Poliziotteschi films constitute a sub-genre of crime

Crime film

Crime films are films which focus on the lives of criminals. The stylistic approach to a crime film varies from realistic portrayals of real-life criminal figures, to the far-fetched evil doings of imaginary arch-villains. Criminal acts are almost always glorified in these movies.- Plays and films...

 and action film

Action film

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 that emerged in Italy

Italy

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 in the late 1960s and reached the height of their popularity in the 1970s. Poliziotteschi films are also known as poliziottesco, Italo-crime, Euro-crime or simply Italian crime films.

In Italian, poliziesco or poliziesco all'italiana is the grammatically correct Italian adjective (resulting from the fusion of the noun polizia "police" and the desinence -esco "related to", akin to the English "-esque") for police-related dramas, ranging from Ed McBain's police procedural

Police procedural

The police procedural is a subgenre of detective fiction which attempts to convincingly depict the activities of a police force as they investigate crimes. While traditional detective novels usually concentrate on a single crime, police procedurals frequently depict investigations into several...

 novels to Forensic science investigations. Poliziesco is used generally to indicate every fiction production where police forces (Italian or foreign) are the main protagonists.

The term poliziottesco, a fusion of the words poliziotto ("policeman") and the same -esco desinence, indicates 1970s-era Italian-produced "tough cop" and crime movies. Recurring elements in poliziotteschi films include graphic and brutal violence, organized crime

Organized crime

Organized crime or criminal organizations are transnational, national, or local groupings of highly centralized enterprises run by criminals for the purpose of engaging in illegal activity, most commonly for monetary profit. Some criminal organizations, such as terrorist organizations, are...

, car chase

Car chase

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s, vigilantism, heists

Heist film

A heist film is a film that has an intricate plot woven around a group of people trying to steal something. Versions with dominant or prominent comic elements are often called caper movies. They could be described as the analogues of caper stories in film history...

, gunfights, and corruption

Police corruption

Police corruption is a specific form of police misconduct designed to obtain financial benefits, other personal gain, or career advancement for a police officer or officers in exchange for not pursuing, or selectively pursuing, an investigation or arrest....

 up to the highest levels.

History

Although the sub-genre has its roots in the films of the late 1960s, such as Bandits in Milan

Bandits in Milan

Bandits in Milan is a 1968 Italian crime film directed by Carlo Lizzani. It was listed to compete at the 1968 Cannes Film Festival, but the festival was cancelled due to the events of May 1968 in France...

 (Banditi a Milano, 1968) by Carlo Lizzani, it was influenced by such rough-edged American

United States

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 police thrillers of the early 1970s as Dirty Harry

Dirty Harry

Dirty Harry is a 1971 American crime thriller produced and directed by Don Siegel, the first in the Dirty Harry series. Clint Eastwood plays the title role, in his first outing as San Francisco Police Department Inspector "Dirty" Harry Callahan....

, The French Connection

The French Connection (film)

This article is about the 1971 film. For the British fashion label, see French Connection .The French Connection is a 1971 American crime film directed by William Friedkin. The film was adapted and fictionalized by Ernest Tidyman from the non-fiction book by Robin Moore...

, and Serpico

Serpico

Serpico is a 1973 American crime film directed by Sidney Lumet. It is based on the true story of New York City policeman Frank Serpico, who went undercover to expose the corruption of his fellow officers, after being pushed to the brink at first by their distrust and later by the threats and...

. With directors such as Fernando Di Leo

Fernando Di Leo

Fernando Di Leo was an Italian film director and script writer born in San Ferdinando di Puglia. During his career from 1964 to 1985, Di Leo directed 20 films and was involved in the writing process in 43...

 and Umberto Lenzi

Umberto Lenzi

Umberto Lenzi , is an Italian film director who was very active in low budget crime films, peplums, spaghetti westerns, war movies, cannibal films and giallo murder mysteries ....

 and actors such as Maurizio Merli

Maurizio Merli

Maurizio Merli was an Italian film actor.Merli got his first lead role in 1974 in the film White Fang to the Rescue due to his resemblance to the highly popular cult actor Franco Nero, who played the lead role in the first two films...

 and Tomas Milian

Tomas Milian

Tomás Milián is a Cuban-American actor best known for having worked extensively in Italian films from the late 1950s to the 1980s.-Career in Italy:...

, poliziotteschi films became popular in the mid-1970s after the decline of spaghetti Western

Spaghetti Western

Spaghetti Western, also known as Italo-Western, is a nickname for a broad sub-genre of Western films that emerged in the mid-1960s in the wake of Sergio Leone's unique and much copied film-making style and international box-office success, so named by American critics because most were produced and...

s. This sub-genre lost its mainstream popularity in the late 1970s as erotic comedy and horror films started topping the Italian box office.

