Poliziottesco movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant poliziottesco movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out poliziottesco, suspenseful, serious, realistic, rough and cult classic films and TV shows about / with italian police, police, police officer, violence, police officer killed, gangster, organized crime, revenge, female nudity and shot in the chest plots mostly in Crime, Action and Thriller genres shot in Italy, France, Spain and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as poliziottesco: The Mad Dog Killer (1977), Violent Naples (1976), Gang War in Milan (1973), City Under Siege (1974), The Bloody Hands of the Law (1973), The Last Desperate Hours (1974), Milano Violenta (1976), High Crime (1973), The Boss (1973), The Tough Ones (1976).
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List of poliziottesco movies
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Sadistic no-count killer Nanni Vitali and three other equally brutish hoodlums escape from prison. The foul foursome embark on a savage rape, murder, and robbery spree. Vitali even abducts and defiles frightened hapless lass Giuliana Caroli. ...
Style:
poliziottesco, grindhouse, slasher, cult classic, fast ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
italian police, exploitation, police, police officer, female pubic hair, female nudity, criminal, guy, rape, heist, murder, psychopath ...
Time:
70s
Place:
italy
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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, 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, serious, realistic, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
police, italian police, police officer, camorra, organized crime, car theft, mafia, sicilian mafia, crime family, italian mafia, police interrogation, undercover cop ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
italy, europe, naples italy, napoli italy
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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, rough, suspenseful
Plot:
police, italian police, murder, gangster, gang war, strong violent content, nudity, urban, criminal's revenge, rivalry, betrayal, criminal heroes ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
italy, europe
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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, crime drama, dark, suspense, detective ...
Plot:
police, violence, mobster, organized crime, pursuit, gang, cop killer, criminal underworld, law enforcement, manhunt, italian police, corruption ...
Time:
70s
Place:
rome italy, italy
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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, crime thriller, dark, grim, suspenseful ...
Plot:
prostitution, investigation, police procedural, urban decay, murder mystery, underworld, organized crime, crime wave, moral ambiguity, jewel theft, social commentary, revenge ...
Time:
70s
Place:
italy
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Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
When a crime boss is murdered while in hospital, a young woman sees the killers, but her room mate convinces her not to tell the police, fearing the consequences. Unfortunately the murderers realize that they have been seen, and kill both women. ...
Style:
poliziottesco, dark, detective, suspenseful, noir ...
Plot:
murder, police, hitman, corruption, justice, organized crime, police brutality, conspiracy, cover up, mafia, vigilante, investigation ...
Time:
70s
Place:
italy, rome italy
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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, crime thriller, dark, suspenseful, grim ...
Plot:
mafia, woman strangled to death, police, revenge, organized crime, gangster, vengeance, urban, underworld, violent, corruption, moral ambiguity ...
Time:
70s
Place:
milan italy
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Genre: Action, 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, dark, suspense, brutal, tension ...
Plot:
gangster, criminal gang, heist gone wrong, violent, hostage situation, revenge, betrayal, organized crime, law enforcement, investigation, underworld, bloodbath ...
Time:
70s
Place:
italy, milan italy
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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, italian police, police officer, shootout, organized crime, italian gangster, italian mafia, dirty harry, car crash, gun fu, drug ...
Place:
italy
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Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 100 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:
poliziottesco, grindhouse, action thriller, perverse, cult classic ...
Plot:
italian police, mafia, exploitation, police, italian mafia, organized crime, police officer, sex, female nudity, italian gangster, sicilian mafia, explosions ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
italy, sicily, europe, palermo italy
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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, hardboiled detective, serious, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
italian police, police, car chase, gang rape, rape, hostage, machine gun, chase, psychopath, criminal underworld, bank robbery, fighting crime ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
italy, rome italy, europe
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Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 76 min.
Story:
Carlo Antonelli, an engineer from Genoa, gets mugged and decides to take justice into his own hands. At first the muggers seem to get the upper hand, but then he's helped by Tommy, a young robber who takes his side.
Style:
poliziottesco, action thriller, cult classic, grindhouse, exciting ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
revenge, police officer, police, italian police, car chase, vigilante, female nudity, nude girl, organized crime, lawyer, corruption, rebellion ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
italy, europe
Is relevant?
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:
car chase, italian police, police, bus, bank robbery, hostage, hijacking, violence, betrayal, revenge, prostitute, blood ...
Place:
italy
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Genre: Action, Crime
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A drug deal goes bad and the heroin is stolen. One mob boss doesn't have his drugs and the other doesn't get his money. People are going to die until they discover who double-crossed them. Into this backdrop, Inspector Dario Mauri arrives ...
Style:
poliziottesco, perverse
Plot:
italian police, police, rape, police officer killed, police shootout, camorra, black cat, chase, murder, organized crime, telephone call, female nudity ...
Place:
napoli italy, italy, naples italy
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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, psychotronic, neo noir
Plot:
italian police, police, car chase, female nudity, organized crime, buddy cop, police officer, make love, making love, disfigurement, home invasion, pig ...
