Looking to watch one of the best Al Pacino Movies? Here is our recommendation!
We know Al Pacino doesn’t only make good movies as a director but is also a good stage actor known for the tough characters he played over the decades, mostly to which he portrays the character of a mobster.
With all his successes, Al Pacino is considerably the epitome of popularity back in 90s. He had won Best Actor Award in 1992 and is still a big name in the industry until now. He made countless of movies and appearance throughout the years but we sorted the best of his films so you won’t miss them.
So here are ten of Al Pacino’s best movies and if you haven’t watch any of them, it’s now time to hit the shop and get your own copy.
The Godfather
This film makes Pacino’s name synonymous to Michael Corleone, the protagonist of this trilogy.
The Godfather is an epic crime film sets in New York. Michael Corleone wouldn’t want to get involved with anything that has to do with his family’s business, which revolved on the Mafia world.
Until one day, he came home from the war-zone (where he was once a Marine), when his father wanted to pass his clandestine empire to Michael, something that he was at first, reluctant to accept.
The Godfather trilogy is considered to be the greatest films in gangster genre. The Godfather
Part 2 was produced in 1974 while The Godfather Part 3 was released in 1990.
Heat
What can you ask for in a film that has Al Pacino, Robert De Niro and Val Kilmer on it?
Nothing more specially if you were about to see an interesting plot line of hunters versus their prey.
The story runs in a group of professional robbers who were chase by the best of the local police after they had intentionally left a clue on their recent heist.
The action scenes on the movie plus the main characters’ troubled lives; surely, things will turn out quite interesting.
Scarface
The classic 1932 film is retold and is starred by Al Pacino.
Scarface was released on 1983 and is co-stared by Michelle Pfeiffer and Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio.
The main theme of the movie runs around frequent usage of strong language, drugs and excessive violence.
The story is about a Cuban immigrant who was determined to take over a local drug cartel, while he, on his own, was succumb to his greed.
Talking about one of the best mob films of Al Pacino, this is probably it.
Dog Day Afternoon
Okay, Al Pacino is really great on playing as the ever great mobster but the Dog Day Afternoon is probably the most interesting film he starred in.
The plot runs around the life of this man named Sonny who robbed a bank so that he could pay his lover’s operation.
The robbery should have taken 10 minutes. 4 hours later, the bank was like a circus sideshow. 8 hours later, it was the hottest thing on live T.V. 12 hours later, it was all history. And it’s all true.
You know why such things happened in this film. Clue. Sonny was gay and he did the robbery to help his lover for a sex change operation. Boom!
Carlito’s Way
Why does Al Pacino have to be in every damn good violent film?
Maybe because he was made for it.
You see, Carlito’s Way is another violent film about a Puerto Rican ex-con who promised to stay away from anything that has to do with drugs but things have gone complicated and circumstances are pushing him back to the old dirty life he had.
Surely Al Pacino does make a great mobster character and this film isn’t exceptional to that.
Scent of a Woman
Okay, sit back, go grab a bucket of popcorn and watch Al Pacino’s soft side on this drama film. Al Pacino plays a retired US army.
In this movie, he might not be the tough mob the 0’s film lovers used to see but he is a character that is hard to get along with. He was this man who is medically blind and has complicated traits.
He was “baby-sitted” by preparatory school student who had trouble taking care of him. Why does this has to be one of Al Pacino’s best films? Well, this movie gave him the crown as Academy Award for Best Actor - that should say enough.
Donnie Brasco
Imagine a mob film with Johnny Depp and Al Pacino plus an interesting mobster plot messed up by a
regular guy – that is what Donnie Brasco is about.
This movie is base on the life of Joseph D. Pistone, (alias Donnie Brasco) an FBI agent who infiltrated the Bonanno crime family.
Brasco was played by Depp. On this movie, Al Pacino is not the regular tough-act, high rank mobster but someone who has the lowest rank in the mafia world and has became a trusted friend of Brasco.
Serpico
How about watching Al Pacino as Serpico, the honest cop who was despised by his workmates and
is threatened by his own partners – would that kind of film interests you?
Despite all the dangers in his life, he still stayed on the path he believed in hoping that one day, the truth will set free.
For the Al Pacino fanatic, seeing him as the “ethical” character was a big surprise.
Still, the action and thrill is there but you will get to see Al Pacino in a different point of view.
The Insider
The movie is based on a true story of a man who decided to tell the world about the danger of the products produced by major tobacco companies.
By doing so, he is putting his life in danger. Sounds like a heroic Al Pacino film, go see yourself!
This is the courage of two human being to tell the true about tobacco industry.
This is one of best political thriller movie directed by Michael Mann and played by the best actors such as Al Pacino and Russell Crowe.
Insomnia
Insomnia earned a tremendous success in cinemas grossing over a hundred million dollars worldwide
last 2002.
This psychological thriller was a story of two LA detectives who was sent to investigate a murder of a teenager in Alaska.
While on the chase to capture the culprit, one detective (Al Pacino) accidentally shoots his own partner.
There are a whole of twists and turns of this story’s plot and you definitely need to check it out!
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