Carlito's Way is another worthy addition to a gangster list the 1993 movie is another Brian De Palma crime classic starring Al Pacino. But I wouldn't really call that one a gangster movie. But The Departed is a classic, and so is the Hong Kong movie it was based on As for Heat? Definitely worth streaming before or after The Irishman to see the first time Robert De Niro and Al Pacino faced off on screen. I didn't include Martin Scorsese's gangster movie The Departed because I just mentioned it in a recent streaming column on movies with twist endings. BONUS: The Departed & Heat & Carlito's Way & Public Enemies Stream Donnie Brasco with a Showtime subscription or for the usual fees at the usual places. The film was praised for the script and performances and made solid money at the box office, even with a decent amount of gangster movie competition in the mid-'90s.
Paul Attanasio's script was based on the true story of an FBI undercover agent who infiltrated the Bonanno crime family in New York in the 1970s. Al Pacino plays gangster Lefty, who shows Donnie Brasco (Johnny Depp) the ways of the mafia in this 1997 mob movie from Mike Newell.
