James Cagney films, ranked by your taste

Actor · 9 films on Boxlist

Known for White Heat, Mutiny on the Bounty and The Roaring Twenties.

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Starring James Cagney

White Heat
1949 · Film
7.7/10 · TMDB
A psychopathic criminal with a mother complex makes a daring break from prison and then leads his old gang in a chemical plant payroll heist. After the heist, events take a crazy turn.
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Mutiny on the Bounty
1935 · Film
7.4/10 · TMDB
Fletcher Christian successfully leads a revolt against the ruthless Captain Bligh on the HMS Bounty. However, Bligh returns one year later, hell bent on avenging his captors.
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The Roaring Twenties
1939 · Film
7.5/10 · TMDB
After World War I, Armistice Lloyd Hart goes back to practice law, former saloon keeper George Hally turns to bootlegging, and out-of-work Eddie Bartlett becomes a cab driver. Eddie builds a fleet of cabs through delivery of bootleg liquor...
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Angels with Dirty Faces
1938 · Film
7.7/10 · TMDB
In New York, the boys Rocky Sullivan and Jerry Connelly are best friends and small time thieves. After a robbery, Rocky is arrested and sent to a reformatory school, where he begins his criminal career. Jerry escapes and later becomes a...
The Public Enemy
1931 · Film
7.2/10 · TMDB
Two young Chicago hoodlums, Tom Powers and Matt Doyle, rise up from their poverty-stricken slum life to become petty thieves, bootleggers and cold-blooded killers. But with street notoriety and newfound wealth, the duo feels the heat from...
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Yankee Doodle Dandy
1942 · Film
7.1/10 · TMDB
A film of the life of the renowned musical composer, playwright, actor, dancer and singer George M. Cohan.
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One, Two, Three
1961 · Film
7.7/10 · TMDB
C.R. MacNamara will do anything to get a promotion within the Coca-Cola company, including looking after boss W.P. Hazeltine's rebellious teenage daughter, Scarlett. When Scarlett visits Berlin, where C.R. is stationed, she reveals that...
Ragtime
1981 · Film
7.1/10 · TMDB
A young black pianist becomes embroiled in the lives of an upper-class white family set among the racial tensions, infidelity, violence, and other nostalgic events in early 1900s New York City.
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Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
1982 · Film
6.6/10 · TMDB
Juliet Forrest is convinced that the reported death of her father in a mountain car crash was no accident. Her father was a prominent cheese scientist working on a secret recipe. To prove it was murder, she enlists the services of private...
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