Why we like it: A grand tragedy, The Godfather is often used as a measuring stick for other great films, and it’s widely considered not just a good gangster movie but one of the best movies of all ...

Mafia movies ... City at the height of Italian-American Mafia activities. Ruggiano has firsthand experience in this, and took a few minutes to discuss the realism of gangster movies with Insider.

Often regarded as Martin Scorsese’s magnum opus, "Goodfellas" stands as one of the defining movies of the gangster genre ... and his life in the Italian-American mafia, it follows the mobster ...

An organized group may also divert funds from a legal ... In other cases, groups use unions to control workers. The Italian-American mafia criminal society, La Cosa Nostra, was famous for its ...

Maldera was one of the so-called godfathers of the Franco-Italian mafia that terrorized the southeastern city in the 1980s, along with his brother Robert, a source close to the case told AFP.

Martin Scorsese’s magnum opus explores the rise and fall of Henry Hill (Henry Liotta), an aspiring gangster who transforms into a powerful associate within the mafia. “Goodfellas” is ...

Most gangster films these days are ... The truth is, the further away we get from the heyday of the Italian mafia, the less performers look like believable wiseguys. When De Niro, Pacino and ...

was said to have been dominated by gangsters with blood ties to the northern Italian mafia. The Malderas were ‘the last family in France to be more feared’ thansource close to the ...