15 Top Classic Gangster Film

Slowly close your eyes and search for memories of the dusty days of the past. You can't wipe it mostly. A silent picture gradually emerged on your mind with unusual memories and stories.The gangster movie has always been a movie that is very popular with everyone, especially men. 

For example, The Godfather is a 1972 American gangster film based on the novel of the same name by Mario Puzo and directed by Francis Ford Coppola from a screenplay by Puzo, Coppola, and Robert Towne. For some people, The Godfather is no mere movie but a manual – a guide to living the gangster's life.

Do you know what are the top 15 gangster movies in the world? Here are the top ten classic gangster movies , and you will find one that you like it.


Release Date
1983-12-09
  • Rate : 8.3
  • Production Companies : Universal Pictures
  • Director : Brian De Palma, Chris Soldo, Jerry Ziesmer
  • Stars : Al Pacino , Steven Bauer , Michelle Pfeiffer
  • After getting a green card in exchange for assassinating a Cuban government official, Tony Montana stakes a claim on the drug trade in Miami. Viciously murdering anyone who stands in his way, Tony eventually becomes the biggest drug lord in the state, controlling nearly all the cocaine that comes through Miami. But increased pressure from the police, wars with Colombian drug cartels and his own drug-fueled paranoia serve to fuel the flames of his eventual downfall.
Release Date
1993-11-10
  • Rate : 7.9
  • Production Companies : Universal Pictures, Epic Productions
  • Director : Brian De Palma, Lynne Twentyman, Chris Soldo
  • Stars : Al Pacino , Sean Penn , Penelope Ann Miller
  • A Puerto-Rican ex-con, just released from prison, pledges to stay away from drugs and violence despite the pressure around him, and lead a better life outside NYC.
Release Date
1995-11-22
  • Rate : 8.2
  • Production Companies : Universal Pictures, Légende Entreprises
  • Director : Martin Scorsese, Joseph P. Reidy, Darin Rivetti
  • Stars : Robert De Niro , Sharon Stone , Joe Pesci
  • In early-1970s Las Vegas, Sam "Ace" Rothstein gets tapped by his bosses to head the Tangiers Casino. At first, he's a great success in the job, but over the years, problems with his loose-cannon enforcer Nicky Santoro, his ex-hustler wife Ginger, her con-artist ex Lester Diamond and a handful of corrupt politicians put Sam in ever-increasing danger.
Release Date
1997-02-27
  • Rate : 7.7
  • Production Companies : TriStar Pictures, Mark Johnson Productions
  • Director : Mike Newell, Joseph P. Reidy
  • Stars : Johnny Depp , Al Pacino , Michael Madsen
  • An FBI undercover agent infiltrates the mob and identifies more with the mafia life at the expense of his regular one.
Release Date
1987-06-03
  • Rate : 7.8
  • Production Companies : Paramount, The Linson Company
  • Director : Brian De Palma, Joe Napolitano, Richard Patrick
  • Stars : Kevin Costner , Sean Connery , Charles Martin Smith
  • Young Treasury Agent Eliot Ness arrives in Chicago and is determined to take down Al Capone, but it's not going to be easy because Capone has the police in his pocket. Ness meets Jim Malone, a veteran patrolman and probably the most honorable one on the force. He asks Malone to help him get Capone, but Malone warns him that if he goes after Capone, he is going to war.
Release Date
2007-11-02
  • Rate : 7.8
  • Production Companies : Imagine Entertainment, Universal Pictures
  • Director : Mary A. Kelly, Apichart Chusakul, Apichart Chusakul
  • Stars : Russell Crowe , Denzel Washington , Chiwetel Ejiofor
  • 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. Partly based on a true story.
Release Date
1990-09-21
  • Rate : 7.7
  • Production Companies : Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation, Circle Films
  • Director : Joel Coen, Thomas Johnston, Gregory Jacobs
  • Stars : Gabriel Byrne , Marcia Gay Harden , John Turturro
  • Set in 1929, a political boss and his advisor have a parting of the ways when they both fall for the same woman.
Release Date
2007-09-14
  • Rate : 7.6
  • Production Companies : BBC Film, Serendipity Point Films
  • Director : David Cronenberg, Susanna Lenton
  • Stars : Viggo Mortensen , Naomi Watts , Vincent Cassel
