10 Crime Movies To Watch If You Loved The Irishman

10 Crime Movies To Watch If You Loved The Irishman

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If you like Martin Scorsese’s Netflix epic The Irishman, and are looking for similar stories, look out for these 10 great crime movies.

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10 Crime Movies To Watch If You Loved The Irishman

Revered director Martin Scorsese finally released his long-gestating project, The Irishman, to the world thanks to Netflix, much to movie fans’ delight. If you loved the film, and are on the hunt for similar crime stories told with expertly-crafted stylistic flair, then make sure to check out these 10 movies too.

From other real-life gangster legends to iconic sagas from Scorsese’s contemporaries, these 10 movies are like The Irishman in many ways and explore similar themes of loyalty, corruption, regret, and hidden American history as they attempt to understand the nature of their violent subjects.

10 Black Mass (2015)

10 Crime Movies To Watch If You Loved The Irishman

Johnny Depp plays real-life Boston crime lord James ‘Whitey’ Bulger in this adaptation of the book Black Mass: The True Story of an Unholy Alliance Between the FBI and the Irish Mob.

The movie features an unusual dynamic of loyalty between the gangster and an FBI agent who helps him evade arrest as well as an incredible ensemble of supporting actors.

9 Zodiac (2007)

10 Crime Movies To Watch If You Loved The Irishman

David Fincher’s true-crime masterpiece chronicles the era of the titular serial killer and the main players of the obsessive investigations into their unsolved horrors.

Elegantly shot and edited, Zodiac takes its time in telling its sprawling story, skimping on not even the tiniest details in its symphony of facts, dates, names, styles, and, of course, popular music from the time period.

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8 Chopper (2000)

10 Crime Movies To Watch If You Loved The Irishman

Based on his autobiographical book, Chopper dramatizes the rise to fame of Australian criminal Mark ‘Chopper’ Read with Eric Bana’s captivating and transformative performance as the unhinged Read making for one unforgettable unreliable narrator.

Writer and director Andrew Dominik’s feature debut is brimming with Scorsese-like energy and that trademark sympathy for the devil character, with Bana creating an iconic crime movie psycho in the process.

7 Donnie Brasco (1997)

10 Crime Movies To Watch If You Loved The Irishman

Johnny Depp stars alongside Al Pacino in this melodramatic retelling of the undercover work of FBI agent Joseph D. Pistone as the gangster ‘Donnie Brasco’.

Pacino is at his best as Brasco’s partner in crime, the aging hitman ‘Lefty’, and Depp delivers one of his most standout movie performances ever as the conflicted Pistone, who has his entire perception of good and evil altered by his second life.

6 Public Enemies (2009)

10 Crime Movies To Watch If You Loved The Irishman

Johnny Depp plays another infamous American gangster with his turn as bank robber John Dillinger in this bullet-riddled historical epic from master director Michael Mann.

Christian Bale leads the team of FBI agents gunning to bring Dillinger down for good and the movie’s graceful storytelling, mixed with Mann’s vivid sense of style, makes Public Enemies a towering powerhouse.

5 Carlito’s Way (1993)

10 Crime Movies To Watch If You Loved The Irishman

One of Scorsese’s most prominent contemporaries, director Brian De Palma is best remembered (both in and out of the crime genre) for 1983’s Scarface, but his later collaboration with Al Pacino is a similarly influential landmark.

Based primarily on the novel ‘After Hours’ by Edwin Torres, but named after another novel with the character in order to–in part–avoid confusion with Scorsese’s unconnected movie of the same name, Carlito’s Way tells the story of the titular gangster as he attempts to go straight, only to fall back into a cutthroat life of crime.

4 Goodfellas (1990)

10 Crime Movies To Watch If You Loved The Irishman

Chronicling the long career of real-life mobster Henry Hill in the Italian American mafia, Goodfellas revolutionized the crime genre and gave the world the unbeatable cinematic formula that continues today through The Irishman and countless other movies that have been influenced by the quickfire narrative pacing of Scorsese and his longtime editing partner Thelma Schoonmaker.

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Though they had appeared together already in Scorsese’s Raging Bull, this became Robert De Niro and Joe Pesci’s signature movie together, rivaled only by The Irishman and the next movie on this list.

3 Casino (1995)

10 Crime Movies To Watch If You Loved The Irishman

Reteaming Scorsese, Schoonmaker, De Niro, Pesci, and screenwriter Nicholas Pileggi (who would also return as an executive producer on The Irishman), Casino was another true-crime character study in the style of Goodfellas but focussed entirely on De Niro’s and Pesci’s mobsters as two competing narrators within the same story.

The brutally violent saga charts the rise and fall of the mafia in the Las Vegas casino business and Scorsese’s examination of the evil influence of money on the human soul would be seen again in his next return to the Goodfellas formula…

2 The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)

10 Crime Movies To Watch If You Loved The Irishman

Though not based around the mafia, or featuring any of his old cohorts, The Wolf of Wall Street is more than easily a worthy successor to Scorsese’s other true crime movies.

Leonardo DiCaprio stars as Jordan Belfort, an unscrupulous Wall Street stock trader who quickly becomes an obscenely wealthy crook as well as a perfect emblem of the modern era of greed and excess.

1 The Godfather (1972)

Francis Ford Coppola’s crime family drama became an integral part of gangster movie history before most people had ever even heard of Martin Scorsese, and remains an untouchable classic.

Al Pacino stars as the young heir to his father’s mafia empire and the sprawling journey towards his inevitable destiny is as riveting now as it was in the early 70s.

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