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From Corleone to Brooklyn (1979)
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From Corleone to Brooklyn (1979)
Original name: Da Corleone a Brooklyn
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 prisoner face a series of traps set up by the Mafia.
Style: poliziottesco
Plot: mafia, police officer, police, italian mafia, explosions, organized crime, mob boss, secret police, police officer shot, police officer kicked, police lineup, crime, crimes
Place: italy, new york

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out poliziottesco, realistic, serious and rough films with plots about police officer, police, police officer killed, mafia, police officer shot, street shootout and gangster mostly in Crime, Thriller and Drama genres. Some movies like From Corleone to Brooklyn: Violent Naples (1976), Mafia (1968), The Big Family (1973), Merciless Man (1976), The Mafia Triangle (1981). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Violent Naples (1976)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Inspector Betti (Maurizio Merli) is transferred to Naples and immediately after his arrival receives a warm welcome from The Commandante (Barry Sullivan), the city's crime lord. Betti then goes on a personal mission against corruption and ...
Style: poliziottesco, cult classic, realistic, serious, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: police, police officer, camorra, organized crime, car theft, italian mafia, mafia, police interrogation, undercover cop, gangster, strong violent content, urban ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: italy, europe, naples italy, napoli italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
 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 ⇓
90%
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 ⇓
90%
The Cynic, the Rat and the Fist (1977)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 100 min.
Story: This is probably the best example of a 70's Italian crime movie, though not the "best" movie of the genre (does that make sense?). It has, besides Saxon, an entirely Italian cast but most of them are pretty recognizable regulars in ...
Style: poliziottesco, cult classic, realistic, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot: police officer, police, organized crime, mafia, gangster, strong violent content, tough heroes, car chase, chase, rebellion, heroes, chases and races ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: italy, europe, rome italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
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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 ⇓
78%
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 ⇓
78%
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 ⇓
77%
The Last Desperate Hours (1974)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Paolo Mancuso is a gang boss whose rivals want dead. During a failed assassination attempt, he is bitten by an infected lab rat. In the short time he has left to live, he tracks down his enemies and kills them one by one.
Style: poliziottesco
Plot: mafia, police, woman strangled to death, mob boss, tuberculosis, italian mafia, animal experimentation, death of son, ex husband ex wife relationship, pimp, deadly virus, lab rat ...
Place: milan italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
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A Special Cop in Action (1976)
Genre: Thriller, Action, Crime
Country: Italy
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A school bus with young children being kidnapped. Commissario Betti will solve the case. High action is promised, including hostage, bank robberies, car chases, prison scenes and mafia bosses!
Style: poliziottesco, surprise ending
Plot: police, car chase, hijacking, rape, female nudity, secret police, brawl, martial arts, fistfight, violent death, prison guard, bank robbery ...
Place: italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
 5.8
 260
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%
 7.4
 664
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 ⇓
71%
 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 ⇓
70%
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 ⇓
66%
 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 ⇓
65%
 5.3
 105
Gangster's Law (1969)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A con man pulls a double-cross on a gang of vicious bank robbers.
Style: poliziottesco
Plot: police officer, criminal, bank robbery, revenge, partnership, gangster
Place: italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
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 ⇓
60%
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 ⇓
58%
The Tough Ones (1976)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A tough, violent cop who doesn't mind bending the law goes after a machine-gun-carrying, hunchbacked psychotic killer.
Style: poliziottesco, cult classic, serious, realistic, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: police, car chase, chase, psychopath, gang rape, rape, violent content, law enforcement, serial killer, vigilantism, danger, fighting crime ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: italy, rome italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
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 5.2
 912
Death Rage (1976)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A professional killer is lured into a deadly double-cross when he agrees to assassinate a Mafia kingpin.
Style: poliziottesco
Plot: murder, police, assassin, mobster, gun fu, underworld, american mafia, wound, horse race, nudity, bare butt, shootout ...
Time: year 1976, 70s
Place: italy, naples italy, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
 6.3
 448
Convoy Busters (1978)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 101 min.
Story: In Rome, a vagrant finds the body of a teen girl, her throat professional slashed. Police inspector Olmi uses his brutal and violent methods to follow a trail that leads him toward high government officials. When his methods leave an innocent ...
Style: poliziottesco
Plot: police, police officer, shootout, revenge, torture, prostitute, corruption, interrogation, pistol, person on fire, blood, murder ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
The Italian Connection (1972)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Italy, West Germany
Duration: 95 min.
Story: When a shipment of heroin disappears between Italy and New York, a small-time pimp in Milan is framed for the theft. Two professional hitmen are dispatched from New York to find him, but the real thieves want to get rid of him before the New York ...
Style: poliziottesco, grindhouse, erotic, cult classic, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: mafia, organized crime, hitman, police, police officer, manhunt, revenge, female nudity, mobster, drug, explosions, italian mafia ...
Time: year 1972, 20th century, 70s
Place: italy, europe, new york, milan italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
 6.6
 688
Violent City (1975)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A detective sick and tired of the rampant crime and violence in his city, and constantly at odds with his superiors, is finally kicked out of the department for a "questionable" shooting of a vicious criminal. However, he is soon ...
Style: poliziottesco, neo noir, psychotronic
Plot: police, car chase, organized crime, police officer, buddy cop, female nudity, disfigurement, gun fu, drug, weapons, lovers, strength ...
Place: italy, milan italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
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 ⇓
52%
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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 ⇓
51%
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 ⇓
50%
 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 ⇓
49%
 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 ⇓
49%
 6.9
 2K
The Boss (1973)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 109 min.
Story: A bomb attack in a cinema in Palermo kills all the fellows of Attardi's clan a part from Cocchi. He immediately understands that the author of the bomb attack is Daniello from Don Corrasco's clan. Cocchi is determined to revenge. His ...
Style: grindhouse, poliziottesco, perverse, cult classic, action thriller ...
Plot: mafia, exploitation, police, italian mafia, organized crime, police officer, explosions, mobster, martial arts, gangster, hitman, kidnapping ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: italy, sicily, europe, palermo italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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%
Manhunt in the City (1975)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min.
Story: When a crook gets framed as a drug kingpin, the mob decide to "off" his wife. Revenge is the name of the game, and the manhunt is on!
Style: poliziottesco, psychotronic
Plot: vigilante, police, woman with a gun, female nudity, revenge, bank robbery, scorpion, heist, vandalism, blind man, gang violence, child in peril ...
Place: italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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