Movies and TV shows like Corleone
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Corleone (2007)
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Original name: Il capo dei capi
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 100 min.
TV show
Story:
Il Capo dei Capi (The Boss of the Bosses) is a six-part Italian miniseries which debuted on Canale 5 between October and November 2007. It tells the story of Salvatore Riina, alias Totò u Curtu, a mafioso boss from Corleone, Sicily. Riina is played by Palermo-born actor, Claudio Gioè, and the series was directed by Alexis Sweet and Enzo Monteleone.
Style:
captivating, serious, realistic, rough
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
cosa nostra, criminal heroes, gangster, mafia, organized crime, bribery, italian mafia, notoriety, prison, murder, corruption, bravery, corrupt politician, mobster, police, hitman, kidnapping, biopic, sicilian mafia, mob boss, serial killer, agent, hustler, italian history, carabinieri ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, 70s, 60s, 50s, 1940s, 1950s ...
Place:
italy, sicily, palermo italy, southern italy
Keyword:
gangsters
Most similar movies to Corleone
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, rough and captivating films and TV series with plots about gangster, mafia, organized crime, mob boss, murder, mobster and criminal heroes mostly in Crime, Drama and Biography genres. Some movies like Corleone: Gomorrah (2014), Romanzo criminale - La serie (2008), Lucky Luciano (1973), The Professor (1986), The Take (2009). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy, Germany
Duration: 55 min.
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Based on Robert Saviano's bestselling book, this gritty Italian crime drama paints a portrait of the brutal Neapolitan crime organisation the Camorra, as seen through the eyes of Ciro Di Marzo, the obedient and self- confident right-hand man of ...
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serious, tense, disturbing, captivating, realistic ...
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mafia, mob boss, drug lord, camorra, social decay, society, gang war, life is a bitch, gangster, strong violent content, urban, urban ghetto life ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
italy, naples italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
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Story:
Romanzo Criminale – La serie - is a television series Italian based on the eponymous novel by judge Giancarlo De Cataldo, and it is the second adaptation of the film Romanzo Criminale directed by Michele Placido. The first series quickly achieved ...
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serious, captivating, rough, suspense, realistic ...
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gang, mafia, organized crime, police, criminal heroes, gangster, law enforcement, drug dealing, police detective, dishonesty, violence, italian mafia ...
Time:
80s, 70s, 20th century, 90s
Place:
italy, rome italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 ⇓
100%
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 ⇓
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 180 min.
TV show
Story:
Freddie Jackson is just out of prison. He's done his time, made the right connections and now he's ready to use them. His wife Jackie dreams of having her husband home but she's forgotten the rows and the girls Freddie can't ...
Style:
serious, captivating, rough, bleak, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
mob boss, mafia, respect, power struggle, relatives, british, betrayal, criminal heroes, gangster, crime boss, ex convict, victim ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, 90s
Place:
england, london, east end london
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Action, Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Canada, Italy
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Jacques Mesrine, a loyal son and dedicated soldier, is back home and living with his parents after serving in the Algerian War. Soon he is seduced by the neon glamour of sixties Paris and the easy money it presents. Mentored by Guido, Mesrine turns ...
Style:
bleak, tense, realistic, suspense, intense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
organized crime, mafia, robbery, against the rules, rise to the top, prison, prison escape, gangster, mob boss, romancing a criminal, heist, biopic ...
Time:
60s, year 2008, y2k, 2000s, 1950s ...
Place:
france, paris france, canada, montreal, africa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: Colombia
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Pablo Escobar: El Patrón del Mal is a 2012 Colombian television series produced and broadcast on Caracol TV, about the life of Pablo Escobar. It is only available in Spanish. There is a version available with English subtitles.
Style:
realistic, rough, stylized, serious, novela ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
drug lord, dea, latinos, drug dealing, rise to the top, ambition, drug traffic, terrorism, gangster, notoriety, mafia, sociopath ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, 1950s
Place:
colombia, latin america, panama
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Colombia
Duration: 49 min.
TV show
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The true story of Colombia's infamously violent and powerful drug cartels.
Style:
serious, realistic, rough, political, bleak ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
drug cartel, drug dealer, cartel, drug dealing, rise to the top, gangster, drug lord, illegal drugs, cia agent, master criminal, dea, hitman ...
Time:
80s, 2010s, 70s, 90s, 20th century
Place:
colombia, latin america, south america, mexico, panama ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Over the summer of 1976, thirty-six bombs detonate in the heart of Cleveland while a turf war raged between Irish mobster Danny Greene and the Italian mafia. Based on a true story, kill the Irishman chronicles Greene's heroic rise from a tough ...
Style:
tense, brutal, talky, intense, suspense ...
