Prohibition movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant prohibition movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out period piece, suspense, realistic, captivating, cult classic and period drama films and TV shows about / with prohibition, gangster, corruption, organized crime, violence, murder, prohibition era, brutality, revenge and storytelling plots mostly in Drama, Crime and Thriller genres shot in USA, Italy, India and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as prohibition: Live by Night (2016), Once Upon a Time in America (1984), Raees (2017), Boardwalk Empire (2010), The Untouchables (1987), Capone (1975), Lawless (2012), Pocketful of Miracles (1961), Last Man Standing (1996), The Cotton Club (1984).
Best films
New films
| The Red Apple (2023) | 7.3 | |
| Sunny Side (2017) | 6.5 | |
| Colorado Avenue (2007) | 5.8 | |
| Feed (2005) | 5.3 | |
| Moonshine (2021) | 6.4 |
List of prohibition movies
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
A story set in the Prohibition Era and centered around a group of individuals and their dealings in the world of organized crime.
Style:
period piece, neo noir, stylized, exciting, captivating ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
organized crime, mafia, prohibition, revenge, gangster, betrayal, chase, criminal, friendship, police, murder, mob boss ...
Time:
1920s, year 2016, 2010s, 1930s
Place:
florida, boston, massachusetts, america, miami ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy, USA
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:
ambiguous ending, melancholic, epic, breathtaking, atmospheric ...
Audience:
boys' night, kids, adult
Plot:
gangster, organized crime, mafia, friendship, prohibition, rape, betrayal, childhood friend, gunfight, murder, corruption, flashback ...
Time:
1930s, 60s, 1920s, 20th century, year 1984 ...
Place:
new york, usa, bronx new york city, america, china ...
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 143 min.
Story:
Set in the early ’80s and ’90s in Gujarat, India, ‘Raees’ is a fictitious story of a crime lord named Raees, who builds an entire empire from scratch, and a police officer who is determined to bring him down.
Style:
captivating, tense, suspense, epic, fast ...
Plot:
bootlegging, prohibition, smuggler, organized crime, corruption, smuggling, relationship problems, money problems, family problems, financial problem, relationship vs career, marital problem ...
Time:
80s
Place:
india
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 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:
costume drama, serious, period piece, erotic, captivating ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
mafia, smuggling, mob boss, businessman, prohibition, criminal heroes, organized crime, gangster, federal agent, female nudity, corruption, crime boss ...
Time:
1920s, 20th century, 2000s, 2010s, year 2010 ...
Place:
new jersey, atlantic city new jersey, cuba, atlantic city, chicago ...
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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:
clever, suspenseful, period piece, inspirational, exciting ...
Audience:
boys' night, manly, adult
Plot:
mafia, gangster, organized crime, corruption, prohibition era, mentor, shootout, smuggling, prohibition, police, tax evasion, gunfight ...
Time:
1930s, 1920s, 20th century, year 1987
Place:
chicago, america, usa
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Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
The story of the rise and fall of the infamous Chicago gangster Al Capone and the control he exhibited over the city during the prohibition years.
Style:
realistic, suspenseful, rough, serious, psychotronic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gangster, prohibition, brutality, gunfight, rise and fall, mafia, murder, police investigation, hitman, gang war, violence, bare breasts ...
Time:
1930s, 1920s, year 1975
Place:
chicago, usa, north america
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Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Set in the Depression-era Franklin County, Virginia, a bootlegging gang is threatened by authorities who want a cut of their profits.
Style:
intense, suspense, sexy, period piece, neo noir ...
Plot:
mafia, smuggling, gang, gangster, bootlegging, violence, vigilante, greed, corruption, prohibition era, prohibition, robbery ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century, year 2012, 2010s, year 1931 ...
Place:
virginia, usa, appalachia, america, north america ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 136 min.
Story:
Damon Runyon's fairytale, sweet and funny, is told by director Frank Capra. Boozy, brassy Apple Annie, a beggar with a basket of apples, is as much as part of downtown New York as old Broadway itself. Bootlegger Dave the Dude is a sucker for ...
Style:
sentimental, touching, light, feel good, semi serious ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
gangster, prohibition, high society, deception, christmas, couples, disorder, dishonesty, social differences, homeless, mother daughter relationship, aging ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century, year 1961, 60s, 1920s
Place:
new york, spain, europe
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
John Smith is a mysterious stranger who is drawn into a vicious war between two Prohibition-era gangs. In a dangerous game, he switches allegiances from one to another, offering his services to the highest bidder. As the death toll mounts, Smith ...
Style:
neo noir, stylized, serious, suspenseful, exciting ...
Audience:
manly, boys' night
Plot:
mafia, violence, gang war, gangster, small town, shootout, one man army, cowboy, assassin, one against many, tough guy, hitman ...
