"The gangster movie. It's the genre that made actors like Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, and Joe Pesci into household names, and directors like Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola, and Brian De Palma into iconic figures in Hollywood.
A fascination of audiences since the 1930s, the movies have focused on the shady and dangerous figures who are involved in everything from Prohibition, the mafia, and drugs. They have become fertile ground for filmmakers to create stories that have become classics, and given actors the ability to make characters that are timeless."
