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In 1955, Henry Hill becomes enamored by the criminal life and Mafia presence in his working-class Italian-American neighborhood in Brooklyn.He begins working for local caporegime Paulie Cicero and his associates Jimmy "the Gent" Conway, an Irish-American truck hijacker and gangster, and Tommy DeVito, a fellow juvenile delinquent.
The Traitor (Italian: Il traditore) is a 2019 internationally co-produced biographical crime drama film co-written and directed by Marco Bellocchio, about the life of Tommaso Buscetta, the first Sicilian Mafia boss who was treated by some as pentito.
The movie was financed by Netflix and RAI. [2] [3] It stars Pierfrancesco Favino, Elio Germano and Claudio Amendola, and focuses on the connections between organized crime and politics in Rome in 2011, inspired by true events from the Mafia Capitale. [4] Suburra was the name of a suburb of Ancient Rome.
Italian-American actors included Enrico Caruso in the cultural legitimation of American silent cinema, to Rudolph (Rodolfo) Valentino. The of American film Renaissance ( New Hollywood ) in the 1970s coincided with Scorsese 's Mean Streets (1973) and Coppola's The Godfather (1972), Giuliana Muscio attributes this to Italian Americans becoming ...
Gomorrah (Italian: Gomorra) is a 2008 Italian crime drama film directed by Matteo Garrone, based on the non-fiction book of the same name by Roberto Saviano, who also collaborated in the screenplay. It deals with the Casalesi clan , a crime syndicate within the Camorra — a traditional criminal organization based in Naples and Caserta , in the ...
At the same time, there was a period of especially violent conflict and disorder within the Sicilian Mafia, kicked off with the "First Mafia War" of the 1960s and culminating in the "Second Mafia War" of the early 1980s. Italian organized crime groups such as the Sicilian Mafia, the Camorra, and especially the Roman Banda della Magliana were ...
For The Sicilian Girl, Amenta received a David di Donatello nomination for Best New Director. [1] According to a New York Times movie review, the film is hobbled by sluggish direction by Amenta, who previously addressed Atria’s story in his 1997 documentary, One Girl Against the Mafia: Diary of a Sicilian Rebel.
Salvatore Testa, "Salvie", "The Crown Prince of the Philadelphia Mob" (1956–1984) Frank Tieri, "The Old Man", "Funzi" (born Alfonso Tieri, 1904–1981) Albert Tocco, "Caesar Tocco" (1929–2005) Jack Tocco (1927–2014) William Tocco, "Black Bill" (born Guglielmo Vito Tocco, 1897–1972) Frank Todaro (1889–1944) Joseph Todaro Jr., "Big Joe ...