The Boss

The bleak final part of Fernando Di Leo's Milieu trilogy, following a stone-faced Mafia enforcer through a Palermo gang war triggered when he wipes out a rival clan in a cinema with a grenade launcher. Everyone, the mob, the police, the politicians, is corrupt, and the film has no illusions about any of them.

Henry Silva is superb as the impassive killer, and Di Leo directs the double-crosses with cold precision. It is the most nihilistic of his crime films, and one of the sharpest indictments of institutional corruption the cycle produced.