List of gangster movies
The following is a comprehensive list of gangster films from 1900 to the present.
1900s-1920s
change| Decade | Film |
|---|---|
| 1900s | The Great Train Robbery (1903)
The Moonshiners (1904) A Desperate Encounter Between Burglars And Police (1905) The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1905) The Black Hand (1906) |
| 1910s | Moonlight (1910)
The Musketeers of Pig Alley (1912) The Gangsters and the Girl (1914) Alias Jimmy Valentine (1915) The Regeneration (1915) The Wicked Darling (1919) |
| 1920s | Underworld (1927)
Dressed to Kill (1928) The Lights of New York (1928) The Racket (1928) The Way of the Strong (1928) Alibi (1929) The Racketeer (1929) |
1930s
change| Year | Film |
|---|---|
| 1930 | The Doorway to Hell |
| 1931 | City Streets
Little Caesar Monkey Business Night Nurse Smart Money Taxi |
| 1932 | The Beast of the City
Frisco Jenny Me and My Gal |
| 1933 | Broadway Thru a Keyhole
Lady for a Day Lady Killer Parachute Jumper Picture Snatcher The Story of Temple Drake The Testament of Dr. Mabuse |
| 1934 | Little Miss Marker
Manhattan Melodrama |
| 1935 | G-Men
Princess O'Hara Special Agent |
| 1936 | Bullets or Ballots
The Petrified Forest |
| 1937 | Dead End
The Last Gangster Marked Woman Trouble at Midnight |
| 1938 | The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse
Angels with Dirty Faces A Woman's Face |
| 1939 | King of the Underworld
Risky Business The Roaring Twenties The Saint Strikes Back |
1940s
change| Year | Film |
|---|---|
| 1940 | Black Friday
Brother Orchid Castle on the Hudson City for Conquest The Great McGinty The Green Hornet The House Across the Bay The Invisible Woman It All Came True Johnny Apollo The Saint Takes Over |
| 1941 | Ball of Fire
Blues in the Night The Face Behind the Mask Johnny Eager A Man Betrayed The Monster and the Girl Out of the Fog |
| 1942 | All Through the Night
The Big Shot Gang Busters The Glass Key Lady Gangster Larceny, Inc. Mr. Wise Guy Smart Alecks |
| 1943 | The Black Raven
Clancy Street Boys The Crime Smasher The Dancing Masters Hit the Ice It Ain't Hay The Gang's All Here Girls in Chains Johnny Come Lately Lady of Burlesque Man of Courage Mr. Lucky Sahara Truck Busters |
| 1944 | Dark Mountain
Roger Touhy, Gangster |
| 1945 | Come Out Fighting
Dick Tracy Dillinger The Falcon in San Francisco Federal Operator 99 Gangster's Den Incendiary Blonde It's in the Bag! Midnight Manhunt Wonder Man |
| 1946 | Angel on My Shoulder
The Big Sleep The Chase Decoy Dick Tracy vs. Cueball Gilda The Great Piggy Bank Robbery The Hoodlum Saint The Killers Racketeer Rabbit Somewhere in the Night |
| 1947 | Body and Soul
Born to Kill Christmas Eve Dead Reckoning Desert Fury Desperate Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome Dick Tracy's Dilemma The Gangster I Became a Criminal I Walk Alone Johnny O'Clock Kiss of Death Out of the Past T-Men Railroaded! Ride the Pink Horse Shoot to Kill |
| 1948 | Brighton Rock
Call Northside 777 Cry of the City The Dark Past Drunken Angel Force of Evil Hollow Triumph No Orchids for Miss Blandish Race Street Raw Deal The Naked City A Song Is Born The Street with No Name They Live by Night |
| 1949 | Border Incident
Criss Cross The Crooked Way A Dangerous Profession Flaxy Martin Gun Crazy In the Name of the Law Johnny Allegro Johnny Stool Pigeon Knock on Any Door Miss Grant Takes Richmond Mr. Soft Touch Port of New York The Set-Up Scene of the Crime Sorrowful Jones Stray Dog Thieves' Highway The Threat Trapped The Undercover Man The Woman on Pier 13 |
1950s
change| Year | Film |
|---|---|
| 1950 | Appointment with Danger
Armored Car Robbery The Asphalt Jungle Black Hand The Blue Lamp Borderline The Damned Don't Cry Dark City Gun Crazy Los Olvidados Night and the City 711 Ocean Drive Side Street The Underworld Story Woman on the Run |
| 1951 | Behave Yourself!
