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  2. American Gangster (film) - Wikipedia

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    American Gangster is a 2007 American biographical crime film directed and produced by Ridley Scott and written by Steven Zaillian.The film is loosely based on the criminal career of Frank Lucas, a gangster from La Grange, North Carolina who smuggled heroin into the United States on American service planes returning from the Vietnam War, before being detained by a task force led by Newark ...

  3. Mafia film - Wikipedia

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    The American movie The Black Hand (1906) is thought to be the earliest surviving gangster film. [1] In 1912, D. W. Griffith directed The Musketeers of Pig Alley, a short drama film about crime on the streets of New York City (filmed, however, at Fort Lee, New Jersey) rumored to have included real gangsters as extras.

  4. Gangster film - Wikipedia

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    James Cagney in Angels with Dirty Faces, 1938. A gangster film or gangster movie is a film belonging to a genre that focuses on gangs and organized crime.It is a subgenre of crime film, that may involve large criminal organizations, or small gangs formed to perform a certain illegal act.

  5. Category:Gangster films - Wikipedia

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    Gangster films by decade (5 C) B. Biographical films about gangsters (2 C, 47 P) M. Mafia films (10 C, 56 P) T. Triad films (3 C, 230 P) Pages in category "Gangster ...

  6. Hoodlum (film) - Wikipedia

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    Hoodlum is a 1997 American crime drama film that gives a fictionalized account of the gang war between the Italian/Jewish mafia alliance and the black gangsters of Harlem that took place in the late 1920s and early 1930s.

  7. Find Me Guilty - Wikipedia

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    The case went to trial in November 1986, based on a 65-page indictment. It started in March 1987 at the federal courthouse in Newark. It ended on August 26, 1988. The U.S. Clerk’s Office in Newark confirmed that officially The United States v. Anthony Accetturo et al. was the longest criminal case on record in the federal courts of the nation.

  8. Category:Biographical films about gangsters - Wikipedia

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    Biographical films about French gangsters (9 P) Pages in category "Biographical films about gangsters" The following 47 pages are in this category, out of 47 total.

  9. List of crime films of the 1980s - Wikipedia

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    Gangster film [49] Crackers: Louis Malle: Donald Sutherland, Jack Warden, Sean Penn: United States [50] Fatal Vision: David Greene: Karl Malden, Eva Marie Saint, Gary Cole: United States [51] Fear City: Abel Ferrara: Tom Berenger, Billy Dee Williams, Jack Scalia, Melanie Griffith, María Conchita Alonso: United States [52] The Gunrunner: Nardo ...

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