Directed by: Marco Bellocchio
Screenplay by: Marco Bellocchio, Ludovica Rampoldi, Valia Santella, Francesco Piccolo
Starring: Pierfrancesco Favino, Maria Fernanda Candido, Fabrizio Ferracane, Luigi Lo Cascio, Fausto Russo Alesi, Nicola Calì
THE TRAITOR tells the true story of Tommaso Buscetta, the man who brought down the Cosa Nostra. In the early 1980's, an all out war rages between Sicilian mafia bosses over the heroin trade. Tommaso Buscetta, a made man, flees to hide out in Brazil. Back home, scores are being settled and Buscetta watches from afar as his sons and brother are killed in Palermo, knowing he may be next. Arrested and extradited to Italy by the Brazilian police, Buscetta makes a decision that will change everything for the Mafia: he decides to meet with Judge Giovanni Falcone and betray the eternal vow he made to the Cosa Nostra.
Michele Placido directs this Italian gangster thriller based on the life of Milanese career criminal Renato Vallanzasca. Kim Rossi-Stuart stars as the psychopathic yet perversely charismatic anti-hero, who is serving four consecutive life sentences for a tidal wave of kidnappings, murders and bank robberies that terrorised Milan in the 1970s. The film follows his gang's story, exploring how Vallanzasca first entered the criminal world and fast became an infamous mob boss, leading inevitably to his imprisonment. Francesco Scianna, Valeria Solarino and Paz Vega co-star.
WHITE BOY RICKWhite Boy Rick is a 2018 American biographical crime drama film directed by Yann Demange and written by Andy Weiss, and Logan and Noah Miller. Based on a true story, the film stars Richie Merritt as Richard Wershe Jr., who in the 1980s became the youngest FBI informant ever at the age of 14.
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