Best Mafia Movies And Where To Watch Them

'The Godfather' is a precisely crafted story about the mafia culture. The series draws inspiration from an Italian best-selling novel (by Mario Puzo) of the same name. Don Vito Corleone, is the patriarch of the Corleone Mafia Family. He has 3 sons - Sonny, the eldest and the probable hire to the throne, Fredo, the womanizer and Michael, a Marine who has no interest in the throne of Corelone Family. An attack on Vito Corleone in the summer of 1945 makes Michael leave the Marine Corps. After a series of events, Michael becomes the head of the Corleone crime family and avenges the attach on Vito Corleone and other members of the Corleone Family.

The Godfather - Part 2' is an epoch crime drama, the second in the Godfather Series. The film traverses in two parallel timelines, one moving forward as Michael Corleone expands and strengthens his position in the family crime empire, meanwhile struggling with betrayals and tough competition. Another parallel timeline follows young Vito Corleone and how he rose to power and set up a base for his generations to come. He escapes his native village in Sicily escaping an attack by the Local Mafia. Vito reaches New York city and hustles to make a living, legally or illegally. He earns respect & creates fear in the community with a desire to avenge the wrong done to him.

In 1979, ageing Don Michael Corleone, burdened with guilt for his ruthless actions, attempts to get out of the mafia business. He hands over his New York business to Joey Zaska, donates a share of his enormous wealth, and makes a deal with a Vatican-run property company. Michael agrees to include Vincent Mancini, the illegitimate son of Sonny Carleone, into the family business. However, the road to make his criminal family legit turns out bumpy. Soon, Vincent enters into a feud with Joey, and mob kingpin Don Altobello, and makes things uglier for Michael. Vincents romantic affair with Michaels daughter, Mary adds up to the chaos.

A crime drama starring the great Robert De Niro and Al Pacino, The Irishman is the story of Frank Sheeran(Robert De Niro), the titular Irishman and his involvement in the murder of Jimmy Hoffa(Al Pacino). Any movie with these two stars together will be a blast, as Heat and Righteous Kill showed. Fans of action dramas will be sure to love this movie coming this year.

'Goodfellas' is an award-wining gritty tale of the Italian-American crime syndicate. The movie is about a New York kid who is half Irish and half Sicilian. He is adopted by the local gangsters and soon escalates to the peak of the mafia subculture by doing petty crimes, taking up jail time to guard his bosses. He swiftly becomes the right hand of the local Mafia King but realizes his ceiling of the staircase has reached and finds him sandwiched between CIA and Mobsters.

The 1995 film, Casino, ventures in the mysterious world that lies behind the glittering casino parlours at Las Vegas. The story is of two friends who have known each other since childhood. On one hand is Sam Rothstein (popularly known as 'Ace') who is in charge of executions of a popular casino at Vegas. On another hand, there is Nicholas Santoro (known as 'Nicky') who is a mafia enforcer and has a deep-rooted connection with the world of mafia that is present in Vegas. As time passes, Ace falls in love with a girl, Ginger, and goes on to marry her. At a crucial point in the film, the two worlds of the two friends collide creating an unwanted disruption in Ace's life. Eventually, the gloomy reality behind the glamorous life at Vegas is depicted through the story of two friends.

What if we tell you that this movie is gifted with Johhny Depp and Al Pacino and the script is as polished as the stars themselves. Based on a true story, a young officer, Donnie Brasco, in his quest to infiltrate one of five Mafia family empires and bring them down, makes his way into the road of crime by connecting closely with a Mafia family. What was supposed to be a 6-month assignment went on for more than 5 years which left Brasco hanging on a line between both sides.

Kitano plays Murakawa, a Tokyo yakuza tiring of gangster life. Along with a few of his henchmen, he is sent by his boss to Okinawa to help end a gang war, supposedly to mediate between two warring clans. He finds that the dispute between the clans is insignificant and whilst wondering why he was sent to Okinawa at all, Murakawa's headquarters are bombed and he and his gang are ambushed in a bar.

Reservoir Dogs is an independent film shot on a very low budget but the exceptional prowess of the director and co-writer yells out that a good movie does not need a huge budget. It is not your average Crime Drama as along with the characters the viewers have a toll on their patience regularly throughout the film. A gang of six thieves is hired to successfully carry out an armed robbery on a diamond warehouse. As soon as they get done with the robbery, things get out of control and they suffer with unintended and unexpected damage to their plan and force. The Police are after them and it is then that it struck them that one of them must be a police informant. Will they be able to find out which one is the back-stabber here? Or are they just too blatant to be true in the first place?

