"Goodfellas."Warner Bros.
- The gangster genre has delivered some of the most powerful stories ever made.
- We rank the 31 best gangster movies of all time.
- Find out where movies like "Scarface," "Goodfellas," "New Jack City," and "The Godfather" rank on the list.
The gangster movie. It's the genre that made actors like Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, and Joe Pesci into household names, and directors like Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola, and Brian De Palma into iconic figures in Hollywood.
A fascination of audiences since the 1930s, the movies have focused on the shady and dangerous figures who are involved in everything from Prohibition, the mafia, and drugs. They have become fertile ground for filmmakers to create stories that have become classics, and given actors the ability to make characters that are timeless.
Here are the 31 best gangster movies of all time, ranked in ascending order.