Best "sicilian mafia" Movies of All Time

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The Irishman(2019)

3.8/5 (with 2,970 votes)

Pennsylvania, 1956. Frank Sheeran, a war veteran of Irish origin who works as a truck driver, accidentally meets mobster Russell Bufalino. Once Frank becomes his trusted man, Bufalino sends him to Chicago with the task of helping Jimmy Hoffa, a powerful union leader related to organized crime, with whom Frank will maintain a close friendship for nearly twenty years.

Directed by Martin Scorsese - With Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Bobby Cannavale, Harvey Keitel, Joe Pesci, Ray Romano, ...

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One Hundred Steps(2000)

1h 54min | Drama, History

3.9/5 (with 293 votes)

Peppino Impastato is a quick-witted lad growing up in 1970s small-town Sicily. Despite living in a family with Mafia ties, one hundred steps away from the house of local boss Tano Badalamenti, Peppino denounces the whole Mafia system by using a small local radio station to broadcast his political pronouncements in the form of ironic humour.

Directed by Marco Tullio Giordana - With Luigi Lo Cascio, Luigi Maria Burruano, Lucia Sardo, Paolo Briguglia, Tony Sperandeo, Andrea Tidona, ...

The Traitor(2019)

| 2h 31min | Drama, Crime, Thriller

3.9/5 (with 597 votes)

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 Italy, he makes a bold decision that will change his life and the destiny of Cosa Nostra forever.

Directed by Marco Bellocchio - With Pierfrancesco Favino, Maria Fernanda Cândido, Luigi Lo Cascio, Fabrizio Ferracane, Giovanni Calcagno, Bebo Storti, ...

The Godfather Trilogy: 1901-1980(1992)

9h 43min | Crime, Drama

4.5/5 (with 70 votes)

The multigenerational saga of the rise and fall of the Corleone crime family. Story is told in chronological order, and numerous scenes that were deleted from each film have been restored.

Directed by Francis Ford Coppola - With Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, Robert Duvall, James Caan, Diane Keaton, Robert De Niro, ...

The Mafia Kills Only in Summer(2013)

1h 30min | Romance / Love, Comedy, Crime, Drama

3.7/5 (with 524 votes)

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 organization.

Directed by Pif - With Cristiana Capotondi, Claudio Gioè, Ninni Bruschetta, Barbara Tabita, Pif, Maurizio Marchetti, ...

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The Sicilian(1987)

| 1h 56min | Drama, Crime, Thriller

2.6/5 (with 52 votes)

Egocentric bandit Salvatore Giuliano fights the Church, the Mafia, and the landed gentry while leading a populist movement for Sicilian independence.

Directed by Michael Cimino - With Christopher Lambert, John Turturro, Joss Ackland, Barbara Sukowa, Terence Stamp, Giulia Boschi, ...

Salvatore Giuliano(1962)

1h 59min | Crime, Drama, History

3.8/5 (with 44 votes)

Sicilian bandit Salvatore Giuliano's bullet-riddled corpse is found facedown in a courtyard in Castelvetrano, a handgun and rifle by his side. Local and international press descend upon the scene, hoping to crack open the true story behind the death of this young man, who, at the age of twenty-seven, had already become Italy’s most wanted criminal and celebrated hero.

Directed by Francesco Rosi - With Salvo Randone, Frank Wolff, Nando Cicero, Sennuccio Benelli, Max Cartier

Johnny Stecchino(1991)

1h 42min | Comedy

3.7/5 (with 468 votes)

Good hearted but not very wordly-wise, Dante is happy driving the school bus for a group of mentally handicapped children, while feeling he is somehow missing out on life and love. So he is very excited when after nearly being knocked down by her car he meets Maria, who seems immediately enamoured of him. He is soon invited to her sumptuous Palermo villa, little suspecting that this is part of a plot. He bears an amazing likeness to Maria's stool-pigeon gangster husband and it would be convenient for them if the mobster, in the shape of Dante, was seen to be dead and buried.

Directed by Roberto Benigni - With Roberto Benigni, Nicoletta Braschi, Paolo Bonacelli, Franco Volpi, Ivano Marescotti, Turi Scalia, ...

