10 Coolest Movie Gangs

Tough teams, sinister squads and mad mobs...

Sep 1st 2009 By James White

The Gang: The Natives

The Film: Gangs Of New York (2001)

Led By: William "Bill The Butcher" Cutting (Daniel Day Lewis).

Enemies: Dead Rabbits, Tammany Hall.

Why Are They Cool? Led by one of the more vicious types on our list, Daniel Day-Lewis' Bill The Butcher (and his amazing 'tache), the Natives fight to keep their territory in 19th century Noo Yoik from an influx of Irish Catholic immigrants.

It's Marty Scorsese's period take on gang violence, so everyone gets to dress in cool coats and suits and both Bill and Amsterdam (Leo DiCaprio), the son of his old enemy who ends up tangling with him, chuck knives around with skill and abandon.

It's a brutal existence, but if you're in good with Bill, you're set for life. However short...

Next: Dillinger's Gang

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- sleepwalker
  
  Sep 1st 2009, 11:19
  
  You forgot the Axe Gang from Kung Fu Hustle. Thiose boys can dance too and they use fireworks in the same way as a bat signal, beat that!!!
  
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- darjeelingmike
  
  Sep 1st 2009, 13:29
  
  Good call on Grease, but i'd prefer to see West Side Story in there, better film and a better gang. Don't know if they would class as a gang strictly, but The Untouchables are pretty damn cool what with Costner, Connery and Garcia on board! My actual vote though, goes to American Me, which is just.plain.ace.
  
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- JuiceTerry
  
  Sep 1st 2009, 13:45
  
  What no Wanderers or the Baldies? Shocker.
  
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- reggiesambuka
  
  Sep 1st 2009, 13:53
  
  What about Bodhi's gang of adrenaline fuelled mask wearing bank robbing surfers THE EX-PRESIDENTS from Point Break? Surely they deserve to make the list?! Seriously, if donning a rubber Ronald Reagan mask and leading fellow ex-presidents Carter, Nixon and Johnson on a crime-spree around Los Angeles ripping off banks to finance their endless summer isn't enough to get them on this list then what is the world coming to?!
  
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- imaginarium
  
  Sep 1st 2009, 16:56
  
  Would the Fellowship of the Ring count?...
  
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- stephanie221
  
  Sep 2nd 2009, 0:21
  
  I don't know, but if they do count, they're the best gang ever.
  
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- tygear34
  
  Sep 2nd 2009, 3:58
  
  What about Neil McCauley's gang for Michael Mann's crime classic "Heat". DeNiro, Danny Trejo, Tom Sizemore (before he was a drug-addled mess), and best of all, Val Kilmer. They make scores of cash and live in the fast lane. What could be better than that?
  
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- Mozkiwi
  
  Sep 4th 2009, 17:24
  
  Sure... Magnificent Seven... perhaps... but for my money, I'd rather join the gang from Silverado, or better still... Cat Ballou!
  
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- Jason Voorhees
  
  Sep 7th 2009, 23:49
  
  Potentially The Expendibles, Corleone clan is the greatest ever though!
  
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- Nealsreviews1
  
  Sep 9th 2009, 14:21
  
  The T-Birds were the coolest kids in high school & The Pink Ladies
  
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- halo14
  
  Apr 1st 2011, 11:51
  
  What about the Bubblegum Gang from Hostil?? Meanest f**ken gang Ive seen. And they just kids!!!
  
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