Italian movies about the mafia

List of the best Italian movies about the mafia and gangsters, American, Italian, Sicilian: Once Upon a Time in America, The Ruthless, Castello Cavalcanti, See You Tomorrow, The Working Class Goes to Heaven, Our Father, Mafia Mamma, Fire at Sea, L'Eclisse, Banzai.

In the top there are new films of 2023, a plot description and trailers for films that have already been released.

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Markimdb: 8.4
Genredrama, crime
CountryItaly, USA
Duration03:49

A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan over thirty years later, where he once again must confront the ghosts and regrets of his old life.

Markimdb: 6.2
Genredrama, crime
CountryItaly, France
Duration02:03

Milan, Italy, 1967. Santo Russo, a boy of Calabrian origin, arrives north with his parents and younger brother to find better living conditions. Due to an absurd misunderstanding and his father's contempt, Santo ends up in prison, where he gets a “true education.” In 1978, he and his friends Slim and Mario embark on a 15-year criminal career, a successful and ruthless spiral of robberies, kidnappings, murders and heroin smuggling.

Markimdb: 7.2
Genrecomedy, drama, short
CountryUSA, Italy
Duration00:08

Taking place in 1955 in Italy, “Castello Cavalcanti” follows Jason Schwartzman as race car driver Jed Cavalcanti who suffers a mishap during the Molte Miglia rally and finds himself in a small town with a few familial surprises.

Markimdb: 5.7
Genrecomedy, family
CountryItaly

2013 Italian comedy

Markimdb: 7.6
Genredrama
CountryItaly

A conscientious factory worker gets his finger cut off by a machine. The accident causes him to become more involved in political and revolutionary groups.

Markimdb: 6
Genredrama
CountryItaly

Two young boys, Valerio and Christian, form a powerful friendship over the summer.

Markimdb: 5.3
Genreaction, comedy, crime
CountryUnited Kingdom, Italy, USA

An American mom inherits her grandfather’s mafia empire in Italy. Guided by the firm’s consigliere, she hilariously defies everyone’s expectations as the new head of the family business.

Markimdb: 6.7
Genredocumentary
CountryItaly, France
Duration01:35

Capturing life on the Italian island of Lampedusa, a frontline in the European migrant crisis.

Markimdb: 7.8
Genremelodrama, drama, detective
CountryItaly, France
Duration02:05

This romantic drama by Michelangelo Antonioni follows the love life of Vittoria, a beautiful literary translator living in Rome. After splitting from her writer boyfriend, Riccardo, Vittoria meets Piero, a lively stockbroker, on the hectic floor of the Roman stock exchange. Though Vittoria and Piero begin a relationship, it is not one without difficulties, and their commitment to one another is tested during an eclipse.

Markimdb: 4
Genrecomedy
CountryItaly
Duration01:20

Sergio Colombo is an insurance agent. He had just gone through a divorce so he is a little bit scattered. Wanting to unwind he plans to go to vacation with a magnificent girlfriend but suddenly he is ordered off to Canada in order to sign an important contract. At the airport Colombo accidentally gets on a plane that flies in a direction directly opposite to Canada - to Bankgok.

Markimdb: 7.7
Genrecomedy, drama
CountryItaly
Duration01:50

Bellissima is a satire of the film industry, and centers on a mother and daughter after the latter attends an audition.

Markimdb: 6.1
Genrecomedy
CountryItaly

Two reckless friends Leonardo (Adriano Celentano) and Luciano (Renato Potstsetto) are just doing whatever they want and getting into endless alterations. When one of them decides to marry, their friendship is in a crisis ...

Markimdb: 6.5
Genrethriller, drama, biography
CountryFrance, Italy, United Kingdom, USA

A film relating from the inside the Notre-Dame de Paris fire of April 2019.

Markimdb: 6.9
Genrehorror, melodrama, drama
CountryItaly, USA

Abandoned by her father, a young woman embarks on a thousand-mile odyssey through the backroads of America where she meets a disenfranchised drifter. But despite their best efforts, all roads lead back to their terrifying pasts and to a final stand that will determine whether their love can survive their otherness.

