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FAVORITE mafia movie based on real life #881108
04/12/16 12:46 PM 04/12/16 12:46 PM
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Hey, all, I'm new here. Just joined and am A HUGE mafia fanatic. I'd like to consider myself a historian.

Just curious on everyone's favorite mafia movie based on real life.
Re: FAVORITE mafia movie based on real life [Re: MafiaFanGraz] #881115
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Welcome, I am fairly new myself.

I liked Goodfellows, Casino, and Godfather for movies.
For TV series Sopranos.
Re: FAVORITE mafia movie based on real life [Re: MafiaFanGraz] #881221
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Welcome!!

1. GoodFellas
2. Donnie Brasco
3. Casino
4. American Gangster (not about the mafia per se, but they're in it and the era was depicted brilliantly imo)
5. Gotti

Godfather is the best ever of course, but you asked about based on real life so I chose movies based on true events..

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Re: FAVORITE mafia movie based on real life [Re: MafiaFanGraz] #881236
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How about Bronx tale ??
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Originally Posted By: bigboy
How about Bronx tale ??


That's a good one indeed, Top 5 worthy no doubt..

The movie is semi-autobiographical, it's based on Chazz Palminteri's childhood and adolescence, so it fits the real life category..

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Re: FAVORITE mafia movie based on real life [Re: MafiaFanGraz] #881297
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How realistic was the mafia portrayed in A Bronx Tale? Sonny and his crew seem a lot more milder than those portrayed in Goodfellas which is argued to be the most realistic.

Its a great movie though!
Re: FAVORITE mafia movie based on real life [Re: MafiaFanGraz] #881301
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Goodfellas without a doubt..

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Re: FAVORITE mafia movie based on real life [Re: BillyBrizzi] #881423
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Originally Posted By: BillyBrizzi
Welcome!!

1. GoodFellas
2. Donnie Brasco
3. Casino
4. American Gangster (not about the mafia per se, but they're in it and the era was depicted brilliantly imo)
5. Gotti

Godfather is the best ever of course, but you asked about based on real life so I chose movies based on true events..


My list would look like this:

1. Casino
2. Goodfellas
3. Gotti (even thought it's incredibly factually wrong
4. Wolf of Wallstreet (more OC than mafia)
5. Black Mass
Re: FAVORITE mafia movie based on real life [Re: MafiaFanGraz] #881477
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My favorite movie has not been made yet.

I have a friend that is trying to write it for the last 30 years.

I am not interested to see how it ends up.

I rather see them when they were young kids. I think it would be more interesting that way.

It would be one of those three hour epics. First half them as young guys. Second half then to see where they end up at the end.

That would be a good movie.

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Re: FAVORITE mafia movie based on real life [Re: Footreads] #881502
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Originally Posted By: Footreads
My favorite movie has not been made yet.

I have a friend that is trying to write it for the last 30 years.

I am not interested to see how it ends up.

I rather see them when they were young kids. I think it would be more interesting that way.

It would be one of those three hour epics. First half them as young guys. Second half then to see where they end up at the end.

That would be a good movie.


Once upon a time in America remake?? wink

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Re: FAVORITE mafia movie based on real life [Re: MafiaFanGraz] #881503
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The Bronx Tale, The French Connection and Casino
Re: FAVORITE mafia movie based on real life [Re: MafiaFanGraz] #881504
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Once upon a time in America. No one will be eating Charlotte rouse in the one I am thinking of.

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Re: FAVORITE mafia movie based on real life [Re: MafiaFanGraz] #881508
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Once Upon A Time In America. Although nobody is specifically depicted in this masterpiece, it encapsulates the prohibition underworld and can leave you googleing Noodles and Max after watching it. Wolf of Wall st. was great the first time I watched it, but I couldnt watch it in its entirety the second time. OUATIA, shit, I can watch it over and over again. To me, it makes me feel that if I was alive back then, I would want to be a gangster. What a great fucking movie.
Re: FAVORITE mafia movie based on real life [Re: MafiaFanGraz] #881522
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Witness To The Mob and Gotti are decent movies too.

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Re: FAVORITE mafia movie based on real life [Re: blueracing347] #881579
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Originally Posted By: blueracing347
Once Upon A Time In America. Although nobody is specifically depicted in this masterpiece, it encapsulates the prohibition underworld and can leave you googleing Noodles and Max after watching it. Wolf of Wall st. was great the first time I watched it, but I couldnt watch it in its entirety the second time. OUATIA, shit, I can watch it over and over again. To me, it makes me feel that if I was alive back then, I would want to be a gangster. What a great fucking movie.


And don't forget the incredible music from the maestro Ennio Morricone..

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Re: FAVORITE mafia movie based on real life [Re: Jhype11] #881602
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Sonny in Bronx Tale did seem to rag on his own crew a lot. The only guys that never got messed with were him, the guy that barges on to Lorenzo's bus to offer him the numbers job, and the other guy that always wore a suit, that Sonny would talk to on the sidewalk. The rest of those guys were like a peanut gallery that Sonny routinely abused. Maybe those 3 were made, the others just hangers on. Didn't Chaz Palminteri get sued for stealing this story from someone else? Also, I seemed to have read somewhere that the basis for Sonny and his crew were actually Boston guys, not the Bronx.

