The movies on this list feature 20 essential gangster movies from the 1930s that remain truly unforgettable even today. In ...

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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 ...

Gangster movies became popular after the advent of sound ... The real jewel of the film is its 20-minute, dialogue and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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.

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 ...