The Milieu Trilogy
Fernando Di Leo was a prolific filmmaker who explored the political extremism and mafia corruption in Italy during the 1970’s. Master of garish, intricately plotted, ultra-violent stories about pimps and petty gangsters, Di Leo has perfected the genre with an uncanny accuracy. Di Leo’s films demonstrate the degradation of the working classes and how the mafia corrupted them. Though he slipped out of public consciousness after his death in 2003, his works have been revived and shown at the Tate Modern in London and The Venice Film Festival where Quentin Tarantino admitted that Di Leo truly inspired him to make gangster films. (Kino Lorber)
The Milieu Trilogy
Caliber 9
Released from prison, Ugo tries to convince the police, the mafia, and his one-time associate Rocco, a sadistic hoodlum who enjoys sick violence and torture, that he wants to go straight, but everyone believes he has $300,000 of stolen money hidden somewhere.
Fernando Di Leo
Italy
language: Italian, English
subtitles: English
88 min
The Milieu Trilogy
The Boss
The ruthless killer Lanzetta enters a small cinema during the screening of a porn movie and massacres with grenade launchers the gang of the boss Antonino Attardi. It will cause a sequence of twists and turns. Third and last part of Fernando Di Leo’s Milieu Trilogy.
Fernando Di Leo
Italy
language: Italian, English
subtitles: English
100 min
The Milieu Trilogy
The Italian Connection
When a shipment of heroin disappears, a small-time pimp is framed for the theft. Two professional hitmen are dispatched to rub him out, while the real thieves are rushing to kill him first.
Fernando Di Leo
Italy, West Germany
language: Italian, English
subtitles: English
88 min