Cry Danger The Enforcer His Kind of Woman The Lavender Hill Mob The Lemon Drop Kid M The Mob The Racket Racket Girls |
| 1952 | The Captive City
Deadline - U.S.A. Kansas City Confidential Macao The Narrow Margin |
| 1953 | Crime Wave
The Big Heat The Girl Who Had Everything Kiss Me Kate Man in the Dark Second Chance |
| 1954 | Down Three Dark Streets
Dragnet Drive a Crooked Road Jail Bait On the Waterfront Pushover Touchez Pas au Grisbi |
| 1955 | The Big Combo
A Bullet for Joey Creature with the Atom Brain The Desperate Hours 5 Against the House Guys and Dolls House of Bamboo I Died a Thousand Times Illegal Killer's Kiss Kiss Me Deadly The Ladykillers The Naked Street Pete Kelly's Blues The Phenix City Story Rififi Tight Spot Violent Saturday |
| 1956 | Accused of Murder
Bob le Flambeur Crime in the Streets The Girl Can't Help It The Killing Nightfall Slightly Scarlet |
| 1957 | The Brothers Rico
The Long Haul |
| 1958 | King Creole
The Lineup Machine Gun Kelly Murder by Contract Party Girl Room 43 Thunder Road Touch of Evil |
| 1959 | Al Capone
The FBI Story Guns Girls and Gangsters Odds Against Tomorrow The St. Louis Bank Robbery |
1960s
change| Year | Film |
|---|---|
| 1960 | The Bad Sleep Well
Breathless The Concrete Jungle It Takes a Thief Ocean's Eleven The League of Gentlemen Ma Barker's Killer Brood Murder, Inc. Never Let Go Pay or Die! Playgirl After Dark The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond The Sun's Burial Surprise Package Take Aim at the Police Van The Walking Target |
| 1961 | Blast of Silence
The Frightened City The George Raft Story The Hoodlum Priest I Promised to Pay King of the Roaring 20's: The Story of Arnold Rothstein Mad Dog Coll Man Called Rocca Most Dangerous Man Alive King of the Roaring 20s Pigs and Battleships Pocketful of Miracles Sanctuary Underworld U.S.A. |
| 1962 | China Town
Kid Galahad Le Doulos Passport for a Corpse Salvatore Giuliano Walk on the Wild Side Who's Got the Action? |
| 1963 | Any Number Can Win
Cairo The Corrupt Crooks in Clover Detective Bureau 2-3: Go to Hell Bastards! Gangsterzy i filantropi Hands Over the City Johnny Cool Le concerto de la peur Maigret voit rouge The Man from the Diners' Club Underworld Informers Youth of the Beast The Wrong Arm of the Law |
| 1964 | Cruel Gun Story
The Killers Ôkami to buta to ningen Pale Flower Robin and the 7 Hoods When Strangers Meet |
| 1965 | L'amour à la chaîne
Cloportes The Gangster Das Geheimnis der drei Dschunken Hail, Mafia Mickey One The Money Trap Once a Thief One Way Wahine Tattooed Life Young Dillinger |
| 1966 | Le Deuxième Souffle
The Hired Killer The Mad Dog 2 mafiosi contro Al Capone Playgirls of Frankfurt The Poppy Is Also a Flower The Upper Hand Tokyo Drifter The Treasure of San Gennaro Wake Up and Die |
| 1967 | Action Man