Audience:
boys' night
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mafia, gangster, mob boss, gang war, irish mob, hitman, gang, corruption, organized crime, assassin, murder, caper ...
Time:
70s, year 2011, 60s, 20th century, year 1977 ...
Place:
usa, ireland, ohio, new york, brooklyn new york city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy, France, Romania
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
Set in Italy in the 1970s, VALLANZASCA is the true story of the Italian underworld’s most infamous outlaw. A criminal by age 9, Renato Vallanzasca grew up to become the country’s most notorious mobster before the age of 27. Vallanzasca and his ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, realistic, bleak, sincere ...
Plot:
criminal, murder, kidnapping, gangster, romancing a criminal, gang, confined, master criminal, prison, controversy, mafia, robbery ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, 80s
Place:
italy, europe, milan italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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TV series like Gomorrah
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 258 min.
TV show
Story:
Sprawling Mario Puzo novel about an Italian family of gangsters draws the inevitable comparison to "The Godfather", but does find its own direction. Headed by Don Domenico Clericuzio, the family executes a rival gang on the night of the ...
Style:
psychological, realistic, serious, gloomy, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
mafia, organized crime, gangster, mobster, family relations, daughter, honeymoon, criminal, rivalry, italian mafia, gangsta, interracial ...
Time:
20th century, 60s, 80s, 70s
Place:
usa, las vegas
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Italy, Austria, France, UK, Germany, Spain, Sweden
Duration: 402 min.
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Story:
Corrado Cattani is a police inspector whose life is devoted to fighting the Italian mafia (known here as "La Piovra" or "The Octopus").
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serious, tense, suspenseful, bleak, realistic ...
Plot:
cosa nostra, mafia, murder, law enforcement, society, fighting crime, family relations, police investigation, family life, organized crime, smuggling, gangster ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
sicily, italy, palermo italy, europe, southern italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 175 min.
Story:
Spanning the years 1945 to 1955, a chronicle of the fictional Italian-American Corleone crime family. When organized crime family patriarch, Vito Corleone barely survives an attempt on his life, his youngest son, Michael steps in to take care of the ...
Style:
serious, epic, dramatic, atmospheric, captivating ...
Audience:
boys' night, manly, chick flick, adult
Plot:
mafia, organized crime, gangster, greed, revenge, mob boss, crime family, mobster, cosa nostra, wedding, pride and honor, corruption ...
Time:
1950s, 1940s, 20th century, 50s, year 1972 ...
Place:
italy, new york, bronx new york city, europe, sicily ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, History, Mystery
Country: Australia
Duration: 60 min.
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Underbelly is an Australian television true crime-drama series which broadcasts on the Nine Network. Each series is based on real-life events.
Style:
captivating, serious, realistic, rough, anthology ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gang war, mafia, violence spree, power struggle, gang, gangster, family relations, mob boss, lawyer, criminal heroes, trial, disorder ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 2000s, 80s, 70s ...
Place:
australia, oceania
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Action, Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Canada
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
The story of Jacques Mesrine, France's public enemy No. 1 during the 1970s. After nearly two decades of legendary criminal feats -- from multiple bank robberies and to prison breaks -- Mesrine was gunned down by the French police in Paris.
Style:
intense, suspense, realistic, rough, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gangster, mob boss, chase, organized crime, mafia, prison, biopic, heist, character study, against the rules, notoriety, realism ...
Time:
20th century, y2k, year 2008, 70s
Place:
france, paris france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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TV shows similar to The Sopranos
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story:
See the rise of the Guadalajara Cartel as an American DEA agent learns the danger of targeting narcos in 1980s Mexico.
Style:
suspense, atmospheric, captivating, crime drama, intense ...
Plot:
drug cartel, organized crime, marijuana, undercover agent, business, corruption, drug lord, cartel, drug, gang, criminal, drug dealing ...
Time:
80s, 90s
Place:
mexico, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
John Gotti, the head of a small New York mafia crew breaks a few of the old family rules. He rises to become the head of the Gambino family and the most well-known mafia boss in America. Life is good, but suspicion creeps in, and greed, ...
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serious, realistic, rough
Plot:
italian mafia, mafia, crime boss, gangster, mobster, gangsta, organized crime, biopic, american mafia, mob boss, entrepreneur, criminal ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
The story of the rise and fall of the powerful New York City organized crime boss, Paul Castellano.
Style:
serious, tense, rough, suspenseful, realistic
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
mafia, hitman, rise and fall, murder, undercover, going straight, master criminal, rivalry, downfall, police corruption, gangster, organized crime ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, year 1985, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
The story of Peppino Impastato, a political activist who opposed the Mafia in Sicily. One hundred steps was the number of steps it took to get from the Impastato house to the house of the Mafia boss Tano Badalamenti.