Time:
20th century, 1930s, 1920s, year 1932
Place:
texas, mexico, usa, austin texas, latin america ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
The story of the people that frequented Harlem's famous nightclubs, 'The Cotton Club', and those that ran it.
Style:
visually stunning, period piece, intense, captivating, realistic ...
Plot:
jazz, mafia, gangster, music, nightclub, prohibition, love triangle, love and romance, ambition, rivalry, flapper, mob boss ...
Time:
1920s, 1930s, 20th century, year 1929, 70s ...
Place:
new york, usa, harlem, new york city, grand central station manhattan new york city, manhattan new york city ...
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Genre: Comedy, Musical
Country: Canada
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
In Depression-era Winnipeg, a legless beer baroness hosts a contest for the saddest music in the world, offering a grand prize of $25,000. Contestants flock in from around the globe. Representing America is Chester Kent, a theatre producer who ...
Style:
surreal, black comedy, breathtaking, black and white, visually stunning ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
beer, surrealism, music, great depression, contest, musician, baroness, dysfunctional family, satire, amputee, prohibition, tragic hero ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century, year 2003, year 1933, 1920s
Place:
canada, winnipeg, sarajevo, new york, serbia ...
Is relevant?
12K
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Set in Kansas City in 1933, Eastwood plays a police lieutenant known simply by his last name, Speer. Reynolds plays a former cop turned private eye named Mike Murphy. Both Speer and Murphy served on the force together and were once good friends, but ...
Style:
detective, neo noir, humorous, stylized, cult classic ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
private detective, buddy cop, gangster, organized crime, buddy, two man army, tough guy, fistfight, tough cop, investigation, police officer, great depression ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century
Place:
kansas
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
Dorothy Parker remembers the heyday of the Algonquin Round Table, a circle of friends whose barbed wit, like hers, was fueled by alcohol and flirted with despair.
Style:
intellectual, talky, clever, witty, heartbreaking ...
Plot:
biopic, addiction, loveless marriage, female nudity, flapper, poetry, prohibition, women, female writer, friendship, hotel, unrequited love ...
Time:
1920s, 1930s, 1940s, year 1994, victorian era ...
Place:
new york, usa, new jersey
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Genre: Drama, Romance, War, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
An epic tale of three brothers and their father living in the remote wilderness of 1900s USA and how their lives are affected by nature, history, war, and love.
Style:
emotional, touching, serious, sentimental, sincere ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, adult
Plot:
world war one, revenge, love triangle, lovers, love, death, relationships, brother brother relationship, native american, suicide, ranch, love story ...
Time:
1910s, 1900s, 19th century, 1920s, year 1994 ...
Place:
america, usa, montana
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
The Chicago Teddy Bears is an American sitcom that aired on CBS. The series was part of the network's 1971 fall lineup, premiering on September 17, 1971.
Style:
sitcom, situational comedy, period piece, lighthearted, retro ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
mobster, organized crime, speakeasy, prohibition, gangster, urban, bootlegging, small business, fish out of water, black market, prohibition era, mafia ...
Time:
1920s
Place:
chicago
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Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
The adventures of two retired vaudeville performers who become two of the best prohibition agents in the 1920's.
Style:
period piece, buddy comedy, lighthearted, historical drama, crime drama ...
Plot:
prohibition, friendship, vaudeville, bootlegging, speakeasy, mobster, organized crime, law enforcement, black market, undercover, prohibition era, silly humor ...
Time:
1920s
Is relevant?
Genre: Crime, Drama, History, Romance, Thriller
Country: Denmark, Sweden
Duration: 58 min.
TV show
Story:
A reporter is drawn into the dark side of post-war Copenhagen as he attempts to uncover a crime syndicate on an unprecedented level.
Style:
serious, suspense, suspenseful, tense, detective
Plot:
reporter, police, police corruption, crime boss, organized crime, mafia, brotherhood, murder, revenge, police officer killed, threat, prohibition ...
Time:
1950s, 50s
Place:
denmark, copenhagen
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Spain, Italy
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Two brothers reunite in this story of gangland Chicago during the era of prohibition. Their syndicate becomes successful but can they survive the competition?
Style:
crime drama, dark, period piece, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot:
gangster, gang war, mafia, italian immigrant, rival gang, criminal syndicate, prohibition, organized crime, underworld, bootlegging, brothers, power struggle ...
Time:
1930s
Place:
chicago
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
While Al Capone works his way up from top-dog street gang thug captain in Chicago to U.S. crime king, his brother Jimmy Capone chooses the righteous way, actually with father's blessing, leaving Illinois for small town Harmony in Nebraska, ...
Style:
tension, suspense, period drama
Audience:
adult
Plot:
organized crime, gangster, prohibition, lawman, bootlegging, mafia, justice, small town, identity, law enforcement, redemption, biopic ...
Time:
1920s, 1930s
Place:
nebraska, chicago
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Genre: Action, Family
Country: India
Duration: 140 min.
