Lists of Bests: AFI's "10 Greatest Gangster Films: The 50 Nominees"

Send to Printer AFI's "10 Greatest Gangster Films: The 50 Nominees" The American Film Institute’s official 50 nominees for the Top 10 Gangster Films of All-Time (to be announced June 17, 2008) "AFI defines the “gangster film” as a genre that centers on organized crime or maverick criminals in a twentieth century setting." "Profit-minded and highly entrepreneurial, the American gangster is the dark side of the American dream. The gangsters’ lifestyles are portraits in extremes, with audiences cheering their excesses and reveling in their demise. Check out all the entries from "AFI’s Top 10" here: http://www.listsofbests.com/list/55322/tagged_as?name=afi+top+10 In alphabetical order. (found at: http://www.afi.com/tvevents/100years/10top10.aspx)
	1.		Al Capone by Richard Wilson
	2.		Angels With Dirty Faces by Michael Curtiz
	3.		Atlantic City by Louis Malle
	4.		The Big Heat by Fritz Lang
	5.	?	Bloody Mama by Roger Corman
	6.	?	Bonnie and Clyde (Two-Disc Special Edition) by Arthur Penn
	7.		Boyz 'N the Hood
	8.		A Bronx Tale
	9.	?	Brother Orchid (1940) by Lloyd Bacon
	10.		Bugsy by Barry Levinson
	11.		Bugsy Malone by Alan Parker
	12.		Bullets Over Broadway by Woody Allen
	13.		Casino by Martin Scorsese
	14.	?	City Streets (1931) by Rouben Mamoulian
	15.		Dead End by William Wyler
	16.		The Departed (Widescreen Edition) by Martin Scorsese
	17.		Donnie Brasco (Special Edition) by Mike Newell
	18.		Force of Evil by Abraham Polonsky
	19.		G Men
	20.		Get Shorty
	21.		The Godfather (Widescreen Edition) by Francis Ford Coppola
	22.		The Godfather, Part II (Two-Disc Widescreen Edition) by Francis Ford Coppola
	23.		Goodfellas (Two-Disc Special Edition) by Martin Scorsese
	24.		Gun Crazy by Joseph H. Lewis
	25.		Heat (Two-Disc Special Edition) by Michael Mann
	26.		A History of Violence by David Cronenberg
	27.		Key Largo (Keepcase) by John Huston
	28.	?	The Killers (1946) by Robert Siodmak
	29.		Little Caesar by Mervyn LeRoy
	30.		Miller's Crossing by Ethan Coen
	31.		New Jack City
	32.		On the Waterfront (Special Edition)
	33.		Once Upon a Time in America (Two-Disc Special Edition) by Sergio Leone
	34.		Out of Sight (Collector's Edition) by Steven Soderbergh
	35.		Prizzi's Honor by John Huston
	36.		The Public Enemy by William A. Wellman
	37.		Pulp Fiction (Two-Disc Collector's Edition)
	38.	?	Reservoir Dogs (15th Anniversary 2-Disc Special Edition)
	39.	?	The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond (1960) by Budd Boetticher
	40.		The Roaring Twenties by Raoul Walsh
	41.	?	Scarface by Howard Hawks
	42.		Scarface (Platinum Edition) by Brian De Palma
	43.		Scarlet Street by Fritz Lang
	44.		Some Like It Hot by Billy Wilder
	45.		Thieves Like Us by Robert Altman
	46.	?	Touch of Evil (Restored to Orson Welles' Vision)
	47.	?	Underworld (1927) by Josef von Sternberg
	48.		The Untouchables (Special Collector's Edition) by Brian De Palma
	49.		The Usual Suspects by Bryan Singer
	50.		White Heat by Raoul Walsh
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