I've been tackling quite a few hot ticket items in the '21st Century Top Fives' department lately, but this one is particularly controversial: the best gangster movies released in the past 20 years.

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.

Gangster movies have always been a perfect choice for an action-filled experience. In Tamil cinema, films about dons and ...