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Quotations, clips, sounds and images from Scarface, Goodfellas, Carlito's Way, Godfather and Casino.
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THE BAD GUYS WEB SITE  To Best Appreciate The Bad Guys Web Site Come on, get yourself a good browser! Non-Netscape users Click Here...
http://userwww.sfsu.edu/~jordonez/

Dedicated to gangster films from the silents to the present. Film list, sections on films about Prohibition and on actors who played gangsters.
http://www.geocities.com/~mikemckiernan/

Essay describing the key characteristics and notable films in the genre, plus an extensive list of the best titles.
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Crime and Gangster Films  Films are developed around the sinister actions of criminals or gangsters, particularly bankrobbers, underworld figures, or ruthless hoodlums who operate outside the law, stealing and murdering their way through life. In the 1940s, a new type of crime thriller emerged,...
http://www.filmsite.org/crimefilms.html

Photos, descriptions, production and crew information on films that inspired modern gangster movies.
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Classic French New Wave Gangster Films  French gangster films including Jules Dassin's rare, uncut edition of RIFIFI (Rififi Chez Les Hommes) and BOB THE GAMBLER (Bob Le Flambeur THE TALL BLOND MAN WITH ONE BLACK SHOE, SHOOT THE PIANO PLAYER and PEPE LE MOKO on video....
http://www.nyfavideo.com/content/cat-FRENCHGANGSTERS.htm

Exploring the influence of the Mafia, looking at real life gangsters and the portrayal of mobsters in films and television.
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 Tell you what we know about da big guys, and da made guys, and the dead guys. We want to tell you about The Commission and this guy called Lucky, who it turns out wasn't so lucky, and this guy...
http://www.mobsters.tv/

Examines the Hollywood Gangster from 1930 to 1938.
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Introduction  Time was when a girl knew a hero when she saw him. He wore his shirt open at the throat and he had wavy hair and one of those profiles. You know Greek. He was the big outdoor type and...
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~UG02/gangsters/intro.html

Help for non-Japanese speakers to understand gangster Japanese by studying dialogue from films. Also movie recommendations.
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Yakuza Warning  The following pages are for educational purposes only. These pages are designed for advanced students of Japanese who want to understand gangster Japanese as it is spoken in movies. Using this dialect in public or in the classroom may result...
http://www.jingai.com/yakuza/

Collection of links to Mafia film and television sites.
http://organizedcrime.about.com/cs/moviesandtv/

Extensive look at the various crime and gangster film sub-genres, with reviews of over two dozen movies.
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CrimeFilmsFrameset-5  Main crime film sections currently available: Gangster sagas Detective films Film noir Neo-noir Cop action films Parodies TV series Film reviews This section of crimeculture.com focuses on the most discussed forms of crime film gangster films, detective films, classic film...
http://www.crimeculture.com/Contents/CrimeFilms-5.html

Internet Movie Database users vote for the top fifty all-time crime movies.
http://www.imdb.com/Charts/Votes/crime/

Catalogues and reviews old-school gangster movies from the 1930s and 1940s.
http://www.dirtysquatters.com/evocrim/og