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Plot Summary:
Killer Vincent "Mad Dog" Coll moves in on gangster Dutch Schultz in 1920s New York.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 332
Genere: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags:
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King of the Roaring 20's: The Story of Arnold Rothstein (1961)
Plot Summary:
Gambler Arnold Rothstein (David Janssen) marries an actress (Dianne Foster), avenges his buddy (Mickey Rooney) and meets an underworld fate.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 292
Genere: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: slang, independent film
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Portrait of a Mobster (1961)
Plot Summary:
A vicious hood rises to the top of the rackets in Depression-era New York in this account of the life of Dutch Schultz.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 136
Genere: Biography, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags:
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The Outfit (1993)
Plot Summary:
A renegade FBI agent sparks an explosive mob war between gangster crime lords Legs Diamond and Dutch Schultz.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 192
Genere: Crime, Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, neo noir, independent film
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Johnny Cool (1963)
Plot Summary:
A deported gangster trains an Italian convict to take over his operations in the U.S.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: neo noir, psychotronic, noir, independent film, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, tragic ending
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A Bullet for Pretty Boy (1970)
Plot Summary:
A biography of Charles "Pretty Boy" Floyd, a gangster who started his career at a young age after seeking revenge for his father's murder.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 248
Genere: Action, Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: independent film, serious, realistic, suspenseful, neo noir, suspense, tragic ending
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Melvin Purvis G-MAN (1974)
Plot Summary:
Agent Melvin Purvis is placed in charge of running down notorious killer Machine Gun Kelly, and sets out to do just that.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 216
Genere: Action, Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: sincere, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, neo noir, neo western
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Getting Gotti (1994)
Plot Summary:
The fall of mob boss John Gotti.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 419
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags:
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Rob the Mob (2014)
Plot Summary:
The true-life story of a crazy-in-love Queens couple who robbed a series of mafia social clubs and got away with it… for a while… until they stumble upon a score bigger than they ever planned and become targets of both the mob and the FBI.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: captivating, serious, realistic, suspenseful, social, independent film, interesting
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Overkill: The Aileen Wuornos Story (1992)
Plot Summary:
This film is based on the true story of Aileen Wuornos a prostitute-turned-serial killer who preyed mostly on truck drivers.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 235
Genere: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
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Public Enemies (1996)
Plot Summary:
Ma Barker (Theresa Russell) and her sons rob banks, shoot people and wind up at the top of the FBI's "most wanted" list in the 1930s.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, exciting, tense, suspense, independent film
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A Murderous Affair: The Carolyn Warmus Story (1992)
Plot Summary:
A married man meets a beautiful woman and they begin an affair.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 373
Genere: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags:
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Honor Thy Father (1973)
Plot Summary:
Joseph Bologna stars as Bill Bonanno in this made-for-television adaptation of the controversial bestseller from Gay Talese, chronicling the rise of New York's infamous Bonanno organized crime family. When his father disappears in 1964 and Bill is compelled to take over the "empire," other mafiosi attempt to take what's theirs. Brenda Vaccaro and Richard S. Castellano fill out the impressive cast of this gripping crime tale.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 181
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, cynical, semi documentary
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Boss of Bosses (2001)
Plot Summary:
The story of the rise and fall of the powerful New York City organized crime boss, Paul Castellano.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: tense, rough, serious, suspenseful, realistic
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Wisegal (2008)
Plot Summary:
A drama centered around Patty Montanari, the widowed mother of two who went to work for her lover Frank Russo, a captain in a Brooklyn crime family.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: realistic, serious, tense, suspenseful, exciting, captivating, suspense
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Dillinger (1973)
Plot Summary:
The life of American public enemy number one who was shot by the police in 1934. After a shoot-out kills five FBI agents in Kansas City the Bureau target John Dillinger as one of the men to hunt down. Waiting for him to break Federal law they sort out several other mobsters, while Dillinger's bank robbing exploits make him something of a folk hero. Escaping from jail he finds Pretty Boy Floyd and Baby Face Nelson have joined the gang and pretty soon he is Public Enemy Number One. Now the G-men really are after him.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: noir, grindhouse, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, crying, dark comedy, independent film
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The Krays (1990)
Plot Summary:
The Krays is a film based on the lives and crimes of the British gangsters Ronald and Reginald Kray, twins who are often referred to as The Krays and were active in London in the 1960s.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: neo noir, tense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film, psychological, brutal, enigmatic
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Sinatra Club (2010)
Plot Summary:
