But what might be the greatest gangster movies ever made? As the American film industry matured in the early 20th century, so too did organized crime.

The movie is a loose adaptation of the true story of Frank Lucas, a gangster who operated in the 1970s and smuggled heroin into the U.S. in American service planes returning from Vietnam.

Something that sets American Gangster apart from other gangster movies is its blurred lines between hero and villain. Through Washington's strong performance, Lucas becomes a figure of both ...

Question: Movie-wise, it seems like the American gangster has gone through several incarnations over the years. Lundy: You’re right, there are definitely different iterations. And those iterations are ...

Ridley Scott has released some great movies over his illustrious career, but one of his movies overlooked smaller films remains one of his best.

The gangster movie is a Hollywood staple. Here are our picks for the seven best. ... The American version is heavily edited and rearranged chronologically in the 140-minute cut.

McNeil’s movie focuses on Frank Lucas, the Harlem dope pusher made famous in Ridley Scott’s 2007 druggy saga American Gangster, which was based on a New York magazine article by Mark Jacobson ...

Biographical crime film Kill the Irishman is a movie based on the life of the Irish-American gangster Danny Greene that has viewers raving. The movie, which is currently available to stream on Amazon ...

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 ...