Prohibition era movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant prohibition era movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, period piece, suspenseful, tense, suspense and serious films and TV shows about / with prohibition era, gangster, organized crime, corruption, mafia, prohibition, murder, betrayal, mob and mobster plots mostly in Crime, Drama and Action genres shot in USA, Italy, Japan and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as prohibition era: Live by Night (2016), The Untouchables (1987), Lawless (2012), The Newton Boys (1998), Miller's Crossing (1990), Boardwalk Empire (2010), Public Enemies (2009), Bloodrunners (2017), Once Upon a Time in America (1984), The Funeral (1996).
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List of prohibition era 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, 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, 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: Action, Crime, Drama, History, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
Four Newton brothers are a poor farmer family in the 1920s. The oldest of them, Willis, one day realizes that there's no future in the fields and offers his brothers to become a bank robbers. Soon the family agrees. They become very famous ...
Style:
cult classic, historical drama, anamorphic, contemplative, realistic ...
Plot:
robbery, crime spree, bank robber, bank robbery, brothers, heist, gangster, brother brother relationship, bank, mobster, criminal, outlaw ...
Time:
year 1998, 1920s, 20th century, year 1919, year 1980 ...
Place:
texas, canada, austin texas, usa, chicago ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Chicago February 14th 1929. Al Capone finally establishes himself as the city's boss of organised crime. In a north-side garage his hoods, dressed as policemen, surprise and mow down with machine-guns the key members of Bugs Moran's rival ...
Style:
serious, realistic, suspenseful, rough, period piece ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gangster, true crime, death, mafia, hitman, gunfight, historical figure, gang, battles, law enforcement, criminal heroes, rivalry ...
Time:
1920s, year 1967, 60s, 20th century, year 1929 ...
Place:
chicago, usa, illinois
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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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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: Biography, Crime, Drama, History
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 140 min.
Story:
Depression-era bank robber John Dillinger's charm and audacity endear him to much of America's downtrodden public, but he's also a thorn in the side of J. Edgar Hoover and the fledgling FBI. Desperate to capture the elusive outlaw, ...
Style:
suspense, period piece, crime thriller, factual, exciting ...
Audience:
manly, boys' night
Plot:
bank robber, bank robbery, mafia, gunfight, criminal, robbery, group of criminals, heist, criminal heroes, great depression, gang, manhunt ...
Time:
1930s, year 1933, year 2009, 20th century, 2000s ...
Place:
indiana, chicago, tucson arizona, illinois, arizona ...
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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: 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: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
The story concerns the funeral of one of three brothers in a family of gangsters that lived in New York in 1930s. Details of the past of the brothers and their families are shown through a series of flashbacks.
Style:
surprise ending, neo noir, independent film, hood, philosophical ...
Plot:
murder, mafia, corpse, gangster, revenge, tragedy, grief, death of brother, suicide, brother brother relationship, organized crime, great depression ...
Time:
year 1996, 20th century, 1930s
Place:
new york, usa, london
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
The story of a group of friends in turn of the century New York, from their early days as street hoods to their rise in the world of organized crime...
Style:
suspense, intense, talky, suspenseful, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gangster, mobster, organized crime, friendship, vengeance, tough heroes, greed, murder, criminal heroes, dishonesty, blind ambition, mafia ...
Time:
1920s, year 1991, year 1917, 1910s, 1930s
Place:
new york, israel, usa, coney island brooklyn new york city, brooklyn new york city ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
As a family struggles to survive in rural isolation during the Great Depression, their daughter's secret affair begins a journey into the unknown.
Style:
atmospheric, serious, disturbing, rough, mystic ...
Plot:
life is a bitch, love affair, family life, family problems, love and romance, survival, isolation, dysfunctional family, parents and children, pregnancy, prohibition era, wilderness ...
Time:
1930s
Place:
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: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Mike Sullivan works as a hit man for crime boss John Rooney. Sullivan views Rooney as a father figure, however after his son is witness to a killing, Mike Sullivan finds himself on the run in attempt to save the life of his son and at the same time ...
Style:
harsh, atmospheric, suspense, visually stunning, period piece ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
mafia, vengeance, hitman, revenge, criminal's revenge, gangster, violence, road trip, murder, coming of age, on the road, on the run ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century, 2000s, year 1931, year 2002
Place:
illinois, chicago, persia, michigan, usa
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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, Comedy
Country: Israel, USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
This is a tongue-in-cheek crime melodrama that became a 'Late Late Show' fixture in the 1980s, according to the DVD sleeve, Jack Palance plays Vic Morono, a high-ranking Prohibition-era mobster with a weakness for women who is waging an ...
Style:
period piece, tense, melancholic, sentimental, independent film
Plot:
gangster, speakeasy, prohibition era, love triangle, violent, fatalism, swing, exploitation, mobster, gambling, prohibition, casino ...
Time:
1920s, year 1975
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Romance
Country: Sweden, Denmark
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
It's the early 20s, just after World War I. In Sweden, restrictions on alcohol are harder than most people like and so, smuggling is abundant. In this particular little town, smuggling is ruled by one man, who is the king of smugglers. The ...
Style:
tense, suspenseful, dark
Plot:
smuggling, bootlegging, prohibition era, small town, organized crime, power struggle, police investigation, corruption, cat and mouse, suspicion, survival, banker ...
Time:
1920s
Place:
stockholm sweden, eastern europe
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 202 min.
Story:
In the continuing saga of the Corleone crime family, a young Vito Corleone grows up in Sicily and in 1910s New York. In the 1950s, Michael Corleone attempts to expand the family business into Las Vegas, Hollywood and Cuba.
Style:
epic, captivating, neo noir, saga, retro ...
