While the silent era produced many proto-type gangster movies, the genre officially did not begin to take form until the early 1930s. Film scholars and historians consider Josef von Sternberg's ...

The 1960s birthed some of the most entertaining gangster movies ever made. Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway thrilled audiences ...

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But what might be the greatest gangster movies ever made? As the American film industry matured in the early 20th century, so too did organized crime. While violent gangs and criminal outlaws are ...

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Another title that benefited from the Pre-Code era, this is one of the movies that laid the foundation of how gangster movies would be told as the genre evolved. Mario Van Peebles' classic made ...

The movie was so successful that Hollywood made more than 50 gangster movies the following year. The most violent movie of 1932 was Scarface, starring Paul Muni as Tony Camonte, a Chicago mobster.

I've been tackling quite a few hot ticket items in the '21st Century Top Fives' department lately, but this one is particularly controversial: the best gangster movies released in the past 20 years.

And so, with tracksuits on, geezer nicknames doled out, and knuckles dusted, Team Empire assembled a list of the very best British gangster movies ever made. From comedy classics, to bruising turn ...