The best Enzo Cannavale’s crime movies

Enzo Cannavale

Enzo Cannavale

05/04/1928- 18/03/2011
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The Knock Out Cop

The Knock Out Cop
6.7/10
This cop doesn't carry a gun - his fist is loaded!

Flatfoot in Egypt

Flatfoot in Egypt
6.1/10
Inspector Rizzo and Marshal Caputo go to Egypt and look for Professor Cerullo, who is missing.

The Treasure of San Gennaro

The Treasure of San Gennaro
6.9/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 25/11/1966
  • Character: Gaetano
A pair of Americans want to perform the greatest robbery: the treasure of San Genaro, in Napoli.

Little Italy

Little Italy
5.9/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 10/10/1978
  • Character: Salvatore
Undercover cop Nico Giraldi travels to New York and Las Vegas to find a crooked cop who gave his squadron back in Italy a bad name.

Flatfoot in Africa

Flatfoot in Africa
6.2/10
Inspector Rizzo in Napoli gets a message from a policeman from South Africa who wants to meet him. Immediately before this meeting the south African policeman is killed. Dying he shows Rizzo a picture of his little son Bodo. Rizzo travels to Johannesburg to find out what the policeman was working on and to find Bodo.

A Man Called Magnum

A Man Called Magnum
5.9/10
  • Genre: ActionCrime
  • Release: 07/08/1977
  • Character: Sergeant Nicola Capece
A drug deal goes bad and the heroin is stolen. One mob boss doesn't have his drugs and the other doesn't get his money. People are going to die until they discover who double-crossed them. Into this backdrop, Inspector Dario Mauri arrives from Milan to help clean-up Naples. His mission – find the drugs and stop the killing.

The Gang That Sold America

The Gang That Sold America
5.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 10/10/1979
  • Character: Salvatore Esposito
Now an agent of Interpol undercover, the former Inspector Giraldi (Tomas Milian, or Tomas Quintin Rodriguez, born in Havana in 1937), goes to New York to find his friend Salvatore Esposito (Enzo Cannavale), aspiring restaurateur in Little Italy, suffocated by debts with the usurers headed by Don Gerolamo. He will remove the gang and assure her of justice, but she will suffer the advances of the Boss's daughter, the ugly Maria Sole (Margherita Fumero). Fifth episode of the saga of Nico Giraldi including a total of 11 films, all screened by Mario Amendola (1910-1993) and directed by Bruno Corbucci (1931-1996).

Camorra

Camorra
6.2/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 30/08/1972
  • Character: Nicola Cafiero, detto "Sciancato"
The fast career of a young Neapolitan among contraband, gambling dens, bribes and illegality. He will upgrade its rank till the maximum level of the "Family".

Crime at the Chinese Restaurant

Crime at the Chinese Restaurant
5.9/10
The officer Nico Giraldi investigates a homicide which has taken place in a Chinese restaurant in Rome. His wife and his son are kidnappeded by the murderer in the course of the inquiry. In the end the case is worked out.

What if Gargiulo Finds Out?

What if Gargiulo Finds Out?
6.1/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 15/05/1988
  • Character: padre di Teresa
Teresa is a nurse and does not have an easy life: her husband plays poker and next to her she sleeps only and the father organizes the illegal lot among the sick. So one night Teresa is involved, in spite of herself, in a whirlwind of ambiguous situations, together with Ferdinando and Friariello, met by chance, between camorristi, dog races and a bingo of which he unknowingly becomes the prize. But "has to pass" to "nuttata", this is certain, but how?

Sgarro alla camorra

Sgarro alla camorra
5.5/10
  • Genre: Crime
  • Release: 01/01/1973
  • Character: Vincenzo
Andrea leaves the prison in advance through Cecere who wants to use him for his shady dealings. Tidied a boat, would be given to the fishing with his friend Peter, but first must do justice.

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