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Real Mafia

by hitomi_kanzaki • Created 6 years ago • Modified 4 years ago
to stop romanticizing mob - actual Cosa Nostra vs gangsters' movie
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  • In the Name of the Law (1949)

    1. In the Name of the Law

    19491h 40m
    7.6 (811)
    A young, by-the-book judge is appointed to a Sicilian village controlled by corrupt leaders and the Mafia.
    DirectorPietro GermiStarsMassimo GirottiCharles VanelJone Salinas
  • Il magistrato (1959)

    2. Il magistrato

    19591h 30m
    6.1 (94)
    Emilia Bonelli is an overly ambitious and driven woman. This dominant personality trait has its effects on her henpecked husband Luigi, and her daughter Carla. Circumstances ultimately lead to the courtroom and an aloof judge in the persona of Andrea Morandi.
    DirectorLuigi ZampaStarsJosé SuárezFrançois PérierJacqueline Sassard
  • L'onorata società (1961)

    3. L'onorata società

    19611h 38m
    6.8 (73)
    Salvatore and Rosalino are sentenced to death by the Mafia because they are accused of having seduced the daughters of a boss. As they are about to be shot they manage to escape with the two girls.
    DirectorRiccardo PazzagliaStarsFranco FranchiCiccio IngrassiaDomenico Modugno
  • Mafia (1968)

    4. Mafia

    19681h 48mM
    7.0 (2.2K)
    The new chief of the Carabinieri in a small Sicilian town must fight corrupt officials, the frightened silence of witnesses and the local Mafia boss to solve a murder.
    DirectorDamiano DamianiStarsClaudia CardinaleFranco NeroLee J. Cobb
  • We Still Kill the Old Way (1967)

    5. We Still Kill the Old Way

    19671h 39mNot Rated
    7.0 (2K)
    In Sicily, a leftist professor investigates the "honor killings" of two friends, uncovering a tangled web involving politicians, the Mafia, the Church, and the widow of one of the victims.
    DirectorElio PetriStarsGian Maria VolontèIrene PapasGabriele Ferzetti
  • Salvatore Giuliano (1962)

    6. Salvatore Giuliano

    19622h 5mNot Rated
    7.3 (5.3K)
    The unclear and complicated twists between governal powers, independentist party and Mafia in the Sicily of the '40s culminate with the death of Salvatore Giuliano.
    DirectorFrancesco RosiStarsFrank WolffSalvo RandoneFrederico Zardi
  • Mafioso (1962)

    7. Mafioso

    19621h 45mNot Rated88Metascore
    7.6 (3.2K)
    When a good-natured factory supervisor living in Milan with his Northern wife returns to his native Sicily, a decades'-old oath forces him to fulfill a nightmarish obligation.
    DirectorAlberto LattuadaStarsAlberto SordiNorma BengellGabriella Conti
  • Camorra (1972)

    8. Camorra

    19721h 45m
    6.2 (212)
    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".
    DirectorPasquale SquitieriStarsFabio TestiJean SebergRaymond Pellegrin
  • Claudia Cardinale and Giuliano Gemma in Il prefetto di ferro (1977)

    9. Il prefetto di ferro

    19771h 58m
    7.0 (777)
    In 1925, Cesare Mori - known as the "Iron Prefect" for his iron-fisted methods - wages a one-man war against the Mafia in Fascist Sicily.
    DirectorPasquale SquitieriStarsGiuliano GemmaClaudia CardinaleStefano Satta Flores
  • Corleone (1978)

    10. Corleone

    19782hR
    5.8 (289)
    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?
    DirectorPasquale SquitieriStarsGiuliano GemmaClaudia CardinaleFrancisco Rabal
  • The Mattei Affair (1972)

    11. The Mattei Affair

    19721h 56mR
    7.6 (2.7K)
    An Italian industrialist died in a plane crash. An accident or an assassination?
    DirectorFrancesco RosiStarsGian Maria VolontèLuigi SquarzinaPeter Baldwin
  • Lucky Luciano (1973)

    12. Lucky Luciano

    19731h 45mR
    6.4 (1.7K)
    Biopic of Mafia boss Lucky Luciano, covering his life from 1946 to 1962 with occasional flashbacks.
    DirectorFrancesco RosiStarsGian Maria VolontèVincent GardeniaSilverio Blasi
  • Confessions of a Police Captain (1971)

    13. Confessions of a Police Captain

    19711h 32mPG
    7.2 (1.9K)
    In a city rife with corruption, a cynical police captain clashes with an idealistic district attorney as they attempt to nab an elusive Mafia boss.
    DirectorDamiano DamianiStarsFranco NeroMartin BalsamMarilù Tolo
  • The Valachi Papers (1972)

    14. The Valachi Papers

    19722h 5mPG
    6.4 (4.8K)
    Gangster Joe Valachi is a marked man in the same joint where mob boss Don Vito Genovese is imprisoned and he's forced to co-operate with the DA in exchange for protection.
    DirectorTerence YoungStarsCharles BronsonLino VenturaJill Ireland
  • Where's Picone? (1984)

