Film List Mafia Thriller incl. FREE STREAMS

 

"Basically, the Mafia and America think of themselves as charitable institutions. Both the Mafia and America have stained their hands with blood in what was necessary to protect their power and interests" (Francis Ford Coppola). The Mafioso represents the "no" to the great American "YES". Mafia thrillers in the best sense are morality tales between epic and thriller. Much more clearly than the gangster films of the 1930s, the great Mafia thrillers tell of loyalty and dissociativity, of the struggle for one's own personality and of the failure of this struggle in the mesh of the Mafia microcosm. The questions of morality, honor and personality are posed from the perspective of organized crime, only to turn abruptly into merciless brutality. Good mafia thrillers are always a journey into the heart of darkness, stylized to the point of glorification, cynical and bombastic.