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Neither of these is the better film. They are just at opposite ends.
100 films tagged gangsters, showing 50
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1972 · Crime
The ageing head of a New York crime family starts handing the business to his sons, and the youngest, who wanted no part of it, is pulled in. Much of it plays out in quiet rooms, in conversations about loyalty and who owes what to whom.
AI estimate, not yet described
2025 · Thriller
After the Kandahar hijacking, an intelligence chief sends a young agent into Karachi to work his way up through the gangs shielding a terror network. Three and a half hours, with a lot of names and factions to keep straight.
AI estimate, not yet described
2025 · Thriller
A Chicago construction foreman who used to be a Royal Marine goes after the traffickers who took his employer's daughter, working his way up through the Russian mob. One fight after another.
AI estimate, not yet described
2025 · Crime
A New York bartender agrees to look after his neighbour's cat in 1998, and within days Russian gangsters have put him in hospital over a key he knows nothing about. It moves fast and gets bloody.
AI estimate, not yet described
2025 · Thriller
A US marshal charters a small plane to fly a mob accountant out of the Alaskan wilderness to testify. Almost all of it happens in the cockpit of that plane, with three people in it.
AI estimate, not yet described
2025 · Crime
A bent detective is sent to find the son of a mayoral candidate, who has stolen a shipment of cocaine and now has the Triads and half the force hunting him. Long, brutal fights, mostly at night.
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2025 · Crime
A former dock workers' union leader refuses to believe his old friend died of a heart attack, and pulls at the thread until it reaches a gold smuggling ring. Nearly three hours, and mostly action.
AI estimate, not yet described
Little-known
2025 · Crime
A Los Angeles sheriff follows the thief who got away from him to Europe, and talks his way into the crew planning a diamond vault job in Nice. Long and loose, as much hanging around with the crew as it is the heist.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
AI estimate, not yet described
Little-known
2025 · Drama
A mob boss hears that Dante's handwritten Divine Comedy has surfaced in a Vatican cellar and sends a scholar and two hard men to get it. It cuts between that and Dante writing the poem, with one actor in both.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
AI estimate, not yet described
Little-known
2025 · Comedy
An improv teacher and two of her students are recruited by a London detective to play parts in small undercover stings, and turn out to be good enough to be sent further in. Broad comedy, and the tension is whether one of them breaks character.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
AI estimate, not yet described
2008 · Action
Batman, a new district attorney and a straight-arrow cop try to break organised crime in Gotham, and a criminal with no name and no plan starts pulling the city apart. Much of it is about what each of them will agree to do.
AI estimate, not yet described
Little-known
2025 · Crime
Two childhood sweethearts in a cannabis-growing region start making a stronger liquid form of the drug and selling it around the brothers who run the trade. The money comes fast, and so do the brothers.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
AI estimate, not yet described
Little-known
2025 · Comedy
An ex-cop working as a mob henchman takes one last job, it goes wrong, and he has a single night to get his wife and children out of the city. Waves of attackers, with jokes in between.
AI estimate, not yet described
Little-known
2025 · Drama
A Sudanese woman working as a caregiver in Cairo watches the tension build between other African migrants and the local gangs. A first feature, with a first-time lead.
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Little-known
2025 · Action
Two young men meet in a juvenile detention centre and become friends, and once out they set about training for a mixed martial arts tournament. Street gangs keep getting in the way.
AI estimate, not yet described
Little-known
2025 · Animation
Aske would rather be with his friends than go on ninja missions, so his checkered ninja doll goes looking for missions alone and lands him in trouble with a local gang. Cartoon comedy for children.
AI estimate, not yet described
Little-known
2025 · Action
A young woman trained in martial arts comes to Rome looking for her missing sister, starting with the Chinatown restaurant she thinks was holding her. Local gangsters take an interest fast.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
AI estimate, not yet described
2005 · Action
A billionaire's son leaves Gotham after his parents are killed and spends years abroad learning to fight, then comes back to a city run by mobsters. A good half of it is the training and the building of the kit.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
AI estimate, not yet described
Little-known
2025 · Crime
Adamo runs a legitimate business now and still moves cocaine through the port of Antwerp, which puts him between his old boss and the rival trying to take her trade. Loud and fast, and played partly for comedy.
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2025 · Crime
A professional thief survives a racetrack job that his own crew turned on, and works his way back toward the people who did it and a much bigger score. Fast, chatty crime plotting with double-crosses stacked up.
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Little-known
2025 · Crime
A 1950s New York mob boss survives an assassination attempt ordered by his own underboss, and tells him he only wants to retire. The underboss does not believe him, and it goes from there.
AI estimate, not yet described
Little-known
2025 · Drama
The son of a Nagasaki yakuza boss is taken in as an apprentice by a great kabuki actor and grows up performing women's roles alongside the master's own son and heir. It runs close to three hours and covers decades.
AI estimate, not yet described
2015 · Crime
A Boston gangster becomes an FBI informant and uses the arrangement to take over the city, while the agent who signed him up keeps covering for him. Cold and talky, with long scenes of men at tables.
AI estimate, not yet described
Little-known
2025 · Thriller
The teenage children of El Paso drug agents start robbing cartel stash houses with their parents' intel and night vision goggles, to help the family of an agent who was killed. It moves fast, and the people chasing them are their own fathers.
AI estimate, not yet described
Little-known
2025 · Crime
A man fresh out of prison collects his eleven-year-old daughter from school and takes her on the run, because the gang he crossed inside has come for his family. Most of it is the two of them, in cars and motel rooms.
