The crime films of Fernando di Leo are poliziotteschi (Italian crime thriller) at its best and these three films in particular dismantle the pulp glorification of the mafia.
Fernando di Leo’s seventies Italian gangster thriller stars Luc Merenda as a hotshop young cop on the take and features some of the most impressive car chases of its era.
Vittorio De Sica directs this classic of life on the streets on Italy in the devastating depression after World War II. It placed in the number 41 spot in the 2022 Sight & Sound Greatest Films of All Time poll.
Fernando di Leo, Italy’s king of crime cinema, directs this thriller about a pimp on the run from a pair of New York hitmen for a crime he was framed for.
This wordless film is like a tone poem that contemplates the odyssey of the soul through the cycles of existence, a mix of natural, spiritual, magical, and metaphysical brought together through cinema.
The sequel to the original ‘Suspiria,’ set in an ominous New York apartment building, is a mystery with the logic of a dream and the vivid style that made Argento’s reputation.
Matteo Garrone transforms Robert Saviano’s nonfiction book into a searing drama about the corrosive effects of organized crime in Naples, a poison on the culture and on the land.
Jean-Louis Trintignant is an Italian repressed bureaucrat who joins the Fascist party in 1930s Italy in Bertolucci’s brilliant study in sex, desire, politics, and personal responsibility.
