Movies like I Am the Law

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I Am the Law (1977)
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I Am the Law (1977)
Original name: Il prefetto di ferro
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 118 min.
Story: 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.
Style: poliziottesco, political, historical drama
Plot: fascism, cosa nostra, italian fascism, organized crime, crime fighter, political corruption, sicilian mafia, mafia, bandit, violence, bare breasts, carabinieri, topless woman, lost, crime, crimes
Time: 1930s
Place: italy, palermo italy, sicily

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out poliziottesco, realistic, serious and suspenseful films with plots about mafia, police, police officer, murder, organized crime, gangster and italian mafia mostly in Crime, Drama and Thriller genres. Some movies like I Am the Law: Mafia (1968), Corleone (1978), Excellent Cadavers (1999), Blood Brothers (1974), Gang War in Naples (1972). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Mafia (1968)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A Police Officer faces difficulties when investigating a Mafia murder in a small Sicilian town. A businessman is murdered for refusing to join a Mafia-controlled group and although he suspects the Mafia are involved he can find no witnesses or ...
Style: neo noir, suspense, poliziottesco
Plot: mafia, police, italian mafia, cosa nostra, organized crime, police investigation, carabinieri, card playing, police officer, town, sicilian mafia, murder ...
Place: italy, sicily
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95%
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Corleone (1978)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 108 min.
Story: 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?
Style: poliziottesco
Plot: mafia, italian mafia, cosa nostra, friendship, survival, destiny, murder, corruption, politics, gunfight, friend, mafia don ...
Place: italy, palermo italy, sicily
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
Excellent Cadavers (1999)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: suspense, independent film, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Plot: cosa nostra, mafia, italian mafia, law, organized crime, sicilian mafia, italian history, historical figure, society, idealism, law enforcement, politics ...
Time: 80s, 90s
Place: sicily, italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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Blood Brothers (1974)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 130 min.
Story: In this period piece set in Italy, Nicola Bellizzi dreams of becoming a lawyer. However, when he seeks the reason that people are reluctant to help him in his goals, he discovers that some of his blood relations are high-ranking members of the ...
Style: poliziottesco
Plot: camorra, lawyer, street crime, bad cop, street kid, defense attorney, released from prison, misery, boarding house, oath, ex convict, landlady ...
Time: 1900s, 1890s
Place: italy, naples italy, napoli italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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Gang War in Naples (1972)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 105 min.
Story: 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".
Style: poliziottesco
Plot: mafia, smuggling, gambling, gang, bribery, mobster, camorra, extortion, young
Place: italy, napoli italy, naples italy
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43%
From Corleone to Brooklyn (1979)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Maurizio Merli takes up a familiar role as Commissioner Berni; a cop who puts his life on the line to transport a witness from Corleone to New York City in order to testify against a mob boss on trial for murder. Along the way, Berni and his ...
Style: poliziottesco
Plot: mafia, police officer, italian mafia, police, explosions, secret police, mob boss, organized crime, police lineup, police officer kicked, police officer shot
Place: italy, new york
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39%
The Big Family (1973)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Two mafia bosses, Don Antonio Marchesi and Don Peppino Scalise, battle over building contracts in Palermo.
Style: noir, poliziottesco
Plot: mafia, organized crime, police shootout, police officer, police raid, mob boss, sicilian, corruption, police, police uniform stolen, police officer shot, italian american
Time: 70s
Place: sicily, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
A Judge of Honor (2004)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 180 min.
Story: 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 ...
Plot: judge, mafia, true crime, carabinieri, police officer, italian mafia, cosa nostra, sicilian mafia, mob hit, stubbornness, bravery, man killed ...
Time: 80s, 90s
Place: italy, sicily
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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The Warning (1980)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 108 min.
Story: It is a law police officials obey out of fear. A rule chilling in its simplicity. Accept corruption...or die! They have sealed an unholy alliance. The great banks of Europe. And the blackhearted underworld empire. Together, with their matchless ...
