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: 90 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:
mafia, cosa nostra, criminal heroes, gangster, organized crime, sicilian mafia, italian mafia, bribery, cat and mouse, notoriety, prison, murder, corruption, bravery, corrupt politician, mobster, police, hitman, kidnapping, crime family, biopic, mob boss, italian history, carabinieri, serial killer ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, 70s, 60s, 50s, 1940s, 1950s ...
Place:
italy, sicily, palermo italy, southern italy
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Most similar movies to Corleone
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, rough and captivating films and TV series with plots about mafia, gangster, organized crime, crime family, mob boss, mobster and murder mostly in Crime, Drama and Biography genres. Some movies like Corleone: Gomorrah (2014), Crime novel - The series (2008), Mesrine: Killer Instinct (2008), Lucky Luciano (1973), The Professor (1986). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy, Germany
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
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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 ...
Style:
disturbing, tense, captivating, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
mafia, mob boss, drug lord, camorra, gang, social decay, society, gang war, life is a bitch, italian mafia, gangster, strong violent content ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
italy, naples italy, europe, napoli italy, new mexico
Similarity:
91%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
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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 ...
Style:
serious, captivating, rough, suspense, realistic ...
Plot:
gang, organized crime, female nudity, italian mafia, mafia, criminal heroes, gangster, drug dealing, law enforcement, police detective, dishonesty, violence ...
Time:
80s, 70s, 20th century, 90s
Place:
italy, rome italy
Similarity:
100%
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, suspense, intense, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gangster, organized crime, mafia, robbery, rise to the top, against the rules, prison, prison escape, mob boss, romancing a criminal, biopic, character study ...
Time:
60s, year 2008, 1950s, 2000s, y2k ...
Place:
france, paris france, canada, montreal, africa ...
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, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
cosa nostra, mafia, mobster, ambition, organized crime, american mafia, intelligence agency, crime family, mafioso, democrat, gangster, biopic ...
Time:
1940s, 1930s, 50s, 20th century, post world war two ...
Place:
italy, sicily, usa, europe, new york ...
Similarity:
100%
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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, serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
cosa nostra, mafia, camorra, italian mafia, italian gangster, crime family, female nudity, police, gulag, mobster, nazi, nude girl ...
Time:
year 1986, 20th century, 80s
Place:
italy, naples italy, new york, napoli italy
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: Colombia
Duration: 45 min.
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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, serious, stylized, novela, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
drug lord, dea, latinos, organized crime, master criminal, drug dealing, smuggling, drug traffic, terrorism, rise to the top, ambition, gangster ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, 1950s, 50s
Place:
colombia, latin america, panama
Similarity:
100%
521K
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Colombia
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story:
The true story of Colombia's infamously violent and powerful drug cartels.
Style:
serious, realistic, rough, erotic, sensual ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
drug cartel, drug dealer, cartel, drug dealing, drug lord, rise to the top, master criminal, sex, cia agent, illegal drugs, dea, drug ...
Time:
80s, 2010s, 70s, 90s, 20th century
Place:
colombia, south america, latin america, mexico, panama ...
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Action, 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:
brutal, suspense, talky, intense, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
mafia, organized crime, gangster, mob boss, irish mob, gang war, corruption, hitman, gang, criminal, brutality, tough heroes ...
Time:
70s, year 2011, 60s, 20th century, year 1960 ...
Place:
usa, ireland, ohio, new york, brooklyn new york city ...
Similarity:
100%
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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:
bank robber, criminal, kidnapping, murder, gangster, romancing a criminal, confined, gang, master criminal, prison, bandit, mafia ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, 80s
Place:
italy, europe, milan italy
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Italy, Austria, France, UK, Germany, Spain, Sweden
Duration: 384 min.
TV show
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, bad ending ...
Plot:
mafia, cosa nostra, murder, law enforcement, society, fighting crime, family relations, family life, police investigation, organized crime, smuggling, gangster ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
sicily, palermo italy, italy, europe, southern italy
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 36 min.
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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, realistic, stylized, period piece ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
mob boss, mafia, respect, power struggle, relatives, crime boss, british, criminal heroes, betrayal, gangster, victim, loss of family member ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, 90s
Place:
england, london, east end london
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, captivating, atmospheric, epic, dramatic ...
Audience:
boys' night, manly, chick flick, adult
Plot:
mafia, organized crime, gangster, revenge, crime family, betrayal, mob boss, wedding, greed, pride and honor, cosa nostra, violence ...
Time:
1950s, 1940s, 20th century, 50s, year 1972 ...
Place:
italy, new york, bronx new york city, manhattan new york city, sicily ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 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, sensual, erotic, captivating ...
Plot:
drug cartel, organized crime, marijuana, undercover agent, corruption, drug lord, mexican drug cartel, drug, gang, criminal, drug dealing, cocaine ...
