Best Gangster Movies Ever
By Lina Kunina
Sometimes all you want to do is curl up with a bag of popcorn and a gangster movie.
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City of God
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xnd2z5_city-of-god-2002-official-trailer-hd_shortfilms
Not your standard North American gangster or Italian mafia, but this film shows the raw cruelty of criminals in a land where there are no laws.
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A Bronx Tale
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5nQyoo1LwY
Robert De Niro and Chazz Palminteri give captivating performances in this intense drama about a boy torn between his tough, hard-working father and a violent yet charismatic crime boss.
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Once Upon A Time In America
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzhX2PD6Srw
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.
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Scarface
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pQQHnqBa2E
Ultra violent tale of a Cuban drug lord in 1980 Miami
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Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6hZkvrFIj0
Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels is a grimy, twisted, and funny twist on the Tarantino hip gangster formula.
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The Departed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGWvwjZ0eDc
A Boston-ized remake of the Chinese classic "Infernal Affairs," this thrilling Best Picture winner tells the tale of cops vs. mob, and the informants that each side sends to infiltrate the other,
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Pulp Fiction
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZBfmBvvotE
The lives of two mob hit men, a boxer, a gangster's wife, and a pair of diner bandits intertwine in four tales of violence and redemption.
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Cidade de Deus
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBWtTrLxUjM
"If you run, the buck catches; if you stay, the buck eats"
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Goodfellas
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qo5jJpHtI1Y
1990 American crime film directed by Martin Scorsese. It is a film adaptation of the 1986 non-fiction book Wiseguy by Nicholas Pileggi. A group of friends work their way up through the mob hierarchy.
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The Godfather
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i96VS_z8y7g
This is the epic tale of a 1940s New York Mafia family and their struggle to protect their empire from rival families as the leadership switches from the father to his youngest son.