Style: neo noir, poliziottesco
Plot: police officer, funeral, violence, murder, bare breasts, disguise, organized crime, drowning, car accident, police officer killed, blood, italian police ...
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38%
Milano Violenta (1976)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A gang of thieves decides to hit the headquarters of Aspex. The police intervened and only two of the robbers managed to escape with the loot, while the other two are forced to take hostages to escape. The police started investigations but also the ...
Style: poliziottesco
Plot: police, erotica, robbery, police raid, police officer killed, police shootout, carabinieri, street shootout, police officer shot in the chest, police officer shot, killed in police car, police escort ...
Place: italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Lucky Luciano (1973)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: Italy, France, USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Lucky Luciano is one of the bosses of the Mafia. He orders the slaughter of 40 other responsibles, therefore becoming the only boss. But a few years later he is put into jail. In 1946, he got a pardon and is sent back to Sicilia. There, he begins ...
Style: poliziottesco, historical drama, contemplative, serious, realistic ...
Plot: cosa nostra, mafia, mobster, ambition, organized crime, democrat, mafioso, gangster, american mafia, intelligence agency, biopic, life is a bitch ...
Time: 1940s, 1930s, 50s, 20th century, post world war two ...
Place: italy, sicily, europe, usa, new york ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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I Am Afraid (1977)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 120 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: poliziottesco
Plot: police, police officer, mafia, agent, conspiracy, police corruption, paranoia, police officer killed, judge, police raid, years of lead, carabinieri ...
Place: italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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Law of Courage (1994)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min.
Story: 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 ...
Plot: cosa nostra, police, mafia, judge, murder, assassination, sicilian, carabinieri, judiciary
Time: 90s
Place: italy, sicily
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
The Professor (1986)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 171 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: poliziottesco, realistic, serious, rough, suspenseful
Audience: boys' night
Plot: cosa nostra, mafia, camorra, italian mafia, police, female nudity, nazi, mobster, gulag, criminal, organized crime, murder ...
Time: year 1986, 80s, 20th century
Place: italy, naples italy, new york, napoli italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
The Palermo Connection (1990)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 100 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: realistic, serious, exciting, suspenseful, rough
Audience: boys' night
Plot: politics, italian mafia, mafia, circus, wedding, campaign, law enforcement, society, drug dealing, rebellion, dishonesty, state affairs ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: sicily, italy, new york, palermo italy
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33%
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Fontamara (1980)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 139 min.
Story: Fontamara is a village in the Marsica, forgotten by all but God and its inhabitants are called 'cafoni' (boors). Berardo Viola wants to marry Elvira but only after gaining enough money to buy some land and in order to reach his aim he has ...
Plot: fascism, italian fascism, police, resistance, farm, countryside, leftist
Time: 1930s
Place: italy, rome italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
City Under Siege (1974)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 114 min.
Story: 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.
Style: poliziottesco
Plot: police, suburbs, police officer, prostitution, murder, criminal
Place: italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Giovanni Falcone (1993)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 124 min.
Story: 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. ...
Plot: mafia, italian mafia, cosa nostra, judge, mob hit, justice, brutality, gangster, crime boss, mob boss, organized crime, mobster ...
Time: 90s, 80s
Place: italy, palermo italy, sicily
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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Scoumoune (1972)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 101 min.
Story: No overview found.
Style: poliziottesco
Plot: world war two, prison, organized crime, casino, gang warfare, mobster, attempted kidnapping, police officer, killing, dead body, shootout, friend ...
Time: 1940s, 1930s
Place: paris france, marseille
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30%
Un eroe borghese (1995)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy, France, Belgium
Duration: 93 min.
Story: An intriguing look at a sinister web of power,linking politics and the mafia in modern day Italy.
Plot: mafia, law, prime minister, bank, husband wife relationship, murder, trust, corporation, death, lawyer, police, politics ...
