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The allure of wealth and power, the precarious gambling of life and death - there's nothing quite like a good gangster movie.

Internationally, gangster films like Dragnet Girl and Pp le Moko also accounted for some of the 1930s best gangster movies. Frankenstein, King Kong, and Dracula rank among the greatest horror ...

From White Heat's Cody Jarrett to Scarface's Tony Camonte, these are the most iconic gangsters from classic cinema.

Gangster movies became popular after the advent of sound cinema, though the reasons were more economic. At the time of the Great Depression, newspapers told stories of celebrity criminals – or ...

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 ...

This classic James Cagney movie from director Raoul Walsh still holds up as one of the best gangster movies ever. Cagney plays Cody Jarret, a psychotic gangster who is obsessed with his mother.

When you're making a list of the best gangster movies ever, it literally cannot be complete without The Godfather – a movie so beloved and critically adored that it's almost in a tier of its own.

During the Great Depression, casting gangsters as ... The movie was so successful that Hollywood made more than 50 gangster movies the following year. The most violent movie of 1932 was Scarface ...

They hire a former nightclub bouncer, now a self-made micro-budget gangster film director. In 2011, Paul Knight makes their movie for under £100,000 with a cast of soap and gangster movie stars ...