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Mafia Movies
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Starring John TravoltaSamuel L. JacksonUma Thurman
By Quentin Tarantino, 1994.
Fast-food-loving hit man Vince Vega (John Travolta), his philosophical partner Jules (Samuel L. Jackson), a drug-addled gangster's moll (Uma Thurman) and a washed-up boxer (Bruce Willis) converge in this sprawling, comedic crime caper. Their adventures unfurl in three stories that ingeniously trip...
- The Godfather
Starring Marlon BrandoDiane KeatonAl Pacino
By Francis Ford Coppola, 1972.
Vito Corleone is the aging don (head) of the Corleone Mafia Family. His youngest son Michael has returned from WWII just in time to see the wedding of Connie Corleone (Michael's sister) to Carlo Rizzi. All of Michael's family is involved with the Mafia, but Michael just wants to live a normal life.
- The Departed
Starring Leonardo DiCaprioMatt DamonJack Nicholson
By Martin Scorsese, 2006.
To take down South Boston's Irish Mafia, the police send in one of their own to infiltrate the underworld, not realizing the syndicate has done likewise in Martin Scorsese's multiple Oscar-winning crime thriller. While an undercover cop (Leonardo DiCaprio) curries favor with the mob kingpin (Jack...
- GoodFellas
Starring Robert De NiroRay LiottaJoe Pesci
By Martin Scorsese, 1990.
Martin Scorsese explores the life of organized crime with his gritty, kinetic adaptation of Nicolas Pileggi 's best-selling Wiseguy, the true-life account of mobster and FBI informant Henry Hill.
- Reservoir Dogs
Starring Harvey KeitelTim RothMichael Madsen
By Quentin Tarantino, 1992.
Six criminals are hired by crime boss Joe Cabot to carry out a diamond robbery. They are given false names and are known only as Mr. White (Harvey Keitel), a professional criminal, Mr. Orange (Tim Roth), a young newcomer, Mr. Blonde (Michael Madsen), a trigger-happy sadist, Mr.
- Snatch
Starring Benicio Del ToroDennis FarinaVinnie Jones
By Guy Ritchie, 2000.
An Irish gypsy gets involved in a match-fixing boxing racket, a vast diamond heist is about to go down and London's gangster underworld is blown open in this blink-and-you'll-miss-it, twisty crime caper featuring a motley cluster of characters. Guy Ritchie (Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels)...
- The Godfather Part II
Starring Al PacinoRobert DuvallDiane Keaton
By Francis Ford Coppola, 1974.
Francis Ford Coppola 's legendary continuation and sequel to his landmark 1972 film, The Godfather, parallels the young Vito Corleone's rise with his son Michael's spiritual fall, deepening The Godfather's depiction of the dark side of the American dream.
- Scarface
Starring Al PacinoMichelle PfeifferSteven Bauer
By Brian De Palma, 1983.
A remake of the 1932 film starring Paul Muni, Scarface gets a facelift by transferring its venue to Miami, reflecting the early-1980s drug rackets. Al Pacino chews scenery as lowly Cuban refugee Tony Montana, who becomes a Florida drug kingpin but makes the fatal mistake of "getting high on his own...
- Gangs of New York
Starring Leonardo DiCaprioDaniel Day-LewisCameron Diaz
By Martin Scorsese, 2002.
Leonardo DiCaprio, Cameron Diaz and Daniel Day-Lewis star in this epic tale of vengeance and survival! As waves of immigrants swell the population of New York, lawlessness and corruption thrive in lower Manhattan's Five Points section. After years of incarceration, young Irish immigrant Amsterdam...
- Shark Tale
Starring Will SmithRobert De NiroRenée Zellweger
By Bibo Bergeron, 2004.
In this DreamWorks animated tale, Oscar (Will Smith) is a small fish whose big aspirations often get him in trouble. Lenny (Jack Black) is a great white shark with a secret: He's a vegetarian. When a lie turns Oscar into an improbable hero and the truth about Lenny makes him an outcast, the two...
- The Godfather: Part III
Starring Al PacinoDiane KeatonTalia Shire
By Francis Ford Coppola, 1990.
Some Godfather devotees thought this final installment in the Corleone crime family saga an infamnia; for others, it represents closure to one of cinema's epic tales of dissolution without redemption. It's the 1980s, and Michael Corleone (Al Pacino) has struggled to make the family business...
- Casino
Starring Robert De NiroSharon StoneJoe Pesci
By Martin Scorsese, 1995.
Martin Scorsese paints a colorful portrait of Las Vegas in the early 1970s as the oasis of glamour and corruption that it was. Against this backdrop, the story chronicles the rise and fall of three central characters: a play-by-the-rules casino owner with mob connections (Robert De Niro), his...
- Donnie Brasco
Starring Johnny DeppAl PacinoMichael Madsen
By Mike Newell, 1997.