Markimdb: 6.6
Genrefantasy, comedy, drama
CountryItaly
Duration01:45

An aspiring actor discovers that his spacious new apartment comes complete with eight friendly ghosts.

Markimdb: 5.3
Genreaction, thriller, adventure, crime, sport
CountryUSA, Canada, China, Germany, Austria, Italy
Duration02:25

A young undercover FBI agent infiltrates a gang of thieves who share a common interest in extreme sports. A remake of the 1991 film, "Point Break".

Markimdb: 6.8
Genredrama, biography, history
CountryRussia, Italy

The life of Michelangelo Buonarroti.

Markimdb: 6.9
Genredrama, detective
CountryItaly

A young man returns to his countryside hometown to investigate the unclear circumstances behind the death of his father, ostensibly killed by Fascists in 1936, before his birth. As he unravels a web of lies that seems to encompass the whole town, he finds himself entangled in the same web.

Markimdb: 5.2
Genrecomedy
CountryItaly

Five women celebrate one of the girl's bachelorette party but one of them doesn't show up.

Markimdb: 5.8
Genremelodrama, drama, detective
CountryItaly

In a Naples suspended between magic and superstition, madness and rationality, a mystery envelops the existence of Adriana (Giovanna Mezzogiorno), overwhelmed by a sudden love and a violent crime.

Markimdb: 6.3
Genredrama
CountryItaly

Young and in prison for theft, Daphne falls in love with Josh, another inmate. Their love story exists through secret letters and fleeting conversations.

Markimdb: 6.5
Genredrama
CountryItaly
Duration01:43

An introverted teenager tells his parents he is going on a ski trip, but instead spends his time alone in a basement.

Markimdb: 6.6
Genredrama
CountryItaly

Story about two brothers and their wives, and the interactions between them and their two high school age children. When the kids get into serious trouble together, how will the parents relationships change with and among each other? Will the parents protect the kids or force them to face the consequences of their actions?

Markimdb: 6.5
Genredrama, history
CountryItaly, Belgium
Duration01:42

Romulus and Remus, two shepherds and loyal brothers, end up taking part to a journey that will lead one of them to be the founder of the greatest nation ever seen. However, the fate of the chosen one will pass from killing his own brother.

Markimdb: 7
Genreaction, thriller, crime
CountryUSA, France, Italy, United Kingdom, Germany
Duration01:51

Charlie Croker pulled off the crime of a lifetime. The one thing that he didn't plan on was being double-crossed. Along with a drop-dead gorgeous safecracker, Croker and his team take off to re-steal the loot and end up in a pulse-pounding, pedal-to-the-metal chase that careens up, down, above and below the streets of Los Angeles.

Markimdb: 7.2
Genredrama, sport
CountryItaly
Duration02:08

Giulia De Martino is a pilot. At seventeen she partecipates in the GT Championship, under the guidance of her father Mario. But one day everything changes and Giulia has to face alone both the track and her own life.

Markimdb: 6.5
Genremelodrama
CountryItaly
Duration01:50

Elena (Kasia Smutniak) and Antonio (Francesco Arca) seem not to be made for each other. They are too different in terms of character, life choices, worldview, and the way they relate to others. They are total opposites. However, they are overwhelmed by a mutual attraction they're trying hard to avoid; but to which they succumb to. This dramedy on relationships also gets a very credible performance from Paola Miraccione, who plays the tragic, albeit funny, character Egle.

Markimdb: 6.6
Genredrama
CountryItaly, France
Duration01:43

Rome, 1984, Aria is nine-year-old girl. On the verge of divorce, Aria's infantile and selfish parents are too preoccupied with their careers and extra-marital affairs to properly tend to any of Aria's needs. While her two older sisters are pampered, Aria is treated with cold indifference. Yet she yearns to love and to be loved. At school, Aria excels academically but is considered a misfit by everyone. She is misunderstood. Aria finds comfort in her cat - Dac and in her best friend - Angelica. Thrown out of both parents' homes, abandoned by all, even her best friend, Aria finally reaches the limit of what she can bear. She makes an unexpected decision in her life.