    15. Where's Picone?

    19842h 2m
    6.9 (338)
    During a debate in Naples' town hall in the early 1980s, Pasquale Picone, a former steel-worker who has recently lost his job, sets himself on fire in front of the Municipal Council.
    DirectorNanni LoyStarsGiancarlo GianniniLina SastriAldo Giuffrè
  • Il camorrista (1986)

    16. Il camorrista

    19862h 51m
    7.1 (1.8K)
    Rise and fall of an Italian crime empire.
    DirectorGiuseppe TornatoreStarsBen GazzaraLaura del SolLeo Gullotta
  • Cento giorni a Palermo (1984)

    17. Cento giorni a Palermo

    19841h 47m
    6.5 (809)
    In the late 1970s and early 80s, assassinations in Sicily get the attention of Communist deputy, Pio La Torre, who appeals to General Carlo Alberto Dalla Chiesa to become prefect in Palermo and take on the Mafia. Dalla Chiesa approaches the job with the same focus and methods he used in hunting down the Red Brigade. His sweetheart, the much-younger Setti Carraro (everyone calls her Emanuela), wants to be with him in Palermo, but he sends her away, knowing he is in danger. Then, a few months into office, he asks her to marry him, and he tries to be both husband and investigator. Meanwhile, the Mafia bankers are feeling the heat, and they start with La Torre.
    DirectorGiuseppe FerraraStarsLino VenturaGiuliana de SioArnoldo Foà
  • Forever Mary (1989)

    18. Forever Mary

    19891h 42m
    7.3 (1.3K)
    A teacher discovers his calling. Marco relocates to Palermo from Milan and takes a job teaching in a reform school while he waits for a high school position. He tries to understand and motivate his handful of students, reading them colloquial poetry, encouraging them to stand up for their rights, finding out about their histories. Natale, in for murder, enamored of the Mafia, the King Rat within the group; Mery, a drag queen, arrested for assault when defending himself, in love with Mario and, in daylight, rejected by all; Pietro, illiterate, muscular, believing his destiny is set; the callow Claudio, vulnerable, learning to harden himself. What can Mario learn and do in such a short time?
    DirectorMarco RisiStarsMichele PlacidoClaudio AmendolaFrancesco Benigno
  • Jim Belushi in The Palermo Connection (1990)

    19. The Palermo Connection

    19901h 40mPG-13
    5.6 (599)
    A candidate for the Mayor of New York City promises to legalize drugs. The mafia, making insane money on illegal drug trade, is about to dissuade him - at all cost.
    DirectorFrancesco RosiStarsJim BelushiMimi RogersJoss Ackland
  • Roberto Benigni and Nicoletta Braschi in Johnny Stecchino (1991)

    20. Johnny Stecchino

    19911h 42mR
    7.2 (12K)
    A kindhearted but bumbling idiot who likes to steal bananas, is passed off for a snitch hiding from the mob.
    DirectorRoberto BenigniStarsRoberto BenigniNicoletta BraschiPaolo Bonacelli
  • Giovanni Falcone (1993)

    21. Giovanni Falcone

    19932h 4m
    7.0 (417)
    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.
    DirectorGiuseppe FerraraStarsMichele PlacidoAnna BonaiutoMassimo Bonetti
  • Il giudice ragazzino (1994)

    22. Il giudice ragazzino

    19941h 32m
    6.7 (139)
    The true story of Rosario Livatino, a young judge in Sicily in the early 1980s, who have been nicknamed 'The Boy Judge' from the President of the Republic. He's strictly incorruptible, working hard and refusing even to shake hands with suspects. He then starts a number of investigations that lead him to touch the mafia power in the area, and then to personal war with the hidden organization.
    DirectorAlessandro Di RobilantStarsGiulio ScarpatiSabrina FerilliLeopoldo Trieste
  • A Judge of Honor (2004)

    23. A Judge of Honor

    20043hTV Movie
    7.7 (386)
    From 1980 to 1993, the story of the pool antimafia, guided by Rocco Chinnici with judges Paolo Borsellino and Giovanni Falcone in a desperate and unfortunate war against the mafia.
    DirectorGianluca Maria TavarelliStarsGiorgio TirabassiEnnio FantastichiniAndrea Tidona
  • Un eroe borghese (1995)

    24. Un eroe borghese

    19951h 33m
    7.0 (311)
    An intriguing look at a sinister web of power, linking politics and the mafia in modern day Italy.
    DirectorMichele PlacidoStarsFabrizio BentivoglioMichele PlacidoOmero Antonutti
  • Palermo-Milan One Way (1995)

    25. Palermo-Milan One Way

    19951h 40m
    6.2 (771)
    Turi Leofonte (Giannini) is a former mafioso who accepts to be a witness at a process involving very important people in the organization. For the Mafia, Leofonte is dangerous, that's why he has to be killed. A police group led by Nino Di Venanzio(Bova) accepts to protect him and to escort him till Milan where the process has to take place.
    DirectorClaudio FragassoStarsGiancarlo GianniniRaoul BovaRicky Memphis

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