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Re: Best Mafia/Gangster Movies
« Reply #25 on: March 01, 2022, 11:46:33 PM »
I watched the very start of the new Gotti movie starring John Travolta, but I didn't finish it.

My impression was that John Travolta did a way better job than I expected. He really good in character, and was a good fit for that movie, IMO.

Has anyone watched it? Is it worth watching? It seemed to me to focus more on the later part of Gotti's life, rather than the entire rise and fall - but I only saw the beginning.


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Re: Best Mafia/Gangster Movies
« Reply #26 on: March 01, 2022, 11:55:43 PM »
Vin Diesel did a good job in "Find Me Guilty" [2006]. I couldn't find it available for purchase on YouTube. Peter Dinklage plays the defense lawyer of the mob.



Checking out this review of it now:



I think it's cool to hear the real life interpretations of these movies by people who lived it. Some of these movies are so out to lunch, it's crazy.

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Re: Best Mafia/Gangster Movies
« Reply #27 on: March 02, 2022, 03:41:18 AM »
the godfather is the most perfect movie ever made, every scene and the acting are absolutely perfect

the 50th anniversary edition is in theaters now, it's the only movie i've wanted to see in theaters in years

part 2 is great but i will never understand how people prefer it over the original, part 3 is garbage i can't believe how bad it was

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Re: Best Mafia/Gangster Movies
« Reply #28 on: March 02, 2022, 05:47:25 AM »
Godfather 1 & 2 are in a league of their own.

While not a movie, Sopranos is better than most Italian mafia movies.

American Me is a top 5 gangster movie. It’s right under The Godfather tier. People were killed for cooperating in the making of the movie. The Mexican Mafia is a very serious criminal organization.

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Re: Best Mafia/Gangster Movies
« Reply #29 on: March 02, 2022, 08:17:35 AM »
Series wise (Sopranos already mentioned) -

Gomorra is near the top for me. Another good short one is  "Romanzo Criminale".

Next tier -

4 Blocks (Germany), Zero,Zero,Zero, Umbre (Shadows), and Boardwalk Empire, Ozark.

3rd tier - Dogs of Berlin, Suburra, Blinded by the Lights, and Quarry.

The ones in the third tier aren't bad, but they are a little weak or weren't fleshed out enough.

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Re: Best Mafia/Gangster Movies
« Reply #30 on: March 02, 2022, 09:12:53 AM »
Narcos:Mexico  1,2 &3   the very best in a long time. Also Narcos... Pablo Escobar story

Godfather and Godfather 2 of course.  Godfather 1, almost every movie frame could stand alone.

Just my view but "The Irishman", very disappointed.

Too long a list of some great mobster movies to mention.

Season 4 of "Snowfall" stated. South Central LA, good show.
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Re: Best Mafia/Gangster Movies
« Reply #31 on: March 02, 2022, 09:21:24 AM »
Series wise (Sopranos already mentioned) -

Gomorra is near the top for me. Another good short one is  "Romanzo Criminale".

Next tier -

4 Blocks (Germany), Zero,Zero,Zero, Umbre (Shadows), and Boardwalk Empire, Ozark.

3rd tier - Dogs of Berlin, Suburra, Blinded by the Lights, and Quarry.

The ones in the third tier aren't bad, but they are a little weak or weren't fleshed out enough.

Gomorrah is really good.  I need to pick up that series again.
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Re: Best Mafia/Gangster Movies
« Reply #32 on: March 02, 2022, 02:55:17 PM »
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Re: Best Mafia/Gangster Movies
« Reply #33 on: March 02, 2022, 03:28:54 PM »
Hoffa was excellent too.

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« Reply #34 on: March 02, 2022, 03:33:02 PM »
Hoffa was excellent too.

Yes.  It sure was.  Forgot about that one completely.

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« Reply #35 on: March 02, 2022, 03:56:44 PM »
 
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« Reply #36 on: March 02, 2022, 03:59:27 PM »
 
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Re: Best Mafia/Gangster Movies
« Reply #37 on: March 03, 2022, 05:56:43 PM »
Gomorrah is really good.  I need to pick up that series again.


Brutal series.

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« Reply #38 on: March 03, 2022, 05:58:53 PM »
the godfather is the most perfect movie ever made, every scene and the acting are absolutely perfect

the 50th anniversary edition is in theaters now, it's the only movie i've wanted to see in theaters in years

part 2 is great but i will never understand how people prefer it over the original, part 3 is garbage i can't believe how bad it was

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Word.  2 is the best sequel ever made.  3 is just a shame. 

