Best Irish gangster/crime movies

Tom Reagan, an advisor to a Prohibition-era crime boss, tries to keep the peace between warring mobs but gets caught in divided loyalties.

A mob enforcer's son in 1930s Illinois witnesses a murder, forcing him and his father to take to the road, and his father down a path of redemption and revenge.

An undercover cop and a mole in the police attempt to identify each other while infiltrating an Irish gang in South Boston.

After a job gone wrong, hitman Ray and his partner await orders from their ruthless boss in Bruges, Belgium, the last place in the world Ray wants to be.

An Irish-American street punk tries to make it big in the world of organized crime.

Two Boston area detectives investigate a little girl's kidnapping, which ultimately turns into a crisis both professionally and personally.

When CIA analyst Jack Ryan interferes with an IRA assassination, a renegade faction targets him and his family for revenge.

A proficient group of thieves rob a bank and hold the manager hostage. Things begin to get complicated when one of the crew members falls in love with her.

A mild-mannered man becomes a local hero through an act of violence, which sets off repercussions that will shake his family to its very core.

A Boston cop is recruited to return to his hometown and infiltrate the mob ran by his best friend's brother.

An unorthodox Irish policeman with a confrontational personality is partnered with an uptight F.B.I. agent to investigate an international drug-smuggling ring.

In 1862, Amsterdam Vallon returns to the Five Points area of New York City seeking revenge against Bill the Butcher; his father's killer.

A variety of losers in Dublin have harrowingly farcical intersecting stories of love, greed and violence.

Two Irish Catholic brothers become vigilantes and wipe out Boston's criminal underworld in the name of God.

A small-time hoodlum is divided between his conscience and loyalty to his boss when his cousin is murdered.

Two childhood friends from South Boston turn to crime as a way to get by, ultimately causing a strain in their personal lives and their friendship.

The adventures of an investigator (Cagney) for the Bureau of Weights and Measures.

Young Danny Flynn is released from prison 14 years after "taking the rap" for the IRA and tries to rebuild his life in his old Belfast neighborhood.

The true story of Danny Greene, a tough Irish thug working for mobsters in Cleveland during the 1970's.

Brooklyn, 1975: two brothers looking for a way out of their working-class neighborhood make a pact to rob a local theater on the night of a Rolling Stones concert.

The real-life story of Dublin folk hero and criminal Martin Cahill, who pulled off two daring robberies in Ireland with his team, but attracted unwanted attention from the police, the I.R.A., the U.V.F., and members of his own team.