François Chiappe, the fearsome Corsican capo-mafia who inspired the famous film “The French Connection” in 1971 died in a geriatric home in the Argentine province of Cordoba last February ...

For any fans of gangster films looking to expand their horizons outside of what Hollywood has to offer, the 2009 French ...

Marco Raduano, the former mafia boss of Vieste (a municipality in ... The former boss was captured almost a year later, on February 1, 2024, in Corsica while he was going to dinner at a restaurant.

Julien Colonna’s “The Kingdom,” a family crime drama set in Corsica in 1995 ... the 15-year-old daughter of a mafia boss on the run. The best documentary award went to “Dahomey ...

Jacques Audiard’s “Emilia Pérez” swept France’s 30th Lumiere Awards, the local equivalent to the Golden Globes, at a ceremony held on Monday in Paris at the Forum des Images auditorium. “Emilia Pérez” ...

The climate crisis is pouring gasoline on these blazes, but the Mafia may be lighting the spark, according to new research. While hot, dry winds prime the land for Italy’s ferocious fires ...