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American Gangster
American Gangster

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Movie | United States | 11/02/2007 | Biography | Gangsters
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Following the death of his employer and mentor, Bumpy Johnson, Frank Lucas establishes himself as the number one importer of heroin in the Harlem district of Manhattan. He does so by buying heroin directly from the source in South East Asia and he comes up with a unique way of importing the drugs into the United States. Based on a true story.
7.8/10
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War Dogs

Movie | United States | 08/17/2016 | Biography | Gangsters
Based on a true story, “War Dogs” follows two friends in their early 20s living in Miami during the first Iraq War who exploit a little-known government initiative that allows small businesses to bid on U.S. Military contracts. Starting small, they begin raking in big money and are living the high life. But the pair gets in over their heads when they land a 300 million dollar deal to arm the Afghan Military—a deal that puts them in business with some very shady people, not the least of which turns out to be the U.S. Government.
7.1/10
61%
4,526

Black Mass

Movie | United States | 09/04/2015 | Biography | Gangsters
The true story of Whitey Bulger, the brother of a state senator and the most infamous violent criminal in the history of South Boston, who became an FBI informant to take down a Mafia family invading his turf.
6.9/10
73%
2,089

Legend

Movie | United States | 09/09/2015 | Biography | Gangsters
Suave, charming and volatile, Reggie Kray and his unstable twin brother Ronnie start to leave their mark on the London underworld in the 1960s. Using violence to get what they want, the siblings orchestrate robberies and murders while running nightclubs and protection rackets. With police Detective Leonard \Nipper\ Read hot on their heels, the brothers continue their rapid rise to power and achieve tabloid notoriety.
6.9/10
61%
1,917

Loving Pablo

Movie | Spain | 03/09/2018 | Biography | Gangsters
The film chronicles the rise and fall of the world's most feared drug lord Pablo Escobar and his volatile love affair with Colombia's most famous journalist Virginia Vallejo throughout a reign of terror that tore a country apart.
6.3/10
31%
699

Mesrine: Public Enemy #1

Movie | France | 11/19/2008 | Biography | Gangsters
The story of Jacques Mesrine, Frances public enemy No. 1 during the 1970s. After nearly two decades of legendary criminal feats -- from multiple bank robberies and to prison breaks -- Mesrine was gunned down by the French police in Paris.
7.5/10
96%
36

Godfather's Story

Movie | Czech Republic | 10/13/2013 | Biography | Gangsters
Godfather's story is the story of the greatest of Czech post-revolutionary 'entrepreneurs'. His activities often crossed the edge of the law, and his life ended bullet assassin.
6.8/10
21

Mesrine: Killer Instinct

Movie | France | 10/22/2008 | Biography | Gangsters
The early career (1959-’70) of outlaw Jacques Mesrine (Cassel), covering his military service in Algeria, apprenticeship with a Paris gang-lord (Depardieu), crime-spree partnership with soulmate Jeanne (De France) and escape from a tough Canadian prison.
7.6/10
55

Kajínek

Movie | Czech Republic | 08/05/2010 | Biography | Gangsters
Crime thriller inspired by the story of Jiri Kajinek, which is considered the first bounty hunter in the Czech Republic. Thanks to his escape from the prison fortress Mirov it became a legend and the most wanted man in Europe. Five weeks while eluding the police, is still shrouded in mystery. Kajínek Film is a powerful story of the most famous prisoner int the Czech Republic in our story of double murder, the story of lawyer looking for new evidence, the story of the underworld and its penetration into the government and handling of the story. George is a victim of conspiracy or Kajínek cold-blooded killer? Trying to prove his innocence or to intimidate and influence witnesses?
6.2/10

Gangster Ka

Movie | Czech Republic | 09/10/2015 | Biography | Gangsters
6.4/10
60

Gangster Ka: Afričan

Movie | Czech Republic | 11/26/2015 | Biography | Gangsters
6.5/10

Gotti

Movie | United States | 06/15/2018 | Biography | Gangsters
John Gotti rises to the top of the New York underworld to become the boss of the Gambino crime family. His life takes a tumultuous turn as he faces tragedy, multiple trials and a prison sentence.
4.8/10
622

True History of the Kelly Gang

Movie | Australia | 01/09/2020 | Biography | Gangsters
Set against the badlands of colonial Australia where the English rule with a bloody fist and the Irish endure, Ned Kelly discovers he comes from a line of Irish rebels—an uncompromising army of cross dressing bandits immortalised for terrorising their oppressors back in Ireland. Nurtured by the notorious bushranger, Harry Power and fuelled by the unfair arrest of his mother, Kelly recruits a wild bunch of warriors to plot one of the most audacious attacks of anarchy and rebellion the country has ever seen.
6.0/10
80%
701

