1. City of God (Cidade de Deus)
In the slums of Rio, two kids' paths diverge as one struggles to become a photographer and the other a kingpin.
It has an average vote of 8.429 on TMDB.
2. Lost Highway
A tormented jazz musician finds himself lost in an enigmatic story involving murder, surveillance, gangsters, doppelgängers, and an impossible transformation inside a prison cell.
It has an average vote of 7.6 on TMDB.
3. Lucky Number Slevin
Slevin is mistakenly put in the middle of a personal war between the city’s biggest criminal bosses. Under constant watch, Slevin must try not to get killed by an infamous assassin and come up with an idea of how to get out of his current dilemma.
It has an average vote of 7.478 on TMDB.
4. Mean Streets
A small-time hood must choose from among love, friendship and the chance to rise within the mob.
It has an average vote of 7.087 on TMDB.
5. The Kansas City Massacre
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.
It has an average vote of 4.7 on TMDB.
6. Miller's Crossing
Set in 1929, a political boss and his advisor have a parting of the ways when they both fall for the same woman.
It has an average vote of 7.461 on TMDB.
7. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
A history professor and his wife entertain a young couple who are new to the university's faculty. As the drinks flow, secrets come to light, and the middle-aged couple unload onto their guests the full force of the bitterness, dysfunction, and animosity that defines their marriage.
It has an average vote of 7.728 on TMDB.
8. Bullett Raja (Bullett Raja)
A common man who transforms into a gangster revolts against the very system he once obediently followed by declaring war on the police, the government, and the industrialists.
It has an average vote of 5.7 on TMDB.
9. Once Upon a Time in America
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.
It has an average vote of 8.421 on TMDB.
10. No Man of Her Own
An on-the-lam New York card shark marries a small-town librarian who thinks he's a businessman.
It has an average vote of 6.5 on TMDB.
11. One Way Street
After stealing a gangster's money and his girlfriend, a doctor heads for a small village in Mexico to hide out.
It has an average vote of 4.935 on TMDB.
12. A Cry in the Night
A police captain's emotions get in the way when his daughter is kidnapped.
It has an average vote of 5.184 on TMDB.
13. Creature with the Atom Brain
Murders, with victims dying from spines broken by brute strength, erupt in the city and the killers, when encountered, walk away unharmed by police bullets which strike them. A police doctor's investigation of the deaths leads to the discovery of an army of dead criminal musclemen restored to life, remotely controlled by a vengeful former crime boss and a former Nazi scientist, from the latter's laboratory hidden in the suburbs.
It has an average vote of 5.041 on TMDB.
14. Baby Face Nelson
Famed Depression-era gangster “Baby Face Nelson” robs and kills while accompanied by his beautiful moll .
It has an average vote of 5.75 on TMDB.
15. Making the Headlines
Angry, because he is making too many headlines with his gang-busting activities, the police chief transfers Lt. Lewis Nagel to the sleepy suburban town of Fairview, where he is followed by reporter Steve Withers because he knows Nagel will find a story.
16. Monday (マンデイ)
A simple funeral turns a man's world Topsy turvy. He wakes up in a posh hotel room, totally clueless about how he got there. Slowly, he recalls what happened a day before.
It has an average vote of 6.9 on TMDB.
17. Deadline - U.S.A.
With three days before his paper folds, a crusading editor tries to expose a vicious gangster.
It has an average vote of 6.8 on TMDB.
18. Each Dawn I Die
A corrupt D.A. with governatorial ambitions is annoyed by an investigative reporter's criticism of his criminal activities and decides to frame the reporter for manslaughter in order to silence him.
It has an average vote of 6.7 on TMDB.
19. A Storm in Summer
A story of the friendship between an elderly Jewish man and a young African-American boy set during the Vietnam War.
It has an average vote of 6 on TMDB.
20. Pretty Boy Floyd
Trying to shake his troubled past and start a new honest life, Floyd loses his job because of that past. With nowhere to go but back home in Oklahoma he gets news that his father's been murdered and the local sheriff lets the killer off with a self-defense plea. Bent on revenge, Floyd does what he must which leads him down a dark road littered with robbing banks and loose women. Floyd's final days are anything BUT pretty!
It has an average vote of 6.3 on TMDB.