Time:
80s, 90s
Place:
mexico, latin america, south america, north america, new mexico
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, History, Mystery
Country: Australia
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
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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, erotic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gang war, organized crime, mafia, power struggle, mob boss, violence spree, gang, gangster, family relations, disorder, trial, lawyer ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 70s, 1910s, 80s ...
Place:
australia, oceania
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: Italy, Germany
TV show
Story:
The story of Saverio Barone, a young prosecutor who in the early nineties became the protagonist of the “caccia alla Mafia” (Mafia-hunt) immediately following the Capaci and Via D'Amelio bombings. Inspired by the true story of the ...
Style:
captivating, intense, talky, realistic, confusing
Plot:
italian mafia, mafia, cosa nostra, prosecutor, servant, justice, hotshot lawyer, judiciary, fighting crime, mob hit, frame up, society ...
Time:
90s
Place:
switzerland
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, robbery, mob boss, chase, prison, organized crime, mafia, biopic, escape, character study, against the rules, notoriety ...
Time:
20th century, y2k, year 2008, 70s
Place:
france, paris france, europe
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA, UK, Italy, Canada
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Oscar-winning producer Al Ruddy’s never before revealed experiences of making the iconic 1972 film The Godfather that Francis Ford Coppola directed and adapted with Mario Puzo.
Style:
period drama
Plot:
godfather, mafia, biopic, library, filmmaking, entertainment industry, jewish american, hollywood, film industry, film producer, movie studio, film history ...
Time:
year 1971, year 1972, 70s
Place:
new york
Similarity:
100%
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, crime family, italian gangster, judge, sicilian mafia, cosa nostra, italian police, carabinieri, heroes, police officer, police officer killed ...
Time:
90s, 80s
Place:
sicily, italy, palermo italy
Similarity:
25%
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 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, serious, realistic, rough, gloomy ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
mafia, organized crime, gangster, mobster, daughter, honeymoon, family relations, criminal, rivalry, hired killer, mob boss, grandfather ...
Time:
70s, 80s, 60s, 20th century
Place:
las vegas, usa
Similarity:
50%
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, criminal heroes, undercover, rivalry, master criminal, going straight, downfall, police corruption, gangster ...
Time:
20th century, year 1985, 80s, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, florida
Similarity:
23%
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Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story:
A look at the life of notorious drug kingpin, El Chapo, from his early days in the 1980s working for the Guadalajara Cartel, to his rise to power of during the '90s and his ultimate downfall in 2016.
Style:
realistic, captivating, factual, atmospheric, inspirational ...
Plot:
cartel, drug cartel, drug lord, business, gang, fight for supremacy, criminal, drug dealing, drug, drug trade, crime boss, mafia ...
Time:
80s
Place:
south america
Similarity:
100%
10K
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, ...
Style:
realistic, serious, rough
Plot:
italian mafia, crime boss, mafia, mobster, gangster, gangsta, organized crime, crime family, biopic, american mafia, mob boss, mob hit ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1992
Place:
usa, new york
Similarity:
23%
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, rebelliousness, fighting the system, political activist, idealism, rebellion, society, dishonesty, media, incompetent police ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
italy, sicily, corsica, europe
Similarity:
22%
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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, serious, realistic, suspenseful, bleak ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
conspiracy, political corruption, politics, mafia, bank, uncover truth, manipulation, clergy, legal, gangster, cons and scams, bankruptcy ...
Time:
80s, 70s, 20th century
Place:
rome italy, italy, london, palermo italy, switzerland ...
Similarity:
22%
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, italian gangster, danger, life is a bitch, society, dishonesty, gangster, italian mafia ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1985
Place:
italy, europe, southern italy, naples italy
Similarity:
22%
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, making love, gang, police investigation, criminal heroes, partner, law enforcement, rivalry, leadership, ransom, drug dealing, sex scene ...
Time:
80s, year 2005, 90s, 70s, 20th century ...
Place:
rome italy, italy
Similarity:
21%
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, prohibition, brutality, gunfight, rise and fall, mafia, murder, police investigation, hitman, gang war, violence, bare breasts ...
Time:
1930s, 1920s, year 1975
Place:
chicago, usa, north america
Similarity:
21%
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:
serious, realistic, suspenseful, rough, controversial ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gangster, betrayal, assassination, dishonesty, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, murder, hitman, gunfight, true crime, crime family, killing spree, organized crime ...
Time:
80s, 70s, 90s, 20th century
Place:
holland, amsterdam
Similarity:
20%
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, suspense, captivating, intense, factual ...
Plot:
mafia, cosa nostra, italian mafia, gangster, trial, sex, mob boss, sicilian mafia, organized crime, italian history, assassination attempt, assassination ...
Time:
20th century, year 1980, year 2000, year 1992, year 1984 ...
Place:
sicily, italy, rome italy, rio de janeiro, miami ...
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
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 ...
Style:
captivating, realistic, suspenseful, serious, erotic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
mafia, organized crime, making love, murder, mob boss, vengeance, blind ambition, family business, criminal heroes, rivalry, gang, dishonesty ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, ireland, usa
Similarity:
20%
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