The primary reasons behind making films about organized crime often revolve around a country’s politics, law and order issues, and tax evasion. It is said that where a nation’s political system illegally raises funds for its party, the role of mafia and gangsters becomes active. In such cases, even the police administration, despite their reluctance, gets involved in corruption. Those involved in black marketing, tax evasion, and hoarding are often the first targets on the underworld’s hit list. In such an environment, extortion, murder, and theft become inevitable.
Films and web series frequently depict the nexus between syndicates, politicians, and illegal traders. There must be some truth to these portrayals.
Does watching gangster and underworld films corrupt the mind of the youth?
This question has two aspects. First, those who create such films argue that they are simply dramatizing real-life events that are already occurring in society. How can showing what is already happening in society corrupt the youth?
On the other hand, some people refute this by saying that there is no point in depicting crime or filth on screen that has already happened or is happening. News media already cover such stories. What is the need to showcase murder, extortion, gang wars, rape, and other crimes on screen? Why are gangsters, terrorists, and tyrant rulers glorified in movies? By doing so, you’re playing with the minds of the youth, constantly hammering into them the glamor of the world of crime and gangsterism. Watching crime stories repeatedly has indeed led to many real-world crimes. You glamorize a crime story so much that it evokes sympathy for the criminal among the audience.
Psychology suggests that if you repeatedly watch a certain type of film, you may start to unconsciously emulate the characters in those films.
Viewers, especially adults, need to understand that violence can be committed by both a soldier protecting a nation and a hoodlum, but there’s a difference in the nature of their actions. One acts in accordance with the law and society, while the other acts against it.
Any film that entertains its audience is considered successful. However, films about gangland often have less conventional entertainment value. These films typically feature dark humor, profanity, and sexual content, which a specific audience enjoys.
More than censorship, it is the responsibility of every country’s government to determine what should be shown and to what extent. This responsibility extends not only to films but also to web series, where crime-related content is being showcased every month. Today, people prefer content that includes suspense, thrill, and action. Content about criminal enterprises often incorporates these elements.
Parents also need to take responsibility and set filters on their children’s entertainment choices. We hope that in the films listed below, you will see all aspects of drug trafficking, extortion, racketeering, and organized crime. Watch and showcase them responsibly. The following list of films includes mostly English-language movies, along with a few cult movies from the Indian film industry. Viewers can use subtitles to watch these films in their respective local languages.
- Little Caesar (1931)
- White heat ( 1949)
- The big heat ( 1953 )
- AI Capone ( 1959)
- Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
- The St. Valentine day massacre ( 1967)
- Villain ( 1971)
- A clockwork orange ( 1971)
- The French connection ( 1971)
- Get Carter ( 1971)
- Super fly ( 1972)
- The godfather ( 1972)
- The sting ( 1973)
- Mean streets ( 1973)
- Black Caesar ( 1973)
- The Godfather 2 ( 1974)
- Brannigan ( 1975)
- Capone ( 1975)
- Mickey and nickey ( 1976)
- Street people ( 1976)
- Scum ( 1979)
- The long good Friday ( 1980)
- McVicar ( 1980)
- Gloria ( 1980)
- Scarface ( 1983)
- John dangerously ( 1984)
- The hit ( 1984)
- The cotton club ( 1984)
- Once upon a time in America ( 1984)
- Prizzi’s honor ( 1985)
- The untouchables ( 1987)
- Blood vows : the story of a mafia wife ( 1987)
- Colors ( 1988)
- Married to the mob ( 1988)
- Tequila sunrise ( 1988)
- Family business ( 1989)
- Do the right thing ( 1989)
- Harlem Nights ( 1989)
- The freshman ( 1990)
- The godfather 3 ( 1990)
- Goodfellas ( 1990)
- The krays ( 1990)
- Miller’s crossing ( 1990)
- King of New York ( 1990)
- Mobsters ( 1991)
- Bugsy ( 1991)
- Boyz n the hood ( 1991)
- New jack city ( 1991)
- Juice ( 1992 )
- South central (1992)
- Reservoir dogs ( 1992)
- Romper stomper ( 1992)
- American me (1992)
- Blood in blood out ( 1992)
- A bronx tale ( 1993)
- Carlito’s way ( 1993)
- Menace 2 society ( 1993)
- True romance ( 1993)
