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Plot Summary:
The story about how the pact beetween Italian State and Mafia was inked with innocence blood.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 678
Genere: Crime
Country: Italy
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, realistic, thought provoking
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Corleone (1978)
Plot Summary:
Two friends grow up together in the Sicily of the '50s. Two different destiny, two different way of life. Could their friendship survive to the mafia shadow?.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 255
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: poliziottesco
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G.B.H. (2017)
Plot Summary:
Damien, a London copper has a past he's trying to forget. Before joining the force he ran with a football firm, getting involved in tear-ups up and down the country. Now he's on the other side of the law and faces a tough decision, side with his old crew or protect London as it burns and rioters run amok. Falling in love with fellow cop Louise, he is quickly alerted to a street-level uprising that is about to shake London. Amidst the brutalities presented by the riots, he fights for justice at Louise's expense. Having been raped by a rioter known to him, Damien finds himself levelling with the rioters, fighting a war he cannot win, as much against the rioters as against himself.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 622
Genere: Crime
Country: UK
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: tense, rough, serious, suspenseful, bleak, realistic
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The Magnet (2000)
Plot Summary:
The story of a group of friends, all around 30, who live in the Le Panier district of Marseille, France. It's not a bad life, made up of slightly shady dealings, nights out, sun and just hanging out. But the neighborhood is an inescapable presence. Over a period of a few summer days, their carefree lives will plunge into a predictable tragedy.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 272
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, captivating
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Angela (2002)
Plot Summary:
True story of an attractive Sicilian mob-wife who participates in her husband's drug-dealing business and falls for her husband's lackey.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 349
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, tense, captivating
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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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Boys Cry (2018)
Plot Summary:
Mirko and Manolo are best friends and live in the suburbs of Rome. They both live in poor conditions with their single parents, are still in school and struggle with occasional odd jobs to make ends meet. Together they share dreams of women, of sex and money, of a better life to come. Then, after killing a man in a hit-and-run one night, they get involved with the local mafia and their lives change dramatically.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, realistic
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The Palermo Connection (1990)
Plot Summary:
Carmine Bonavia wins election as the mayor of New York on a promise to legalize drugs. After the election, he marries Carrie and goes to his ancestral home of Sicily for their honeymoon. In his hotel, he meets Il Principe, a Sicilian prince who has spent years confined to the hotel because he crossed the Mafia. Amid the beauties of Sicily Carmine discovers that men of power will stop at nothing to prevent the legalization of drugs, which threatens their business.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 555
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Crazy Joe (1974)
Plot Summary:
The rise and fall of a Mafia gangster, based on the life of murdered New York gangster "Crazy" Joey Gallo.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 612
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: grim, rough, bleak, serious, captivating, realistic, suspenseful, poliziottesco, cult film
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Fat Tony & Co (2014)
Plot Summary:
The true story of Tony Mokbel; how he grew entangled with the country’s most notorious underworld figures, how he built his massive fortune, and how he became a fugitive on a yacht bound for Greece, desperate to escape mounting criminal law battles.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 660
Genere: Crime
Country: Australia
Duration: 42 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, captivating, realistic
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Blood Ties (1986)
Plot Summary:
An innocent American engineer is blackmailed by gangsters into a plot to assassinate his cousin, who is a judge in Sicily fighting the Mafia.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 138
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, poliziottesco
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Jamaican Mafia (2015)
Plot Summary:
Jamaican Gangsters.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 131
Genere: Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 146 min
Plot tags: psychological, exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful
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Don't Be Bad (2015)
Plot Summary:
A story set in the 90s and in the outskirts of Rome to Ostia. A world where money, luxury cars, night clubs, cocaine and synthetic drugs are easy to run. A world in which Vittorio and Cesare, in their early twenties, act in search of their success.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, realistic, hood
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Once Fallen (2010)
Plot Summary:
When Chance (Brian Presley) returns home after five years in jail, he is determined to escape his past, start a new life and make peace with his father, (Ed Harris, Golden Globe® winner), who is the head of the Aryan Brotherhood prison gang and serving a life sentence for murder. Upon his release, his dreams of a crime-free future begin to disintegrate when he is forced to assume his best friend's outrageous debt to a local mobster. Despite being thrust back into a world of organized fighting, drug dealing and ties to corrupt police agents, Chance falls in love with Pearl (Academy Award® nominee Taraji P. Henson) and the prospect of living a normal life seems almost within reach. But will he be able to escape the crimes of his father and his past?.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: captivating, tense, serious, psychological, bleak, realistic, fast
