The best Riccardo Petrazzi’s crime movies

Riccardo Petrazzi

Riccardo Petrazzi

01/01/1944- 01/01/2003
Today we present the best Riccardo Petrazzi’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 Riccardo Petrazzi’s movies.
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The Cynic, the Rat & the Fist

The Cynic, the Rat & the Fist
6.7/10
Luigi "Chinaman" Maietto escapes from prison. As soon as he is free he assigns immediately two henchman to murder the inspector whose testimonial once led to his prison sentence. Inspector Tanzi is left for dead but survives. The local newspapers cover up for him and pretend the assassination had succeeded. When Tanzi gets better, his superior wants him to hide in Switzerland. But Tanzi defies him because he intends to make sure himself that Maietto is put back in prison. He goes for it.

The Violent Professionals

The Violent Professionals
6.5/10
  • Genre: CrimeThriller
  • Release: 22/08/1973
  • Character: Hood with Grenade (uncredited)
With or without help from law enforcement officers, a lone individual decides to crack down on the syndicate.

Women in Cell Block 7

Women in Cell Block 7
4.7/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 05/07/1973
  • Character: Henchman
A woman goes behind bars in order to save her father's life.

High Crime

High Crime
6.9/10
An Italian police inspector matches wits with a powerful European drug ring. As he comes closer to the top of the underworld organization, his odds of survival decrease.

Rome, Armed to the Teeth

Rome, Armed to the Teeth
6.9/10
  • Genre: ActionCrime
  • Release: 10/10/1976
  • Character: Savelli Henchman
A tough, violent cop who doesn't mind bending the law goes after a machine-gun-carrying, hunchbacked psychotic killer.

Syndicate Sadists

Syndicate Sadists
6.4/10
A biker's brother is killed while investigating the kidnapping of a young boy, the byproduct of a war between two crime families. The biker vows to get revenge by finding the kidnapped boy and destroying the two families.

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.

From Corleone to Brooklyn

From Corleone to Brooklyn
6.4/10
  • Genre: Crime
  • Release: 13/04/1979
  • Character: Getaway Driver
Maurizio Merli takes up a familiar role as Commissioner Berni; a cop who puts his life on the line to transport a witness from Corleone to New York City in order to testify against a mob boss on trial for murder. Along the way, Berni and his prisoner face a series of traps set up by the Mafia.

Silent Action

Silent Action
6.4/10
  • Genre: ActionCrimeDrama
  • Release: 05/04/1975
  • Character: Militiaman (uncredited)
A number of unexplained military deaths hit Italy and are ruled to be accidental or suicides, but police inspector Giorgio Solmi suspects otherwise. When a mysterious wealthy electrician is seemingly murdered by a female escort, a sinister plot slowly begins to unravel.

Brothers Till We Die

Brothers Till We Die
6.6/10
Vincenzo 'hunchback' plans a robbery on a armored police van with his gang. Once the job is done, his gang try to kill him and absconds with the loot. Vincenzo hides in the sewers before looking up his friend Monezza who the police later interrogate for his involvement with vincenzo. Meanwhile, Vincenzo is getting revenge on his gang by killing them off one at the time in his various brutal ways.

Free Hand for a Tough Cop

Free Hand for a Tough Cop
6.4/10
  • Genre: ActionCrime
  • Release: 27/08/1976
  • Character: Brescianelli Henchman
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).

Convoy Busters

Convoy Busters
6.3/10
In Rome, a vagrant finds the body of a teen girl, her throat professional slashed. Police inspector Olmi uses his brutal and violent methods to follow a trail that leads him toward high government officials. When his methods leave an innocent bystander dead, the corrupt officials have an excuse to get Olmi transferred to a coastal town where the pace is slow and he has time for a romantic dalliance. Soon, Olmi discovers that fishing isn't the only local occupation, and out comes his gun and his ruthless tactics of investigation.

Vultures Over the City

Vultures Over the City
5.6/10
Merli, teamed with Mexican star Hugo Stiglitz as his photographer buddy, plays a journalist investigating the shady activities of the local Mafia. Eventually the shit hits the fan, and Merli is cornered and beaten for sticking his nose to close to the action. After his girlfriend is raped, Merli dishes out some vigilante justice and punches, shoots, and bitch slaps his way through the Mafia ranks.

Blazing Flowers

Blazing Flowers
5.9/10
Pino Scalise discharged from the prison he was in for robbery, take refuge in Milan at the home of his uncle. Pino falls in love with one of the uncle's two daughters, who has become a prostitute because of Don Ciccio, head of a gang that traffics in drugs. Pino, now an informer to Police Commissioner Morani, makes plans to take the boss down.

The Long Arm of the Godfather

The Long Arm of the Godfather
5.1/10
  • Genre: ActionCrime
  • Release: 11/08/1972
  • Character: Don Carmelo Henchman
A treacherous low-level mafioso greedily rips off a shipment of arms from his powerful godfather and tries to sell them to an especially dubious group of Arabs

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