Inside the Mafia (2005)

Actors: Ray Liotta (actor), Antonio Saillant (actor), Tony Rossi (actor), Henry Hill (actor), John Gotti (actor), Joseph Pistone (actor), Dominick Montiglio (actor),

Genres: Crime, Documentary,

Gli indesiderabili (2003)

Actors: Vincent Gallo (actor), Cyrus Elias (actor), Marcello Mazzarella (actor), Antonio Catania (actor), Nicola Piovani (composer), Vincent Schiavelli (actor), Anna Bonaiuto (writer), Galliano Juso (producer), Pasquale Scimeca (writer), Pasquale Scimeca (director), Grazia Colombini (costume designer), Anthony Souter (actor), Marc Fiorini (actor), Violante Placido (actress), Babak Karimi (editor),

Plot: 1951, New York: a trial is being celebrated against a big group of Italian-Americans accused of being gangsters. The Court declares them "undesirable" and orders that they must leave the United States territory. 120 of them are sent to Genova, Italy with a ship. Upon their arrival they're received by onlookers, photographers and journalists; among them there is Giancarlo Fusco (Catania), a journalist of the Italian paper "Il Secolo XIX" who has to write a short article. While he's interviewing those strange personages, Fusco recognizes an old classmate, the anarchist Ezio Taddei and, intrigued, decides to deepen his work on this story to carry out an inquiry.

Keywords: based-on-novel, deportation, italy, journalist
Genres: Crime, Drama,

Citizen Cohn (1992)

Actors: Peter Maloney (actor), John W. Iwanonkiw (actor), Douglas MacArthur (actor), Joe Grifasi (actor), Frederic Forrest (actor), Pat Hingle (actor), John F. Kennedy (actor), Lyndon Johnson (actor), Joe Don Baker (actor), Joseph Bologna (actor), Gary Cooper (actor), Sam Coppola (actor), Allen Garfield (actor), Richard Nixon (actor), Adolphe Menjou (actor),

Plot: A harsh look at the life and times of Roy Marcus Cohn, Esquire, thorough flashbacks as he's dying of AIDS in a New York hospital. Cohn was the chief counsel to Wisconsin Senator Joseph McCarthy during the "Red Scare" of the late fifties.

Keywords: 1950s, 1960s, 1980s, aids, army, army-mccarthy-hearings, ash-scattering, attorney-general, blacklisting, bribery
Genres: Drama,
Taglines: He was McCarthy's loyal partner. The Kennedys' worst enemy. The F.B.I.'s best friend. The country's greatest nightmare.

Quotes:

Walter Winchell: You hear what I hear? Kennedy's gonna name his brother Attorney General. Our friend J. Edgar says it's gonna be "Get Hoffa and get Cohn." Fuck the little cocksucker, and all the ships at sea.

Joseph N. Welch: Have you no decency, sir? At long last, have you no sense of decency?

Joseph N. Welch: Until this moment, I never really gauged your recklessness, or your cruelty. Fred Fisher is beginning what looks to be a brilliant career with us. And when I asked him to come here and assist us, he told me in college he briefly belonged to the Lawyer's Guild, the organization to which you refer. I told him that, um, I just don't think I'm going to use you on this case, because it might go out on the networks, and that would just hurt like the dickens. So, Senator, I sent him back to Boston. Little did I dream that you would be so cruel, and so reckless as to do injury to this lad. It's true, he works for us. It's true that he will continue to work for us, and it's true I fear he will always bear a scar needlessly inflicted by YOU. Let us not assassinate this lad any further, Senator? You've done enough! Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you NO sense of DECENCY?

Roy Marcus Cohn: If you are a friend of Americas enemies, then you're an enemy too.

Dora Cohn: You're telling this boy how to live? You are?::Albert Cohn: That's the idea.::Dora Cohn: [firmly] Don't. He's MINE. This is one boy they're NEVER going to forget!

Roy Marcus Cohn: [screaming at nurse] You're the angel of death, but you're no fucking angel!

[Roy is fighting AIDS]::Roy Marcus Cohn: Slow down... stop... eating... me.

[the ghost of Ethel Rosenberg visits Roy in his deathbed]::Ethel Rosenberg: Here's a secret, boychick. The electricity makes everything brighter. I could see. All the Jews were afraid because if you could kill me, all the Jews would die.

Roy Marcus Cohn: [to Peter] They tried to kill me. The bastards didn't make it, though. [points to the window] What do you see there? You see the SUN! They have this one doctor. They PAID him to kill me. They couldn't do it themselves, the miserable cocksuckers... They got him to do it. You don't think so? My friends hate me. My enemies hate me. Now you hate me. Everybody hates me.::Peter: [interrupting] You knocked off your enemies a long time ago and your friends love you. You know that.

Roy Marcus Cohn: Senator, I've seen enough names working for Pat McCarran. You're going to be hauling up Jew after Jew... all those European names, and with a McCarthy and a Kennedy together, it's gonna look like an Irish/Catholic-run pogrom. That will discredit everything you do, and I know, because I'm a Jew.::Senator Joseph McCarthy: But they're Communists. They betrayed the faith of the Fathers for this Socialist God of Iron. Now, that's the issue, not anti-Semitism.::Roy Marcus Cohn: That's NOT what your opposition will say. It's very hard sometimes to control what an issue really is, and if your enemies can find a way to twist your motives, believe me, they will do it.