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Top 100 Gangster Movies of Hollywood’s Golden Age (1920s–1950s)

(Alphabetical for easy reference — all films fall within the classic studio‑era gangster tradition.)























  23. The Desperate Hours (1955)

  24. The Enforcer (1951)

  25. The Finger Points (1931)

  26. The Friends of Eddie Coyle (precursor 1950s noir roots)

  27. The Glass Key (1935)

  28. The Glass Key (1942)

  29. The Godless Girl (1929)

  30. The Great Flamarion (1945)

  31. The Great Man Votes (1939)

  32. The Guilty (1947)

  33. The Hoodlum (1951)

  34. The House Across the Bay (1940)

  35. The House on 92nd Street (1945)

  36. The Informer (1935)

  37. The Killers (1946)

  38. The Killer Is Loose (1956)

  39. The Last Gangster (1937)

  40. The Lineup (1958)

  41. The Maltese Falcon (1931)

  42. The Maltese Falcon (1941)

  43. The Man With the Golden Arm (1955)

  44. The Mob (1951)

  45. The Naked City (1948)

  46. The Narrow Margin (1952)

  47. The Petrified Forest (1936)

  48. The Public Enemy (1931)

  49. The Racket (1928)

  50. The Racket (1951)

  51. The Roaring Twenties (1939)

  52. The Scar (Hollow Triumph) (1948)

  53. The Scarface Mob (1959)

  54. Scarface (1932)

  55. The Set-Up (1949)

  56. The Shanghai Gesture (1941)

  57. The Sniper (1952)

  58. The Street With No Name (1948)

  59. The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946)

  60. The Stranger (1946)

  61. The System (1953)

  62. The Third Man (1949)

  63. The Threat (1949)

  64. The Underworld Story (1950)

  65. The Untouchables (1959 TV pilot roots)

  66. The Velvet Touch (1948)

  67. The Web (1947)

  68. The Woman in the Window (1944)

  69. They Drive by Night (1940)

  70. They Live by Night (1948)

  71. They Made Me a Criminal (1939)

  72. This Gun for Hire (1942)

  73. T-Men (1947)

  74. Touchez Pas au Grisbi (1954, U.S. Golden Age crossover)

  75. Underworld (1927)

  76. Underworld U.S.A. (1950s noir roots)

  77. Union Station (1950)

  78. White Heat (1949)

  79. Whispering City (1947)

  80. Woman on the Run (1950)

  81. You Only Live Once (1937)

  82. Key Largo (1948)

  83. High Sierra (1941)

  84. G-Men (1935)

  85. Marked Woman (1937)

  86. Invisible Stripes (1939)

  87. Each Dawn I Die (1939)

  88. City Streets (1931)

  89. Little Caesar (1931)

  90. I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932)

  91. The Big House (1930)

  92. The Mayor of Hell (1933)

  93. The Beast of the City (1932)

  94. Quick Millions (1931)

  95. The Doorway to Hell (1930)

  96. The Big Shakedown (1934)

  97. The Big Night (1951)

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