Movie · 157 min · C · crm, drm, eur
Loosely based on the criminal career of Frank Lucas, a gangster from La Grange, North Carolina, who smuggled heroin into the United States on American service planes returning from the Vietnam War, before being detained by a task force led by Newark Detective Richie Roberts.
Where to watch American Gangster
- Netflix
- Apple TV Store
- Amazon Prime Video
- Amazon Video
- Rakuten TV
- Netflix Standard with Ads
- pva
- Claro video
- Sky Store
- Viaplay
- SF Anytime
- Blockbuster
- Zavvi
- saz
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- YouTube TV
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Available on 24 platforms across 48 countries.
Chart positions today
Currently charting in 40 countries, best placed at #130 in Singapore.
- Singapore #130
- United Arab Emirates #151
- Germany #155
- Greece #162
- Italy #179
- Thailand #188
- Slovakia #195
- Bulgaria #198
- France #204
- Saudi Arabia #206
- Portugal #208
- Mexico #211
- Turkey #212
- South Korea #215
- Taiwan #215
- Switzerland #248
- Poland #250
- Colombia #269
- Belgium #277
- Russia #534
- Spain #560
- Philippines #584
- Croatia #594
- Egypt #611
- South Africa #611
- Ireland #657
- Bolivia #675
- Hungary #680
- United States #688
- United Kingdom #699
- Canada #705
- Guatemala #710
- Romania #726
- India #728
- Costa Rica #744
- Venezuela #745
- Finland #747
- Norway #747
- Argentina #752
- Netherlands #752
Available languages
Audio: Czech, English, French, German, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian
Subtitles: Arabic, Bulgarian, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, NB, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese
Chart history
American Gangster has spent 3 days in a top 3, 7 days in a top 10 and 73 days in a top 100 across the markets we track. Its best position anywhere is #1.
Cast
Denzel Washington, Russell Crowe, Josh Brolin, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Cuba Gooding Jr., Lymari Nadal, Ted Levine, Armand Assante, John Ortiz, John Hawkes, RZA, Yul Vazquez, Ruby Dee, Idris Elba, Carla Gugino, Joe Morton, Common, Ritchie Coster
Crew
Brian Grazer (producer), Ridley Scott (director), Steven Zaillian (screenplay), Ridley Scott (producer)
Awards
0 wins from 2 nominations.
- Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress 2008 — nominated
- Academy Award for Best Production Design 2008 — nominated