Dive into the world of power, betrayal, and crime with must-watch mafia and gangster movies like 'The Godfather', 'Goodfellas ...

When you're making a list of the best gangster movies ever, it literally cannot be complete without The Godfather – a movie so beloved and critically adored that it's almost in a tier of its own.

While such criminal enterprises aren’t exactly fun in life, there are many entertaining gangster movies out there. These are some of those films.

I've been tackling quite a few hot ticket items in the '21st Century Top Fives' department lately, but this one is particularly controversial: the best gangster movies released in the past 20 years.

The movie was so successful that Hollywood made more than 50 gangster movies the following year. The most violent movie of 1932 was Scarface, starring Paul Muni as Tony Camonte, a Chicago mobster.