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Uncover the Dark World of Crime Bosses: Top Movies and TV Shows to Watch

Get ready to dive into the gritty world of organized crime with our curated list of the best movies and TV shows featuring crime bosses. From iconic gangsters to ruthless leaders, we'll take you on a thrilling journey through the highs and lows of the underworld. Whether you're a fan of Martin Scorsese or a newcomer to the genre, there's something for everyone in this collection of crime dramas.

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Sam Witwer

Star Wars: Maul - Shadow Lord (2026) TV Show

8.6 196 votes

Genre: Action, Animation, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 10

Audience: TV-PG

Story: After the Clone Wars, Maul plots to rebuild his criminal syndicate on a planet untouched by the Empire.

Plot: crime boss, criminal underworld, based on movie, aggressive, grim, villian, master apprentice relationship

Cast

John Travolta

Samuel L. Jackson

Uma Thurman

Bruce Willis

Pulp Fiction (1994)

8.5 30.4K votes

Genre: Comedy, Crime, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 154 min.

Audience: R

Story: A burger-loving hit man, his philosophical partner, a drug-addled gangster's moll and a washed-up boxer converge in this sprawling, comedic crime caper. Their adventures unfurl in three stories that ingeniously trip back and forth in time.

Plot: drug dealer, drug crime, gangster, dark comedy, stolen money, crime boss, redemption, theft, ...

Place: los angeles, california

Cast

Colin Farrell

Cristin Milioti

Rhenzy Feliz

Deirdre O'Connell

The Penguin (2024) TV Show

8.4 1.4K votes

Genre: Crime, Drama

Country: United States of America, Ireland

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 8

Audience: TV-MA

Story: With the city in peril following the seawall's collapse, Oswald "Oz" Cobb seeks to fill the power vacuum left by the death of Carmine Falcone and finally give his mother Francis the life he's always promised. But first, Oz must confront his enemies and his own demoralizing reputation as "the Penguin."

Plot: drug trafficking, gangster, villain, based on comic, crime boss, betrayal, organized crime, miniseries, ...

Cast

Zi Yu

Tian Xuning

Liu Xuancheng

Zhan Xuan

Revenged Love (2025) TV Show

8.3 70 votes

Genre: Action, Drama

Country: China

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 24

Story: After Wu Suo-wei's girlfriend dumps him, he decides to get revenge by seducing her new boyfriend, Chi Cheng! It started as a game, but falling in love was never part of the plan.

Plot: love triangle, based on novel or book, ex-boyfriend, friendship, remake, crime boss, revenge, romance, ...

Cast

Leonardo DiCaprio

Matt Damon

Jack Nicholson

Mark Wahlberg

The Departed (2006)

8.2 16.3K votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller

Country: Hong Kong, United States of America

Duration: 151 min.

Audience: R

Story: To take down South Boston's Irish Mafia, the police send in one of their own to infiltrate the underworld, not realizing the syndicate has done likewise. While an undercover cop curries favor with the mob kingpin, a career criminal rises through the police ranks. But both sides soon discover there's a mole among them.

Style: intense

Plot: police, undercover, massachusetts, gangster, irish-american, crime boss, friends, remake, ...

Place: boston

Godfather of Harlem (2019) TV Show

8.1 757 votes

Genre: Crime, Drama

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 4

Episodes: 40

Audience: TV-MA

Story: Loosely based on infamous crime boss Bumpy Johnson, who in the early 1960s returned from ten years in prison to find the neighborhood he once ruled in shambles. With the streets controlled by the Italian mob, Bumpy attempts to regain his piece of Harlem.

Plot: crime boss, mobster, godfather, harlem, new york city

Cast

Antony Starr

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Hoon Lee

Frankie Faison

Banshee (2013) TV Show

8.0 1.4K votes

Genre: Crime, Drama

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 4

Episodes: 38

Audience: TV-MA

Story: Banshee is an American drama television series set in a small town in Pennsylvania Amish country and features an enigmatic ex-con posing as a murdered sheriff who imposes his own brand of justice while also cooking up plans that serve his own interests.

Style: absurd

Plot: robbery, sheriff, double life, pennsylvania, usa, hacker, deputy, vigilante, ...

