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1. The Equalizer 3 (2023)
R | 109 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
Robert McCall finds himself at home in Southern Italy but he discovers his friends are under the control of local crime bosses. As events turn deadly, McCall knows what he has to do: become his friends' protector by taking on the mafia.
Director: Antoine Fuqua | Stars: Denzel Washington, Dakota Fanning, Eugenio Mastrandrea, David Denman
Votes: 113,909
2. All the Money in the World (2017)
R | 132 min | Crime, Drama, History
The story of the kidnapping of 16-year-old John Paul Getty III and the desperate attempt by his devoted mother to convince his billionaire grandfather Jean Paul Getty to pay the ransom.
Director: Ridley Scott | Stars: Michelle Williams, Christopher Plummer, Mark Wahlberg, Romain Duris
Votes: 90,970 | Gross: $25.11M
3. Man on Fire (1987)
R | 92 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
A former CIA agent, John Creasy, is hired as a bodyguard for a girl in Italy, who becomes the daughter he never had. When she is abducted, Creasy's fiery rage is unleashed, and despite being badly wounded, embarks on a bloody revenge spree.
Director: Élie Chouraqui | Stars: Scott Glenn, Jade Malle, Joe Pesci, Brooke Adams
Votes: 3,006 | Gross: $0.52M
4. The Bird with the Crystal Plumage (1970)
GP | 96 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
An American expatriate in Rome attempts to unmask a serial killer he witnessed in the act of an attempted murder - and is now hunting him and his girlfriend.
Director: Dario Argento | Stars: Tony Musante, Suzy Kendall, Enrico Maria Salerno, Eva Renzi
Votes: 24,065 | Gross: $0.42M
5. The Traitor (2019)
R | 153 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
The real life of Tommaso Buscetta, the so-called "boss of the two worlds," the first mafia informant in Sicily in the 1980s.
Director: Marco Bellocchio | Stars: Pierfrancesco Favino, Maria Fernanda Cândido, Fabrizio Ferracane, Fausto Russo Alesi
Votes: 12,934
6. The Girl in the Fog (2017)
PG-13 | 128 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Special agent Vogel is sent to an isolated town in a remote mountain valley to investigate the case of a sixteen years old's disappearance.
Director: Donato Carrisi | Stars: Toni Servillo, Alessio Boni, Lorenzo Richelmy, Galatea Ranzi
Votes: 13,009
7. They Call Me Jeeg Robot (2015)
112 min | Action, Comedy, Drama
Lonely, misanthropic small-time crook Enzo uses the superpowers he gained after falling into the Tiber River to chase down a crazy gangster called "The Gypsy."
Director: Gabriele Mainetti | Stars: Claudio Santamaria, Luca Marinelli, Ilenia Pastorelli, Stefano Ambrogi
Votes: 16,281
8. The Face of an Angel (2014)
Not Rated | 101 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Both a journalist and a documentary filmmaker chase the story of a murder and its prime suspect.
Director: Michael Winterbottom | Stars: Ava Acres, Daniel Brühl, Kate Beckinsale, Anjella Mackintosh
Votes: 5,229
9. On My Skin: The Last Seven Days of Stefano Cucchi (2018)
TV-MA | 100 min | Biography, Drama
The incredible true story behind the most controversial Italian court cases in recent years. Stefano Cucchi was arrested for a minor crime but in just one week's time, a family is changed forever.
Director: Alessio Cremonini | Stars: Alessandro Borghi, Massimiliano Tortora, Milvia Marigliano, Jasmine Trinca
Votes: 10,179
10. Almost Human (1974)
R | 99 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A small-time homicidal maniac kidnaps a young heiress, prompting a cop to pursue him before he can kill the girl once the hefty ransom is paid.
Director: Umberto Lenzi | Stars: Tomas Milian, Henry Silva, Laura Belli, Gino Santercole
Votes: 2,906
11. Baaria (2009)
Not Rated | 163 min | Comedy, Drama
Baaria is Sicilian slang for Bagheria where Tornatore was born and this is an autobiographic epic of three generations in the Sicilian village where he was born.
Director: Giuseppe Tornatore | Stars: Francesco Scianna, Margareth Madè, Lina Sastri, Ángela Molina
Votes: 7,983 | Gross: $0.00M
12. Piazza Fontana: The Italian Conspiracy (2012)
129 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A chronicle of the 1969 bombing at a major national bank in Milan and its aftermath.
