Greatest Early Crime and Gangster Films:
Underworld (1927)
The Lights of New York (1928)
Little Caesar (1930)
M (1931, German)
The Public Enemy (1931)
I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang (1932)
Scarface: The Shame of the Nation (1932)
Manhattan Melodrama (1934)
The Petrified Forest (1934)
G-Men (1935)
Bullets or Ballots (1936)
Petrified Forest (1936)
Dead End (1937)
Marked Woman (1937)
Angels With Dirty Faces (1938)
The Roaring Twenties (1939)
They Drive by Night (1940)
High Sierra (1941)
The Glass Key (1942)
This Gun for Hire (1942)
Dillinger (1945)
The Big Sleep (1946)
The Killers (1946)
Brute Force (1947)
Kiss of Death (1947)
Out of the Past (1947)
T-Men (1947)
Key Largo (1948)
Raw Deal (1948)
Gun Crazy (1949)
They Live By Night (1949)
White Heat (1949)
The Asphalt Jungle (1950)
The Enforcer (1951)
The Lavender Hill Mob (1951)
Strangers on a Train (1951)
The Big Heat (1953)
On the Waterfront (1954)
The Big Combo (1955)
Rififi (1955)
The Killing (1956)
The Defiant Ones (1958)
Touch of Evil (1958)
Al Capone (1959)
The FBI Story (1959)

Recent Crime and Gangster Films:
Cape Fear (1961)
Underworld USA (1961)
The Birdman of Alcatraz (1962)
Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
Cool Hand Luke (1967)
In the Heat of the Night (1967)
Point Blank (1967)
The Brotherhood (1968)
Bullitt (1968)
The Italian Job (1969)
Dirty Harry (1971)
The French Connection (1971)
Get Carter (1971)
The Godfather (1972)
Badlands (1973)
Dillinger (1973)
Mean Streets (1973)
Serpico (1973)
The Godfather, Part II (1974)
Thieves Like Us (1974)
Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
Taxi Driver (1976)
The Long Good Friday (1980)
Raging Bull (1980)
Prince of the City (1981)
48 Hrs. (1982)
Blood Simple (1983)
Scarface (1983)
Once Upon a Time in America (1984)
Prizzi's Honor (1985)
Manhunter (1986)
Lethal Weapon (1987)
The Untouchables (1987)
Things Change (1988)
Dick Tracy (1990)
The Godfather, Part III (1990)
GoodFellas (1990)
Miller's Crossing (1990)
Bugsy (1991)
Cape Fear (1991)
JFK (1991)
Basic Instinct (1992)
Hoffa (1992)
Reservoir Dogs (1992)
A Bronx Tale (1993)
Carlito's Way (1993)
In the Line of Fire (1993)
Natural Born Killers (1994)
The Professional (Fr.) (1994)
Pulp Fiction (1994)
Casino (1995)
Clockers (1995)
Heat (1995)
Se7en (1995)
The Usual Suspects (1995)
Bound (1996)
Fargo (1996)
Donnie Brasco (1997)
Jackie Brown (1997)
L. A. Confidential (1997)
The Big Lebowski (1998)
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998)
Out of Sight (1998)
A Simple Plan (1998)
Swordfish (2000)
Road to Perdition (2002)

...please add what I am missing and if anyone thinks a film on this list doesn't qualify as a "gangster film" let me know and I will be more then happy to modifiy this list...


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