best gangster films

al capone--the godfather john gotti--goodfellas bugsy siegel--the untouchables

Donnie Brasco with Johnny Depp and Al Pacino, excellent

pulp fiction the god father the usual suspects

Godfather 1 + 2 Once Upon A Time In America Goodfellas Scarface

Once upon a time in America

Godfathers 1 and 2 Donnie Brasco Carlito's way

and if I can stretch the genre a little to include :

Get Carter ( original ) Villain Rififi and The long good friday

All stand repeated viewings

Oh , and I like Brando's self parody / piss take in the Freshman

Geez, I have so many.

Goodfellas, Mean Streets, The Untouchables, Carlito's Way, Scarface, Once Upon a Time in America, City of Industry, Donnie Brasco, Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs, etc. Note that all of the films that I've mentioned have Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, or Harvey Keitel in them.

howzabout Casino?

I've seen Casino ten times. It's good, but not one of my favorites. It's a flat-out imitation of Goodfellas (with the pause feature and the voice-over narration). The film is worth every minute, but I just can't bear the scene where Joe Pesci is in bed with Sharon Stone. That's deplorable. :dead:

Tex wrote: howzabout Casino?

Love all of the films mentioned so far, Casino is a personal fave cause my uncle was stationed at Nellis AFB in Vegas during the same time period of the movie, and were in fact around the corner when the attempt on the life of the real-life Rothstein was made. So, partly due to that fact, I've been able to watch Casino numerous times with my grandmother (RIP), she wasn't thrilled with the parts such as Pesci and his brother getting whacked, but she understood that just went along with the turf.....

Goodfellas was on Cinemax last night, I still can't NOT watch it, so I watched most of both the east and west coast airings.....:whistle:

On edit: Though I haven't seen it in a long while, I thought the Krays movie with the Kemp twins wasn't too bad.

White Heat Mean Streets Southie

Cath, thanks for mentioning White Heat. Cagney is great, including in Public Enemy and Angel with Dirty Faces.

is Scarface a "good" movie?

[magenta]cozmonite61[/magenta] wrote: Cath, thanks for mentioning White Heat. Cagney is great, including in Public Enemy and Angel with Dirty Faces.

Blues Brothers

John Sludden wrote: Godfather 1,2, / Once Upon A Time In America / Goodfellas-whatta title / Scarface-1983

Angels with Dirty Faces Humphrey Bogart / Untouchables. / Carlito's Way. / Casino 1995.

King of New York

Walken, sings, dances and shoots them up!

Hmm. I think I need to add some of these titles to my list of movies to rent.

I was always a fan of the Godfather movies myself.

The Road to Perdition with Tom Hanks, great piano piece on the soundtrack too.

The Killing

Millers Crossing Goodfellas Mean Streets Cop Land Chopper Once Upon A Time...

Al Jarvis wrote:

J.A.K wrote: Millers Crossing

Never been able to listen to "Danny Boy" in the same light since seeing that film. Quality.

Mate of mine made me watch it KNOWING it wasn't my style....but WHAT a scene that is.

And so is...the thing about, (misquoting) "I aint gonna kill ya, cos then if you was lyin to me I wouldn't get to kill you for that"....then....."you know what...I believe you " BANG!

Pricless :D

Goodfellas The Godfather Miller's Crossing

pumped full of drugs wrote: is Scarface a "good" movie?

Depends on who you ask. Personally I think it's crap.

1. Once upon a time in America
2. The Godfather films
3. Goodfellas
4. Scarface
5. Casino

J.A.K wrote: Millers Crossing

i just couldn't get into miller's crossing. i think it's one of the coen brothers weakest films, myself.

got to add one more: the wild bunch.

Carry on Capone :)

Dan Delgado wrote:

pumped full of drugs wrote: is Scarface a "good" movie?

Depends on who you ask. Personally I think it's crap.

its ok.

but the fashions, and Al Pacino's dumb ass latino accent grate on you after a while.

Michelle was hot though. :p

Dude, Scarface is the bomb in my opinion! Al Pacino strutted his stuff to create the most famous low-life who achieves the American Dream. Plus, Al says that Tony Montana is his favorite role. I have to hand it to him.

The Godfather,Sleepers,Goodfellas,Scarface,The Freshman,Billy Bathgate.....to name a few....

Thank's to you agent wood to choose this topic ,people need to remind if reality mean fiction, sometimes

En cinquiéme vitesse,(in french) the best Big knife by Robert aldrich The kill by Stanley kubrick Machine gun kelly(george) that's good Bonnie and clyde Arthur penn,i never try to understand why this filmaker choosed Faye dunuway,when you see the real face of Parker with her puppy eyes angels with dirty face Awesome Scarface with Paul muni

at last No orchid to Miss blandish, the music were great

I forgot some

Baby face nelson with mickey rooney Saint valentine slaughter from 1928 Public ennemy with james cagney version Machine gun kelly with bronson Ma barker with shelly winter

I like how all the gangsta types are now exchanging their Tu Pac shirts for Scarface shirts. I saw a guy with a grey and pink shirt on with several prints of someone on it and I asked him if it was Duran Duran. He said it was Scarface.

um , all of the above:)

heat does of course have a new order connection, plus that great street gun fight scene that rocks on surround sound

You know, I still haven't seen Heat!