Bugsy

Bugsy (1991) is Barry Levinson's crime drama, and you can watch online on iFILM. A sharp-dressed New York mobster heads to Los Angeles for a quick job and ends up falling for two things at once: a woman and an empty stretch of desert.

Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel (Warren Beatty) is charming, vain and quick to violence. In California he becomes obsessed with starlet Virginia Hill (Annette Bening) and seizes on a reckless dream — a glamorous casino rising out of nowhere, in a Nevada nowhere called Las Vegas. Mob money pours in, budgets balloon, partners like Meyer Lansky (Ben Kingsley) lose patience, and Siegel keeps betting his own neck on the gamble.

Written by James Toback, the story of how one violent dreamer essentially invented modern Vegas landed ten Oscar nominations. Beatty plays Siegel less as a thug than as a proud romantic who never knows when to fold, and that tension is what carries the film. Stream Bugsy (1991) online on iFILM.