Eurocrime! The Italian Cop and Gangster Films That Ruled the ’70s

As far as the ‘cycles’ of Italian cinema are concerned, [Poliziotteschi] was a big one. There are a lot more entries in the genre than more often talked about cannibal or zombie films and many of these films had bigger names attached to them too. That makes it a bit of a surprise that there hasn’t, until now at least, been a decent documentary made about the movement. Enter Mike Malloy and his two hour feature, Eurocrime! The Italian Cop and Gangster Films That Ruled the ’70s, a comprehensive piece made by a fan for the fans that rounds up about as many people who were involved in these pictures as is realistically possible forty years after the genre’s boom years. … The end result is such thorough and subsequently engaging that you don’t even necessarily need to be a fan of the genre to both enjoy and appreciate this picture.