Cinema history is crime-ridden. In 1901, a French short called Histoire d’un crime told the story of a burglar who commits murder and is sent to the guillotine. In 1903, the American short The Great ...

Directed by Brian De Palma, The Untouchables starred Kevin Costner, Sean Connery, and Robert De Niro; the movie is delivering ...

James Cagney may be more strongly associated with the gangster movie than any other actor, having made several of the genre’s best films. The star was more than a film hoodlum, of course, getting his ...

PARIS — Few film types are as iconic in French cinema as the gangster. Throughout the genre’s heyday from the early ’50s through the late ’70s, Belmondo, Montand and Delon seemed to live with a gun in ...

Thomas Butt is a senior writer. An avid film connoisseur, Thomas actively logs his film consumption on Letterboxd and vows to connect with many more cinephiles through the platform. He is immensely ...

New releases coming to Netflix and Amazon Prime include a World War II drama and a 1950s mob movie with Ryan Gosling.

Oscar Isaac plays Nick Tosches — and Dante — in a heist-movie-meets-philosophical-rumination that overreaches almost on purpose. Oscar Isaac, with louche long hair and a snaky hostility, plays Nick ...