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MAFIA: MOST WANTED offers audiences insight into the 'Ndrangheta, a powerful Italian organized crime syndicate, and its deep roots in Canada, where its allegedly been involved in drug trafficking, theft, financial fraud, extortion, and murder. The series challenges the perception of the Mafia as an "open secret," shedding light on the inner workings of a Toronto crime family, and the individuals behind the infamous names.Included in the docuseries are interviews with former mob enforcers Joe Ferraro and biker turned police informant Cecil Kirby, plus crime writer James Dubro, investigative journalist Joseph Loiero, and retired RCMP sergeants Larry Tronstad and Brad Trainor. Their firsthand accounts, combined with undercover surveillance footage, wiretaps, police intelligence files, and dramatic recreations, paint a vivid and disturbing picture of the brutality of organized crime in Canada, and the devastating consequences of their actions.

Award-winning actor and producer Anthony LaPaglia unravels an epic story of Italian organised crime gang - the Black Hand - which terrorised Italian Australians working around the cane fields of North Queensland in the 1930s.

Five years have passed since the events of the Cathedral of Catania and the believed death of the Abbot in the explosion of a petrol pump. Rosy actually changed her life: she moved to the shores of Liguria, under the identity of Claudia Lodato (in honor of her friend-enemy Claudia Mares who died years ago), she works as a shop assistant in a supermarket and is engaged to Francesco, a man thoughtful and reliable that loves her without knowing her true identity. But Rosy's past is too cumbersome to stay buried for a long time. Two mafiosi, the brothers Mirko and Stefano Sciarra, turn to her bearers of a truth that shakes from the foundations her new life: her son Leonardo is still alive. Rosy has a new reason to go back to fighting, but she has to beware of Luca, deputy police chief and Francesco's best friend.

The story - Two women and the relationship that binds them: vice chief of police Claudia Mares and young Rosy Abate, member of one of the oldest criminal clans. The first is called to join a special antimafia corps headed by Stefano Lauria. The second, after a long stay in the USA, returns to Palermo for her wedding.

Sicilia, 50's. With the death of her father Rocco, Ersilia Fortebracci, wife of Pasquale, can finally realize her dream. She leaves the southern farming and moves to the north, land of progress, opportunities and social redemption. So, armed with high hopes and a small capital, Fortebracci arrives in Turin. A Productive and modern city, ideal for ensuring their two sons, Tonio and Santi, a future of prosperity. Not everything, however, goes as planned by Ersilia...

First broadcast in Italy in 1984, The Octopus (La Piovra) is an international blockbuster, running 18 years and producing nine follow-up series. The title of this classic Mafia thriller says it all, evoking the image of a secret criminal culture extending its tentacles into every layer of society.

The epic story of how in the 1990s Bari crime transformed into a real mafia in the same years in which the Cosa Nostra attack on the heart of the state took place in Sicily with the massacres of Giovanni Falcone, Paolo Borsellino and of their respective stocks.

The Camorra boss known as "The Professor" manages and administers the reformed Camorra from prison. Helped by his faithful sister Rosaria, the man escapes from the penitentiary and creates a powerful criminal organization that manages to infiltrate all levels of society. The never seen before, only TV series ever made by Oscar winner Giuseppe Tornatore. Restored in 4k with the official soundtrack by Oscar winner Nicola Piovani.

The Baresi family has been haunted for decades by the tragic loss and events of Italian witchcraft known as Stregheria. These life-changing events were through the orders of an Italian mafia out of Long Island, NY. Can Michael Baresi break this generational curse? How long can his family be controlled by this spell dated back to Palermo Italy in the 1920s? Michael is now out for revenge for all that did his family wrong. This family is truly haunted.