his family. He works dubbing pornographic films, which he then supplies to a mob operated…

Dead End

In the slums of New York, on the East River just below the Queensboro Bridge, wealthy people live in opulent and luxurious apartments because of the picturesque views of the river, while the destitute and poor live nearby in crowded,…

Midnight Run

Bounty hunter Jack Walsh is enlisted by bail bondsman Eddie Moscone to bring accountant Jonathan “The Duke” Mardukas back to Los Angeles. The accountant had embezzled $15 million from Chicago mob boss Jimmy Serrano before…

Bullets over Broadway

In 1928, David Shayne is an idealistic young playwright newly arrived on Broadway. In order to gain financing for his play, God of Our Fathers, he agrees to hire actress Olive Neal, the girlfriend of a gangster. She is…

Scarface

In 1920s Chicago, Italian immigrant Antonio “Tony” Camonte acts on the orders of Italian mafioso John “Johnny” Lovo and kills “Big” Louis Costillo, the leading crime boss of the city’s South…

The Racket

The plot is very close to the original play and 1928 movie. Racketeer and mobster Nick Scanlon (Ryan) has managed to buy several of the local government and law-enforcement officials of a large midwestern American city. However, he can’t seem…

City Streets

Nan Cooley (Sylvia Sidney), the daughter of racketeer Pop Cooley (Guy Kibbee), is in love with The Kid (Gary Cooper), a shooting gallery showman. Cooley tries to urge him to join the gang, in order to earn enough money to support her in the…

Rififi

Tony “le Stéphanois” has served a five-year prison term for a jewel heist and is out on the street and down on his luck. His friend Jo approaches him about a smash-and-grab proposed by mutual friend Mario in which the threesome…

The Brotherhood

A young American man arrives in Palermo by plane. A taxi driver at the airport immediately gets word to Frank Ginetta (Kirk Douglas), who hides, armed with a gun, until he realizes that the visitor he’s been warned about is actually…

State of Grace

Terry Noonan (Sean Penn) returns to Hell’s Kitchen in New York City after a long absence, where his unpredictable childhood friend Jackie Flannery (Gary Oldman) is involved in an Irish crime organization run by older brother Frank…

Gangster Squad

In 1949 Los Angeles, Mafia gangster Mickey Cohen has become the most powerful figure in the California criminal underworld, and intends to continue to expand his criminal enterprise to Chicago and New York City.…

American Hustle

In 1978, con artists Irving Rosenfeld and Sydney Prosser have started a relationship and are working together. Sydney has improved Rosenfeld’s scams, posing as English aristocrat “Lady Edith Greensly.” Irving loves Sydney…

I Walk Alone

Frankie Madison (Burt Lancaster) and Noll “Dink” Turner (Kirk Douglas) are rum-running partners during Prohibition. They get into a shootout with some would-be hijackers after their liquor, attracting the attention of the…

The Cotton Club

A musician named Dixie Dwyer begins working with mobsters to advance his career but falls in love with the girlfriend of gangland kingpin Dutch Schultz. A dancer from Dixie’s neighborhood, Sandman Williams, is hired with…

Get Shorty (1995)

Chili Palmer (John Travolta) is a loan shark based in Miami who clashes with mobster Ray “Bones” Barboni (Dennis Farina) over a leather jacket that “Bones” borrowed from Palmer without permission. They have two brief but…

The Family

Mafia boss Giovanni Manzoni, who offended Don Luchese, a rival mafia boss, survives an attempted hit on him and his family at a barbecue. He snitches on Luchese, which sends Luchese to prison; Manzoni and his family enter…

The St. Valentine’s Day Massacre

An organized crime war breaks out between two rival gangs in Chicago during the Roaring Twenties. The leader of the Southside Mob is the notorious Al Capone, who resents his nemesis George “Bugs”…

Invisible Stripes

Cliff Taylor (George Raft) is an ex-con who wants to go straight, but since being released from prison on parole, he finds it hard to find and hold a job due to his criminal past. Cliff’s younger brother Tim (William Holden) is worried because…

A Better Tomorrow

Sung Tse-Ho (Ti Lung) works for the Triad, whose principal operation is printing and distributing counterfeit US bank notes. Ho is a respected member of the organization and is entrusted with the most important transactions. Mark Lee (Chow…

The American Friend

Analyze That

Near the completion of his sentence in Sing Sing prison, Paul Vitti’s life is threatened by assassins and corrupt guards while incarcerated. He starts singing showtunes from West Side Story to get the attention of Ben…

