How About Your Favorite Gangster/Mob Movies?

I have 5. 2 are standards, 2 are OBSCURE, and 1 has a devoted cult following of which I am a member.
Here they are.

The Godfather. Surprise!

Goodfellas. Surprise again!

Miller's Crossing. The Coen brothers cult film about the Irish mob in an un-named city. The Machine gun fight between Albert Finney and some gunsels while "Danny Boy" plays in the background is the highlight for me, but the whole movie is great.

The obscure ones are;

The Brotherhood. Kirk Douglas (don't laugh) is a mob boss who kills the wrong person and his brother has to kill HIM or the whole family will be wiped out.

The Long Good Friday. Bob Hoskins is a London mob boss who gets on the IRA's shit list through the actions of his underlings and his world falls apart. Helen Mirren is great as his girlfriend and you'll miss a very young Pierce Brosnan if you link close to the end of the movie. FANTASTIC music, too!

How about yours?

Absolutely great gangster movie that's the true story of a South African cop turned bank robber

...I'll have to check it out!

Anything with Cagney in it

..."Top of the World, Ma!"

Joe Pesci is the ultimate gangster actor.

For me, it's a very under-rated movie.

As crazy as Pesci's charabter is, I'm most scared when the cheater is confronted by DeNiro. Perfect underplaying!

And that's saying a lot, because Goodfellas is a great film.

...giving the performance of her career!

She was amazing in that. It just goes to show what a great "actors' director" Scorsese is.

"I AM CALM!!"

here who've worked on The Strip since the '60s and '70s, it's basically very true to the true story of "Tony the Ant" Spilotro (Joe Pesci's character, who actually looked a lot like Pacino) and Lefty Rosenthal (De Niro's character, who ran the Stardust and a few other casinos and was apparently quite a character). Tony the Ant and his brother did end up beaten to death and buried in a cornfield. One of my friends left Tony Roma's just a few minutes before Rosenthal left and survived (miraculously) the car-bombing of his Cadillac. Oscar Goodman, who appeared as himself in the movie, was lawyer to both Rosenthal and Spilotro and is now Mayor of Las Vegas...yep, we got a Mafia lawyer in charge here.

Some of these old-time Vegas people have some amazing stories to tell, and most concur that Vegas was a better place for casino employees and for guests before the IRS drove the Mafia out of town (or underground) and the corporations took over. At least they knew the rules, and if you stayed within those rules you were okay -- both employee and guest got treated betetr than is the case now, with the new corporate face of Las Vegas dominating.

...when the mob was tossed out!

That stuff is just the most overrated waste of time.

What I do know is I can't fucking wait for Scorsese's next movie "The Departed". If only DiCaprio wasn't in it I think it would be perfect, on paper anyway.

I'm not as familiar with directors as I used to be!

ster guy.

He directed:

Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
Snatch.
Revolver

and his producer on all of his films Matthew Vaughn directed:

Layer Cake

- which is just more of the same

...in any of those.

I don't know why. They all seem so ridiculously pretentious and gratuitous that I can't get into them. Ritchie's stuff is so silly it's almost a spoof of itself, so I can laugh at it and be so pissed off.

I've never even watched Miller's Crossing, even though the Cohens are my favorite movie makers. Just can't get interested.

I'll except Godfather I and II, but that wasn't just a mob movie. That was a work of art ranked up with Hamlet.

Cagney, Pat O'Brien, Bogart, Ann Sheridan and the East Side Kids (who later became the Bowery Boys). Cagney is HOT in this one!:loveya:

Isn't this the one where he panics before going to the electric chair because Fr. Pat O'Brien asks him to?

Or if it was so that the kids would think he was "yella" and wouldn't see him as a hero.

...was what made it a great moment!

True story that is still reaping benefits 25 years later than the events in the film. FBI agent Joe Pistone went undercover as jewel thief "Donnie Brasco." He eventually worked his way up in the Bonano family and fed the FBI a lot of basic info about mob family structure and organization.

Stars Johnny Depp as Pistone/Brasco and Al Pacino as a mob guy down on his luck who sponsors Pistone.

Features the hilarious "fuggeddabouddit" sequence. :-)

I want to see it all one day.

The scene where Al Pacino is leaving his home knowing that he's going to be killed is rather touching.

He's so understated, believe it or not. And it's fun to watch the two of them interact.

I think that Johnny Depp is an under-rated actor.

feel sorry for him as he goes to die. That is the thing with mob movies, you have some sympathy for these cold blooded killers. Like the Sopranos for instance. I don't want to see Tony die or go to jail in the final season, but that would be fair and justified if he did!! And that is what he most certainly deserves.

