Whether they be serious or comedic, Italian or Russian, mob movies are by far my favorite category. These are my favorites, if you have any recommendations for more please post them.

Godfather Trilogy
Goodfellas
Casino
Untouchables
Departed
Eastern Promises
Analyze This/Analyze That
The Whole 9/10 Yards

3/10/2010 2:49:01 PM

Death to Smoochy

3/10/2010 2:52:03 PM

Miller's Crossing
Donnie Brasco

3/10/2010 2:53:08 PM

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"Analyze This/Analyze That The Whole 9/10 Yards"

FAIL

Also,
A History of Violence
The Killing of a Chinese Bookie
Road to Perdition
The Freshman
Mean Streets
Once Upon a Time in America
Gotti

3/10/2010 3:09:30 PM

miller's crossing is pretty much the only mob movie you need

3/10/2010 3:12:12 PM

Comedy mob movies still count, and I loved all four of those. I also really liked Married to the Mob.

3/10/2010 3:14:14 PM

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"Comedy mob movies still count"

right, which is why I included The Freshman, but those 4 movies fucking suck (especially the sequels)

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"I also really liked Married to the Mob."

This is an acceptable addition, though I didn't personally enjoy it, it does have it's merits

[Edited on March 10, 2010 at 3:17 PM. Reason : .]

3/10/2010 3:17:17 PM

Godfather Trilogy
Untouchables (my favorite)
Casino
Goodfellas
Once Upon a Time in America (Loooooong ass movie)
Departed (good, but over rated)

It's a stretch, but I'm going to say that The Boondock Saints semi-qualifies since they kill a shit ton of Russian mobsters.

[Edited on March 10, 2010 at 3:17 PM. Reason : catsup]

3/10/2010 3:17:20 PM

Godfather Trilogy I & II

3/10/2010 3:21:47 PM

The third one wasn't amazing, but I still liked it. It wasn't on the level of the first 2 though. Not even close.

[Edited on March 10, 2010 at 3:25 PM. Reason : catsup]

3/10/2010 3:24:39 PM

Godfather 3 is a great movie, its just not as good as the other 2

3/10/2010 3:24:48 PM

Rick Bonnell recently compared Jack's peformance in The Departed to Deniro's in Casino

Jack made a mockey of an otherwise great movie with a dreadful performance, while Deniro delivered one of the best (if not the best) role of his career

There is no comparison

3/10/2010 3:26:32 PM

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"It's a stretch, but I'm going to say that The Boondock Saints semi-qualifies since they kill a shit ton of Russian mobsters."

it is a stretch, and even if you consider it a mob movie are you really trying to convince me it's one of the BEST mob movies? It's a trite and horribly acted/directed morality play.

3/10/2010 3:27:32 PM

Rick Bonnell should stick to sports, which he knows a lot about

3/10/2010 3:28:17 PM

Maybe not one of the best mob movies, but I'm one of those who love it. You either love the Boondock Saints or hate it, not much in-between ground there.

3/10/2010 3:28:49 PM

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"Maybe not one of the best mob movies, but I'm one of those who love it"

Okay, well then we can agree it shouldn't be in this thread.

Also I'm going to add Sexy Beast.

3/10/2010 3:32:00 PM

Boondocks is a shit movie that got super-hyped because its fun to watch drunk and stoned at 3 AM when you're a college aged male, which is coincidentally the same demographic who buys the most movie tickets and posts the most on internet message boards

3/10/2010 3:32:09 PM

Heat
New Jack City
Ricochet
Menace 2 Society
Boys 2 Men
Sopranos

3/10/2010 3:35:52 PM

^All of those movies are crime movies NOT mob movies except New Jack City (admittedly I haven't seen Ricochet so maybe it counts), and The Sopranos is a fucking TV show man, try to keep your retardation to a minimum in this thread.

3/10/2010 3:41:40 PM

I can't believe A Bronx Tale wasn't mentioned.

Highly underrated flick.


Other notables:

Bugsy
Mobsters - A lot of people did not like this movie, but I thoroughly enjoyed it.


Heat is a heist movie, not a mob movie.

The other ones lafta listed are growing up in the hood/gang movies, which is a different subgenre from "mob movies"



[Edited on March 10, 2010 at 3:51 PM. Reason : V probably a good call. need to install block user GM script. ]

3/10/2010 3:43:55 PM

I was about to call him out on Heat, than I saw Boys 2 Men, then I saw it was lafta, then I just left it be

[Edited on March 10, 2010 at 3:46 PM. Reason : x]

3/10/2010 3:45:44 PM

Road to Perdition

3/10/2010 3:48:34 PM

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"I can't believe A Bronx Tale, wasn't mentioned."

it's decent, I wouldn't classify it as one of the best mob movies but whatever. The star is serving 10 years in prison for a burglary conviction btw.

