Best Gangster movies of 1960s

Actors : Gene Hackman, Faye Dunaway, Michael J. Pollard, Warren Beatty,
Directors : Arthur Penn,

Bonnie Parker, a bored waitress falls in love with an ex-con named Clyde Barrow and together they start a violent crime spree through the country, robbing cars and banks.

Actors : Jacqueline Bisset, Steve McQueen, Don Gordon, Robert Vaughn,
Directors : Peter Yates,

An all guts, no glory San Francisco cop becomes determined to find the underworld kingpin that killed the witness in his protection.

Actors : James Fox, Mick Jagger, Michèle Breton, Anita Pallenberg,

Chas, a violent and psychotic East London gangster needs a place to lie low after a hit that should never have been carried out. He finds the perfect cover in the form of guest house run by...

Actors : Charles Aznavour, Nicole Berger, Marie Dubois, Michèle Mercier,
Directors : François Truffaut,

Charlie Kohler is a piano player in a bar. The waitress Lena is in love with him. One of Charlie's brother, Chico, a crook, takes refuge in the bar because he is chased by two gangsters, ...

Actors : Frederico Zardi, Frank Wolff, Sennuccio Benelli, Salvo Randone,
Directors : Francesco Rosi,

The unclear and complicated twists between governal powers, independentist party and Mafia in the Sicily of the '40s culminate with the death of Salvatore Giuliano.

Actors : Lino Ventura, Irina Demick, Jean Gabin, Alain Delon,
Directors : Henri Verneuil,

A young, ambitious mobster plans an elaborate diamond heist while seducing the daughter of a ruthless mob patriarch as a determined police commissioner closes in on all of them.

Actors : Hideaki Nitani, Tetsuya Watari, Tamio Kawaji, Chieko Matsubara,
Directors : Seijun Suzuki,

After his gang disbands, a yakuza enforcer looks forward to life outside of organized crime but soon must become a drifter after his old rivals attempt to assassinate him.

Actors : Gayle Hunnicutt, Rita Moreno, Carroll O'Connor, James Garner,
Directors : Paul Bogart,

A young woman from Kansas hires LA private detective Philip Marlowe to find her missing brother.

Actors : Diane Varsi, Pat Hingle, Shelley Winters, Don Stroud,
Directors : Roger Corman,

A psychological gangster film based on fact. Machine gun totin' Ma Barker lead her family gang (her sons) on a crime spree in the Depression era. Her loyal brood have every perversion ...

Actors : Paul Meurisse, Lino Ventura, Christine Fabréga, Raymond Pellegrin,
Directors : Jean-Pierre Melville,

Gustave Minda, better known as Gu, a dangerous gangster, escapes from jail. He goes to Paris to join Manouche and other friends, and get involved in a gangland killing. Before leaving the ...

Actors : Allen Baron, Molly McCarthy, Peter Clune, Larry Tucker,
Directors : Allen Baron,

A hired killer from Cleveland has a job to do on a second-string mob boss in New York. But a special girl from his past, and a fat gun dealer with pet rats, each gets in his way.

Actors : Françoise Christophe, Catherine Rouvel, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Alain Delon,
Directors : Jacques Deray,

During the 1930s, in Marseilles, France, two small time crooks work for local crime bosses until they decide to go into business for themselves.

Actors : Dolores Dorn, Beatrice Kay, Paul Dubov, Cliff Robertson,
Directors : Samuel Fuller,

Fourteen-year-old Tolly Devlin sees four hoods beat his father to death. Twenty years later, the killers have risen to the top of the crime syndicate and Tolly has a plan for revenge.

Actors : Takashi Fujiki, Mariko Kaga, Ryô Ikebe, Naoki Sugiura,
Directors : Masahiro Shinoda,

A gangster gets released from prison and has to cope with the recent shifts of power between the gangs, while taking care of a thrill-seeking young woman, who got in bad company while gambling.

Actors : Alexandra Stewart, Franchot Tone, Warren Beatty, Hurd Hatfield,
Directors : Arthur Penn,

After incurring the wrath of the mob, a comic flees Detroit for Chicago taking the name "Mickey One" from a stolen Social Security card from a homeless bum he witnesses being beaten up and ...

Actors : Jesse White, Elaine Stewart, Karen Steele, Ray Danton,
Directors : Budd Boetticher,

Jack Diamond and his sickly brother arrive in prohibition New York as jewellery thieves. After a spell in jail the coldly ambitious Diamond hits on the idea of stealing from thieves himself...

Actors : Sam Wanamaker, Stanley Baker, Margit Saad, Grégoire Aslan,
Directors : Joseph Losey,

In UK, after pulling a racetrack robbery, repeat offender Johnny Bannion hides the loot in a farmer's field but the police and the local mob come looking for Johnny and for the money.

Actors : Jerry Fujio, Shôki Fukae, Jô Shishido, Chitose Kobayashi,
Directors : Takashi Nomura,

A hit man is hired to kill a mob boss. After the deed is done, he and his driver are wanted dead by rival gangs who joined forces.

Actors : Jim Backus, Henry Silva, Richard Anderson, Elizabeth Montgomery,
Directors : William Asher,

Exiled American gangster Colini sends his protégé-killer Giordano to the USA to eliminate Colini's mob enemies.

Actors : Gabriele Ferzetti, Laura Nucci, Irene Papas, Gian Maria Volontè,
Directors : Elio Petri,

A leftist professor wants the truth about two men killed during a hunting party; but the mafia, the Church and corrupt politicians don't want him to learn it.