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Here are 22 of the best gangster stories of all time—12 crime movies and 10 crime series that deliver action, suspense, comedy, romance, and heartbreak, all nested within violent narratives of ...
From Prohibition-era bootleggers, to urban folk heroes, to cyberpunk biker gangs, these films shine an investigative light on organized crime: both in the warm shine of Hollywood romanticization ...
The film is about the violent conflict between three bootlegging brothers: Forrest (Hardy), Howard (Clarke), and Jack Bondurant (LaBeouf) — and the ruthless lawman Charley Rakes (Pearce), who tries to shut down the brothers' Prohibition-era moonshine business after Forrest refuses to pay him off. The film was in development for about three ...
The year is 1929, Tom Reagan is the right-hand man for Irish mobster Leo O'Bannon, a political boss who runs an unnamed U.S. city during Prohibition.Leo sets off a mob war when he extends protection to his girlfriend Verna's brother, a bookie named Bernie Bernbaum, who is skimming off the match fixing scheme of Leo's rival, the Italian gangster Johnny Caspar.
In Prohibition-era Texas, a wanderer named John Smith drives into the small bordertown of Jericho. As he arrives, a young woman named Felina crosses the street, catching Smith's eye. Moments later, a group of Irish mobsters surround Smith's car. The lead hood warns him against staring at "Doyle's property" and smashes up his car.
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.
Films about prohibition in the United States (1920-1933), when the United States prohibited the production, importation, transportation and sale of alcoholic beverages See also: Category:Films about organized crime in the United States
Here are the six best movies on Netflix in December. Blake Lively stars in "It Ends with Us.". Watch Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson in one of his earliest movies, "Faster." End the year by watching ...