Director: Marco Tullio Giordana | Stars: Valerio Mastandrea, Pierfrancesco Favino, Michela Cescon, Giorgio Colangeli
Votes: 2,875
13. The Boss (1973)
R | 100 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
A hitman finds himself embroiled in the middle of a Mafia war between the Sicilians and the Calabrians.
Director: Fernando Di Leo | Stars: Henry Silva, Richard Conte, Gianni Garko, Antonia Santilli
Votes: 2,335
14. A.C.A.B. - All Cops Are Bastards (2012)
112 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A look at the controversial riot cops unit, told through the stories of three veteran cops and a young recruit.
Director: Stefano Sollima | Stars: Pierfrancesco Favino, Filippo Nigro, Marco Giallini, Andrea Sartoretti
Votes: 8,148
15. Diaz - Don't Clean Up This Blood (2012)
127 min | Drama
A reenactment of the final days of the 2001 G8 Summit.
Director: Daniele Vicari | Stars: Claudio Santamaria, Jennifer Ulrich, Elio Germano, Davide Iacopini
Votes: 4,057
16. Angel of Evil (2010)
R | 125 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
A biography of Milanese bank robber Renato Vallanzasca.
Director: Michele Placido | Stars: Kim Rossi Stuart, Filippo Timi, Valeria Solarino, Moritz Bleibtreu
Votes: 3,439
17. The Designated Victim (1971)
R | 105 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Seeking an escape from his unhappy marriage, a disillusioned advertising executive is lured by a sociopathic Count into a bizarre plot to kill each other's relatives.
Director: Maurizio Lucidi | Stars: Tomas Milian, Pierre Clémenti, Katia Christine, Luigi Casellato
Votes: 862
18. Supernova (2023)
90 min | Drama
A teenage girl with leukemia and a fellow patient embark on a journey to locate her estranged father, who is her only matching donor for a marrow transplant.
Director: Tiziano Russo | Stars: Carolina Sala, Rocco Fasano, Fabio Troiano, Laila Al Habash
Votes: 85
19. Assassination on the Tiber (1979)
96 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
A black-out occurs during the meeting of a gang of criminals. When the light is back one of them is found killed with a stab on his back and all the clues point to a penniless man who had ... See full summary »
Director: Bruno Corbucci | Stars: Tomas Milian, Marina Ripa di Meana, Roberta Manfredi, Alberto Farnese
Votes: 389
20. Detective De Luca (2008)
Drama, War
Italian series that is based on the De Luca detective novels by Carlo Lucarelli. The detective De Luca is a man of principle, passion and determination to solve the cases despite of turbulent and unsettling times he lives in.
Stars: Alessandro Preziosi, Corrado Fortuna, Rolando Ravello, Raffaella Rea
Votes: 303
21. The Goodbye Kiss (2006)
107 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
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... See full summary »
Director: Michele Soavi | Stars: Alessio Boni, Michele Placido, Isabella Ferrari, Alina Nedelea
Votes: 1,383
22. Dirty Weekend (1973)
107 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
In 1970s Italy, an industrialist and his mistress are taken hostage by three left-wing extremists who robbed a bank but the police and a media circus follow them closely on a cross-country car chase.
Director: Dino Risi | Stars: Marcello Mastroianni, Oliver Reed, Carole André, Lionel Stander
Votes: 558
23. Giovanni Falcone (1993)
124 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
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... See full summary »
Director: Giuseppe Ferrara | Stars: Michele Placido, Anna Bonaiuto, Massimo Bonetti, Nello Riviè
Votes: 379
24. The Assassin (1952)
Approved | 90 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Travelling to Venice to locate an ex-partisan on behalf of a French insurance company, a British private detective gets mixed-up in a political assassination conspiracy.
Director: Ralph Thomas | Stars: Richard Todd, Eva Bartok, John Gregson, George Coulouris
Votes: 552
25. Falchi: Falcons Special Squad (2017)
Not Rated | 111 min | Crime, Drama
Falchi is a melodrama set in the city of Naples, in its pulsating multi ethnic veins. The movie tells the story of two agents of the Special Squad of Naples, a police unit that investigates... See full summary »
Director: Toni D'Angelo | Stars: Fortunato Cerlino, Michele Riondino, Aniello Arena, Pippo Delbono
Votes: 350
26. Mean Frank and Crazy Tony (1973)
R | 85 min | Comedy, Crime
This is a buddy film with a small-time thug (Victor Lobianco) meeting a high-profile gangster (Lee Van Cleef) while in prison. The pair team up to attempt a prison breakout.
