Crime boss movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant crime boss movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out rough, exciting, realistic, captivating, serious and neo noir films and TV shows about / with crime boss, gangster, organized crime, mafia, gang, murder, violence, criminal, mobster and mob boss plots mostly in Crime, Drama and Thriller genres shot in USA, UK, Japan and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as crime boss: Wrath of Man (2021), The Gentlemen (2019), The Godfather (1972), Peaky Blinders (2013), American Gangster (2007), Nobody (2021), The Take (2009), Sicario (2015), Boardwalk Empire (2010), Lansky (2021).

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 7.1
 204K
Wrath of Man (2021)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: A cold and mysterious new security guard for a Los Angeles cash truck company surprises his co-workers when he unleashes precision skills during a heist. The crew is left wondering who he is and where he came from. Soon, the marksman's ultimate ...
Style: suspense, humorous, action thriller, hood, crime drama ...
Plot: revenge, heist, crime boss, lone hero, fighting crime, security guard, working undercover, robbery, criminal gang, gang, father son relationship, fight ...
Time: 2020s, 21st century
Place: los angeles, north america
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 7.8
 386K
The Gentlemen (2019)
Genre: Action, Crime
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 113 min.
Story: A drug lord tries to sell off his highly profitable empire.
Style: dark comedy, stylized, realistic, neo noir, black comedy ...
Audience: boys' night, family friendly
Plot: gangster, organized crime, marijuana, gang, crime boss, money, british, criminal underworld, tough guy, criminal, swearing, gang war ...
Time: 2010s, 2020s, 21st century
Place: london, england, united kingdom
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 9.2
 2.0M
The Godfather (1972)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 175 min.
Story: Spanning the years 1945 to 1955, a chronicle of the fictional Italian-American Corleone crime family. When organized crime family patriarch, Vito Corleone barely survives an attempt on his life, his youngest son, Michael steps in to take care of the ...
Style: serious, epic, dramatic, atmospheric, captivating ...
Audience: boys' night, manly, chick flick, adult
Plot: mafia, organized crime, gangster, greed, revenge, mob boss, crime family, mobster, cosa nostra, wedding, pride and honor, corruption ...
Time: 1950s, 1940s, 20th century, 50s, year 1972 ...
Place: italy, new york, bronx new york city, europe, sicily ...
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 8.8
 638K
Peaky Blinders (2013)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 2109 min.
TV show
Story: A gangster family epic set in 1919 Birmingham, England and centered on a gang who sew razor blades in the peaks of their caps, and their fierce boss Tommy Shelby, who means to move up in the world.
Style: serious, atmospheric, tense, stylized, captivating ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: organized crime, gangster, gang, mafia, gang war, determination, cruelty, mob boss, power struggle, crime boss, family relations, rivalry ...
Time: 1920s, 20th century, ancient times, 1910s, victorian era
Place: england, britain, ireland, birmingham alabama, london
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American Gangster (2007)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 157 min.
Story: Following the death of his employer and mentor, Bumpy Johnson, Frank Lucas establishes himself as the number one importer of heroin in the Harlem district of Manhattan. He does so by buying heroin directly from the source in South East Asia and he ...
Style: serious, tense, realistic, suspense, harsh ...
Audience: manly, boys' night, adult
Plot: organized crime, mafia, gangster, mob boss, heroin, drug lord, mobster, police, violence, crime boss, drug traffic, gang ...
Time: 60s, 70s, year 2007, 20th century, year 1970 ...
Place: new york, new jersey, vietnam, china, cuba ...
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 7.4
 320K
Nobody (2021)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan, China
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Hutch Mansell, a suburban dad, overlooked husband, nothing neighbor — a "nobody." When two thieves break into his home one night, Hutch's unknown long-simmering rage is ignited and propels him on a brutal path that will uncover dark ...
Style: brutal, suspense, action thriller, entertaining, funny ...
Audience: adult
Plot: one man army, tough guy, martial arts, retribution, secret identity, home invasion, revenge, one against many, twists and turns, secret organization, vigilante, vengeance ...
Time: 2020s
Place: america, usa, pentagon
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 7.7
 9K
The Take (2009)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 180 min.
TV show
Story: Freddie Jackson is just out of prison. He's done his time, made the right connections and now he's ready to use them. His wife Jackie dreams of having her husband home but she's forgotten the rows and the girls Freddie can't ...
