Tom Hardy has always had an added spark in the crime genre, meaning that some of his memorable characters are gangsters and ...

In the character Tommy Powers, the 1931 gangster flick The Public Enemy presented an all-American anti-hero in the tradition of Tom Sawyer. In this story of Prohibition, James Cagney portrays ...

moves in on Shubunka's territory, bribes and threatens his associates, and compromises his operation. As if in a Greek tragedy, the petty gangster's weaknesses conspire to cause his downfall.

Jean-Pierre Melville's film, with its superlative screenplay that features dubious characters and serves delightful double ...