Director: Michele Lupo | Stars: Lee Van Cleef, Tony Lo Bianco, Edwige Fenech, Jean Rochefort
Votes: 493
27. Totò diabolicus (1962)
95 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery
The Marquis Galeazzo di Torre Alta is murdered by a mysterious killer who calls himself Diabolicus. His heirs are his three brothers and a sister, but all of them except Monsignor Antonino ... See full summary »
Director: Steno | Stars: Totò, Raimondo Vianello, Nadia Sanders, Luigi Pavese
Votes: 786
28. Delitto a Porta Romana (1980)
92 min | Comedy, Crime
A police inspector is called to Milan to investigate a murder case since he grew up in the same ghetto as the suspect.
Director: Bruno Corbucci | Stars: Tomas Milian, Bombolo, Olimpia Di Nardo, Nerina Montagnani
Votes: 415
29. Checkpoint (1956)
Not Rated | 86 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
After killing a few Italian cops during a burglary, a thief hired by a British car racing company must flee to Switzerland disguised as a race car driver during a rally.
Director: Ralph Thomas | Stars: Anthony Steel, Odile Versois, Stanley Baker, James Robertson Justice
Votes: 307
30. Squadra antifurto (1976)
102 min | Action, Comedy
Tomas Milian as the unconventional undercover cop with a pet mouse named 'Serpico'. Still difficult for an investigation commissioner Nico Giraldi, this time struggling with a gang who commits theft in luxury apartments in Rome.
Director: Bruno Corbucci | Stars: Tomas Milian, Robert Webber, Lilli Carati, Giuseppe Pambieri
Votes: 434
31. I contrabbandieri di Santa Lucia (1979)
94 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
With the American Mafia families pooling their resources to bring huge quantities of cheap heroin into the country, it's up to customs official Ivano Radevic to allow the authorities to intercept the drugs en route to the USA.
Director: Alfonso Brescia | Stars: Mario Merola, Antonio Sabato, Gianni Garko, Jeff Blynn
Votes: 163
32. Season for Assassins (1975)
102 min | Action, Crime, Drama
As a gang of youths terrorizes a city, the weary chief of police finds himself caught between the citizens who cry for blood and a catholic priest who believes the boys will respond to kindness.
Director: Marcello Andrei | Stars: Joe Dallesandro, Martin Balsam, Magali Noël, Rossano Brazzi
Votes: 145
33. The Light Touch (1951)
Approved | 93 min | Crime, Drama
After a professional art thief steals a religious painting from an Italian museum, he tries to cheat his partner by claiming the painting was accidentally destroyed but his suspicious partner and the police are determined to find it.
Director: Richard Brooks | Stars: Stewart Granger, Pier Angeli, George Sanders, Kurt Kasznar
Votes: 503
34. Shadows Unseen (1972)
102 min | Drama, Crime
A journalist is attacked and killed. Inspector Luca Micheli investigates the crime, and finds a suspect named Delogo but, though the suspect himself confesses that he murdered Galiardin, ... See full summary »
Director: Camillo Bazzoni | Stars: Frederick Stafford, Marilù Tolo, Franco Fabrizi, Reinhard Kolldehoff
Votes: 117
35. Il vigile (1960)
104 min | Comedy
An unemployed man gets a job as traffic policeman but the traffic in the big city creates innumerous problems for the poor guy.
Director: Luigi Zampa | Stars: Alberto Sordi, Vittorio De Sica, Marisa Merlini, Mara Berni
Votes: 1,567
36. Cento giorni a Palermo (1984)
107 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
In the late 1970s and early 80s, assassinations in Sicily get the attention of Communist deputy, Pio La Torre, who appeals to General Carlo Alberto Dalla Chiesa to become prefect in Palermo... See full summary »
Director: Giuseppe Ferrara | Stars: Lino Ventura, Giuliana de Sio, Arnoldo Foà, Lino Troisi
Votes: 730
37. Risking (1976)
Not Rated | 94 min | Crime, Thriller
An undercover cop goes to jail to infiltrate a gang and uses his assignment to get revenge.