Mike Sullivan works as a hit man for crime boss John Rooney. Sullivan views Rooney as a father figure, however after his son is witness to a killing, Mike Sullivan finds himself on the run in attempt to save the life of his son and at the same time looking for revenge on those who wronged him.

New York gangster Ben 'Bugsy' Siegel takes a brief business trip to Los Angeles. A sharp-dressing womanizer with a foul temper, Siegel doesn't hesitate to kill or maim anyone crossing him. In L.A. the life, the movies, and most of all strong-willed Virginia Hill detain him while his family wait back home. Then a trip to a run-down gambling joint at a spot in the desert known as Las Vegas gives him his big idea.

During the 1970s in New York City, Irving Rosenfeld is a money monger and con artist who excels in forgery. He falls in love with his fellow con artist named Sydney Prosser, and together they carry out many scams where Sydney pretends to be an English aristocrat. During one of their loan scam operations, an FBI agent named Richie DiMaso catches them red-handed on the job. Richie offers a deal that if Irving and Sydney can help him in a sting operation to catch the Mayor of New Jersey, he will let them go. They make a deal but Sydney decides to somehow manipulate Richie as he has proof of her false aristocracy. As Sydney tries to get close to Richie, Irving starts to feel irritated. Meanwhile, Irvings wife Rosalyn keeps threatening Irving with their son and she might end up spoiling the whole game.

Ex-safecracker Gal Dove has served his time behind bars and is blissfully retired to a Spanish villa paradise with a wife he adores. The idyll is shattered by the arrival of his nemesis Don Logan, intent on persuading Gal to return to London for one last big job. Desperate not to sacrifice his enchanted existence, Dove is drawn into a shocking battle of wills with Logan, and takes part in a sensational underwater heist, risking everything to protect the woman he loves.

An inside look at Italy's modern-day crime families, the Camorra in Naples and Caserta. Based on a book by Roberto Saviano. Power, money and blood: these are the "values" that the residents of the Province of Naples and Caserta have to face every day. They hardly ever have a choice and are forced to obey the rules of the Camorra. Only a lucky few can even think of leading a normal life.

Pulp fiction is a Tarantino classic and one of the establishing films of his career. Winner of Oscar, BAFTA, Golden Globe and many more awards, this cult classic is about two hitmen, Jules and Vincent who work for the crime boss, Marcellus Wallace. Their lives change when they set out on a hunt for the contents of a briefcase stolen from their boss. They run into never-ending & unexpected detours along the road. On their way, they also meet the Boss's wife Mia who complicates the situation even further. The movies forms a series of closely related but estranged short stories of comedy and crime that each end up being an unforeseen event including abrupt tweaks, deaths and intense conclusions of crime and its following consequences.

Chaos has broken out as a truck has been hijacked in New York. Following that, another chaotic event takes place as a cargo ship, carrying drug money worth millions, bursts into flames and several die. The only survivors are questioned, one of whom narrates the events leading to the cargo ship destruction. The survivors are the conmen who had hijacked the truck but couldnt be declared guilty. A bigger problem arises when they feel the presence of a mastermind criminal and somehow, feel endangered as they may have gone against him in their plan of actions.

Gotti: The Rise and Fall of a Real Life Mafia Don is a 1996 HBO original movie made for television directed by Robert Harmon. The film stars Armand Assante, in the title role as infamous Gambino crime family Boss John Gotti, William Forsythe, and Anthony Quinn. The film was the highest rated original telefilm in HBO history at that time, according to IMDB. Assante won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or Special, for his performance. Assante also received a Golden Globe nomination the same year.

An action-packed crime drama, 'On the Waterfront' follows the story of dockworker Terry; a boxer and brother of Charley 'the Gent'. Charley is the lawyer & right hand of Johnny Friendly. Terry also runs errands for Johnny. Terry witnesses a murder by Johnny' men which he expected to be just a pressurizing ordeal. Later, he meets the sister of the deceased man and feels deep remorse for not testifying against the culprits. Pairing up with the woman and a bad-ass priest, he tries to bring the deceased to justice.

Since childhood, Eddy has been a master of card-games and has been addicted to them as well. As he grows up, he gets heavily involved in poker and any such game that has high stakes and cards in it. Soon, he convinces his three friends, Soap, Bacon, and Tom, to chip in some money and helps him play an illegal poker game with stakes too high. Run by Hatchet Harry, a local villain, this game ends up making Eddy owe a huge debt to Harry. Receiving death threats, the three friends partner up to devise illegal schemes to pay him back and try to get out of the mess before its too late.