Style: serious, captivating, rough, bleak, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: mob boss, mafia, respect, power struggle, relatives, british, betrayal, criminal heroes, gangster, crime boss, ex convict, victim ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, 90s
Place: england, london, east end london
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 7.7
 470K
Sicario (2015)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Mexico, Hong Kong
Duration: 121 min.
Story: A young female FBI agent joins a secret CIA operation to take down a Mexican cartel boss, a job that ends up pushing her ethical and moral values to the limit.
Style: suspense, realistic, serious, tense, neo noir ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: cia, hitman, drug cartel, revenge, swat team, fbi, black ops, fbi agent, drug smuggling, crime boss, organized crime, cia agent ...
Time: 2010s, year 2015, year 2016, 21st century
Place: mexico, usa, texas, el paso texas, tucson arizona ...
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Boardwalk Empire (2010)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 55 min.
TV show
Story: Boardwalk Empire is a period drama focusing on Enoch "Nucky" Thompson (based on the historical Enoch L. Johnson), a political figure who rose to prominence and controlled Atlantic City, New Jersey, during the Prohibition period of the ...
Style: serious, costume drama, captivating, suspenseful, atmospheric ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: mafia, gangster, mob boss, organized crime, prohibition, smuggling, criminal heroes, corruption, politician, mobster, female nudity, american history ...
Time: 1920s, 2000s, 2010s, 1900s, year 2010 ...
Place: new jersey, usa, cuba, atlantic city new jersey, atlantic city ...
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El padrino: The Latin Godfather (2004)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story: In the streets of East Los Angeles, Manny is a formidable drug dealer. Impressed by his extravagant lifestyle and prowess, his young son, Kilo, yearns to follow in his footsteps. Kilo resolves to learn how to prosper in the drug world, and his new ...
Style: rough, realistic, serious, suspenseful, exciting
Audience: boys' night
Plot: crime boss, gangster, prison gang, prison, criminal heroes, juvenile delinquency, prison life, life is a bitch, gang, dishonesty, drug dealing, urban ghetto ...
Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles, california, usa, mexico
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 6.2
 10K
Lansky (2021)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: When the aging Meyer Lansky is investigated one last time by the Feds who suspect he has stashed away millions of dollars over half a century, the retired gangster spins a dizzying tale, revealing the untold truth about his life as the notorious ...
Style: disturbing, tense, captivating, entertaining
Plot: crime boss, mafia, shock treatment, organized crime, criminal syndicate, mob boss, mossad, investigation, money, bandit, historical character, hidden money ...
Time: 1930s, 1940s, 80s, 20th century, year 1937 ...
Place: cuba, israel, tel aviv israel, miami
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 7.0
 161K
The Drop (2014)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Bob Saginowski finds himself at the center of a robbery gone awry and entwined in an investigation that digs deep into the neighborhood's past where friends, families, and foes all work together to make a living - no matter the cost.
Style: serious, realistic, tense, suspense, cerebral ...
Audience: girls' night, teens, boys' night
Plot: twists and turns, robbery, fall in love, organized crime, danger, criminal heroes, crime boss, catholic, gangster, mafia, church, criminal's revenge ...
Time: year 2014, 90s, 2010s, 21st century
Place: new york, boston, brooklyn new york city, massachusetts, usa
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Gangs of New York (2002)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA, Italy
Duration: 167 min.
Story: It's 1863. America was born in the streets. Amsterdam Vallon returns to the Five Points of America to seek vengeance against the psychotic gangland kingpin, Bill the Butcher, who murdered his father years earlier. With an eager pickpocket by ...
Style: epic, rough, tense, atmospheric, captivating ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: revenge, gang, gangster, vengeance, organized crime, street gang, racism, crime boss, betrayal, violent, courage, gang war ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 1800s, edwardian era, 50s ...
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
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 7.4
 734K
John Wick (2014)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, China
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Ex-hitman John Wick comes out of retirement to track down the gangsters that took everything from him.
Style: stylized, exciting, neo noir, breathtaking, serious ...
Audience: boys' night, chick flick, teens, adult
Plot: hitman, vengeance, revenge, one man army, vigilante, assassin, gunfight, shooting, lone hero, tough guy, killer, dog ...
