GANGSTER KINGPINS: Around the world

In McMafia (9pm, BBC1), Alex is drawn into his family’s criminal business, which reaches across the globe. Here’s how different countries have dealt with organised crime on screen…

England Britain’s most famous gangsters, the Kray twins, have had their violent rise to power in London during the 1950s and 1960s explored in several films, including The Krays

(1990) and Legend (2015). Fictionalised versions of the brothers appear in numerous crime movies, notably Get Carter (1971).

Australia One of many dramas inspired by the real Melbournebased Pettingill family, Animal

Kingdom (2010) stars Jacki Weaver as fearsome suburban matriarch Janine ‘Smurf’ Cody (left), whose family are deep in the city’s underworld. A US TV remake, set in southern California, stars Ellen Barkin as Smurf (watch it on Amazon Prime).

Italy Italian TV series Gomorrah started life as a nonfiction book by Roberto Saviano, who infiltrated the Camorra crime syndicate in Naples. The series follows Pietro Savastano (Fortunato Cerlino) and his power struggles (season 3 comes to Sky Atlantic on January 31).

America Arguably cinema’s most famous Mafia family, the New York-based Corleones – who hailed from Sicily – were first headed by Don Vito, played by Marlon Brando in The

Godfather (1972) and as a younger man by Robert De Niro in The

Godfather Part II (1974). By the third film in the trilogy, Vito’s youngest son, Michael (Al Pacino, right), had assumed control.