Also ranks #6 on The 11 Best Italian Zombie Movies Of All Time Also ranks #16 on The Best British Zombie Movies 110 Affliction Nick Nolte, Sissy Spacek, James Coburn 2 votes In a small New Hampshire town, washed-up cop Wade Whitehouse (Nick Nolte) has a troubled past, an abu...
In this gripping Italian crime drama, The Ruthless chronicles the rise and fall of a Milanese mob boss as he navigates a world of corruption and betrayal. With a captivating lead performance by Riccardo Scamarcio, the film delves deep into the complexities of the criminal mind while also reveali...
There have been many movies set inside British lock-ups, ranging from grim and gritty (‘Hunger’, ‘Starred Up’) to oddly jaunty (‘The Italian Job’, ‘Paddington 2’). None of them packs quite the wallop of Alan Clarke’s hugely influential portrayal of life inside of a British ...
An American/Italian co-production from the great Italian director Sergio Leone (The Good, The Bad and the Ugly), the movie didn’t have the most illustrious beginning in the United States, as it was released in a truncated version (139 minutes down from 229 in Europe) that critics and au...
An Italian nun in the Catholic Church who claimed to experience mystical visions, Carlini engaged in a sexual affair with one of her fellow nuns and was imprisoned by the papacy when the scandal was discovered. Verhoeven’s ‘Benedetta’ has only a glancing relationship with the real history ...
(Gabrielle Fitzpatrick). Diana stumbles across a cocaine deal gone awry between the Italian mob and a street gang called The Demons, which she ultimately catches on camera. The mob boss sees the reporter, Diana, and her partner Richard (Peter Houghton), and has his gang give chase. Richard...
In the roaring 1920s, when lawlessness reigned and booze flowed, Jack McGurn was a rising star in the underground world ofboxing. But it wasn’t his prowess in the ring that would make him infamous – it was his meteoric rise through the ranks of the notorious Italian mob....
Mario Bava, the maestro of Italian horror, was the key stylistic progenitor of the giallo film. Yet even as his style grew ever more florid and violent and baroque, he never made a movie more powerful than his first. Shot in the moodiest of studio-system black and white, it was origina...
Mario Bava, the maestro of Italian horror, was the key stylistic progenitor of the giallo film. Yet even as his style grew ever more florid and violent and baroque, he never made a movie more powerful than his first. Shot in the moodiest of studio-system black and white, it was origina...
When an American thinks of gangster movies, they often bring to mind classics such as The Godfather trilogy or Goodfellas. Hollywood has long featured the suave and dangerous men of organized crime, and while their focus is usually the Italian mob or the Russian mafia, any type of criminal ...