The legendary take down of real-life gangster Al Capone (played in the movie by Robert De Niro) is told in De Palma's ...

"Kill the Irishman" serves up a violent story of gangsters and the people they terrorize. Here are 13 more movies in the same ...

More from How Real Is It? A triangle pointing ... Joe Serio, former CIA agent and Russian mafia investigator, rates Russian mob scenes in movies and TV, such as "John Wick," for realism.

The movie was so successful that Hollywood made more than 50 gangster movies the following year. The most violent movie of 1932 was Scarface, starring Paul Muni as Tony Camonte, a Chicago mobster.

More from How Real Is It? Former Mafia member John Pennisi rates 10 Mafia scenes in movies and television for realism, such as "The Sopranos" and "The Godfather." Pennisi was a made member of the ...

Robert De Niro is a two-hit wonder in the trailer for the upcoming gangster film “The Alto Knights ... bosses Vito Genovese and Frank Costello, real-life kingpins of New York’s Genovese ...

Robert De Niro has played some of the most (in)famous gangsters in movie history ... the American Mafia. In the guise of Vito Genovese and Frank Costello, you have a fascinating real-life ...