...with the facination over gangster movies.

Great actors make bad people seem sympathetic.

while many people think of him as the vein-popping, arm waving, shouting hothead, I always think that he shows his true brilliance in scenes where he says nothing, but conveys a wealth of emotion in small gestures.
There is a beautiful moment in the otherwise wretched Godfather III, where he leans closer to his ex-wife with an old familiarity, realizes what he is doing, and withdraws. It is heartbreaking.

BTW, We're forgetting "Heat" with he, DeNiro and Val Kilmer!

Goodfellas
Casino
The Godfather (all of them)
Scarface
Donnie Brasco
A Bronx Tale
Road to Perdition
The Untouchables
Bugsey

I forgot "A Bronx Tale"!

Public Enemy, White Heat and Little Caesar

those are classic ones

Mother of Mercy! Is this the end of Rico?

And these are the classic ones to me!

It was excellent before it was butchered for American theaters, I believe the currently available DVD has the original uncut version.

Obviously the Godfather 1 and 2.

Donnie Brasco (LOVED Pacino in this).

Casino.

Goodfellas (of course).

I miss Elizabeth McGovern. What ever happened to her?

Another Lonely Hitman

Onibi: The Fire Within

...but not the other 2.

I love obscure movies!

Rochiro Mochizuki. Mochizuki started his career in the "pink cinema" industry, i.e. porn. He has an amazing eye for capturing the subtle beauty of his characters, almost a softness. The writing is top notch too.

Another Lonely Hitman review -
http://www.horrorview.com/Another%20Lonely%20Hitman.htm

Onibi review-
http://www.horrorview.com/Onibi.htm

Pink Camera. Interesting.

:hi:

My dad worked for the Krays :scared: .

Doing what?

BTW, given that, if I've ever offended you, I'm very sorry! :hurts:

But that was before he had a family and an air of respectability (such as it was). One of the reasons my mom moved us (her and I) to Canada when they split-up is because he had an outstanding bench warrant here, and would be arrested on sight if he ever set foot in the country.

and does Sopranos count?

Even though it's a TV show.

Like I'm a clown?

well, I think you do. Lee Strasberg's scene where he just about accuses Michael of whacking Moe Greene is awesome.

...but I like the first more.

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Now I don't have to ask, "Why do you treat me with such disrespect?" :hi:

"Now go get your fuckin' shinebox."

I know, different movie, but it is in the spirit of the thread.

:hi:

...if you were F***in' talking about the F***in' remake ot F***in' not! :hi:

Probably couldn't even say it in the stag reels...

...I'd say that back then they didn't know what it was!

Also a foreign film I saw a few years ago. I think it might have been Danish, but I forget the title. Very bleak and depressing. The lead character is indebted to the Mob, and has to get some money together in a fixed period of time. He's kind of a prick, and at some point in the movie he ends up with this streetwalker as a sidekick. In the end, she steals all the money he's raised, moments before the deadline, and the final scene of the movie is the mobsters laying our rolls of plastic sheeting in the guy's kitchen... :scared: .

I wish I could remember it; I'd like to see it again.

...but it sounds good!

saw it when it first came out, making Hoskins a star.

...that when I saw it in the theatre I didn't like it. I remember saying that the music and Helen Mirren's performance were the only good things about it.

About a year later, my father and step-mother wanted to see it on cable and the second time around I loved it!

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092226

With Joe Piscopo and Danny DeVito. Hilarious 80's comedy.

I don't care much for gangster/mob movies--there's something about the relentless violence, the machismo, etc. that I find disturbing and annoying. But "MTTM" is a black-comedy classic, with Alec Baldwin, Mercedes Ruhl, Oscar-nominated Dean Stockwell, Matthew Modine, and the glorious Michelle Pfeiffer (who looks edible with a brunette color and perm).

Immortal line: "Everything we own fell offa truck!"

There are a lot of other good ones - from the old Little Caesar to the newer Goodfellas. But, none of them compare to the first two Godfather movies. Every gangster movie and book since has been influenced by those movies, and will continue to be influence by them for the next 100 years.

Comparing them to the rest is like calling Hamlet a swashbuckling play.

The Godfather, Parts I and II
Scarface
Goodfellas
Carlito's Way
A Bronx Tale
King of New York
Heat
True Romance
Reservoir Dogs
Pulp Fiction
New Jack City
Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels
Sugar Hill
Road to Perdition
Casino
Sin City

Honorable mentions to Godfather I, Goodfellas, Donnie Brasco and Blood Simple.

Lillo Brancato and De Niro. Brancato, you're in a whole lot of trouble now boy.