Director: Francesco Prosperi | Stars: Ray Lovelock, Martin Balsam, Elke Sommer, Ettore Manni
Votes: 275
38. The Assassination of Matteotti (1973)
120 min | Drama
How the Italian Fascist Party managed to turn the physical elimination of a political enemy into a test of strength fundamental for the ascent into the totalitarian regime.
Director: Florestano Vancini | Stars: Franco Nero, Mario Adorf, Riccardo Cucciolla, Damiano Damiani
Votes: 347
39. Song of Napoli (2013)
TV-14 | 114 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
A newly hired cop from Naples, with a past in music studies, gets recruited for a special mission as a pianist for a band close to a mob boss.
Directors: Antonio Manetti, Marco Manetti | Stars: Alessandro Roja, Giampaolo Morelli, Serena Rossi, Paolo Sassanelli
Votes: 888
40. La legge violenta della squadra anticrimine (1976)
88 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A mobster kills a cop during a robbery so he finds himself pursued by the police, his gang, and the media.
Director: Stelvio Massi | Stars: John Saxon, Lee J. Cobb, Renzo Palmer, Lino Capolicchio
Votes: 193
41. The Warning (1980)
Not Rated | 104 min | Crime, Drama
Two Italian policemen investigate Mafia-influenced corruption within their own department.
Director: Damiano Damiani | Stars: Giuliano Gemma, Martin Balsam, Laura Trotter, Giancarlo Zanetti
Votes: 208
42. Uno bianca (2001 TV Movie)
190 min | Drama
Rimini, 1991. For more than a year, the uno bianca gang - they always use a white Fiat Uno - has plagued the area. Their crimes are violent, sometimes killing carabineri, and there's no ... See full summary »
Director: Michele Soavi | Stars: Kim Rossi Stuart, Dino Abbrescia, Dario D'Ambrosi, Claudio Botosso
Votes: 348
43. Poliziotti (1995)
89 min | Crime, Drama
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.
Director: Giulio Base | Stars: Claudio Amendola, Kim Rossi Stuart, Michele Placido, Nadia Farès
Votes: 172
44. Alex l'ariete (2000)
122 min | Action, Crime
Alessandro Corso is a special forces carabiniere. During an operation he saves a child but cause the death of one of his comrades. He's then transferred to a peaceful little town, where he ... See full summary »
Director: Damiano Damiani | Stars: Alberto Tomba, Michelle Hunziker, Orso Maria Guerrini, Corinne Cléry
Votes: 884
45. Delitto sull'autostrada (1982)
91 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Undercover cop Nico Giraldi is once again transformed, now as a trucker in a criminal gang.
Director: Bruno Corbucci | Stars: Tomas Milian, Viola Valentino, Olimpia Di Nardo, Giorgio Trestini
Votes: 405
46. Double Game (1977)
85 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
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 ... See full summary »
Director: Carlo Ausino | Stars: George Hilton, Emanuele Cannarsa, Giuseppe Alotta, Annarita Grapputo
Votes: 246
47. No Sun in Venice (1957)
96 min | Crime, Drama
In Venice, a French agent tries to recover printing plates, used to print fake currency, from an ex-Nazi who stole them during WW2.
Director: Roger Vadim | Stars: Françoise Arnoul, Christian Marquand, Robert Hossein, O.E. Hasse
Votes: 155
48. Milan Palermo - The Return (2007)
95 min | Action, Crime, Drama
After 11 years in prison, Mafia accountant Turi Arcangelo Leofonte can return to freedom.
Director: Claudio Fragasso | Stars: Giancarlo Giannini, Raoul Bova, Ricky Memphis, Simone Corrente
Votes: 281
49. Zappatore (1980)
100 min | Drama
A digger breaks his back night and day to let his son study and become a lawyer. When the young man becomes one, he soon forgets his humble parents, goes to New York and associates with rich people.
Director: Alfonso Brescia | Stars: Mario Merola, Regina Bianchi, Gerardo Amato, Mara Venier
Votes: 92
50. Les passagers (1977)
96 min | Drama, Thriller
A man and his stepson driving across Europe are terrorized by a man following them in a pickup truck.
Director: Serge Leroy | Stars: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Mireille Darc, Bernard Fresson, Richard Constantini
Votes: 193