Movies like Mafia

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Mafia (1968)
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Mafia (1968)
Original name: Il giorno della civetta
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 evidence, only hostile obstruction by the corrupt local authorities who all deny the existence of the Mafia.
Style: neo noir, suspense, poliziottesco
Plot: mafia, police, italian mafia, organized crime, cosa nostra, police officer, murder, card playing, carabinieri, police investigation, town, sicilian mafia, gangster, crime, card game, crimes
Place: italy, sicily
Keyword: gangsters

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Most similar movies to Mafia

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out poliziottesco, serious, suspenseful and realistic films with plots about mafia, police, murder, police officer, organized crime, italian mafia and gangster mostly in Crime, Drama and Thriller genres. Some movies like Mafia: I Am the Law (1977), Corleone (1978), From Corleone to Brooklyn (1979), Excellent Cadavers (1999), We Still Kill the Old Way (1967). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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I Am the Law (1977)
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. ...
Style: poliziottesco, political, historical drama
Plot: cosa nostra, fascism, italian fascism, sicilian mafia, crime fighter, organized crime, political corruption, topless woman, bare breasts, mafia, violence, bandit ...
Time: 1930s
Place: italy, palermo italy, sicily
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95%
 5.8
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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 ⇓
75%
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
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 ⇓
57%
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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 ⇓
57%
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 ⇓
53%
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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 ⇓
50%
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 ⇓
50%
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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 ⇓
46%
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 ⇓
45%
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 ⇓
45%
Confessions of a Police Captain (1971)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Confessions of a Police Captain (Italian: Confessione di un commissario di polizia al procuratore della repubblica, also known as Confessions of a Police Commissioner to the District Attorney) is an Italian crime-drama film about a cop starring ...
Style: poliziottesco, grindhouse, serious, realistic, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: female nudity, police, mafia, police officer, corruption, italian mafia, corrupt, love letter, woman with a gun, organized crime, bureaucracy, psychology ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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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 ⇓
40%
 5.4
 243
The Preacher (2007)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 120 min.
Story: A boy finds a dead woman. When police move the corpse they find the skeletons of two women who disappeared in the seventies.
Style: suspense, serious, bleak, suspenseful
Plot: police investigation, family feud, murder, police, murder investigation, blackmail, pastor, danger, dead woman
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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High Crime (1973)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy, Spain, France
Duration: 103 min.
Story: An Italian police inspector matches wits with a powerful European drug ring. As he comes closer to the top of the underworld organization, his odds of survival decrease.
Style: poliziottesco
Plot: police, car chase, police officer, shootout, organized crime, italian mafia, dirty harry, car crash, drug, gun fu, knife fight, martial arts ...
Place: italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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 ⇓
39%
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Blood Ties (1986)
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 ⇓
37%
Mulholland Falls (1996)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: In 1950s Los Angeles, a special crime squad of the LAPD investigates the murder of a young woman.
Style: neo noir, suspense, tense, detective, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: political corruption, murder, investigation, police, police investigation, conspiracy, revenge, betrayal, gangster, dishonesty, partners against crime, mafia ...
Time: 20th century, 1950s, year 1996, 50s
Place: los angeles, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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 6.2
 60
Broken (2023)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Argentina, Uruguay
Duration: 120 min.
Story: A policewoman returns with her young daughter to her hometown to care for her dying mother. The murder of a young girl will keep her there longer than expected. She will try to solve a case that no one seems to care about, risking everything on the ...
Style: neo noir, psychological, captivating, thrilling
Plot: mother daughter relationship, police detective, female protagonist, murder, policewoman, police, police investigation, murderer, police officer, murder investigation, life is a bitch, murder mystery ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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The Octopus (1984)
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").
Style: 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 ⇓
32%
The American Friend (1977)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: West Germany, France
Duration: 128 min.
Story: Tom Ripley, who deals in forged art, suggests a picture framer he knows would make a good hit man.
Style: neo noir, suspenseful, talky, atmospheric, bleak ...
Plot: murder, gangster, assassination, friendship, hitman, betrayal, art, good versus evil, loneliness, police investigation, race against time, life is a bitch ...
Time: 20th century, year 1977, 70s, year 1976
Place: paris france, germany, new york, hamburg germany, west germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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No Way Out (1973)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A mob hitman wants to retire, but his bosses don't think that's a good idea. Complications--and many bloody shootouts-ensue.
Style: poliziottesco, neo noir, noir, perverse
Plot: mafia, police, hitman, car chase, mobster, italian mafia, police officer, vigilante, lgbt, revenge, killer, birthday party ...
Time: 70s
Place: italy, copenhagen, sicily, milan italy, hamburg germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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 ⇓
30%
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Illustrious Corpses (1976)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 120 min.
Story: A detective (inspector Rogas) is assigned to investigate the mysterious murders of some Supreme Court judges. During the investigation he discovers a complot that involves the Italian Communist Party. (IMDb)
Style: poliziottesco, detective, gloomy, tense, realistic ...
Plot: italian politics, conspiracy, police, politics, serial killer, rebel, trust, jazz, city, organized crime, italian mafia, murder ...
Time: year 1976, 70s, 20th century
Place: italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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The Wannabe (2015)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Based on true events, The Wannabe, a story about Thomas, a man obsessed with Mafia culture during the 1990s in New York City. When Thomas’s failed attempts to fix the trial of infamous mobster John Gotti gets him rejected by the people he ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, realistic, atmospheric, suspense
Audience: boys' night, girls' night
Plot: mafia, uncover truth, wannabe, murder, sex scene, society, crime family, investigation, prison, politics, organized crime, gangster ...
Time: 90s
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
 6.6
 650
Heads or Tails (1980)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Since his wife died, Inspector Louis Baroni (Philippe Noiret) has become a virtual recluse, preferring the solitude of his quiet house to the company of others. His period of mournful contemplation is broken when he is called out to look into the ...
Style: detective
Plot: murder, police, death, suspect, false accusation, sex, suspicion, police inspector, police officer
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
 6.2
 845
Naked Violence (1969)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Some youngsters rape and kill their teacher; but they won't tell their motivation. The police detective on the case feels some sinister influence behind the young murderers.
Style: poliziottesco, detective
Audience: teens
Plot: police officer, lgbt, rape, interrogation, teacher, murder, murder investigation, flashback, police brutality, male nudity, female nudity, physical abuse ...
Place: italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Shoot First, Die Later (1974)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Luc Merenda gives the performance of his career as a highly regarded police detective who is taking syndicate money in exchange for departmental favors. His father, a simple man, also works for the department but on a lower rung; he isn't ...
Style: poliziottesco, psychotronic, neo noir
Plot: violent, police, cat, animal cruelty, kitten, dirty cop, police detective, organized crime, police officer killed, mafia, car chase, police chase ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
The Case Is Closed, Forget It (1971)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Because of a violation of traffic regulations an architect is put in prison. There he witnesses the grim reality of life behind bars: corrupt staff, corrupt inmates, an inhuman judicial system and the power of the Mafia.
Style: poliziottesco, crying, neo noir
Plot: prison, corruption, police officer, police, lgbt, bureaucracy, organized crime, architecture, gulag, economist, nazi, gay interest ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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 4K
Cadaver (2022)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 123 min.
Story: A pathologist and a police commissioner try to solve a series of murders involving a prisoner. Their journey leads to shocking revelations!
Style: suspense, dramatic, suspenseful, serious, bleak ...
Plot: police, pathologist, woman, police investigation, police officer, corpse, investigation, death, secret service, prison, murder, forensic ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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