Time: 2010s, year 2014, 60s, 21st century
Place: new york, new jersey, usa, brooklyn new york city, north america
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 7.1
 74K
District B13 (2004)
Genre: Action, Crime, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Set in the ghettos of Paris in 2010, an undercover cop and ex-thug try to infiltrate a gang in order to defuse a neutron bomb.
Style: exciting, stylized, serious, suspenseful, breathtaking ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, ghetto, gang, parkour, fight, undercover cop, tough guy, bomb, betrayal, urban ghetto, crime boss, heroes ...
Time: future, near future, year 2004, 2000s, 2010s ...
Place: france, paris france, europe
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Godfather of Harlem (2019)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 55 min.
TV show
Story: Loosely based on infamous crime boss Bumpy Johnson, who in the early 1960s returned from ten years in prison to find the neighborhood he once ruled in shambles. With the streets controlled by the Italian mob, Bumpy attempts to regain his piece of ...
Style: suspenseful, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing ...
Plot: gang leader, black cast, mobster, gang war, gang, violence, danger, crime boss, organized crime, power struggle, showdown, criminal gang ...
Time: 60s, 2020s, 2010s
Place: harlem, new york, harlem, new york city
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 6.0
 198K
Shark Tale (2004)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Thriller
Country: USA, France, North Korea
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Oscar is a small fish whose big aspirations often get him into trouble. Meanwhile, Lenny is a great white shark with a surprising secret that no sea creature would guess: He's a vegetarian. When a lie turns Oscar into an improbable hero and ...
Style: computer animated, entertaining, feel good, humorous, funny ...
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly, teens, girls' night ...
Plot: fish, underwater, shark, gangster, anthropomorphism, loss of son, talking animal, animal, crime boss, vegetarian, anthropomorphic animal, lie ...
Time: year 2004, 2000s, 21st century
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 7.5
 603K
Baby Driver (2017)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Music
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: After being coerced into working for a crime boss, a young getaway driver finds himself taking part in a heist doomed to fail.
Style: stylized, noir, suspense, neo noir, action packed ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night
Plot: heist, robbery, car chase, bank robbery, car, chase, caper, sign language, crime boss, gangster, organized crime, music ...
Time: year 2017, 2010s, 20th century, 90s, year 1998 ...
Place: atlanta georgia, georgia, usa, north america
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Peace! Friendship! Chewing gum! (2020)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: The year is 1993. 14-year-old Alex Ryabinin lives a normal teenage life - looking for adventure, trying to protect himself from hooligans, does not want learn music, does not know how to meet girls and which adults to follow as an example. On the ...
Style: disturbing, exciting, captivating, suspense, thought provoking ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: friendship, friends, crime boss, gang, adolescence, children, teenager, love, family values, parents and children, dream, rival gang ...
Time: 90s
Place: russia
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 7.7
 5K
91 Days (2016)
Genre: Animation, Action, Crime, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: During Prohibition, the law held no power and the mafia ruled the town. The story takes place in Lawless, a town thriving on black market sales of illicitly brewed liquor. Avilio returns to Lawless after some time away, following the murder of his ...
Style: anime, suspense, tense, thought provoking, suspenseful ...
Plot: betrayal, life & death, tragedy, gunfight, mafia, brutality, murder, crime boss, unlikely friendships, violence, anger, prohibition era ...
Time: 1920s, 19th century
Place: usa, chicago
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The Godfather Trilogy: 1901-1980 (1992)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 583 min.
Story: The multigenerational saga of the rise and fall of the Corleone crime family.
Style: epic, surprise ending
Plot: sicilian mafia, crime boss, cosa nostra, mafia, mobster, gangsta, boys' choir, mob hit, horse, sex show, corrupt lawyer, vegetable garden ...
Time: 1950s, 1940s, 1910s, 1900s, 1920s ...
Place: miami, las vegas, los angeles, sicily, southern italy ...
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 9.2
 464K
The Sopranos (1999)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 55 min.
TV show
Story: The Sopranos is an American television drama created by David Chase. The series revolves around the New Jersey-based Italian-American mobster Tony Soprano and the difficulties he faces as he tries to balance the conflicting requirements of his home ...
Style: serious, cynical, clever, psychological, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: organized crime, mafia, killings, mob boss, dark humor, criminal heroes, family life, gangster, violence, parents and children, dysfunctional family, family relations ...
Time: 90s, 2000s, year 1999, 20th century, 21st century
Place: new jersey, new york, usa
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Once Upon a Time in America (1984)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA, Italy
Duration: 229 min.
