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I Am Afraid (1977)
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I Am Afraid (1977)
Original name: Io ho paura
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 government to the violence become clear.
Style: poliziottesco
Plot: police officer, police, mafia, agent, investigation, bodyguard, terrorism, conspiracy, judge, arms smuggling, police corruption, carabinieri, paranoia, police raid, police officer killed, surveillance, assassination, listening device, eavesdropping, years of lead, pantyhose, female stockinged legs, bulletproof vest, police officer knocked unconscious, police officer shot in the chest ...
Place: italy

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Most similar movies to I Am Afraid

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out poliziottesco, realistic, serious and suspenseful films with plots about police officer, police officer shot, police, police officer killed, police officer shot in the chest, mafia and murder mostly in Crime, Drama and Thriller genres. Some movies like I Am Afraid: Milano Violenta (1976), Double Game (1977), A Judge of Honor (2004), The Warning (1980), Execution Squad (1972). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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 ⇓
95%
 4.9
 246
Double Game (1977)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Drugs, murders, robberies. In Turin, violence is an everyday fact of life, but a mysterious vigilante starts cleaning up the streets. In fact, the killer is a cop, Moretti, who went undercover to do the dirty work he couldn't do in cop's ...
Style: poliziottesco
Plot: police, police officer, vigilante, italian police, exploding airplane, corrupt cop, violence, brutality, rape, betrayal, police officer killed, police corruption ...
Time: 70s
Place: turin italy, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
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 ⇓
73%
 6.4
 206
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 ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
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Execution Squad (1972)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy, West Germany, Monaco
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Bertone is a moderately honest homicide cop. Unfortunately, the court system is so inept and corrupt that many more-or-less honest policemen have begun taking the law into their own hands. Between his efforts to thwart the growth of crime and to ...
Style: poliziottesco
Plot: police, vigilante, state terrorism, female nudity, years of lead, police officer killed, police corruption, motorcycle, power struggle, mob violence, train station, police investigation ...
Place: italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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 ⇓
65%
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
 7.0
 2K
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
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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 ⇓
63%
Merciless Man (1976)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min.
Story: The city suffers and succumbs unarmed, but an ex secret agent succeeds in winning the struggle against the gangsterism. Intrigue and violence grip a society victim of the crime.
Style: poliziottesco, detective
Plot: police officer, spy, woman with a gun, police, security guard, police shootout, foreigner, murder, police officer killed, city, secret, agent ...
Place: italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
The Violent Professionals (1973)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 104 min.
Story: With or without help from law enforcement officers, a lone individual decides to crack down on the syndicate.
Style: poliziottesco, grindhouse, noir, exciting, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: police, car chase, gangster, violent death, vigilante, assassin, law enforcement, rivalry, tough law enforcer, undercover, vigilantism, chases and races ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
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 ⇓
60%
The Mafia Triangle (1981)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A Neapolitan camorra boss has retired from business but when his wife gets killed he gets back into action, and goes to the States to get his revenge.
Style: poliziottesco
Plot: camorra, mafia, wife, business, mafia don, police officer, police officer shot, police officer knocked unconscious, police officer shot in the chest, italian american
Place: napoli italy, italy, naples italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
 6.4
 199
The Hired Gun (1975)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Fabio Testi is an undercover cop doubling as the bodyguard (hence, “Gorilla”) of a cantankerous middle-aged industrialist targeted for extortion.
Style: poliziottesco
Plot: police officer, police shootout, police officer killed, bodyguard, police officer shot, shootout at a train station, police officer knocked unconscious, police officer kicked, police lineup
Place: italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
 6.9
 1K
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 ⇓
57%
The Violent Four (1968)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A detective is assigned to head a manhunt for four violent bank robbers.
Style: poliziottesco, detective, neo noir, non-linear, exciting ...
Plot: police, robbery, police officer, politics, car chase, social commentary, anarchist, theft, tough heroes, heist, rivalry, chase ...
Time: 60s
Place: italy, milan italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
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 ⇓
55%
 4.7
 326
Crime Boss (1972)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Hit man Antonio Mancuso travels to Italy to make the big time. He meets and befriends Mafia boss Don Vincenzo. Mancurso becomes part of the organization and the more he gets to know Vincenzo the more he wants his job but Mancurso will learn that ...
Style: suspense, poliziottesco
Plot: mafia, police officer, hitman, police officer killed, police chase, impersonating a police officer, police officer bombed, police uniform stolen, police officer knocked unconscious, police officer shot
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
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 6.4
 550
Silent Action (1975)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A small yet strange series of deaths of people working for the Ministry of Defense and the military hits Italy. Since all of the deaths seem to be accidental or suicides, no alarm bells start to ring anywhere. That's a problem, because the ...
Style: poliziottesco
Plot: police officer, police, state terrorism, older man younger woman sex, police protection, criminal underworld, prostitute, impostor, years of lead, conspiracy, assassin, military coup ...
Time: 70s
Place: italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
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%
Order to Assassinate (1975)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Spain, Italy, Dominican Republic
Duration: 93 min.
Story: The story concerns a mob family, headed by gambling czar Jose Ferrer. When one of family's hit men (Helmut Berger) fails to come up to expectations, Ferrer orders the man's execution.
Style: poliziottesco
Plot: assassin, murderer, shooting, police, police officer killed, murder, female nudity, organized crime, truck, police shootout, assassination, training ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
4 Billion in 4 Minutes (1976)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Obscure, action-packed euro-crime yarn about an imprisoned genius who organizes a bank robbery of 4 billion Lire from behind bars. It's up to superhunk Antonio Sabato to save the day, foil the baddies and bed the chick. There are great car ...
Style: poliziottesco
Plot: bank robbery, police raid, italian police, helicopter, sea, boat, carabinieri, police officer, police, police officer killed, money, police chase ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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 ⇓
48%
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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 ⇓
47%
 5.8
 168
Poliziotti (1995)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 89 min.
Story: When young cop Andrea is assigned to keep watch over dangerous Godfather Sante, who's in hospital after a fake suicide attempt, the stage is set for disaster.
Style: erotic
Plot: police, carabinieri, sex scene, making love, police officer, drug, female nudity, police officer killed, suicide, male nudity, italian police, true crime ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Pizza Connection (1985)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Mario (Placido), an Italian American who manages a pizzeria in NYC, is charged with an assassination of a judge in Palermo. He leaves the States, comes back to Sicily and recruit Michele, his younger brother, for some help. Michele is a good guy not ...
Style: poliziottesco, independent film
Plot: mafia, pizza, woman with a gun, european in usa, multiple deaths, family relations, back in hometown, italian abroad, nudity, telephone call, murder, teenage girl ...
Place: sicily, palermo italy, new york, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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 ⇓
43%
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 ⇓
40%
 5.7
 141
Hunted City (1979)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Commissario Paolo Ferro (Maurizio Merli) stars as a (typical) tough cop again. This time he returns to the city of Milan to go after a murder corporation. Acampora (Mario Merola) is believed to be the prime suspect although he later proves to be one ...
Style: poliziottesco
Plot: police, police raid, fire, gambling, massacre, pistol, mercilessness, sex, death, revenge, murder, robbery ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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 ⇓
39%
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