Brutal and celebrated Mafia gangster John Gotti (Danny Nucci) schemes, shoves and murders his way to the top of that world in this gritty biography told from the perspective of Salvatore Polisi (Jason Gedrick), who owns the Sinatra Club, where Gotti's crew hangs out. Determined to make his name, the young Gotti plans a daring armored-car robbery that he expects to get him noticed by the bosses of each of New York's five major crime families.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 877
Genere: Action, Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: tense, rough, serious, suspenseful, realistic
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Capone (1975)
Plot Summary:
The story of the rise and fall of the infamous Chicago gangster Al Capone and the control he exhibited over the city during the prohibition years.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: rough, realistic, suspenseful, serious, psychotronic, cult classic, captivating, poliziottesco
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Gotti (1996)
Plot Summary:
John Gotti, the head of a small New York mafia crew breaks a few of the old family rules. He rises to become the head of the Gambino family and the most well-known mafia boss in America. Life is good, but suspicion creeps in, and greed, rule-breaking and his high public profile all threaten to topple him.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic
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Bugsy (1991)
Plot Summary:
New York gangster Ben 'Bugsy' Siegel takes a brief business trip to Los Angeles. A sharp-dressing womanizer with a foul temper, Siegel doesn't hesitate to kill or maim anyone crossing him. In L.A. the life, the movies, and most of all strong-willed Virginia Hill detain him while his family wait back home. Then a trip to a run-down gambling joint at a spot in the desert known as Las Vegas gives him his big idea.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 31000
Genere: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 136 min
Plot tags: realistic, stylized, intense, suspense, talky, tense, serious, captivating, period piece, neo noir
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Lucky Luciano (1973)
Plot Summary:
Lucky Luciano is one of the bosses of the Mafia. He orders the slaughter of 40 other responsibles, therefore becoming the only boss. But a few years later he is put into jail. In 1946, he got a pardon and is sent back to Sicilia. There, he begins becoming one of the chief of the Mafia. The US Army seems to refrain from interfering.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: Italy, France, USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: poliziottesco, historical drama, sincere, rough, serious, captivating, realistic, contemplative, talky
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Kill the Irishman (2011)
Plot Summary:
Over the summer of 1976, thirty-six bombs detonate in the heart of Cleveland while a turf war raged between Irish mobster Danny Greene and the Italian mafia. Based on a true story, kill the Irishman chronicles Greene's heroic rise from a tough Cleveland neighborhood to become an enforcer in the local mob.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 51000
Genere: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: tense, brutal, suspense, talky, intense, rough, suspenseful, serious, realistic, thought provoking
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Hoodlum (1997)
Plot Summary:
In 1934, the second most lucrative business in New York City was running "the numbers". When, Madam Queen, the powerful woman who runs the scam in Harlem, is arrested. Ellsworth "Bumpy" Johnson takes over the business and must resist against the invasion from merciless mobster Dutch Shultz.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: hood, stylized, neo noir, black and white, crime drama, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, clever
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Gotti (2018)
Plot Summary:
John Gotti rises to the top of the New York underworld to become the boss of the Gambino crime family. His life takes a tumultuous turn as he faces tragedy, multiple trials and a prison sentence.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, realistic, inspirational, sad, disgusting, independent film
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Black Mass (2015)
Plot Summary:
The true story of Whitey Bulger, the brother of a state senator and the most infamous violent criminal in the history of South Boston, who became an FBI informant to take down a Mafia family invading his turf.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 190000
Genere: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: suspense, factual, brutal, intense, captivating, realistic, suspenseful, serious, independent film, stylized
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Donnie Brasco (1997)
Plot Summary:
An FBI undercover agent infilitrates the mob and finds himself identifying more with the mafia life at the expense of his regular one.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 326000
Genere: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: neo noir, tense, realistic, clever, suspense, serious, suspenseful, rough, talky, atmospheric
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Goodfellas (1990)
Plot Summary:
The true story of Henry Hill, a half-Irish, half-Sicilian Brooklyn kid who is adopted by neighbourhood gangsters at an early age and climbs the ranks of a Mafia family under the guidance of Jimmy Conway.
IMDB Rating: 8.7
IMDB Votes: 12000000
Genere: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 145 min
Plot tags: rough, suspense, realistic, epic, brutal, cult classic, hood, suspenseful, neo noir, fast paced
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Lawless (2012)
Plot Summary:
Set in the Depression-era Franklin County, Virginia, a bootlegging gang is threatened by authorities who want a cut of their profits.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 251000
Genere: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: intense, suspense, harsh, stylized, entertaining, atmospheric, bad ending, rough, bleak, serious
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American Gangster (2007)
Plot Summary:
Following the death of his employer and mentor, Bumpy Johnson, Frank Lucas establishes himself as the number one importer of heroin in the Harlem district of Manhattan. He does so by buying heroin directly from the source in South East Asia and he comes up with a unique way of importing the drugs into the United States. Based on a true story.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 446000
Genere: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 157 min
Plot tags: serious, tense, realistic, suspense, harsh, hood, clever, detective, suspenseful, entertaining
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The Irishman (2019)
Plot Summary:
A mob hit man recalls his possible involvement with the slaying of Jimmy Hoffa.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 421000
Genere: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 209 min
Plot tags: captivating, exciting, tense, inspirational, crime drama, thought provoking, retro, intellectual, suspense, sad