Chinatown is a mystery from 1974 that the critics describe as "bruised and cynical as the decade that produced it, this noir ...

No director is a better example of this than Brian De Palma, who made his debut in thrillers and horror movies before he ...

“From as far back as I remember, I always wanted to watch gangster movies.” Clearly, that’s not the original quote, but the sentiment remains true. Audiences love gangster movies. They make ...

Simultaneously a yakuza movie, a kung-fu flick and a love letter to cinema, Japanese director Sion Sono's Why Don't You Play in Hell is the anti-gritty gangster tale. Following a group of young ...

Al Capone's notoriety in real life made gangster movies a hot commodity in the '30s, '40s and '50s. However, the genre became associated with the same kind of pulp as classical Hollywood era Westerns.

The allure of wealth and power, the precarious gambling of life and death - there's nothing quite like a good gangster movie. But what might be the greatest gangster movies ever made? As the ...

“Martin Scorsese's Goodfellas is both a wildly entertaining gangster movie and a sobering cautionary tale warning against a life of crime,” says Ben Sherlock in Screen Rant, while David Denby ...

Just when you thought he was out, infamous gangster Al Capone keeps getting dragged back into movies. Trank makes clear he took creative license in "Capone," calling it an "impressionistic film ...

Hong Kong filmmaking giant Johnnie To on Monday confirmed plans to make a Hong Kong gangster movie to be shot in Japan. Speaking to Variety at the Doha Film Institute’s Qumra event, To said he ...