Audience:
boys' night, manly, adult
Plot:
mafia, organized crime, revenge, murder, gangster, cosa nostra, sicilian mafia, literary, immigration, crime boss, assassination, melancholy ...
Time:
1950s, 50s, 1940s, 20th century, 1920s ...
Place:
cuba, sicily, new york, las vegas, italy ...
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Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 136 min.
Story:
New York gangster Ben 'Bugsy' Siegel takes a brief business trip to Los Angeles. A sharp-dressing womanizer with a foul temper, Siegel doesn't hesitate to kill or maim anyone crossing him. In L.A. the life, the movies, and most of all ...
Style:
realistic, period piece, stylized, intense, suspense ...
Plot:
mafia, gangster, casino, gambling, biopic, organized crime, hollywood, rise and fall, ambition, love affair, elimination, bohemian life ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, year 1991, year 1945, 1930s ...
Place:
las vegas, los angeles, usa, new york, california ...
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Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Set in 1920's New York City, this movie tells the story of idealistic young playwright David Shayne. Producer Julian Marx finally finds funding for the project from gangster Nick Valenti. The catch is that Nick's girl friend Olive Neal ...
Style:
light, humorous, funny, witty, talky ...
Plot:
mafia, gangster, satire, backstage, writers, theater, murder, playwright, actor, rehearsal, actress, showbiz ...
Time:
1920s, 1930s, 20th century, year 1994
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Musical
Country: USA, Germany, Canada
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Murderesses Velma Kelly and Roxie Hart find themselves on death row together and fight for the fame that will keep them from the gallows in 1920s Chicago.
Style:
sexy, witty, stylized, visually stunning, period piece ...
Audience:
kids, date night, girls' night
Plot:
broadway, femme fatale, desire for fame, lovers, jail, prison, musician, lawyer, jazz, satire, execution, brutality ...
Time:
1920s, 1900s, 2000s, 20th century, year 2002 ...
Place:
chicago, usa, illinois
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
After catching wind of valuable prohibition-era whiskey hidden on an island, Thomas Waters embarks on a quest for liquid gold and ends up on the priceless adventure of a lifetime.
Style:
crime drama, suspense, lighthearted, teen, period piece ...
Audience:
family friendly, adult
Plot:
hidden treasure, treasure hunt, prohibition era, quest, bootlegging, smuggling, island, heist, male protagonist, loyalty, storm at sea, rivalry ...
Time:
1920s
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 360 min.
TV show
Story:
Story of the Irish-American Lonigan family between 1918 and 1930. The story centers on young Studs who is growing into adulthood in a city full of temptations.
Style:
historical drama, realistic, period piece, grim, intense ...
Plot:
coming of age, working class, family drama, loss of innocence, character study, urban, poverty, moral ambiguity, temptation, male protagonist, identity crisis, friendship ...
Time:
1920s, 20th century, 1910s, 1930s
Place:
chicago
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Russia, USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
New York City is torn apart by an all-out mafia war. With brother Peter at his side, Vincent "Mad Dog" Coll blasts his way from streetfighter to kingpin in the dangerous world of organized crime.
Style:
crime drama, crime thriller, suspenseful, tense, period piece ...
Plot:
gangster, organized crime, gang warfare, crime family, rise and fall, criminal underworld, underworld, power struggle, urban violence, violent, corruption, betrayal ...
Time:
year 1992
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Gangsters free one of their colleagues being escorted to prison and kill several FBI agents and local police officers in the attempt. FBI agent Melvin Purvis puts together a special squad to track down and capture the men responsible.
Style:
brutal, suspenseful, tense, grim, dark ...
Plot:
shootout, fbi, gangster, law enforcement, manhunt, organized crime, investigation, violent, true crime, justice, prohibition era, police procedural ...
Time:
1930s
Place:
kansas city, midwest
Is relevant?
206
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 58 min.
TV show
Story:
In an alternate 1930's Prohibition-era New York City, it's not liquor that is outlawed but the future production of highly sentient robots known as automatons. Automata follows former NYPD detective turned private eye Sam Regal and his ...
Style:
captivating, thrilling, futuristic, neo noir, detective ...
Plot:
investigation, crime investigation, alternate reality, murder investigation, crime solving, police investigation, uncover truth, social issues, sentient robot, robot, social problems, androids ...
Time:
1930s
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181
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Biopic of troubled jazz musician/composer Bix Beiderbecke (1903-1931), who played with the Paul Whiteman band, among others.
Style:
art house, period drama
Plot:
jazz, musician, biopic, music history, alcoholism, live performance, loneliness, prohibition era, recording studio, speakeasy, friendship, professional rivalry ...
Time:
1920s, year 1991
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Genre: Action, Biography, Crime, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Crime drama based on the real-life story of US gangster John Dillinger, who was hunted by the FBI after a string of armed bank robberies during the Great Depression. When Dillinger's attacks on banks threaten to make him a dangerous folk hero, ...
Style:
crime drama, period piece, tense, suspenseful
Plot:
fbi, gangster, bank robbery, biopic, great depression, anti hero, outlaw, manhunt, law enforcement, violence, escape, folk hero ...
Time:
1930s
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
In prohibition-era Chicago, the corrupt sheriff and Guy Gisborne, a south-side racketeer, knock off the boss Big Jim. Everyone falls in line behind Guy except Robbo, who controls the north side. Although he's out-gunned, Robbo wants to keep his ...
Style:
spoof, retro, parody, not serious, realistic ...
Plot:
robin hood, dancing, crime boss, mafia, gangster, forgery, smuggler, tap dance, prohibition era, irish mob, crime family, jazz ...
Time:
1920s, 20th century
Place:
chicago, usa
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