The Alto Knights tells the story of two mob bosses who are at loggerheads. Nicholas Pileggi (who also wrote Goodfellas) wrote the biographical crime drama, which Barry Levinson directed.

De Niro will play not one, but two, different Italian mob bosses in the film who are based on real-life mafia rivals, Vito Genovese ... into the early 1960s, both Costello and Genovese faced ...

Robert De Niro plays the crime lords Vito Genovese and Frank Costello in this film about midcentury Mafia moves.