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"Mobsters - A lot of people did not like this movie, but I thoroughly enjoyed it."

haha, I totally forgot about that movie...it was entertaining.

3/10/2010 3:51:34 PM

somewhat off topic, but does anyone watch the show mobsters on the history channel? I love that show.

3/10/2010 3:56:08 PM

so is this "Best Mob Movies" or just

Mob Movies?

3/10/2010 3:57:05 PM

haha, my list is good, but i hate when the OP names all the easy ones and leaves us nothing

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"somewhat off topic, but does anyone watch the show mobsters on the history channel? I love that show."

i know you're asking about the show mobsters, which i dont watch, but hear me out, i think you should be suspended....


[Edited on March 10, 2010 at 3:59 PM. Reason : .]

3/10/2010 3:57:43 PM

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"haha, my list is good"

except that only like 1 of the movies on it are actually mob movies (or movies at all)

3/10/2010 4:02:35 PM

mobs, gangsters, whats the difference

3/10/2010 4:04:24 PM

The difference is that all the movies you listed except New Jack City are just movies about people committing crime, whereas mob movies are about people who commit crime within the framework of a larger, hierarchical criminal organization to which they are beholden.

Just thought of 2 more:
Hoodlum
Gamorra

[Edited on March 10, 2010 at 4:10 PM. Reason : .]

3/10/2010 4:07:34 PM

"WHAT'S THIS... NO LOVE FOR ME????... NYHAHHH THAT'S WHAT I THINK OF THAT, NYHAAHHH!!!1

[Edited on March 10, 2010 at 4:08 PM. Reason : mobz]

3/10/2010 4:08:41 PM

Gangs of New York is closer to being a mob movie than Boondock Saints.

I didn't care much for Road to Perdition.

3/10/2010 8:29:40 PM

Anyone who puts Casino above Goodfellas should have their head examined.

3/10/2010 8:32:04 PM

cagney is the man

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"made it ma! top o' the world!"

3/10/2010 8:34:23 PM

^^I have a hard time deciding between the two sometimes. Joe Peshi is fundamentally the same character in both, and I find Ray Liotta kind of annoying. The Goodfellas story is better, and better overall acting, but I liked the storytelling style of Casino, and the actual good guy/bad guy confrontation where Goodfellas only has bad guys.

3/10/2010 8:52:17 PM

i second A Bronx Tale.


"would you rather be feared or loved"

"its good to be both, but i'd rather be feared. fear lasts longer than love"

3/10/2010 8:52:21 PM

I definitely think Goodfellas is better than Casino, not that Casino isn't a great flick

3/10/2010 8:57:06 PM

also from across the pond:

- Snatch
- Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
- Layer Cake


and just incase -- from Bollywood:

- Ab Tak Chapan
- Company

3/10/2010 8:59:30 PM

^speaking of Bollywood, Slumdog Millionaire also has some mob moments, but is not a mob movie

[Edited on March 10, 2010 at 9:03 PM. Reason : -]

3/10/2010 9:03:17 PM

Goodfellas is top tier Scorsese shit.

Casino is schlock, comparatively.

[Edited on March 10, 2010 at 9:28 PM. Reason : COMPARATIVELY, I'M NOT SAYING IT'S BAD]

3/10/2010 9:27:28 PM

Forgot about Layer Cake. Daniel Craig FTW.

I actually like Casino more than Goodfellas though. I'm also one of those people who think Temple of Doom is the best Indiana Jones film.

3/11/2010 12:46:04 AM

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"miller's crossing is pretty much the only mob movie you need"

3/11/2010 1:17:38 AM

^^^one thing I can say is of all the movies that ever used narration throughout, especially narration by multiple characters, those are the best two uses of the style I can think of. Fight Club is a close third.

3/11/2010 1:44:02 AM

^Taxi Driver

3/11/2010 2:12:27 AM

That's a good one too, but imo not on the same level as the others. De Niro did a much better job as a narrator in Casino.

3/11/2010 2:20:55 AM

NAH BRAH


I dunno about narration. But as a movie Taxi Driver is leaps and bounds better than either.

[Edited on March 11, 2010 at 2:32 AM. Reason : .]

3/11/2010 2:28:18 AM

I totally agree as an overall movie, and the best performance of his career (as a lead anyway, I don't think you can compare it to Godfather II)

[Edited on March 11, 2010 at 3:07 AM. Reason : -]

3/11/2010 3:07:13 AM

good

3/11/2010 3:15:14 AM

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"A History of Violence"

FAIL.

3/11/2010 9:50:18 AM