Best Gangster movies of 1960s

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.

Actors : Akira Yamauchi, Masako Izumi, Hideki Takahashi, Yuji Kodaka,
Directors : Seijun Suzuki,

After his own gang sets him up to kill a rival mobster, a hit man is forced to flee with his younger brother.

Actors : Luther Adler, Kirk Douglas, Irene Papas, Alex Cord,
Directors : Martin Ritt,

The son of a powerful Mafia don comes home from his army service in Vietnam and wants to lead his own life, but family tradition, intrigues and powerplays involving his older brother ...

Actors : Meiko Kaji, Rikiya Yasuoka, Jirô Okazaki, Tatsuya Fuji,
Directors : Yasuharu Hasebe,

A street girl gang clashes with racist local gangsters after one of the girls starts dating an Afro-Japanese man.

Actors : Sean Connery, John Gregson, Herbert Lom, Alfred Marks,
Directors : John Lemont,

A small time thief is recruited by a mobster to help with the racketeering. He doesn't like the job, but with the mob on his back, a femme fatale in his bed and a sick friend to care for, he will have to keep all his wits about him.

Actors : Christopher Lee, Marisa Mell, Pinkas Braun, Adrian Hoven,
Directors : Helmuth Ashley,

Rival gangsters from Chicago move to London and attempt to extort money from rich Britons.

Actors : Rony Clanton, Yolanda Rodríguez, Carl Lee, Clarence Williams III,
Directors : Shirley Clarke,

Filmmaker Shirley Clarke ("The Connection") directs this powerful, stark semi-documentary look at the horrors of Harlem ghetto slum life filled with drugs, violence, human misery, and a ...

Actors : Audie Murphy, Ben Cooper, Colleen Miller, DeForest Kelley,
Directors : Frank McDonald,

In 1875 a murderous outlaw gang breaks criminals from jail, uses them to help in crimes, and then kills them for the reward, when it goes high enough.

Actors : Tamio Kawaji, Chieko Matsubara, Yuji Kodaka, Jô Shishido,
Directors : Takumi Furukawa,

A convict fresh out of prison, with a handicapped sister, is coerced by a wealthy mob boss into organizing an armored racetrack car heist.

Actors : Nadja Tiller, Gert Fröbe, Jean Gabin, George Raft,
Directors : Denys de La Patellière,

In Paris, a gold smuggler is at war with other local gangsters who want piece of the action. Then the mob shows up and makes things worse. Also, an undercover US Treasury Department agent is trying to infiltrate the smuggler's business.

Actors : Yoshiyuki Fukuda, Keiko Sakurai, Tetsuo Ashida, Kei Satô,
Directors : Nagisa Ôshima,

Over the course of a night, a sex-obsessed young woman, a suicidal man, and a gun-crazy wannabe gangster are taken prisoner of a gang awaiting a shootout between a rival gang at dawn.

Actors : Raymond Bussières, Paul Crauchet, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Joanna Shimkus,
Directors : Robert Enrico,

The quest for respect of a small time mob driver turns him into a notorious gangster.

Actors : Margaret Lee, Tomas Milian, Don Backy, Gian Maria Volontè,
Directors : Carlo Lizzani,

A detective is assigned to head a manhunt for four violent bank robbers.

Actors : Ornella Muti, Tano Cimarosa, Alessio Orano, Joe Sentieri,
Directors : Damiano Damiani,

Based on the story of Franca Viola and Filippo Melodia. In Sicily, as a Mafia boss leaves for prison, he advises Vito, a young man who's his potential successor, to marry a virtuous and ...

Actors : Peter Reynolds, Anthony Quayle, Carl Möhner, Jayne Mansfield,
Directors : John Gilling,

A gang leader dumps her criminal boyfriend when he is convicted of robbery, but he recovers the stolen loot once he's released. In retaliation, the gang kidnaps his son and demands the money as ransom.

Actors : Tristram Coffin, Lurene Tuttle, Nelson Leigh, Paul Dubov,
Directors : Bill Karn,

Ma Barker and her four sons terrorize the 1930s South and Midwest with a string of kidnappings, robberies and murders, and even get to work with such famous criminals as John Dillinger and Baby Face Nelson.

Actors : Diana Dors, Dianne Foster, David Janssen, Jack Carson,
Directors : Joseph M. Newman,

The story of flamboyant Prohibition-era gangster, gambler and bootlegger Arnold Rothstein.

Actors : Helmut Schmid, John Phillips, Stanley Baker, Tom Bell,
Directors : Cliff Owen,

A criminal gang sets out to pull off the heist of a large army payroll.

Actors : Bernard Lee, Rita Tushingham, Doris Hare, Michael Sarne,
Directors : Basil Dearden,

Amidst the pub sing-songs and bombsites and with slums giving way to high-rise flats, life in Bethnal Green is changing for the Flints. Dad may decide to quit the docks and their daughter ...

Actors : Veronica Bellach, Marlaina Abbie, Gigi Darlene, Audrey Campbell,
Directors : Joseph P. Mawra,

Olga uses pot parties and comic-book violence to turn Gigi Darlene and other female captives before putting them to work as drug-addicted hookers.