Gun Crazy

At the age of fourteen, Bart Tare robs a hardware store and steals a gun. He is sent to reform school by a sympathetic Judge Willoughby (Morris Carnovsky), despite the testimony of his friends Dave and Clyde, his older sister Ruby and…

Machine

Ex special forces mercenary and now hardened criminal Vic, (Michael Lazar) lives in a world of cons, double crosses, crooked cops, mob bosses and drug dealing crime lords. Playing by his own rules, Vic and his partner Frank (Paul Sloan) work both…

The Freshman

Clark Kellogg (Matthew Broderick) leaves his mother (Pamela Payton-Wright) and environmental activist stepfather Dwight (Kenneth Welsh) in Vermont to go to New York University (NYU) to study film. After arriving…

The Whole Nine Yards

Nicholas “Oz” Oseransky (Matthew Perry) is a Quebec dentist from Chicago, who happens to be genuinely likable to almost everyone who knows him. However, he is trapped in a miserable marriage to the daughter of his late business partner.…

Al Capone (1959)

Chicago, 1919: A young Al Capone arrives to work for mob boss Johnny Torrio. He meets Torrio’s top man, “Big Jim” Colosimo, who runs business and politics in the First Ward while secretly on Torrio’s payroll.…

Find Me Guilty

It’s the late 1980s and low-level mobster Jackie DiNorscio (Vin Diesel) has just been shot by his junkie cousin Tony Compagna (Raúl Esparza), but refuses to press charges against him to police. Jackie soon gets arrested and is sentenced to…

The Pope of Greenwich Village

Billy Bathgate

Billy Behan is an impoverished Irish American fifteen year-old living in The Bronx with his schizophrenic mother, who supports the family by working at a laundry. Billy runs with a gang of other boys his age, whose…

Thief

Frank (James Caan) is a jewel thief and ex-convict who has a set structure to his life. With a pair of successful Chicago businesses (a bar and a car dealership) as fronts for his criminal enterprise, Frank sets out to fulfill the missing…

Knockaround Guys

Matty Demaret (Barry Pepper) is the son of a mob boss, but he is used as little more than an errand boy. His relative and friend Chris (Andy Davoli) shares this urge to be part of something bigger, and Matty finally convinces his father to give him…

Sexy Beast

Ex-convict Gary “Gal” Dove is happily retired in Spain with his beloved wife DeeDee, best friend Aitch and Aitch’s wife Jackie. A boulder falls from a hill, nearly hits him, and lands in his swimming pool, damaging its double-heart…

Johnny Dangerously

1935. A pet shop owner catches a young boy shoplifting a puppy. To discourage the kid from a life of crime, the owner tells a story. 1910. Young Johnny Kelly is a poor but honest newsboy in New York City. Johnny’s mother, Ma Kelly, needs…

Capone (1975)

The story is of the rise and fall of the Chicago gangster Al Capone and the control he exhibited over the city during the prohibition years. On the evening of May 6, 1918, in Brooklyn, two police officers intercept a fur…

Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai

Ghost Dog sees himself as a retainer of Louie, a local mobster, who saved Ghost Dog’s life years earlier. While living as a hitman for the American Mafia, he adheres to the code of the samurai, and interprets and applies the…

Be Cool

Chili Palmer, restless after years of filmmaking, enters the music industry after witnessing a Russian mob execute his friend Tommy Athens, owner of a record company. Chili offers to help his friend’s widow, Edie Athens, manage the failing…

Mad Dog and Glory

Wayne Dobie (De Niro) is a shy Chicago Police Department crime scene photographer who has spent years on the job without ever drawing his gun; his colleagues jokingly call him “Mad Dog”. Mad Dog saves the life of mob boss…

Carlito’s Way 2 : Rise to Power

The story begins in the 1960s with three inmates in a New York prison — Earl (Van Peebles), Rocco (Kelly), and Carlito (Hernandez) — controlling their criminal empire within their cell. Upon their release, they all look to control the…

Deuces Wild

Leon and Bobby are brothers and members of the Deuces, a Brooklyn street gang. Ever since the death of their other brother Alphonse “Allie Boy” from a drug overdose at the hands of Marco, they keep drugs off their block. This puts them…

Mickey Blue Eyes (1999)

Michael Felgate is an English auctioneer living in New York where he manages the Cromwell auction house. He proposes marriage to his girlfriend Gina Vitale, but is shocked to be turned down. Gina tearfully explains that her father…

Lansky

The movie circuits around flashbacks of Lansky’s life, first showing Lansky as an old man looking for a rock to put on his grandfather’s grave in Jerusalem. Upon seeing soldiers of the Israeli Defense Force, Lansky expresses…