American gangster films

The Godfather is a 1972 American epic gangster film directed by Francis Ford Coppola, who co-wrote the screenplay with Mario Puzo based on Puzo's best-selling 1969 novel. The film features an ensemble cast that includes Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan, Richard Castellano, Robert Duvall, Sterling Hayden, John Marley, Richard Conte and Diane Keaton. It is the first installment in The Godfather trilogy, which chronicles the Corleone family under patriarch Vito Corleone (Brando) and the transformation of his youngest son, Michael Corleone (Pacino), from reluctant family outsider to ruthless mafia boss.

1994 film by Quentin Tarantino

1974 film by Francis Ford Coppola

1959 film directed by Billy Wilder

2007 film directed by Ethan and Joel Coen

1990 film by Francis Ford Coppola

Goodfellas (stylized as GoodFellas) is a 1990 American biographical crime drama film directed by Martin Scorsese, written by Nicholas Pileggi and Scorsese, and produced by Irwin Winkler. It is a film adaptation of Pileggi's 1985 nonfiction book Wiseguy. Starring Robert De Niro, Ray Liotta, Joe Pesci, Lorraine Bracco and Paul Sorvino, the film narrates the rise and fall of Mafia associate Henry Hill and his friends and family from 1955 to 1980.

1983 film directed by Brian De Palma

1984 film by Sergio Leone

2007 film by Ridley Scott

1967 US film by Arthur Penn

1987 film directed by Brian De Palma

2014 film directed by Chad Stahelski and David Leitch

1998 film by Guy Ritchie

2019 film directed by Martin Scorsese

2017 film directed by Edgar Wright

2011 film directed by Nicolas Winding Refn

1973 film by Martin Scorsese

Sinners is a 2025 American horror film produced, written, and directed by Ryan Coogler. Set in 1932 in the Mississippi Delta, it stars Michael B. Jordan in dual roles as criminal twin brothers who return to their hometown in the Jim Crow South, where they are confronted by a supernatural evil. The film co-stars Hailee Steinfeld, Miles Caton, Jack O'Connell, Wunmi Mosaku, Jayme Lawson, Omar Benson Miller, and Delroy Lindo.

1990 film by Coen brothers

2013 film by Ruben Fleischer

2019 film directed by Guy Ritchie

2006 film by Paul McGuigan

2005 film by David Cronenberg

1993 film directed by Robert De Niro

RocknRolla is a 2008 crime comedy film written and directed by Guy Ritchie, featuring an ensemble cast that includes Gerard Butler, Tom Wilkinson, Thandiwe Newton, Mark Strong, Idris Elba, Tom Hardy, Toby Kebbell, Jeremy Piven and Ludacris. It was released in the United Kingdom on 5 September 2008, reaching number one in the UK box office in its first week of release. The film received mixed reviews from critics.

2024 superhero film by J. C. Chandor

1932 American gangster film

1938 film by Michael Curtiz

2015 film directed by F. Gary Gray

2019 American film by Vince Gilligan

1948 film by John Huston

2012 film by Andrew Dominik

Bugsy is a 1991 American biographical crime drama film directed by Barry Levinson and written by James Toback. Starring Warren Beatty, Annette Bening, Harvey Keitel, Ben Kingsley, Elliott Gould, Bebe Neuwirth, and Joe Mantegna, the film is based on mobster Bugsy Siegel and his affair with starlet Virginia Hill.

1931 film by Mervyn LeRoy

1992 film directed by Robert Rodriguez

1999 film by Brian Helgeland

2019 film directed by Joshua Safdie and Ben Safdie

1999 film by Jim Jarmusch

2006 film by Joe Carnahan

1970 film by Jacques Deray

1990 film by Abel Ferrara

1995 film by Stanley Tong

2008 film by Danny Pang Phat, Oxide Pang Chun

1928 film by Lewis Milestone

1927 film by Josef von Sternberg

2024 film directed by Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett

1938 film directed by John Cromwell

1967 American crime film directed by John Boorman

2009 film by Antoine Fuqua

1934 film by W. S. Van Dyke, George Cukor

2021 film directed by Alan Taylor

2002 film directed by Walter Hill

1976 film by Alan Parker

2002 film directed by Don Michael Paul

1997 film directed by Oliver Stone

1991 film directed by Mario Van Peebles

2007 film by James Gray

1937 film by Michael Curtiz, Lloyd Bacon

2011 film directed by Jonathan Hensleigh