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Mobsters is a 1991 American crime drama film directed by Michael Karbelnikoff. It details the creation of The Commission . Set in New York City , taking place from 1917 to 1931, it is a semi-fictitious account of the rise of Charles "Lucky" Luciano , Meyer Lansky , Frank Costello , and Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel .
Roger Ebert named Goodfellas the "best mob movie ever" and placed it among the ten best films of the 1990s. [65] In December 2002, a UK film critics poll in Sight & Sound ranked the film No. 4 on their list of the 10 Best Films of the Last 25 Years. [66] Time included Goodfellas in their list of Time's All-Time 100 Movies. [67]
In 2015, the film was ranked at number nine on Time Out ' s list of the 50 best gangster films of all time, [81] while in 2021, The Guardian cited it as the fourth greatest mobster film ever made. [82] In 2023, The A.V. Club ranked it seventh in its list of the greatest gangster movies of all time. [83]
Original Gangstas is a 1996 action-gangster film filmed and set in urban Gary, Indiana starring Blaxploitation film stars such as Fred Williamson, Pam Grier, Jim Brown, Richard Roundtree, and Ron O'Neal. [3] It is the final film directed by Larry Cohen before his death in 2019, [4] though he continued to write screenplays through 2010.
Bugsy Malone is a 1976 gangster musical comedy film written and directed by Alan Parker (in his feature film directorial debut).A co-production of United States and United Kingdom, it features an ensemble cast, comprising only child actors playing adult roles, with Jodie Foster, Scott Baio, and John Cassisi in major roles.
The site's critical consensus reads, "Somber, stately, and beautifully mounted, Sam Mendes' Road to Perdition is a well-crafted mob movie that explores the ties between fathers and sons." [ 31 ] Metacritic assigned the film a weighted average score of 72 out of 100, based on 36 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews". [ 32 ]
Mobsters is an American documentary television series that profiles the lives of infamous individuals in history; the series puts the spotlight on some of history's most infamous gangsters and all that went on during their reigns.
Michael Gandolfini, son of James Gandolfini, was cast in the role of young Tony. [16] [17] He was not immediately cast and had to audition for the role, but Taylor and Chase felt that they were right in casting him when Gandolfini thanked all the production team for allowing him to "say hello and goodbye again" to his father. [12]