Subgenre Sampler
Suspense/Crime > Gangsters: 151 Films to Buy & Rent
- Murder, Inc. (1960)
- Dir. Stuart Rosenberg, Burt Balaban
Feat. Stuart Whitman, Peter Falk, Simon Oakland
- Cinemascope gangland film based on the true story of the eponymous Brooklyn gang that operated in the 1930s. It launched the careers of both Stuart…
- Rise and Fall of 'Legs' Diamond, The (1960)
- Dir. Budd Boetticher
Feat. Ray Danton, Karen Steele, Elaine Stewart…
- A professionally–shot thriller about the career of New York gangster Jack 'Legs' Diamond, who rose to prominence in the 1920s and maintained…
- Untouchables, The (TV Series) (1959-1963)
- Feat. Robert Stack, Paul Picerni
- An iconic crime series that once baited controversy for its escalation of television violence, this pulled out the stops to authentically…
- Party Girl (1958)
- Dir. Nicholas Ray
Feat. Robert Taylor, Cyd Charisse, Lee J. Cobb…
- Delicious Nicholas Ray–directed potboiler finds bum–legged Robert Taylor trying to cut ties with the mob. A slinky Cyd Charisse (tearing…
- Vicious Circle, The (Circle) (1957)
- Dir. Gerald Thomas
Feat. John Mills, Derek Farr, Lionel Jeffries
- Neatly convoluted mystery has John Mills play an eminent medical specialist who is implicated in a murder when the body of a German actress turns up…
- I Died A Thousand Times (1955)
- Dir. Stuart Heisler
Feat. Jack Palance, Shelley Winters, Lee Marvin…
- Enjoyable remake of High Sierra that benefits from a fantastic cast and a rousing finale. Look for a young and uncredited Dennis Hopper.
- Pete Kelly's Blues (1955)
- Dir. Jack Webb
Feat. Jack Webb, Janet Leigh, Edmond O'Brien…
- Musical set in 1920's Kansas which blends jazz, gangsters and political corruption.
Directed by and starring Jack Webb as a cornet player who is…
- Drunken Angel (Yoidore tenshi) (1948)
- Dir. Akira Kurosawa
Feat. Toshiro Mifune, Takashi Shimura
- The film that made Toshiro Mifune a star – playing a petty gangster with TB, who turns to an alcoholic doctor for help after a shoot–out.…
- Dillinger (1945)
- Dir. Max Nosseck
Feat. Lawrence Tierney
- Lawrence Tierney stars in this robust B–Movie biopic as the notorious gangster who declared war on America's banking system.
- Roaring Twenties, The (1939)
- Dir. Raoul Walsh
Feat. James Cagney, Humphrey Bogart, Priscilla Lane…
- Seminal gangster drama, paired screen–tough Cagney with a then lesser–known Bogart. Becoming buddies during WWI, they later enter and…