The best Franco Fabrizi’s crime movies

Franco Fabrizi

Franco Fabrizi

15/02/1926- 18/10/1995
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Franco Fabrizi’s movies, although you may have ordered them differently. In any case, we hope you love it and with a little luck discovering a movie that you still don’t know about Franco Fabrizi.

Story of a Love Affair

Story of a Love Affair
7.1/10
Paola (Lucia Bose) is the beautiful and jealously-guarded younger wife of a shady factory owner, Enrico Fontana (Massimo Girotti). In order to investigate her romantic history he hires a private detective, which ironically brings Paola back into contact with former lover Guido, with whom she resurrects a lost passion. Dogged by the suspicions of their respective mates, they are drawn closer to each other in the face of adversity, and begin to plot Enrico's demise. But when the challenge of being together falls away, will the passion start to wane? A masterpiece of intensity and finely-wrought emotion.

The Swindlers

The Swindlers
7.5/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 09/09/1955
  • Character: Roberto
Ageing small time conman Augusto works with two younger men: Roberto, who desires to become the Italian Johnny Ray, and Bruno, nicknamed Picasso. Through a series of mishaps and personal entanglements things go badly for Augusto.

The Italian Connection

The Italian Connection
7.1/10
When a shipment of heroin disappears between Italy and New York, a small-time pimp in Milan is framed for the theft. Two professional hitmen are dispatched from New York to find him, but the real thieves want to get rid of him before the New York killers get to him to eliminate any chance of them finding out he's the wrong man.

Act of Aggression

Act of Aggression
5.3/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 16/04/1975
  • Character: Sauguet
After his wife and daughter are raped and killed by a motorbike gang a man sets out to take revenge.

Witness in the City

Witness in the City
6.9/10
Industrialist Pierre Verdier kills his mistress Jeanne Ancelin by throwing her off a train. Her husband, Ancelin, decides to take revenge on his wife's murderer, who has been acquitted by justice.

What Have They Done to Your Daughters?

What Have They Done to Your Daughters?
6.9/10
An unidentified fifteen year-old girl is found hanged after an anonymous tip-off. The girl, Silvia Polvesi, is soon discovered to have been murdered. A peeping tom is caught with photos of her having sex with a teenage drop-out but he is later released due to lack of evidence. The investigation, conducted by Inspector Silvestri and the assistant public prosecutor Vittoria Stori, focuses on the girl's parents. It transpires that a private detective, Ruggero Pollente, was hired by Silvia's mother because the latter was concerned about her activities. As a conspiracy begins to emerge, Pollente's body is found dismembered and his girlfriend is subsequently attacked by a machete-wielding killer clad in motorcycle gear...

Madigan's Millions

Madigan's Millions
4/10
When a deported gangster dies in Italy, the U.S. Treasury Department is very interested in the one million dollars Madigan owed the government, but managed to take to Italy with him. They send Agent Jason Phister over to Italy to nose out the million. His criteria for the job is that no one would ever guess he's an agent of the United States government.

Copacabana Palace

Copacabana Palace
5.1/10

The Facts of Murder

The Facts of Murder
7.4/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 24/10/1959
  • Character: Franco Fabrizi
A police inspector comes into contact with people of all types and dispositions during a grueling murder investigation.

Shadows Unseen

Shadows Unseen
5.8/10
When a journalist is murdered Inspector Micheli begins to investigate. Although someone comes forward to confess to the crime, Micheli doesn't believe he acted alone and keeps investigating despite coming under pressure to close the case.

Anyone Can Kill Me

Anyone Can Kill Me
6.2/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 06/12/1957
  • Character: Karl Herman
The holdup of the bank is a success. All happened according to plan. Now, Cyril Gad and his four accomplices must secure an alibi. What better place than a prison cell? As a result the five gangsters have themselves arrested on minor charges and start waiting until they are released. Unfortunately three of them die mysteriously, another one is openly murdered. The only man still alive, Tony, is scared. Easy to understand why...

Killer Cop

Killer Cop
6.5/10
The investigation of the bombing of a hotel lobby as seen through the eyes of a young detective.

Execution Squad

Execution Squad
7/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 25/02/1972
  • Character: Bettarini
Bertone is a moderately honest homicide cop. Unfortunately, the court system is so inept and corrupt that many more-or-less honest policemen have begun taking the law into their own hands. Between his efforts to thwart the growth of crime and to control his vengeful co-workers, homicide-chief Bertone has his hands full

La signora è stata violentata

La signora è stata violentata
5/10
Good bourgeois damage unintentionally life of a drug-party, during which the mistress of the house is raped without recognizing the aggressor. Both she and her husband come into crisis and try to figure out who it was. The truth comes to the surface slowly, and it is unexpected.

Scarlet Eye

Scarlet Eye
5.4/10
  • Genre: AdventureCrime
  • Release: 30/05/1963
  • Character: Manuel Da Costa

Casablanca, Nest of Spies

Casablanca, Nest of Spies
5.5/10
  • Genre: CrimeDramaMusic
  • Release: 10/10/1963
  • Character: Barón Max von Stauffen
Casablanca 1942. While French Police Chief Maurice Desjardins is busy having careless fun with some loose girls, members of the French Resistance kill a man at the harbor and steal his briefcase full of important documents from the Third Reich. At an apartment building in the distance, Andre Kuhn watches the whole operation through his powerful binoculars. He is posing as a businessman but actually working as a spy for the Germans a fact totally ignored by his live-in girlfriend Teresa Villar, a beautiful Spanish singer who works at El Dorado Night Club. Andre telephones Max von Stauffen, the head of German Intelligence in Casablanca, to inform him of what he has just witnessed. Max tells him to stay put until he arrives in order to get the information personally but, by the time he reaches Andres apartment, he finds him dead with a gun shot on his temple.

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