En Pennsylvanie, dans les années 1960, Frank « The Irishman » Sheeran délaisse son travail de camionneur pour devenir tueur à gages pour le compte de la famille Bufalino. Impliqué dans le monde syndical, il est nommé responsable de section sous la direction de Jimmy Hoffa, leader du puissant syndicat des Teamsters. Cependant, un jour, Frank devra faire un choix déchirant entre son amitié pour celui-ci et son allégeance à la famille.
En 1945, à New York, les Corleone sont une des cinq familles de la mafia. Don Vito Corleone, "parrain" de cette famille, marie sa fille à un bookmaker. Sollozzo, " parrain " de la famille Tattaglia, propose à Don Vito une association dans le trafic de drogue, mais celui-ci refuse. Sonny, un de ses fils, y est quant à lui favorable.Afin de traiter avec Sonny, Sollozzo tente de faire tuer Don Vito, mais celui-ci en réchappe. Michael, le frère cadet de Sonny, recherche alors les commanditaires de l'attentat et tue Sollozzo et le chef de la police, en représailles.Michael part alors en Sicile, où il épouse Apollonia, mais celle-ci est assassinée à sa place. De retour à New York, Michael épouse Kay Adams et se prépare à devenir le successeur de son père...
Palerme, Sicile, 1980. Tommaso Buscetta, membre de la mafia, décide de s'installer au Brésil avec sa famille pour fuir la guerre constante entre les différents clans de l'organisation criminelle. Mais lorsque, après avoir vécu plusieurs malheurs, il est contraint de rentrer en Italie, il prend une décision audacieuse qui changera sa vie et le destin de Cosa Nostra à jamais.
Egocentric bandit Salvatore Giuliano fights the Church, the Mafia, and the landed gentry while leading a populist movement for Sicilian independence.
Peppino Impastato is a quick-witted lad growing up in 1970s Sicily. Despite hailing from a family with Mafia ties and living just one hundred steps from the house of local boss Tano Badalamenti, Peppino decides to expose the Mafia by using a pirate radio station to broadcast his political pronouncements in the form of ironic humour.
The story of how Sicilian Mafia boss Tommaso Buscetta (1928-2000), the Godfather of Two Worlds, revealed, starting in 1984, the deepest secrets of the organization, thus helping to convict the hundreds of mafiosi who were tried in the trial held in Palermo between 1986 and 1987.
L'histoire vraie de deux légendes, Giovanni Falcone et Paolo Borsellino, des procureurs courageux qui risquèrent leurs carrières et leurs vies pour dénoncer la Mafia italienne.
Good hearted but not very wordly-wise, Dante is happy driving the school bus for a group of mentally handicapped children, while feeling he is somehow missing out on life and love. So he is very excited when after nearly being knocked down by her car he meets Maria, who seems immediately enamoured of him. He is soon invited to her sumptuous Palermo villa, little suspecting that this is part of a plot. He bears an amazing likeness to Maria's stool-pigeon gangster husband and it would be convenient for them if the mobster, in the shape of Dante, was seen to be dead and buried.
The multigenerational saga of the rise and fall of the Corleone crime family. Story is told in chronological order, and numerous scenes that were deleted from each film have been restored.
Sicilian bandit Salvatore Giuliano's bullet-riddled corpse is found facedown in a courtyard in Castelvetrano, a handgun and rifle by his side. Local and international press descend upon the scene, hoping to crack open the true story behind the death of this young man, who, at the age of twenty-seven, had already become Italy’s most wanted criminal and celebrated hero.
When a good-natured factory supervisor living in Milan with his Northern wife returns to his native Sicily, a decades' old oath forces him to fulfill a nightmarish obligation.
Sicily, Fascist Italy, 1925. Dictator Benito Mussolini appoints Cesare Mori, a man as tough as he is honest, as the new police prefect of Palermo and entrusts him with the arduous task of putting an end to the Mafia, a sinister criminal organization that has sown terror on the island for centuries.
In 1980 Paolo Borsellino was appointed with the preliminary investigations and the task of setting up a team which would later become the famous anti-mafia pool, investigating into the criminal activities of various mafia bands, in particular the gang headed up by Totò Riina.
While Arturo tries to gain the love of Flora, he witnesses the history of Sicily from 1969 to 1992, miraculously dodging the crimes of the Mafia and supporting as a journalist the heroic struggle of the judges and policemen who fought this infamous organization.
On his deathbed, a powerful Mafia boss names his estranged son heir to his criminal empire: however, his men discover too late that the son at issue is an idiotic manchild.
A judge on crusade to take down the Italian Mafia uses a gangster turned state's witness (a so-called "repenter") and a New York banker to do it. But things aren't quite what they seem.
Palermo, Sicily, Italy, 2017. Twenty-five years after the murders of anti-mafia judges Giovanni Falcone, on May 23, 1992, and Paolo Borsellino, on July 19, 1992; and on the occasion of the tributes held in memory of both heroes, skeptical photographer Letizia Battaglia, chronicler of their titanic combat, criticizes the opportunism of shady characters who, like businessman Ciccio Mira, profit from the commemoration of both tragedies.
Montelusa, Sicily, Italy, 1877. Giovanni Bovara, the new chief inspector of the mills, is charged with collecting a severe tax. Sicilian by birth, but Ligurian by adoption, he reasons and speaks as a man of northern Italy and does not understand the dynamics of the law of silence that regulate the Sicilian land, so his intransigence immediately gives him several enemies…
When Vlada Koza, a mature Ukrainian woman, intrusive and caring, becomes a grandmother for the first time, she drops everything and travels to Sicily from her home in the Carpathian mountains to join her daughter... without warning! But the girl does not appreciate her mother's suffocating attention, so she puts her at the door without much hesitation. Thus, Vlada finds herself alone and penniless in the Sicilian hinterland. An unexpected car accident makes her become the unlikely governess of Don Fredo, boss of the Laganàs: a dysfunctional mafia family struggling to survive in the modern world. The irrepressible intrusiveness of Vlada, who loves feeling useful, taking care of others, fixing things and giving advice, seems to bring a hint of palpable well-being within the walls of Villa Laganà... At least until the day she finds out who Don Fredo and his children really are!
Felicia Impastato, mother of the brave Peppino Impastato, tries to keep the memory of his son alive after his murder.