Gangster movies are among the most acclaimed and popular films of all time, with plenty of contemporary directors delivering modern classics in the 21st century. Although many will point to ...

The Public Enemy is a historic film, and one of the first of its kind. It has become a classic and it propelled its lead, ...

American Gangster is a movie with obvious gravitas and a familiar argument: Organized crime is outsider capitalism. As archetypal as its title, Ridley Scott’s would-be epic aspires to enshrine Harlem ...

While Kill the Irishman was originally seen as a GoodFellas ripoff, this 2011 gangster movie deserves to stand on its own.

Denzel Washington plays a 1970's drug lord named Frank Lucas in American Gangster. Lucas takes pride in many things, but most of all in the quality of his merchandise, Southeast Asian heroin as pure, ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. Robert De Niro stars opposite himself, playing both Frank Costello and Vito Genovese, the notorious Italian American mafiosi, in ...

Martin Scorsese’s rueful, poignant 2019 film “The Irishman,” starring longtime collaborator Robert De Niro, was a reflection on (or perhaps even a eulogy for) the kind of gangster film that the pair ...