Cross-media picks for Martin Scorsese fans — films, series, games and books in the same vein.
The picks gathered here share a particular gravity: men caught between loyalty and self-interest, cities that chew people up, and the seductive pull of the criminal world. You'll find fraying alliances in The Killing, the slow moral unravelling of Mafia: The City of Lost Heaven, and the street-level pressure of Brotherhood. Across every medium, the tone is lived-in and unsentimental — the kind of storytelling where the setting feels like a character and the wrong choice always costs someone everything.
Film
The Killing
A tight ensemble heist unravels when greed enters from within — loyalty crumbles under pressure.
Film
Mean Streets
Small-time mob life in New York, torn between friendship, love, and ruthless ambition.
Film
Capone
A young man's rise through organized crime in Prohibition-era Chicago, seduced by power.
Film
The Italian Job
A betrayed thief reassembles his crew for revenge — slick, kinetic, loyalties tested throughout.
Film
25th Hour
One last day of freedom in a wounded New York: regret, consequence, and the city as witness.
Film
The Devil's Own
A deadly IRA assassin and a New York cop collide where terrorism meets ordinary family life.
Film
Stroszek
A gentle street musician's bleak American dream — compassionate, unsentimental, quietly devastating.
Film
Thief
A professional safecracker wants out, but the underworld has its own terms for retirement.
Series
The Deuce
1970s Times Square as a world unto itself — ambition, exploitation, and slow institutional rot.
Series
The Job
A decorated but self-destructive NYPD detective navigating chaos both on the job and within himself.
Series
Mr. Scorsese
Intimate access to a filmmaker's life and creative process through the people who know him best.
Series
Boardwalk Empire
Atlantic City at Prohibition's dawn: one man straddling politics and organized crime equally.
Series
The Bronx Is Burning
New York 1977 in crisis — blackouts, serial killings, and a baseball team as improbable salvation.
Series
Suits
A brilliant dropout talks his way into a high-stakes legal world built on bluff and nerve.
Series
Brotherhood
An Irish family's grip on a corrupt city tested as blood loyalty collides with personal reinvention.
Series
The Madness
A media pundit framed for murder must outrun conspirators before the truth buries him alive.
Game
City of Gangsters
Build a Prohibition-era crime syndicate from scratch — bribery, smuggling, and ruthless strategy.
Game
Scarface: The World Is Yours
Tony Montana rebuilds his empire from nothing — vengeance-fuelled and violently uncompromising.
Game
Mafia: The City of Lost Heaven
A reluctant cabdriver's slow seduction by the mob — rich period detail and moral weight.
Game
The Ratline
A gritty 1971 detective thriller: hunt Nazi fugitives by piecing together evidence under pressure.
Game
Mafia: Definitive Edition
The classic mob origin story rebuilt — Tommy Angelo's reluctant rise through 1930s organized crime.
Game
Chicago 1930: The Prohibition
Choose a side in 1930s Chicago's open war between police and the mob ruling the city.
Game
Quarantine (1994)
A decaying city run by violence and corporate greed — grim, kinetic, and deeply cynical.
Game
Mafia II: Director’s Cut
Vito Scaletta's mob rise across post-war America — betrayal, ambition, and bloody consequences.
Book
Iron cast
Two friends run cons in a 1919 gangster's club — period atmosphere with real moral stakes.
Book
The job
Twenty years of NYPD war stories: street-level, raw, and told without flinching.
Book
The Smoking Mirror
A woman deals herself into a dangerous wartime card game — atmosphere thick with deception.
Book
The last Yankee
A spare drama of fractured marriages and quiet breakdowns — character over plot, every scene earned.
Book
The Motherfucker With the Hat
A man out of prison tries to stay clean while love and old loyalties drag him back under.
Book
The Winter of Frankie Machine
A retired hit man pulled back into violence — loyalty and consequence chasing him to the end.
Book
After the First Death
A man wakes from blackouts haunted by murders he can't rule out committing — guilt as atmosphere.
Book
The godfather returns
The Corleone saga's missing years — power, succession, and the cost of the family's legacy.
If crime drama is what draws you in, Boardwalk Empire and Brotherhood are natural next steps — both explore power, loyalty, and corruption with the same unromantic clarity. For something grittier, The Deuce immerses you in 1970s New York at its most raw.
Yes — The Winter of Frankie Machine follows a retired hit man who can't escape his past, and The Godfather Returns fills in the gaps of the most iconic crime saga in American fiction. Both reward fans of morally complex crime storytelling.
Mafia: The City of Lost Heaven and Mafia: Definitive Edition are the closest games get to a crime epic — a reluctant cab driver's rise through 1930s organized crime, told with genuine narrative weight rather than just action.