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Movies: Best "racketeering" Movies


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'G' Men(1935)

NR
| 1h 23min | Action, Crime, Drama
3.3/5 (with 33 votes)

James “Brick” Davis, a struggling attorney, owes his education to a mobster, but always has refused to get involved with the underworld. When a friend of his is gunned down by a notorious criminal, Brick decides to abandon the exercise of the law and join the Department of Justice to capture the murderer.

Bullets or Ballots(1936)

1h 22min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
3.4/5 (with 16 votes)

After Police Captain Dan McLaren becomes police commissioner, former detective Johnny Blake publicly punches him, convincing rackets boss Al Kruger that Blake is sincere in his effort to join the mob. "Bugs" Fenner, meanwhile, is certain that Blake is a police agent.

The Big Shakedown(1934)

NR
| 1h 1min | Drama, Crime
2.7/5 (with 5 votes)

Former bootlegger Dutch Barnes pressures neighborhood druggist Jimmy Morrell into making cut-rate knockoff toiletry, cosmetic, and pharmaceutical products.

State Police(1938)

The state police try to break up racketeering in a coal mining town.

Directed by John Rawlins

The Public Pays(1936)

19min | Crime, Drama
3.5/5 (with 3 votes)

In this MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short, a protection racket preying on milk distribution is broken through the persistence of law enforcement and the courage of a local businessman.

Easy Money(1936)

NR
| 1h 10min | Crime, Mystery
2.5/5 (with 1 vote)

Dan Adams resigns his position as prosecutor on the district attorney's staff and sets out to clean up a gang of fake-accident racketeers. He gets a job with an insurance company, and assures the company president he will get the goods on the gang or die in the attempt. At the company offices, he meets Carol Carter and she, believing he is a shyster (possibly redundant) lawyer in the employ of the racketeers gives him as little help as possible. Dan visits his brother Eddie, who is mixed up with the gang and tries to make him break away. Eddie is belligerent but finally, because of the pressure brought by Dan and his wife Tonia, agrees to go straight. The gang, led by "Duke" Trotti, fears he will squeal and they kill him, plus they make his death look like an accident and plan to collect on it. Dan is closing in on the gang when Carol, who is now his assistant, comes up with some conclusive evidence, but "Duke" has plans to get rid of her before she can give the information to Dan.

Directed by Phil Rosen - With Onslow Stevens

The Law in Her Hands(1936)

58min | Drama, Comedy, Crime
2.0/5 (with 1 vote)

A female lawyer (Margaret Lindsay) sets up her own practice but only achieves success as an attorney for the mob.

Paambhu Sattai(2017)

2h 20min | Thriller, Action
3.1/5 (with 3 votes)

A young man in desperate need of money to solve his problems, gets entangled in a fraudulent money laundering racket.

Perilous Holiday(1946)

NR
| 1h 29min | Drama, Crime

A tale of an international counterfeiting-ring operating in Mexico starts with Patrick Nevil viewed as a suspicious character by newspaper woman Agnes Stuart, who is working on a story to expose racketeering night-club owner Doc Lilley.

Directed by Edward H. Griffith - With Pat O'Brien

70,000 Witnesses(1932)

1h 11min | Mystery
2.2/5 (with 2 votes)

College football player is asked to dope a star teammate by his crooked gambler brother. He refuses, but they player is doped anyway and collapses and dies. A detective has the whole game re-enacted to find important clues.

Directed by Ralph Murphy - With Phillips Holmes

Sucker List(1941)

19min | Crime, Drama
3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

In this MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short, a man and his racketeer buddies devise a scheme to bilk those already seemingly desperate for money of what little they have.

Bala Ko... Bahala Sa 'yo(2001)

1h 41min | Action

Jeric Raval is Dias Del Fuego. An anti-organized crime cop who does the beat with a dark side of the law demeanor. The kind that loves to fight fire with fire and that which keeps the violent underworld under check. After being meted an indefinite suspension by their cop chief together with bungling rookie, Flavio (Dinky Doo, Jr.) after a botched hostage rescue, the two stage extra-legal means to pursue the town's top dollar racketing kingpins played by Kier Legaspi and Patrick Dela Rosa. Things get complicated as the underworld puts up heavy resistance. The wrench gets thrown in on Jeric's mean crimefighting machine when his ex-lover (Via Veloso) connives with the mob. As the going gets tougher, Dias Del Fuego gets down dirty and begins to reserve a special place in hell for the opposition.

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What Price Safety!(1938)

20min | Crime, Drama

Racketeers muscle in on construction business, use inferior materials, make big profits and endanger the public safety.