Gangster Movies Bucket List

Follow Tony Soprano's mob family

Pacino as Tony Montana in Miami; "say hello to my little friend".

Scorsese's electric rise-and-fall mob saga (1990).

An FBI agent undercover in the Bonanno family, and the ageing wiseguy who vouches for him.

A Puerto Rican ex-con tries to go straight in 1975 New York, with Sean Penn as the lawyer dragging him back.

A mob enforcer and his son on the run through Depression-era Illinois, shot by Conrad Hall in his last film.

Frank Lucas imports heroin in the coffins of dead servicemen; Washington against Crowe.

Colin Farrell under prosthetics rises through Gotham's underworld after The Batman.

The Shelby gang in 1920s Birmingham with razor blades in their caps; Cillian Murphy.

Nucky Thompson runs Atlantic City in Prohibition; Scorsese directed the pilot.

Bob Hoskins as a London gangster whose empire explodes over one Easter weekend.

Brad Pitt as an unintelligible boxer and an 86-carat diamond; Ritchie's follow-up.

Four friends, a card game and a lot of London gangsters; Guy Ritchie's debut.

Ben Kingsley as the most terrifying gangster in Britain arrives at a Costa del Sol villa.

Five stories of the Camorra in the Naples suburbs, shot like a documentary.

A teenager taken in by his criminal family in Melbourne; Jacki Weaver's grandmother.

Five hours of a coal-mafia feud across three generations; Anurag Kashyap's Godfather.

Chow Yun-fat lights a cigarette with a burning banknote; the heroic bloodshed genre begins.

The Coens' Prohibition gangster film, the hat in the woods and Gabriel Byrne's double game.

Leone's four-hour Jewish gangster epic across fifty years of New York.