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Live Poll: Italia, Yes! Mafia, No!
If The Godfather (1972) has emphasized in our consciousness many positive aspects about Italian-American culture... it also generated a few negative ones as far as pop culture and gangster movies are concerned... and this comes from a fan of the film.
We tend to forget that many great movies set in Italian-American neighborhoods or featuring Italian-American protagonists have no connection whatsoever with the Mafia or any crime-related entity and deserve a tribute of their own.
So, which of these Italian-American non-Mafia movies is your favorite?
List: https://www.imdb.com/list/ls024850607/
Poll: https://www.imdb.com/poll/xTHKp5qgpuo/
We tend to forget that many great movies set in Italian-American neighborhoods or featuring Italian-American protagonists have no connection whatsoever with the Mafia or any crime-related entity and deserve a tribute of their own.
So, which of these Italian-American non-Mafia movies is your favorite?
List: https://www.imdb.com/list/ls024850607/
Poll: https://www.imdb.com/poll/xTHKp5qgpuo/
MykolaYeriomin
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seventhar7
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But from your list I choose Rocky, although that in the beginning when he was working for Mr. Gazzo he was collecting debts which seems a like a gangster.
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stephennrussell
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NoPantsBatman
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I know it revolves around the Irish-American, but it also has some parts about the Italian-American. Not quite sure if it fits in your poll parameters.
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Peter_pbn
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The Karate Kid (Daniel LaRusso)
Don Jon
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jeorj_euler
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Tsarstepan
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FYC:
Memphis Belle (1990)
City of Hope (1991)
I Love You to Death (1990)
Big Night (1996)
Choke (2008)
SUPREMELY DISHONORABLE MENTION:
Super Mario Bros. (1993)
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themoviesmith
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urbanemovies
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In To Die For (1995) in the finale New Hampshire restaurant owners, the Marettos hire a hitman to avenge their son's death, I don't think Mafia is ever explicitly mentioned, but the audience assumes the connection (perhaps correctly) because they are Italian-American and how slick the whole transaction is executed. Otherwise, there is no mention of the mafia throughout the movie.
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jeorj_euler
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Albeit, this one is a bit or two obscure.
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dan_dassow
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My vote: Marty (1955)
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rubyfruit76
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Breumaster
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Ladri di biciclette (1948)
Le notti di Cabiria (1957)
La strada (1954)
Don Camillo (1952)
81⁄2 (1963)
There were many good italian movies without mafia.
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Peter_pbn
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"Tony is a caricature of Italian-American family-man exuberance. He’s voluble and emotional and constantly smoking, eating, or both at the same time. At one point, reclining in a hotel-room bed, he folds a pizza in half and shoves it in his mouth. Not a slice of pizza. The whole pie."
"working-class Tony needs to find another gig fast, so long as it’s honest (if he’s not careful, the Sopranos-like local crime families will have him doing shady side jobs)"
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rubyfruit76
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