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Re: FAVORITE mafia movie based on real life [Re: MafiaFanGraz] #881625
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It is partially based on Chazz his life, his real name is also Calogero..

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Re: FAVORITE mafia movie based on real life [Re: MafiaFanGraz] #882045
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Goodfellas, Casino, The Valachi Papers, The Untouchables and The Sopranos for a t.v. series. I forget to mention Bugsy. Also even though it's not based on a true story there are many real life scenarios that mimic the movie Men of Respect. I like how they took Macbeth and turned it into a modern mob story.

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Re: FAVORITE mafia movie based on real life [Re: MafiaFanGraz] #882079
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Il Capo dei capi

Casino

Goodfellas

Mongol General: Conan, what is best in life?

Conan: To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentations of their women.
Re: FAVORITE mafia movie based on real life [Re: MafiaFanGraz] #882371
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'Il Capo dei Capi' was great indeed, it was called 'Corleone' over here..

I love Italian series in general: Gomorrah, Romanzo Criminale, L'Ultimo Padrino etc. etc.

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Re: FAVORITE mafia movie based on real life [Re: BillyBrizzi] #882584
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I'd add to the list:

"Honor Thy Father," a made-for-TV movie from the early Seventies, about Bill Bonanno's relationship with his father, Joe, during the "Banana War" of the Sixties. Superb cast: Joseph Bologna as Bill; Raf Vallone as Joe; Brenda Vaccaro as Bill's long-suffering wife Rosalie; and Richard Castellano as Bill's uncle and loyal supporter. First class.

"Mafioso," a 1962 Italian film starring Alberto Sordi as a Sicilian who immigrated to Milan, where he has a managerial job in the Fiat factory; a blond, North Italian wife, and two kids. He returns to his Sicilian village for a long-awaited visit with family, and is unwittingly trapped by the local gabboletto into carrying out a hit for him in NYC. It's a brilliant film, with some riotously funny scenes highlighting Sicilian culture, but it has a grim message. Unforgettable.

Ntra la porta tua lu sangu � sparsu,
E nun me mporta si ce muoru accisu...
E s'iddu muoru e vaju mparadisu
Si nun ce truovo a ttia, mancu ce trasu.
Re: FAVORITE mafia movie based on real life [Re: Turnbull] #882609
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Thanks for the tip Turnbull, I didn't know there was another movie about the Bonannos. I saw Bonanno: a Godfather's story and heard of that one about the marriage of Bill and his wife..

I looked it up, it's on Youtube:


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Re: FAVORITE mafia movie based on real life [Re: MafiaFanGraz] #882620
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I just watched that the other night.
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Some might not agree, but I thought Mob Justice was a decent flick. It was about Gus Farace(a low-level criminal with ties to the Bonanno Family), who gunned down a DEA agent in Staten Island.

"Jersey...It's where my story begins."
Re: FAVORITE mafia movie based on real life [Re: BillyBrizzi] #882882
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Originally Posted By: BillyBrizzi
Welcome!!

1. GoodFellas
2. Donnie Brasco
3. Casino
4. American Gangster (not about the mafia per se, but they're in it and the era was depicted brilliantly imo)
5. Gotti

Godfather is the best ever of course, but you asked about based on real life so I chose movies based on true events..


Yeah, that's EXACTLY why I don't consider AG to be a gangster movie. It's a drug dealer/crime movie, to me, not a gangster movie.

Gotti was good, but, too factually incorrect for me.

Sorry it took so long for a resposne.
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Originally Posted By: Turnbull
I'd add to the list:

"Honor Thy Father," a made-for-TV movie from the early Seventies, about Bill Bonanno's relationship with his father, Joe, during the "Banana War" of the Sixties. Superb cast: Joseph Bologna as Bill; Raf Vallone as Joe; Brenda Vaccaro as Bill's long-suffering wife Rosalie; and Richard Castellano as Bill's uncle and loyal supporter. First class.

"Mafioso," a 1962 Italian film starring Alberto Sordi as a Sicilian who immigrated to Milan, where he has a managerial job in the Fiat factory; a blond, North Italian wife, and two kids. He returns to his Sicilian village for a long-awaited visit with family, and is unwittingly trapped by the local gabboletto into carrying out a hit for him in NYC. It's a brilliant film, with some riotously funny scenes highlighting Sicilian culture, but it has a grim message. Unforgettable.


I should have been more specific and said anything after 1970. Next time I'll know.. Didn't even know there were any mafia movies made in the 60's.. I thought all the ones before the 70's were made in the 30s' or 40's.
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Originally Posted By: BillyBrizzi
Thanks for the tip Turnbull, I didn't know there was another movie about the Bonannos. I saw Bonanno: a Godfather's story and heard of that one about the marriage of Bill and his wife..

I looked it up, it's on Youtube:


Thanks.. I think I've seen this before, but, I'll check it out.

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