Best Gangster movies of 2000s

Actors : Simon Yam, Anthony Chau-Sang Wong, Johnny Hallyday, Suet Lam,
Directors : Johnnie To,

A French chef swears revenge after a violent attack on his daughter's family in Hong Kong, during which her husband and her two children are murdered. To help him find the killers, he hires three local hit-men working for the mafia.

Actors : Brad Renfro, Giovanni Ribisi, Piper Perabo, James Marsden,
Directors : Bobby Moresco,

A former street tough returns to his Philadelphia home after a stint in the military. Back on his home turf, he once again finds himself tangling with the mob boss who was instrumental in his going off to be a soldier.

Actors : Colm Feore, Robert Loggia, Selma Blair, Christian Slater,
Directors : Harvey Kahn,

A political thriller steeped in illegal oil trading, the Russian Mafia, and governmental cover-ups.

Actors : John Malkovich, Ray Winstone, Lena Headey, Dougray Scott,
Directors : Liliana Cavani,

A dying family man in need of money is being persuaded to assassinate a European crime boss.

Actors : Collin Chou, Louis Koo, Ray Lui, Donnie Yen,
Directors : Wilson Yip,

A hot-headed inspector takes on a small but powerful Vietnamese-Chinese gang, after a series of crimes and murder attempts committed and putting an undercover cop and his girlfriend in great danger.

Actors : Jean Reno, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Marina Foïs, Kad Merad,
Directors : Richard Berry,

A retired mobster goes on a revenge spree after being left for dead with 22 bullets in his body by his former childhood friend.

Actors : Mickey Rourke, Kim Basinger, Jon Foster, Billy Bob Thornton,
Directors : Gregor Jordan,

One week in L.A. in 1983, featuring movie executives, rock stars, a vampire and other morally challenged characters in adventures laced with sex, drugs and violence.

Actors : Anne Hathaway, Bijou Phillips, Michael Biehn, Shiri Appleby,
Directors : Barbara Kopple,

Two affluent suburban girls clash with the Latino gang culture of East Los Angeles.

Actors : Richard Harris, Reece Noi, Lynn Redgrave, Tom Bell,
Directors : Don Boyd,

A modern story, inspired by King Lear, set in contemporary Liverpool.

Actors : Goo Jin, Yu-mi Jung, Hae-gon Kim, Jung-min Hwang,
Directors : Jee-woon Kim,

Things go wrong for a high ranking mobster when he doesn't proceed by his boss's orders.

Actors : Morgan Freeman, Corey Johnson, Robert Forster, Rade Serbedzija,
Directors : Mimi Leder,

A veteran thief recruits a younger crook to help him pull off one final job in order to repay his debt to the Russian mob.

Actors : Teah, Michelle Reis, Kôji Kikkawa, Mitsuhiro Oikawa,
Directors : Takashi Miike,

Violent gangster movie with a Brazilian protagonist.

Actors : Elijah Wood, Brian Burns, Vincent Rubino, Jimmy Cummings,
Directors : Edward Burns,

Ash Wednesday is set in the Manhattan of the early 1980's and is about a pair of Irish-American brothers (Burns and Wood) who become embroiled in a conflict with the Irish Mob.

Actors : Anthony Chau-Sang Wong, Shawn Yue, Francis Ng, Edison Chen,

In this prequel to Mou gaan dou (2002), Chan Wing Yan has just become an undercover cop in the triads while Lau Kin Ming joins the police force. Both the triads and the police find an enemy in a rival crime boss.

Actors : Daniel Auteuil, André Dussollier, Valeria Golino, Gérard Depardieu,
Directors : Olivier Marchal,

In the underbelly of the Parisian criminal world, the Police are frustrated by a gang committing a series of violent robberies. Leo Vrinks and Denis Klein are two cops seeking promotion, ...

Actors : Mario Pupella, Veronica D'Agostino, Marcello Mazzarella, Gérard Jugnot,
Directors : Marco Amenta,

The true story of 17-year-old Sicilian Rita Atria (Veronica D'Agostino) -- who broke the Sicilian Mafia's code of silence and testified against the "family business" after both her father ...

Actors : Olivia Wilde, Paul Walker, Laurence Fishburne, Jason Flemyng,
Directors : John Herzfeld,

A DEA agent provides former Marine Tim Kearney with a way out of his prison sentence: impersonate Bobby Z, a recently deceased drug dealer, in a hostage switch with a crime lord.

Actors : Ajay Devgn, Prachi Desai, Kangana Ranaut, Emraan Hashmi,
Directors : Milan Luthria,

A smuggler rises to power in in 1970s Mumbai, a younger gangster seeks to overthrow him, and a police officer is caught in the middle.

Actors : Ajay Devgn, Manisha Koirala, Seema Biswas, Mohanlal,
Directors : Ram Gopal Varma,

A small-time gangster named Chandu teams up with Malik, a low-level enforcer for a criminal syndicate. Together they eliminate all their enemies, becoming the most feared gangsters in Mumbai.

Actors : Simon Yam, Sammo Kam-Bo Hung, Jing Wu, Donnie Yen,
Directors : Wilson Yip,

A near retired inspector and his unit are willing to put down a crime boss at all costs while dealing with his replacement, who is getting in their way. Meanwhile, the crime boss sends his top henchmen to put an end to their dirty schemes.