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Stefano Sollima’s brilliant 2015 Italian neo-noir crime film Suburra focuses on sex, violence, organized crime, politics and religion in Rome, in a terrifying Mafia story inspired by true events. Director Stefano Sollima’s brilliant 2015 Italian neo-noir crime film Suburra is […]
The 2000 action thriller film A Better Way to Die stars Andre Braugher, Lou Diamond Phillips, Natasha Henstridge, and Scott Wiper as a Chicago ex-cop pursued by the Mafia and the FBI. Writer/ producer/ director Scott Wiper’s […]
The 1960 crime film Pay or Die tells the real-life story of Mafia-led extortion racketeers in lower Manhattan’s Little Italy. Ernest Borgnine stars as the NYPD Lieutenant whose Italian Squad takes on the Black Hand. […]
‘By mistake they killed his wife and child – THAT was a hell of a mistake!’ Yes, that’s the spoiler alert advertising, but the mistake is when the Milan-based mafia hitman Tony Arzenta tells his bosses […]
Director Carlo Lizzani’s 1974 crime thriller film Crazy Joe is an effective, strongly cast Italian gangster movie about real-life hot-tempered New York mafia boss ‘Crazy Joe’ Gallo, played by Peter Boyle. Crazy Joe is a […]
Director Robert Hartford-Davis’s 1972 crime action thriller Black Gunn is a rather poor, and dismayingly weakly made blaxploitation movie, with Jim Brown as Gunn, a rich nightclub owner on the trail of mafia capo and […]
Director Richard Thorpe’s 1950 American film noir Black Hand stars Gene Kelly, J Carrol Naish and Teresa Celli. A young New York Italian guy, Johnny Columbo (Kelly), working with police detective Louis Lorelli (Naish), sets out to […]