The best Vittorio Caprioli’s crime movies

Vittorio Caprioli

Vittorio Caprioli

15/08/1921- 02/10/1989
Today we present the best Vittorio Caprioli’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 Vittorio Caprioli’s movies.

The Boss

The Boss
6.9/10
A bomb attack in a cinema in Palermo kills all the fellows of Attardi's clan a part from Cocchi. He immediately understands that the author of the bomb attack is Daniello from Don Corrasco's clan. Cocchi is determined to revenge. His actions, including the Corrasco's daughter kidnap, in a Palermo in which also the police is corrupted, will soon destroy the old equilibrium giving the way to an escalation of violence that won't save anyone. If Cocchi will survive to the mafia war he will be the new boss for sure.

Umbrella Coup

Umbrella Coup
6.6/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 08/10/1980
  • Character: Don Barberini
Grégoire Lecomte, the unlucky actor anxious to find a "real job", goes to take a screen test for a role of a killer, but gets to mafiosi by mistake. He takes their don for a producer, and they mistake him for a hitman with whom they had an appointment. Deluded Lecomte signs contract with them. He is supposed to kill gun dealer Otto Krampe at his birthday party in Saint-Tropez by piercing him with a cap of the umbrella with a built-in syringe with potassium cyanide. Lecomte is not aware that it has to be a real murder.

Shoot First, Die Later

Shoot First, Die Later
6.6/10
Luc Merenda gives the performance of his career as a highly regarded police detective who is taking syndicate money in exchange for departmental favors. His father, a simple man, also works for the department but on a lower rung; he isn't jealous of his son, but rather proud of him, little knowing that he's a crooked cop. A series of events leads the young detective to ask his father for a favor (he wants a certain police report that is desired by the syndicate) and it doesn't take long for the detective's father to realize his son is on the take... which leads to numerous complications.

Kidnap Syndicate

Kidnap Syndicate
6.5/10
  • Genre: Crime
  • Release: 27/08/1975
  • Character: Commissar Magrini
After his son is kidnapped, a millionaire industrialist (James Mason) seeks revenge, in spite of the potential danger that his rash actions will bring about for his child and another kidnapped boy, the son of a poor mechanic (Luc Merenda).

Rulers of the City

Rulers of the City
6/10
Tony, a mob loan collector, is dissatisfied with his station in life. Though he dreams of one day being rich, he is stuck with the dead-end job of beating up borrowers who fall behind in their payments. After meeting up with Napoli, another mob enforcer who's just been fired from his job, the two hatch a plan. Together, they will con mob boss Manzari out of a fortune, after which they can retire and live in luxury. Manzari, however, is not about to let them go so easily.

The Rip-Off

The Rip-Off
6.2/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 19/05/1977
  • Character: Benjamin Bronchi
Crime Comedy starring Walter Chiari, Maurizio Arena and Ettore Manni. Directed by Luciano Ercoli in 1977, but shelved when producer Niccolo De Nora was kidnapped... ironically the theme of the movie. A band of criminals plan one final heist, to kidnap a wealthy French businessman.

A Full Day's Work

A Full Day's Work
6.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 08/03/1973
  • Character: Le Juré Mangiavacca
A father plans to kill in the same day the 9 members of the jury who condemned his son to death.

Moving Target

Moving Target
5.8/10
On the run from the police in Athens, a man named Jason has in his possession a microfilm eagerly sought by both criminal gangs and government agencies.

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