  • A Russian teenager living in London dies during childbirth but leaves clues in her diary that could tie her child to a rape involving a violent Russian mob family.
Release Date
1984-06-01
  • Rate : 8.3
  • Production Companies : Warner Bros., The Ladd Company
  • Director : Sergio Leone, Philippe Landoulsi, Dennis T. Benatar
  • Stars : Robert De Niro , James Woods , Elizabeth McGovern
  • A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan over thirty years later, where he once again must confront the ghosts and regrets of his old life.
Release Date
2008-10-30
  • Rate : 7.2
  • Production Companies : StudioCanal, Dark Castle Entertainment
  • Director : Guy Ritchie
  • Stars : Gerard Butler , Tom Wilkinson , Thandiwe Newton
  • When a Russian mobster sets up a real estate scam that generates millions of pounds, various members of London's criminal underworld pursue their share of the fortune. Various shady characters, including Mr One-Two, Stella the accountant, and Johnny Quid, a druggie rock-star, try to claim their slice.
Release Date
1990-09-19
  • Rate : 8.7
  • Production Companies : Winkler Films, Warner Bros.
  • Director : Martin Scorsese, Sheila Paige, Joseph P. Reidy
  • Stars : Ray Liotta , Robert De Niro , Joe Pesci
  • 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.
Release Date
2005-12-23
  • Rate : 7.2
  • Production Companies : Movieworld Productions, Industrial Development Corporation of South Africa
  • Director : Gavin Hood
  • Stars : Presley Chweneyagae , Jerry Mofokeng , Rapulana Seiphemo
  • The South African multi-award winning film about a young South African boy from the ghetto named Tsotsi, meaning Gangster. Tsotsi, who left home as a child to get away from helpless parents, finds a baby in the back seat of a car that he has just stolen. He decides that it his responsibility to take care of the baby and in the process learns that maybe the gangster life isn’t the best way.
Release Date
2020-12-04
  • Rate : 7.6
  • Production Companies : Paramount, American Zoetrope
  • Director : Francis Ford Coppola, K.C. Hodenfield, H. Gordon Boos
  • Stars : Al Pacino , Diane Keaton , Talia Shire
  • In the midst of trying to legitimize his business dealings in 1979 New York and Italy, aging mafia don, Michael Corleone seeks forgiveness for his sins while taking a young protege under his wing.
Release Date
1974-12-20
  • Rate : 9
  • Production Companies : Paramount, The Coppola Company
  • Director : John Franco, Newt Arnold, Burt Bluestein
  • Stars : Al Pacino , Robert Duvall , Diane Keaton
  • In the continuing saga of the Corleone crime family, a young Vito Corleone grows up in Sicily and in 1910s New York. In the 1950s, Michael Corleone attempts to expand the family business into Las Vegas, Hollywood and Cuba.
Release Date
1972-03-24
  • Rate : 9.2
  • Production Companies : Paramount, Alfran Productions
  • Director : Fred T. Gallo, Tony Brandt, Stephen F. Kesten
  • Stars : Marlon Brando , Al Pacino , James Caan
  • Spanning the years 1945 to 1955, a chronicle of the fictional Italian-American Corleone crime family. When organized crime family patriarch, Vito Corleone barely survives an attempt on his life, his youngest son, Michael steps in to take care of the would-be killers, launching a campaign of bloody revenge.
Release Date
1973-10-14
  • Rate : 7.2
  • Production Companies : Scorsese Productions, Warner Bros. Pictures
  • Director : Martin Scorsese, Ron Satlof, Bobbie Sierks
  • Stars : Harvey Keitel , Robert De Niro , David Proval
  • A small-time hood must choose from among love, friendship and the chance to rise within the mob.
Release Date
2002-12-19
  • Rate : 7.5
  • Production Companies : Miramax, Initial Entertainment Group
  • Director : Martin Scorsese, Rachel Griffiths, Joseph P. Reidy
  • Stars : Leonardo DiCaprio , Daniel Day-Lewis , Cameron Diaz
  • In 1863, Amsterdam Vallon returns to the Five Points of America to seek vengeance against the psychotic gangland kingpin, Bill the Butcher, who murdered his father years earlier. With an eager pickpocket by his side and a whole new army, Vallon fights his way to seek vengeance on the Butcher and restore peace in the area.