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« Reply #39 on: March 03, 2022, 06:21:54 PM »
Pope of Greenwich Village is a good one not mentioned.

What’s amazing about The Godfather movies is that they aren’t nearly as good as the book.

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« Reply #40 on: March 03, 2022, 07:02:27 PM »
Pope of Greenwich Village is a good one not mentioned.

What’s amazing about The Godfather movies is that they aren’t nearly as good as the book.

Wish I wasn't too lazy to read the book.

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Re: Best Mafia/Gangster Movies
« Reply #41 on: March 03, 2022, 07:24:57 PM »

Lock Stock & Two Smoking Barrels

Like a gangsters version of Indiana Jones !.

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Re: Best Mafia/Gangster Movies
« Reply #42 on: March 03, 2022, 09:15:16 PM »
Layer Cake is a good one. Strong cast including a young Bond and Bane

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« Reply #43 on: March 06, 2022, 11:52:02 PM »
I'm from Aus, so not surprisingly these two suggestions are too.

Broadly speaking they are crime films/series, but there's a lot of dark/dry humour in both. It's quirky stuff that gives an insight into Australian sense of humour, I won't guarantee everyone would like it.

Movie - "Chopper" semi dramatised movie based on real life events of Melbourne (my home town) criminal, stand over man, and later on media darling Mark "chopper" Read. Some of the characters in it are combinations of a couple of people, one has their name changed because they were still around at the time of filming.

Series - no idea if anyone can get it overseas, probably available as a torrent - 3 seasons of it "Mr Inbetween"It takes a couple of episodes to get moving but you might like it. Its central character is a strip club bouncer who does anything from debt collection to murder for hire as a side gig. The role is played by the writer himself, after a low budget film (that has a bit of a cult following) he made well over ten years previously gained some interest overseas for making a series out of the idea, but died on the vine, later to be picked up by a local tv network and helped along by actor Joel Edgerton's brother Nash who came on board as producer or something like that. (the movie is also entertaining, called 'the magician' but there's a fair bit of local references in it and may not be as easily understood by people outside of Australia/New Zealand)

There's also a few Australian crime mini-series called 'underbelly' the first of which focuses on the underworld war that saw a number of people in Melbourne's criminal 'community' murdered around the very late 90s. It's fairly accurate on the police procedure side of things, but the portrayal of the criminals involved is close to complete bullshit. Most if not all of them were nothing at all like the way they were portrayed (and I'm not suggesting I was rubbing shoulders with all of them on a constant basis or anything like that, melbourne isn't that big, anyone working some of the more notorious nightclubs during that era would have known them to some extent, not as friends or anything) I honestly wouldn't recommend these series, though they did rate well on local tv at the time.

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Re: Best Mafia/Gangster Movies
« Reply #44 on: March 07, 2022, 01:23:47 AM »

Regarding "Underbelly" , very well known BB was 'working' for Melbourne boys  ;) !.


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Re: Best Mafia/Gangster Movies
« Reply #45 on: March 07, 2022, 02:27:15 AM »
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Re: Best Mafia/Gangster Movies
« Reply #46 on: March 07, 2022, 02:50:50 AM »
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Re: Best Mafia/Gangster Movies
« Reply #47 on: March 07, 2022, 12:28:06 PM »

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« Reply #48 on: March 07, 2022, 12:55:36 PM »

There's also a few Australian crime mini-series called 'underbelly' the first of which focuses on the underworld war that saw a number of people in Melbourne's criminal 'community' murdered around the very late 90s. It's fairly accurate on the police procedure side of things, but the portrayal of the criminals involved is close to complete bullshit. Most if not all of them were nothing at all like the way they were portrayed (and I'm not suggesting I was rubbing shoulders with all of them on a constant basis or anything like that, melbourne isn't that big, anyone working some of the more notorious nightclubs during that era would have known them to some extent, not as friends or anything) I honestly wouldn't recommend these series, though they did rate well on local tv at the time.

I don't mind the first 3 seasons of Underbelly that much. The 4th wasn't too bad either. The best version of Underbelly to me was the NZ version - "Underbelly: Land of the Long Green Cloud". Mostly just rating them as an American, and entertainment value. I can understand how someone familiar with the ins and outs wouldn't like it.

One Aussie film series I did like was "Blue Murder" that came out in the 90's.

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One comedic Mafia series that's ok is "Lilyhammer", It was Steven Van Zandt's project that came out after the Sopranos, and it got a little unfairly maligned. It's pretty funny.

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Edit, The 2 Blue Murder films -

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Re: Best Mafia/Gangster Movies
« Reply #49 on: March 07, 2022, 02:42:44 PM »
Anyone see Black Mass?