A Quick Chronology of the Gangster Film

The Black Hand (1906)
Musketeers of Pig Alley (1912)
Regeneration (1915)
The Penalty (1920)
Underworld (1927)
The Lights of NY (1928)
Little Caesar (1931)
Public Enemy (1931)
Scarface (1932)
I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang (1932)
Footlight Parade (1933)
G-Men (1935)
Petrified Forest (1936)
Angels with Dirty Faces (1938)
The Roaring Twenties (1939)
High Sierra (1941)
The Maltese Falcon (1941)
The Big Sleep (1946)
Out of the Past (1947)
Key largo (1948)
White Heat (1949)
Bonnie & Clyde (1967)
Goodfellas (1990)
Heat (1995)
The Departed (2006)

Source: Public Enemies: The Golden Age of the Gangster Film