This true story follows FBI agent Joe Pistone as he infiltrates the mafia of New York. Befriending Lefty Ruggiero, Pistone (under the name Donnie Brasco) is able to embed himself in a mafia faction lead by Sonny Black. Ruggiero and Pistone become tight as the group goes about collecting money for...
- Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
Starring Jason FlemyngDexter FletcherNick Moran
By Guy Ritchie, 1998.
Eddie (Nick Moran) is usually slick with a deck of cards, but after losing at a fixed table for London high rollers, he's in massive debt to a local porn kingpin (P.H. Moriarty). Eddie's irate father (Sting) refuses to hand over his bar to save his son's fingers, leaving Eddie and his friends few...
- The Untouchables
Starring Kevin CostnerSean ConneryCharles Martin Smith
By Brian De Palma, 1987.
G-man Eliot Ness (Kevin Costner) will stop at nothing to take down legendary gangster Al Capone (Robert De Niro) -- even if it means bending some rules and breaking some bones! Sean Connery steals the show with his Oscar-winning performance of a tough-as-nails Chicago street cop who shows Ness the...
- Heat
Starring Al PacinoRobert De NiroVal Kilmer
By Michael Mann, 1995.
Two driven professionals -- an illustrious detective (Al Pacino) and a sophisticated thief (Robert De Niro) -- draw ever closer to an inevitable showdown on Los Angeles' mean streets. Brilliantly directed by Michael Mann, Heat is a hyperkinetic tale that blurs the lines between good and evil.
- Analyze This
Starring Robert De NiroBilly CrystalLisa Kudrow
By Harold Ramis, 1999.
Countless wiseguy films are spoofed in this Golden Globe-nominated comedy from director Harold Ramis that centers on the neuroses and angst of a powerful Mafia racketeer who suffers from panic attacks. When Paul Vitti (Robert De Niro) needs help dealing with his role in the "family," unlucky shrink...
- Road to Perdition
Starring Tom HanksPaul NewmanTyler Hoechlin
By Sam Mendes, 2002.
Hit man Michael Sullivan (Tom Hanks), known in his 1930s Chicago world as The Angel of Death, is on the run after his wife (Jennifer Jason Leigh) and son are murdered. With his surviving son (Tyler Hoechlin) in tow, Michael sets out to exact brutal vengeance.
- Carlito's Way
Starring Al PacinoSean PennPenelope Ann Miller
By Brian De Palma, 1993.
It's hard to go straight in a crooked world, but Carlito Brigante (Al Pacino) won't stop trying. Sprung from prison on a technicality, he vows not to waste his second chance; unfortunately, every time he tries to get out of the rackets, the bad guys pull him back in.
- Analyze That
Starring Robert De NiroBilly CrystalLisa Kudrow
By Harold Ramis, 2002.
Mafioso Paul Vitti (Robert De Niro) is released into the custody of his overworked psychiatrist Ben Sobel (Billy Crystal), much to the dismay of the doctor's wife (Lisa Kudrow). Despite Ben's attempts to help Paul get a legitimate job, sort out his life and stick to the straight and narrow, Paul's...
- Eastern Promises
Starring Viggo MortensenNaomi WattsVincent Cassel
By David Cronenberg, 2007.
Eastern Promises is a 2007 drama film directed by David Cronenberg, from a screenplay written by Steven Knight. The film tells of a British midwife's interactions with the Russian Mafia in London and stars Viggo Mortensen, Naomi Watts and Vincent Cassel. The film has won several awards, including...
- Once Upon a Time in America
Starring Robert De NiroJames WoodsElizabeth McGovern
By Sergio Leone, 1984.
Director Sergio Leone's sprawling crime epic follows a group of Jewish mobsters (including Robert De Niro, James Woods and Elizabeth McGovern) who rise in the ranks of organized crime in 1920s New York. Their story unfolds in flashbacks as ringleader Noodles (De Niro) returns to Brooklyn some 30...
- A Bronx Tale
Starring Robert De NiroJoe PesciChazz Palminteri
By Robert De Niro, 1993.
An evocative slice-of-life film. A Bronx boy (Lillo Brancato) grows to adulthood worshipping disparate heroes: his hardworking father (Robert De Niro), who drives a city bus, and the neighborhood mob boss (Chazz Palminteri), who becomes a kind of surrogate dad.
- White Heat
Starring James CagneyVirginia MayoEdmond O'Brien
By Raoul Walsh, 1949.
"Made it, Ma, top of the world!" James Cagney is riveting as homicidal gangster Cody Jarrett (complete with an "insane mother" complex) in this hard-boiled movie that costars Virginia Mayo as his two-timing wife. Edmund O'Brien's the cop who infiltrates Cody's gang to bring him down -- and that he...