- Once upon a time in America ( 1994)
- Pulp fiction( 1994)
- Leon: The professional ( 1994)
- The basketball diaries ( 1994)
- The usual suspects ( 1995)
- Casino ( 1995)
- Dead presidents ( 1995)
- Get shorty ( 1995)
- Friday ( 1995)
- Things to do in Denver’s when you are dead( 1995)
- Pusher ( 1995)
- Last man standing ( 1996)
- Fargo ( 1996)
- Don’t be a menace to south central while drinking your juice ( 1996)
- Gotti ( 1996)
- L.A confidential ( 1997)
- Gang related ( 1997)
- Donnie brasco ( 1997)
- Jackie brown ( 1997)
- 8 head in duffel bags ( 1997)
- Hoodlum ( 1997)
- Belly ( 1998)
- Lock stock and two smoking barrels ( 1998)
- Satya ( 1998)
- American history X ( 1998)
- The boondock saints ( 1999)
- Mickey blue eyes ( 1999)
- Analyze this ( 1999)
- In too deep ( 1999)
- Gangster no 1 ( 2000)
- Get Carter ( 2000)
- Essex boys ( 2000)
- Baller blocking (2000)
- Next Friday ( 2000)
- Brother ( 2000)
- Traffic ( 2000)
- Sexy beast ( 2000)
- Snatch ( 2000)
- Cash money millionaires: Baller blockin ( 2000)
- Knock around guys ( 2001)
- Blue hill Avenue ( 2001)
- The score ( 2001)
- Training day ( 2001)
- Gang tapes ( 2001)
- The 51st state ( 2001)
- Blow ( 2001)
- Paid in full ( 2002)
- Friday after next ( 2002)
- Analyze that ( 2002)
- Gangs of New York ( 2002)
- Road to perdition ( 2002)
- City of god ( 2002)
- Shottas ( 2002)
- The italian job ( 2003)
- Once upon a time in Mexico ( 2003)
- Dead man’s shoes ( 2004)
- Layers cake ( 2004)
- Pusher 2 ( 2004)
- Get rich or die tryin ( 2005)
- Four brothers ( 2005)
- The business ( 2005)
- Into the blue ( 2005)
- Sarkar 1 ( 2005)
- Revolver ( 2005)
- Lucky number slavin ( 2006)
- Inside man ( 2006)
- The departed ( 2006)
- Running scared ( 2006)
- Find me guilty ( 2006)
- Killa season ( 2006)
- Elite squad ( 2007)
- An american crime ( 2007)
- American gangster ( 2007)
- Eastern promises ( 2007)
- Rise of the foot soldier ( 2007)
- Max Payne ( 2008)
- Adulthood ( 2008)
- Street kings ( 2008)
- Rocknrolla ( 2008)
- The crew( 2008)
- Tje boondock saints 2: All saints day ( 2009)
- Brooklyn’s finest ( 2009)
- The bad lieutenant: port of call new Orleans ( 2009)
- Public enemies ( 2009)
- Harry brown ( 2009)
- Sarkar 2 (2009)
- London boulevard ( 2010)
- Casino Jack ( 2010)
- The tourist ( 2010)
- The town ( 2010)
- Animal kingdom ( 2010)
- Bonded by blood ( 2010)
- Machete ( 2010)
- The American ( 2010)
- EI infiero ( 2010)
- The lincoln lawyer ( 2011)
- King of paper chasin ( 2011)
- Anuvahood ( 2011)
- Drive ( 2011)
- Rampart ( 2011)
- Kill the Irishman ( 2011)
- Get the gringo ( 2012)
- Safe ( 2012)
- The Sweeney ( 2012)
- Savages ( 2012)
- Killing them softly ( 2012)
- Seven psychopaths ( 2012 )
- The iceman ( 2012 )
- Contraband ( 2012)
- End of watch ( 2012)
- Bullet to the head ( 2012)
- III Manors ( 2012)
- Lawless ( 2012)
- Gangster squad ( 2013)
- Machete kills ( 2013)
- Gangs of Wasseypur 1 ( 2013)
- Gangs of Wasseypur 2 ( 2013)
- Essex boys retribution ( 2013)
- Broken city ( 2013)
- Parker( 2013)
- 2 guns ( 2013)
- The counselor ( 2013)
- The family ( 2013)
- American hustle ( 2013)
- Homefront ( 2013)
- A single shot ( 2013 )
- Blood ties ( 2013 )
- Filth ( 2013 )
- Dead man down ( 2013 )
- Only god forgives ( 2013 )
- A walk among the tombstones ( 2013)
- Almost violent year ( 2014 )
- We still kill the old way ( 2014 )
- Rob the mob ( 2014 )
- Brick mansions ( 2014)
- Kid cannabis ( 2014 )
- Top dog ( 2014 )
- By the gun ( 2014 )
- The gambler ( 2014 )
- The forger ( 2014 )
- The gambler ( 2014 )
- Hooligans at war : North vs south ( 2015 )
- Kidnapping freddy Heineken ( 2015 )
- Criminal activities ( 2015 )
- Black mass ( 2015)
- Anti social ( 2015 )
- Wild card ( 2015 )
- Legend ( 2015)
- The rise of the krays ( 2015 )
- The bag man ( 2015 )
- Sicario ( 2015 )
- Dog eat dog ( 2016)
- Triple 9 (2016)
- Criminal ( 2016)
- The hollow point ( 2016)
- The Persian connection ( 2016)
- Shot caller ( 2017)
- Bonded by blood 2 ( 2017)
- Turf war ( 2017)
- The Avenue ( 2017)
- Live by night ( 2017)
- Gangster land ( 2017)
- Cardboard gangsters ( 2017)
- American made ( 2017)
- American assassin ( 2017)
- Diamond Cartel ( 2017)
- True to the game ( 2017)
- Sarkar 3 ( 2017)
- The krays : Dead man walking ( 2018)
- Darc (2018)
- The Outsider ( 2018 )
- The drug king (2018)
- Gotti ( 2018)
- London rampage (;2018)
- Beyond the law ( 2019)
- Once upon a time in London ( 2019)
- The kitchen ( 2019)
- Mafia inc ( 2020)
- Silent night ( 2020)
- Original gangster ( 2021)
- The birthday cake (:2021)
- County lines ( 2021)
- Detroit dreams ( 2022)
- Respect the jux ( 2022)
- The Irish mob ( 2023)
- Dope girls ( 2023)
- Fresh kills ( 2024)
- Full clip for a snitch ( 2024)