Place:
rome italy, italy, milan italy
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: UK, Italy
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Franco Nero and Telly Savalas star in the story of a trio of jewel thieves who take it on the lamb after the heist goes very wrong. Wrecking their car they take another unaware that there is a teenager hiding in the background. As the flight becomes ...
Style:
poliziottesco, independent film
Plot:
bare chested male, gay subtext, teenage boy, heist, border, man boy relationship, robbery, criminal, kidnapping, jewel thief, heist gone wrong, on the lam ...
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Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Italy, Turkey
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
On a mission in Istanbul, an interpol agent disrupts the activities of a powerful drug lord and his accomplices. To get rid of him, the gangsters blackmail a skeet shooting champion into shooting the inspector.
Style:
poliziottesco, crime thriller, suspenseful, crime drama, tense ...
Plot:
drug traffic, interpol, betrayal, crime boss, gangster, investigation, criminal syndicate, undercover cop, criminal underworld, law enforcement, blackmail, police procedural ...
Time:
70s
Place:
istanbul turkey
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Genre: Action, Crime
Country: Italy
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A murderous drug dealer breaks his partner out of police custody. An undercover cop is assigned to track down the two killers and bring them in.
Style:
poliziottesco, crime thriller, detective, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot:
murder, undercover cop, drug, violence, urban, gunfight, manhunt, investigation, organized crime, police procedural, moral ambiguity, male protagonist ...
Time:
70s
Place:
italy
Is relevant?
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, dark comedy, cult classic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
mafia, organized crime, hitman, italian police, police, italian mafia, pimp, hooker, police officer, manhunt, revenge, female nudity ...
Time:
year 1972, 70s, 20th century
Place:
italy, europe, new york, milan italy
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Police detective Paolo Germi and the mysterious Marisa meet each other at a dance hall. Germi is unsuspecting of the secret Marisa is carrying with her: adverse conditions forced her into prostitution. As Germi finds the young girl brutally ...
Style:
poliziottesco, cult classic, detective, perverse, grindhouse ...
Plot:
sex, dead prostitute, murder, prostitute, bomb, bribe, cinema, pistol, shooting, murder of a prostitute, car chase, dead woman ...
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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:
cat, kitten, animal cruelty, italian police, police, violent, dirty cop, police detective, mafia, police officer killed, male objectification, corruption ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
italy
Is relevant?
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:
italian police, police, vigilante, female nudity, woman with a gun, revenge, bank robbery, death, brutality, car accident, gangster, flashback ...
Place:
italy
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Napoli spara! (internationally released as Weapons of Death and Naples shoots) is a "poliziottesco" film directed by Mario Caiano in 1977. It is an unofficial sequel of Napoli violenta, of which reprises the character of Gennarino (still ...
Style:
poliziottesco, perverse, hood
Plot:
italian police, gangster, police, police officer, sicilian mafia, gang, ghetto, mafia, shootout, car crash, gun fu, justice ...
Time:
70s
Place:
napoli italy, naples italy
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 90 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, perverse, noir
Plot:
hitman, professional killer, italian mafia, italian police, mafia, police, car chase, mobster, police officer, italian gangster, lgbt, vigilante ...
Time:
70s
Place:
italy, copenhagen, sicily, hamburg germany, milan italy
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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:
italian police, police, robbery, police officer, politics, car chase, social commentary, anarchist, theft, tough heroes, heist, chases and races ...
Time:
60s
Place:
italy, milan italy
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Cigarette smugglers in Naples run into problems with cocaine operations being set up by a rival smuggler. Full of violence, including a women's face being burned off with a blow torch and a graphic rape scene.
Style:
poliziottesco, realistic, suspenseful, serious, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
rape and revenge, rape, mafia, chase, gangster, gang, drug dealing, rivalry, law enforcement, tough heroes, criminal heroes, life is a bitch ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
europe, italy, napoli italy, naples italy
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A biker's brother is killed while investigating the kidnapping of a young boy, the byproduct of a war between two crime families. The biker vows to get revenge by finding the kidnapped boy and destroying the two families.
Style:
poliziottesco, fast, realistic, serious, exciting ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
italian police, kidnapping, motorcycle, police officer, revenge, police, vigilante, biker gang, crime family, gangster, violent content, criminal's revenge ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
italy
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Just out of prison, ex-con Ugo Piazza meets his former employer, a psychopathic gangster Rocco who enjoys sick violence and torture. Both the gangsters and the police believe Ugo has hidden $300,000 that should have gone to an American drug ...
Style:
poliziottesco, grindhouse, slasher, action thriller, cult classic ...
Audience:
manly, boys' night
Plot:
male male relationship, mafia, female nudity, italian police, organized crime, bare chested male, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, prostitute, love, swimming pool, sex, mobster ...
Time:
year 1972, 20th century, 70s
Place:
italy, europe, milan italy
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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, italian police, police, cat, exploitation, mafia, organized crime, gangster, strong violent content, tough heroes, car chase, against the rules ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
italy, rome italy, europe
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