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- DirectorCarlo LizzaniStarsGian Maria VolontèDon BackyRay LovelockA detective is assigned to head a manhunt for four violent bank robbers.
- DirectorDamiano DamianiStarsFranco NeroMartin BalsamMarilù ToloIn a city rife with corruption, a cynical police captain clashes with an idealistic district attorney as they attempt to nab an elusive Mafia boss.
- DirectorUmberto LenziStarsMaurizio MerliMario MerolaVan JohnsonItalian mobster, Michele Barresi heads for the safer climate of Brooklyn after his chief rival is gunned down in the small Sicilian town of Corleone. Commissioner Berni learns of his involvement so Barresi takes out a contract on the only two people alive who can put him away. One is Barresi's hired assassin and the other is his girlfriend. Unable to save the girl, Berni manages to arrest the assassin, Salvatore Scalia. The plan is to get Scalia from Palermo to New York to testify against Barresi in court. But the mafia has no intentions of allowing either Berni, or Scalia to make it to New York alive.
- DirectorFernando Di LeoStarsClaudio CassinelliMartin BalsamBarbara BouchetA man is arrested and condemned to five years in jail for robbery. After serving his term, he is out for revenge on the gang members he considers were to blame for his arrest. The prize for this deadly fight is a large cache of diamonds.
- DirectorMatteo GarroneStarsGianfelice ImparatoSalvatore AbbruzzeseToni ServilloScampia Vele is the Corbusian architecture which has become a stronghold for Mafia of Naples, Italy.
- DirectorAlberto De MartinoStarsTelly SavalasAntonio SabatoPaola TedescoOrganized crime boss Don Vincenzo leads the pack and is faced with a huge struggle.
- DirectorUmberto LenziStarsMaurizio MerliJohn SaxonRenzo PalmerA hardened cop is left for dead by the henchmen of a escapee gangster he had previously arrested, and upon recovery relentlessly pursues them.
- DirectorEnzo G. CastellariStarsFranco NeroGiancarlo PreteBarbara BachAn engineer seeks vigilante justice against the gangsters who took him hostage, and forms an unlikely partnership with a young robber to bring them down.
- DirectorElio PetriStarsGian Maria VolontèFlorinda BolkanGianni SantuccioA chief of detectives, homicide section, kills his mistress and deliberately leaves clues to prove his own responsibility for the crime.
- DirectorDamiano DamianiStarsGian Maria VolontèErland JosephsonMario AdorfJourney into the fears of the escort agent Graziano, guilty of knowing too much.
- DirectorFlorestano VanciniStarsRenato SalvatoriJean-Claude BrialyTomas MilianBased on the misdeeds of the criminal group headed by Paolo Casaroli, who was dedicated to robbing banks.
- DirectorUmberto LenziStarsTomas MilianPino ColizziIsa DanieliA hunchbacked gangster is betrayed by his gang during a robbery, and plots his revenge with the help of his no-good brother.
- DirectorFernando Di LeoStarsMario AdorfHenry SilvaWoody StrodeA Milanese pimp is pursued by - and then pursues - a pair of New York hitmen and the gangsters who framed him for stealing a shipment of heroin.
- DirectorDamiano DamianiStarsFranco NeroRiccardo CucciollaGeorges WilsonAn architect jailed for a traffic violation discovers the grim reality of life behind bars, including corrupt staff and inmates, an inhuman judicial system, and the power of the Mafia.
- DirectorFernando Di LeoStarsGastone MoschinBarbara BouchetMario AdorfA former gangster is forced to resume his old lifestyle when his violent, jealous ex-colleagues and the police believe that he knows the location of a stolen cache of $300,000.
- DirectorUmberto LenziStarsMaurizio MerliArthur KennedyGiampiero AlbertiniA tough, rule-bending cop pursues a maniacal, trigger-happy hunchback, a one-handed bank robber and their cronies in an effort to bring Rome's most powerful crime lord to justice.