Lansky

Movie | United States | 06/24/2021 | Biography | Gangsters
When the aging Meyer Lansky is investigated one last time by the Feds who suspect he has stashed away millions of dollars over half a century, the retired gangster spins a dizzying tale, revealing the untold truth about his life as the notorious boss of Murder Inc. and the National Crime Syndicate.
6.3/10
62%
1,646

Lansky

Movie | United States | 02/27/1999 | Biography | Gangsters
This is the telling of the life of organized crime boss, Meyer Lansky, as remembered by him as a very old man who is moving about the world looking for some country that will take him in since the US courts have put out an extradition order for him to stand trial. It tells of a young man growing up in the Jewish ghettos of Americas big cities at the turn of the century and of his bright intelligence which he used for moving into crime. \Im only a gambler,\ he claimed, \just like most all Americans.\ When asked by a reporter to comment on the killings that occurred under his leadership he declined, thereby making this films thrust that of personalities and relationships rather than of acts of violence or the workings of corrupt deeds. Written by BOB STEBBINS
5.5/10
40%
46

Rocco Chinnici - E cosi lieve il tuo bacio sulla fronte

Movie | Italy | 01/23/2018 | Biography | Gangsters
7.1/10

Warm Springs

Movie | United States | 04/30/2005 | HBO | Biography | Disability
Franklin Roosevelt, left a paraplegic from polio at 39 years of age, seeks out a miracle cure in the backwoods of Georgia.
7.4/10
35

Path to War

Movie | United States | 01/01/2002 | HBO | Biography | Politics
From director John Frankenheimer ('The Manchurian Candidate') comes this powerful drama of soaring ambition and shattered dreams that takes a provocative insider's look at the way our country goes to war--as seen from inside the LBJ White House leading up to and during Vietnam.
7.3/10
71%

Lincoln

Movie | United States | 11/16/2012 | Biography | Civil War
A revealing drama that focuses on the 16th Presidents tumultuous final months in office. In a nation divided by war and the strong winds of change, Lincoln pursues a course of action designed to end the war, unite the country and abolish slavery. With the moral courage and fierce determination to succeed, his choices during this critical moment will change the fate of generations to come.
7.4/10
89%
1,006

Ray

Movie | United States | 10/11/2004 | Biography | Musicians
Born on a sharecropping plantation in Northern Florida, Ray Charles went blind at seven. Inspired by a fiercely independent mom who insisted he make his own way, He found his calling and his gift behind a piano keyboard. Touring across the Southern musical circuit, the soulful singer gained a reputation and then exploded with worldwide fame when he pioneered couping gospel and country together.
7.7/10
79%
1,165

Cinderella Man

Movie | United States | 06/02/2005 | Biography | Boxing
Cinderella Man is the story of a boxer in the 1920’s who after his retirement has a surprise comeback in order to get him and his family out of a socially poor state. The film is based on the true story of boxer Jim Braddock who was more famously known as Cinderella Man.
8.0/10
80%
29

The Aviator

Movie | United States | 12/25/2004 | Biography | Business
Martin Scorsese’s Oscar-winning biopic about the life of film-maker and aviation pioneer Howard Hughes from 1927 to 1947, during which time he became a successful film producer and an aviation magnate while simultaneously growing more unstable due to severe obsessive-compulsive disorder. After a scene from 1914, which may explain his later fear of dirt and disease, the film starts in 1927 during Hughes filming of the World War I aviation film \Hells Angels\. Hes 22 years old, has inherited the familys fortune and tool company, but wants to spend his time making film instead. However, he soon finds himself just as involved in the aviation industry, buying an airline and developing new planes.
7.5/10
86%
439

Walk the Line

Movie | United States | 09/13/2005 | Biography | Musicians
A chronicle of country music legend Johnny Cash's life, from his early days on an Arkansas cotton farm to his rise to fame with Sun Records in Memphis, where he recorded alongside Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis and Carl Perkins.
7.8/10
82%
358

Finding Neverland

Movie | United States | 11/11/2004 | Biography | Writers
7.8/10
82%
53

Milk

Movie | United States | 11/26/2008 | Biography | LGBT
The story of California's first openly gay elected official, Harvey Milk, who became an outspoken agent for change, seeking equal rights and opportunities for all. His great love for the city and its people brought him backing from young and old, straight and gay, alike – at a time when prejudice and violence against gays was openly accepted as the norm.
7.5/10
93%
35

Chasing Mavericks

Movie | United States | 10/25/2012 | Biography | Sport
Surfer Jay Moriarity sets out to ride the Northern California break known as Mavericks.
7.2/10
33%
52
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