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Plot Summary:
Italian filmmaker Antonio Capuano writes and directs the grueling gangster drama Luna Rossa (Red Moon). Aging Tony Cammarano (Italo Celoro) is the patriarch of an organized crime family, but his son Amerigo (Toni Servillo) runs most of his operations. Amerigo is a killer who invites his mistress, Rita (Lucia Ragni), to live in the family house. Meanwhile, his wife, Irene (Licia Maglietta), has an affair with mob henchman Egidio (Antonino Iuorio), who fancies the Cammarano's teenage daughter, Orsola (Antonia Truppo). This leaves Irene to eye her own son, Oreste (Domenico Balsamo), who has taken to self-mutilation. Luna Rossa won the Wella Prize at the 2001 Venice Film Festival.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 157
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: gay cinema
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A Complex Plot About Women, Alleys and Crimes (1985)
Plot Summary:
Rabal is a blind, elderly leader of the Camorra whose son ends up dead as he attempts to rape Molina. Somebody has stuck the corpse strategically with a hypodermic needle, which is to become the signature of a series of killings of Naples drug dealers.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 309
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy, Netherlands Antilles
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, poliziottesco
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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 New Godfathers (1979)
Plot Summary:
A revolution in Iran halts a heroin shipment, but an alliance of crime families is set on getting it to the US. They decide to run the drug through an unsuspecting network of good-natured, local smugglers in Naples, while an international anti-narcotics agent rushes to shut their operation down. Betrayals and divided loyalties lead to a final, bloody confrontation in America.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 151
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: poliziottesco
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The Most Gentle Confessions (1971)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 81
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: France, Italy, Algeria
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
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The Most Beautiful Wife (1970)
Plot Summary:
Based on the story of Franca Viola and Filippo Melodia. In Sicily, as a Mafia boss leaves for prison, he advises Vito, a young man who's his potential successor, to marry a virtuous and poor woman. Vito's eye settles on Francesca, only 15, but lovely and self-possessed. Among her virtues are high self worth and forthright speech, so although she falls in love with Vito, she won't bow down to him. Believing he's losing face, he has his boys kidnap her and he rapes her. Then, he tells her he'll still marry her. Instead, she files charges. Her parents, brother, and neighbors refuse to support her. Will she break?.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 969
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: poliziottesco
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Mafia Millionaires (2014)
Plot Summary:
Based on a real Italian crime boss and family, their 40-year saga, as seen through their eyes, reflects the history, beauty, and strife of Naples.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 515
Genere: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: tense, unusual plot structure, suspense, contemplative
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The Big Family (1973)
Plot Summary:
Two mafia bosses, Don Antonio Marchesi and Don Peppino Scalise, battle over building contracts in Palermo.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 55
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: noir, poliziottesco
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The Mafia Triangle (1981)
Plot Summary:
A Neapolitan camorra boss has retired from business but when his wife gets killed he gets back into action, and goes to the States to get his revenge.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 56
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: poliziottesco
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Gang War in Naples (1972)
Plot Summary:
The fast career of a young Neapolitan among contraband, gambling dens, bribes and illegality. He will upgrade its rank till the maximum level of the "Family".
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 186
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: poliziottesco
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Crime Boss (1972)
Plot Summary:
Hit man Antonio Mancuso travels to Italy to make the big time. He meets and befriends Mafia boss Don Vincenzo. Mancurso becomes part of the organization and the more he gets to know Vincenzo the more he wants his job but Mancurso will learn that success can come at a severe cost.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 324
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: suspense, poliziottesco
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5 Is the Perfect Number (2019)
Plot Summary:
Peppino, a retired hitman for the Camorra, has now fully passed on his job and know-how to his single son, Nino. But when Nino is brutally assassinated, the old man is back in business to take revenge. Aside his everlasting love Rita and his longtime henchman Totò, Peppino will go to any lengths, even if it means bringing the Camorra down.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy, Belgium, France
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, captivating, disturbing, hood, perverse
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A Judge of Honor (2004)
Plot Summary:
In 1980 Paolo Borsellino was appointed with the preliminary investigations and the task of setting up a team which would later become the famous anti-mafia pool, investigating into the criminal activities of various mafia bands, in particular the gang headed up by Totò Riina.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 362
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 180 min
Plot tags:
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The Ruthless (2019)
Plot Summary:
Milan, Italy, 1967. Santo Russo, a boy of Calabrian origin, arrives north with his parents and younger brother to find better living conditions. Due to an absurd misunderstanding and his father's contempt, Santo ends up in prison, where he gets a “true education.” In 1978, he and his friends Slim and Mario embark on a 15-year criminal career, a successful and ruthless spiral of robberies, kidnappings, murders and heroin smuggling.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: suspense, realistic, harsh, tense, serious, captivating, suspenseful, intense, erotic, poliziottesco
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Gorbachev (2010)
Plot Summary:
Marino Pacileo has a soft spot for gambling. When he discovers that Lila's father, the young Chinese girl that he is in love with cannot pay a debt, the gambler steals money from the jail he is in to help the love of his life.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 821
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: captivating, realistic, psychological, tense, serious, contemplative
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Getting Gotti (1994)
Plot Summary:
The fall of mob boss John Gotti.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 419
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags:
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The Mafia Kills Only in Summer (2013)
Plot Summary:
While Arturo tries to gain the love of Flora, he witnesses the history of Sicily from 1969 to 1992, miraculously dodging the crimes of the Mafia and supporting as a journalist the heroic struggle of the judges and policemen who fought this infamous organization.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sentimental, humorous, semi serious, thought provoking, realistic, stylized, political, social, dark comedy
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Pianese Nunzio, Fourteen in May (1996)
Plot Summary:
A young priest crusades against organized crime in his Naples neighbourhood but falls in love with a 13-year old boy. It's the chance the gangsters were waiting for to get rid of the thorn in their side. Will they be able to force the boy to accuse the priest of sexual harassment and have his reputation destroyed?.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 424
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, realistic, sexual, crying, sexy, gay cinema, baroque
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Giovanni Falcone (1993)
Plot Summary:
The story of the first ever "anti-mafia judges pool" established in the '80s at the Palermo Courthouse, in Sicily, in the '80s, while two mafia families started a 10-year-long war to obtain the complete control of smuggles. Giovanni Falcone was the most important of them: he discovered the liaisons between mafia and politicians, working along with Rocco Chinnici and Paolo Borsellino. Rocco Chinnici was killed by Mafia in the middle '80s, with a bomb. Giovanni Falcone was killed by mafia in 5/23/1992, with more than 100 kilograms of TNT placed under the highway between Palermo and the Punta Raisi airport, and he died along with his wife and three police officers from the VIP Protection Bureau. Paolo Borsellino was killed by mafia 50 days later, with a bomb-car placed under his mother's house, and he died along with many police officers from the VIP Protection Bureau.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 369
Genere: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags:
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Siberian Education (2013)
Plot Summary:
The story of a gang of children growing up in a community of banished criminals, in a forgotten corner of the former Soviet Union. This community rejects the world outside. The only law it obeys… is its own. Against this backdrop two best friends, Kolyma and Gagarin, gradually become fierce enemies as they find themselves on opposite sides of the strict code of honour of the ‘honest criminal’ brotherhood.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: serious, rough, realistic, suspense, bleak, gloomy
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Piranhas (2019)
Plot Summary:
Six boys race on their scooters through the narrow streets of their Sanità neighbourhood in Naples. They are fearless daredevils, desperate to make money like their role models, and wear designer clothes and the latest sneakers. These 15-year-olds use the city’s rooftops for assault rifle practice. They deal drugs and do not hesitate to use their weapons to take control of the neighbourhood. Their smart leader, Nicola, knows the rules: in order to get his gang into the game and quickly to the top, he challenges one of the old bosses. But whoever is in charge today may well be dead tomorrow. When his girlfriend causes Nicola to be caught between all fronts, he is forced to make a decision.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: rough, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, hood, poliziottesco, controversial
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The Sicilian Girl (2008)
Plot Summary:
Inspired to a true story, on November 5th 1991, Rita Atria a young 17-year-old Sicilian girl, goes to see an anti-Mafia judge Paolo Borsellino to denounce the Mafia system that was responsible for the murder of her father and her brother. It is the first time that such a young woman from a Mafia family rebels and betrays the Mafia. From that moment on, Rita's days are numbered. She only has nine months to live.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: tense, rough, serious, suspenseful, sincere, emotional, realistic, touching
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Brooklyn Rules (2007)
Plot Summary:
Brooklyn, 1985. With the mob world as a backdrop, three life-long friends struggle with questions of love, loss and loyalty.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: realistic, captivating, psychological, atmospheric, rough, touching, serious, suspenseful
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The Consequences of Love (2004)
Plot Summary:
Titta di Girolamo has been living in a small hotel in Lugano for ten years, he leads a dull and rigid live and has apparently lost his capability to feel human emotion. This all changes when he decides to talk to Sofia, the Barmaid.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 18000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspenseful, philosophical, neo noir, twisted, sincere, touching, offbeat, artsy
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A Quiet Life (2010)
Plot Summary:
The story of a man who murdered thirty-two people, gained power, and then got afraid because too many people wanted to kill him. One August morning, he disappeared. For fifteen years, everyone believed him dead.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy, France, Germany
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: tense, rough, serious, psychological, realistic, suspenseful, noir, neo noir, tragic
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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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Romanzo Criminale (2005)
Plot Summary:
The Lebanese has a dream: to conquer the underworld of Rome. To carry out this feat without precedent he puts together a ruthless and highly organized gang. Their progress and changes in leadership take place over 25 years, from the 1970s into the 90s, and are inseparably intertwined with the dark history of modern Italy: terrorism, kidnappings and corruption at the highest levels of government.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy, France, UK
Duration: 152 min
Plot tags: serious, stylized, rough, captivating, realistic, erotic, hood, poliziottesco, neo noir, bleak
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Mob Town (2019)
Plot Summary:
Based on the true story of the notorious 1957 ‘mob summit’ in upstate New York. Spearheaded by Vito Genovese, more than 50 leaders of the organized crime syndicates from around the country converged on the sleepy town to discuss upcoming expansion plans. Their plans are foiled when local police trooper Ed Croswell discovers their activities and, consequently, exposes the mob to the American public. Croswell’s actions shed light on the massive web of corruption and changed the face of law enforcement forever.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 970
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, 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
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Bella Mafia (1997)
Plot Summary:
Don Roberto Luciano turns informer for the biggest Mafia trial in history, but his family pays a terrible price.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, political thriller, tense, rough, realistic, suspenseful, vintage
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The Godfather Part III (1990)
Plot Summary:
In the midst of trying to legitimize his business dealings in 1979 New York and Italy, aging mafia don, Michael Corleone seeks forgiveness for his sins while taking a young protege under his wing.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 418000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 162 min
Plot tags: epic, saga, bad ending, suspense, visually appealing, serious, stylized, sad, cult classic, inspirational