For a lot of us, as far back as we can remember, we always wanted to watch gangster movies. What’s not to love about films chock-full of high drama, high glamor, and moral ambiguity? Considering the glut of truly great mobster movies we have to choose from — anywhere from Touch of Evil to The Godfather trilogy to The Departed — our fascination with the criminal underpinnings of society writ large has proven time and time again to be both a source of entertainment and a critique of the times we live in. (And sometimes, they even feature real-life former gangsters themselves.)

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