Although based around crime and detective work, poliziotteschi should not be confused with the other popular Italian crime genre of the 1970s, the giallo

Giallo

Giallo is an Italian 20th century genre of literature and film, which in Italian indicates crime fiction and mystery. In the English language it refers to a genre similar to the French fantastique genre and includes elements of horror fiction and eroticism...

, which refers to violent murder-mystery crime films. Directors and stars often moved between both forms, and some films could be considered under either banner, such as Massimo Dallamano's What Have They Done to Your Daughters? (1974).

The poliziottesco sub-genre gradually declined in popularity during the late 1970s. Screenwriter Dardano Sacchetti

Dardano Sacchetti

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, who was unhappy with what he deemed the genre's "fascistic" undertones, credits himself for "destroying it from the inside", by making it evolve into self-parody

Parody

A parody , in current usage, is an imitative work created to mock, comment on, or trivialise an original work, its subject, author, style, or some other target, by means of humorous, satiric or ironic imitation...

. By the end of the decade, the most successful films associated with the genre were crime-comedy pictures, which gradually evolved towards pure comedy.

Directors include

• Mario Bianchi
  Mario Bianchi
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• Alfonso Brescia
  Alfonso Brescia
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• Enzo G. Castellari
  Enzo G. Castellari
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• Damiano Damiani
• Alberto De Martino
  Alberto De Martino
  Alberto De Martino is an Italian film director and screenwriter. He directed 28 films between 1962 and 1985. He also wrote for 23 films between 1959 and 1985.He was born in Rome, Italy.-Selected filmography:...
  
  
• Ruggero Deodato
  Ruggero Deodato
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• Lucio Fulci
  Lucio Fulci
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• Marino Girolami
  Marino Girolami
  Marino Girolami was an Italian film director who gained a cult following for his horror movies like Zombie Holocaust. He was the father of the Italian film maker Enzo G...
  
  
• Romolo Girolami
• Umberto Lenzi
  Umberto Lenzi
  Umberto Lenzi , is an Italian film director who was very active in low budget crime films, peplums, spaghetti westerns, war movies, cannibal films and giallo murder mysteries ....
  
  
• Fernando Di Leo
  Fernando Di Leo
  Fernando Di Leo was an Italian film director and script writer born in San Ferdinando di Puglia. During his career from 1964 to 1985, Di Leo directed 20 films and was involved in the writing process in 43...
  
  
• Carlo Lizzani
• Sergio Martino
  Sergio Martino
  Sergio Martino is an Italian film director and producer, notable for his contributions to the giallo genre.Martino is the brother of producer Luciano Martino. They collaborated frequently in their respective professions...
  
  
• Stelvio Massi
  Stelvio Massi
  Stelvio Massi was an Italian director known for his crime films, although he was not as well known as crime film specialists like Enzo G Castellari or Umberto Lenzi, but he made about thirteen films in the genre, and was considered a fairly decent director.He also worked with actors such as Eva...
  
  
• Giuliano Montaldo
  Giuliano Montaldo
  Giuliano Montaldo is an Italian film director.While he was still a young student, Montaldo was recruited by the director Carlo Lizzani for the role of leading actor in the film Achtung! Banditi!...
  
  
• Sergio Sollima
  Sergio Sollima
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• Duccio Tessari

Actors include

• Mario Adorf
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• Ursula Andress
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• Martin Balsam
  Martin Balsam
  Martin Henry Balsam was an American actor. He is known for his Oscar-winning role as "Arnold Burns" in A Thousand Clowns and his role as "Detective Milton Arbogast" in Psycho.- Early life :...
  
  
• Salvatore Billa
• Barbara Bouchet
  Barbara Bouchet
  Barbara Bouchet, is a German-American actress and entrepreneur.She has acted in more than 80 films and television episodes and founded a production company that has produced fitness videos and books as well as owning a fitness studio...
  
  
• Sal Borgese
  Sal Borgese
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• Marcel Bozzuffi
  Marcel Bozzuffi
  Marcel Bozzuffi was a French film actor, perhaps best remembered for his role as a brutal hitman in the Oscar-winning US film The French Connection...
  
  
• Charles Bronson
  Charles Bronson
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• Luciano Catenacci
  Luciano Catenacci
  Luciano Catenacci was an Italian born actor and production manager who worked on mainly Italian produced films during the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. He produced the horror film Operazione paura...
  
  
• Adolfo Celi
  Adolfo Celi
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• Giovanni Cianfriglia
  Giovanni Cianfriglia
  Giovanni Cianfriglia is an Italian film actor. He has appeared in over 100 films since 1958.He was born in Lazio, Italy.-Selected filmography:* Sandokan the Great * Keoma -External links:...
  