Style:
serious, captivating, sincere, rough, political ...
Plot:
assassination, radio, gangster, fighting the system, rebelliousness, political activist, dishonesty, idealism, society, rebellion, media, painting ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
italy, corsica, sicily, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
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.
Style:
captivating, realistic, serious, suspenseful, bleak ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
conspiracy, fighting the system, political corruption, politics, mafia, bank, uncover truth, gangster, manipulation, clergy, legal, society ...
Time:
80s, 70s, 20th century
Place:
italy, palermo italy, london, new york, switzerland ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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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 ⇓
24%
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Different solution new movie ;-) The Preacher tells the story about the rise and fall off a dutch mafiaboss. The movie is based on the story of Klaas Bruinsma.
Style:
realistic, serious, suspenseful, rough, controversial ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gangster, dishonesty, assassination, betrayal, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, murder, hitman, gunfight, true crime, organized crime, serial killer, mob boss ...
Time:
80s, 70s, 20th century, 90s
Place:
holland, amsterdam
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24%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
An innocent American engineer is blackmailed by gangsters into a plot to assassinate his cousin, who is a judge in Sicily fighting the Mafia.
Style:
serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful, poliziottesco
Plot:
mafia, italian mafia, murder, kidnapping, gangster, danger, rescue, violent content, nudity, hitman, drug, deadly
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
sicily, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
The story of the rise and fall of the infamous Chicago gangster Al Capone and the control he exhibited over the city during the prohibition years.
Style:
realistic, suspenseful, rough, serious, psychotronic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gangster, murder, rise and fall, police investigation, mafia, prohibition, brutality, gunfight, jail, female nudity, criminal heroes, gang ...
Time:
1920s, year 1975, 1930s
Place:
chicago, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy, France, UK
Duration: 152 min.
Story:
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 ...
Style:
serious, stylized, realistic, captivating, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gangster, gang, police investigation, criminal heroes, partner, law enforcement, leadership, rivalry, ransom, drug dealing, organized crime, inspector ...
Time:
80s, year 2005, 70s, 90s, 60s ...
Place:
italy, rome italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
The story of Giancarlo Siani, a journalist killed by the Neapolitan Mafia in 1985.
Style:
serious, realistic, rough, tense, gloomy
Plot:
journalism, idealism, mafia, uncover truth, investigation, life is a bitch, society, danger, dishonesty, gangster, italian mafia, corruption ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1985
Place:
italy, europe, southern italy, naples italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
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Meet the Donnelly brothers: Tommy, Jimmy, Kevin and Sean. There is nothing these four Irish brothers wouldn't do to protect each other, and for them that means lying, cheating, stealing and, occasionally, calling the cops. Narrated by wannabe ...
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captivating, rough, realistic, suspenseful, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
mafia, organized crime, mob boss, murder, vengeance, blind ambition, family business, rivalry, uninhibited rivalry, gang, criminal heroes, dishonesty ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, ireland, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 145 min.
Story:
The true story of Henry Hill, a half-Irish, half-Sicilian Brooklyn kid who is adopted by neighbourhood gangsters at an early age and climbs the ranks of a Mafia family under the guidance of Jimmy Conway.
Style:
rough, suspense, realistic, epic, brutal ...
Audience:
boys' night, adult
Plot:
organized crime, mafia, gangster, rise and fall, mobster, cosa nostra, mentor, criminal, badass, friends, italian mafia, biopic ...
Time:
70s, 50s, 90s, year 1990, year 1970 ...
Place:
new york, brooklyn new york city, italy, florida, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: Italy, France, Germany, Brazil
Duration: 153 min.
Story:
Palermo, Sicily, 1980. Mafia member Tommaso Buscetta decides to move to Brazil with his family fleeing the constant war between the different clans of the criminal organization. But when, after living several misfortunes, he is forced to return to ...
Style:
realistic, intense, suspense, captivating, factual
Plot:
mafia, cosa nostra, gangster, trial, italian mafia, mob boss, organized crime, assassination attempt, judge, assassination, murder, death threat ...
Time:
20th century, 2000s, 80s, 90s, year 1980 ...
Place:
sicily, italy, rome italy, rio de janeiro, miami ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 434 min.
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A seven-hours-plus adaptation of Francis Ford Coppola's "The Godfather" and "The Godfather, Part II" - with new scenes added and some old ones lengthened. Originally broadcast on the NBC television network in November of ...
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epic, serious, captivating, rough, saga ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
mafia, crime boss, gang war, mobster, lawyer, melancholy, corrupt politician, police corruption, parent child relationship, rise to power, casino, patriarch ...
Time:
1930s, 1950s, 1920s, 1940s, 20th century
Place:
europe, cuba, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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