The film shows the difficulties of an honest, imperiled judge and his bodyguard of four men, trying to clean up a Sicilian town. Corrupt local politicians, working hand-in-hand with the Mafia, will stop at nothing to prevent exposure of their rackets.
Peppino Impastato is a quick-witted lad growing up in 1970s Sicily. Despite hailing from a family with Mafia ties and living just one hundred steps from the house of local boss Tano Badalamenti, Peppino decides to expose the Mafia by using a pirate radio station to broadcast his political pronouncements in the form of ironic humour.
Felice returns to his native Rione Sanità in Naples to look after his dying mother, having lived abroad for the last forty years. Here he discovers that his old friend Oreste has become a notorious crimeboss.
A two-bit criminal takes on the Mafia to avenge his brother's death. Earl Macklin is a small time criminal who is released from prison after an unsuccessful bank robbery only to discover that a pair of gunmen killed his brother.
Chicago February 14th 1929. Al Capone finally establishes himself as the city's boss of organised crime. In a north-side garage his hoods, dressed as policemen, surprise and mow down with machine-guns the key members of Bugs Moran's rival gang. The film traces the history of the incident, and the lives affected and in some cases ended by it.
İtalyan yönetmen Gabriele Salvatores'in pek çok festivalden ödülle dönen, gerilim konusunda Hollywood filmlerine ders verir nitelik taşıyan filmi, Michele'nin terk edilmiş kulübenin altında yaralı bereli bir çocuk bulmasıyla başlayan gizemli olayları anlatır. Güney İtalya'nın müthiş manzaralarını kartpostal gibi görüntülerle veren, yerinde kullanılan müziklerle temiz ve dokunaklı yapısını güçlendiren film, çocukların dünyası ile yetişkinlerin şiddet içeren dünyası arasında gidip gelmeler yaşatır. Özellikle çocuk oyuncuların başarılı performansıyla samimi bir his uyandıran yapıt, yönetmenin korkutma kaygısı gütmeden yarattığı gerilimle seyirciyi sürpriz bir sona hazırlar.