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CrimeAnnée1977Durée1h 40mIMDb5.8

La Filière

CrimeDrameThriller

An American underworld up-and-comer relocates to Europe and immerses himself in the dangerous and mysterious world of heroin production.

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Bande-annonce

Casting

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Ferdinando Baldi

Director

Ben Gazzara

Giuseppe 'Joe' Coppola

Silvia Monti

Claudia

Fausto Tozzi

Don Russo

Steffen Zacharias

Sally

Luciano Catenacci

Tony

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Mario Pilar

Ibrahim

José Greci

Lucia

Malisa Longo

Rosalia

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Teodoro Corrà

Ciro

Luciano Rossi

Hans

Bruno Corazzari

Larry

Corrado Gaipa

Calogero

CG

Carlo Gaddi

Marsigliese

Giuseppe Castellano

Mike

Jess Hahn

Sacha

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Duilio Coletti

Writer

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Ferdinando Baldi

Writer

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7 commentaires

SanyaNov 29, 2025

สงกรานต์ รังสรรค์May 22, 2023

Badeg99Apr 28, 2023

Movie with mobsters. Mobsters who trafficked drugs. From opium grown and harvested in Turkey, chemically treated in Sicily, the best quality pure heroin in the entire history of drugs, 99% pure, is obtained. And then it is delivered "secretly" to the very city where until 2001 two twin towers stood tall, as a symbol of capitalism. Watch the film, you will see them again for a few moments, when Coppola (Ben Gazzara) dresses up as a diver and dives to retrieve the "goods". The film begins spectacularly with a previous shipment of drugs hidden inside a corpse. It continues with many impressive figures of mobsters who appear in Coppola's way, some women also appear, one of them even naked, and finally, the cards are laid face down, the moment of truth. Not before witnessing an "assassination" in the style of Harvey Oswald-Jack Ruby. There is also a car chase, quite successful, original, ingenious filming. Apart from Ben Gazzara who has the main role and is very good, especially when he gets beaten up and is shot (in 2 occasions, the last one for good), Luciano Catenacci stands out, the most convincing Italian actor in mobster roles, thanks to his face, see especially "Confessions of a Police Captain" Original title: "Confessione di un commissario di polizia al procuratore della repubblica" (1971). Jess Hahn in a unique role as a large producer of opium. Ferdinando Baldi did a good job, so I will be more generous than the others and give it 8 stars.

DJ SADIC 🦁Apr 28, 2023

This movie has small-time hood Ben Gazzara crossing the underbelly of Europe, from Turkey to Sicily, to promote a huge score of heroin for him to sell in New York. There's an able air of lurking menace throughout this well-produced movie by Ferdinando Baldi amidst the tangled and competitive world of drug smuggling. Lots of beautiful location shooting in Turkey, Sicily and New York City -- although if the New York shots are any indication the editors cut for maximum impact rather than geographical reality.

Franckie LyneApr 28, 2023

Ben plays a small time hood who goes to Turkey then to Italy to smuggle opium and drugs to make it to the big time. But he realises the rough and long road as everyone tries to take a cut from his business. Great locations (like Turkey and other places) and funky pop tunes by Oliver Onions does add flavor to this poorly put together film. The main reason to see this is Ben Gazzara who is a very underrated actor and he is great as usual. But the main problem is that he is badly dubbed by someone else. Recommended.

Amzy♥️🥺Apr 28, 2023

(Spoilers) Ben Gazzara plays a New York narc agent posing as an independent importer of heroin in an effort to nab a big dope syndicate. We don't find out until the end whose side he is on, but we can pretty much anticipate it from the beginning. Gazzara is not Gene Hackman, and the movie is often a pale imitation of "The French Connection," but it does keep your attention. The opening scene in a Sicilian church, in which a nosy Italian cop is buried alive in the same coffin with a dead body used to transport drugs, isn't bad at all. All the scenes set in Turkey showing poppies being cultivated are very interesting indeed. Nevertheless the print I first saw of this film in 1976 had all the credits removed, as though it weren't something to be proud of.

marymohanoeApr 28, 2023

Sicilian Connection's basic idea is to follow a large shipment of opium from turkey to Italy and then, finally, to America. Joe Coppolla, a small-time dealer trying to make it big-time, is the egocentric and unsympathetic lead character and owner of the shipment. Will he succeed in selling the drugs or will the police or the mafia get to him first? Wooden acting, awful dubbing, uninspired camerawork and bad direction made me not care at all... If you're a fan of Italian crime movies and seen all the classics (like Castellari's fantastic movie High Crime), this might do the trick. In fact ANYTHING would to the trick. Sicilian Connection is for italian crime buffs what warm, cheap beer might be for an alcoholic: It will take the urge away for a while, but it won't give you any real satisfaction. Addicts take note, others better stay far, far way. 3/10

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