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.

A former PayPal executive has bought the rights to a movie about Elon Musk, Peter Thiel and Reid Hoffman — who led Silicon Valley’s legendary “PayPal Mafia” in the days before they became billionaires ...

The documentary “Shooting the Mafia” is, according to the distributor’s press materials, a portrait of a remarkable woman. To be sure, its ostensible subject is the now 84-year-old Letizia Battaglia, ...