During the Great Depression, casting gangsters as heroes created a new film genre that symbolized the decay of American society, as well as the fear that traditional values would not survive the ...

From Casino to Donnie Brasco, these 10 gangster movies come closest to matching the appeal of Martin Scorsese’s Goodfellas.

Audiences walked out of an early screening. Decades later, AFI ranked the film No. 2 among American gangster movies.

The gangster genre was established during the 1930s by classics such as William A. Wellman's The Public EnemystarringJames Cagney, Little Caesar starringEdward G. Robinson, and Howard Hawks' Scarface, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The legacy of heroin kingpin Frank Lucas, whose story was dramatized in the 2007 narrative feature American Gangster, is the focus ...

In 2007, two iconic actors teamed up with a legendary director to make a crime classic that became a box office hit — and almost 20 years later, it's still drawing viewers in as it climbs the Netflix ...

William likes watching movies and writing about those movies. Anything else is minutae. Gangsters have always made for popular film characters. As equally terrifying as they are compelling, audiences ...

Director Legs McNeil's feature 'Pusherman,' centering on the figure memorably played by Denzel Washington, is set for home release this summer. By Ryan Gajewski Senior Entertainment Reporter The ...