Time: 70s
Place: milan italy, sicily, italy, new york
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30%
We Still Kill the Old Way (1967)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Italy
Duration: 99 min.
Story: 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.
Style: poliziottesco, neo noir, tense, serious, realistic ...
Plot: police, mafia, italian mafia, investigation, love triangle, gangster, violent content, danger, dishonesty, society, amateur detective, fighting the system ...
Time: year 1967, 60s
Place: italy, sicily, europe, palermo italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Sardinia Kidnapped (1968)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Christina Fisher arrives in Sardinia to spend a holiday with her university friend, Francesco. As they are touring the island, they are trapped by mountain terrorists. Francesco is kidnapped, but Christina is permitted to leave. She is determined to ...
Style: poliziottesco
Plot: organized crime, kidnapping, hostage, killing an animal, terrorism, terrorist, island, shepherd, machine gun, car chase, train, male nudity ...
Place: italy, sardinia
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28%
Young, Violent, Dangerous (1976)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Paul, Joe and Louie are three young men from good families who decide to go on a bloodthirsty and pointless crime spree, much to the dismay of paul’s girlfriend (Eleonora Giorgi) and the local police commissioner (Tomas Milian). the group starts ...
Style: poliziottesco, psychotronic, surprise ending
Plot: police, sex crime, police officer, organized crime, murder, robbery, sadism, sexual abuse, nudity, sex, female nudity, girlfriend ...
Place: italy, milan italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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Come Into the Light (2005)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 89 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: tense, captivating, suspense, psychological, factual
Plot: coming of age, priest, hopes, murder, mafia, mob boss, church, hitman, fighting crime, rivalry, showdown, danger ...
Time: 90s
Place: italy, sicily, palermo italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
The Mafia Kills Only in Summer (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, sentimental, realistic, thought provoking ...
Plot: italian mafia, mafia, youth, gangster, love and romance, coincidence, innocence lost, unfulfilled love, mob boss, cosa nostra, boss, children ...
Time: 20th century, 2010s, 70s, 80s, 90s
Place: sicily, italy, europe, palermo italy
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27%
Gang War in Milan (1973)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A Milan pimp faces off against a ruthless and greedy French gangster whom wants to unite organized crime in Italy.
Style: poliziottesco, realistic, serious, suspenseful, rough
Plot: police, murder, gangster, gang war, strong violent content, nudity, urban, dishonesty, criminal heroes, rivalry, betrayal, criminal's revenge ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: italy, europe
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27%
The Goodbye Kiss (2006)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Giorgio Pellegrini, a former left-wing activist turned terrorist has fled to Central America and fought with a guerrilla movement. Fifteen years later he is fed up with living in the jungle and decides to return to Italy. What he wants is to lead a ...
Style: captivating, neo noir, poliziottesco, political
Plot: police officer, terrorist, jungle, robbery, criminal, lifestyle, life is a bitch, shoplifting, life, serial killer, drug traffic, snitch ...
Time: 90s
Place: italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
La Legge Violenta Della Squadra Anticrimine (1976)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A mobster kills a cop during a robbery and then finds himself pursued by the police, his gang, and the media.
Style: poliziottesco
Plot: italian police, police chase, police officer killed, security guard, traffic policeman, armored truck, police shootout, police officer, street shootout, security guard killed, police officer shot, armored vehicle ...
Place: italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
The New Godfathers (1979)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 94 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: poliziottesco
Plot: mafia, family relations, smuggling, police officer, customs officer, camorra, police chase, gang war, italian police, gangster
Place: napoli italy, naples italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
The Most Beautiful Wife (1970)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 108 min.
Story: 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, ...
Style: poliziottesco
Plot: forced marriage, marriage, mafia, rape, cosa nostra, erotica, italian mafia, police, infidelity, women, brawl, heart attack ...
Time: 70s
Place: italy, sicily
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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