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.

And even though times were tough and there was major unrest, movies provided a much-needed escape. Naturally, filmmakers ...

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.