The best Marcello Mastroianni’s crime movies

Marcello Mastroianni

Marcello Mastroianni

28/09/1924- 19/12/1996
Today we present the best Marcello Mastroianni’s movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen … and that you love! Let’s go there with the best Marcello Mastroianni’s movies.

The Sunday Woman

The Sunday Woman
6.6/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 23/12/1975
  • Character: Commissioner Salvatore Santamaria
Police commissioner Santamaria is investigating the murdering of the ambiguous architect Mr. Garrone. The investigations soon drive him into the Torino's high society. Santamaria suspect Anna Carla and at the same time falls in love for her. Lello is the lover of Massimo, a homosexual platonic friend of Anna Carla. He is following another direction in order to find out the truth, and his results are confusing the Policeman. But another murdering happens...

Big Deal on Madonna Street

Big Deal on Madonna Street
7.9/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 06/06/1958
  • Character: Tiberio
Best friends Peppe and Mario are thieves, but they're not very good at it. Still, Peppe thinks that he's finally devised a master heist that will make them rich. With the help of some fellow criminals, he plans to dig a tunnel from a rented apartment to the pawnshop next door, where they can rob the safe. But his plan is far from foolproof, and the fact that no one in the group has any experience digging tunnels proves to be the least of their problems.

The Organizer

The Organizer
8/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 23/10/1963
  • Character: Professor Sinigaglia
Professor Sinigaglia (Marcello Mastroianni) is the title character in this darkly comedic Italian drama about mistreated factory workers in the city of Turin. Toiling away in appalling conditions in a textile mill, these employees have no one to stand up for them until Sinigaglia puts his academic career on the line by helping them to start a strike. Although the teacher comes under scrutiny by unsympathetic authorities, he maintains his dedication to the workers' cause.

The Assassin

The Assassin
7/10
Suave antiques dealer Alfredo Martelli is picked up by the police with no justification. At the precinct, Martelli realizes what the investigation is all about-- that he is the main suspect in the killing of his wealthy ex-lover. Is he guilty, or is he just a sleaze?

Poppies Are Also Flowers

Poppies Are Also Flowers
5.1/10
In an attempt to stem the heroin trade from Iran, a group of narcotics agents working for the UN inject a radioactive compound into a seized shipment of opium, in the hopes that it will lead them to the main heroin distributor in Europe. Along the way, they encounter a mysterious woman doing her own investigating of the smuggling operation.

Dirty Weekend

Dirty Weekend
6.2/10
A man and his mistress have just taken off for a weekend romp when they're kidnapped by a trio of bank robbers. They wind up becoming media "stars" as police and reporters follow them. They all wind up at the beat-up shack of a cranky old codger, with the police surrounding them and the robbers threatening to kill everybody.

Three Lives and Only One Death

Three Lives and Only One Death
6.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 15/05/1996
  • Character: Mateo Strano / Georges Vickers / Butler / Luc Allamand
Four intertwining stories of bizarre occurrences in Paris featuring a man who was stolen away by fairies, a professor who becomes a tramp, the lovers who inherit a chateau – and the last tale that connects all that has gone before.

Shoot Loud, Louder... I Don't Understand

Shoot Loud, Louder... I Don't Understand
4.7/10
Stuck in a dream world of his own, Italian sculptor Albert Saporito, sometimes has difficulty separating truth from fiction. When he dreams that his gangster neighbor has been murdered, he reports the crime to the police, only to involve himself in a complicated situation.

The Accusation

The Accusation
6.6/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 04/11/1950
  • Character: Renato La Torre
A luckless young teacher it's suspected of committing two murders. When his lover begins to have doubt about his innocence, he seems to be doomed.

Diamonds for Breakfast

Diamonds for Breakfast
4.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 01/12/1968
  • Character: Grand Duke Nicholas Wladimirovitch Goduno
Four thieves try to steal the Imperial Jewels of Russia

Against the Law

Against the Law
  • Genre: Crime
  • Release: 09/08/1950
  • Character: Marcello Curti
A young bourgeois who launders money for the mafia gets accused of murder.

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