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Title: Road to Perdition
Release Date: July 12, 2002
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Plot: A mob enforcer's son witnesses a murder, forcing him and his father to take to the road, and his father down a path of redemption and revenge.
Title: Donnie Brasco
Release Date: February 28, 1997
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Plot: An FBI undercover agent infiltrates the mob and finds himself identifying more with the mafia life, at the expense of his regular one.
Title: American Gangster
Release Date: November 2, 2007
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Plot: An outcast New York City cop is charged with bringing down Harlem drug lord Frank Lucas, whose real life inspired this partly biographical film.
Title: A Bronx Tale
Release Date: October 1, 1993
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Plot: A father becomes worried when a local gangster befriends his son in the Bronx in the 1960s.
Title: The Departed
Release Date: October 6, 2006
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Plot: An undercover cop and a mole in the police attempt to identify each other while infiltrating an Irish gang in South Boston.
Title: Scarface
Release Date: December 9, 1983
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Plot: In 1980 Miami, a determined Cuban immigrant takes over a drug cartel and succumbs to greed.
Title: Casino
Release Date: November 22, 1995
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Plot: A tale of greed, deception, money, power, and murder occur between two best friends: a mafia enforcer and a casino executive, compete against each other over a gambling empire, and over a fast living and fast loving socialite.
Title: Goodfellas
Release Date: September 21, 1990
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Plot: The story of Henry Hill and his life in the mob, covering his relationship with his wife Karen Hill and his mob partners Jimmy Conway and Tommy DeVito in the Italian-American crime syndicate.
Title: The Godfather Part II
Release Date: December 18, 1974
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Plot: The early life and career of Vito Corleone in 1920s New York City is portrayed, while his son, Michael, expands and tightens his grip on the family crime syndicate.
Title: The Godfather
Release Date: March 24, 1972
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Plot: The aging patriarch of an organized crime dynasty transfers control of his clandestine empire to his reluctant son.
