O cine de gángsters ye un chenero cinematografico con a caracteristica principal d'estar protagonizau por un gángster u, a lo menos, que amuestre a un d'éls en os suyos papels principals. Comparte prous caracteristicas con o cine policiaco, chenero con o que de vegadas gosa confundir-se, u con o cine negro, chenero cinematografico en o cual a sobén o protagonista d'a cinta ye tamién un gángster. Ye un chenero en o que con frecuencia s'adopta lo punto d'anvista d'o gángster y por ixo bellas vegadas s'ha acusau a lo chenero de glorificar a violencia.
Se considera que la primer cinta de cine de gángsters ye The Great Train Robbery (1903, Edwin S. Porter), cinta que amás ye considera como la cinta fundadora d'o cine de western, Vincent Pinel: Los géneros cinematográficos. Géneros, escuelas, movimientos y corrientes en el cine, Ediciones Robinbook, S.L., Barcelona, 2007, , p. 153. encara que lo desarrollo d'o chenero no s'escaició dica los anyos 1920 y ixo por dos motius principals: d'una man, por a consolidación d'o gangsterismo en os Estaus Unius como una d'as consecuencias d'a clamana lei seca que prohibió lo consumo d'alcol en o país y que fació que se i establisen bandas que fabricaban, distribuyiban y vendiban clandestinament bebidas alcolicas y, d'atra man, porque con l'aparición d'o cine sonoro una cinta a on amanixesen disparos (por eixemplo, de metralleta) teneba una buena acullida por o publico. Finalment, o cine en blanco y negro contribuyiba prou bien a dar en a pantalla una imachen gangsteril. Tanimientres, ye un chenero que ha teniu siempre buena salut y que encara hue ye bien present en as salas d'exhibición.
Cintas destacadas d'o chenero
A selección de cintas d'ista lista s'ha feito a partir de bellas listas u recopilacions en libros y atras publicacions de criticos cinematograficos, en adhibindo-ie d'una man cintas destacadas d'os zaguers anyos y d'atra man bellas cintas destacadas de cines de países menors.
Anyos 1910 Anyo Títol Director Productora Actors Notas1912 The Musketeers of Pig Alley The Musketeers of Pig Alley en Internet Movie Database. D.W. Griffith Biograph Company Elmer Booth, Lillian Gish, Clara T. Bracy, Walter Miller, Alfred Paget, Madge Kirby, Harry Carey, John T. Dillon, Adolph Lestina, Jack Pickford, Robert Harron, W.C. Robinson, Gertrude Bambrick, Lionel Barrymore, Kathleen Butler, Christy Cabanne, Donald Crisp, Frank Evans, Dorothy Gish, Walter P. Lewis, Antonio Moreno, Marie Newton, Gertrude Norman, J. Waltham Curtometrache1915 The Regeneration The Regeneration en Internet Movie Database. Raoul Walsh Fox Film Corporation Rockliffe Fellowes, Anna Q. Nilsson, William Sheer, Carl Harbaugh, James A. Marcus, Maggie Weston, John McCann, Harry McCoy, Peggy Barn, William Dyer '''| ' [ ''''] en Internet Movie Database.
Anyos 1920 Anyo Títol Director Productora Actors Notas1927 Underworld Underworld en Internet Movie Database. Josef von Sternbergs, Arthur Rosson Paramount Pictures George Bancroft, Evelyn Brent, Clive Brook, Fred Kohler, Helen Lynch, Larry Semon, Jerry Mandy, Alfred Allen, Shep Houghton, Andy MacLennan, Ida May, Karl Morse, Bob Reeves, Julian Rivero '''| '
Anyos 1930 Anyo Títol Director Productora Actors Notas1931 City Streets City Streets en Internet Movie Database. Rouben Mamoulian Paramount Pictures Gary Cooper, Sylvia Sidney, Paul Lukas, William "Stage" Boyd, Wynne Gibson, Guy Kibbee, Stanley Fields, Betty Sinclair, Robert Homans, Barbara Leonard, Terry Carroll, Allan Cavan, Bill Elliott, Norman Foster, Paulette Goddard, Bert Hanlon, A.R. Haysel, Matty Kemp, Bob Kortman, Ethan Laidlaw, Kate Drain Lawson, Edward LeSaint, Stanley Mack, Frank McLure, John Northpole, William H. O'Brien, Rose Plumer, Hal Price, George Regas, Willard Robertson, Dick Rush, Mike Tellegen, Harry Tenbrook, Nick Thompson, Leo Willis Little Caesar Little Caesar en Internet Movie Database. Mervyn LeRoy First National Pictures Edward G. Robinson, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Glenda Farrell, William Collier Jr., Sidney Blackmer, Ralph Ince, Thomas E. Jackson, Stanley Fields, Maurice Black, George E. Stone, Armand Kaliz, Nicholas