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The Survivor (2008)
Plot Summary:
After WWII Comisarul Moldovan spent years as a political prisoner of the communist regime. The favorite entertainment of the Russian Colonel in charge of the prison was to have the inmates play Russian Roulette. Only his unbelievable luck and survivor spirit helped Moldovan live through his detention. Out of the prison the ex-policeman joins an international Russian Roulette illegal gaming circuit. In late 70's faith brings him to a Central European town where Goldberg, an old acquaintance of his is organizing an "improved" version of the game where two opponents are shooting each other. Step by step Moldovan meets lots of familiar faces, both friends and enemies. It looks like the whole Bucharest's underworld from the 40's chose to meet here.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime
Country: Romania
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, realistic, atmospheric, suspenseful
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Burning Daylight (2010)
Plot Summary:
Based on three short stories by American writer Jack London, Burning Daylight follows the lives of three thieves, three Wall Street bankers and a Klondike millionaire, tied together by one ruthless woman.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 257
Genere: Crime
Country: Canada
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, captivating, realistic, suspense, surprise ending
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Gatao 2: Rise of the King (2018)
Plot Summary:
Ren has finally succeeded his boss as the head of the North Fort Gang. For so long, his ambitions had been held back; now, he can realize them. But the ruthless Jian returns with his own gang. Though Ren and Jian were once like brothers, Ren's position is challenged, causing tensions with Qing, his loyal captain. Now that former friends are enemies, what is the price of loyalty? What will be left of friendship when the smoke of battle clears?.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 516
Genere: Crime
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, unusual plot structure, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, contemplative
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Lamb of God (2008)
Plot Summary:
The kidnapping 77-year-old man in Argentina forces his daughter to return to Buenos Aires after years of exile abroad.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 384
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Argentina, France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: rough, thought provoking, serious, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing, realistic
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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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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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Adam: His Song Continues (1986)
Plot Summary:
Follows the true story of John and Reve Walsh who, after their child was murdered, fought to raise national awareness of the problem of missing children.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 234
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, emotional, realistic
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The Bankers of God: The Calvi Affair (2002)
Plot Summary:
A reconstruction of the bankruptcy of the Banco Ambrosiano bank and its liaisons with the Vatican and the Masonry through its president Roberto Calvi, notoriously found dead under the Blackfriars Bridge in London in June 1982.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 487
Genere: Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: captivating, serious, realistic, suspenseful, bleak, controversial
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Fort Apache Napoli (2009)
Plot Summary:
The story of Giancarlo Siani, a journalist killed by the Neapolitan Mafia in 1985.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, tense, gloomy
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Tycoon (2002)
Plot Summary:
During the Gorbachev years, Platon Makovski and his four buddies are university students who jump on the private capitalism movement. Fast-forward 20 years, Platon finds himself the richest man in Russia, having sacrificed his friends to get to the top. But with this cynical rise, comes a brutal fall.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Russia, France, Germany
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: serious, cynical, realistic, suspenseful, political thriller, suspense, biting, clever
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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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Bummer 2 (2006)
Plot Summary:
The film takes place a few years after the events shown in Bummer. Kostyan "Kot", who lost all his friends, the woman he loved and was nearly killed in the first installment of the film tries to begin a new, peaceful life. But is it possible to do? Has Russia changed and do "bratki" on black "bummers" no longer control business? Can he escape his past?.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, stylized, tense, rough, suspenseful
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Excellent Cadavers (1999)
Plot Summary:
Fact based story about the political battle that was waged against the Mafia in Sicily during the late 1980's and early 1990's. Chazz Palminteri plays Giovanni Falcone, a crusading prosecutor who tried to use money trails as a way to attack the mobsters. He is aided by a former mobster (F. Murray Abraham) who volunteers to turn state's evidence after his sons are killed by a renegade mob chief. Wi.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: suspense, independent film, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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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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Witness to the Mob (1998)
Plot Summary:
Sammy 'The Bull' Gravano was mafiosi. He started out as a soldier, but his talent for murder, including the slayings of his best friends, his wife's brother and his own boss, Paul Castellano, saw him rise to under-boss in the Gambino crime family. However, betrayals within the family saw him break the code of silence and became the highest ranking member of the mob to turn into a rat - 'a rat in a suit,- assisting the government to finally put away the Teflon Don, John Gotti.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: cult classic, tense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful