Italian gangster movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant italian gangster movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, serious, rough, suspenseful, suspense and tense films and TV shows about / with italian gangster, gangster, mafia, italian mafia, organized crime, murder, crime family, mobster, criminal and corruption plots mostly in Crime, Drama and Thriller genres shot in Italy, USA, France and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as italian gangster: The Bodyguards (1993), The Sicilian (1987), Fort Apache Napoli (2009), A Quiet Life (2010), The Godfather Part III (1990), Gomorrah (2008), The Professor (1986), The Palermo Connection (1990), Giovanni Falcone (1993), Excellent Cadavers (1999).
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List of italian gangster movies
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
The film shows the difficulties of an honest, imperiled judge and his bodyguard of four men, trying to clean up a Sicilian town. Corrupt local politicians, working hand-in-hand with the Mafia, will stop at nothing to prevent exposure of their ...
Style:
serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful, tension ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
italian gangster, italian mafia, mafia, organized crime, crime family, italian politics, politics, assassination, police corruption, political corruption, life turned upside down, political conspiracy ...
Time:
90s
Place:
sicily, europe, italy
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Egocentric bandit Salvatore Guiliano fights the Church, the Mafia, and the landed gentry while leading a populist movement for Sicilian independence.
Style:
intense, serious, realistic, suspense, spiritual ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
mafia, betrayal, gunfight, sicilian, leadership, politics, society, dishonesty, political unrest, gangster, class differences, italian gangster ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s, year 1987
Place:
sicily, italy, europe
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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, 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
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy, France, Germany
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
The story of a man who murdered thirty-two people, gained power, and then got afraid because too many people wanted to kill him. One August morning, he disappeared. For fifteen years, everyone believed him dead.
Style:
tense, serious, rough, psychological, realistic ...
Plot:
murderer, father son relationship, italian gangster, gangster, hitman, hidden identity, parents and children, faked death, family relations, dishonesty, criminal heroes, haunted by the past ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
germany, naples italy, europe, frankfurt germany
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 162 min.
Story:
In the midst of trying to legitimize his business dealings in 1979 New York and Italy, aging mafia don, Michael Corleone seeks forgiveness for his sins while taking a young protege under his wing.
Style:
saga, epic, neo noir, visually appealing, bad ending ...
Audience:
manly, boys' night, adult
Plot:
mafia, organized crime, revenge, gangster, violence, cosa nostra, italian mafia, murder, guilt, sicilian mafia, assassination, catholic church ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, 80s, year 1990, year 1980 ...
Place:
italy, sicily, palermo italy, new york, atlantic city new jersey ...
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53K
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy, Belgium
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
An inside look at Italy's modern-day crime families, the Camorra in Naples and Caserta. Based on a book by Roberto Saviano. Power, money and blood: these are the "values" that the residents of the Province of Naples and Caserta have ...
Style:
tense, harsh, realistic, serious, depressing ...
Plot:
juvenile delinquency, gang war, mafia, camorra, gangster, death, danger, organized crime, italian mafia, gang, power, character study ...
Time:
year 2008, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
italy, napoli italy, europe, venice, miami ...
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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
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Carmine Bonavia wins election as the mayor of New York on a promise to legalize drugs. After the election, he marries Carrie and goes to his ancestral home of Sicily for their honeymoon. In his hotel, he meets Il Principe, a Sicilian prince who has ...
Style:
serious, realistic, exciting, rough, suspenseful
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
politics, italian mafia, italian gangster, mafia, circus, crime family, wedding, against the odds, hip hop, frame up, drug abuse, political corruption ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
sicily, italy, new york, palermo italy
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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, 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
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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, realistic, serious, suspenseful
Plot:
mafia, cosa nostra, italian mafia, italian gangster, crime family, organized crime, law, historical figure, italian history, law enforcement, fighting crime, dishonesty ...
Time:
80s, 90s, 20th century
Place:
sicily, europe, italy
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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
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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, police officer, carabinieri, true crime, italian gangster, italian mafia, cosa nostra, crime family, sicilian mafia, man killed, mob hit ...
Time:
90s, 80s
Place:
sicily, italy
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
While Arturo tries to gain the love of Flora, he witnesses the history of Sicily from 1969 to 1992, miraculously dodging the crimes of the Mafia and supporting as a journalist the heroic struggle of the judges and policemen who fought this infamous ...
Style:
humorous, semi serious, sentimental, stylized, realistic ...
Plot:
mafia, youth, gangster, unfulfilled love, coincidence, love and romance, innocence lost, mob boss, italian mafia, italian gangster, cosa nostra, boss ...
Time:
20th century, 2010s, 80s, 70s, 90s
Place:
sicily, italy, europe, palermo italy
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
A gangster known as "Samurai" wants to turn the waterfront of Rome into a new Las Vegas. All the local mob bosses have agreed to work for this common goal. But peace is not to last long.
Style:
suspense, tense, suspenseful, disturbing, neo noir ...
Plot:
mafia, corruption, politics, drug overdose, female nudity, revenge, prostitute, murder, threesome, political corruption, church, heroin ...
Time:
2010s, year 2015, year 2011, 21st century
Place:
rome italy, italy
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
A group of teens find themselves in Greece for a holiday break, when too much Raki changes the course of their trip and they have to ditch a body and get square with an Italian gangster.
Style:
dark comedy, black comedy, fast paced
Plot:
party, cover up, vacation, panic, italian gangster, accidental death, friends, misadventure, teenager, young adult, nightlife, island ...
Place:
greece
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354K
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
An FBI undercover agent infilitrates the mob and finds himself identifying more with the mafia life at the expense of his regular one.
Style:
neo noir, clever, suspense, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
mafia, undercover, organized crime, mobster, mentor, fbi, working undercover, italian mafia, fbi agent, undercover agent, law enforcement, friends ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1997, 90s, year 1978
Place:
new york, new jersey, miami, florida, usa ...
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468K
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 209 min.
Story:
A mob hit man recalls his possible involvement with the slaying of Jimmy Hoffa.
Style:
captivating, inspirational, tense, exciting, crime drama ...
Audience:
chick flick, adult
Plot:
mafia, organized crime, labor union, italian mafia, gangster, killer as protagonist, high society, old man, mob hit, arrest, prison, hitman ...
Time:
year 2019, 20th century, 1940s, year 1960, 70s ...
Place:
philadelphia, pennsylvania, chicago, ireland, washington d.c. ...
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Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A former drug lord returns from prison determined to wipe out all his competition and distribute the profits of his operations to New York's poor and lower classes in this stylish and ultra violent modern twist on Robin Hood.
Style:
neo noir, atmospheric, detective, hood, intense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gang, organized crime, gangster, mafia, drug lord, murder, cocaine, mob boss, violence, redemption, prison, subway ...
Time:
year 1990, 20th century, 80s, 90s
Place:
new york, italy, usa, manhattan new york city, bronx new york city ...
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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 ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 143 min.
Story:
The Gamache, tailors from father to son, have been dressing the Mafia family Paternò for three generation. Vincent "Vince" Gamache works on behalf of Frank the godfather with his eldest son Giaco. Vince, reckless and rash, seeks to earn ...
Style:
tense, suspense, contemplative, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
mafia, violence, gangster, murder, mob boss, crime boss, gang war, family business, organized crime, brutality, family relations, friendship ...
Time:
80s, 90s, 2010s, year 1994, year 1980 ...
Place:
canada, venezuela, quebec, montreal, rome italy
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Young Anthony Soprano is growing up in one of the most tumultuous eras in Newark, N.J., history, becoming a man just as rival gangsters start to rise up and challenge the all-powerful DiMeo crime family. Caught up in the changing times is the uncle ...
Style:
captivating, tense, disturbing, suspense, dramatic ...
Plot:
mafia, criminal, gang, gangster, gang war, mobster, bandit, organized crime, criminal underworld, crime boss, mafioso, fight for supremacy ...
Time:
60s, year 1967, 70s, year 1972, year 1971
Place:
new york, new jersey, usa
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613K
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA, France
Duration: 178 min.
Story:
The life of the gambling paradise – Las Vegas – and its dark mafia underbelly.
Style:
realistic, clever, rough, neo noir, stylized ...
Audience:
boys' night, adult
Plot:
organized crime, mafia, casino, rise and fall, gangster, betrayal, money, gambling, greed, criminal heroes, mobster, cosa nostra ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, 90s, 80s, year 1973 ...
Place:
las vegas, chicago, missouri, israel, usa ...
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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 ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
Young Treasury Agent Elliot Ness arrives in Chicago and is determined to take down Al Capone, but it's not going to be easy because Capone has the police in his pocket. Ness meets Jimmy Malone, a veteran patrolman and probably the most ...
Style:
clever, suspenseful, period piece, inspirational, exciting ...
Audience:
boys' night, manly, adult
Plot:
mafia, gangster, organized crime, corruption, prohibition era, mentor, shootout, smuggling, prohibition, police, tax evasion, gunfight ...
Time:
1930s, 1920s, 20th century, year 1987
Place:
chicago, america, usa
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35K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
The story of the legalization and subsequent rise of the porn industry in New York’s Times Square from the early ’70s through the mid ’80s, exploring the rough-and-tumble world that existed there until the rise of HIV, the violence of the ...
Style:
sexy, captivating, suspenseful, erotic, sensual ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
porn industry, prostitution, sex, female nudity, closeted homosexual, porn actor, bare breasts, sleaze, society, sex scene, rivalry, porn ...
Time:
70s, year 1984, year 1985, year 1971, year 1972 ...
Place:
usa, new york state, manhattan new york city, new york
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
Terry Noonan returns home to New York's Hells Kitchen after a ten year absence. He soon hooks up with childhood pal Jackie who is involved in the Irish mob run by his brother Frankie. Terry also rekindles an old flame with Jackie's sister ...
Style:
neo noir, intense, atmospheric, psychological, captivating ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gangster, gang, mafia, organized crime, st. patrick's day, undercover, irish gangster, homecoming, friendship, working undercover, irish mob, gunfight ...
Time:
80s, 90s, 20th century
Place:
new york, ireland, manhattan new york city, bronx new york city, usa ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 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, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
female nudity, police, mafia, police officer, italian police, corruption, gang violence, corrupt, italian mafia, woman with a gun, nude girl, italian gangster ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
italy
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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
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182K
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
Set in the Bronx during the tumultuous 1960s, an adolescent boy is torn between his honest, working-class father and a violent yet charismatic crime boss. Complicating matters is the youngster's growing attraction - forbidden in his ...
Style:
sentimental, intense, suspense, hood, retro ...
Audience:
boys' night, adult
Plot:
mafia, coming of age, mentor, gangster, organized crime, gang leader, father son relationship, mobster, african american, friendship, mob boss, white male black female relationship ...
Time:
60s, 20th century, year 1960, year 1993, 90s ...
Place:
new york, bronx new york city, usa, new york state, new jersey
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story:
In 2008, a fight over land in a seaside town near Rome spirals into a deadly battle between organized crime, corrupt politicians and the Vatican.
Style:
suspense, tense, captivating, disturbing, exciting ...
Plot:
gay, mafia, organized crime, male male relationship, gangster, corruption, rivalry, gang, murder, female nudity, betrayal, dishonesty ...
Time:
2000s, year 2008, 21st century
Place:
rome italy, new mexico
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