- DirectorBruno CorbucciStarsTomas MilianJack PalanceMaria Rosaria OmaggioA top undercover cop finds and arrests a series of purse snatchers until he discovers an American at the top of an evil ring of thieves.
- DirectorDamiano DamianiStarsGiuliano GemmaMartin BalsamLaura TrotterTwo Italian policemen investigate Mafia-influenced corruption within their own department.
- DirectorPietro GermiStarsGina LollobrigidaRenato BaldiniCosetta GrecoFour criminals commit a robbery at a soccer stadium, and then split up to try to hide separately from the police.
- DirectorSergio MartinoStarsLuc MerendaMel FerrerDelia BoccardoStarting the investigation of a murder mystery, a police man is to investigate dangerously top politicians and military. A chain of suicides takes its toll among the current and past leaders of Italy in a particularly difficult season for the Italian Democracy.
- DirectorPaolo SorrentinoStarsToni ServilloOlivia MagnaniAdriano GianniniAn introverted man's life changes completely when he finds himself attracted to a young barmaid.
- DirectorMatteo GarroneStarsErnesto MahieuxValerio Foglia ManzilloElisabetta RocchettiA solitary embalmer meets a charming and unemployed waiter who becomes his assistant, but the two get involved in a morbid and unhealthy professional and personal relationship.
- DirectorUmberto LenziStarsMaurizio MerliJohn SaxonBarry SullivanAn uncompromising cop gets transferred to Naples on account of this city's atrocious crime levels. His no-hold-barred police methods are considered to be the perfect anti-dote.
- DirectorCarlo LizzaniStarsAndrea BalestriDomenico SantoroFrançoise FabianMino and Lello, two sons of a worker wrongly accused of murder, try to find out evidence of his innocence and begin to investigate mafia business in Torino.
- DirectorMario LanfranchiStarsTony Lo BiancoMaud AdamsAdolfo CeliThe city suffers and succumbs unarmed, but an ex secret agent succeeds in winning the struggle against the gangsterism. Intrigue and violence grip a society victim of the crime.
- DirectorAntonio ManettiMarco ManettiStarsGiampaolo MorelliElisabetta RocchettiGiuseppe SaccàMancini has to place a bomb inside a large bank to destroy some important documents inconvenient for a shady client.
- DirectorClaudio CaligariStarsValerio MastandreaMarco GialliniGiorgio TirabassiA former policeman turns full-time criminal and goes on a downward spiral of crime in the 1980s Rome.
- DirectorCarlo LizzaniMino GiardaStarsCinzia MambrettiCristina MoranzoniAnnarita GrapputoYoung girls(13-20's) are drawn into the web of prostitution where they are bought and sold like slaves.
- DirectorDamiano DamianiStarsGiuliano GemmaEleonora GiorgiMichele PlacidoNino, a regular working-class guy, finds that a hitman has been hired to kill him. He discovers that a wealthy woman has been kidnapped and that everyone who was involved in it is being killed off. However, Nino had nothing to do with the kidnapping and has to find out who has sent the killers and stop them before it's too late.
- DirectorStenoStarsEnrico Maria SalernoMariangela MelatoMario AdorfThis is a story of a secret organization of former police officers, who go beyond the law, to kill notorious criminals without trial. One police inspector, (Enrico Maria Salerno) tries to stop them, but the attorney (Mario Adorf) is not convinced by his conspiracy theories, so the inspector is basically on his own and can't trust anyone.
- DirectorClaudio CaligariStarsCesare FerrettiMichela MioniEnzo Di BenedettoThe alienating and repetitive life of a group of heroin junkies in the 1980s Rome.
- DirectorFernando Di LeoStarsLuc MerendaRichard ConteDelia BoccardoA police lieutenant suddenly faces the consequences of his choice to part for the local mobs.
- DirectorVittorio SalernoStarsEnzo CerusicoRiccardo CucciollaJunie VetustoWhen the eyewitness to a brutal murder decides not to testify, the actual murderer chooses to finger him as the murderer and claim eyewitness status for himself.