  
• Joan Collins
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• Joseph Cotten
  Joseph Cotten
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• Alain Delon
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• George Eastman
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• Mel Ferrer
  Mel Ferrer
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• Klaus Kinski
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• Angelo Infanti
  Angelo Infanti
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• Adolfo Lastretti
• Leonard Mann
  Leonard Mann
  -Life:He served in the Australian Imperial Force during World War I, and with the Department of Aircraft Production in World War II.-External links:*...
  
  
• Luc Merenda
  Luc Merenda
  Luc Merenda is a French film actor.He was one of the most prominent actors of the Italian poliziotteschi genre, working several times with Sergio Martino.-Selected filmography:* OSS 117 prend des vacances...
  
  

• Maurizio Merli
  Maurizio Merli
  Maurizio Merli was an Italian film actor.Merli got his first lead role in 1974 in the film White Fang to the Rescue due to his resemblance to the highly popular cult actor Franco Nero, who played the lead role in the first two films...
  
  
• Mario Merola
  Mario Merola
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• Tomas Milian
  Tomas Milian
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• Gordon Mitchell
  Gordon Mitchell
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• Luigi Montefiore
• Gastone Moschin
  Gastone Moschin
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• Franco Nero
  Franco Nero
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• Jack Palance
  Jack Palance
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• Riccardo Petrazzi
• Oliver Reed
  Oliver Reed
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• Fernando Rey
  Fernando Rey
  Fernando Casado Arambillet , best known as Fernando Rey, was a Spanish film, theatre, and TV actor, who worked in both Europe and the United States...
  
  
• Edward G. Robinson
  Edward G. Robinson
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• Luciano Rossi
  Luciano Rossi
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• Claudio Ruffini
• Antonio Sabato
  Antonio Sabato
  Antonio Sabato can refer to:*Antonio Sabàto, Sr. - Italian actor, born 1943*Antonio Sabàto, Jr. - model and actor, born 1972*Antonio Sabato - born 1958, a retired Italian professional football player....
  
  
• Telly Savalas
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• John Saxon
  John Saxon (actor)
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• Henry Silva
• Woody Strode
  Woody Strode
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• Fabio Testi
  Fabio Testi
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• Massimo Vanni
• Gian Maria Volonté
  Gian Maria Volontè
  Gian Maria Volonté was an Italian actor. He is perhaps most famous outside of Italy for his roles as the main villain in Sergio Leone's A Fistful of Dollars and For a Few Dollars More.-Early life:Volonté was born in Milan, and graduated in Rome in 1957...
  
  

Films include

• Grand Slam
  Grand Slam (1967 film)
  Grand Slam is a 1967 Italian crime film directed by Giuliano Montaldo.Edward G Robinson plays a seemingly mild-mannered teacher, Professor James Anders, an American working in Rio De Janeiro. Anders, bored with years of teaching, decides to put together a team to pull off a diamond heist during...
  
   (Ad ogni costo, 1967)
• Bandits in Milan
  Bandits in Milan
  Bandits in Milan is a 1968 Italian crime film directed by Carlo Lizzani. It was listed to compete at the 1968 Cannes Film Festival, but the festival was cancelled due to the events of May 1968 in France...
  
   (Banditi a Milano, 1968)
• Violent City (Città violenta, 1970)
• La polizia ringrazia (1972)
• Milano calibro 9
  Milano calibro 9
  Milano calibro 9 is a poliziottesco film written and directed by the Italian crime film specialist Fernando Di Leo in 1972. The film is based on a novel of the same name written by Giorgio Scerbanenco...
  
   (1972)
• Manhunt (La mala ordina, 1972)
• Tony Arzenta (1973)
• High Crime
  High Crime
  High Crime , also known by its UK video title The Marseilles Connection, is a 1973 poliziottesco film directed by Enzo G. Castellari. The film stars Franco Nero, James Whitmore, Delia Boccardo and Fernando Rey....
  
   (La polizia incrimina la legge assolve, 1973)
• Violent Professionals (Milano trema - la polizia vuole giustizia, 1973)
• Revolver
  Revolver (1973 film)
  Revolver is a poliziottesco film directed by Sergio Sollima and released in 1973. It stars Oliver Reed and Fabio Testi and the film's theme "Un Amico" which was scored by Ennio Morricone was also featured in Quentin Tarantino movie Inglorious Basterds - Plot :An Italian official's wife is...
  
   (1973)
• Il boss
  Il Boss
  Il Boss, aka The Boss or Wipeout! is a poliziottesco film written and directed by the Italian crime film specialist Fernando Di Leo in 1973...
  
   (1973)
• Gang War in Milan (Milano rovente, 1973)
• Rabid Dogs (Cani arrabbiati, 1974)
• Street Law
  Street Law (film)
  Street Law, also known as The Anonymous Avenger, The Citizen Rebels and Vigilante II , is a 1974 poliziotteschi film. This film stars Franco Nero, Barbara Bach and is directed by Enzo G...
  