Markimdb: 4.6
Genrethriller
CountryUnited Kingdom, Italy, Spain, USA
Duration01:41

Both a journalist and a documentary filmmaker chase the story of a murder and its prime suspect.

Markimdb: 5.3
Genrecomedy
CountryItaly
Duration01:28

Francis and Claudia are good friends . He is a lawyer, she is veterinary doctor. Among them there are no secrets , until John arrives. Claudia decides to marry him. Francis realizes that friendship between man and women is more complicated.

Markimdb: 5.8
Genredrama
CountryItaly
Duration01:29

Gina and Marco are living in the suburbs of Rome. The two meet on a very special day: their first day at work. They have a future that awaits them and really seems at hand. Gina is about to realize her dream of becoming an actress, while Marco for the first time has found an opportunity that allows him to start dreaming: a job in a car rental company as a driver. They are enabled to know each other since his first duty is to drive Gina to an appointment, and given a delay, they have to share the whole day. This journey will take them from the periphery to the center of the city, will serve both to compare their experiences and think about a future that has already begun...

Markimdb: 7.5
Genremelodrama, drama, crime
CountryItaly
Duration01:40

Titta di Girolamo has been living in a small hotel in Lugano for ten years, he leads a dull and rigid live and has apparently lost his capability to feel human emotion. This all changes when he decides to talk to Sofia, the Barmaid.

Markimdb: 7.5
Genrefantasy, drama
CountryItaly, Luxembourg, France, Germany
Duration01:42

Purehearted teen Lazzaro is content living as a sharecropper in rural Italy, but an unlikely friendship with the marquise’s son will change his world.

Markimdb: 7.2
Genredrama, crime
CountryItaly, France
Duration01:51

The destinies of two families are irrevocably tied together after a cyclist is hit off the road by a jeep in the night before Christmas Eve.

Markimdb: 7.2
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryItaly
Duration01:50

Tommaso is the youngest son of the Cantones, a large, traditional southern Italian family operating a pasta-making business since the 1960s. On a trip home from Rome, where he studies literature and lives with his boyfriend, Tommaso decides to tell his parents the truth about himself. But when he is finally ready to come out in front of the entire family, his older brother Antonio ruins his plans.

Markimdb: 7.8
Genrethriller, drama, crime
CountryItaly
Duration02:11

Virgil Oldman is a world renowned antiques expert and auctioneer. An eccentric genius, he leads a solitary life, going to extreme lengths to keep his distance from the messiness of human relationships. When appointed by the beautiful but emotionally damaged Claire to oversee the valuation and sale of her family’s priceless art collection, Virgil allows himself to form an attachment to her – and soon he is engulfed by a passion which will rock his bland existence to the core.

Markimdb: 7.9
Genremelodrama, drama
CountryItaly, France, USA, Brazil
Duration02:09

Elio Perlman is spending the summer with his family at their vacation home in Lombardy, Italy. When his father hires a handsome doctoral student, the curious 17-year-old finds himself developing a growing attraction to the young man.

Markimdb: 6
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryItaly

Samuele is 16 and has a passion for skateboarding. He has big dreams: going to university, move to California, and travel, but things change when he meets Alice, who could be the girl of his life.

Markimdb: 5.9
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryItaly, France
Duration02:19

A look at the lives of Carlo, Giulia, and their friends some 10 years after the events of L'Ultimo bacio.

Markimdb: 6.1
Genrecomedy
CountryItaly
Duration02:10

Giulia is thirty years old and unmarried. She has a good job which allows her to travel and lead a luxurious life in Milan and Paris. She is convinced that she has everything she needs for happiness, but after meeting Renzo, a charming Apulian farmer, Giulia understands that she's missing the most important thing in her life - true love.

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