AI estimate, not yet described
Little-known
2025 · Thriller
In 1977 Detroit, a factory worker is framed and sent to prison by the mobster who wants his girlfriend, and comes back for him. Almost no dialogue: a rock soundtrack and the fights carry it.
AI estimate, not yet described
2014 · Action
A retired hitman is pulled back in after some young men break into his house and take the one thing he had left. It runs on a strict underworld etiquette that the film never stops to justify.
AI estimate, not yet described
Little-known
2025 · Crime
Two childhood friends scraping a living in the Gangnam nightlife lose everything to a crime boss, then find out where he keeps his gold. Most of the film is what happens after they take it.
AI estimate, not yet described
Little-known
2025 · Action
In an alternate, snowbound 1994 Hong Kong, a bombing kills a rich businessman and sets drug traffickers against everyone trying to stop them. All of it comes from one heir's plan to end his family's trade.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
AI estimate, not yet described
2026 · Science fiction
A Mandalorian bounty hunter and the child he is raising hunt down warlords left over from the Empire, and are sent to pull a crime boss's son out of a fighting pit. It moves from planet to planet, with plenty of shooting.
AI estimate, not yet described
2026 · Crime
Birmingham, 1940, under the bombs: Tommy Shelby has withdrawn from the world while his son runs the gang, and the Germans have a plan to flood Britain with counterfeit money. It carries straight on from the television series.
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2026 · Action
Frank Castle has killed the last of the men behind his family's deaths and now lives alone in a New York block gone to crime, seeing people from his past who are not there. It is grim, violent, and stays in a few streets.
AI estimate, not yet described
2026 · Thriller
An Indian agent living as a Karachi gangster keeps working his way into the city's syndicates and Pakistani politics, avenging the 26/11 attacks. Close to four hours, and violent throughout.
AI estimate, not yet described
2026 · Thriller
A lawyer who collects debts for the very rich goes after a billionaire who owes her client a billion dollars and has just had her mentor killed. Sabotage, bribery and dirty tricks, told fast.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
AI estimate, not yet described
2026 · Comedy
Two estranged half-brothers, a Navy SEAL and a suspended detective, meet at their private-investigator father's funeral in Hawaii and start pulling at the case that killed him. It is a buddy comedy with fights, and it moves fast.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
AI estimate, not yet described
Little-known
2026 · Crime
A gangster rises through the underworld of Portuguese-ruled Goa, with the sister who raised him at his side, a circus performer and a boss's daughter pulling him in different directions. It is a big, violent period piece.
AI estimate, not yet described
Little-known
2026 · Comedy
A hitman who wants out of the mob does one last job for a loan shark whose wife he is sleeping with, and finds a second copy of that loan shark waiting for him. A crime comedy that turns into a time travel problem.
AI estimate, not yet described
Little-known
2026 · Thriller
Bombay, 1995: a hitman who kills with a barber's razor wants out and gone to Fiji, and a widow wants him to kill the four men who ruined her husband. Close to three hours of gangsters, police and payback.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
AI estimate, not yet described
Little-known
2026 · Thriller
A ballet troupe heading to a competition in Budapest breaks down and shelters in a strange roadside inn run by a former prima ballerina with a crime family. The girls end up locked in the basement, in tutus, and have to fight their way out.
AI estimate, not yet described
Little-known
2026 · Crime
Two brothers in 1980s Queens chase a business opportunity and get caught in a scheme with the Russian mob, which then comes after their family. A crime story about brothers as much as about the mob.
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Little-known
2026 · Action
A South Korean agent tracking a crime ring in Vladivostok runs into a North Korean officer working the same case, and both want the same restaurant worker as their source. The two sides circle each other, with her caught in between.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
AI estimate, not yet described
Little-known
2026 · Comedy
A narcotics detective and his ex-wife's new husband, a vet, cannot stand each other, and then she and their daughter are taken by a drug gang. The two of them bicker their way through the rescue.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
AI estimate, not yet described
2002 · Crime
Two boys grow up in a Rio housing project through the sixties and seventies, one drifting toward photography and the other toward the drug trade. It moves fast and jumps between dozens of lives.
AI estimate, not yet described
Little-known
2026 · Action
In 2016 two Mexican police officers stop a car on a night patrol in Los Mochis and find El Chapo inside. It is built around that night and the manhunt behind it, and it is based on what actually happened.
AI estimate, not yet described
Little-known
2026 · Horror
Five friends on a diving holiday in Mexico find cartel cocaine on the sea floor, and two of them end up trapped in a shark cage, made to bring it up. Sharks below, armed men above, and the air running out.
AI estimate, not yet described
Little-known
2026 · Crime
In a near-future Korean city run by gangsters, the people society has given up on gather at a place called Texas Hot Springs, and a new arrival named Jane upsets the order of it. Bleak and stylised.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
AI estimate, not yet described
Little-known
2026 · Thriller
A background check on a Hong Kong police chief in 2017 opens the file on an operation that went wrong in 1994, when the city's old money, the triads and the British were all pulling at each other. Two timelines and a lot of names.
AI estimate, not yet described
Little-known
2026 · Action
An outlaw who deals out the justice the courts will not falls for a bar singer, and when the police kill her he goes after them with a woman they brutalised. It is violent from early on.
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Little-known
2026 · Action
A drifter turns up in a small Texas town in 1988, where a bar owner and his daughter are being squeezed by the crime boss who owns the place. Fights and shootouts, escalating a step at a time.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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Little-known
2026 · Crime
A Chicago gang leader out of prison orders a retaliation killing, then starts having visions of a saint who was once a gang leader himself. It is a crime story that turns into a question about faith.
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