The best Luciano Rossi’s crime movies

Luciano Rossi

Luciano Rossi

28/11/1934- 29/05/2005
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So Sweet, So Dead

So Sweet, So Dead
6/10
A serial killer is on the loose. His victims are unfaithful wives and he always leaves compromising photographs at the crime scene.

Contraband

Contraband
6.5/10
Cigarette smugglers in Naples run into problems with cocaine operations being set up by a rival smuggler.

Violent City

Violent City
6.6/10
  • Genre: ActionCrime
  • Release: 13/08/1975
  • Character: Delivery Man
A detective sick and tired of the rampant crime and violence in his city, and constantly at odds with his superiors, is finally kicked out of the department for a "questionable" shooting of a vicious criminal. However, he is soon approached by a representative for a group of citizens who themselves are fed up with what they see as criminals going unpunished, and they make him an offer he may very well not refuse.

Death Walks at Midnight

Death Walks at Midnight
6.3/10
Valentina, a beautiful fashion model, takes an experimental drug as part of a scientific experiment. While influenced by the drug, Valentina has a vision of a young woman being brutally murdered with a viciously spiked glove. It turns out that a woman was killed in exactly the same way not long ago and soon Valentina finds herself stalked by the same killer.

The Sicilian Connection

The Sicilian Connection
5.8/10
A small time hood smuggles drugs from Turkey to Italy in an effort to make it into the big time, but along the way everyone has to have their cut.

Death Walks on High Heels

Death Walks on High Heels
6.5/10
Exotic dancer Nicole finds herself terrorized by a black-clad assailant determined on procuring her murdered father's stolen gems. Fleeing Paris in hopes of evading her knife-wielding pursuer, Nicole arrives in England only to discover that death stalks her at every corner.

Violent Naples

Violent Naples
7/10
Inspector Betti (Maurizio Merli) is transferred to Naples and immediately after his arrival receives a warm welcome from The Commandante (Barry Sullivan), the city's crime lord. Betti then goes on a personal mission against corruption and organized crime, and tries to force the syndicate out of town with any means necessary.

Free Hand for a Tough Cop

Free Hand for a Tough Cop
6.4/10
  • Genre: ActionCrime
  • Release: 27/08/1976
  • Character: Dealer
Free Hand for a Tough Cop (Italian: Il trucido e lo sbirro, also known as Tough Cop) is an Italian poliziottesco-action film directed in 1976 by Umberto Lenzi. In this movie Tomas Milian plays for the first time Sergio Marazzi aka "Er Monnezza", a role that he later played several more times, in Lenzi's Brothers Till We Die (1978, a sort of sequel of this movie), in Destruction Force by Stelvio Massi (1977), in Uno contro l'altro, praticamente amici by Bruno Corbucci (1980), in Francesco Massaro's Il lupo e l'agnello (1980).

The Violent Professionals

The Violent Professionals
6.5/10
With or without help from law enforcement officers, a lone individual decides to crack down on the syndicate.

LSD Flesh of Devil

LSD Flesh of Devil
6.3/10
  • Genre: ActionCrime
  • Release: 02/02/1967
  • Character: Stanis - Gioglu's man
E.C.H.O., a secret organization with a strange name masterminds a bizarre plot to take over the world by dosing important `nerve centers' with super potent LSD. The only man who can stop them is Rex, a secret agent working for an undisclosed organization.

Silence the Witness

Silence the Witness
6.4/10
De Luca is killed by Marchetti's chauffeur. Marchetti ordered the murder because he was to be accused by De Luca. The two have a car accident while going home to get an alibi. There is a witness, Sironi, who calls the police. But when the police arrive the car has gone and so have the two men. Inspector Santi and young judge Novelli look into the strange case. Marchetti, however, is a powerful man and Sironi and his family begin to be obsessed first by threats then by assaults.

Date for a Murder

Date for a Murder
5.5/10
Two friends from America come together by chance in the Italian countryside. They decide to meet in Rome after both have done private deals. When one then not show up in Rome starts the other one become suspicious and fearful that something has happened to him. He begins to investigate the case himself and ends up in a spiral of industrial espionage, blackmail, and cold-blooded murder ...

Ingrid on the Road

Ingrid on the Road
5.6/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 24/02/1973
  • Character: The Traitor
After being raped by her father, Ingrid moves to Rome and ends up becoming a prostitute. She finds a friend in Claudia, but Claudia's protector is a sadistic thug by the name of Renato who will show her the worst of the what life in the city has to offer.

The Sewer Rats

The Sewer Rats
6.2/10
A crippled loner's car breaks down near an isolated town inhabitated by several killers.

The Falling Man

The Falling Man
5.7/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 13/04/1968
  • Character: Tippit (as Edward G. Ross)
Henry Silva is the police inspector Sterling who is devastated when a gang of robbers kill his son. He then becomes accused of having killed a police informer and is kicked out of the police department. His life seems ruined. To clear his name he will have to take the law into his own hands, and excitement will ensue!

Gangsters

Gangsters
5.3/10
A man gets caught up in a criminal organization and finds that once in, you can't get out.

Killer 77, Alive or Dead

Killer 77, Alive or Dead
5.7/10
  • Genre: Crime
  • Release: 20/08/1966
  • Character: Dr. Krauss

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