Quel bravo ragazzo(2016)

1h 21min | Comedy

2.7/5 (with 88 votes)

On his deathbed, a powerful Mafia boss names his estranged son heir to his criminal empire: however, his men discover too late that the son at issue is an idiotic manchild.

Directed by Enrico Lando - With Enrico Lo Verso, Ninni Bruschetta, Mario Pupella, Giampaolo Morelli, Luigi Maria Burruano, Jordi Mollà, ...

Our Godfather(2019)

1h 32min | Documentary, History

3.3/5 (with 29 votes)

The story of how Sicilian Mafia boss Tommaso Buscetta (1928-2000), the Godfather of Two Worlds, revealed, starting in 1984, the deepest secrets of the organization, thus helping to convict the hundreds of mafiosi who were tried in the trial held in Palermo between 1986 and 1987.

Directed by Mark Franchetti, Andrew Meier

Darkroom(2013)

1h 21min | Thriller, Horror

2.6/5 (with 21 votes)

Michelle kills three of her friends in a horrific car accident while driving under the influence. After rehab, Michelle takes a job recommended by her counselor that lands her trapped in a mansion with three psychotic siblings hell bent on physical torture to purge Michelle of her sins.

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A Judge of Honor(2004)

3h | Drama

3.5/5 (with 31 votes)

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 gang headed up by Totò Riina.

Directed by Gianluca Maria Tavarelli

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A Woman of Courage(2016)

1h 39min | Drama, TV Movie

3.6/5 (with 18 votes)

Felicia Impastato, mother of the brave Peppino Impastato, tries to keep the memory of his son alive after his murder.

Directed by Gianfranco Albano - With Lunetta Savino, Gaetano Aronica, Antonio Catania, Giorgio Colangeli, Fabrizio Ferracane

Mafia Is Not What It Used to Be(2019)

1h 45min | Documentary

3.8/5 (with 23 votes)

Palermo, Sicily, Italy, 2017. Twenty-five years after the murders of anti-mafia judges Giovanni Falcone, on May 23, 1992, and Paolo Borsellino, on July 19, 1992; and on the occasion of the tributes held in memory of both heroes, skeptical photographer Letizia Battaglia, chronicler of their titanic combat, criticizes the opportunism of shady characters who, like businessman Ciccio Mira, profit from the commemoration of both tragedies.

Directed by Franco Maresco - With Letizia Battaglia

Mafioso(1962)

| 1h 45min | Crime, Drama, Comedy

3.8/5 (with 20 votes)

When a good-natured factory supervisor living in Milan with his Northern wife returns to his native Sicily, a decades' old oath forces him to fulfill a nightmarish obligation.

Directed by Alberto Lattuada - With Alberto Sordi, Norma Bengell, Katiuscia, Michèle Bailly, Robert Dalban

La mossa del cavallo(2018)

1h 51min | Drama, Thriller, TV Movie

3.8/5 (with 20 votes)

Montelusa, Sicily, Italy, 1877. Giovanni Bovara, the new chief inspector of the mills, is charged with collecting a severe tax. Sicilian by birth, but Ligurian by adoption, he reasons and speaks as a man of northern Italy and does not understand the dynamics of the law of silence that regulate the Sicilian land, so his intransigence immediately gives him several enemies….

Directed by Gianluca Maria Tavarelli

Excellent Cadavers(1999)

1h 42min | Drama, Thriller, History, TV Movie, Crime

3.2/5 (with 9 votes)

Palermo, Sicily, 1984. Examining magistrate Giovanni Falcone allies with Tomasso Buscetta, a former mobster, to defeat the clan of Corleone, the ruthless Mafia faction that rules Cosa Nostra with an iron hand, cruelly eliminating all those who dare to oppose its immense power: other criminals, policemen, judges, even innocent civilians. One of them wants revenge, the other wants justice. But only one can survive such an unequal fight.

Directed by Ricky Tognazzi - With Chazz Palminteri, F. Murray Abraham, Anna Galiena, Andy Luotto, Lina Sastri, Arnoldo Foà, ...

I Am the Law(1977)

1h 53min | Drama, History, Thriller

3.7/5 (with 8 votes)

Palermo, Sicily, November 1925. Cesare Mori, the new prefect of the city, soon to be known as the Iron Prefect, begins a ruthless war against the Mafia, a sinister organization that has subjugated the island for centuries, something that the dictator Benito Mussolini and the fascist authorities can no longer allow.

