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My picks, from what I've seen:
10. Scarface (1983)
9. The Godfather III (1990)
8. Chinatown (1974)
7. The Irishman (2019)
6. The Departed (2006)
5. White Heat (1949)
4. GoodFellas (1990)
3. Casino (1995)
2. Godfather Part I (1972)
1. Godfather Part II (1974)
There are plenty I still need to see, and here is a good list from Newsweek.
Last edited by GulDukat; 12-28-2019 at 06:19 AM.
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In no order...
Godfather Part 1 and 2
Scarface
Goodfellas
Once Upon a Time in America
Casino
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That's next up on my list.Originally Posted by SM Rollinger
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I Love L.A. Confidential und Heat. And I really really like Goodfellas, Casino, The Irishman, The Departed, Chinatown, The Untouchables und Carlito's Way. Also, Ghost Dog comes to mind.
There are also a lot of Asian gangster movies, especially from Hong Kong, that are equally great, if not greater at times than the above:
Infernal Affairs (the Hong Kong original to The Departed, which is at least as good as the remake)
Election (this is a Hong Kong movie as well, directed by Johnnie To, who's like an Asien Scorsese. It's a great movie with a clever script about two bosses fighting for the leadership of all triads in the city. There's a follow up movie that's also great, but it's grim and violent where the first one is clever)
Drug War (also by Johnnie To. This one takes place in mainland China und is about a drug dealer who gets caught und therefore has to collaborate with the police to evade capital punishment. So in the movie the police is working their way up the chain of the drug cartell until one of the greatest shootouts in film happens)
Can't forget John Woo's The Killer
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Rather than my actual top ten, I'll list some honorable mentions to avoid repetition:
Road to Perdition
Bullet in the Head
Hard Boiled
El Mariachi
Shoot Em Up
Motherless Brooklyn
Bonnie and Clyde
Breaking News (since we're bringing up Johnnie To)
Eastern Promises
A History of Violence
The French Connection 1+2
Last edited by fillow; 12-24-2019 at 03:56 PM.
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Most of the films in this box set are spectacular. Japanese noir/mob type films.
https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/65...-nikkatsu-noir
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A few not mentioned already (I didn't look through that Newsweek list):
Drunken Angel
Ichi The Killer
The Man From Nowhere
Stray Dog
Traffic
Not sure if these count:
Che
Dragged Across Concrete
I Saw The Devil
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^ the Kurosawa films are fantastic!!
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That's pretty much me but I'd replace The Departed and White Heat with Mean Streets and Once Upon a Time in America.
Just tickles my balls!
Is Scareface a Halloween parody of Scarface?
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0. Reservoir Dogs
9. Pulp Fiction
8. The Departed
7. Casino
6. Sicario
5. A Bronx Tale
4. Heat
3. Goodfellas
2. Godfather Part II
1. Godfather Part I
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i like Angels With Filthy Wings, and Angels With Filthier Wings.
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Heat has nothing to do with organized crime. Don't mean to be pedantic but De Niro's crew are outlaws and professional thieves. The thing that sets it apart from some of the other movies being discussed here is that it feels like the only time him and Pacino have ever done a Western, despite it's ultra-modern day setting.
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Best answer, so far.
I love this one. Hoskins gives a performance as good as any of the iconic ones mentioned here.
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