The Italian gangster picture Gomorrah will feature a Martin Scorsese Presents banner as part of its title when released in the United States, the BBC said. Scorsese has directed numerous crime dramas, including Mean Streets, GoodFellas, Gangs of New York and The Departed. Inspired by a bestselling expose about the Camorra crime family of Naples, Gomorrah is Italy's entry in the foreign language category of the Oscar race.

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Three of the stars of the mob flick "Gomorrah," Italy's entry for the Oscars, have been arrested due to their alleged real-life ties to organized crime.

By Anonymous Gomorrah 15, Nationwide Gomorrah is a mafia film and while we are well used to mafia films and even like some of them -- for example, and if I recall rightly, The Godfather was quite good; do catch it if you can -- this is not that sort of mafia film.

By Jonathon Romney Shot like a war film, this scorching expose of the brutalities of organised crime in Naples has no huggable heroes or happy endings Film Gomorrah Matteo Garrone 137 MINS, 15 There's only one moment in the new Italian film Gomorrah that resembles the gangster movie as we know it.