An Italian film inspired by the tragic death of a celebrated anti-mafia informer has sparked controversy with her relatives and an association named in her memory. By Reuters, The Associated Press ...

“I wasn’t a real person,” Letizia Battaglia says of the days before she took to photography. As an unhappily married housewife stifled and abused by Italy’s dominant patriarchy, picking up a camera ...

The shining point of Mafia: The Old Country is its compelling story. Protagonist Enzo Favara escapes indentured servitude in a sulfur mine and finds himself under the care of the Torrisi crime family.

The films of director Franco Maresco (“Belluscone: A Sicilian Story”) are an acquired taste, rarely developed by non-Italian palates, and “The Mafia Is Not What It Used to Be” is a prime example.

Flint got its brush with movie fame when "Semi Pro," a basketball starring Will Ferrell, filmed there on location. It's Saginaw's turn with "Street Boss," with shooting starting Tuesday, April 29.

The Mafia sharks in the upcoming animated feature “Shark Tale” have Italian-American groups in a frenzy over what they see as negative stereotyping. In the film, being produced by Dream-Works SKG, the ...