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?

The allure of wealth and power, the precarious gambling of life and death - there's nothing quite like a good gangster movie.

While the silent era produced many proto-type gangster movies, the genre officially did not begin to take form until the ...

The movie was so successful that Hollywood made more than 50 gangster movies the following year. The most violent movie of 1932 was Scarface, starring Paul Muni as Tony Camonte, a Chicago mobster.

You’ve reached your account maximum for followed topics. The gangster movie has been around for over a century, but it's still one of the most popular genres of cinema today. Over the decades ...

I've been tackling quite a few hot ticket items in the '21st Century Top Fives' department lately, but this one is particularly controversial: the best gangster movies released in the past 20 years.

And, this is important, since the time period of a gangster movie is almost like a character in itself. Just look at The Godfather Part II. The story actually takes place in two time periods ...