   (Il cittadino si ribella, 1974)
• Almost Human
  Almost Human (film)
  Almost Human, also known as The Death Dealer, The Kidnap of Mary Lou and The Executioner is a 1974 poliziotteschi film...
  
   (Milano odia: la polizia non può sparare, 1974)
• Emergency Squad
  Emergency Squad (film)
  -Cast:* William Henry as Peter Barton* Louise Campbell as Betty Bryant* Richard Denning as Dan Barton* Robert Paige as Chester 'Chesty' Miller* Anthony Quinn as Nick Buller* John Miljan as Slade Wiley* John Marston as Lt. Murdock...
  
   (Squadra volante, 1974)
• Gambling City
  Gambling City
  Gambling City, also known as The Cheaters is a 1975 Italian poliziotteschi film by Sergio Martino. It stars Luc Merenda, Dayle Haddon and Corrado Pani....
  
   (La città gioca d'azzardo, 1975)

• Syndicate Sadists
  Syndicate Sadists
  Syndicate Sadists, also known as Rambo's Revenge and One Just Man is a 1975 poliziotteschi film. This film by Umberto Lenzi was one of the director's many work in the crime thriller genre...
  
   (Il giustiziere sfida la città, 1975)
• Violent Rome (Roma violenta, 1975)
• Violent Naples (Napoli violenta, 1976)
• The Cop in Blue Jeans (Squadra antiscippo, 1976)
• The Big Racket (Il grande racket, 1976)
• Live Like a Cop, Die Like a Man
  Live Like a Cop, Die Like a Man
  Live Like a Cop, Die Like a Man is a 1976 Italian crime film directed by Ruggero Deodato and starring Marc Porel.-Cast:* Marc Porel - Fred* Ray Lovelock - Tony* Adolfo Celi - The Boss* Franco Citti - Rudy Ruginski...
  
   (Uomini si nasce poliziotti si muore, 1976)
• Rome Armed to the Teeth
  Rome Armed to the Teeth
  Roma a mano armata, also known as Rome Armed To The Teeth , is one of the many Italian police crime films known as poliziotteschi made by Umberto Lenzi in the late 1970s and early 1980s...
  
   (Roma a mano armata, 1976)
• Colt 38 Special Squad
  Colt 38 Special Squad
  Colt 38 Special Squad, also known as Those of the 38 Caliber is a 1976 poliziotteschi film...
  
   (Quelli della Calibro 38, 1976)
• The Cynic, the Rat & the Fist (Il cinico, l'infame, il violento, 1977)
• The Heroin Busters (La via della droga, 1977)
• A Man Called Magnum
  A Man Called Magnum
  A Man Called Magnum is a 1977 poliziotteschi film. This film by Michele Massimo Tarantini stars Luc Merenda.-Releases:...
  
   (Napoli si ribella, 1977)
• Double Game
  Double Game
  Double Game, also known as Violent Turin , is a 1977 poliziotteschi film. This film by Carlo Ausino stars George Hilton.-Plot:...
  
   (Torino violenta, 1977)
• Convoy Busters
  Convoy Busters
  Convoy Busters, also known as An Uncomfortable Cop is a 1978 poliziotteschi film. This film by Stelvio Massi stars Maurizio Merli.-Releases:...
  
   (Un poliziotto scomodo, 1978)
• La banda del gobbo (1978)
• From Corleone to Brooklyn
  From Corleone to Brooklyn
  From Corleone to Brooklyn is an Italian crime thriller directed by Umberto Lenzi. The film was released in Italy on April 13, 1979 and stars Maurizio Merli, Mario Merola and Van Johnson....
  
   (Da Corleone a Brooklyn, 1979)
• Contraband
  Contraband (1980 film)
  Contraband is a 1980 poliziotteschi film directed by Lucio Fulci. It is notable for its considerable level of violence and gore.-Plot:Luca Di Angelo works for a notorious smuggler in Naples, Italy. However an up-and-coming French crime boss known as the Marsigliese sets off a gang war, killing...
  
   (Luca il contrabbandiere, 1980)
• Tony: Another Double Game
  Tony: Another Double Game
  Tony: Another Double Game, also known as Tony: The Other Side of Violent Turin , is a 1980 poliziotteschi film...
  
   (Tony, l'altra faccia della Torino violenta, 1980)
• Killer vs Killers (Killer Contro Killers, 1985)

Further reading

Daniele Magni e Silvio Giobbio "Ancora più... Cinici infami e violenti - Guida ai film polizieschi italiani degli anni '70", Bloodbuster Edizioni, 2010, ISBN 978-8890208744

External links

• Poliziotteschi - The Final Take at Allmovie
• Pollanet Squad - Poliziotteschi data base
• RDB Article