The Long Good Friday (1980), Traffic (1971), Monday (2000), White Heat (1949), Scarface (1932), The Long Good Friday (1980), The Sicilian Clan (1969), Atlantic City (1980) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Crime Boss movies.
Storyline: After a shoot-out kills five FBI agents in Kansas City the Bureau target John Dillinger as one of the men to hunt down. Waiting for him to break Federal law they sort out several other mobsters, while Dillinger's bank robbing exploits make him something of a folk hero. Escaping from jail he finds Pretty Boy Floyd and Baby Face Nelson have joined the gang and pretty soon he is Public Enemy Number One. Now the G-men really are after him.—Jeremy Perkins {J-26}
Plot Keywords: crime, gangster, biography, action, violence, historical, true story ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A crime drama set in New York City during the winter of 1981, statistically one of the most violent years in the city's history, and centered on the lives of an immigrant and his family trying to expand their business and capitalize on opportunities as the rampant violence, decay, and corruption of the day drag them in and threaten to destroy all they have built.
Plot Keywords: crime, drama, thriller, new york, 1980s, gangster, violence ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: During the 1980s, U.S. Customs Service special agent Robert Mazur uses his undercover alias "Bob Musella" to become a pivotal player for drug lords cleaning their dirty cash. Later, he infiltrates the world's largest cartel, and helps expose the money-laundering organization of drug lord Pablo Escobar and take down the Bank of Credit and Commerce International, which had secretly taken illegal ownership of First American Bank shares in Washington, D.C. He survives the deception and has a long and productive career..
Plot Keywords: crime, thriller, biography, drugs, undercover, law enforcement, 1980s ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The difficult 1930s is a time of robbers who knock over banks and other rich targets with alarming frequency. Of them, none is more notorious than John Dillinger, whose gang plies its trade with cunning efficiency against big businesses while leaving ordinary citizens alone. As Dillinger becomes a folk hero, FBI head J. Edger Hoover is determined to stop his ilk by assigning ace agent Melvin Purvis to hunt down Dillinger. As Purvis struggles with the manhunt's realities, Dillinger himself faces an ominous future with the loss of friends, dwindling options and a changing world of organized crime with no room for him.
Plot Keywords: crime, action, biography, history, thriller, gunfight, gangster ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A dramatization of the Great Train Robbery. While not a 'how to', it is very detail dependent, showing the care and planning that took place to pull it off.—John Vogel <jlvogel@comcast.net>
Plot Keywords: crime, action, thriller, british film, based on true events, suspense, film noir ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A middle-aged crime boss smugly reflects back from 1999, narrating the brutality which made him triumphant - and feared. As an unnamed young hood in Swinging 60's London, he aped his mod boss Freddie Mays, and seemed to do anything for him. But his narration exposes all-consuming envy: of Freddie's supremacy, and especially his tall bird. The baby shark develops his viciousness and backstabbing, scheming to be Gangster No. 1.
Plot Keywords: crime, gangster, violence, thriller, british, london, revenge ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Jimmy the Saint's business is videotaping the terminally-ill, so that they will be around to give 'Afterlife Advice' to their survivors. He hasn't been doing too well lately and has had to turn to loan-sharks to accomodate his failing business, as well as his expensive personal tastes. When an evil gangster-overlord buys up his note and demands a favor of Jimmy, in exchange for the interest that he can't afford, Jimmy capitulates. Jimmy is to scare someone for the gangster-overlord--really rough them up. Without giving too much away (spoiler), the scene goes down badly and Jimmy and his crew all end up with contracts on their heads for their trouble.
Plot Keywords: crime, black comedy, drama, thriller, violence, gangster, revenge ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Chicago February 14th 1929. Al Capone finally establishes himself as the city's boss of organised crime. In a north-side garage his hoods, dressed as policemen, surprise and mow down with machine-guns the key members of Bugs Moran's rival gang. The film traces the history of the incident, and the lives affected and in some cases ended by it.—Jeremy Perkins {J-26}
Plot Keywords: gangster, crime, historical, violence, chicago, 1920s, gang war ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Set in 1991 on the inner-city streets of Oakland, California, cocaine dealer Charles Cosby has his life changed forever when he writes a fan letter to the "Cocaine Godmother" Griselda Blanco, who is serving time at a nearby federal prison. Six months later, Cosby is a multi-millionaire, Blanco's lover, and the head of her $40 million a year cocaine business. Also known as "The Black Widow" for her propensity to permanently dispose of her men when she's done with them, Blanco will stop at nothing to ensure that Charles is faithful to her. Cosby soon learns that he's in way over his head.—Magnet Releasing edited w/ some masala
Plot Keywords: crime, documentary, drugs, gangsters, miami, true story, drug trafficking ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A young director intent on making "the greatest color crime movie ever" can't seem to finish his script--he has a beginning and an end, but he can't quite figure out the middle. The daughter of his landlord, excited to have a real "movie person" living nearby, tries to help by putting him in touch with a man who wants to collaborate on a script--the strange "Dr. Jolly".—frankfob2@yahoo.com
Plot Keywords: crime, thriller, film noir, heist, police, fugitive, suspense ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Police Chief Jim Fitzpatrick is fighting gangster Sam Belmonte. He asks his dishonest brother Ed to keep an eye on Daisy who was connected with Belmonte.—Ed Stephan <stephan@cc.wwu.edu>
Plot Keywords: crime, gangster, police, corruption, violence, action, mystery ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: When a murder occurs on an ocean liner docked in New York, the trail leads to Coney Island and a spy ring.
Plot Keywords: classic, 1940s, crime, detective, mystery, film noir, action ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Goldie returns from five years at the state pen and winds up King of the pimping game. Trouble comes in the form of two corrupt white cops and a crime lord who wants him to return to the small time.
Plot Keywords: crime, drama, action, urban, 1970s, street life, drugs ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Frankie decides he's had enough with his life as a street thug living on a South London estate, and jets off to spain where he meets big time businessman Charlie, who's currently running the hottest bars in the land and also a South London bank robber and drug kingpin. From here on in Frankie signs up to a lifetime of crime, women and drugs and works his way from the bottom to the top of the Spanish cocaine empire with Charlie and Fellow bank robber and drug kingpin Sammy who does not give Frankie the best reception.
Plot Keywords: crime, gangster, uk, london, drug trade, violence, 1980s ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Murderous, sadistic London gang leader Vic Dakin, a mother-obsessed homosexual modeled on real-life gangster Ronnie Kray, is worried about potential stool pigeons that may bring down his criminal empire. The brutal Vic cuts the throat of one bloke who has been a little too loose-lipped, afraid that his gossiping may turn into a grand operatic performance for the coppers. Vic, who enjoys playing at rough trade with his sidekick Wolfe, plans a payroll robbery and directs the blackmailing of Members of Parliament with a taste for unorthodox sex. Scotland Yard Police Inspector Matthews, playing Javert to Vic's Jean Valjean, is moving in on him and the gang. Gang-member Edgar is hospitalized for an ulcer, and Inspector Matthews might be able to make him sing. Will Edgar spill the beans to the coppers before Vic can silence him?—Jon C. Hopwood
Plot Keywords: crime, thriller, drama, british film, film noir, violence, revenge ...
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