BMF (2021) TV Show

8.0 304 votes

Genre: Crime, Drama

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 4

Episodes: 38

Audience: TV-MA

Story: The drug trafficking drama is inspired by the true story of two brothers who rose from the decaying streets of southwest Detroit in the late 1980s and gave birth to one of the most influential crime families in the country. It revolves around brothers Demetrius "Big Meech" Flenory and Terry "Southwest T" Flenory, who together took their vision beyond the drug trade and into the world of hip-hop. The drama, per Starz, will tell a story about love, family and capitalism in the pursuit of the American dream.

Plot: hip-hop, crime boss, organized crime, mafia, drug lord, kingpin, legal drama

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Ky-Mani Marley

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Paul Campbell

Louie Rankin

Shottas (2002)

7.6 368 votes

Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime

Country: Jamaica, United States of America

Duration: 95 min.

Audience: R

Story: A raw urban drama about two friends raised on the dangerous streets of Kingston, Jamaica. Biggs and Wayne take on the "Shotta" way of life to survive. As young boys, they begin a life of crime, eventually moving to the US where they begin a ruthless climb from the bottom. They remain bound to each other by their shottas loyalty as they aggressively take control of the Jamaican underworld.

Plot: street gang, crime boss, police chase, gang violence, yardie, jamaican posse

Cast

James Spader

Diego Klattenhoff

Hisham Tawfiq

Anya Banerjee

The Blacklist (2013) TV Show

7.6 3.6K votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 10

Episodes: 218

Audience: TV-14

Story: Raymond "Red" Reddington, one of the FBI's most wanted fugitives, surrenders in person at FBI Headquarters in Washington, D.C. He claims that he and the FBI have the same interests: bringing down dangerous criminals and terrorists. In the last two decades, he's made a list of criminals and terrorists that matter the most but the FBI cannot find because it does not know they exist. Reddington calls this "The Blacklist". Reddington will co-operate, but insists that he will speak only to Elizabeth Keen, a rookie FBI profiler.

Plot: fbi, investigation, terrorism, criminal mastermind, crime lord, hidden identity, criminal consultant

Cast

Jason Statham

Holt McCallany

Rocci Williams

Josh Hartnett

Wrath of Man (2021)

7.6 6.2K votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America

Duration: 119 min.

Audience: R

Story: A cold and mysterious new security guard for a Los Angeles cash truck company surprises his co-workers when he unleashes precision skills during a heist. The crew is left wondering who he is and where he came from. Soon, the marksman's ultimate motive becomes clear as he takes dramatic and irrevocable steps to settle a score.

Plot: crime boss, armored car, remake, revenge, shootout, shooter, los angeles, california, ...

Cast

Ryan Gosling

Carey Mulligan

Bryan Cranston

Albert Brooks

Drive (2011)

7.6 13.7K votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 100 min.

Audience: R

Story: Driver is a skilled Hollywood stuntman who moonlights as a getaway driver for criminals. Though he projects an icy exterior, lately he's been warming up to a pretty neighbor named Irene and her young son, Benicio. When Irene's husband gets out of jail, he enlists Driver's help in a million-dollar heist. The job goes horribly wrong, and Driver must risk his life to protect Irene and Benicio from the vengeful masterminds behind the robbery.

Plot: robbery, car mechanic, stuntman, beaten to death, revenge, organized crime, neighbor, police chase, ...

Cast

Mahesh Babu

Ileana D'Cruz

Prakash Raj

Nassar

Pokiri (2006)

7.5 72 votes

Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller

Country: India

Duration: 163 min.

Story: Pandu is a contract killer and will accept any contract provided the amount is right. The police want him for questioning, while the underworld needs him to silence their opponents. No one really knows this assassin's background. It is only Pandu who knows his real identity, and he has no intention of sharing it with anyone.

Plot: corruption, undercover, gangster, anti hero, gang war, crime boss, mafia boss, rivalry, ...

Cast

Ansel Elgort

Kevin Spacey

Lily James

Jon Hamm

Baby Driver (2017)

7.4 17.0K votes

Genre: Action, Crime

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America

Duration: 113 min.

