Mafia (disambiguation)
Appearance
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A mafia is an ethnic, family or culture-based organized crime enterprise.
Mafia usually refers specifically to:
- Sicilian Mafia, the original "Mafia", often referred to simply as “the Mafia”
- American Mafia, an Italian-American offshoot of the original Sicilian Mafia often referred to simply as "The Mafia" in the United States
- Ethnic Italian organized crime in general and organized crime in Italy
Entertainment
Film and television
- Mafia (1993 film), Malayalam film directed by Shaji Kailas
- Mafia (1996 film), Hindi-language film directed by Aziz Sejawal
- Mafia!, also known as Jane Austen's Mafia!, a 1998 American comedy film
- Mafia (2002 film), Egyptian film
- "Mafia" (The Office), the sixth episode of the sixth season of The Office
- Mafia (2012 film), American crime action film starring Ving Rhames
Games
- Mafia (party game)
- Mafia (series), a series of video games by 2K Games
- Mafia (video game), 2002 video game
- Mafia II, 2010 video game
- Mafia III, 2016 video game
- Mafia Wars, a social network game
Music
- La Mafia, a Tejano band
- Swedish House Mafia, a Swedish electronic dance music trio
- Lisa Maffia, a British rapper
- B.U.G. Mafia, or simply Mafia, a Romanian rap group
- Mafia (B.U.G. Mafia album), released in 1995
- Mafia (Black Label Society album), released in 2005
- Mafia (Fleshgod Apocalypse EP), released in 2010
Groups and organizations
- Maffia, Czechoslovak secret organization acting during World War I.
- Berkeley Mafia, a group of Indonesian economists
- Bomber Mafia, a close-knit group of American military men who believed that long-range heavy bomber aircraft in large numbers were able to win a war
- Lesbian Sex Mafia, a New York City group for the support of alternative culture women
- Memphis Mafia, a group of associates of Elvis Presley from 1954 until he died
- Scottish mafia, a pejorative term for a group of Scottish politicians supposedly in control of the British government in the recent Labour administrations
- The Main Event Mafia (M.E.M.), a professional wrestling stable
- The E4 Mafia, a pejorative term used to refer to the informal fraternal network of junior enlisted soldiers in the United States Army holding the rank of Specialist
Other uses
- Gay Mafia, or Velvet Mafia, is a pejorative term for the amalgamation of gay rights groups in politics and the media
- Kiambu Mafia, people from Kenya's Kiambu District
- Mafia Island, part of Tanzania's Zanzibar Archipelago
See also
- Mafic, a geological / mineralogical term