Directed by Pasquale Squitieri - With Claudia Cardinale, Giuliano Gemma, Stefano Satta Flores, Francisco Rabal, Lina Sastri, Massimo Mollica, ...

Salvo(2013)

1h 50min | Drama, Thriller

3.0/5 (with 16 votes)

Salvo, a ruthless Sicilian Mafia hit man, changes his priorities after being involved in a bloody ambush.

Directed by Fabio Grassadonia, Antonio Piazza - With Luigi Lo Cascio, Saleh Bakri, Sara Serraiocco, Mario Pupella

The Repenter(1985)

2h | Crime

3.2/5 (with 2 votes)

A judge on crusade to take down the Italian Mafia uses a gangster turned state's witness (a so-called "repenter") and a New York banker to do it. But things aren't quite what they seem.

Directed by Pasquale Squitieri - With Tony Musante, Franco Nero, Max von Sydow, Erik Estrada, Rita Rusić, Ivo Garrani, ...

Shooting the Mafia(2019)

1h 34min | Documentary, History

3.6/5 (with 8 votes)

Sicilian photojournalist Letizia Battaglia began a long battle against the ruthless Cosa Nostra when she first photographed the sinister scene of a brutal murder. Documenting the barbaric rule of the Italian Mafia, she was an unwavering witness to its crimes. His art and courage helped end the horrific and bloody reign of the Corleonesi clan.

Directed by Kim Longinotto - With Letizia Battaglia

Before the Night(2018)

1h 58min | TV Movie, Drama, History

3.4/5 (with 9 votes)

The life and times of Pippo Fava, a Sicilian journalist who fought the Mafia through his local newspaper in the '70s and early '80s, meeting an untimely end.

Directed by Daniele Vicari - With Fabrizio Gifuni, Aurora Quattrocchi, Lorenza Indovina, Beniamino Marcone, Dario Aita, Marco Iannitello, ...

Koza Nostra(2022)

Comedy

3.0/5 (with 7 votes)

When Vlada Koza, a mature Ukrainian woman, intrusive and caring, becomes a grandmother for the first time, she drops everything and travels to Sicily from her home in the Carpathian mountains to join her daughter... without warning! But the girl does not appreciate her mother's suffocating attention, so she puts her at the door without much hesitation. Thus, Vlada finds herself alone and penniless in the Sicilian hinterland. An unexpected car accident makes her become the unlikely governess of Don Fredo, boss of the Laganàs: a dysfunctional mafia family struggling to survive in the modern world. The irrepressible intrusiveness of Vlada, who loves feeling useful, taking care of others, fixing things and giving advice, seems to bring a hint of palpable well-being within the walls of Villa Laganà... At least until the day she finds out who Don Fredo and his children really are!

Directed by Giovanni Dotta

Kings Of Astoria(2022)

1h 45min | Crime, Drama

From indie filmmaking partners Giuseppe and Giacomo Davi comes a new, startlingly original take on the mob movie genre. Freshly released from prison after being arrested at the young age of 16, former crime boss Giuseppe Todd has to come to terms and grow with a crime family that's moved on without him.

Lucky One(2019)

1h 18min

Ageing gangster Vincent works long nights and dreams of another life. When he is unexpectedly given responsibility for his teenage daughter, his life starts to change.

Directed by Mia Engberg

Spider(1972)

1h 5min | Action, Crime

Masked hero "Örumcek" (The Spider) takes on Renzo's band of villains in this action caper with a fast pace.

The Valley of the Jato(2013)

1h 7min | Documentary

In the heart of Sicily, where the Mafia still rules, one man and his family-run TV station, has become the lone voice against corruption and organized crime.

Cesare Mori - Il prefetto di ferro(2012)

3h 20min | Drama, History

2.5/5 (with 1 vote)

Two-part miniseries about the real-life "Iron Governor" who battled the Sicilian Mafia during the early decades of the 20th Century.

Io lo so chi siete(2022)

Documentary

On August 5, 1989, the policeman Nino Agostino was brutally killed together with his wife Ida Castelluccio, who was two months pregnant. The documentary tells about Vincenzo Agostino, the man who, despite 31 years have passed since his son's death at the hands of the mafia, seeks justice and fights with great determination to discover the truth behind the murder.

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