Fernando Di Leo
1) The boss
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Italiano
Description
Based largely on real people and actual events, Fernando Di Leo's action-packed film- the final part of his Milieu Trilogy- is his boldest commentary on corruption and the criminal underworld. A bomb attack in a cinema in Palermo kills all the members of one mafia family except for Cocchi. Realizing that the instigator of the bomb attack is Daniello from another mafia family, Cocchi is determined to revenge. Lanzetta, a hired killed employed by Daniello...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Italiano
Description
Fernando Di Leo was a prolific filmmaker who explored the political extremism and mafia corruption in Italy during the 1970's. Master of garish, intricately plotted, ultra-violent stories about pimps and petty gangsters, Di Leo has perfected the genre with an uncanny accuracy. Di Leo's films demonstrate the degradation of the working classes and how the mafia corrupted them. Though he slipped out of public consciousness after his death in 2003, his...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Italiano
Description
The second film in Fernando Di Leo's Milieu Trilogy focuses on Luca Carnali, a small-time mobster and pimp who has been set up by his gangland boss. When a shipment of heroin disappears between Italy and New York, Carnali is framed for the theft. Carnali is pursued through Milan by a pair of merciless American hit men- played by Henry Silva and Woody Strode, and referenced by Quentin Tarantino in Pulp Fiction - whom mistakenly believe that he has...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Italiano
Description
Referenced in Tarantino's Kill Bill Vol. 2, Uomini Si Nasce Poliziotti Si Muore (Live like a cop, die like a man, 1976) opens with an insane motorcycle chase that was filmed in rush hour in downtown Rome with no permission from the local authorities. To top it off, this is one of the most violent and unconventional Italian style action films of its time. The credit goes to the director, Ruggero Deodato, best known for his infamous and censored film...
5) Il boss
Series
Publisher
RaroVideo
Pub. Date
c2011.
Language
Italiano
Description
In the final part of Di Leo's Milieu Trilogy, Nick Lanzetta takes out several members of a rival crime family for his boss Don Corrasco, provoking retribution and a violent power struggle within the Mafia.
Publisher
RaroVideo
Pub. Date
c2011.
Language
Italiano
Formats
Description
In the first film of Fernando di Leo's Milieu trilogy, small-time gangster Ugo Piazza has just been released from prison. He tries to convince the police, the mafia, and his one-time associate Rocco, a sadistic hoodlum who enjoys sick violence and torture, that he wants to go straight, but everyone believes he has $300,000 of stolen money hidden somewhere.
Pub. Date
2013
Language
Italiano
Formats
Description
Kidnap syndicate: Colella is a hard working but struggling mechanic who raises his son Fabrizio after his wife dies. Fabrizio is friends with Antonio son of the extremely rich but incredibly repugnant businessman Filippini. When criminals kidnap Antonio in front of the school, the brave Fabrizio tries to prevent this and the nervous kidnappers pull him into the car as well.
Shoot first die later: Luc Merenda gives the performance of his career as...