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Plot Summary:
Set during a retreat of Christian Democrat politicians who practice spiritual exercises together, it is an allegory of corrupted power. Disturbing, claustrophobic settings are the background to a series of mysterious crimes.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: political, neorealism, surreal, controversial, allegory, poliziottesco
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San Babila-8 P.M. (1976)
Plot Summary:
A quartet of young neo-Fascists terrorise the Milanise locals while the Police mostly look the other way.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 460
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: poliziottesco
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Friendships, Secrets and Lies (1979)
Plot Summary:
Six former sorority sisters are suspected of murder when a baby's skeleton is found in the ruins of the sorority house.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 123
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: political
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The Yellow Fountain (1999)
Plot Summary:
Lola's boyfriend asks her if she believes in forgiveness, hands her a card with a name on it and shoots himself in the head. This sends Lola on a quest to find out what happened as well as solve the murder of her parents. The name on the card leads her into the shadowy world of the the Chinese Triad in Spain. She is helped along the way by a fearful young man who has an odd fascination for news clippings about the Chinese. She is drawn into this world and discovers her answer and loses more than she imagined.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 234
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags:
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A Crime (1993)
Plot Summary:
"Un Crime" takes place over a single night, between 10pm and 6am. It takes place in a single setting - a millionaire's apartment in Lyon. The film is about the conflict between two men, alone, face to face in the closed world of the apartment. The first man is a famous lawyer named Dunand. The second is Frédéric Chapelin-Tourvel, Dunand's rich client, twenty years his junior. Throughout the night, Dunand tries to track down the truth. Did Frédéric kill his father and mother, in particularly barbarous circumstances ?.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 442
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags:
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Left Right Left (2013)
Plot Summary:
The basic story of the movie revolves around P.K. Jayan aka 'Vattu' Jayan (played by Indrajith) and Roy Joseph aka Che Guevera Roy (played by Murali Gopy). Vattu Jayan is a corrupt cop who manages his daily necessities through bribed money and does not touch his salary for anything. Che Guevara Roy is an ex-communist comrade who now teaches in a school with his wife.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 155 min
Plot tags: political
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Hunted City (1979)
Plot Summary:
Commissario Paolo Ferro (Maurizio Merli) stars as a (typical) tough cop again. This time he returns to the city of Milan to go after a murder corporation. Acampora (Mario Merola) is believed to be the prime suspect although he later proves to be one of the mafia's targets. As if all that wasn't enough, Paolo has to face his own nephew who seems to be involved in all sorts of dirty business.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 139
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: poliziottesco
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The Stranger Within a Woman (1966)
Plot Summary:
Tashiro (Keiju Kobayashi) coincidentally meets his best friend Sugimoto (Tatsuya Mihashi) in a bar very close to the apartment in which Sugimoto’s wayward wife is found dead. Although Tashiro is not a suspect in the police investigation, he is racked with guilt and confesses to his wife, Masako (Michiyo Aratama). In an effort to further relieve his tortured sense of guilt, he then confesses to Sugimoto. Neither his wife nor his friend can believe that he could have been involved.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 447
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags:
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Gardenia (1979)
Plot Summary:
A businessman comes into conflict with a gangster when he refuses to allow drugs to be sold through his restaurant.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 91
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: poliziottesco
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The Hired Gun (1975)
Plot Summary:
Fabio Testi is an undercover cop doubling as the bodyguard (hence, “Gorilla”) of a cantankerous middle-aged industrialist targeted for extortion.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 181
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: poliziottesco
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I Am the Law (1977)
Plot Summary:
The mafia has overrun a section of the country so ruinously that a very stern man (Giuliano Gemma) has been sent by the government to be the governor in that region. He has been given wide-ranging power and authority and is not afraid to use it. Indeed, on occasion he finds it necessary to gun down a fleeing felon himself. As he closes in on the true extent of local corruption, and its connections elsewhere, he is promoted to a higher position in the fascist government so that the local mafia head can replace him as governor.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 607
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: poliziottesco, political, historical drama
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Execution Squad (1972)
Plot Summary:
Bertone is a moderately honest homicide cop. Unfortunately, the court system is so inept and corrupt that many more-or-less honest policemen have begun taking the law into their own hands. Between his efforts to thwart the growth of crime and to control his vengeful co-workers, homicide-chief Bertone has his hands full.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 824
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy, West Germany, Monaco
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: poliziottesco
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Japanese Summer: Double Suicide (1967)
Plot Summary:
A sex-obsessed young woman, a suicidal young man she meets on the street, a gun-crazy wannabe gangster—these are just three of the irrational, oddball anarchists trapped in an underground hideaway in Oshima’s devilish, absurdist portrait of what he deemed the “death drive” in Japanese youth culture.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 855
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: political, psychological, tense, atmospheric, offbeat, serious, realistic, surreal, stylized, allegory
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City Under Siege (1974)
Plot Summary:
A string of violent jewel robberies force Police Inspector Parrino to get rough with the city’s criminal scum. Things take a turn for the worse when he’s confronted with the murder of an prostitute.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 107
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: poliziottesco
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Without Compassion (1994)
Plot Summary:
Lima, 1980s. Based upon Fyodor Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 142
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Peru, Mexico, France
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags:
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The Third Generation (1979)
Plot Summary:
A mogul merrily funds terrorists to boost his computer sales, by panicking West German government and industry c. 1980, as the third generation of Western European left-wing activists forms, after crippling of the violent Red Army Faction. Released in 1979, largely unavailable until 2004. International kapitalist PJ Lurz's secretary is a gang member, while her Polizeikommissar father-in-law/lover hired Lurz' corporate security force.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: political, art house, black comedy, postmodern, cult classic, clever, offbeat, serious, realistic, controversial
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Un eroe borghese (1995)
Plot Summary:
An intriguing look at a sinister web of power,linking politics and the mafia in modern day Italy.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 292
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy, France, Belgium
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags:
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Il caso Moro (1986)
Plot Summary:
On March 16 1978, the Red Brigade kidnap the Chief of the Christian Democraty, the party in power in Italy since the end of the war. Fifty-five days later, his corpse was found in the trunk of a red Renault.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 477
Genere: Crime, Drama, History
Country: Italy
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags:
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I Am Afraid (1977)
Plot Summary:
During a wave of political violence in Italy, a policeman who's already survived an assassination is assigned to act as a bodyguard to a morally upright judge. He feels increasingly fearful as the links of the upper echelons of police and government to the violence become clear.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 653
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: poliziottesco
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Slap the Monster on Page One (1972)
Plot Summary:
1972, Milano. We are just a few days before the general elections. The daughter of a well-known professor is found dead. Mr Bizanti editor in chief of newspaper "Il Giornale", in agreement with its owner Mr. Montelli, decides to charge of following the story the junior Roveda and the senior Lauri. At one point, some elements indicates senator Boni as a possible murderer. All the "old guard" within "Il Giornale" drives articles in order to underline responsibilities of senator Boni. But young Roveda doesn't surrender and continues to search for the truth. (IMDb).