Bela, Ernie Adams, Elmer Ballard, Ferike Boros, Kernan Cripps, George Daly, Adolph Faylauer, Ben Hendricks Jr., Al Hill, Lucille La Verne, Gladys Lloyd, Noel Madison, Tom McGuire, Louis Natheaux, William H. O'Brien, Henry Sedley, Gay Sheridan, Larry Steers, Landers Stevens, Mike Tellegen, Robert Walker The Public Enemy The Public Enemy en Internet Movie Database. William A. Wellman Warner Bros. James Cagney, Jean Harlow, Edward Woods, Joan Blondell, Donald Cook, Leslie Fenton, Beryl Mercer, Robert Emmett O'Connor, Murray Kinnell, Lev Abramov, Clark Burroughs, Mae Clarke, Frank Coghlan Jr., George Daly, Frankie Darro, Snitz Edwards, Rita Flynn, Dorothy Gee, Douglas Gerrard, Dorothy Gray, Ben Hendricks Jr., Robert Homans, Eddie Kane, Arnold Lucy, Mia Marvin, Sam McDaniel, Harold Minjir, Kewpie Morgan, Helen Parrish, Lee Phelps, Russ Powell, Purnell Pratt, Nanci Price, Joe Sawyer, Landers Stevens, William H. Strauss, Charles Sullivan, Lucille Ward, Adele Watson 1932 Scarface Scarface en Internet Movie Database. Howard Hawks The Caddo Company Paul Muni, Ann Dvorak, Karen Morley, Osgood Perkins, C. Henry Gordon, George Raft, Vince Barnett, Boris Karloff, Purnell Pratt, Tully Marshall, Inez Palange, Edwin Maxwell, Henry Armetta, Gus Arnheim, Eugenie Besserer, Maurice Black, William A. Boardway, William Burress, James Conaty, Gino Corrado, Virginia Dabney, William B. Davidson, James Durkin, Bill Elliott, Eddie Fetherston, Paul Fix, Francis Ford, Dick Gordon, Gus Arnheim and His Orchestra, Jean Harlow, Howard Hawks, Brandon Hurst, Sydney Jarvis, John Kelly, John Lee Mahin, Hank Mann, Frank McLure, Frank Mills, George Nardelli, William H. O'Brien, Dennis O'Keefe, Jack Perry, Pedro Regas, Warner Richmond, Constantine Romanoff, Ronald R. Rondell, Marion Sayers, Bert Starkey, Charles Sullivan, Harry Tenbrook, Helen C. Thompson, Nick Thompson, Ellinor Vanderveer, Harry J. Vejar, Sailor Vincent, Douglas Walton, Stanhope Wheatcroft 1937 Dead End Dead End en Internet Movie Database. William Wyler The Samuel Goldwyn Company Sylvia Sidney, Joel McCrea, Humphrey Bogart, Wendy Barrie, Claire Trevor, Allen Jenkins, Marjorie Main, Billy Halop, Huntz Hall, Bobby Jordan, Leo Gorcey, Gabriel Dell, Bernard Punsly, Charles Peck, Minor Watson, James Burke, Ward Bond, Elisabeth Risdon, Esther Dale, George Humbert, Marcelle Corday, Earl Askam, Don "Red" Barry, Wade Boteler, Al Bridge, Lucile Browne, Audrey Carol, Gilbert Clayton, G. Pat Collins, Jerry Cooper, Bill Dagwell, Bud Geary, Wesley Giraud, Charles Halton, Larry Harris, Robert Homans, Esther Howard, Thomas E. Jackson, Payne B. Johnson, Sidney Kibrick, Maude Lambert, Paula Hariette Levy, Kathryn Ann Lujan, Mickey Martin, Mona Monet, Tom Randall, Tom Ricketts, Norman Salling, Hugh Sheridan, Frank Shields Sr., Walter Soderling, Charlotte Treadway, Gertrude Valerie '''| '
Anyos 1940 Anyo Títol Director Productora Actors Notas1949 White Heat White Heat en Internet Movie Database. Raoul Walsh Warner Bros. James Cagney, Virginia Mayo, Edmond O'Brien, Margaret Wycherly, Steve Cochran, John Archer, Wally Cassell, Fred Clark, Joel Allen, Claudia Barrett, Ray Bennett, Marshall Bradford, Chet Brandenburg, John Butler, Robert Carson, Bill Cartledge, Bill Clark, Leo Cleary, Fred Coby, Tom Coleman, G. Pat Collins, Bing Conley, Garrett Craig, Herschel Daugherty, Charles Ferguson, Art Foster, Eddie Foster, Robert Foulk, Rudy Germane, Jack Gordon, Buddy Gorman, Paul Guilfoyle, Sherry Hall, Carl Harbaugh, Jack Henderson, Clarence Hennecke, Perry Ivins, Colin Kenny, Mickey Knox, Mike Lally, Richard LaMarr, Harry Lauter, DeForrest Lawrence, Nolan Leary, Murray Leonard, Ian MacDonald, Larry McGrath, John McGuire, Sid Melton, Art Miles, Frank Mitchell, Ray Montgomery, Mike Morelli, Terry O'Sullivan, Robert Osterloh, Milton Parsons, Jack Perrin, Jack Perry, Lee Phelps, Eddie Phillips, John Pickard, Ford Rainey, Joey Ray, Anthony Redondo, Grandon Rhodes, John Rice, John Roy, Jeffrey Sayre, Allen D. Sewall, Cap Somers, George Spaulding, Harry Strang, George Taylor, Jim Thorpe, Jim Toney, Aline Towne, Sid Troy, Ralph Volkie, Jack Worth '''| '
Anyos 1950