Vito Corleone can’t see you sneaking around with Antonio Montana on your watch history, and hardly even knows about everything you’ve been up to in Southie with the Irish mob.
(And a stomach to, you know, endure the gore and guts that often come with these Scorsese epics.) Luckily, there’s no need to be loyal to just one. After all, nothing builds a bond between viewer and protagonist quite like bearing witness to (and borderline aiding and abetting) their life of crime for a full two hours.īeing a fan of gangster films often requires some dedication-from keeping up with richly interwoven networks of alliances, to learning the backstories of infamous ganglords. Few genres embody the definition of a “cult classic” quite like the mob mentality fandom of gangster films.