Story:
A Telangana village under prohibition in 1995, where a powerful toddy tapper, Pratap Goud, exploits villagers.
Style:
tense, period piece, bleak, tragic
Plot:
social commentary, exploitation, prohibition, class conflict, power struggle, social injustice, survival, corruption, resistance, family drama, smuggling, black market ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
In a small rural town hit hard by the Depression, Katie Connors resides in a middle-class home with her bootlegging husband Melvin. When the opportunity arises to bump him off without getting her hands dirty, she takes a chance she may never get ...
Style:
crime drama, crime thriller, atmospheric, tension, dark ...
Plot:
bootlegging, organized crime, revenge, prohibition, female protagonist, murder, depression era, betrayal, survival, investigation, housewife, moral ambiguity ...
Time:
1930s
Is relevant?
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A vicious hood rises to the top of the rackets in Depression-era New York in this account of the life of Dutch Schultz.
Style:
tension, suspense
Plot:
mobster, gangster, corruption, betrayal, prohibition, ambition, violence, biopic, underworld, ruthlessness, extortion, criminal underworld ...
Time:
1920s, year 1961, 1930s
Place:
new york, bronx new york city
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Genre: Romance
Country: Japan
TV show
Story:
The story happens in the near future of Japan, where sexual activity is forbidden by law. Inuda Hikaru is an honor student whose father is an executive at Setori (Sexual Misconduct Control Bureau of the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare). Hikaru ...
Style:
captivating, psychological
Plot:
orgy, youth, social problems, relationships, prohibition, illicit affair, sexploitation, sexual attraction, japanese woman, sex, sexual relations, forbidden love ...
Time:
future
Place:
japan
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Genre: Action, Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
By 1933, Prohibition has proven a booming enterprise, where average citizens break the law, hide in the shadows and operate at night. The new world order has even lined the pockets of corrupt cops like Jack Malone. He collects a 'luxury ...
Style:
scary, unusual plot structure, captivating, exciting, suspenseful ...
Plot:
supernatural, vampire slayer, prohibition era, speakeasy, killing, supernatural ability, deadly creature, heroes, vampirism, curses spells and rituals, vampire bite, rivalry ...
Time:
1930s
Place:
usa
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Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: Italy
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Samuel is a paraplegic young boy living with his mother Elena in "Lake manor," an isolated mansion surrounded by woods. With the strict prohibition to walk away from the mansion, stuck in a family routine, Samuel grows serene but ...
Style:
gothic horror, suspense, gothic, scary, disturbing ...
Plot:
disabled child, boy girl relationship, overprotective mother, family secret, isolated house, doctor, runaway, mansion, teenage girl, evil mother, twists and turns, supernatural ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
italy
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Genre: Drama, Crime
Country: UK
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Three Englishmen working as waiters on a cruise ship in 1927 are given a chance to work for the Al Capone gang.
Style:
tense, crime drama, disturbing, captivating, suspense ...
Plot:
mafia, gangster, organized crime, al capone, crime family, mobster, gang, criminal gang, bandit, crime boss, outlaw gang, street gang ...
Time:
1920s
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
A light hearted comedy about the beginnings of Professional American Football. When a decorated war hero and college all star is tempted into playing professional football. Everyone see the chance to make some big money, but when a reporter digs up ...
Style:
feel good, witty, stylized, intense, realistic ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
american football, football, cheerleader, college football, underdog, sport team, redemption, life philosophy, justice, vengeance, rivalry, love and romance ...
Time:
1920s, post world war one, 1900s, 1910s, 20th century ...
Place:
chicago, minnesota, usa, milwaukee wisconsin, france ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
A musical set in the Prohibition-era American South, where a speakeasy performer and club manager Rooster must contend with gangsters who have their eyes on the club while his piano player and partner Percival must choose between his love, Angel or ...
Style:
erotic, stylized, serious, realistic, black comedy ...
Plot:
nightclub, african american, hip hop, gangster, musician's life, artists and showbiz, love and romance, rivalry, blaxploitation, black, music, husband wife relationship ...
Time:
1930s, 1920s, 20th century
Place:
georgia, usa
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A journalist suffering from burn-out wants to finally say goodbye to his office – but his boss doesn’t like the idea one bit.
Style:
talky, light, humorous, hilarious, period piece ...
Plot:
newspaper, journalist, journalism, reporter, workplace, satire, media, friends, media satire, workplace situations, writers, scoop ...
Time:
1920s, 20th century, year 1974, 1930s, 70s
Place:
chicago, usa, philadelphia
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Set in 1929, a political boss and his advisor have a parting of the ways when they both fall for the same woman.
Style:
neo noir, atmospheric, tense, stylized, cynical ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
organized crime, betrayal, mafia, corruption, gangster, shootout, irish mob, loyalty, love triangle, blackmail, mobster, prohibition era ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 1930s, year 1990, 1920s
Place:
usa, new orleans, new york
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