Audience: R

Story: After being coerced into working for a crime boss, a young getaway driver finds himself taking part in a heist doomed to fail.

Plot: robbery, waitress, crime boss, romance, heist, getaway car, on the run, shootout, ...

Place: atlanta

Cast

Bruce Lee

John Saxon

Jim Kelly

Sek Kin

Enter the Dragon (1973)

7.4 2.1K votes

Genre: Action

Country: Hong Kong, United States of America

Duration: 102 min.

Audience: R

Story: A martial artist agrees to spy on a reclusive crime lord using his invitation to a tournament there as cover.

Plot: island, martial arts, kung fu, temple, monk, spy, shaolin, sister, ...

Place: hong kong

Cast

Iko Uwais

Joe Taslim

Donny Alamsyah

Yayan Ruhian

The Raid (2012)

7.4 3.9K votes

Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller

Country: Indonesia, France

Duration: 101 min.

Audience: R

Story: Deep in the heart of Jakarta's slums lies an impenetrable safe house for the world's most dangerous killers and gangsters. Until now, the run-down apartment block has been considered untouchable to even the bravest of police. Cloaked under the cover of pre-dawn darkness and silence, an elite swat team is tasked with raiding the safe house in order to take down the notorious drug lord that runs it. But when a chance encounter with a spotter blows their cover and news of their assault reaches the drug lord, the building's lights are cut and all the exits blocked. Stranded on the sixth floor with no way out, the unit must fight their way through the city's worst to survive their mission. Starring Indonesian martial arts sensation Iko Uwais.

Plot: martial arts, s.w.a.t., crime boss, tenement, high rise, monitor, tower block, jakarta indonesia, ...

Cast

u00c9lodie Yung

Sebastien LaSalle

Valentino LaSalle

Eva De Dominici

The Cleaning Lady (2022) TV Show

7.4 252 votes

Genre: Crime, Drama

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 4

Episodes: 46

Audience: TV-14

Story: A whip-smart doctor comes to the U.S. for a medical treatment to save her ailing son. But when the system fails and pushes her into hiding, she refuses to be beaten down and marginalized. Instead, she becomes a cleaning lady for the mob and starts playing the game by her own rules.

Plot: casino, money laundering, cleaning lady, fbi, blackmail, illegal employment, crime boss, murder, ...

Place: las vegas

Cast

Chris Hemsworth

Rudhraksh Jaiswal

Randeep Hooda

Golshifteh Farahani

Extraction (2020)

7.3 6.7K votes

Genre: Action, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 116 min.

Audience: R

Story: A hardened gun-for-hire's latest mission becomes a soul-searching race to survive when he's sent into Bangladesh to rescue a drug lord's kidnapped son.

Plot: drug dealer, self sacrifice, mercenary, crime boss, mumbai (bombay), india, rescue mission, based on comic, ...

Cast

Gina Gershon

Jennifer Tilly

Joe Pantoliano

John P. Ryan

Bound (1996)

7.2 1.1K votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 105 min.

Audience: R

Story: Corky, a tough female ex-convict working on an apartment renovation in a Chicago building, meets a couple living next door, Caesar, a paranoid mobster, and Violet, his seductive girlfriend, who is immediately attracted to her.

Style: suspenseful

Plot: infidelity, money laundering, plumber, crime boss, heist, lesbian relationship, mafia, love affair, ...

Cast

Bob Hoskins

Helen Mirren

Dave King

Bryan Marshall

The Long Good Friday (1980)

7.2 434 votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller

Country: United Kingdom

Duration: 114 min.

Audience: R

Story: In the late 1970s, Cockney crime boss Harold Shand, a gangster trying to become a legitimate property mogul, has big plans to get the American Mafia to bankroll his transformation of a derelict area of London into the possible venue for a future Olympic Games. However, a series of bombings targets his empire on the very weekend the Americans are in town. Shand is convinced there is a traitor in his organization, and sets out to eliminate the rat in typically ruthless fashion.

Plot: london, england, casino, gangster, crime boss, car bomb, slaughterhouse, ira (irish republican army), ...

Place: england

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