- DirectorMario MonicelliStarsAlberto SordiShelley WintersVincenzo CrocittiA meek middle-aged man finally takes justice into his own hands.
- DirectorNanni LoyStarsAlberto SordiElga AndersenLino BanfiThe surveyor Giuseppe Di Noi experiments the troubles of the Italian Justice System of the '70s while back in Italy for a vacation.
- DirectorDaniele CostantiniStarsFrancesco PannofinoRoberto BrunettiFrancesco Maria DominedòThe real story of "Banda della Magliana" (Magliana gang) from 1975 to almost 1991. The "Banda" became step by step the most powerful gang in Roma, so relevant to be used also by Italian intelligence for its "black operations" and treated with respect also by Sicilian mafia.
- DirectorCarlo LizzaniStarsDaniele AstiBrigitte SkayGiuliano CesareoA group of neo-nazi youngsters, usual customers of a bar in the famous Milan public square, lives through one day of madness passing between assaults, rapes and homicides. Thanks to the testimony of one of the victims the four criminals will be assured to the Police justice
- DirectorMario CaianoStarsLeonard MannIda GalliHenry SilvaA police commissioner tries to bring a gangster to justice as the kingpin's out-of-control crimes set even his own underworld allies against him.
- DirectorEttore ScolaStarsUgo TognazziSilvia DionisioTano CimarosaA police commissioner in a little town in the Italian Venetian province investigates a prostitution ring run by two pensioners; during his investigations he also learns that a former manicurist shacks up with ten students, the prefect's daughter prostitutes to keep her pimp, a famous doctor has sex with his young patients, a headmaster has his eyes on the pupils, a noblewoman organizes orgies in her villa, the local convent is run by a dyke and his actual girlfriend poses for a hardcore magazine. He wants everything to come out in the open but his superiors try to put obstacles in his way.
- DirectorLuigi ComenciniStarsNino ManfrediMario AdorfValeria MoriconiAn inept thief wants to escape prison and return to his family, but two of his prison mates also want out.
- DirectorAlessandro PivaStarsDino AbbresciaMino BarbaresePaolo SassanelliA couple of criminals look for a little box full of drug, all around Bari
- DirectorMarino GirolamiStarsMaurizio MerliRaymond PellegrinJohn SaxonA crime syndicate starts a crime wave in Turin, they rob a bank, taking a hostage to get away from Police Inspector Betti and Ferrari, his partner. However, the hostage turned out to be their accomplice in disguise.
- DirectorSiro MarcelliniStarsKlaus KinskiMaurice PoliFranco CittiA con man pulls a double-cross on a gang of vicious bank robbers.
- DirectorGianluca PetrazziStarsDaniele BlandoAlessandro BorghiSimona CavallariMarco Lanzi, vice chief added in a police station in the outskirts of Rome, lost his father, Commissioner, killed before his eyes when he was a child. Known for his character impulsive, irrational, he decides from that day to follow in his footsteps and do his work a reason for living, alongside Gargiulo former colleague of his father and lifelong friend. Vince Marrazzo "er Toretto", is serving thirty years for various crimes over the years and is identified as the man giving the murder of commissioner Lanzi. His release Marco moves in the anger of those who still feel that pain more alive than ever. Just left, "Er Toretto" immediately comes in contact with the "Columbia", companion before dirty jobs, then of the cell. He came out years before, you gain an important position in the panorama Roman criminal and not only offers the toretto to return to the square. So it puts in motion a mechanism criminal reached standstill for years and Toretto is back in search of the old guard, his team, the real one. Marco Lanzi sniffs something and would not give up, even investigates even after being suspended from service for misconduct. The police do not matter anymore, it's a personal matter, a matter between him and the Toretto. The mechanism is in motion and not servers, at least not until Lanzi, the Columbia and the Toretto come to a confrontation that will leave behind them a trail of dead unprecedented, but also a comparison with the ghosts of their past.