RocknRolla

Movie · 6.9 / 10 · 4 Sept 2008 · English

When a Russian mobster sets up a real estate scam that generates millions of pounds, various members of London's criminal underworld pursue their share of the fortune. Various shady characters, including Mr One-Two, Stella the accountant, and Johnny Quid, a druggie rock-star, try to claim their slice.

Donnie Brasco

Movie · 7.5 / 10 · 27 Feb 1997 · English

An FBI undercover agent infiltrates the mob and identifies more with the mafia life at the expense of his regular one.

Payback

Movie · 6.8 / 10 · 5 Feb 1999 · English

With friends like these, who needs enemies? That's the question bad guy Porter is left asking after his wife and partner steal his heist money and leave him for dead -- or so they think. Five months and an endless reservoir of bitterness later, Porter's partners and the crooked cops on his tail learn how bad payback can be.

McQ

Movie · 6.1 / 10 · 6 Feb 1974 · English

Police Lieutenant Lon McQ investigates the killing of his best friend and uncovers corrupt elements of the police department dealing in confiscated drugs.

The Usual Suspects

Movie · 8.2 / 10 · 19 Jul 1995 · English

Held in an L.A. interrogation room, Verbal Kint attempts to convince the feds that a mythic crime lord, Keyser Soze, not only exists, but was also responsible for drawing him and his four partners into a multi-million dollar heist that ended with an explosion in San Pedro harbor – leaving few survivors. Verbal lures his interrogators with an incredible story of the crime lord's almost supernatural prowess.

Blood Ties

Movie · 6.1 / 10 · 22 Aug 2013 · English

Two brothers, on either side of the law, face off over organized crime in Brooklyn during the 1970s.

The Getaway

Movie · 7.1 / 10 · 13 Dec 1972 · English

A recently released ex-convict and his loyal wife go on the run after a heist goes wrong.

American Gangster

Movie · 7.6 / 10 · 2 Nov 2007 · English

Loosely based on the criminal career of Frank Lucas, a gangster from La Grange, North Carolina, who smuggled heroin into the United States on American service planes returning from the Vietnam War, before being detained by a task force led by Newark Detective Richie Roberts.

The Long Good Friday

Movie · 7.2 / 10 · 1 Nov 1980 · English

In the late 1970s, Cockney crime boss Harold Shand, a gangster trying to become a legitimate property mogul, has big plans to get the American Mafia to bankroll his transformation of a derelict area of London into the possible venue for a future Olympic Games. However, a series of bombings targets his empire on the very weekend the Americans are in town. Shand is convinced there is a traitor in his organization, and sets out to eliminate the rat in typically ruthless fashion.

The Anderson Tapes

Movie · 6.1 / 10 · 17 Jun 1971 · English

Thief Duke Anderson—just released from ten years in jail—takes up with his old girlfriend in her posh apartment block, and makes plans to rob the entire building. What he doesn't know is that his every move is being recorded on audio and video, although he is not the subject of any surveillance.

In Too Deep

Movie · 6.4 / 10 · 25 Aug 1999 · English

Drug lord Dwayne Gittens rules Cincinnati with an iron fist. No wonder he's known as "God" on the streets. Determined to break Gittens' stranglehold on the city is undercover cop Jeffrey Cole. But as Cole takes on an assumed identity to penetrate Gittens' criminal empire, he makes a disturbing discovery -- he kind of likes being a gangster.

Layer Cake

Movie · 6.9 / 10 · 30 Sept 2004 · English

When a seemingly straight-forward drug deal goes awry, XXXX has to break his die-hard rules and turn up the heat, not only to outwit the old regime and come out on top, but to save his own skin...