5 Underrated Mafia Films
The inherent drama of a life of crime is one of the most consistently entertaining concepts to build a story around in fictional history. Crime evolves, but the fundamental interest in people who do terrible things for money and the unique industry that grows around them will never go away.
Check any self-professed film lover's top ten list and Godfather and Goodfellas will almost certainly fill a couple of slots. Many of the best-received films and series of all time concern the life of career felons involved in organized crime. From Don Corleone to Tony Soprano, there are plenty of interesting entries in this venerable subgenre that may not have gotten the attention they deserved.
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When fans of this genre think of Al Pacino and Brian De Palma, they are almost always picturing their first collaboration, the 1983 classic Scarface. A decade later, however, they worked together again to create another crime drama that, in some ways, eclipses its better-known predecessor. Pacino stars as the eponymous Carlito Brigante, a career criminal attempting to go straight. The film is adapted from a pair of novels written by former New York State Supreme Court Judge Edwin Torres, who says he based the character on several figures from his past. With one of the best original scores in the genre and several fantastic action setpieces, Carlito's Way deserves much more than being overshadowed by its older brother.
Another film vastly overshadowed by a director's earlier work, Public Enemies is the second film by Michael Mann about bank robbers and the law enforcement arm trying to stop them. After the seminal crime drama Heat in the 90s, Mann took a long break from the
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