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Mafia is a term used to refer to certain kinds of ethnic-, family- or culture-based organized crime enterprises. However, the term originally applied only to the Sicilian Mafia, and when used alone and without any qualifier, "Mafia" or "the Mafia" typically refers to either the Sicilian Mafia or its American offshoot, the Italian-American Mafia, and may also refer to Italian organized crime in general. It may also refer to:
Entertainment
Film and television
- Mafia (1993 film), a Malayalam film directed by Shaji Kailas
- Mafia (1996 film), a 1996 Hindi-language film directed by Aziz Sejawal
- Mafia (2015 film), an upcoming film
- "Mafia" (The Office), the sixth episode of the sixth season of The Office
- Mafia!, also known as Jane Austen's Mafia!, a 1998 comedy film
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
- 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
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
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