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: political, cult classic, thought provoking, serious, captivating, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing, controversial, poliziottesco
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We Still Kill the Old Way (1967)
Plot Summary:
A leftist professor wants the truth about two men killed during a hunting party; but the mafia, the Church and corrupt politicians don't want him to learn it.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Italy
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: poliziottesco, neo noir, tense, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, stylized
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Who Killed Pasolini? (1995)
Plot Summary:
The story of the murder of a poet, a man, a great film director: Pier Paolo Pasolini. The story begin with the arrest of "Pelosi", a young man then accused of the murder of the poet. All the investigation about the crime is about the question: "Was ONLY the "Pelosi" to kill Pasolini?" The help of a Policeman, Trepalle put in evidence a trouble: Was Pasolini killed because of his accuses to some politicians?.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 634
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: sincere, thought provoking, bleak, serious, realistic, disturbing, controversial, intellectual
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Dillinger Is Dead (1969)
Plot Summary:
Back home, Glauco, an industrial designer, finds his wife in bed with a serious headache. She has left him dinner but it is cold and Glauco decides to prepare himself a gourmet meal.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: experimental, cult classic, mind bending, psychedelic, surreal, poliziottesco, clever, offbeat, humorous, realistic
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Come Into the Light (2005)
Plot Summary:
A priest (Zingaretti - Inspector Montalbano) attends his new parish only to find the church empty, the locals uninterested and their children rude and abusive. He very gently sets about winning over first the children by providing them with a place to play and learn and then works on their parents. The church slowly becomes the focal point of the community and rapidly ends up full with standing room only. But.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 645
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, psychological, suspense, factual
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The Violent Four (1968)
Plot Summary:
A detective is assigned to head a manhunt for four violent bank robbers.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 851
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: poliziottesco, detective, neo noir, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, non-linear
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Lulu the Tool (1971)
Plot Summary:
A conscientious factory worker gets his finger cut off by a machine. The accident causes him to become more involved in political and revolutionary groups.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: sincere, emotional, realistic, serious, political, philosophical, surreal, grindhouse, contemplative
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Open Doors (1990)
Plot Summary:
Tommaso Scalia is a man who commits three murders: he killed his superior who sacked him, he kills the man who replaced him, and he kills his own wife. He wants a quick trial and an early execution, but an earnest, principled assistant judge looks for a way to save the murderer from being shot, because he does not belive in capital punishment. Although he manages to save the man initially, he will pay a high price for it.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 983
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, disturbing, suspense, political, rough, thought provoking, realistic, political drama
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Il Divo (2008)
Plot Summary:
The narration spans the period since the seventh election of Andreotti as Prime Minister of Italy in 1992, until the trial in which he was accused of collusion with the Mafia.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: political, disturbing, enigmatic, serious, suspenseful, philosophical, cerebral, controversial, realistic, intense
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Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (1970)
Plot Summary:
A chief of detectives, homicide section, commits a murder and deliberately leaves clues to prove his own responsibility for the crime.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: tense, bleak, surreal, psychological, atmospheric, political, satirical, surprise ending, suspenseful, serious
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The Professor (1986)
Plot Summary:
Vaguely inspired to the real story of boss of the Camorra's bosses Raffaele Cutolo, this is the story of the criminal career of "Il professore" (the professor). He is in prison, and by there he is able to build, step by step, an empire founded on murders and drugs. He starts a war to destroy all the old Camorra bosses and becoming the new "boss of the bosses". With his sister's help he manages to evade from prison and escape in New York. Here he starts immediately a new relationship with "Cosa Nostra" (Italian American Mafia). He is going to seat on the peak of the most powerful criminal organization, and the Italian authorities are almost impotent.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 171 min
Plot tags: poliziottesco, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Gomorrah (2008)
Plot Summary:
An inside look at Italy's modern-day crime families, the Camorra in Naples and Caserta. Based on a book by Roberto Saviano. Power, money and blood: these are the "values" that the residents of the Province of Naples and Caserta have to face every day. They hardly ever have a choice and are forced to obey the rules of the Camorra. Only a lucky few can even think of leading a normal life.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 51000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 137 min
Plot tags: disturbing, tense, harsh, realistic, serious, brutal, depressing, bleak, anthology, thought provoking