Story: A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan over thirty years later, where he once again must confront the ghosts and regrets of his old life.
Style: epic, ambiguous ending, melancholic, breathtaking, atmospheric ...
Audience: boys' night, kids, adult
Plot: gangster, organized crime, mafia, friendship, prohibition, rape, gunfight, betrayal, childhood friend, corruption, criminal heroes, mobster ...
Time: 1930s, 60s, 1920s, 20th century, year 1984 ...
Place: new york, usa, america, israel, china ...
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 7.5
 6K
BMF (2021)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: The drug trafficking drama is inspired by the true story of two brothers who rose from the decaying streets of southwest Detroit in the late 1980s and gave birth to one of the most influential crime families in the country. It revolves around ...
Style: disturbing, suspense, tense, captivating
Plot: drug lord, gang war, mafioso, bandit, partners in crime, criminal underworld, gang, organized crime, criminal syndicate, criminal organization, crime family, black cast ...
Time: 80s
Place: detroit
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 8.0
 16K
Company (2002)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 142 min.
Story: Mallik is a henchman of Aslam Bhai, a Mumbai underworld kingpin. He inducts local hothead Chandu into the gang, and the two of them soon form a formidable faction within the gang, eventually displacing Aslam. As the empire grows, however, the two of ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, rough, neo noir, realistic ...
Plot: gangster, organized crime, gang war, criminal underworld, crime boss, gang, criminal syndicate, love and romance, rivalry, friendship, vengeance, underworld ...
Time: 21st century
Place: india, mumbai india, hong kong, asia, switzerland ...
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 3.3
 131
King of Crime (2018)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Marcus King, an old school gangster, a crime lord, has left behind old school crime. He has manoeuvred his business into the leafy lanes of the suburbs and now, in place of pimps and dealers, his team consists of the best graduate geeks that money ...
Style: disturbing, captivating, tense, exciting, independent film
Plot: internet, crime boss, organized crime, money, death, criminal, violence, gangster, betrayal, telephone call, danger, friendship ...
Place: spain, london
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The Godfather: A Novel for Television (1977)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 434 min.
TV show
Story: A seven-hours-plus adaptation of Francis Ford Coppola's "The Godfather" and "The Godfather, Part II" - with new scenes added and some old ones lengthened. Originally broadcast on the NBC television network in November of ...
Style: epic, serious, captivating, rough, saga ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: mafia, crime boss, gang war, mobster, lawyer, melancholy, corrupt politician, police corruption, parent child relationship, rise to power, casino, patriarch ...
Time: 1930s, 1950s, 1920s, 1940s, 20th century
Place: europe, cuba, italy
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 7.2
 9K
Gotti (1996)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: John Gotti, the head of a small New York mafia crew breaks a few of the old family rules. He rises to become the head of the Gambino family and the most well-known mafia boss in America. Life is good, but suspicion creeps in, and greed, ...
Style: serious, realistic, rough
Plot: italian mafia, mafia, crime boss, gangster, mobster, gangsta, organized crime, biopic, american mafia, mob boss, entrepreneur, criminal ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: usa, new york
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Out for Justice (1991)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Gino Felino (Steven Seagal) is an NYPD detective from Brooklyn who knows everyone and everything in his neighborhood. Killing his Partner was someone's mistake, because he's now Out For Justice.
Style: detective, suspense, neo noir, cult classic, bloody ...
Audience: manly, boys' night
Plot: vigilante, martial arts, gangster, psychopath, organized crime, aikido, revenge, car chase, shootout, violence, hitman, serial killer ...
Time: year 1991, 90s
Place: brooklyn new york city, new york, usa, coney island brooklyn new york city
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The Untouchables (1987)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Young Treasury Agent Elliot Ness arrives in Chicago and is determined to take down Al Capone, but it's not going to be easy because Capone has the police in his pocket. Ness meets Jimmy Malone, a veteran patrolman and probably the most ...
Style: suspense, suspenseful, stylized, clever, tense ...
Audience: boys' night, manly, adult
Plot: mafia, gangster, organized crime, corruption, smuggling, mentor, tough cop, tough law enforcer, gunfight, prohibition, tax evasion, prohibition era ...
Time: 1930s, 1920s, 20th century, year 1987
Place: chicago, usa, america
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