The Big Mouth Branded to Kill The Busy Body A Certain Killer The Cobra Cosa Nostra, Arch Enemy of the FBI The Corrupt Ones Gunn The Happening Lucky, el intrépido Du mou dans la gâchette La notte è fatta per... rubare Operation St. Peter's Point Blank Robbery The St. Valentine's Day Massacre Le Samouraï Sorrel Flower The Story of a Discharged Prisoner Thoroughly Modern Millie Walk the Hot Streets |
| 1968 | The Biggest Bundle of Them All
Bandits in Rome Bonnot's Gang The Brotherhood Bullitt The Great Chase Killers Three Madigan's Millions Mafia Never a Dull Moment Pasha The Pick-Up Sardinia... Kidnapped Skidoo Sol Madrid They Came to Rob Las Vegas The Violent Four Wild 90 |
| 1969 | The Angels of the Street
Army of Shadows Bootleggers The Fabulous Bastard from Chicago Gangsters' Law The Girl Who Knew Too Much Hard Contract The Italian Job Jeff Joë Caligula - Du suif chez les dabes The Lost Man Machine Gun McCain Mafia Girls Mafia Mob Mission Impossible Versus the Mob Naked Bullet Pelle di bandito The Sicilian Clan Sophie's Place Stiletto They Paid with Bullets |
1970s
change| Year | Film |
|---|---|
| 1970 | Barsolino
Bloody Mama Performance The Red Circle Stray Cat Rock: Sex Hunter |
| 1971 | The Anderson Tapes
The Gang that Couldn't Shoot Straight The Last Run Villain Shaft |
| 1972 | Across 110th Street
Boxcar Bertha Caliber 9 The Doberman Gang The Getaway The Mechanic The Way of the Dragon |
| 1973 | Battles Without Honor and Humanity
Big Guns Black Caesar Charley Varrick Dillinger The Don is Dead Enter the Dragon The Friends of Eddie Coyle Gang War in Milan Goffy High Crime Hell Up in Harlem Little Cigars Magnum Force Outfit Police Woman The Sting |
| 1974 | Barsilino and Co.
The Black Godfather Crazy Joe Foxy Brown Gangsterfilmen Gone in 60 Seconds Massacre Mafia Style Melvin Purvis: G-Man Shoot First, Die Later The Talking of Pelham One Two Three Yakuza |
| 1975 | The Black Gestapo
Brannigan Capone Cops vs. Thugs Flic Story Framed The Four Deuces Graveyard of Honor Hard Times Sheba, Baby |
| 1976 | Assault on Precinct 13
Black Heat Bugsy Malone Clint Eastwood: The Enforcer Cross Shot Death Rage Family Enforcer Gang Wars J. D.'s Revenge The Killing of a Chinese Bookie Mikey and Nicky The Missouri Breaks Meet Him and Die Mister Scarface The Outlaw Josey Wales The Tough Ones The Sicilian Cross Street People |
- The Squeeze (1977)
- The Big Sleep (1978)
- The Great Train Robbery (1978)
- Walter Hill: The Driver (1978)
- Youngblood (1978)
- Boulevard Nights (1979)
- The Lady in Red (1979)
- Walk Proud (1979)
- The Wanderers (1979)
- The Warriors (1979)
1980s
change1980
change- Atlantic City
- Cruising
- Gloria
- The Long Good Friday
- The Smuggler
- Three Men to Kill
1981
change- Absence of Malice
- Cattle Annie and Little Britches
- Gangster Wars
- The Looney Looney Looney Bugs Bunny Movie
- The Mafia Triangle
- Prince of the City
- Thief
- Zoot Suit
1982
change- Death Wish II
- Fighting Back
- Gang Master
- The King of Comedy
- Lady Gangster
- 1990: The Bronx Warriors
- Shakti
1983
change- Bad Boys
- Eureka
- The Outsiders
- Scarface
- The Sting II
- Videodrome
1984
change- Alphabet City
- Once upon a Time in America
- Savage Streets