Movies like Mapantsula
If Mapantsula's mix of gangster, south africa and apartheid stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what Mapantsula's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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American Gangster
2007 · Directed by Ridley Scott · 157 min7.6
Why you'll like itShares: gangster, organized crime · Also drama and crime
Loosely based on the criminal career of Frank Lucas, a gangster from La Grange, North Carolina, who smuggled heroin into the United States on American service planes returning from the Vietnam War, before being…
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Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man
2026 · Directed by Tom Harper · 112 min7.2
Why you'll like itShares: gangster, organized crime · Also crime and drama
After his estranged son gets embroiled in a Nazi plot, self-exiled gangster Tommy Shelby must return to Birmingham to save his family — and his nation.
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Paid in Full
2002 · Directed by Charles Stone III · 98 min6.9
Why you'll like itShares: gangster, organized crime · Also crime and drama
Ace is an impressionable young man working for a dry cleaning business. His friend, drug dealer Mitch, goes to prison. In an unrelated incident, he finds some cocaine in a pants pocket.
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The Informer
2019 · Directed by Andrea Di Stefano · 109 min6.5
Why you'll like itShares: gangster, organized crime · Also drama and crime
In New York, former convict Pete Koslow, related to the Polish mafia, must deal with both Klimek the General, his ruthless boss, and the twisted ambitions of two federal agents, as he tries to survive and protect the…
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The Air I Breathe
2007 · Directed by Jieho Lee · 95 min6.3
Why you'll like itShares: gangster, organized crime · Also drama and crime
A gambler’s bet spiraling into chaos, a gangster's prophetic visions, a pop star’s dark entanglement, a doctor’s desperate race against time to rescue his beloved...
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The Godfather
1972 · Directed by Francis Ford Coppola · 175 min8.7
Why you'll like itShares: gangster, organized crime · Also drama and crime
Spanning the years 1945 to 1955, a chronicle of the fictional Italian-American Corleone crime family. When organized crime family patriarch, Vito Corleone barely survives an attempt on his life, his youngest son,…
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The Godfather Part II
1974 · Directed by Francis Ford Coppola · 202 min8.6
Why you'll like itShares: gangster, organized crime · Also drama and crime
In the continuing saga of the Corleone crime family, a young Vito Corleone grows up in Sicily and in 1910s New York. In the 1950s, Michael Corleone attempts to expand the family business into Las Vegas, Hollywood and…
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GoodFellas
1990 · Directed by Martin Scorsese · 145 min8.5
Why you'll like itShares: gangster, organized crime · Also drama and crime
The true story of Henry Hill, a half-Irish, half-Sicilian Brooklyn kid who is adopted by neighbourhood gangsters at an early age and climbs the ranks of a Mafia family under the guidance of Jimmy Conway.
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The Departed
2006 · Directed by Martin Scorsese · 151 min8.2
Why you'll like itShares: gangster, organized crime · Also drama and crime
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.
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Boyz n the Hood
1991 · Directed by John Singleton · 112 min7.6
Why you'll like itShares: gangster · Also drama and crime
Three friends growing up in South Central Los Angeles navigate a neighborhood plagued by violence, unemployment, and crime, each responding differently to the harsh realities of street life.
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Menace II Society
1993 · Directed by Albert Hughes · 97 min7.5
Why you'll like itShares: gangster · Also drama and crime
A young street hustler attempts to escape the rigors and temptations of the ghetto in a quest for a better life.
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Sexy Beast
2001 · Directed by Jonathan Glazer · 89 min7.0
Why you'll like itShares: gangster · Also crime and drama
Ex-safecracker Gal Dove has served his time behind bars and is blissfully retired to a Spanish villa paradise with a wife he adores. The idyll is shattered by the arrival of his nemesis Don Logan, intent on persuading…